Quick and Easy Place Cards...

How lame is it that it's been over a month since I posted anything! Projects are piling up around here! Well, I'm going to try to get caught up by Sunday with getting projects posted - so it should be a busy blog for a couple of days.

Today I want to show you some easy to make place cards. I actually made some of these last year but never posted them. Recently I did a new batch of them for my July blog post over at Scrapbookgraphics. So, I thought I'd get the images from the older ones and post them all together.

Some of the place cards below are as easy as printing and trimming a ready made embellished frame from one of your digi kits. Others just require modifying a digi element by adding a spot to write the guest name, and some are more complicated and involve assembling a number of elements together. So lets start with the easy ones first. These just involve digitally sizing the graphic to about 3" wide, printing onto cardstock and then trimming out the images.

Products: Cardstock: Bazzill, Digital Elements: Blaze Kit by Flergs at scrapbookgraphcis.com.

Products: Cardstock: Bazzill, Digital Elements: Hunny Bun Kit by Mindy Terasawa at designerdigitals.com.


The next sets required modifying the digital element by adding a little area to write the guest’s name.

Products: Cardstock: Bazzill, Digital Elements: Boo to YOU! Graphic Stickers and Little Creepers Stickers by Mindy Terasawa at designerdigitals.com.

Products: Cardstock: Bazzill, Digital Elements: Boo to YOU! Graphic Stickers and Little Creepers Stickers by Mindy Terasawa at designerdigitals.com.

Products: Cardstock: Bazzill, Digital Elements: Sugerplum Felt and Felt Board Friends: Not a Creature Was Stirring by Pattie Knox at designerdigitals.com.

Products: Cardstock: Bazzill, Digital Elements: Spring Wings Brushes and Stamps No. 02 by Katie Pertiet at designerdigitals.com.

Products: Cardstock: Bazzill, Digital Elements: Trap the Spark Kit by mgl scraps at scrapbookgraphics.com.

Products: Cardstock: Bazzill, Digital Elements: Breezy Flowers and Breezy Flowers: Fancy by Katie Pertiet at designerdigitals.com.

Products: Cardstock: Bazzill, Digital Elements: Trap the Spark Kit by mgl scraps at scrapbookgraphics.com.

The next sets are just the simple combination of a couple of digital elements. For frames that are straight along on the bottom, I added a little rounded tab that can slip into the slit on the block. You can either add this tab to the graphic before you print or draw it on after you print. I add a little half circle to the graphic before I print so I have a nice clean line to trim along. If you are using store bought place card holders, they are usually slit the whole way across, so you would likely not need this tab at all. However, holders that are slit across the entire unit have difficultly supporting the cards that need to balance on one point like the flowers and butterflies above. For these instances, you made need to layer some extra cardstock on the cards that balance on small points. This will make them fit tightly and reduce it’s tendency to tip over.

Products: Cardstock: Bazzill, Digital Elements: Blaze Kit by Flergs at scrapbookgraphcis.com.

Products: Cardstock: Bazzill, Digital Elements: Little Buggy and Funky Flowers Kits by Ziska at scrapbookgraphics.com.

Products: Cardstock: Bazzill, Digital Elements: Felt Board Friends: Feels Like Fall by Pattie Knox at designerdigitals.com.

OK, here’s the last but not least of the sets, this is one of my favorites. I combined a vintage looking frame with some photos of my siblings and myself when we were young. I added a little bookplate and typed on the names before I printed. How cool would it be to show up for a special family dinner and find your place at the table marked with a photo of a favorite childhood memory.

Products: Cardstock: Bazzill, Digital Elements: Sweet Essentials Kit (frame), Frivolous Sunday Love Kit (patterned paper), and Whispers Kit (bookplate) by Doris Castle at scrapbookgraphics.com.

The holders I used for all of the place cards are recycled wood mounts from my rubber stamp collection. A while ago, I removed all of my rubber stamps from their wood blocks. This really reduced the amount of space I needed to store my stamps, but it left me with a pile of little wood blocks that I felt bad about just tossing away. So I started thinking of things to do with them, the idea of making little place card holders came to mind. I painted them with crackle paint and cut a small slit in the top with a Dremmel. I love my Dremmel, it is easy to use and it's small size makes it perfect for using at a desk.

So, that's it for place cards. I'll be back tomorrow with a few more projects to share. Thanks for stooping by! Patty