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1. I printed the word "Books" in MS Word in a 400 pt font. You can go even larger than that if you want to. I was just goofing around so I didn't think about the size of my panel and how big I wanted my letters to be. You should do that, though. Do as I say, not as I do. Print out different sizes until you are happy with the size. I used "New York" font. Choose a font that's kind of heavy or thick for this. If it's too thin, it will be harder to see and work with. You can also see the purple marbleized paper I'll be using for the letters. |
2. Then I took some scissors and cut out the letters. This isn't rocket science! |
3. I then just traced around the letters with a pencil on the back of the purple marbled paper. I did it on the back so the pencil marks wouldn't show up on the front. The "o's" were pretty easy, but I had to use little pieces of scotch tape to hold down the S and the K. |
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4. Well, this is why I'm doing this first: to warn you of what NOT to do. I guess I'm no rocket scientist. Make sure you flip the cutout letters over before you trace over them. We're tracing these on the back of the paper and if you don't flip the cutout letters, the purple ones will be backwards. See my erased marks? I'm just lucky I thought of it before I cut them out! |
5. Here are the letters all cut out and flipped over. They look nice on black. |
6. Then I tried them on some other colors. This photo is kind of weird since I actually took it upside down and then turned it around. Sorry about that. But you can still see that it looks pretty cool on the plum color. Maybe not enough contrast, though.... The colors are kind of similar. |
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8. In these photos I used pieces of matboard to place the letters on. If you use marbleized paper like in these photos, you will probably go to an art store to buy it. You might want to look at matboard while you are there. It comes in tons of colors and you can hold your marbleized paper next to the boards to find one that looks good. You might even be able to cover the front of your panel with matboard instead of painting. Painting might be cheaper, though. You should check on that. There are other papers at art stores, too. They also have thin, gauzy papers that would show the background color through them. Go to an art store and check it out. |
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7. This photo's not the best, but the letters looked fantastic on the blue background. The blue background really highlighted the blue in the marble and it had good contrast. |
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