Punch your guests in their eyeballs with awesome pop-up place cards!

If I get married again the ONLY reason I will have assigned seating at the reception is so I have an excuse to make place cards!

What you need:

Heavyweight paper
Pencil
Sharpie marker
Eraser
X-acto knife and blades
Ruler
Watercolor paint (optional)

Start by cutting a 4″ x 4″ square of your heavyweight paper.

Using your ruler and straight edge, draw a light pencil line that bisects the square horizontally.

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Use your Sharpie to draw a simple design. Make sure your drawing overlaps that center line! I did a heart design and a number 11 design (as in, sit at table number 11).

Now use your X-acto knife to cut the outline of your design, but only cut around the part of your design that is above the horizontal pencil line. Then score (lightly cut) the horizontal line, but DON'T score the part of your line that is under your design. For the heart design below, the blue line is where I will score, and the red line is where I will cut.

I cut the top part here:

And I score the line using my ruler as a straight edge:

Now when I fold it in half it looks like this:

I clean up the card by trimming away the white parts along the top edge of the heart and by erasing the horizontal light pencil line that is still visible in the heart.

Here is the final one!

For the number 11 design, here is where I will score (blue line) and where I will cut (red line):

And here is the finished design:

Now I've used my mad computer skillz to make a set of cards with my wedding logo.

This design is more complex and it is time-consuming to cut out. Also I have a lot of those white edges. Instead of cutting them away, I use my Sharpie to blacken the white areas.

I'd prefer a more simple design, especially if I were to cut out 50-150 of these suckers. Here is a heart design I made on the computer (again with the skillz). You can download a blank template here.