According to The Knot, “In the days when roads were unpaved, wedding guests would arrive at the church and track in dirt or mud from the streets. It didn’t seem right for the bride to drag the hem of her dress in the mud, so the aisle runner was first used to protect her gown.”
We are going to have an aisle runner, not necessarily to protect my dress from mud, but because I adore them. Today, I spent a few tedious hours painting a monogram onto our aisle runner.
Below you will find a tutorial on how I made my aisle runner. Supplies needed:
Aisle runner (Mr. Spring Roll’s aunt purchased ours from Oriental Trading for $24.95)
1. Using Photoshop or a similar editing program, design your monogram logo.
2. Increase the photo size to approximately 30 inches wide. (Our aisle runner is three feet wide, giving three inches of slack on each side).
3. Save and copy the file to disc. Bring the file to Kinko’s to be printed in full size; Mr. Spring Roll paid around $5 to do this. (You could print from your home printer; the design will print on several pages, then you can tape the pages together).
4. On a smooth surface, lay out the monogram paper and tape it down.
5. Tape waxed paper over the monogram paper. (This is so that the painted aisle runner will not stick to the paper).
6. Place the aisle runner over the waxed paper, and tape it down to secure it in place. (You should be able to see the monogram design through the aisle runner).
7. Using acrylic paint, slowly paint your design onto the aisle runner. (Don’t sweat over small errors. No one will notice.)
8. Let the painted monogram dry, and slowly remove it from the waxed paper. Safely store your aisle runner until your wedding day.
Thanks so much for this great tutorial- especially the part about the wax paper, it was so key!! I followed this pretty closely, only I was too cheap to go to Kinkos so I blew up my image by making it really big and putting different parts of the image on power point slides, and taping them together. It was a bit silly looking, but it got the job done. I actually used paint pens for mine (leftovers from another project), and that also worked really well. I got my aisle runner from Save-on-Crafts, it was the basic plain one for $15, and I think it worked well with my theme, but the Oriental Trading Company ones are cute too! Here's a (bad quality from my phone) photo if you want to see!
I was inspired as well and I did the same thing with the wax paper and I didnt want to spend the money and print it at staples so I printed lots of sheets. I am really pleased on how it came out!!!
According to The Knot, “In the days when roads were unpaved, wedding guests would arrive at the church and track in dirt or mud from the streets. It didn’t seem right for the bride to drag the hem of her dress in the mud, so the aisle runner was first used to protect her gown.”
We are going to have an aisle runner, not necessarily to protect my dress from mud, but because I adore them. Today, I spent a few tedious hours painting a monogram onto our aisle runner.
Below you will find a tutorial on how I made my aisle runner. Supplies needed:
Steps:
1. Using Photoshop or a similar editing program, design your monogram logo.
2. Increase the photo size to approximately 30 inches wide. (Our aisle runner is three feet wide, giving three inches of slack on each side).
3. Save and copy the file to disc. Bring the file to Kinko’s to be printed in full size; Mr. Spring Roll paid around $5 to do this. (You could print from your home printer; the design will print on several pages, then you can tape the pages together).
4. On a smooth surface, lay out the monogram paper and tape it down.
5. Tape waxed paper over the monogram paper. (This is so that the painted aisle runner will not stick to the paper).
6. Place the aisle runner over the waxed paper, and tape it down to secure it in place. (You should be able to see the monogram design through the aisle runner).
7. Using acrylic paint, slowly paint your design onto the aisle runner. (Don’t sweat over small errors. No one will notice.)
8. Let the painted monogram dry, and slowly remove it from the waxed paper. Safely store your aisle runner until your wedding day.
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posted by springroll 2 years agoI love this! What font and size of font did you use?
Thanks!
posted by mstaskievitz 2 years agoI love this layout and font! Any chance you are willing to upload the file so I can take a look at the font and sizes you used?
posted by laxgirl 2 years agoThanks so much for this great tutorial- especially the part about the wax paper, it was so key!! I followed this pretty closely, only I was too cheap to go to Kinkos so I blew up my image by making it really big and putting different parts of the image on power point slides, and taping them together. It was a bit silly looking, but it got the job done. I actually used paint pens for mine (leftovers from another project), and that also worked really well. I got my aisle runner from Save-on-Crafts, it was the basic plain one for $15, and I think it worked well with my theme, but the Oriental Trading Company ones are cute too! Here's a (bad quality from my phone) photo if you want to see!
posted by SarahEm 2 years agothanks for the tutorial!! Now I'm inspired to do this for my wedding and I had no intentions, but I'm a sucker for new projects!
posted by jingle96 2 years agoI was inspired as well and I did the same thing with the wax paper and I didnt want to spend the money and print it at staples so I printed lots of sheets. I am really pleased on how it came out!!!
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awesome idea!! I'm going to have to try this!!!!
posted by Rhondalynn685 2 years ago