Feature Friday-Blog Swap with Aly&Ash

Hello you gorgeous Tipsy readers! I am so excited to be guest posting over here today! I’m Jax from Aly&Ash and I have a really fun Father’s Day gift tutorial for you today! But first a little about me in-case you’re interested…if not feel free to scroll to the tutorial! 😉

I am a SAHM of the sweetest little sweet sweet you have ever seen! His name is Asher and he is 8 months next week…how did that happen? He really is the whole reason I got into this craft blogging stuff! I caught the bug once I made a few things for him and just ran with it! I started Aly&Ash just a few short months ago and am now thoroughly addicted! I am even co-hosting an event here in Arizona this month!

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Alright well enough about me let’s get to this tutorial shall we! I wanted to come up with a personalized gift for my Dad for Father’s Day this year. Promptly upon my moving out they remodeled the basement into a Bar for get togethers and parties. They call it Bowd’s Bar (Last name Bowden) and they love it! I had been thinking about using tile and vinyl to make a checkers board for a while and thought, “This is the perfect opportunity!”

Tutorial:

Custom Checkers Board

What you need:

16×16 Piece of Tile
15×15 Vinyl Checkerboard Pattern
24 Wooden Circles
Scrapbook Paper
Mod Podge & Foam Brush
Circle Punch
Felt & Hot Glue

Step One:

Adhere your vinyl to the tile. Luckily tile is a forgiving surface so when I laid it crooked the first time I was able to carefully peel it back up and try again! Whew! I get my vinyl from Marni at{Choose the Writing}!

Step Two:

Measure, cut and hot glue felt to the bottom of the tile. Do a little bit at a time since the glue drys fast.

Step Three:

I printed words onto scrapbook paper to customize, but plain scrapbook paper would work great too!

Step Four:

Grab your circle punch and start punching!

Step Five:

Mod Podge your circles of scrapbook paper to the wooden circles one side at a time. When I finished all 24 circles the first one was dry and ready for me to start again on the other side.

Step Six:When I was done the 2nd side the 1st side was dry and I could apply more Mod Podge to the top to seal…and so on.

Step Seven:

Allow to dry completely! I used a crown graphic from {The Graphics Fairy} on one side for the “King Me!”

Now you’re ready to Play!

Well thanks for having me today! I hope you enjoyed today’s tutorial and be sure to come visit me at Aly&Ash for other tutorials, ideas and fun! Here is a quick sampling of just a few!