I have a craft!   I’m so proud!    If  there is a craft that is easy enough for me to do, anyone can do it!   I’m not very crafty, but I’m very optimistic so I just keep trying!    Eventually I track down something I can do!

I wanted to make a Christmas message using wood blocks.  Since my husband has a hobby woodshop, there is usually wood I can get my hands on.

So Mike cut a board up for me in four squares.

Needed a little paint, so I went to my stash of paint test pots that I picked up for FREE this summer at Lowe’s and Home Depot. These are the samples that people buy…apparently lots of folks immediately know that they do not want the paint. They pay for the paint but leave it behind. This is where I enter the picture.   I ask for it. In my mind’s eye…I’d like to do a crafty project using ALL of my free paint. I have over 24 paint pots…different colors…lots of colors of white and cream. Yuck. Maybe I won’t start that project after all!

I’ve been thinking about doing this for a while, so I bought some ModgePodge last month when I was at Michael’s in Kingsport. This bottle was about $9.

So I painted the blocks and then put a coat of ModgePodge on the blocks.  I’d taken scrapbook paper and cut it the same size of each block.

It’s kind of like wallpapering blocks! I liked it. It even smelled like wallpaper.

This isn’t a great picture, but behind the ModgePodge bottle, you can see where I had the scrapbook paper lying on each block. I didn’t want to buy anything (other than the ModgePodge) for this project so I used scrapbook paper that I had on hand. I had some “Christmas” scrapbook paper and some with a snow theme. I decided to make the word “Noel” with my four blocks and then make the word “Snow” on the reverse side.

After I ModgePodged the scrapbook paper on each block, I put a second coat on top of the scrapbook paper. The ModgePodge goes on kind of white but dries nice and clear! I then used a Cricut and made letters for each block but you could easily cut letters with scissors and put them on.

Here’s my Noel again.  Now that I know how easy this is, I’ll be making a few more and sanding them…making them a bit nicer.  I’m just so excited that this is easy and cute, and it worked!!    Yeah!!

Here’s my Snow…

Mike started messing with the blocks and had the nerve to pinch me on the rear! So…I swapped the blocks around and said this!