Christmas Blocks

The other night I was supposed to go to my friend Chris' house and make some Donna Downey photo blocks. I wasn't able to make it, though, and ideas for those blocks have been swirling around in my brain ever since. I still need to pick up my blocks from Chris, but in the meantime, Jack cut me this lovely pile of blocks from his 4x4 scraps. They are a couple of different sizes, but that makes them even prettier!



Now that I had this sweet little pile of blocks, I needed to start working with them since the kids were already trying to lay claim to them. (Toy blocks... who would think of blocks of wood as toys??? LOL)

Anyway... I started with my Christmas blocks. There are two Christmas releases from this year that I simply adore... Flair and 7 Gypsies. I bought both of them at the last couple of shows, and was just waiting for the perfect inspiration to hit for them. I painted the blocks with a medium brown, distressed them with a deep, rich red-brown, dry-brushed the papers and modpodged them on the blocks, dry-brushed my Pressed Petals letters and sanded them, then added the letters and stickers to the blocks. The black rub-on words are from What's New, and some of them didn't rub on very well. Now I am excited to go clean my house so my new blocks can look wonderful on top of the tv wall unit!