Wooden Birthday Easel

I’m not 100% about this easel, it was done in a hurry and I think it shows, partly because once I had decided on the embellishments I was going to use, I was determined, because I didn’t have the time, to use them, come hell or high water!

I started with a natural coloured wooden chalkboard easel from Home Bargains (99p for a pack of 4), small, wooden, self adhesive scrabble tiles (I believe I ordered these from the US, years ago, when I could afford the postage!) and a painted, wooden birthday cake button.

I first added faux stitching around the edge of the chalkboard using a black biro because the ink wouldn’t bleed into the wood.

Equally spacing out the scrabble tiles to fit everything in was a right pain, in the end I had to put the “birthday” nearer to the bottom than I would have liked.

However, once in place I was then able to add the “Happy” and the cake, filling small empty spaces with various sized, coloured confetti stars and clutters of three white dots using a fine nib Posca pen.

Looking at the easel now, I might have got away with not using the cake (it was for a ruffy tuffy man???) and just added a few more stars and dots???  Anyway, not a design I think I will repeat.