Dressing the Tables

Now that you have seen our flower centerpiece mock-ups, I will show you a little of what else I have up my sleeve for the tables. There are two DIY projects that I will be doing, and the first is the actual numbers themselves. I fell in love with Miss Cola's wooden numbers and ordered them from the same Etsy seller, Lizartistry, along with an additional wooden cutout that I will tell you about soon.

While waiting for the numbers to arrive, I embarked on one my first real DIY projects for the wedding. My inspiration for this project is from an art piece that I purchased in Barcelona several years ago. Here it is, hanging on my wall:

(All photos are personal photos)

I'm not sure if you can tell from this picture, but it is a canvas covered first with newspaper and then painted on. I was hoping to recreate this idea for my table numbers.

I bought smaller numbers to practice on from an art supply store, and spent the night covered in newspaper, modge podge and blue paint. I did each number slightly differently, please let me know what you think! (And please remember, these were just meant to be practice to find the right method, so they are definitely not perfect!)

This was the first number that I made: I covered the letter in newspaper and then paint over it. The idea would be to do several different colors throughout the tables like this. I felt like maybe the paint was too dark?


This is second method I tried. The front of the letter is actually a pretty blue paper that I glued on, and then used the blue paint around the edges to create that effect and paint the sides.


This was my next letter. Simply painted with several coats of paint to give it texture. Not bad, but overall, not that interesting.


This was the final number that I made for the night. The left half was the blue paint mixed right into the modge podge, and the right side was blue paint mixed with water and covering the newspaper very lightly.

So, Hive, what do you think? Any suggestions for future practice? Which one do you like the best (or do you think I should keep working on it)? Are you doing anything special for your table numbers? If you are interested in learning more about how I made any of these numbers, please let me know!