Monday 30 September 2013

Truly Inspiring Beach Themed Place Card Ideas


Have you decided to have a beach themed party and want to add just a touch of charm with the class to your décor?

Well, then some elegant placecards that favor colorful designs to match unique beach theme decorations can do a great job!!

The place cards not only show your guests where to seat, but also they double as wedding favors for your guests. Fun ideas for placecards are numerous, when having a beach themed party. Get creative and create truly inspiring beach themed placecards holders with shells and wow your guests!

So, take a look at these great place card ideas to add an interesting touch to your beach themed party:

What about shell placecards or holders? Absolutely, these are perfect for any beach themed party and will add so much character to your party. For this you just need to write your guests’ names on the sand dollar and then arrange them very gracefully in a bed of sand.

Another idea can be to have your guests’ name printed on the place cards. Then through one of its ends tie the card with satin ribbon to the starfish. After the event your guests can hold these starfish place cards and have their own beach photos.

Miniature folding beach chairs are one of the most popular beach party favors ever. These little darlings add a wonderful touch to any beach or sand themed party. You can turn them into clever place card holders by simply placing personalized beach-towel stickers with your guests’ names on the miniature chairs.

These are just a few of the most popular beach placecard ideas as well as serve as creative favors that your guests can even take home with them. These will delight your guests so much that they'll definitely hold on to them even long after your party.

So, if you are having a beach themed party, these place card ideas will really add a finishing touch!!

Wednesday 25 September 2013

Create Your Own Invitation Card Using Cardstock Paper


Do you own piles of cardstock in your stash?

Does it give you an inspiration to create an awe-inspiring stuffs?

Well, surely it must have!!

Cardstock serves as the star product for any of your cool projects. With a little bit of restyling, you can take your card stock out of the humdrum and breathe a new life into it!

Card stock paper covers the entire color spectrum, and so comes in a wide range of colors. You can get these papers in varying textures such as canvas, linen or a woven cloth. You can get these in embossed pattern as well, which is great to add some extra texture instantaneously.

So, let’s try creating invitation cards using card stock paper. It has good thickness than normal paper and is usually a custom size as well. You will be able to print invitations on this paper successfully, with little adjustments to your printer. You can create a fun colorful invitation card in 3 easy steps:

First and foremost come up with a design that you want to have on the invitation.
Accordingly, measure your paper to know its exact width and length.
Now print your invitation paper with the help of Ink-Jet printer and you can have your invitations ready to go in no time.

At first, it may seem intimidating to some, but in this way anyone can easily print their own invitations. Besides, making your own invitations is not only a cost effective solution, but it also lets your creative side shine.

In this way, you will be able to create some very simple yet awe-inspiring invitations using cardstock paper. I hope you enjoy exploring such creative way of using this paper.

Likewise, you can also invent new ideas using this paper and share it with us!!!

Tuesday 24 September 2013

Cooking Up a Table Tent or a Table Number Card?


What are the ways you are using to inform your customers about your business?

Well, you must be using newsletters or organizing a campaign to target your potential customers!

But, have you considered tent cards and table number cards!!

These offer are an eye-catching way to get information in front of the customers and attendees at a meeting. These durable and colorful display tools are great for advertising your special promotion or just providing information at events or venues.

Nowadays, display tools are used in large scale as an important branding tool. A table number card or a tent card can effectively promote your brand and business in a stylish and professional manner. So, if you are considering to get table number cards and tent cards designed for your business, you need to know the following ingredients:

Before proceeding with anything, first decide the type of content you actually want to put into your tent card. Do you want to mention your business name and address? Do you want to add your business slogan? Just note down all these things for reference on a piece of paper.

Don’t make tent card look messy with too many images and graphics. Keep it simple, insert proper resolution images. Make it look professional.

Always choose a good quality paper material for tent cards. For long lasting usage, pick a material that will not tear easily because it will be carrying important content.

Choose proper design and layout so as to convey the message in a simple yet beautiful way.

Including all these ingredients in your table tent or table number card will create a lasting impression while delivering your message. These display tools are long lasting and will make a great impression.

Make your company the star of your upcoming event by designing dynamic and informative tent cards!!!

Monday 23 September 2013

Are You Planning To Have An Ideal Bridal Shower Celebration?


In my opinion, bridal showers should not be dull and boring?

Modern brides like me who always have an appetite for something new,

Are spicing up the old-fashioned tradition with their favorite themes, places, colors and interests!!

Bridal showers are a great way to celebrate the upcoming wedding day, share gifts and memories as well as enjoy the excitement of starting a new life. Last week, I threw a bridal shower party that was creatively and carefully planned, which kept my shower fresh and youthful!!

This was a good chance for me to spend time with my close friends and family. So, I made a lot of preparation and planning for my shower party. Along with other essential preparations, I focused exclusively on proper seating arrangements for guests, and the decorations for the party. To add a personal touch to the party I planned to use placecards.

I’d adorned the cards on the edges of the glasses and the entire tabletop, with the card perched on the edge of each wine glass. For this, I’d already purchased some beautiful printable place cards. I’d never imagined that this little creativity would make such a big difference to the ceremony. These cards became center of attraction of my shower party, and my friends were actually gazing at the printable place cards most of the time.

Besides, all the decorations, everyone enjoyed the meal and specially the appetizers. The best part for me was the ice breaker game, which I enjoyed a lot, and the gifts that I received from my friends. The party turned out to be a great fun for all of us to socialize and mingle.

In the end, I wanted to thank my friends for being part of the celebration and also for the beautiful gifts. So, to show my guests that they mean a lot to me, I sent thank you cards to each one of them. Every thank you card carried an emotional message with it. Everyone must have been glad to see such attractive and emotive cards.

And, this way, the printable place cards and thank you cards helped me organize an impeccably stylish shower and express my gratitude towards my friends!!!

Tuesday 17 September 2013

Cardstock Paper: Paper Crafters’ Staple


“Mom please buy me such a paper, which I can make a calendar from,” shouted my 5-year old sweetheart after coming back home from his friend’s place.

But I, not much aware about variety of stationery items being an uninterested person about crafts and all since childhood, was not known about any such paper. However seeing my kid’s interest in creating his own calendar, I forced myself to take interest in that. And as the first step of it, I started searching a paper that would be convenient for my 5-year old to handle and create the best of what he wants.

My search ended me on cardstock paper, a paper thicker and sturdier than that of the regular paper. Hence, crafts made using this paper are distinguished and appealing in look. Also, they last longer. Moreover, it is called as the staple of paper crafters. This is why, I found this as the best paper for my toddler’s little to-be-calendar.

I made a profound research on this type of paper as I hadn’t have any idea about any such paper before, though I might have seen it thousands of time. My research gave me every tid-bit of card stock paper; right from its types to the projects and techniques that can be tried with it.

To my amazement, I found that cardstock is available in thousands of shades, variety of structures and textures. Out of so many types, I chose just five types of card stock papers for the tiniest and cutest calendar my kid wanted to make to mark his friends’ birthdays and his other important days.

I picked:

Textured - A unique textured card stock paper made up of variety of fibers.

Glossy – A cardstock paper having shiny, lustrous coating.

Glitter – A card stock with a coating of colored glitter.

Matte – A cardstock that has lusterless coating.

Iridescent – An eye-catching card stock paper with a coating that displays a spectrum of colors. Its color changes as per the observer's position.

Friday 13 September 2013

Recycled Paper - Best Way to Manufacture Paper Products by Saving Energy


With increase in the cost of fuel and gas, most people have started focusing on saving energy available in the environment. With this step towards energy conservation a new concept in the paper industry referred as paper recycling is introduced. Paper recycling process not only helps in saving energy, but also gives excellent opportunities to different types of paper manufacturing industries to design some new and innovative paper or envelope products. In fact, reputable paper industries use recycled paper to design many attractive products.

Metallic or Metal Papers
Majority of paper industries of modern times prefer manufacturing metallic paper by adopting paper recycling. Nowadays, paper manufacturers can design wide range of metallic papers to fulfill both commercial and residential needs.

Onion Skin Papers and Journals
Onion skin paper or Translucent paper is lightweight, strong and thin paper. These type of papers are mostly used with carbon papers to type duplicates in typewriters and to permanent records in offices and business organizations.

Other than this, many professionals involved in paper recycling also use recycled papers to make attractive leather bound journals. Interesting fact about journals is that it has become popular amid different business executives, and become very much popular in common people.

Steps to Follow for Recycling Process
Now, let us look over the steps followed by paper recycling industries to manufacture different types of papers via recycling process.

Collection
This is the first step, where people collect all types of waste papers and forward the same to different types of paper mills involved in production of recycled papers.

Addition of Suitable Chemicals
Personnel of paper industries put waste papers into vats and add suitable chemicals in combination with water. Large beaters stir this mixture to separate paper fibers being forced by screening process to remove some large contaminated substances from various types of pulped fibers. On the other side, remaining part of the entire mixture will stay within the centrifuge, which easily spins mushy mixture for separation of dense and even undesirable foreign particles from the entire mixture.

Removal of Ink and Making New Paper
Now in this step, professionals take steps to remove ink and make new paper by following a process referred as deinking process. Once the deinking process is completed, staffs of paper industries can step forward with manufacturing new paper.
Hence, by following few paper recycling steps, people can expect to manufacture different types of attractive paper products even by saving big amount of energy. 

Thursday 12 September 2013

Thank You Cards Express Your Gratitude and Feelings



Most popular and accepted way of showing gratitude is saying "Thank you". It’s the most traditional and universal expression that demonstrates good manners when we wish to appreciate something. We say thank you for special favors, thank you for gifts, thank you for assistance in times of need. A Thank You is a short yet the sweetest word that can set the most messed up of all things right.

Besides, often is it only you give Thank You verbally? Well, a verbal "thank you" can be easily forgotten. Hence, try to give it in the written form to make it stay longer with the recipient. A thank you card can help you here. However, often people miss the opportunity to express their gratitude with a thank you card. A tiny but beautiful thank you card is a lovely way for you to express gratitude in a personal way.

Thank you cards also have the power of conveying the intended message in a very effective manner. Cards chosen with care, adorned with innovative lettering and figures, can speak much more than just verbal saying. So, now it is time to say 'Thank you' and say it via a thank you card.

Also, another way to show your genuine appreciation to people is through printable place cards. Now, you might think how can printable place cards say the best when it comes to thanking your loved ones for their thoughtfulness? Of course, they are the best way to applause people. And, using your power of imagination you can make it even more exciting.

Printable place card and thank you card are really a good chance to acknowledge the people and to gather adulation for thinking about them. So, move ahead and do your part. Show your appreciation and conveys your gratitude with beautiful thank you and printable place cards.

Monday 9 September 2013

Stunning Reward Wrapping Ideas


As a teacher I like to organize various learning activities for my students. Likewise, I organized an art competition for which my students were very much excited. So, they very well demonstrated their imaginative ideas through various papers and created outstanding art forms. I had announced prizes for the most creative art forms as a token of encouragement for my dear students. As children love prizes, prize distribution ceremony is always the most excited event for them. And as it was the prize distribution ceremony of an art competition, I decided to make it creative, too. 

Doing this, I wanted to serve two of my intentions – 

1. To bring extra excitement within students for their rewards
2. To give them more creative ideas on paper usage

To put a smile on every participant’s face, I brought them a pile of gifts; one for each. So, I creatively wrapped each reward using gift wrapping accessories and types of papers like color paper, glossy paper, bright paper, parchment paper, vellum paper. But, my personal favorite is vellum paper, which I placed the reward in a small box and wrapped them in different patterns. Like, I covered the small box with a  color paper first and then for more embellishment wrapped it with a belt of layered ribbons and capped it off with a single fabric blossom. 

Also, since kids love colored button I also made a button-stamped wrap. So, I affixed button to a cork with double-sided tape. Then placed plain paper on a folded piece of fabric (this cushions the paper so the mark will be even). Lastly, topped it with a pretty button tied on with baker's twine.

This way, the wide assortment of wrapping papers such as vellum paper, parchment paper helped me have a pleasant but enticing reward wrapping for all my creative students. And exactly the way I wanted they were very much excited to receive these stunning gift wrapped rewards. The immense of joy and amazement that I could see on all those eager faces is really a can't-explain-ever for me!

Wednesday 4 September 2013

Steps To Make Scrapbook Using Card Stock Paper


Scrapbooking is one of the best hobbies to learn or to get engaged in. It is a fun hobby that lets you preserve your favorite memories and keepsakes. So, if you have also been bitten by the scrapbooking bug then you are sure to put a large dent in your wallet. Because, scrapbooking materials from paper to embellishments can be pricey if you want to be so creative for it. However, relief can be in site if you have a nice binder and some blank card stock papers.
Find some cost-effective steps to make scrapbook -

1. Gather all materials like card stock, binder and binder sleeves, all of which should be of the same size. Like, if you prefer 8x10 binder, then use 8x10 binder sleeve and similarly 8x10 piece of cardstock. Besides, number of sleeves and pieces of cardstock paper you need will vary on how large you wish to make your scrapbook. Bear in mind that binders come in many different sizes from 1/4 inch to 5 inches deep. So, choose the depth accordingly.

2. Now, pick one piece of cardstock paper and place it on your work area. Make your page using the colored and patterned scrapbook paper, mementos, photographs and embellishments that enhance the look and fits in with your style. Keep in mind that to slide the embellishments easily into the sleeve keep them relatively flat. Glue everything into place.

3. Insert scrapbook page into binder sleeve. The sleeve comes complete with an area that is punched appropriately for your binder. Alternatively, place the sleeve into the binder. Then, repeat the process until all your pages are complete and inserted into the binder.

4. Lastly, create a cover. You can do this by including a clear plastic flap on the front cover where you can insert a cover page. Create a cover page using another piece of card stock paper. Keep it simple with flat embellishments. Then, eventually insert the cover page behind the flap carefully.

So, are you ready to show off your own made scrapbook?