Why do we send cards? Usually for a special occasions, but often to give pleasure to those who receive them. It can simply be to let people know that you are thinking of them. With this thought, I decided to make some cards for other occasions, maybe using items you already own.
To give you an example, fancy paper, tissue, string, ribbons, stones, sequins, scraps of materials, why not incorporate them.
This menu card would be suitable for a silver wedding, big party, wedding guests or other special celebrations. The first thing you will need, is some card which is not too thick and about 24 x 21 cm in actual size. This needs to have a nice texture. Once you have this, fold it in half.
Make a line for the fold with probably a craft knife. Now you could do with a line at the top and the bottom of your card. This could be made with a couple of strips of ribbon, braid or coloured paper, about 12 x 2cm ,which can be glued to the card. Of course, you will need the correct glue for this.
These strips can be the same shade, toning or very different colours, depending on the occasion. At this stage you could add a narrow strip of gold paint just above the edge of your strips.
If you were doing this for a golden wedding, you could put the items signifying each ten years of marriage, below the bottom line, whilst for the centre, you could stick a small photograph of the couple with a gold border around it.
Any wording you wanted to add could be above the top strip. This method would be just as good for a young persons wedding. Below the bottom line, you could space out tiny little hearts with plastic jewels or even sequins. In the centre, you could place a photo of the happy couple, but I would try and make it into the actual shape of a heart and then add a red border round this. A few bits of confetti on the card would not go amiss to finish it off.
What you need now, is your menu. You could, I suppose, write on the inside of the card, but it is probably better to insert and attach a piece of paper with this, hand written or typed.
Cards, in my experience, are never cheap, so it can be costly when you have to buy a few, so let us now make some place cards. Try this with 8cm of card, make a centre, fold by scoring it first lightly with the knife.
Use ribbon to go across your card, about 1 cm from the top. A narrow ribbon will do, but let this go well over the sides. Once it has been glued, simply cut the exta ribbon off.
Your ribbon needs a bit of decoration now, so what I suggest you do, is to go and buy some little rosebud heads from a haberdashers and apply these to the centre. If you cannot get these, they could be made from tissue and a bead added to the centre, or a small sequin. All that is needed to finalise this, is the guests name written on it.