all you need is love

Updating my love blocks:

     original:

I'm going to use this one:

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all you need is LOVE is all you need

A daughter of a friend of mine is getting married and I made these blocks for her - wow, I guess I've hit that age where I feel old now because my friend's kids are old enough to get married - craziness ;)
I made a layout of digital scrapbooking papers on my computer:

And cut out letters - the tricky part was the love because I really liked the outline look, but wasn't about to glue those suckers on ;)

I also did an outline for the squares in pink, but I wanted a white inside border too:

Cut out my squares, layered them and glued on the letters:
Cut out some blocks from Jonathan's 2x6's while he was away shoe shoeing - haha
Sanded them - sorry the above photo is WITH a flash!

Made some FAST drying 'stain' out of brown acrylic paint and just added water:

And brushed it on my blocks:

Let it dry, then mod podged the squares onto my blocks of wood & let that dry and added some pretty ribbon:

I also made some earrings she could possibly wear with her wedding dress . . . or just another dressy outfit:

Now I want to make myself some cute blocks - love them!