Chalkboard Labels

Originally posted June 20, 2010

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Last weekend I got a little wild when

I got my hands on some of this:

And my kitchen ended up looking like this:

I went a little bit label crazy!

I've been wanting to get my utility room organized because it also doubles as my panty.

(Yeah, my kitchen has no pantry. Such a rip off!)

Chalkboard paint seemed like a great idea to help me get organized! I had bought some cute green totes at Walmart to store items in as well as some green plastic containers. I felt the urge to label them with the chalkboard paint. While I was at it, I decided to label my black canisters, too!

I just taped off where I wanted to paint and got busy spreading the chalkboard love.

The canisters and plastic containers took 2 coats of paint.

I didn't want to paint directly on my new totes, so I grabbed some stashed cardboard (Hey, I'm a scrapbooker. I hoard all things paper!) and cut it up into the size I wanted my labels. It only took one coat of paint on the cardboard! Then I punched a hole in it with my Crop-a-dile and tied it to the totes with some ribbon.

Easy peasy!

Cheap, cute labels and there is still a TON of paint left.

I love this way of labeling with the chalkboard paint and cardboard. I see more labels in my future!

And, for the record, nothing is safe in my house from this paint!