Wedding DIYs part 1: Letters and Invites

Been pretty much busy with all the wedding preparations and errands, I forgot that I need to update our wedding blog as well.

As of last week, we are still on time with the major to-do's and the littlest details are the ones that have taken the back seat. I am sharing with you what we have done by ourselves -  our DIYs.

LETTERS FROM TABORA

Prior to our prenup in April, I bought these craft letters in Tabora, Divisoria - for 50 a letter. I wanted to use this on our prenup, however, with the excited kid in me, I forgot that I bought them, and never used them.

Anyhow, these are the letters and what I did to them:

used poster colors for the letters. 

I managed to get our color motif by mixing the green and blue with the white color - to get the lighter version of it. One tip - better mix a small amount first and then try them on the letters. After which, you can mix a bigger amount.

I painted the letters in two coats - first,  horizontally and second coat, vertically. I have to wait for about 30 minutes in between coats so they are fully dried.

Final output

INVITE BANDS

Since I wanted to have personalized wedding invite, we had to insert a touch of ours. I made a invite band with our logos. Made this way:

I had our logos printed in a white board paper (150 gsm). And attached them to a silver board in 220 gsm. Size is about 1.5in by 1.5in.

Materials: Our invite for measurement, the logos and ribbons

 Steps:

1. I measured the ribbon around the invite first and cut them according to size. I put a double-sided tape (about .75in width double-sided tape), horizontally.

2-3. Put the ribbon around and measured them first by putting it around the invite and closing it.

4. Secure the loop by putting two strips of double-sized tape vertically on top of it.

5. Put the second silver cardstock on top to close the invite band.

6. Final product.

Step-by-step guide

Final output

I still have more DIYs to do in 75 days. :)


Crafty Sunday ahead,

Dheng

DIY part 1: Do day for Pre-Nup Pictorials

In one week's time, we will be artista for a day - its our pre-nup pictorials in UP Diliman. We have limited props, but since I will be out of the city by mid-week next week, I have to finish our pre-nup props.

LOOKING FOR A PRE-NUP SHOOT VENUE

For the past months, I have been scouting for our pre-nup pictorials venue. Since Louie and I were both UP Diliman alumni and our love story started here, we decided to go with UP Diliman. There have been tsismis that UP charges na for pre-nup shoots, we scouted for yet replacement venues. Louie is very mapilit that we try on UP Diliman, and good thing we did ask. Alumni are free when they shoot around UP, but in particular areas only like the lagoon, acad oval and other public areas. Within colleges, they have to write the respective colleges for permit.

Since we are both UP KEM (our college org) alumni, we decided to take a chance if we can ask for a permit to shoot in our tambayan, inside the College of Engineering (Melchor Hall). We just wrote a letter to the College Dean, indicating the location, time of shoot and number of people that will be there during the shoot. Gladly, we were permitted and just settled Php 250 for 3 hour shoot at our tambayan. :) We can even shoot at the College stairs.


DIY 1: BLOCK LETTERS

We haven't received our script from our P/V supplier, but I already prepared some of the props that we will be using for our pre-nup shoot. I bought paper mache block letters in Divisoria for Php 25 a piece. This is for the medium-sized letters.

It was a crafty afternoon this holiday and I decided to work on it. I bought 4 colors of poster paints - cobalt blue, white, green and silver gray that will be our colors for the wedding. It is actually aqua blue, mint and gray and all I have to do is to mix white and blue and green and white to get the right color combination.

And here are the materials and final outputs.

original paper mache block letters

My materials: Dong-A poster color in silver gray (Php 34),
Best Buy (national bookstore) poster colors in green, white and
cobalt blue (Php 28 each color) and 3 inch brush (Php 34).
Total cost = Php 150.00

Final output - L in blue, & in silver gray and D in mint green

This week, I still have to look for a vintage luggage since I wanted to recreate a shot I found online. :)

One week and I am sort-of-ready to be an artista. :)

Inspired for a crafty afternoon,

Dheng