Wooden Pumpkin and Boo Blocks

Hallowe’en is getting closer!  The leaves are falling off the trees, and the days are getting cool and crisp.  Fall is my favorite time of year! In honor of fall and Hallowe’en I created a wooden pumpkin and some cute little BOO blocks to display in my front entrance.  I used an SVG to cut out the bottom pumpkin and use as my template to cut out in wood.  I then made an oval to attach to the front of the pumpkin just to give it some dimension. I painted them in yellow ochre, school bus yellow, and leaf green.  I used the yellow ochre as my base color for...

Thanksgiving Day Cricut Craft – Go...

I made this set of Gobble ‘Til Ya Wobble blocks using my Cricut machine today.  It was SO EASY to make.  It took me next to no time at all.  I think this is one of the easiest, and quickest, crafts I’ve made!  All I needed were three 7″ blocks made from two by four wood, which I had my husband cut for me.  This wood is very inexpensive, and you can even get it cut into smaller pieces at the hardware store for easy hauling home, if you don’t have a truck :). I gave each piece of wood a quick coat of brown paint.  I only did one coat because you...

Dinosaur Stacking Blocks

I found the cutest dinosaur paper at the scrapbook store the other day.  I grabbed the Dino Parade and BabySaurus papers from the Little Yellow Bicycle Collection.  I’ve been wanting to do some decorative stacking blocks, so I thought this paper would be perfect on them! I cut three blocks approximately three inches each, primed them, and painted them each a different color, light orange, green, and blue.  Because the colors were all so light I thought I would add a darker shade of the same color cardstock to each side, before mounting my dino paper onto them. I...

Photo Project

I started out today ready to finish a set of wooden photo blocks I’m working on.  I got my wood cut and painted yesterday, and this morning I got my paper mod podged on.  The next step was to pick out my photos.  I have three blocks so I figured I’d do a block for each of my sons, and the top block would be them together or with my husband and I.  Well in doing so I’ve created a whole new project for myself…sorting through photos. This is something I’ve been meaning to do for years and I don’t know if I’ll ever get it done.  I...

New Unfinished Bookends Kit

I added a new unfinished bookends kit to my shop today.  This one is the same as the ABC 123 bookends I made, just the unfinished version.  This is a great kit for mod podging on paper, letters, words, or even photos.  The kit comes with two unfinished bookends and six unfinished blocks for $24.00 plus shipping.  I’m hoping to do a set soon using baby photos on one side, and my son’s birthdate, weight, and length on the other.  Or I’ll mix and match them.  I’ll put a photo up when I get that done to show as an example. Until then, if anyone is...

New ABC 123 Bookends

I finally finished the silver and taupe set of ABC 123 bookends I’ve been working on for ages.  I used papers in grey, taupe, white and black and colored the edges of the blocks with silver distressing ink.  I did the edges with brown ink first, and it looked terrible, so I went over it all again with silver and they looked much better.  Probably better than if I’d just done them in silver to begin with because now it’s a dark silver and the edges stand out better. The outer edges of the ends are little funky because I did them in silver as well.  I...