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Button Checkers Tutorial
I hardly remember how to play checkers, but I sure had fun making this cottage chic distressed checker board with button pieces! I was cleaning out my garage and stumbled across my current checker board--BORING and frankly, quite ugly!
So I made my own, and now you can too!
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Yizzimindi favorited Cottage Chic Distressed Checker Board
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Step 1I didn't have off-white paint on hand so I mixed tan with white to get my desired color.
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Step 2Paint the plaque a thin coat of the white. You can even add a tiny bit of water to the paint to give it the white washed look.
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Step 3I like that you can still see the wood grains through the paint.
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Step 4A checker board is 8 squares by 8 squares {64 total squares}.
You will need to measure off your boxes. Take the number of inches long of your plaque and divide it by 8. This will give you the necessary width of each of your boxes. For example: if your plaque is 6x6 inches, take 6 inches divided by 8 boxes and you get .75. This means each box will be 3/4 of an inch wide. -
Step 5Use your ruler and pencil to mark off your measurements on all four sides.
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Step 6Now connect all the lines.
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Step 7Vertically too.
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Step 8Once you have all your grid lines marked off you are ready to begin painting your squares.
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Step 9In order to get straight lines you will need to tape off each box with painter's tape.
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Step 10Use VERY little paint when painting in your colored boxes, otherwise the paint will more like run under the tape {and it won't look as distressed}.
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Step 11Peel the tape off.
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Step 12Then place over the next square.
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Step 13Continue along.
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Step 14Once you have all your boxes painted, make sure they have dried completely.
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Step 15Take your sandpaper and begin to distress your checker board.
Sand extra hard on the edges. I sanded enough to be able to see some of the original wood color. -
Step 16See how much lighter my turquoise boxes are now?
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Step 17And you can see the wood grains {which I LOVE}.
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Step 18Take your pencil and go over any remaining pencil lines.
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Step 19Go over the checker board with the sand paper again to remove the excess eraser goopies.
And there you have it!
Your very own cottage chic checker board. -
Step 20Now you just need to pick out your favorite button checker pieces!
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Step 21And check mate!
Oh wait, that's chess...
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like it, thank you very much for the greate tute and the sharing;-D
thank you for a brighter way.
pj