Pottery Barn Inspired Artwork

Pottery Barn Inspired Artwork

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I love creating things inspired by Pottery Barn! I was browsing the Pottery Barn Kids catalog and came across these way cool vintage inspired framed flashcards. Teaching is so important to me and I always find myself drawn to school inspired accessories and thought these would be perfect for me!  Plus I have a very mild vintage school theme going on in the powder room. I wanted to hang these outside the door as a little tongue-in-cheek ode to the bathroom.

$99 a piece?  A PIECE?  Ok, they say these are vintage inspired but we still use these in schools. Had I been in my classroom I could have grabbed the actual stuff and called it art.   I checked the site a few weeks later and found they were on sale. Yeah, on sale. For $50 a piece. Now I love me some good Pottery Barn but there ain't no way I am supporting Mr. P. Barn in his quest for a new house on the Hamptons by buying these. So I went ahead and made them.

Supplies:
$3 Walmart Frame (1 frame that holds 2- 3.5x5" pictures)
Ivory resume paper
printer
computer
time

1. I wanted them matted so I took out the mat that came with the frame and cut out the middle portion that separated the two openings to make one large opening.

2. I used Schoolhouse font to make my addition problems and ivory resume paper (for a vintage look). Since these are Jenny Barn I decided to not have the answer side showing. Let' em figure it out, I say!  To fit the whole opening I used a 150 pt font, except for the plus sign and the equal line which I used a smaller font to create.

3. Print. Cut. Tape to mat. And a big old BOO-YA!

I know they aren't dead ringers but for $3 I'm ok with that. I am still stoked.  I still love Pottery Barn.

Cheers!
Jenny