Photo Block {Fathers Day Gift}

You know those projects that have been sitting in your “to-do” pile for a long time? This Photo Block project is one of those. My husband asked me to make him a block like this with our kids pictures on it for Christmas 2011. Yes, I’m a little behind…When I finally take the time to finish one of my “to-do” projects, I’m always surprised how quickly it actually gets done. These only took me about 20 minutes to do. I already had the wood blocks, paper, and the pictures printed, so I just got to work putting it all together.

I started by painting my blocks top and edges. While the paint was drying, I cut my paper to size and cut my wallet sized pictures down to 2 1/4″ x 2 1/2″. Once the paint was dry, I used mod podge to put it on. I put the paper on, then I put some mod podge on the paper and put the picture on, and then sealed it with a layer of mod podge as well. Once that was dry, I was finished. Anymore, a lot of the projects I do that have paper on wood, I don’t seal it, there hasn’t been a need for that, but since one of these will be sitting on my husbands desk at work, I wanted to make sure it had something on it for protection.

Each block has all 4 boys on them, I made one for my father in law and one for my husband. I wanted to keep them pretty masculine, so I didn’t add ribbon or anything else. I might have my boys sign their names on the tops of the blocks, but I’m still not sure about that. 🙂