"All A-Board" - Altered Game Board by Leigh Snaith-Brunton (The Sharpie Domino Queen)
Design Team Member

Supplies:
By the Sea rubber stamps ~ http://www.ArtByMoonlight.com
Shipboard Crossing stamp by Rubber Stampede
Scrabble game board
Scrabble tiles to spell out 'All A-Board'
Cardstocks provided by Yellow Rose Art Stamps
Unfinished wooden lighthouse, palm tree, anchor, seahorse and life ring - Michaels arts & crafts store
Decorated wooden mini ship wheel and anchor - Michaels arts & crafts store
3 tiny money envelopes - Office Depot
Book on how to make knots
White rope for knots
Dymo Label maker and black tape
Fibers provided by Art By Moonlight
Two tiny die cut tags provided by Art By Moonlight
Two die cut drawer indexing 'hardware' provided by Art By Moonlight
4 gold brads
2 mini hinges
Ultra Thick Embossing powder/enamel (UTEE) - gold
Gold pigment ink pad
Ranger Distress Inks - Old Paper, Walnut Stain, Weathered Wood and Vintage Photo
Ancient Page coal black dye ink
Embossing Heat Tool
Assorted Nautical/Travel related Stickers by PSX
Opaque Paint markers - metallic silver, greens, yellow, brown, red, blue, white and black
Found beach objects: piece of bamboo, dried palm leaf and shell
Aleene's tacky glue
Aleene's Fast Grab Tacky glue
Photos and text torn from the Travel section of the LA Times Newspaper
Recycled metal tab closure from a 6 x 9 envelope
Double-sided sticky tape
Matte varnish

DIRECTIONS:
Start the project by gluing the torn pictures from the Travel section of a newspaper onto the game board. Spread some of the glue in a thin layer onto the exposed sections of the board and let the glue dry. Layer more torn pictures and newspaper text and glue in place. Once everything is dry apply Distress Inks randomly to colour and age the newspaper and the exposed areas of the game board. Put the board aside.

Next stamp all the imagery.

Stamp the mini envelopes with shells in Walnut Stain ink and age the envelopes with Vintage Photo dye ink.
Cut one of the envelopes in half and make two pockets out of them. Over stamp the text 'Far and Away' and 'At Sea' onto the pockets.
Adhere the pockets in place with double-sided sticky tape. Stain the two tiny tags with Old Paper dye ink and stamp the images in coal black dye ink. Edge the tags with Walnut Stain dye ink and thread fibers through the holes. Insert the finished tags into the pockets.

Adhere one envelope vertically to the board with fast grab tacky glue and insert the leaf and a bamboo twig. Make a pouch to store found beach objects with the last envelope. Punch a hole in one end of the envelope and insert the recycled metal envelope closure.
Secure the closure in place at the back with glue and then glue the envelope horizontally to the game board.

Stamp the boat image with coal black dye ink and the vintage ship postcard image with Walnut Stain onto
cream cardstock. Tear the edges of both and age with Vintage Photo dye ink. Mount the boat image onto coal black cardstock and cut out leaving a narrow border. Glue the life ring over the boat image and adhere in place to the game board with fast grab tacky glue. Adhere the ship postcard in place with double-sided sticky tape.

Next colour all the unfinished wooden pieces. I coloured each one with Opaque Paint Markers. Add some green eyelash fiber to the sea horse, braid some strands of the same fiber together and thread through the hole of the big anchor. Adhere both to the game board with fast grab tacky glue. Age the back of the lighthouse and the palm tree with Weathered Wood dye ink and secure to the game board with a hinge at the bottom edge of each piece. I used the fast grab tacky glue to secure them and held them in place to dry with clamps. Glue the mini ship wheel to the palm tree and the mini anchor to the lighthouse.

Next make the faux metal drawer index hardware from die cuts. Coat both die cuts with pigment ink and coat with
gold ultra thick embossing powder/enamel (UTEE). Heat to melt the powder and while it's still hot add more powder and re-heat.
Mount the faux drawer index hardware onto coal black cardstock. Make two nautical knots with white rope - a reef knot and a figure 8 knot and adhere to the drawer indexes. Create 4 faux-rusted brads by randomly colouring the surface with green and brown opaque paint markers. Once dry coat the surface with matte varnish to preserve the finish. Insert the brads into the holes of the drawer indexes and fold the arms of the brads back in one direction and glue in place. Adhere the drawer indexes to the game board with fast grab tacky glue.
Make two labels on a label maker. Peel off the backing and adhere to scrap cream cardstock and cut out. Adhere them to the game board  with double-sided sticky tape.

Before gluing on the scrabble tiles to spell out the title of my altered game board I aged them by simple touching each tile to the Walnut Stain dye ink pad. Glue them in place with fast grab tacky glue.

Finish off by gluing on knots on all 4 corners and where a little something extra was needed. Glue on a shell and add nautical themed stickers. I also spelled out Leigh's Altered World of Game Pieces on the label maker and added it to the top of the board.

Then when the board is closed (doesn't close totally because of the bulky embellishments) - I added some more stickers to the 'front cover' and adhered the lady in the waves image with double-sided sticky tape. Finally I spelled out 'ships log' on the label maker and added it to
the sticker postcard.