Painting parasols?

THis is such a helpful thread! I think we're going to do this now!

Hey Kits55 and Jacilynda...thanks so much for bringing this thread back to life. I've been meaning to come on here an post but have been soooo busy.

Kits55...I absolutely love your parasols. They helped motivate me to get started on mine. I traced all 85 or so of mine this past weekend and now I'm onto the painful task of painting them all. So far we've only completed 10 (

I pretty much did it the same way using the projector to trace in a black marker (I did some sloppy tracing because it would be covered by the paint) and painting over it in black acrylic paint.

Hey, Kits55...how many layers of paint did you use?

Here are some pictures of the process and my final product. I have my monogram shown below but all of the parasols that we'll give away (about 80) will have only the date on it (it's the one in the top right of the last picture).

We did one MOB, one MOG, our big O, and Thank you. The rest have our date on it.

Thanks for posting Princessina!!! I was trying to picture how it needs to be done and now I see this may go on my DIY list

oh ladies I need to get on mine! I feel better that you are getting married sooner than me so I still can wait a little bit. I have TONS of luminarias I'm doing right now and making our cake topper, and my daughter is the big ONE tomorrow so it's just been crazy!

But they look GREAT!!!

You all are amazing. I was wasn't going to do parasols, but now I am thinking about it. Of course... that would be after I figure out 17 other things right?

These look great, ladies!

It's so much work but it's well worth it...the frustrating part was really just trying not to be an absolute perfectionist with them all. The smallest imperfection to me up close is not even noticeable from afar or from another point of view.

As for the font I used. I saved it on my laptop at work because I knew this question would come up. I had a hard time deciding what font to use, especially since it's so hard to find a decent fancy looking O (most fonts give you just the big circle). I don't know it off hand but well be sure to check when I get to work on Friday. I just played around with different fonts and ended up going with what I thought looked good, would be easy to paint, but still came across elegant (imo).