{diy: peacock guestbook}

For our wedding, we tried to incorporate as many unique and original details as possible. One of those details being our guestbook. I woke up from a dream one night and immediately wrote down this idea---a peacock guestbook. I like peacocks a lot; they’re so beautiful and colorful. I thought, wouldn’t it be cool if we could have our guests sign feathers and create one of those gorgeous birds. I searched for several ideas but couldn’t find anything I liked; then this idea struck my bride brain. It worked out well---even though not everyone quite understood how to sign their feather (oh well). The end result is beautiful and now we have a lovely piece of artwork for our home. We have several unsigned feathers left over as well that future guests can sign. Below is a little tutorial on how to create one of these for your own event/home. If you have any questions, feel free to ask!  

 

Peacock Guestbook How To:

 

1. Get a large canvas (as large as you want you peacock to be) and paint the background whatever color you want, and your peacock’s body in the foreground.

2. Lay a little guestbook banner across the top, for some flair.

3. Cut out large curved raindrops from cardstock and stamp a peacock feather on top in whatever colors you’d like your feathers to be.

4. Lay your feathers on top of each other, creating a pattern. (We actually laid out the loose feathers at our wedding for guests to sign during the reception; you could do it either way)

5. Look over the pattern you’ve created, making adjustments whereever necessary.

6. Once you’re happy with your pattern, take a glue glue and glue your feathers down to the canvas. Don’t add too much glue, just little dabs.

And you’re done! Hang it up somewhere lovely. Such a handsome peacock needs a good place where he can show off feathers.

You can even frame some instructions for you guests. It is a very unique guestbook afterall.

{isn’t he just gorgeous above our mantle?}