Dinner Placecards

I made placecards for our Christmas dinner this year. I wanted to create something clean & simple, yet elegant.

Using Adobe Illustrator, I made a blue/white gradient (you fold it in the middle of the white – each side of the card has a bit of white at the top that fades into the blue bottom), added the names with the Chocolate Box font, and created a simple star embellishment with a blue fill & white stroke.I had fun placing the star for each name.

I printed the cards on white stock paper and used a paper cutter to cut all sides so the cards had a full bleed. It took about 30 minutes to create this.

download pdf file — download .ai CS4 file

(For those of you who download the files & are curious, “Great One” is our nickname for my husband’s Great-Grandma.)