How to make place cards: here’s how to add fun details to your table setting using affordable recycled materials
Place cards are easy to make with cardboard and upcycled paper—and these ones will surely spark conversation at the table. Check out this easy tutorial on how to make place cards with upcycled magazines!
DIY place cards with recycled paper—materials
- Scissors
- Glue
- Magazines or old picture books
- Brown cardboard
- Tracing paper
- Fine-tipped permanent marker
- Eyelet pliers and eyelets (or brads)
How to make place cards from cardboard—instructions
1. Cut out circles of the same size from magazine pages and brown cardboard. Choose images you like that might spark fun conversations at the table. The circles shown measure 8 cm in diameter. This personalized place card tutorial is one of many eco-friendly table setting ideas for lovely handmade place card designs.
2. Glue the cardboard circles and the paper circles together.
3. Cut 1.5 cm wide strips of tracing paper and shape the ends to look like banners.
4. Write the guests’ names on the strips and attach them on top of the cardboard cards with eyelets or brads. Position the strips so their edges align with the cardboard, placing the eyelet near the edge. (You can also glue the tracing paper in place, but using an eyelet gives you a useful hole for attaching a ribbon.)
Tip! If writing by hand doesn’t feel natural, you can print the guests’ names on tracing paper first and then cut the strips.
5. Thread a ribbon through the eyelet and tie the place card around the foot of a glass or around your cutlery or napkin.
