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40th Wedding Anniversary Gift

March 6, 2014 by Holly Gagnon 1 Comment

Today, I’m sharing how I made this DIY personalized 40th Wedding Anniversary Gift for my parents over on the Country Chic Cottage blog.   Instead of giving my parents a Anniversary plate, plaque or frame I made them a 40th Anniversary keepsake from paper mache numbers.

40th Anniversary Gift

40th Anniversary Gift

 I love the creative possibilities of paper mache letters and numbers.  You can find lots of ideas all over Pinterest and the simple spray painted ones have always caught my eye.
Spray Painted Paper Mache numbers with Krylon Sterling Silver

 

I spray painted the numbers with  Krylon Sterling Silver spray paint,  personalized them with black vinyl using a Silhouette font and an Echo Park Swirls cut file then embellished them with ribbon, rhinestones and Maya Road stick pins

Spray Painted Paper Mache

Of course, when I came up with this Anniversary gift idea, I had to wait over a week to get my #4 since Hobby Lobby tends to carry a limited stock of everything.  Two times I went to get my # 4 and they were sold out.  I was like… come on, for realz, I need a # 4.   Who else needs a # 4?   As you can see, I finally got my # 4.  Yay!

In case you didn’t know, Ruby is the 40th Wedding Anniversary color.   Have you seen Discovery Channel’s newest TV show,  Games of Stones  yet?  Well, the team hits a Ruby jackpot during the first episode.  I sorta dig that show.  {Yes, pun intended.}  And since, I’m not able to go climbing through the mountains of Thailand to buy rare Sunset Rubies, some ruby ribbon will have to do.

I love the way this project turned out .  These numbers would also be great for someone celebrating there 25th Silver Anniversary.  A big thanks goes to Angie for having me as her DIY Wedding guest blogger today.

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  1. Kathy Skou says

    March 6, 2014 at 4:15 pm

    Holly this is so awesome…pinning it…my parent’s 50th is coming up soon!!!!

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