How to cut out letters from foam. How to make volumetric letters from polystyrene with your own hands

27.06.2019

Newlyweds do their best to come up with original and bright ideas for their weddings. Recently, it has been especially popular to use a variety of exquisite details and decor items in wedding photography, in particular, to use three-dimensional letters. But how to make letters for a wedding photo shoot in order to bring a fashion trend into your celebration? Thanks to step-by-step instructions with detailed descriptions, you will learn how to make beautiful accessories for photo and video shooting. Complement the letters with bright unique details, bring a touch of individuality to the final decor.

Cardboard letters

Cardboard letters are considered easy to manufacture. It is easy to make them, the main thing is to be careful in work, then the sides will come out even, the edges are the same. Cardboard accessories do not take up much space during transportation, they are easy to transport to the place of the photo session. It will not be difficult for the bride and groom to hold them and actively use them during the photo shoot. We suggest you make letters with the initials of your names for the wedding or compose some kind of romantic word, inscription. Subsequently, they can become details of your home interior.

Necessary materials

Corrugated cardboard (dispose of packaging from household appliances for this purpose).
Scotch tape (you will need both double-sided and a simple regular adhesive tape).
Stationery knife.
Scissors.
Pencil.
Ruler or tape measure.
Professional marking board.
Scrapbooking paper or pretty colored paper.
Any decoration elements that match the color scheme and theme of the celebration.

Stages of creation

Use a professional marking board or a regular ruler to correctly mark the dimensions of the workpieces. Having decided on the desired size, draw the shapes with a simple pencil on cardboard. Then you need to cut the blanks with a sharp clerical knife. We will need two parts for each letter, so we need to make them in two copies at once.

We measure the length of each side of the workpiece around the perimeter. We cut out the sides: the thickness can be any, we will make them 5 cm thick. To do this, we cut out cardboard strips of the required length with a width of 7 cm, leaving a centimeter of allowances for bending on each side. Having bent the allowances with our hands, we glue them to one side of the base with double-sided tape, forming the sides.
We attach the second side of the letter to the sidewall and also glue it to the adhesive tape.
We use ordinary adhesive tape to fasten the part in random places for reliability.
We decorate the resulting blank according to our own taste and desire.

A simple and quick way to design a blank is to attach it to beautiful paper (you can use bright wallpaper for this purpose), circle the shape with a pencil, adding a few centimeters on each side for bends. Cut the paper with scissors and glue with PVA glue on a cardboard blank. Let the glue dry, and then additionally decorate the facade with lace, beads, pearls, and artificial flowers.

Common variants of words with three-dimensional letters for a wedding photo shoot: love, married, wedding, happiness, love, happy, just married, amore, amour. The phrases “I agree”, “Forever”, “Yes, I do”, “Family” also look beautiful in the pictures. The inscriptions with equation signs look elegant, for example, “Masha + Sasha = Love” or the inscriptions “Husband” and “Wife” with arrows pointing towards the heroes of the photo shoot.

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3D fabric letters

Soft letters look gentle and elegant for a wedding photo shoot. Such letters are pleasant to take in hands, they look beautiful in photographs. Even those who have not held a needle and thread in their hands for a long time and have only basic knowledge of sewing techniques can make these accessories for a photo shoot. Show your imagination by choosing a bright fabric for your crafts, and then you will have beautiful accessories that will decorate a photo shoot at a wedding.

Necessary materials

Soft, not too thin fabric, it is advisable to use felt, fleece fabric or felt. Give preference to high quality fabrics that do not fray the edges.
Sharp scissors.
Strong threads to match the fabric.
Sewing needle.
Volumetric material for stuffing letters: synthetic winterizer, synthetic winterizer or holofiber.
Decorating elements: bright buttons, applications, ribbons, lace.

Stages of creation

At the beginning of the process, you need to make templates. To do this, it is recommended to write the necessary word or inscription in a Word document, setting the font you like. Visually determine the size by placing a ruler on the monitor with the inscription. Print blanks with inscriptions.
We apply the templates cut out of paper or cardboard to the fabric and trace the edges with chalk or a simple pencil. Next, cut out the patterns, making two blanks of each of them.
We apply the patterns with the wrong side to each other and sew in an easy way - over the edge. Choose a colorful thread to match or opposite a contrasting color for sewing, such as red thread on white fabric.

When stitching the edges, we fill the letter with a layer of filler, trying to make the thickness the same so that there are no irregularities.
We carefully sew the entire perimeter of the craft. We decorate with decorating elements: sew on buttons, fabric flowers, braid, lace.

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Styrofoam letters

Styrofoam letters with creative inscriptions are a popular accessory for a wedding photo shoot. Lightweight foam words look beautiful in pictures. You can toss them in the air to create original and fun photo ideas. Making large foam parts for filming is easy, you just need to get the necessary material, imagination and free time.

Necessary materials

Styrofoam (use foam from packages for household appliances or specifically purchase it at a hardware store, they sell it in various thicknesses, so you can choose the material you need for your idea).
Bright marker.
Stationery knife (sold in a hardware store in the wallpaper department).
A piece of fine and coarse sandpaper.
Various decorating materials: fabric, paper, paints.

Stages of creation

On paper, you need to make a stencil with your favorite font. We attach the cut out letters to the foam and circle them around the perimeter with a marker.
With a clerical knife, cut out the outlines of the letters.
We clean the surface of the parts with coarse sandpaper, then finally grind the letters with fine sandpaper, trying to make a smooth surface.
We decorate the letters: paint them with bright paint or glue them with colorful paper (some people glue them with a vintage-style newspaper that needs to be cut into small strips), sheathe them with a cloth or smear with glue, and sprinkle them with sparkles on top.

Styrofoam letters decorated with garlands look beautiful and original. To do this, you can use both an LED strip of a suitable length and ordinary New Year's multi-colored garlands. Attach them around the perimeter of the letters with small strips of tape. Hang an illuminated lettering on a tree branch outside with a wire and arrange a romantic wedding photo shoot in the evening. Unique inimitable video and photo frames are guaranteed to you.

You can make foam letters with polyurethane foam. To do this, make cardboard forms in the form of letters. Then fill these molds with mounting foam and leave to harden. We take out the letters from the form, cut off the excess. The only disadvantage of this technology is that a long stage of polishing the surface with sandpaper will follow. In addition, sometimes when filling out the form, voids may form, which will have to be leveled with putty.

In which the banquet and the actual celebration will take place. Have you rented a small, cozy cafe for this purpose? Then it is simply necessary to hang an appropriate inscription above the entrance so that the guests do not get lost, and the people passing by know: there is now a wedding here!

large styrofoam letters for wedding

How to make volume letters from polystyrene with your own hands?

We draw letters on a pre-prepared foam using a regular ruler and a black marker and carefully cut them out with a sharp knife. Nuance: if you buy it (styrofoam, not a knife) specifically for this purpose, and do not use packaging material from equipment that has accumulated over the years in the attic, make sure that the width of the sheet matches the expected width of the letters: this will simplify the finish;

Stencil cut out letters from styrofoam

We carefully clean the blanks, first with a large sandpaper, and then with a small one. Our task is to get as smooth a surface as possible;

Ready-made blanks of foam letters can be pasted over with paper or newspaper

Now we beautifully color the resulting letters and leave them to dry. For this purpose, you can use bright colors, varnish, or you can paste over them with a film, both with a pattern and plain. Here, in fact, is all the wisdom!

Styrofoam letters in red as wedding decor

Illuminated 3D Styrofoam Letters

Want to make your styrofoam letters glow? It's easy to do it yourself!

Make a border with the usual thin garland that decorates Christmas trees for the New Year. It can be simply glued around the perimeter with pieces of adhesive tape. Depending on its length and the size of the letters, you may need several of these garlands.

Make sure that there is an outlet nearby, and do not connect them into one, as self-confident craftsmen sometimes do.

There is a reason for this: if suddenly something happens to one light bulb in the process, then not the entire inscription will go out, but only one or two letters, it will be easier to eliminate the trouble. And the probability that it will go out, the less, the less you "chemically" do anything with it.

And it will be even easier to purchase an LED strip of the appropriate length in advance. Then the process of making three-dimensional foam letters with your own hands will be even easier and faster!

Production of three-dimensional letters from polystyrene foam using polyurethane foam

Here are the initial options:

a) We make “molds” from cardboard into which we will “blow” the foam. We fill them with foam, wait until it hardens, and then take it out. If you filled it slowly, then there will be no voids and irregularities inside, and only one edge will need to be processed;
b) Very large letters can simply be blown more or less evenly onto sheets of paper by placing cellophane on them (just cut a few bags). And you don't have to mess around with forms. The disadvantage of this method is that the subsequent processing of the resulting blanks will take almost more time than the manufacture of molds.

The further technique corresponds to how we worked with ordinary foam: with a sharp knife we cut off the excess foam, carefully clean the bumps, paint, decorate.

Nuance: did the three-dimensional foam letters come out with holes? The effect of "Swiss cheese" can be removed with the help of ordinary mass for wall putty.

3D Styrofoam Letters with Silver Decoration for Wedding

What else besides three-dimensional foam letters?

With this simple method, you can make almost any foam shape, not just letters. They are definitely planning for a wedding. Prepare in advance for them some toys as prizes!

Instead of cardboard molds, you can also use silicone molds in which soap and homemade cookies are made. Color the blanks brighter, varnish them, draw funny faces.

Volumetric letters with decor in red

You can glue buttons, pebbles and shells, make eyes and a nose from pre-painted peas, buckwheat and semolina (semolina will have to be painted directly on the product). Guests will be delighted!

How to fix three-dimensional foam letters

Lightweight and easy to handle, they are attached very simply: using mounting glue or double-sided tape. Using adhesive tape, practice in advance: some of its types are glued only to a smooth surface. You polished the letters, but the walls are often rough.

Styrofoam is a cheap, durable and very pliable material. It is often used to decorate rooms where a holiday, party or wedding celebration is planned. Do-it-yourself letters cut out of polystyrene foam can be used to create inscriptions, monograms, logos.

The technology for making letters from foam is very simple. It consists in the fact that a contour is first applied to the foam, then the desired letter is cut out, and after that it is decorated in various ways. In this workshop, you will learn how to cut out letters from Styrofoam and use them to make an inscription or logo to decorate a room. So let's get started.

We will need:

letter templates (it is more convenient to print on a printer and then cut it out);
foam sheet 2-5 centimeters wide;
cutter or regular knife;
marker;
glue.

Name monogram

Want to decorate your front door or room with an original personalized monogram? Polyfoam for this purpose is the best fit. The technology remains the same. First, create template letters from paper by choosing a font and printing them out.

The name monogram is ready. Now it needs to be decorated. How can you paint the letters of the foam? Any paint that you have on hand. The best way to do this is with spray paint. It remains to place a monogram of letters on a suitable background, and the craft is ready.

If there is plenty of time, then you can decorate the foam letters with a cloth. To do this, you need to attach letters to the piece of fabric, circle them along the contour and cut out the details. Don't forget to leave an allowance! Lubricate the surface of the letters with glue and wrap them with a cloth. Wait for the glue to dry and enjoy the result.

Volumetric letters can be useful for decorating a room or be a mandatory attribute at a holiday (for example, the initials of the bride and groom at a wedding). We offer you several master classes on how to make volumetric letters with your own hands. Schemes, templates for their manufacture can easily be done independently.

What are the big letters?

Do-it-yourself volumetric letters can be made from the following materials:

Paper (for example, cardboard). Such letters are most often empty inside and very light. They are suitable as room decor (they can be hung on the wall), an attribute of a holiday or photography.
Fabrics (cotton, satin, felt and so on). Such letters are very soft, so they are suitable not only as decor and for photography, but they can also be used as beautiful and original pillows.
Styrofoam. Such letters are distinguished by the fact that they can be easily decorated with almost any material (for example, paints, ribbons, paper, flowers, rhinestones, and so on). They are as light as volume letters made of paper.

You can make templates with your own hands on plain paper. The purpose of their creation is to imagine how the final result will look like, correctly calculate the dimensions and choose the font.

What do you need to create three-dimensional letters from cardboard?

First of all, you need thick cardboard. By the way, you don't have to buy it. Boxes from under household appliances, plumbing will also fit.

You also need to take:

putty on PVA;
color;
putty knife;
Scotch;
scissors;
stationery knife;
a long ruler (at least thirty centimeters);
pencil;
sandpaper (fine grit).

Operating procedure

Step-by-step instructions on how to make volumetric letters with your own hands from paper:

Draw on the cardboard with a pencil and a ruler the front and back sides of the letter.
Draw the sides of the letter next to each other. Make the length with a margin, and any width. If you want the letter to be used on its own, then the size should be approximately 1:4 (for example, the height of the letter is 20 centimeters and the width is 5 centimeters).
Take the tape and stick the side flap to one side of the letter. Then glue the other part.
Set the tone of the putty. To do this, add color to it. Remember that when the putty on the paper dries, it will become a little lighter than in the jar.
Apply putty to the entire letter with a spatula. Don't forget to seal the joints.
Let the putty dry. This will take about twelve hours.
Smooth out the irregularities gently with fine-grained sandpaper.

Do-it-yourself volumetric letters made of cardboard are ready.

Styrofoam letters

You will need:

Styrofoam;
PVA glue;
tassel;
a large clerical knife (it is advisable to insert a new sharp blade);
covering material (for example, wallpaper, newspaper, colored paper, and so on);
decor (for example, satin ribbon).

Styrofoam can be purchased at almost any hardware store or you can take the one left after buying large household appliances.

Manufacturing master class

Creating letters from foam requires some effort. And every step is done very carefully. Otherwise, the figures will turn out sloppy and may even break.

Step-by-step instruction:

Take the styrofoam and cut it into equal pieces. One rectangle - one letter.
If you have thin foam, then glue it at least three layers. You can only use PVA glue or mounting glue, you can’t take superglue (for example, “Moment”), since its composition will corrode the foam.
Sketch a letter layout on each piece of styrofoam. To do this, use a ruler and a pencil. The simpler the font (meaning the absence of curls), the easier and more accurate the work will be.
Cut out the letters with a utility knife. Movements must be confident and firm.
You can’t leave the letters raw, because the edges will still turn out uneven, no matter how carefully you work. Therefore, they need to be decorated. For example, cover them with paper.
Wait until the letters are completely dry.

If you want the letters to become wedding paraphernalia, then decorate them with beautiful decoupage paper, flowers or satin ribbons. Do-it-yourself volumetric letters for the wedding are ready!

Letters from fabric

Fabric letters can be either hard or soft.

To create solid, you will need to take the following tools and materials:

cardboard or foam;
scissors;
stationery knife;
pencil;
ruler;
Scotch;
special glue gun;
beautiful fabric.

To create soft letters, you will need to take the following tools and materials:

fabric (for example, cotton, felt, and so on);
filler (for example, synthetic winterizer, synthetic winterizer, cotton wool, holofiber, air fluff, cereals, and so on);
tailor's scissors;
a needle;
threads;
sewing machine (if any, it will greatly facilitate the work process).

Workshop on creating solid letters from fabric

Step-by-step instructions on how to make volumetric letters with your own hands from paper or foam, which are then sheathed with fabric:

First of all, take a piece of cardboard, a pencil and a ruler. Draw a pattern of letters. Remember that you will need the front and back, as well as the side.
Cut out with scissors all the elements of cardboard that are needed to create letters.
If you are making letters from Styrofoam, then cut the material into as many pieces as you need letters. Draw a letter template on each of them. After that, cut out the shapes with a clerical knife with a sharp blade.
Lay the back of the fabric in front of you.
Draw letters on the fabric. Each must be in two copies (front and back). At the same time, they will be larger in size than the finished figures. This is where the sides come into play. For example, if the width of the letter is ten centimeters, and the side is five centimeters, then the size of the template on the fabric should be thirteen to fourteen centimeters.
Cut out the details for the product from the fabric.
Heat up the glue gun.
Gently glue the fabric to the cardboard or foam board. First one side is glued, then the other. The seams of the fabric are neatly smoothed out.
Glue all the letters in the same way.

Solid volumetric fabric letters are ready!

Workshop on creating soft fabric letters

Step-by-step instructions on how to make soft letters from fabric:

Place the back of the fabric in front of you. Draw the contours of the product on it with chalk. For each letter, you will need three parts - two sides (front and back) and one side.
Cut out all the details from the fabric. Do not forget to make a small indent from the edge (for example, if it is cotton or silk, then it will be one or two centimeters, if it is felt, then the indent can be made less). This is necessary so that the seams do not separate over time and the fabric does not crumble.
Attach the side part to one of the sides of the letter. You need to stitch with the wrong side of the fabric.
After that, stitch one more side to the two parts. Leave a small hole through which you then turn the product inside out and stuff it.
Line up all the letters.
Turn the piece right side out. To make it more convenient, you can use a stick.
Push filler into each letter. Distribute it evenly around the entire perimeter of the figure. To push the filler into the corners, use the stick again.
Sew up the holes neatly with a blind stitch.

Volumetric soft letters are ready.

You can decorate them as you wish. For example, sew on ribbons or bows. Such letters will be both beautiful and useful. You can even sleep on them!

Styrofoam letters can be painted only after applying a layer of white putty. Otherwise, the paint will simply soak into the material.
You can decorate with flowers (live or artificial) foam or fabric letters.
Do-it-yourself volumetric letters for a wedding can be made from any material. The main task is to arrange them correctly. And it is best to decorate such letters with beautiful decoupage paper, paste over with a cloth or thread, or insert flowers into them (it is better if they are live, not artificial).
As a decor for bulk products made of cardboard or foam, you can use twine or any other cord. To do this, spread the sides of the figure with glue, then wrap it tightly with a cord.
Bright and shiny three-dimensional letters will be obtained if they are pasted over with sparkles or rhinestones. Use a hot glue gun to keep them in place.

We wish you creative success!

How can you attract potential customers to your product or partnership in an extraordinary way?

A relatively inexpensive option for such events may be volumetric letters that are quite accessible to every layman, which are made in our production from expanded polystyrene.

The IzPenoplasta company is pleased to offer its customers high-quality products manufactured with high precision on modern equipment.

In order for the letters to serve you for a long time after production, we treat them with a special impregnating composition that strengthens the structure and protects against temperature changes.

An outdoor sign made of such letters is an excellent solution for creating advertising and attracting customers, for example, to a shopping center.

Volumetric letters can be used almost everywhere where the effect of attracting attention is needed:

Shopping and entertainment centers

Spa salons, cafes, restaurants

Commercial enterprises

Schools and kindergartens

Exhibitions and promotions

Hotels and houses of culture.

You can often see three-dimensional style signs or stylish hanging signs on the streets of the city, where three-dimensional letters are simply fastened together. This design looks very impressive, stylish and most importantly, reliable.

Our designers have developed many styles for the design of foam letters with various decors. Our models of products are presented for every taste and pocket: smooth, textured, glossy, matte, shiny, imitating natural materials and much more.

For very sophisticated clients, we create individual design projects, taking into account all the requirements and suggestions of the customer. The terms of production of three-dimensional letters are minimal.

They have a lot of advantages: ease of construction, no load, a large selection of shapes and sizes, colors, simple installation, low cost, entertainment.

You can attract attention with beautiful polystyrene letters at weddings and special occasions, at anniversaries and birthdays. This is a great decor for any corporate party or exhibition event.

The original design of the photo session with letters looks quite advantageous against the background of words, letters or foam inscriptions. For you, we will create not only an enchanting effect, but also attract new customers to your business.

Volumetric foam letters: step by step instructions

It is quite easy to make letters from polystyrene foam, they will be voluminous, so to speak, 3D. Styrofoam can be bought at a hardware store of any thickness. But houses can also be found, if you have not bought household appliances for a long time, foam plastic is used there as a packaging material.

Making letters from polystyrene with your own hands is done using a simple technology. We draw letters on the foam with the help of patterns, compasses, rulers. You can also pre-prepare stencils and circle the pattern on the foam using them. Next, take a construction knife or jigsaw and cut along the contour. If there is no accuracy or unevenness, then the problem can be corrected with sandpaper with a small grit. Sanding blanks, bring to perfect condition.

The decor of three-dimensional letters is usually done with paint. Apply to the surface in two layers. After the paint has dried, you can make additional decor: glue beads, sequins, tie with a ribbon, decorate with lace.

When decorating letters from foam, we recommend using glue for rubber, we do not recommend using super glue, as it corrodes the foam.