Framed magnetic board on my $0 budget

I had this frame laying around for ages and had intended on making a magnetic board for my daughter's room but never got around to it. So I decided that today was the day to do it but I had a few obstacles. Metal for the magnetic boards are expensive (really expensive when I have a $0 budget). We had a piece of metal flashing for a rough valley laying around so we used that and it worked great! I will never buy expensive metal for a project again!!!! Look what I am learning :)

Materials (Obviously I had everything on hand):
Large picture frame
Metal flashing (for the valley of a roof)
Fabric
Duct tape
Staple/staple gun

Method:
I spray painted the frame in color my daughter wants to use as the accent in her room...Key Lime (don't worry...I already had this color of spray paint). I would have preferred black but as my husband so kindly pointed out, almost every frame in my house is black and I should really try something new:) .

 My husband cut the metal flashing to the exact size of the picture that came out of the frame. He hammered out the fold it the metal to make it flat. I then spray painted it quickly in black so the light gray of the metal would not show through the black fabric.

I laid the fabric under the metal flashing and trimmed it so there was approximately 3 inches around the outside to fold over. I then ironed and starched the fabric so it was perfectly flat. This was a left over piece of fabric from a quilt my aunt made my daughter. So it matches her room perfectly.

I folded over one of the longer sides of the fabric and secured it to the metal with duct tape. I then did the opposite side making sure to pull the fabric tight.

 I neatly folded the corner over and secured the shorted end. Be sure to not rip the fabric on the corners...they are sharp. Then do the same on the last side.

 We put the original print back in the frame and my husband secured both into the frame with staples.

Using the original hanging hardware, my husband hung the frame above our daughter's book shelf. I barely had enough time to take a photo before she was putting stuff on it.

Sorry her room is a mess; I wasn't planning on showing it but it is cute how excited she was.

Project #2 with my $0 budget! 

What do you think?

Stephanie

Note: You can secure the fabric with Mod Podge too. This takes far more time and in my opinion costs more. A few pieces of duct tape that no one sees is fine with me :)