Far & Away by Bean

All Stamps & Stamped Images: Art by Moonlight

Cut board piece 4 X 8, using whatever part of lettering you want to show through.
Paint 2 coats, letting first coat dry, of Lumiere paint.
Using fingernail, squiggle lines in the paint resembling waves.
Tear off a piece of map to cover 1/2 of board and attach with glue or double sided tape.
Stamp travel image on vellum and tear edges, then layer over map, letting a little of the map show through on one side, and letting the vellum overlap the board on the other, using double sided tape.
Tear two strips of vellum, on thinner than the other and ink the edges with blue ink. Attach the widest strip with double sided tape on ONE END ONLY.
Cut four or five strips of fiber and place a couple under the widest piece of vellum, then finish attaching the wide vellum with double sided tape.
Arrange the rest of the fibers over the wide piece of vellum so that it resembles plankton and attach with double sided tape, then lay the narrower piece of vellum over these to hide the ends. This will give you a nice layered look.
Use small dabs of glue to arrange the fibers in a pleasing pattern on the board.
Roll out fimo and press indentations of the assorted shell stamps as well as the 'Far And Away' saying from Art By Moonlight Rubber Stamps, then bake as directed. Once hardened and cooled, rub with antiquing gel to highlight the lines. Arrange these and the sea theme charms in a pleasing pattern and attach with small dabs of glue. I added a tassel of fiber to a shell charm that had a hole in it already.
*Run a medium thick bead of liquid appliqué along bottom of board to resemble sand, adding some mini silver beads here and there for a sandy look. Let dry and heat with heat gun to puff it up.
Attach piece of rope along top with glue, then glue the hanger after all is dry.

"Far And Away" by Brandi Powell

All Stamps & Stamped Images: Art by Moonlight

1. Trim patterned paper to fit game board. Cut half blue for top and half tan for bottom. Trim each piece in half with deckle scissors. Adhere to board using spray adhesive leaving ¼ inch between the pieces to show off the game board below.

2. Cut hole in game board in upper left corner to hold the wooden boat steering wheel. Stick wheel in hole. Adhere a couple of postage stamps around the wheel for decoration.

3. Stamp woman image from Art By Moonlight on white cardstock using outdoor denim ink pad. Trim around. Adhere mica tile over woman to accent her.

4. Trim printed word to fit mica tile. Dab with sand ink pad. Adhere to mica tile. Set woman piece aside.

5. Using foam brayer apply outdoor denim ink to cheesecloth. Dry with heat gun to set ink. Adhere to middle of game board.

6. Adhere strand of seashells using craft dots around the board as an outline.

7. Stamp three tag stickers with word image from Art By Moonlight. Adhere the three tags in a row at top of board below strand of seashells.

8. Stamp several seashells in desert sand on white cardstock.
Cut out each one. Sponge with desert sand ink to soften the white in the cardstock.

9. Arrange woman image, seashells and various ephemera around game board in a pleasing collage manner. Adhere all using spray adhesive.

"At Sea Board Box " - Altered Game Board by Missy Wong

All Stamps & Stamped Images: Art by Moonlight
1. Cut Game Board to two pieces (6 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches)
2. Glue Trim Tape around the edges of one board, make sure to miter the corners and let dry completely.
3. Decoupage ripped bits of tissue along the edge of the CD tin top using the Gel Medium. Just to overlap on to the top so your edges are covered.
4. Lightly sand the bottom of the CD tin bottom and then paint with acrylic paint and let dry completely.
5. Decoupage the inside of the bottom of the tin, overlap torn edges over the lip of the tin.
6. With the game board piece trimmed with cloth tape, glue the bottom of the CD tin to it. (It is your preference whether you glue it down to the game board side or the back. I have chosen to glue the tin to the game board side.)
7. Once dry, glue with white glue the four checkers to the bottom, one at each corner.
8. Slightly age the die cut using Distress Ink and then Dune Pigment ink. Stamp the die cut puzzle piece.
9. Decoupage tissue completely the other game board piece, making sure to cover over the edges.
10. Using white glue, glue fiber on to the board running along the edge of where the CD tin meets the board.
11. With the Diamond Glaze Randomly glue beads on the board careful to not used too big a bead close the wall of the tin or you lid will not close properly.
12. Put down beads of white glue on the fiber or near your beads and sprinkle glitter over the wet glue, once the glue is dry shake off the excess.
(The look you want to achieve is something a kin to scattered treasure from a shipwreck.)
13. Glue your die cut puzzle piece to the side of the decoupaged board.
14. Put the tin top on to its bottom, then glue the board to the top of the tin making sure that your top and bottom boards are aligned. Let dry over night.
15. Gently take off the box top. Make a loop with the ribbon and glue it to the underside of the top, perpendicular to the tin lid. Decoupage a small piece of tissue over the ribbon ends to blend it into the underside of the board.

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

All Stamps & Stamped Images: Art by Moonlight

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.