I had been thinking about this project for about 2 months and Amy's challenge was the kick in the butt that I needed to complete it. I had several pinterest projects that inspired this. Some were chalkboard projects and some were quotation pins. I just put them together into one canvas. I gesso'd a flat 8 x 10 and then painted it with chalkboard paint. Then I made stencils for the letters using some system fonts I have, Botanicals and ChalkBoard fonts. I used a chalkboard marker to create the letters on the canvas. I added some doodling dots around the words and along the outside edge of the canvas. I heat embossed the ship with white detail embossing powder. I was stumped on what I was going to use for the anchor until I walked into Joann's one day and there in the summer section were these 5 inch metal anchors - ON CLEARANCE!. Providence I tell you! I wrapped it with jute twine and popped it off the canvas with - wait for it - magnets! Before I adhered to magnets to the canvas with E6000, I took one of my granddaughter's blue sidewalk chalks and rubbed the long edge across the surface of the canvas and then wiped with a dry paper towel for a really chalked looking surface. I made this for friend going through some rough times right now. I think it fits.
Thanks for stopping by and I cannot WAIT for next year's NSD challenges!
