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Back to School with Michaels | Ombre Command Center

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I was looking through my newsfeed on Facebook this morning and I saw that many of my friends were already having to put their little ones back on the bus to head back for the first day of school this week! I can’t believe how incredibly fast this summer has gone by. I am starting to feel like as my little girls grow older the time seems to be going by faster!
I am not sure if I’ve told you yet but my oldest daughter is going to be going to KINDERGARTEN this year! I am so happy and excited for her but at the same time I am a little nervous about how I am going to be able to keep up with it all! We’ve never had homework, she wants to do ballet and girl scouts, and I am guessing I’ll still have to figure out how to cook dinner every night. I know we will fall into a routine and it will just take a bit of adjusting but I just felt like a needed something visual that could help me stay on task this school year. So I made myself a Back to School Ombre Command Center with the help of Michaels Stores!!

Supplies that I used from Michaels:
  • 2 – 10×20 frames (they also come in black and dark brown)
  • 5 – 12×12 sheets of Bazzil cardstock
  • Washi Tape
  • Paper trimmer
  • Command Damage Free hanging strips
  • Command Hooks
  • Galvanized metal sheet (from the home supply store)
  • “Create” wood letter block
  • Sticker letters, paint pen, or marker
This command center is very versatile and VERY easy to make! Michaels takes most of the guess work out the ombre part by organizing their scrapbook paper by light to dark shades of each color. 
Step 1) Measure the opening of your frame and divide by 5 to determine how big to cut your scrapbook paper. I found that the opening of mine was 50cm so I made each paper 11cm so that there would be overlap to tape them all together. 

 Step 2) Remove the backing of your frame but save everything from inside, you’ll need to place it back behind your scrapbook paper when you’re finished.

Step 3) Arrange your paper from the bottom up from dark to light. Play with the spacing until you feel everything is even.

Step 4) While the paper is still in the frame use washi tape (or painter’s tape or tape tape if you feel confident in your spacing) to join all of your scrapbook papers together.

Step 5) Carefully take your paper out of the frame and use sticker letters or just use a marker or paint pen to write out the days of the week (you could also abbreviate to make it simpler).
Step 6) Put the frame back together and follow the directions on the Command Damage Free hanging strips to hang up your frame and create your own Back to School Ombre Command Center!!
I repeated steps 1 through 4 a second time to also create a matching magnetic frame. I removed the glass from the frame and added a sheet of galvanized metal I picked up at the hardware store behind the scrapbook paper before hanging it up next to my write-on frame with the same hanging strips.

You can add hooks to the bottom for keys or other little items. I took a piece of trim molding that I found in the garage from another project and glued it to the bottom of the frame to hold my dry erase pens. You could hang little metal buckets from the frame or mount them next to the frame to hold markers, an eraser, a pen for signing permission slips, etc.

I really love this project and can’t wait to use it to help keep the entire family organized as we transition into this new, exciting phase in our lives! If you have any questions or want more information on any of the products that I used please leave me a comment and I will try to reply to you as soon as I can!
**I received compensation from Michaels Stores for this post but the project, ideas, and feelings about Michaels are 100% my own!!

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  3. This is great!! Do you mind if I feature it on my new site, The Inspiration Network next week? It’s basically a photo directory of the best of the best in blog land. 🙂

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