AMERICA Blocks

As you probably know, I’ve been making A LOT of these blocks during the past year. They’re kinda fun. I knew with Independence Day approaching that I wanted to make some Red, White, & Blue blocks. I already have some USA letters, so I wanted to do a word I didn’t already have. I decided that I would either make them say FREEDOM or AMERICA. I ended up deciding to do AMERICA. I had a few snags while working on this project, but overall, I’m happy with how it turned out.
I used the fun Echo Park Paper, Dots & Stripes. I was super excited to use this! I got my paper adhered to the blocks with Mod Podge and then cut white vinyl for all the blocks. You COULD NOT see the E or the C. 🙁 Snag 1. I left them for over night trying to decide what to do. I really liked the white vinyl. I even asked a few different people what they would do with the problem. I found some lighter blue vinyl that I had, and thought it would go okay. I decided to re-cut all the letters in the light blue with my Cricut. {I used the Lyrical Letters Cartridge. LOVE this cartridge!} When I started changing the blocks from white to blue, I got to the point of only having the three letters changed, and I was kinda liking it. I still had some of my white letters. 🙂
But, I still wasn’t completely happy with how they looked. So I started going through my stash and looking for ribbon and buttons that I could embellish with. I got them all embellished, put on my table where I like to put my blocks and got my camera out. Why does taking good pictures seem to be so hard for me sometimes?! I tried to take pictures, but when you are taking them against a window, the lighting just isn’t right! Snag 2. Anyway, I did get at least one, on the table where the blocks belong, but then I waited until the lighting was right outside and headed out to snap some pictures.
I am excited to have my AMERICA blocks done and sitting in my living room. Here in Utah we can get away with leaving Red, White, and Blue decor up all month long, because we celebrate the 24th of July as well, in honor of Utah’s Statehood.

Am I the only person who seems to have snags like these? Please do share, if you have these snags too. I’d love to hear about it.