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Navy Boot Camp Photo with Navy Chipboard

Hi my name is Allie Clark with today's blog post. I thought that I would do a post on the Navy chip board. When I went on the site to buy some chipboards, I saw this and really liked it a lot. At first I was going to make a tag with it for my son, who is in the Navy. But after I painted it, I decided to make a memory picture instead. What I mean is, I have a photo of him when he graduated from boot camp. I have been wanting to do something special with it to display it in my home for him. So I pulled out his picture and started. I am going to tell you how I did it.

This is the supplies that I used. I purchased this all at Michaels.

I chose to use a canvas for my piece, but can use most anything that you want. I first put two coats of paint on the canvas letting it dry between coats. You don't have to paint the middle because the picture will cover it up anyway.

Make sure you paint the side to

I then put a thin layer of Mod Podge over the paint, and placed the picture on the canvas. Starting from the middle pressing out to make sure it sticks. I then made sure that all the bubbles was pressed out.. Let it dry for a hour. You want it to dry so when you do the next step it won't lift from the canvas.

I then put four coats of Mod Podge over the whole canvas. Letting it dry for a hour between each coat. When I say the whole canvas I mean even over the picture. I set this aside and stared on the Chipboard.

I started by painting the chipboard, putting two coats of paint, letting it dry between coats. Then brushed a thin layer of glitter glue. Let it dry