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Handmade: Scrabble Key Holder
With a little bit of creative thinking, our new key holder came to be. This is a simple project that will take, at the most, a couple of hours to accomplish.
Here's how to do it!
Handmade: Scrabble Key Holder
- A piece of wood that fit my desired height and width. Mine measures 14 & 1/8" tall by 3" wide.
- Painter's tape measuring 2" wide
- 2 different colors of paint preferably latex -- it washes off easily. (Editor's note: Try an interior with zero VOCs, like Sherwin-Williams Duration Home)
- 2 foam brushes
- Scrabble letters to spell out the word "KEYS" (Wood must be at least 3" wide for letters to fit side-by-side)
- Glue (either craft glue, wood glue or super glue)
- 2 hooks and screws to attach them (available at any hardware store
- 1 sawtooth hanger
Handmade: Scrabble Key Holder
Allow to dry for about 30 minutes. If you're impatient (like me) set up a fan to make the process go faster.
Handmade: Scrabble Key Holder
Then apply a strip of painters tape to the bottom of the wood lining it up perfectly with the bottom edge. Press it down thoroughly and wrap it around the sides of the wood, all the way around to the back.
Handmade: Scrabble Key Holder
And line it up perfectly against the top edge of the first piece of tape. This piece will be your spacer for each of the stripes. Don't worry about folding down the edges; you'll be placing and removing the spacer all along the length of the key holder.
Handmade: Scrabble Key Holder
It should be long enough to wrap around the sides of the wood and onto the back. Make sure these edges are firmly in place.
Handmade: Scrabble Key Holder
Your key holder should look like this.
Handmade: Scrabble Key Holder
Make sure your tape is lining up perfectly and that the edges of the tape strips (not the spacer) are firmly in place.
Handmade: Scrabble Key Holder
All of your stripes should be in place.
Handmade: Scrabble Key Holder
Then, using a foam brush, paint your second color onto the unmasked strips of wood. I used one of my favorites, Benjamin Moore - Stratton Blue #HC-142. This step needs to dry thoroughly, so turning on the fan again is a good idea.
Handmade: Scrabble Key Holder
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Reader comments (Page 2 of 2)
WHAT CRAP ! LOOKS LIKE SOMETHING MADE BY A 6 YR OLD. YOU CAN BUY ALL SORTS OF HANGING KEYHOLDERS FOR UNDER $5.00
ReplyYour going to ruin a perfectly good scrabble game so you can hang up your keys. I agree with Mack.
ReplyIts a great idea, however when i first saw the picture i thought "is this a joke?".
ReplyThe way she sanded down the board made it look horrible, i thought i was looking at a plank rapped in duct tape.
neat idea, maybe different colors