The King Married His Queen...and They Had a Photo Booth!

Well the nuptials of King and Cupiccia came and went this past weekend. It was a blast and a pleasure to not only be there to see it but to be a part of it! I love them both and wish them a lifetime of happiness!!!! And our gift of a photo booth was achieved! It turned out great. My wonderful electronics engineering husband made a button to operate the Spark Booth software which we purchased for $59. We bought a tripod for around $40 at Best Buy. We already had a computer monitor that we weren't using so we attached that to the tripod and attached the webcam on top and used my laptop to run the program. I wish we would have taken a picture of the finally setup to show you, but unfortunately, we did not. Instead of using the fabric I bought at the antique store we just used the barn wall which was a GREAT background! The props were placed on a table between the barn and the tripod. The button box was attached to the table via Velcro. The wedding was outdoors in the late afternoon into the evening hours so we bought a can light that we attached to the tripod and used a 40 watt bulb. Next time we will place a light diffusing sheet over it as the light was a little bright.

We didn't have a printer for the night so we uploaded the images on to a private PhotoBucket page and password protected it. On the table with the props we left a "Thank You" box with the web address and password so people could view everyone's photos. All-in-all I would say that we did a great job with this project. I think the Kings and their guest enjoyed it...I know I sure did!

The Perfect Pair

Well here are the last two flags I made. I painted them as close to the wedding colors as I could. I wanted one side to say Mr. and Mrs. but I wasn’t sure what to put on the other. I searched my cricut cartridges for inspiration and on the Sweethearts cartridge (obviously the perfect one for a wedding) I chose “the perfect pair” and “you and me” I like these because in a sequence of photo booth images, each side could be used. I then cut out the words/letters and then mod podged them on. I think they turned out great! What do you think?

Then to finish my prop collection I went thrift store shopping…unfortunately I didn’t find as much as I would have liked to but I did buy two hats and a string of pearls. I also found a tub to put the props in and a metal decoration that had a flower in the center. I taped off the outside and sprayed it with the chalkboard paint. Now it’s my sign for the photo booth. I also went to A C Moore and bought some cutout finished wood words for $1.16 each. I bought “smile”, “kiss”, and “party” and also bought two small chalkboards just in case it was needed and they were, I think, $1.19 each. Here’s what the finish props look like:

Chalkboard Flags

So I wanted to make some chalkboard props for my friend's fastly approaching wedding. I bought some unfinished wood flags awhile back when I purchased my other prop making items. Unfortunately I didn't take a before picture of the flags, sorry. I bought 5 altogether and they were clearanced for 25 cents each (bonus!)I bought a can of chalkboard spray paint for a few bucks at Walmart. I sprayed 2 coats over the flag. It did cover the part of the handle but I thought I would just pain over that anyways. But when I tried to, my paint would not cover it. So I painted to the rest of the handle black to match. I didn't want black handles though...so I looked though my mess of supplies (and I do mean mess...my craftroom looks like the police came with a search warrant) and found some lace. I used mod podge on the handles, put the lace over top and allowed it to dry overnight. The end product looks like this:

I did 3 of the 5 flags as chalkboards. The other two I did something a little different. You'll have to check back for that finished product later! Thanks for stopping by :0)

Props!

Started working on the props for Angela and Jon's photo booth...I googled some photo booth printables and found this great site and basically cut them out, traced them on to foam and attached sticks

A few of the mouths I liked so I just glued them to the foam to make them sturdy. All the products I used were bought from AC Moore. I bought foam to make some and they had really cool wood masks too that you paint yourself. This I thought would be really fun. I bought 2 owls (me and Angela's thing) and a cat and dog...the cat and dog didn't turn out too well but the owls are pretty cute. The one I tried to paint silimar to here wedding colors (which doesn't show up that well in the picture) and the other is kind of purple...somehow mixing a brown and tan color got me purple, I dunno...but here are the owls...

I will not show you the dog and cat (they are just not pretty...nope) I think I will try to redo them or just get rid of them all together. I'm also going to make chalkboard signs so people can write whatever they want...I'll show more when I have more to show :)

Photo Booth

I am too excited to not share this. Angela is getting married in under 90 days and I'm trying to give her a great wedding gift. She really wants a photo booth but they are not priced well for a budget friendly wedding...so I'm hoping I can come up with a solution. I've been searching the web and Pinterest to find great ways to put together our own photo booth. I have only come up with this idea last night and today I found some fabric at an antique shop for a steal...the whole roll, although I haven't measured it fully but it will be plenty long enough, was only $3!!!!! I could not pass it up! It's great and I can't wait! Here's the fabric...it's probably the thriftiest find I've ever found :P


I'm also planning on making great props like these:


I can't wait to share more with you!