Gold, Black, and White would probably be the colors of my personal flag if I were to ever make one. So doing a party that was these colors was awesome. For this party one of my personal goals was to make most of the decorations myself. So do to this I had to have a lot of help in the inspiration department, or I would have been able to do any of it. One of the hardest most time consuming decorations I did was the garland. Here you can see the gold black and white circles.
This was a fun process, to figure out what I wanted to do I looked on Pinterest and saw many different ways and ideas to make a garland. I choose to just use paper and string. I originally was just going to buy them but it was like five dollars a strand so I thought that I could make it easier and cheaper then that. Lesson learned the hard was this took forever and each strand really probably is worth five dollars, but over all I did enjoy working on them.
Here is a picture of what I had to do to cute out the circles, I used a cricket machine that my mother in law had on hand but I still had to cut them out a little bit because the paper was so thick. So the supplies I used for this decoration was fairly simple.
- Gold glitter paper, black glitter paper, and white card-stock paper (these were all purchased from JOANN'S craft store, but could be found at any craft store)
- Mod Podge (I found this in Walmart, however could also be found at any craft store)
- Sewing String (Walmart)
- A foam brush (Walmart)
Once the circles are cut out, I glued them together so there was a front and a back, to the string.
To do this I measure the height or how tall I wanted the garland to be, and then use a tape measure to figure out how far apart to make them, once I had the first one finished I just used it as a guide for all the others. This really wasn't hard to make it just took a lot of time to put it all together but once it was done it looked so awesome.
Another fun decoration that was made was black and white striped canvas with a gold heart. This was super simple and a fairly quick craft, you do have to let the paint dry if you use pain like I did.
- 2 Blank Canvases (Walmart)
- Black acrylic paint (Walmart)
- Foam Brush (Walmart)
- Gold Glitter Paper (JoAnn's)
(However with any of these things you could probably find at any craft store.
First you would just gather supplies, then use a ruler and pencil to figure out the width of the lines you would like then you would paint the black stripes on.
Here is the black lines on it. Don't judge too harshly I was never really very good at painting and staying completely in the lines, but I am not a perfectionist and was just fine with my turnout.
Next you would cut out a gold heart if you are anything like me I had to fold the paper in half like you learn to do in kindergarten and the cut my heart out.
Then I just used some Mod Podge to glue the heart on.
Thanks for taking the time to read my blog. I hope that I can help you in anyway with making decorations or to just be inspired. I will post more decorations and how I made them.
~Lauren
