Morning!

Okay, I’m back at the blog again. When work gets hectic I tend to go MIA, but I promise I have 5 posts coming your way this week.

I thought I’d start off the week with a little DIY action. I hosted a small birthday shin-dig for a dear friend of mine (love you Jess!) and I wanted to make easy, budget-friendly name cards. So, I peeked in a few cupboards, dug into my not-so organized craft drawers and pulled out a few pieces of paper and my handy-dandy alphabet stamps and stamp pad.  An idea was brewing…

I also whipped out my round corner punch, and then I started in on stamping out the names of my guests on the mini white cards. After I stamped each of the names out, I trimmed down the edges of the card and then punched each corner to round out the edges (round corners seem to soften the look of the cards and also give them a “finished” feel).

Again, after each name was stamped, the cards were trimmed to fit the length of the name and then each of the corners were rounded. Now that I had the name cards ready to go, I needed a way to display them on the table. That’s when the old bowl of lemons I had in the kitchen came into play, along with a few tacks I had laying around…the result…

At first I thought my lemon solution might cause a few problems – I thought the name cards might roll all over the place, but they didn’t. They seem to stay into place as long as I carefully tacked the card in the center of the lemon.

The great thing about these place cards is that you could use apples, limes, pears, pumpkins – whatever best fits your decor/theme colors.  And, let’s not forget that these DIY name place cards cost me next to nothing. I had the lemons, cards and pins already at home, and it just took me a little time to assemble these cards.

I’ll share a few more DIY  and budget-friendly hosting ideas later this week!

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