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My New Craft Room: Art display track and how to make one

by on May 12, 2007

I’m a paper freak. Primarily, I like to fold it and make greeting cards out of it. The problem is, when I complete a paper project, oftentimes it gets slipped into a drawer, only to be forgotten. When planning my new craft room workspace, I decided I wanted a way to display my recent folds and, more importantly, a place to keep my cards until they’re needed.

Inspired by Alltext’s photo wall, but on a much smaller scale, I had MWT rip a piece of 3/4 MDF down to 1 ½” x 48″, which I then painted with 3 coats of semi-gloss latex, again, sanding between coats. Next, I fixed with small screws six spring clamps evenly spaced across the MDF. (The spring clamps I found at Office Max had suction cups screwed on the backs of them; I just took the suction cups off and used the existing screws to attach the clamps to the MDF.)

Craft ideas to give stunning atmosphere.Art display track is in the floor.

Now I have a way to queue up my greeting cards, plucking them like fruit, when I need them; and, of course, it’s a great way to show off my paper folding attempts–but only the successful ones.

Two pieces of cardboard like paper perhaps greeting cards hang on a ledge on a wall.

Monday’s post: wallpaper triptych