Halloween Wooden Blocks

I have been seeing gorgeous wooden blocks all over blogland and wanted to put my own spin on things.  I really  got inspired when I saw these over at Coleen’s Corner.  So, I got my dad to cut some out for me and sand them down.  I painted them all black and white.  I have recently discovered a program called Digital Scrapbook Artist by Serif.  It was available for a free download from Amazon about a month ago.  I love FREE!  I think there is a newer version on sale right now for about $25  (reg price is $50).  I love this program!!  There are so many cool things you can do with it and it is so easy to use.  Anyway, I found lots of spooky images online, many from The Graphics Fairy.  I also found lots of cool fonts from Scrapvillage.  So, I created my images and printed them out and let them dry.  I sprayed Mod Podge Gloss Acrylic Sealer on them and let that dry.  Then I mod podged my images to my blocks, only I didn’t use actual mod podge for these-I simply mixed equal parts elmer’s glue (regular old school glue that cost about 20 cents at back to school time) and water.  I think it works pretty good and it’s so cheap!  After it dried, I sprayed one more coat of the sealer.  I’m not completely pleased with the way they turned out-I was a little messy with my painting and didn’t get all of my images sized exactly the way I wanted them to cover the full face of the block.  Oh, well! I also made some smaller, unpainted blocks and they turned out great.