I have a lot of necklaces. It's true. Since tucking them away in a jewelry box meant navigating through a snarly scary mess of a knot, I started pinning my necklaces up on a hideous plain cork board.  After waking up morning after morning and seeing what was lurking behind my precious baubles, I decided it was time for some DIY prettification. I wasn't up for anything complicated, and wanted to use things I only had on hand (aka not spend any more dinero on one-off crafting items).
 The steps are pretty simple. I grabbed the spray paint primer and Krylon metallic gold spray paint I already had. I sprayed the whole board with the primer (even the cork...I don't know why I bothered to do that). 20 minutes later when it was dry, I used tacks to fasten a brown paper bag to the cork to protect it from the metallic spray paint. I gave it a few coats of the metallic paint, and let that dry for about 2 hours. I then ironed my ivory linen fabric, dumped tacky craft glue all over the cork, spread it around as fast as I could, and laid the fabric on top. After smoothing out any wrinkles, I used my fingers to make a nice crease at the edge and pressed firmly to make sure the fabric stuck. Then comes the waiting game for the glue to dry. Once that is done, use an x-acto knife to carefully trim to excess fabric away. Use a tool to help pry the little bits of fabric you couldn't cut under the frame so you don't see any fraying edges.
 Voila! There you have it....a gilded linen jewelry display board. Granted I took this photo when I only had about 1/8 of my collection pinned up.