Adventures of the DIY Bride: Personalized Aisle Runner

After seeing so many beautiful personalized aisle runners of course I had to make one for our wedding! At first I thought I would do as other brides have done and go to Kinko’s for a large printout of our monogram (or name logo, whatever you want to call it since ours isn’t really a true monogram). However, just the monogram/logo wasn’t enough for me. Oh no; I found a verse I really liked and didn’t have a place to use it yet so this was the PERFECT opportunity! The final dimensions of that area are about 3′ x 5′ so I thought that might be difficult, not to mention expensive, to have recreated at Kinko’s.

Instead I rented an overhead projector. Remember those dinosaurs that teachers used in grade school? I ALWAYS wanted to use one but never had the need. I checked it out yesterday and have all weekend to play with it! (Too bad I also have a pile of homework.)

 

I’m doing my best to take photos throughout the process. Even after the 4+ hours I spent on this last night, I’ve got quite a bit left to do so as always, I’ll keep you posted.

 

   

Getting set up

Tracing

 

Using the wall to trace

 

Andy measuring for me

 

 
Painting

Outlining

The quote is “Never before could they remember a time when forever didn’t seem long enough”

50 feet of crafty creation…with very little room for error!!

 

I still have to finish painting 80% of it, then I’m going to attempt to put black ribbon around the ENTIRE thing.  Please keep your fingers crossed that I don’t mess up – or it’s back to the drawing board!!