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Vintage Wedding Car Bunting Banner
Happy New Year! For my parents' 50th, I was thinking silk wedding car banner in matte gold with the words "We Still Do" printed on it. On a last-minute decision (Okay, technically, it was more like during the week of the wedding), I saw vintage bunting banners on Pinterest and thought, "Hmm, puede!" There's a certain charm to these buntings.
Luckily for me, my very artsy-crafty little sister helped me out (For some reason, I become this impatient, catty bad person who thinks everything's going to fail within the last few days of any event I'm organizing, so I spend too much of my very limited time to whine how all our hard work is going to come to nothing instead of actually getting something done. My bad. Nobody's perfect.)
So, if you're inspired to make your own, here's our step-by-step guide... or something like that:
The Materials:
* bond/copy paper
* specialty paper in Kraft Gold (the specific brand was Olympia Metallic, which the very supportive husband has dug out from under a bunch of highly disorganized paper products)
Note: Burlap would be nice if you have access to it, but we needed some gold hence the specialty metallic paper.
* dark chocolate brown ribbon (about half an inch wide)
* lace tape (from DAISO Japan - it's double-sided taped for arts and crafts convenience)
* thermal laminating pouches - I'll explain in a while
Step 1. Draw your preferred banner shape.
No high-tech skills requirement here. My sister, Rizha, being a teacher, is a master in MS Office so she shaped the banners using MS Word. Click on the drop-down marked "Shapes" (duh). Make sure that you can fit two of the shapes on one short or letter-size copy paper (8.5 X 11"), because that would be the ideal size for a wedding car banner.
Step 2. Type in the letters.
Insert a text box. (Hit "Draw Text Box" from the drop-down menu.) Adjust the settings to make your text box transparent (Hover the mouse over your text box and right-click. Choose "format text box," then slide the transparency bar to 100%, and finally set Line to "No color")
Choose a font. We picked Colonna MT. Type in what your banner's going to say one letter per shape. Make sure the text stays on top and at the center of your shape.
Step 3. Print out, cut out, and wait... laminate?
Though it won't be looking authentic vintage, which it really isn't, your banner will be weatherproofed for the Big Day. Unless you're making an indoor bunting banner or there's 0% chance of rain (or unless you're getting it printed on an industrial printer where the ink won't blot and run when wet, and I think you're not, which explains why you're on a DIY site), then you may skip this part. If not, just an advice from a paranoid DIY party planner.
Step 4. Decorate.
If you didn't have to skip Step 3, then trim around each letter, making sure not to cut the laminates open (defeats your purpose of weatherproofing the prints). My sister left the almost inch-wide laminated top untrimmed. One letter at a time, lay the cutout over the metallic paper (use paper clips to keep them in place) and cut after the shape following a preferred margin.
Another sister helps out in the DIY car banner project
Decorate with the lace tape, punch out holes for the ribbon, and voila!
