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I did it!! I personalized my aisle runner

marc_rai Posted: May 30, 2005 05:02 PM+

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Posted: May 30, 2005 05:02 PM

I did it!! I personalized my aisle runner

After seeing MCD015 and Azoodie aisle runners, I decided to do it myself!! The project wasn't too hard. In fact the most difficult thing was deciding which paint brush to use.

Ignore the shadow that you see underneath, that's just the blown up words.

I tried to post them in here, but the resizing emails are taking too long. Click on the album link to see them!

DIY aisle runner

My church only allows non-slip runners, so I bought it from aislewithstyles.com and I painted it myself.

angelbear217 Posted: May 30, 2005 05:05 PM+

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Posted: May 30, 2005 05:05 PM

Re: I did it!! I personalized my aisle runner

That looks great! You must have a really steady hand to be so detailed!!! We've been thinking about doing one, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

traceyd Posted: May 30, 2005 05:05 PM+

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Posted: May 30, 2005 05:05 PM

Re: I did it!! I personalized my aisle runner

Great job!!!

Jen2999 Posted: May 30, 2005 05:06 PM+

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Posted: May 30, 2005 05:06 PM

Re: I did it!! I personalized my aisle runner

thats AWESOME!!!!

It came out beautiful!

We arent allowed to have one at our church, but you did a great job

marc_rai Posted: May 30, 2005 05:07 PM+

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Posted: May 30, 2005 05:07 PM

Re: I did it!! I personalized my aisle runner

Posted by angelbear217

That looks great! You must have a really steady hand to be so detailed!!! We've been thinking about doing one, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

Do it! It really wasn't too hard. Nope I don't have a steady hand. I just outlined it using a pencil and then painted. The most important thing is the type of paint brush you choose. It really didn't take too long to do once I started. It took me about a week to actually start because I was so scared of messing up!

February05 Posted: May 30, 2005 05:07 PM+

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Posted: May 30, 2005 05:07 PM

Re: I did it!! I personalized my aisle runner

it came out Beautiful!

MCDO15 Posted: May 30, 2005 05:13 PM+

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Posted: May 30, 2005 05:13 PM

Re: I did it!! I personalized my aisle runner

very nice!!

marc_rai Posted: May 30, 2005 05:17 PM+

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Posted: May 30, 2005 05:17 PM

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Posted by MCDO15

very nice!!

Thanks for all of your help!

Your runner was my inspiration.

I still want to add our names and the date.

MCDO15 Posted: May 30, 2005 05:21 PM+

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Posted: May 30, 2005 05:21 PM

Re: I did it!! I personalized my aisle runner

Posted by marc_rai

Posted by MCDO15

very nice!!

Thanks for all of your help! Your runner was my inspiration.

I still want to add our names and the date.

our names were part of our mongram with our date added

junebride! Posted: May 30, 2005 06:21 PM+

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Posted: May 30, 2005 06:21 PM

Re: I did it!! I personalized my aisle runner

That is really beautiful! Does the paint match your girls' dresses?

italia6973 Posted: May 30, 2005 06:22 PM+

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Posted: May 30, 2005 06:22 PM

Re: I did it!! I personalized my aisle runner

That looks abosolutely beautiful!

marc_rai Posted: May 30, 2005 06:51 PM+

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Posted: May 30, 2005 06:51 PM

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Posted by junebride!

That is really beautiful! Does the paint match your girls' dresses?

I think so. The BM dress color is called capri. The picture of the color is shown below.It's between a blue and a green. Actually, it's a realy hard color to match. Aqua is too blue and mint green is too green! The paint looked tealish in the bottle, but it came out more greenish on the runner. However, when I held it up to the fabric swatch from the BM dresses it was only about 2 shades darker.

103005FallBride Posted: May 30, 2005 07:37 PM+

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Posted: May 30, 2005 07:37 PM

Re: I did it!! I personalized my aisle runner

Beautiful! I can't wait to start mine! I've finally got the aisle runner and all my templetes printed...now...just waiting for the perfect time to start!

What paint and paint brushes did you use? What worked best? What to avoid?..... Any extra tips would be great!

prindia Posted: May 30, 2005 08:15 PM+

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Posted: May 30, 2005 08:15 PM

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U did you great job. I am still waiting for mine to be finished, I hope it looks a nice as yours

orchid24 Posted: May 30, 2005 11:15 PM+

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Posted: May 30, 2005 11:15 PM

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beautiful job! it really came out pretty!

Gonnacatchapeacock Posted: May 30, 2005 11:17 PM+

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Posted: May 30, 2005 11:17 PM

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it looks really really really great! congrats!

AnniesSS Posted: May 31, 2005 08:47 AM+

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Posted: May 31, 2005 08:47 AM

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Wow!!!

That came out terrific!!!!

marc_rai Posted: May 31, 2005 05:52 PM+

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Posted: May 31, 2005 05:52 PM

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Posted by 103005FallBride

Beautiful! I can't wait to start mine! I've finally got the aisle runner and all my templetes printed...now...just waiting for the perfect time to start!

What paint and paint brushes did you use? What worked best? What to avoid?..... Any extra tips would be great!

Okay in terms of paintbrushes:

Buy an angle paint brush. I found this worked the best for making the sharp lines. This brush worked better than the liner brush.

Buy a flat brush (like 1/4 inch wide).

I think you can do everything with these two brushes. Unfortunately, I bought like 6 brushes before I found what worked the best.

I will post pictures of the brushes in my album later on. I will bump this thread when I do it.