DIY Photo Booth Backdrop

Have you ever checked out how much it is to rent a Photo Booth? No? Well, it's somewhere between "expensive" and the "price of your first-born child." I knew from the beginning of this wedding planning journey that I was not going to pay to rent one. I have pinned about 679 different ideas for Photo Booth backdrops and decided to settle for something cheap and simple. It also didn't hurt that it was a project my MIL could help with from afar. I shipped her the card stock and the circle punch I had on hand. She cut alllllll of these circles & shipped them back. And yes, I labeled the baggies. :) I then taped down this thin ribbon I got from Joanne's and started hot gluing.

I finished one string of it and then lovingly packed it all up in a bag to send to my friend Jay who has volunteered to do the other 13-15 strands. I didn't want to make it super long because I hope that people are taller than 3 feet. We also are kicking around a few ideas of how to attach it to the wall where the "booth" is going to be. So far, I think we are going to use a thicker ribbon and tack it to the wall in the saloon. Otherwise, we will have to build a PVC pipe stand. If we do the PVC thing, then I think we will end up doing fabric on the PVC pipes with the circles in front of it. Either way, the end goal is that it will look something like this. Not bad for a project that cost all of $15. I'll be back with a review of Jay's work as soon as she's done.

UPDATE: She did awesome and I sewed all of those strands together:

PSSSST: The photobooth backdrop is now on sale on Etsy!!!!!

Easy DIY Instagram Art

Many of my favorite photos are on Instagram along with everyone else in the world. I am still a sucker for hand held prints but wanted a quick and easy way to change them out. Also Instagram prints are not the same size as a regular 4x6. So I came up with the following solution. First: start at social print studio/prinstagram.

When you order from them, you can select about 25 different projects. I ordered the square prints and a pack of 24 of them. When they synced with my Instagram account, I paid, they shipped, the prints showed up at my house looking like this.

I then went to Joanne's and got a 4 pack of "Just A Frame"'a wooden frames for about $5 after their daily in app 40% off coupon. I then grabbed my Annie Sloan chalk paint in Antibes Green (it's the same paint we used to paint our side tables).

I got two of the frames hit with the green paint and then spray painted the other two white.

These are definitely my favorite primer/white spray paints.

I then hot glued a clothes pin to the tops of the frames and the end result looks like this:

And yes, these are our wedding napkins. But they are so cute so I put them in a frame for now. Don't judge me.

On two of them I added a backing. On this one with my favorite two dudes, I just printed out a chalkboard background .jpg and cut it to 4x6 and stuck it in there.

With this one of my Samantha and I, I had a scrap of fabric from curtain fabric shopping leftover. So, I hot glued the fabric right into the back of the frame.

Adorable me thinks!