Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Easy shabby photo blocks!

What to do when it's minus 5000 degrees in Minnesota, you have a sick 9 year old home from school, and you, yourself, are feeling a little cruddy? Grab some scraps and get creating! I made these little picture blocks years ago and had 3 left over that have just been kicking around in my crap creative room!


These were so easy to make...like I said, I made them a long time ago but I just took a 2x2 and cut it into little squares, drilled a hole at the top, took some wire and bent it into the shapes, then just hot glued the wire into the hole I had drilled.  I did paint the wood blocks an off white.  That was it! Cute little picture holders for next to nothing - you probably could use any old scrap wood you have taking up space around the garage!

I stamped some material I had with an awesome little french script background stamp. I use Staz on ink for these types of things...it works excellent and doesn't fade.

Then I took a bunch of scraps and embellishments I had laying around...some old, some new. I just started glueing and creating...no pattern, no thinking, just random "thoughtlessness"! My fave!

I took two pics of the girls and changed them to B&W, resized, and added them. 


I didn't add pics to the bottom two...I don't know if I'll use them for gifts or put them up at The Red Poppy!  We'll have to see!

A close up of Kate...
A closeup of Carly...
The finished project on a fab little shelf! 

Just a note...the hubby calls my craft room the "crap" room...most of the time he is right...it's such a disaster that you could lose a small child in there! It's my creative room....messy as it is, it's mine and it's my little piece of sanity when I need it...and in my defense (my brainiac train of thinking) is I don't want to waste my creative time cleaning it up so I just work away..."crap" and all!

Easy, easy, easy project AND I got rid of some stuff (even though it's little...it counts) from the crap creative, craft room! Hugs! Kristen

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