Homemade Blocks

We finally got the little shelves put up in Camden's room. I wanted to put something "baby" on the shelves because his whole room is pretty simple and "non baby". I thought blocks would be fun, but I don't like the blocks you can buy in stores. I looked on Etsy and found some cute ones that people made using scrapbook paper. I thought that would be a fun project to keep me busy for a day. So my mom ran out to a few craft stores and picked up the necessary items. I ended up making 9 blocks. All together with the paper, blocks, glue, and letters the final cost was under $25. And I have a ton of paper left over; I will have plenty if I want to make more blocks.

Here is how I made them...



I started by painting the edges of the blocks just in case the corners showed through.


This is the color paper I added to one side of the block. We bought a book of reversible scrapbook paper, so we had a ton of colors and patterns to use.


I flipped the paper over and covered the block with the Mod Podge.


Stick the block to the paper and hold firm for about a minute.


After I glued the paper to the block, I cut along the edge using my Exacto knife.


This is what it looks like after you cut it out.


Here are a few of the blocks along the way. I used different paper on every side of the blocks.


I then added chip board letters to the blocks using the Mod Podge.


After the letters dried, I applied Mod Podge to every side of the block to seal in the paper and the letter.


I made three blocks with different letters on each side so we can arrange them how we want. I first had these stacked to say ABC, when Wes came in he switched the letters around to be Camden's initials. I kind of like it :)


Here is where the shelves are hanging


I really wanted to put a cute word on the shelf but I couldn't think of what would be good. Wes wanted something "manly" as he put it...so he came up with "Trucks". It was either that or "meat" and I was not about to have the word "meat" sitting up on my baby's shelf. The blocks that say Trucks only have letters on one side, I didn't plan on switching that word around so I didn't bother adding more letters to the other sides of the blocks.


Here is an up close picture of his blocks. How "boy" is Trucks?!


His room is getting more cozy with each thing we add!