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Garden Wedding Seating Card Do It Yourself Garden Wedding Seating Card The first challenge is to brainstorm imagery for the theme. When I think of a garden, I think of beautiful flowers, fruits, vegetables, and dozens of bright wonderful colors. I chose to pick one element and go with that for my garden wedding set … and I picked a rose. I did this so that I would be able to stay consistent in color throughout the set. The Seating Card This seating card looks very elegant. On one side is an image of half of a rose with the word "three" running up the side (I did this to add a little creativity to it). On the other side is the other half of the rose and the names of the guests. One thing I was sure to do with this seating card was to balance out the colors from one side to the other. I decided to use a brown color in the text to soften the look, and to bring that garden feeling into it some more. |
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Personalize and Print the Garden Wedding Seating Card Paper Suggestions • 8.5" x 11" • 30 to 60 pound card stock • Beige, white, cream, ivory, or transparent paper NOTE: Be sure to check with your paper supplier that your paper is inkjet-compatible (or laser-compatible if that's what you're using!) Final Seating Card Dimensions Cut to roughly 5.5" x 9.5" Ribbons Try adding a maroon ribbon to the seating card. No special bows or ties are needed. Cutting the ends of the ribbon on the diagonal or in a triangle shape adds a nice touch. Colors Suggestions: Try using Red, Maroon, beige, different shades of green, different shades of pink, tan, light yellow and dark brown. These are all colors that would be found in a beautiful garden so they will work great in your seating card. Fonts used: Papyrus and Arial Now that you've decided on this layout, its time to personalize it! Here's what you need to do:
Members of Wedding Clipart will find the template pictured in this set once they login. All templates are divided by theme, and it will be easy to locate the garden theme and this exact template using the thumbnail image. Once you find it, simply download it to your hard drive. All Wedding Clipart templates are in Microsoft Word format. Double click the template and it will open automatically in MS Word. You'll see that all the text is in its own textbox, so you can edit the text and move it to where you want very easily. Try typing additional words and phrases and you'll get the hang of it immediately. You can also change the font, add bold or italicized text if you wish. Swap out or edit graphics used in the template. We've designed the template layout and graphics so that they are ready to print as-is. But perhaps you've found additional images in the Wedding Clipart collection that you'd like to include. Inside the website, along with all the templates, is a complete tutorial on adding and removing images to a document in Microsoft Word. Use this as your guide. Finally, if you are familiar with image-editing programs such as Illustrator or Corel, you have complete flexibility to modify any aspect of any image, from its color to its basic lines. Once you are happy with the way the invitation reads, try a test print on plain paper using the Manual Feed setting on your printer. We've tested all of our templates on inkjet and laser printers, so you shouldn't have any trouble printing with your standard home printer. You will need to practice cutting away the margins and folding the seating card in half so that the sides are even. It's best to do this before you start your final prints on expensive paper. You can make as many test prints as you want, allowing you to test different wording, changes to your layout, and additions/subtractions of graphics, as mentioned above. Select the paper you have chosen for your final invitations. Before you start a large print run, test just one sheet. If the new paper causes any alignment or paper jamming issues, you'll need to troubleshoot the printer. Most printers allow adjustments to the manual paper feed tray. When you have a successful print out, you may still need to feed and print the invitations one at a time, depending on your printer. Once you have a stack of final prints, you can always do the cutting at home, especially if you have a paper cutter. But you'll probably save a lot of energy and mistakes by taking the stack to your local copy store and having them cut the entire stack at once. Be sure to have a prototype of a final cut with you for them to follow. Here is a little background on the other pieces you see in this Garden Theme Seating Card Set. The Rehearsal Dinner Invite I used the same colors and flower for this invite so that it matched the rest of the set, but also brought in an image of some chocolate covered strawberries - strawberries also being a garden element. The Program The program, like the seating card, uses text running up the side of the layout. It uses the same flower and same type of text and colors. It also brings in some rose pedals. The Menu The menu uses the same colors and text as the rest of the items do. I also used an image of a plate to convey the menu aspect, but kept the garden theme in it by using the rose pedals. NOTE: I printed everything in the garden set on nice ivory paper which goes very well with the colors of the rose. This garden wedding set is very elegant, creative, and beautiful. It has a lot of outdoor, summer-like character and is easy to create. I designed everything in a couple of hours from scratch and printed it from a 4-year-old HP OfficeJet G85 inkjet printer. |
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