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Looking for ways to recycle my wooden blocks from my unmounted stamps.
Any ideas from you ladies out there. I was thinking taking some of the bigger blocks and decoupaging them with small photo's and some embellishments, Then using them to put around my stamp room.
I also thought about putting numbers and letters on them for a smaller child to learn thier number and alphabet.
What have you done with your blocks, that are piling up and nothing to do with them. I hate to really see them go to waste and just chuck them away when I know someone out there has some wonderful and creative idea on how to recycle these blocks.
__________________ WHAT IS A STAMPPIN ADDICT!
It's someone who buys stamps they didn't normally like at first,only to see it in Split Coast Stampers gallery in a different perspective.
If you really want to get creative, the current issue of Rubber Stamper magazine has an article that shows how a woman made a garden path with her old wood mounts. Very cool!!
Any ideas from you ladies out there. I was thinking taking some of the bigger blocks and decoupaging them with small photo's and some embellishments, Then using them to put around my stamp room.
I also thought about putting numbers and letters on them for a smaller child to learn thier number and alphabet.
What have you done with your blocks, that are piling up and nothing to do with them. I hate to really see them go to waste and just chuck them away when I know someone out there has some wonderful and creative idea on how to recycle these blocks.
Lisa there was an artical in the Rubber stamper maagazine on what to do with your wood blocks
Someone had taken their wooden blocks and built stepping stone out to their garden.
And use them to made Trivet she put on Pebble legs. and kept the image on the top of the wood.
She even gave some of her wood blocks to the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts.
You can read all about it in the Rubber Stamper magazine Jan/Feb 2007 issue.
What's behid the Surge in Unmounteds Page 36 -39
__________________ WHAT IS A STAMPPIN ADDICT!
It's someone who buys stamps they didn't normally like at first,only to see it in Split Coast Stampers gallery in a different perspective.
I am hoping for some good ideas too. I have tons of blocks in a bag from where I unmounted all my $1 stamps, and I don't mount most of my SU stamps, but can't bring myself to just toss the blocks, so I keep the sets together. Kind of defeats the purpose of saving space.
__________________ Jac-ee Former FSJ Founding Coach and SU! Demonstrator, now crafting for myself. "There is a fine line between 'HOBBY' and 'MENTAL ILLNESS'"
Have a board cut to the width of your largest blocks (background blocks would be best for this idea) and nail the board with a block on each end (at a right angle) to make a desk shelf. You could even make it multi-level by adding more shelves. With smaller blocks you could make smaller shelves to put small punches on.
If they aren't rounded on the ends (or if you can cut the rounded part off to make the block a perfect square) you could glue enough together to make a cube, then decoupage with paper and pictures.
Make a sort of modern "Tramp Art" lamp base by gluing together (go for a pyramid shape), but leaving the center open to thread a wire through so you can wire it.
Decoupage Cuttlebug alpha letters (one to a block) and hang on your wall to spell out your name. It would cute and artsy to use different sizes to do this.
Make your own shadowbox by cutting blocks and using with narrow strips of wood.
Use in the back of tablescapes to elevate objects.
Cut one rounded edge off, paint and alter to look like a mini-book.
Keep a large one (preferably a background block) in your purse or car to throw at an attacker. Aim at the head and he will be out cold!!!
I just saw an article the other day going through a bunch of mags so not sure when/where it was, but they had a bunch of blocks ( I think 9) on a table and the tops of the blocks had a section of a photo so when all the 9 put together it formed the whole picture. Kind of like a block puzzle. There were different photos on each side of the block so as many sides of the block there were those many puzzles.
Any ideas from you ladies out there. I was thinking taking some of the bigger blocks and decoupaging them with small photo's and some embellishments, Then using them to put around my stamp room.
I also thought about putting numbers and letters on them for a smaller child to learn thier number and alphabet.
What have you done with your blocks, that are piling up and nothing to do with them. I hate to really see them go to waste and just chuck them away when I know someone out there has some wonderful and creative idea on how to recycle these blocks.
what a lot of fabulous ideas! What crossed my mind was noticing in the big catalogue they offer small blocks for sale to decorate. Why couldn't you cut yours down into squares with a good man tool... if you have access to one. Then you could decorate the smaller square blocks however you would the ones they sell.
I haven't unmounted mine so I'm just thinking off the top of my head here.
I have bags and bags of them! The issue is that one side is still "sticky" but the other side is so nice since I pulled the stickers off and used the stickers on my unmounted, that side looks so purdy. I can't bear to part with them but cannot keep all of these... and I have at least 100 more sets to go.
(Love the unmounted with TIOAO in the new SU cases though!) I'm drowning in blocks.
Have a board cut to the width of your largest blocks (background blocks would be best for this idea) and nail the board with a block on each end (at a right angle) to make a desk shelf. You could even make it multi-level by adding more shelves. With smaller blocks you could make smaller shelves to put small punches on.
If they aren't rounded on the ends (or if you can cut the rounded part off to make the block a perfect square) you could glue enough together to make a cube, then decoupage with paper and pictures.
Make a sort of modern "Tramp Art" lamp base by gluing together (go for a pyramid shape), but leaving the center open to thread a wire through so you can wire it.
Decoupage Cuttlebug alpha letters (one to a block) and hang on your wall to spell out your name. It would cute and artsy to use different sizes to do this.
Make your own shadowbox by cutting blocks and using with narrow strips of wood.
Use in the back of tablescapes to elevate objects.
Cut one rounded edge off, paint and alter to look like a mini-book.
I laughed so hard when I read this... I'm still laughing just imagining it!! LOLOLOL:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
Keep a large one (preferably a background block) in your purse or car to throw at an attacker. Aim at the head and he will be out cold!!!
I laughed so hard when I read this... I'm still laughing just imagining it!! LOLOLOL:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
Hmm, I work in Emergency Medicine, may have to bring some of my large unmounted blocks for my personal protection, when there is a full moon people can get crazy.
__________________ Patrice. Organized people are just too lazy to look for things.
Looking for ways to recycle my wooden blocks from my unmounted stamps.
