Follow along as Carol Duvall makes a chess set for Father's Day.

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It'll take a little bit of time and it doesn't have to be chess you know you could make it for checkers. But ours is chess right now. And the chess pieces are we're gonna start with. And this's where we begin making those with all sorts of little wooden bits and pieces some of which you may actually have around the house. Some of which you'll certainly find in your craft store even your hardware store. May be even the lumber yard and then you just have fun putting them together. But first decide of course that this's gonna be for chess. Remember what you'll need, you know your king, your queen, your brooks, your knights, your pawns, your bishops, any way and figure out. Now how many you need of each and since start putting things together, just make them up as you go. And till you get something you think you really like. And then glue it together and then start painting. Or you might wanna paint and then glue them together, just be sure you've enough of each. Now when it comes to actual painting you can use of course your regular acrylic paints. In some cases you just wanna use these paint pens. They've got them in such marvelous colors now with the big and even bigger than this. Tips on them to, these were also great for making your polka dots and plats and any designs you want to with the metallic ones, they're fun. Then you just go to it. Now you can do something just plain like these are then put little polka dots on them or you can. These are the ones you might wanna paint before you put them together. Things like this the same ones and look at what different look they are. Look at these, quite different to paint on your colors. How do you like this in yellow, use your primary colors yellow or red and blue and so forth are these. Just a solid spray job will do it, copper and black. Well we put a little bit of leafy, magic leafy now on this one. That as I said can be time consuming and a lot of fun. But now you've got to have a board to put them on. And this's the set could be for checkers as well as for chess. Now our first board, very masculine in appearance and would you believe it's all made of foam board and paper. That's it. We start with a piece of black foam board, quarter of an inch thick. And this one happens to be 13 inch squares. This's the paper and it came from the scrapple cane paper. Cut up into squares and remember you'd be sure and do not use your scissors on this, you should wanna use your craft knife and your ruler and cut those perfect little squares. These happen to be 1 and 5/8's. And I, you would, you can use tape to put these on or you might wanna glue them on. And measure and make sure you're getting these on but you alternate the rows like this. Chances are you're gonna get them on just right but they to you too want them to be perfect. And you go along like this till you get your whole board on. Then we're gonna make it more than just, it does look crooked. More than just as little skinny board we're gonna put a back on it. And we cut 2 more pieces of the, of the foam and these are a 10 inch squares. So they're about an inch and a half on each side which you can measure or you can eyeball. We put double stick tape on these to hold them together like this. This just gives it that little extra touch. Then put some brad on, decorative brad around the edge. Not necessary but it does cover up the edge of the foam. And then the final thing because it's gonna get a lot of ware as you're gonna put your acrylic coating on it. Your acrylic medium, you polymer medium, your decoupage medium something that's gonna protect it. And of cutting up all those squares as a little too much you just wanna cut up strips. You know instead of using the black as we did on here, you can cut black strips of paper. Cut this other than just weave it in and out weave it in and out, do the same thing. Or in this case we'll lower the strips and put it on a piece of wood and made little wooden blocks for the legs. And wire and this glass stones, there're so many variations.