In April my daughter and I drove from Washington D.C. to Spokane, Washington. Okay, I lied, my amazing Dad drove…we rode. So here I found myself ready to establish a wonderful life for our little family, in a quiet area with a slower pace than the big city. Of course, what I hadn’t really thought about was what I would do without all my friends. Making new friends comes easy to some people, but not to me. I’m inherently shy and very sensitive to feeling like an outsider. By chance the opportunity came to me to host a craft/girls night every once in a while…thanks to the Party in the Back skirt. This was the project we worked on this last night.
If you haven’t already realized, I’m anal retentive. I spent about 30 minutes at the Hobby Lobby picking out the paper for this project. So much fun...anyways, I folded and tore the paper, making sure it was slightly smaller than the actual size of the block. I then wrote the word on the back of the paper and the side of the block, so I could keep everything organized. You won’t believe, it took an hour and a half to just tear all the paper (talking included). I’m silly sometimes…
I then sanded down all the edges…with a nail filer. That’s right. The sandpaper I bought was too fine and taking too long, so I just used what I had…easy enough to replace. One of the blocks even had a stamp on it that I filed off, the best I could anyways.
I then Mod Podged the torn paper onto the matching block side. I was very careful to make sure that if each block rotated once it would still show the same season on all three blocks. Once the Mod Podge dried I sponged white paint onto all the bare wood areas, wiping it with a paper towel to remove all excess. I repeated the exact same steps with an antiquing dye. I used FolkArt’s Antiquing Medium #811.
Finally I applied the vinyl, making sure to rub firmly with a credit card to make sure everything stuck nicely.
Tadda! LOVED this project! Here is where you can get yours.
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