Last Friday night my Bunco Babe friend Melinda invited us all over for a Craft Night at her house. Months ago I had seen these BOO blocks from The Crafting Chicks website.
Aren't they super cute?!?! So we gathered the supplies and made our own. You need a piece of 2x6 piece of wood cut into pieces. On their website, they used pieces that were 6, 7, and 8 inches tall. The lowercase b works well on the 8 inch piece. Unfortunately none of us had a Cricut or any type of lowercase letters. Instead we were using wooden letters that came in packs of 2 for 99 cents at Hobby Lobby. So if I had this to do all over again, I would probably not get 8 inch pieces. I would measure the letters I was going to use, and decide from there what size blocks to get cut. But anyway, we used 6, 7, and 8 inch pieces this time. Thanks to Melinda and Sarah, we had a large supply of super cute Halloween scrapbook paper.
I didn't get a picture of all the steps because I was so busy trying to keep up with everyone else.
First you sand the edges of the wood. Then you paint them black. You can sand the edges again if you want the blocks to look more rustic. Then using spray adhesive and/or matte mod podge, you glue the scrapbook paper to the blocks. The hardest part for me was narrowing down my choices and making sure the 3 patterns I chose looked good together. :)
Then you paint the letters black and hot glue them to the blocks. Here is Melinda in action...
Here are Ashley's blocks. She tied green ribbon and glued it to the top of each block. Very cute!
Here is one of Melinda's sets with the black ribbon tied and glued to the front of her blocks. By the way, one of the cutest ideas of the night was how Melinda had decorated the table. She bought an orange plastic tablecloth and laid zebra print wrapping paper down the middle of the table as the tablerunner. So cute! I should've gotten a picture of it!
And as you can tell, we all did them differently. Chris decided she didn't want ribbon on hers. Then on these sets, we glued a ribbon only to the B block...
And on this set, I tried to copy the Crafting Chicks by tying black and white gingham ribbon around the edges of each block. I should have bought ribbon with wire in it. Melinda suggests buying ribbon in the floral department of Hobby Lobby instead of the fabric department so all the ribbon will have wire in it. She's told me that before but I forgot.
This craft definitely got us all in the mood for Fall and Halloween! Thanks for having us all over, Melinda! I hope we can start doing craft nights more often. It's definitely more fun to craft with friends!
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