Rescued Wood Turned Michigan "FALL" Scrabble Tiles #‎FallPreview‬

Art is beauty
by Art is beauty
Are Y'all ready for FALL? Come on over and see how I used some rescued wood to make some Scrabble tiles.
Good Morning my Beauties!


Well guess what?


It has been feeling like FALL lately here


(which means I have been freezing my tookus off)


That being said....it did motivate me to create some Autumn decor,


including decorating my mantle.
While we were camping the summer (oh how I already miss summer :))


My Father in Law pulled a box of these wood squares out to burn in the campfire.


Now you all know me by now...


I looked at him and said...


"woa, woa, woa,......whatdayathinkyourdooingtherebuddy?" :)


To which he replied.".Just getting ready to burn some kindling to start the fire."


I looked at him and said.."hang on"


I went next door to my camper and grabbed a bunch of kindling...and said..


"HERE....I am trading you"!


He knew.....I couldn't let these perfect little square pieces of wood be burned.


He accepted my offer and I brought the wood home....


where it sat........in my garage....


My hubby was thrilled.......NOT!


He said.."what are going to do with those?"


I said..."Make scrabble tiles"


To which his reply came in the form of a NON VERBAL


response that can only be heard by wives...


It was the sound of his eyes ROLLING into the back of his head with


the classic "YEAH RIGHT" look on his face. :)
Well I took it as a challenge....I didn't know when I was going to make them.


But now I HAD to.


So one night while the hubby was teaching at the college


I stained up some of the squares to look like scrabble tiles.
Then I pulled out my silhouette cutting machine


and created scrabble letters out of vinyl


and for the "A" I used a state of Michigan graphic that I have


used on other Projects.


You can see those HERE.


Now this is the part where it almost turned into a FAIL...instead of FALL craft.


I laid out my vinyl on my squares...


as usual things were not going smoothly.


I got all the vinyl transferred to my wood blocks but they were


not sticking for NOTHIN...


I thought...I will use some poly to spray over top of them...


Well, I didn't use the normal poly spray I normally do.


This stuff must have had some other alcohol or acetate chemical in it.


Where I sprayed over the letters it started to basically MELT..


DOH!!!!!


Well, instead of scrapping them right away...I thought


I will wait this out...


I am glad I did.


I let it dry and where I had laid my vinyl there was a perfect impression


of my letters. a nice little raised edge.


So when it was all dry; I pulled off the vinyl and used


a permanent paint pen to color the spots that were not covered in poly.
I actually like how they turned out BETTER.


I don't have to worry about the letters peeling up.


and it fits in perfect with my Fall Mantle.
So like I try to remember...


Be patient...sometimes just like Bob Ross says..


They are happy little accidents.
I hope you enjoyed this little fun Autumn craft.


Be sure to come back tonight for the link party


so we can see what YOU have been working on.


It goes live at 8pm Eastern.


SEE YOU THEN!


Until next time.


Go make someones day BEAUTIFUL.


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