Greetings from Murray.
Today I'd like to show you a project that my son and daughter-in-law helped me out with last year. The idea came from http://www.howdoesshe.com/.
Their cute "Countdown to Candy" blocks were just calling us to make some.
Aren't these so cute?
To start with you need a 4x4 post. You'll cut 1 piece 6 inches, then you'll cut 2 pieces roughly 3.5x3.5 inches. Your goal is to make a square out of the 3 pieces.
Select some really cute Halloween scrapbook paper and MODPODGE each side of the smaller pieces so that all sides are covered. This takes a while as you want each side to get dry. (Make each side a different piece of paper)
Then using your Cricut (which by the way I think is perhaps the best thing ever invented, my daughter-in-laws say they will fight over it when I am gone, Ha), cut black vinyl numbers 1,2,6,0,7,and8 and put them on the first small block.
Then on the second block cut your vinyl letters, 1,4,3,5,2,0 and place them on.
On the big block using your vinyl cut the words, Countdown to Candy out and use whatever font you like.
Sand the edges, Stain and let dry.
Add a cute little ribbon and in my case I used a free printable from
Voila, here's how our blocks came out.
We made 4 of them, one for each of my daughter-in-laws, one for my mother, and of course one for me.
We used two different fonts and lots of really cute Halloween scrapbook paper,
What do you think?
cute huh?
Here's hoping everything is well with all of you and let's keep our neighbors on the East coast in our prayers the next few days as Hurricane Irene comes to land.
From Murray,
Kathy
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