DIY Standing Menu Cards

We had stations at our reception instead of a formal sit down dinner. Our wedding was pretty casual so the stations were a perfect fit. I debated for a while about even having menu cards since people would be able to go up and choose what they wanted anyway. However, being the food lover that I am, I always like to know what I have to look forward to, so I decided to make two menu cards per table.

I mainly just used leftovers and scrapes from other projects to put these together. 

I knew I wanted to bring in a little chevron, but not a lot as it was starting to feel like a little too much at this point. Maybe because I looked at it so much or maybe because it really was too much. Oh well, no one ever had a bad time at a wedding because of too much chevron.

Now I just wanted them to stand up so that they would be easy for everyone to see. I basically copied the back of a really cheap photo frame. Like the ones you get at Universal studios when you pose as Captain Jack Sparrow and Elizabeth Swann for one of those character pictures {not that I would know anything about that}.

I used some rectangle and square shaped scrapes to make the stand. First I folded the paper in half {hotdog fold for those that remember what that means}

Then I cut the stand shape into the paper. 

It should look somewhat like a B when you unfold it, with the bottom, right portion still attached. 

Once I cut the outline, I just needed to fold the "B" down and see if it would stand.  

I glued the stand onto one of our menu cards, gluing only one of the sides. The side without the extra slit {with the "B" still attached} should be glued down. 

And it worked! I was actually amazed by this. It worked on the first try. This is a rarity on our household.

So I repeated the same steps for about 24 more cards.

The great thing about this was I needed to pack them up to take them down to South Carolina, so I just had to undo the fold in the stand, and it was a flat card again.

Here is an outline of the stand for your printing pleasure. It may need to be adjusted based on the size of the item you are trying to stand up. Just fold it in half and cut along the inside of the dotted line. The thicker the paper, the better the stand. I tried it with regular printer paper and it worked out but would fall down much easier than the cardstock scraps I used.

Money saved: $70, if using the same suite as our invitations and RSVP cards, for 25.
Time: An hour and a half.

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