World's Easiest Escort Cards

Okay, since we're still waiting on a few more RSVPs it's a bit silly that I went ahead and began making these. However, it makes me feel better than get things done so now I have half finished escort cards.

Anyway, here's my inspiration:


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And here's what half my escort cards look like:



The other half looks like this:



Yay for matryoshkas! There's no elaborate reason that I have two types of escort cards. I just love that original inspiration picture and I love matryoshkas and I didn't want to have to choose between them.

I'm really happy with them but they aren't finished as I still need to figure out seating arrangements and table numbers, but it makes me happy to have at least gotten a lot of them done.

Here's how I made them. I first (with Mr. Knitting's help) cut card stock into gift tags and punched holes at the top. I probably could have just bought tags, but where's the fun in that?



I then stamped the gift tags. I found the silhouette stamp at Michaels and the Matryoshka stamp at Paper Source:





Next I enlisted by lovely BM Rach to help me write names on the cards as I don't have the nicest handwriting.

Rach hard at work:





While she did that, I added some green and white twine given to me by my former residence don and Wedding Bee reader, supergeek.

Here's the twine in action at her wedding:


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And here's the twine in action on our escort cards:



Rach and I will have to go back and finish the cards once I have everyone's RVSP and have figured out table numbers, but it does make me feel better to have a chunk of them done.

My big issue now is figuring out how to display them. I like the idea of hanging them on a Christmas tree, but am concerned that it will be really hard for anyone to find theirs.

My new favourite ideas comes from Snippet and Ink. Look how awesome this is:


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I love this so much I can't even say. I'm not sure that laying my cards out is the best option, since our cards are not tented, but I really do love the way this looks. I think another trip to the St. Lawrence Market to find me a matryoshka is in order. I currently own a few, but they're all too small to be used like this.

What are you doing for escort cards?