So, last week I was looking at Totally Tutorials blog. I wanted to find out more about their exchange program. The deal is this, someone who sells supplies will offer up some goodies in exchange for making a tute out of the product that is being offered. All you need to do is send along an email with your ideas and/or concept for a creative tutorial. If you are chosen, the seller will notify you and send you the product or supplies and you make and post your tute within a given amount of time. Sounds fun right? I thought so when I found out I could get this really cool, burlap coffee bean bag! So I submitted my idea (like maybe i don’t have enough projects on my plate already! LOL) and a few days later, I found out I was one of the three lucky recipients! My bean bag arrived on Friday and I set out to make this really cool bulletin board! I hope that Betty at Donkee House and Dotty at Totally Tutorials both like it…and I hope YOU like it too!

coffee bag message board with coffee bean border and push pins!

Here is the list of items that you will need:

1) Coffee Bean Burlap Bag

2) Cork Board ( I got mine at an office supply for $12. It is 24 x 36)

3) decoupage medium and medium to large paintbrush

4) scissors

5) hot glue gun (and about 6 hot glue sticks)

6) whole coffee beans ( I used approx. 6 oz.)

7) thumbtacks

24 x 36 bulletin board and Burlap coffee sack

besides the burlap bag and the cork boarde, this is the other stuff you'll need!

lay your board and your bag out and measure...

cut the side of bag that you want to use. make it a bit larger than the area that you are covering.

spread your decoupage medium all over the board...make sure to get it to the edges.

place your burlap onto the board...

press firmly and get out any wrinkles or fold marks

once the bag is in place trim bag to the inside of the frame

make sure all the edges are glued down well

I had a little help hot gluing all of the coffee beans around the border!

finishing the border...

make some tacks with hot glue and coffee beans!

hang your pictures, notes, mementos, grab a cup of coffee, sit back and enjoy!

This project really didn’t take much time (about 2 hours) and only cost about $14…it would have cost just a few dollars more if I would have purchased the burlap coffee sack. This was a lot of fun and I think it will look great in my kitchen! Thanks again to Donkee House and Totally Tutorials!

xo

kristen