Personalize store-bought decorations by paintig them to match your party theme.
Creating a personal touch to a party by painting decorations and invitations is an inexpensive and creative way to spice up any event. Whether you use store-bought decorations and invitations that you alter or you make them from scratch, adding your own painted designs and words or phrases will make your celebration one of a kind. You can use stamps, stencils, brushes, glitter or anything else that fits for your party because the sky is the limit.
Instructions
Painting Party Decorations
1. Purchase decorations from a discount, dollar or party store, or create your own decorations from scratch, such as Chinese lanterns or pennant banners.
2. Lay out the decorations on a table covered with newspaper. Choose paint colors that fit your party theme. Apply acrylic poster paint to the decorations. Create polka dots by dabbing a brush in one color of paint and poking the brush onto the decoration in random places. Make sure not to twist or smear the paint when applying it with this technique.
3. Dip a patterned stamp in the paint and then press it against the decorations. Other painting techniques include stripes, wavy lines, splatter dots and geometric shapes. Allow the decorations to dry completely before hanging them up.
Painting Party Invitations
4. Purchase party invitations from a store or make your own from scratch. Decide what type of painted pattern or words you wish to put on the invitations.
5. Apply paint using stamps, brushes and stencils in a similar fashion to that done with the decorations. Use more care and precision with the invitations because they will be viewed more closely than the decorations will be; for example, apply paint for words or detail designs with small brushes.
6. Stack all of the invitations together in piles of about 10 when the paint has dried. Dip the small foam brush into a bright color of paint and lightly apply it to the edges of the invitations while in the pile. This will create an effect that will allow your invitations to "pop" or stand out when compared to invitations without painted edges. Separate the invitations and allow them to dry completely before mailing them.
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