Fall Blocks

I made this set of pumpkins a few years ago to sell and it was one of my best sellers.  I made them by having my husband cut the 2 by 4 planks of wood into the sizes I wanted.  I tried to make each one a different size to add more interest.  I then sanded the blocks and painted them persimmon orange (paint purchased at hobby lobby).  Once painted (and dried), I sanded the edges of the front of each block to create a border. I then cut out the letters on my cricut machine on white card stock paper.  I attached the letters by brushing the blocks with mod podge, and then brushed over the tops of the letters as well.  When the front and edges were dry I mod podged the backs as well.  I then had my husband cut me some small stems from the branches of our pear tree (branches that had been pruned off).  I hot glued the stems on top and then decorated it with a bow of sage green dyed raffia.

I made this next set using the same proccess.  Cut the wood from 2 by 4s, except these ones I had cut all the same size so I could include the border.  The letters and borders were cut using my cricut machine, and attached using mod podge.  

The last one was made using the same process but I used scrapbooking paper to cut the letters out with, again using my cricut machine. I then cut out some brown fabric and added a little bit of pillow stuffing to the tops so they would be rounded.  I hot glued the fabric around the tops and then gathered it at the tops to create the acorns stem.  I decorated them with a bow and real acorns.