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Prolong Ink Cartridge Life With Electrical Tape!

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Calling all my savvy-savers! It’s time for another Wednesday Ways To Save! As couponers, we tend to blow through ink cartridges on the regular, but no longer! I recently came up with a trick to help prolong ink cartridge life, black electrical tape! All you need to do is place a piece of electrical tape over the ending of the ink cartridges that connects to the printer. This will trick the printers internal sensors that the ink is full, and a new product! This also allows me to turn the cartridge over and shake the ink, if needed, without mess!

Here’s to saving!

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Homemade Customizable Chalkboard Paint!

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Calling all chalkboard enthusiasts! If you are anything like me, you have at least a couple chalkboards at your home! For today’s Tuesday Tutorials, I want to show you a way to make customizable chalkboard paint on the cheap! This formula will allow you to make chalkboard paint in any shade or hue, for only $0.25! Considering the leading brand of green or black chalkboard paint is $11.98 a pint, this is a huge savings! This formula can be used on any paintable surface, including canvas!

Here’s how to make this:

Project Materials:

Any color acrylic paint
Non-sanded white tile grout
Surface to paint
Paintbrush
White chalk

Directions

  1. Prepare your painting surface, making sure it is clean, dry and sanded smooth with a fine grit sand paper.
  2. Mix 1 tablespoon of grout with 2 ounces of paint. The addition of the grout will make your paint dry more quickly, so only mix up as much as you’ll use right away.
  3. Paint your surface with several coats of paint, leaving ample time for each coat to dry.
  4. Once it is completely dry you will need to “slate” your surface before you can begin to draw on it. You slate your board by running the side of a piece of chalk lightly over the entire board and then wiping it off with a dry piece of cloth.
  5. Create to your heart’s content!

 

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$3.00 Modern Art!

 

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Good evening, savvy savers! As it is Tuesday, its time for another Tutorial Tuesday, and this week I am sharing with you one of my in-home art projects! A few months ago, when I started redecorating my master bedroom, needed a series of canvases for a small built-in wall nook and so my $3.00 Modern Wall Art was born! I created this look by placing three $1.00 canvases, purchased from Joann’s with a coupon, in a 11×14 size, placing them side-by-side, placing both horizontal and vertical strips of masking tape firmly across the canvases, and then painting the canvases in a coordinating hue, which in my case was a Sherwin Williams paint sample, in caramel spice.

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Once the canvases dried, I carefully removed the tape, used a white fabric pen to correct any flaws, and then hung the canvases by Velcros strips one and a half inches apart. The effect if rather neat, and in my opinion, offsets the cream-on-white colors pattern for my built-in shelving unit. I like that the look can be changed and that the canvases are modern enough to please my husband but neutral enough to match my more eclectic sensibilities!

Sure, this may seem simplistic for someone with one of her two degrees in Art History, but I like it just the same!

Here’s to art, for art’s sake!

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