With a brand-new building inherited from our merge and huge holiday celebration fastly approaching we had to think of a very fast really nice Christmas stage option for the holiday season. Lately I've been really into the marquee style lettering and I look into buying some from Etsy or some local business owners but they were all outrageously extremely expensive for the large sized ones that I wanted.... not at all church budget friendly. The more I looked at the marquee letters the more I realized we could make one that looked exactly like that without the metal and making them extremely cheap. I looked around for some large pieces of cardboard (I ended up finding them behind a big lots in their dumpster) and since it's Christmas time there's all kinds of really neat lightbulbs for Christmas trees and for outdoor decorations. We found some large bold light bulbs that were clear to put inside of the cardboard to make a mimic Marquis letter.
We cut the letters out
Then added a rim with longer strips of cardboard to the sides and duct taped it with white duct tape on the edges to make a frame around the letters
Then we used a drillbit that the gardener to check if I don't how to use that I'm to make the same size holes as the lightbulbs in the letters.
Sidenote it is really important to count the lightbulbs and evenly space them and mark them on the letters before you start cutting into it we didn't do it this way the first time - and had to remake another letter because it looked like a mess.
After we got the letter we got the holes cut into the cardboard letters we smoothed the folds out with sandpaper. And we took them outside and pay them with spray paint with a white bass, then we spray-painted them all over and silver. After the silver was dry we then using hammered copper spray paint just to accent in some places on the edges so that it looked like a warm piece of metal.
Really like how it turned out!!
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