Sunday, January 06, 2008

  • Weddingbee-opoly

    My post on this will go live on Weddingbee tomorrow, but I couldn't wait to give you guys a sneak peek!

    This year a bunch of the bees and I decided to do a Secret Santa exchange.  The bees are all so crafty, so I knew I had to DIY something.  My gift to my Secret Santa was a DIY Weddingbee-opoly!

    I got the idea when I saw this Make-Your-Own-Opoly game.  But the game is quite different from the original Monopoly (9 spaces on each side instead of 10), and I LOVE Monopoly.... I just couldn't settle for anything less than the original.  Luckily Mr. Bee found a psd of a Monopoly board online, so I was able to make changes to the template instead of starting from scratch!

    Here's Smokey trying to help on our draft version...

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    And here is the final version:

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    I renamed all the properties after wedding vendors.  Starting from Go, they're: Bakers, Bridesmaid Dress Designers, Invitation Designers, Wedding Dress Designers, Wedding Planners, Florists, Photographers, and Honeymoons.  I changed the Railroads to Music - Ipod, String Quartet, DJ, and Band.  And Electric Company and Water Works became Videography and Lighting Designer. 

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    Instead of Go To Jail, I changed it to Go To In-Laws and the jail space now says Visiting In-Laws.  Apertura, one of the green properties seen above, is a nod to my Secret Santa's wedding photographer.

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    Once the board was finished, we printed it at Kinkos - they did an awesome job!

    Brother-in-law Bee made the template for the properties in Excel so that made filling in the information easy.  You can see a real Monopoly property card in the top left for reference to see that it's virtually identical.

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    I used the existing Chance and Community Chest cards, but because we had renamed all the properties, some of the Chance cards were no longer applicable.  You can see a real Chance card at the top and the 6 I made in Excel below it.

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    It was pretty tricky creating a board.  I purchased this Tri Fold Foam Presentation Board from Staples thinking I could use the existing fold in the board.  But there was no give and the Monopoly sheet wouldn't lay flat when I glued it down and tried to fold the board.  So I cut the foam board, left a small gap in between the two pieces, and then taped them together with black duct tape.  That did the trick!  This is the back of the board:

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    I purchased lidded boxes to house the tokens/dice, hotels/houses, property cards, and community chest/chance cards.

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    Here is the board and box all wrapped up and ready to go.

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    Both BIL Bee (who's much better at Photoshop than me) and Mr. Bee helped me with formatting the board and the templates, and I couldn't have finished this project without them. 

    This project involved a lot of blood, sweat, and tears... multiple trips to Kinkos, Paper Presentation, and Staples... but it was totally worth it.

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