New Year's Place Cards

EZ To Make New Year's Place Cards.

Sorry for the delay in this post.  New Year's Eve is tonight, but if you still need some cute place cards for a party, there is still time to print and make these two.  It's hard to see it in the photos but the colors of the card is a glittery gold, silver and black and white.

Materials needed: Color Printer, card stock, ruler, craft knife, scissors and templates.

90 Degree Place Card

The template for the card pictured above is very easy to use but it will take a little longer to make than the other ones. You can open this card to a 90 degree angle and it will stay up.

For those of you who have a Mac and use Pages, it's very easy to insert the PDF into a Pages document, (select original size),  align the PDF center and middle, and then put a text box over the name tag area and type in the guest names.  Be sure to set the document margins to 0 first. 

 There are two card sets to print on one sheet of cardstock to save you a little money.  If you make a mistake when you are writing in a guest's name, you can cut out an extra name tag and paste it over the error.  Be sure to set your printer margins to 0.  It will probably work at .05, but better safe than sorry.

The template for the card pictured above can be downloaded here:  New Year's Place Card 1 PDF

Super Easy Place Card

Here is the Super Easy Place Card Template.

This one is very simple and can be done in a few minutes.  Just cut on the blue lines, then fold the card in half, backwards.  No scoring needed.  Presto!  A tent style pop up place card.  There are four cards on the page.  Have fun!

Happy New Year's !


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Pop Up Christmas Place Cards

Pop Up Christmas Place Cards 

Merry Christmas, Happy Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Holidays, Season's Greetings!

Hi, Everyone!

I apologize for keeping you waiting so long for the place card templates.  My day job is teaching music and art at a K-8 parochial school and the Christmas season keeps me busy. We are on break now, so get ready for a slew of new patterns and information within the next week and a half .

The pattern today is for a Christmas Place Card.  There are three versions.  Two with different Grace prayers and one without. They are even easier to make than the Thanksgiving Place Cards and I have also made some layout improvements.  It's the same basic idea, but the square in the middle is easier to cut.  I have separated the patterns so you can choose just the ones you want. There are two card kits per page so you will also save on the cost of card stock. I have also resized the template so that it doesn't require border-less printing.  The instructions are on the card, so be sure to download it along with the patterns you choose.

The Santa, Frame and Holly graphics are courtesy of  The Graphics Fairy. It is a great website!

Here are the Christmas Place Card templates.  When you print them, make sure you do not resize them and make sure the center and rotate button is NOT selected.

Click On the image for the download link.

Grace Prayer 1

Grace Prayer 2

Blank Front

CLICK HERE FOR INSTRUCTIONS.

In addition to the templates, you will also need card stock or very heavy paper, a craftknife, (a standard razor blade will do if you don't have a craft knife,) scissors and adhesive.

Please enjoy and let me know how they turned out.


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Christmas Place Cards And Free Snowflake Card Pattern Link!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday To All!

Please check back on Wednesday, December 5th, 2012 for a new template of Vintage Christmas Place Cards. There will be a variety to choose from.

I am also hoping to have a Christmas Crèche Pop Up Card ready for you as well.  I am waiting for permission for the image owner to create it.  Stay tuned.  In the meantime enjoy this wonderful free Origamic Architecture Snowflake Card pattern created by Elod Beregszaszi.

The link is  http://www.popupology.co.uk/galleries/15/items/96  .  He also has a video showing you how to fold it.  If you enjoy his templates and work, you may want to like his Facebook Page so you can hear all his latest news AND see the latest templates.  https://www.facebook.com/Popupology

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Thanks so much and have fun!

Thanksgiving Turkey Pop Up Place Card

EZ3D Thanksgiving Turkey Pop Up Place Card

You have the choice of two different outer cards.  If you don't want text on the outer card, I have included a blank panel for you to decorate and cover the text.  I have included a blank name tag as well, in case you make a mistake writing the name in. The name goes in the upper blank label.  The card stands up by itself.  I have included two popular "Grace" prayers. If your guests are not familiar with them, they can read them right off their place cards.

This version has a wheat colored background color.  If you like typed names you can use a regular  label and just center it on the panel. You have a choice between a white background and a wheat colored one. The turkey graphic is courtesy of the Graphic Fairy http://graphicsfairy.blogspot.com  and the frame elements are from Dover Publications.

Guess what my New Year's resolution will be this year?  Yep, you got it.  To get holiday cards out a lot sooner.  But here it is and the template is so EASY you could get still quite a few done in under an hour.

Materials needed:  Template PDF, cardstock (65 lb is OK), craft knife, scissors, ruler, color printer.

Download the PDF here.

The PDF has three pages:  Page one is the wheat colored template, page two is the white background, and page three is the instruction page.  If you have colored cardstock you would like to use, the white version should work, just be aware that the colors may turn out differently.

How to make the card.

 The diagram on the instruction page is pretty clear but I will give a quick overview here. You have only one ridge (mountain fold, the rest of the folds are all valley folds.  To score the ridge fold you can kiss cut on the dotted lines or you can use the indentation method and score on the front and turn it over and score again on the embossed line. 

Once you have cut out the card, there are only two vertical cuts, and of course you will need to cut the turkey tail feathers free. If you are uncomfortable with using craft knives, you could start the cut with the knife and finish it with the scissors.  

To pop up the card, push the turkey tail forward, then put your fingers under the white box and pinch the ridge fold forward.  Pinch the valley folds in the middle of the card and then gently close the card and crease.  Fold the outer card in half and then use a tape runner to adhere the inner card to the outer card.  

And that's all there is to it.  Enjoy!   The next projects will center around Christmas cards.  Hopefully the first will be up the Monday after Thanksgiving.  

Happy Thanksgiving!

Grandma Jean

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Cool, Free Origamic Architecture Templates

Free Origamic Architecture Templates from Popupology.com

I am working on some new templates for Thanksgiving and Christmas, but in the meantime I would like to introduce you to Elod Beregszaszi who is a wonderful, up and coming Origamic Architecture Artist.  He has recently added a "Learn" section to his website http://www.popupology.co.uk/ and each Friday, he shares a new free pattern and folding video.  Check out his gallery where you can gaze in awe at his fabulous works. (That's what I do when I visit it.)  You may want to drop by and LIKE his page at https://www.facebook.com/Popupology and get the latest news about his exhibits and free workshops.

Here are the available Popupology patterns :  This Friday's Pattern is Kinetic Heart #2

Previous Friday Patterns:
St. Paul's Cathedral      Simple House #1      Steps      Invasion!    Kinetic Heart #1

While you are there take look at his new line of mirrored paper Kinetic Jewelry!  Very chic!

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