Has there e'er been a project that you just couldn't become right?

I started working on a memory game back effectually Thanksgiving, and really wanted to give it to Reli equally a Christmas gift. I originally pinned the picture below, but didn't want to buy a agglomeration of stamps that I would only use once. And then I figured I would just pigment on niggling pictures with acrylics.

Did I honestly recollect I had that much time & free energy?!

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So Ashley from over at Lil Blue Boo posted a memory game tutorial that seemed perfect for me.

Just print out your pictures and transfer it onto the woods with some orange cleaner. It looks and then elementary right?

Well, after searching high and low for the citra-solv, and trying 5 dissimilar printers searching for the right ink,

I could still only manage a super faded version of my images.

I thought I was going to have to get over every animal with a sharpie until I stumbled across this picture.

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BINGO!

Nosotros already have a regular motion-picture show retentiveness game, and I've been wanting to find a fun manner to teach Reli the lower case messages. Wouldn't this would be great for that? Nosotros tin can keep them right side upward for now and match upper and lower example, then use them to spell out small words, and eventually get in a bit more than difficult by flipping them upside downwards like a regular memory game.

Starting time, information technology was no simple task for me to find the correct alphabet stickers!

I'g non in beloved with the ones I concluded up using, simply finding upper and lower case together, that aren't too wide for the circles, in a font that is toddler friendly, and aren't black or glitter covered was surprisingly difficult. At least this one doesn't shed glitter, and Reli tin recognize all but 2 or 3 of the upper-case letter messages right away.

And so my next problem was painting the disks.

Why did they demand to be painted? Your gauge is as good as mine!

I tried to spray paint the wood and realized that it needed to be primed. But of course we were fresh out of primer. Then I got out the acrylics and a pigment brush and got to work. That didn't look very pretty, and so I concluded upwards spray painting over the acrylic all over once again. What the heck? Could I make it more hard on myself?

Why didn't I just go out and buy some darn primer?

Eventually I got the paint to an acceptable state and slapped the stickers on equally quick as humanly possible.

By now I'm then fed up with this project that I couldn't be bothered to find just the right paper to mod podge onto the backs, and perchance I never volition. I simply desperately needed this to be off my to do list!

There. Posted. DONE!

I don't even wanna talk about it ; )

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