Placecards???

My next task ladies...

How did you or are you making your placecards? I want nice folded tent ones- just not sure how to make them???  I know your all DIY savy- mind helping a sister out????  TIA!

- HMM :)

I bought the tents at the paper source. It was like 6 bucks for a 50 pack. I got black and red. I'm going to print the names and tables on white card stock with my swirly/damaskish motif in the corner. Then just attach it to the table tent. HTH :) They only thing holding me back is making my seating chart...a lot more work than I thought it was going to be! Everyone has requests like don't sit me with so & so....blah blah blah. I'm OVER it! haha

<3, melissa

***OMG I'm getting married in 2 weeks and you in 3! Can  you freakin believe it!!?!?!?!

we're not doing placecards - only escort cards

BUT you can buy tent-cards that are perforated - and you can print at home

We're going to do escort cards (placecards, whatever ;)) I think we are going to pattern them after these:

but intead of the leaf applique, Im going to do a gold wax seal with the letter K. This would be a pretty simple guest card to do if you wanted to. Just get the metalic card stock and the regular cardstock.  Print the names and table numbers/names on the cardstock.  Cut all the paper to size you want.  Use double-stick tape to attach (I love double-stick tape...) and then affix what ever little detail you wanted to do on it, even if you wanted to do something like that.

Thanks ladies- I wanted to use the metallic paper from paper-source but they told me not too b/c it gets crappy when you bend it b/c of the metallic coat??? ahhhh

I also want to incorporate my Damask print- just trying to figure out how- I don't feel like matting it twice haha

- HMM :)

Do damask print card stock in back with white cardstock in front? Or if you don't want to do that, what about these?

These are flat cards, but you could do something cool with them, like attach them to hanging ribbons or something like that?

http://www.whitneyenglish.com/products/items-list.html?items=N-6017,CC-6036,F-6018,A-6089,P-6040,NS-3076,PM-5169,R-5042

Here see if this pic works:

Look at these:

http://www.favorideas.com/shopping/prod/KA28029BK.htm

I used petallics (a type of metallic paper) for my programs.  I found it got crappy when folded until I figured out the trick.  You need a paper trimmer and a bone folder.  Martha Stewart's bone folder from Michael's was reasonable (about 7-8 dollars) and has a great added feature - a scorer (the curvy part of the picture above).  So here's what I did.This paper trimmer (by Fiskars - also at Michaels) has a small ridge for the blade to run through.  I put each piece of paper on the trimmer and used it's edges to line it up.  The fold that you want should run along the ridge.  It even has a ruler that extends 12" to help the measurements be exact.  I folded back down the plastic thing to hold the paper in place.  Then I used the scoring side of the bone folder to run along the ridge and make the crease for the fold.  Once you have done that, my metallic paper folded easily without any problems.  I found that one type of metallics worked better when you made the score on what would be the inside and petallics worked better by making the score on the outside.  I know this may sound complicated, but each fold took only a few seconds.

You can get sheets of placecards at any craft store, print them on your computer and they are already perforated so just tear apart and fold. Or you can buy the basic ones and write on them (in case you're not looking for a super labor intensive DIY)