Design your own photobooth glasses and accessories with ease

Photo booths are a massive hit at parties. Whether at weddings, birthdays, New Year’s Eve celebrations, company parties or school leavers’ balls, these creative photo booths are a hit and are sure to put everyone in a great mood. To capture unforgettable memories in fun photos, funny and quirky props are essential. You can easily make these yourself.

A ‘photo booth’ is a mobile photo studio used at a wide variety of events to allow guests to take fun photos. If you have a sufficient budget, you can hire a professional photo booth for your next party, which prints the photos instantly in a matter of seconds. Various props, fancy dress costumes and backdrops are often included in the package. That said, it doesn’t actually have to be an expensive photo booth to create unforgettable moments that guests will look back on fondly. You can also easily set up a photo booth yourself. All you need is a nice background, a tripod and, of course, a camera with a self-timer. Also essential for the ultimate party fun: funny and creative photo props!

When it comes to choosing accessories, there are no limits to your creativity. The classics include glasses, bow ties and hats in every conceivable shape and colour. Moustaches are also very popular. Personalised, quirky slogans always go down well. Speech bubbles with phrases such as ‘I came for the cake’ or signs bearing the words ‘Just there for the party’ with an arrow pointing to the side are guaranteed to raise a laugh. Of course, the accessories can also be easily customised to suit the occasion or a specific theme. Top hats, veils and ‘Team Bride’ signs go down particularly well at weddings, whilst a beer mug and pretzels are a must at an Oktoberfest party. No matter what the event, if you design the photo props yourself, you’re guaranteed to find just the right ones.

If you’d like to design your own photo booth accessories, a flatbed cutting plotter makes this particularly easy. In our YOW! online shop, you can choose between the Secabo FC50, a compact desktop model, and the significantly larger floor-standing FC100. As well as a cutting blade, these also feature a scoring tool head. This means that with your plotter, you can not only cut contours with precision, but also draw lines where you’ll need to fold the material later. Both machines also come with the DrawCut PROcutting software, which provides you with optimal support right from the layout design stage. Select your favourite designs and add Lapos Q cutting marks and folding marks, as well as a barcode that can be easily scanned during plotting. This keeps your workload to a minimum. Once you’re happy with your selection, you can print your design onto paper or card.

Cutting plotters enable quick and precise cutting, even with complex designs. The FC series flatbed cutting plotters offer the key advantage that, as well as producing precise cuts, they can also handle fold marks. This is a brilliant way to let your creativity run wild, particularly when it comes to photo booth accessories, as it allows you to design even small boxes. Once you have positioned your chosen design in the correct place on the material and activated the vacuum pump, the plotter automatically begins the cutting process. Once the process is complete, carefully peel the finished accessory off the paper and repeat the process until you have a wide selection of different designs.

Now all you need to do is attach long wooden sticks to your accessories using superglue. Skewers work particularly well for this. To give your guests an immediate overview of the selection of glasses, hats and moustaches, you can display them in a tall glass or a vase.