How To Make Torn-Edge Ribboned Wedding Place-Cards

Here’s how to make boho-beautiful torn-edge ribboned wedding place-cards. With instructions included for computer designed fonts or hand written calligraphy.

Handwritten calligraphy is nice, and if you or a friend know the art, that’s great.

But if you don’t, all you need is this DIY to set up a computer template to print your place cards. After printing the magic happens.

 

 

Make Torn-Edge Wedding Place-Cards

Wedding Place-Card Template

You have two options:

1. Create your own template. This DIY uses Microsoft Publisher to create the template. Any program with the capacity to make text boxes will work, such as PowerPoint or Word. Even Google Docs or Sheets.
2. Purchase an editable PDF template in our Wedding Shop.

 

 

 

Create Your Own Wedding Place-Card Template

1. Open a letter size page in your computer program.
2. Create a 3.75″ x 2.25″ text box with a narrow, light colored border.
3. Fill the page with boxes, leaving lots of space around between boxes. Our template has four place-cards on a letter size cardstock.
4. If you are doing hand calligraphy, this is where you print the templates.
5. Otherwise, choose your favorite computer font to add the names to the each place-card. Leave a 1/2″ to 1″ margin on the left side for the ribbon.

 

 

Supply List:

Any item in gold is a purchasing link for our favorite choices.

• Watercolor paper or heavy cardstock, 120# to 140#
• Printer with rear feed for heavy paper.
• Exacto knife, steel ruler, scissors, hole punch, extra fine sandpaper
• Chiffon or cotton frayed edge ribbon or rayon ribbon and fabric dye in the color of your choice.

 

Directions:

1. Cut place-cards apart with scissors, leaving at least 1/2″ borders around the edges. Then score lightly along the lines and hand tear the edges. Our favorite way to tear edges: score very lightly all around each place-card with an Exacto knife, then fold and tear carefully. If the score gets too deep, and the edge looks too sharp, take a little sandpaper and sand until you get a smooth transition from card to edge.
2. Punch holes for the ribbon on the left center of each card.
3. Experiment with lengths of ribbon to get the look you want. If you dry dyed rayon ribbon in a bundle, it will be crunchy looking and the length of each tie will need to be longer than if you use uncurled chiffon ribbon. The type of knot you use will also affect the length of each ribbon piece.

 

 

Dye Your Own Rayon Ribbon Navy with Blueberries

1. Unroll the ribbon and place into a bowl of water and blueberries. (Thawed, frozen blueberries will have more juicy color.)
2. Let sit for a few hours.
3. Squeeze out the water.
4. Place on a dye-proof surface to dry, all bunched up to get a curly look.

 

 

Some pics of the Torn-Edge Place-Cards:

 

 

 

 

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