this year it should be something different...something metallic, cool and stylish.
i found some beautiful silver "advent" letters, which i had to get...so far so good...but...i felt pretty much uncreative and had to do one myself.
i did some researches and luckily found the inspiration for this amazing letters...they are sooo stylish and soooo cool...i love them.
i found some beautiful silver "advent" letters, which i had to get...so far so good...but...i felt pretty much uncreative and had to do one myself.
i did some researches and luckily found the inspiration for this amazing letters...they are sooo stylish and soooo cool...i love them.
...so far i could not make up my mind how to display the letters...too many options...but i still have a lot of time and my change it around anyways.
this is what you need
- card boxes
- metallic paint
- gimlet
- letter stencils
- six long screws
- six flat washer
- six nuts
- brush
- pen
- big scissors
- smaller scissors
- swizzle stick
this is what you have to do
- place the stencil onto a cardboard and draw the letter
- try to fit as many letters as possible on one single card box, as you need quite a number of them
- start cutting out the letters...you might want to use bigger and stronger scicssors for the rough parts
- to use smaller scissors might be a good idea for the more delicate parts
- it is up to you how many layers you need...i suggest at least ten layers per letter
- stir the paint thoroughly, using a swizzle stick
- paint the front side of one of the letters
- and the back side of another letter
- use gimlet to bore a hole in the last layer of the card box stack
- repeat with the first layer of the stack
- and finally all the layers in between
- get one of your screws, one of your flat washers and one of your nuts ready
- stick the screw through the entire card box stack
- fasten the nut in the backside of the letter stack
- paint the edges of each card box letter stack
- if you don't fancy the rustic and shabby look, if the card box shines through, you might want to paint each and every layer or glue them all together
- check out if the letters are able to stand alone
- remove the excess, if needed
- unfortunately i only figured out that all letters show a quite obvious kink, after photoshopping the pictures...so i had to add one more layer
- and as i found a even more metallic and silver paint...i added a last coat of paint to all layers of all letters..it was so worth it
i hope you enjoyed the tutorial...warmest regards...silke
this where i got the inspiration from
