To start, I made a rough sketch of the letters and the names in a one whole piece of illustration board. I patterned the couple's names with the style of their wedding seal and it's more of a calligraphic style. Since these letters will be placed in a large plain white photobooth wall measuring about 6-7ft wide and 8ft tall, the letters measured about a feet and a half which I think is enough to be readable from afar. After being satisfied with the design, I cut it clean with a scissor and cut the insides with a cutter. Below were the cut-outs.

Because I was also busy with the welcome board I made for Hash and Jason, I asked @jveronica to help me out in cutting some long strips to be used in making the letters pop out like that of a 3D.

With the strips, I glued it on the sides of the letters I made earlier with the white part out so that the paint will be brighter and the color would be more visible. This part of the process, as I said earlier was the most painstakingly tiring because I had to bend, cut, hold the strips in place to make sure it sticks, follow the curves of the letters and I even got burned with the hot glue many times.

Can you just imagine the curves on this one? It actually took me three hours to finish this one letter only.

This letter took me two hours to finish. Tiring right?

I finished Erwin's first after letter A. The 'rwin' I think took me three hours to finish too.

Then I continued with Argentina's which also took me about three to four hours. My back hurt but because I wanted to finish it so bad, I did make it in one night. As you can see, the back part of the letters is the messy part because I put a liberal amount of glue just to make sure it sticks well on the board.

These were then the letters.

Their names wouldn't be complete without the ampersand. I intentionally made it after the names so that I could measure how big it would be.

I then glued the strips like how I made the letters earlier. I've made the glue gun and the scissors my bestfriends on this.

PAINTING PROCESS

Once it's done, I've gathered all the letters in the outdoors in a broad daylight as advised by my artist friend @ianceaz to see the effect of the paint better and to avoid it from getting too much paint and wobbling. I asked my dad first to do the spray painting and I then got the hang of it after dad doing it. As you can see from the picture above, I used a Flash Gold spray paint for the letters since it's the motiff of the wedding.

This is my helpful dad all geared up for the spray painting session.

I did a thin layer everytime I spray paint. Every after 15 mins or once it's dry, I add another coating to the letters to achieve a better effect and brighter color of the spray paint.

My hands got glittery and all that from spraying. An artist is never an artist without getting your hands dirty right?

Spray painting takes enough control on the amount of paint. When you press too hard, too much paint will be sprayed thus getting your board to wobble or get too wet and with this project we need to avoid destroying all your hardwork.

I was able to use 2 cans of spray paint for this one.

These were the letters after 5-7 coatings. I only let it air dry.

Having the paint all dried up, I asked my lil sister to glue in lil strips of board at the back so that it would be a lot easier to pin it on the wall.

These were then the finished letters.

There you have it guys! It's all done and ready for use this June. One thing I learned from doing this is that it needs a lot of patience if you want to achieve something. Everything needs hardwork and dedication like I did.

I hope you guys learned something from this!

All the love,

@kyanzieuno

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