Wine cork as place card holder...

sono74

Has anybody use wine corks for place card holders? I'm wondering how you get them to stand up. I know you lay them down horizontally and then put a slit in them to place the place cards, but it seems that they would lean back and fall down. Any suggestions?? I ordered business cards through vistaprint and am using them as the place cards. Just trying to find an inexpensive way to have them on the table without having to lay them down. Any suggestions?? Don't have to be cork related.

sallysong

We tried alot of different methods and the easiest and fastest was to take a small microplane and grate the bottom till it was flat. Also place your cardstock or another piece of paper in the slit you cut because we read on line that they will close back up if something isnt placed in there to hold it open. Hope this helps and works for you

imkaleigh63

I have one from a party we attended....it is standing up tall and a coated plastic paper clip is used to hold the card.  The clip is open and one end is inserted in the cork, while the rest is is used to hold the card.HTH

cwheels82

One of my BM's is working on this for me.  She's looked into it a little and is going to do a design that uses more than one cork.  I don't remember what it looks like exactly but if you do a google images search you can find a lot of examples of different ones.  Just keep paging through.  She wants to do it that way because I've heard that making the slit and sliding in the card can be really time consuming.  Good luck!

devinandheidi

We used champagne corks that could be set upright... If you have the knives/tools to make a flat side on the cork that might work fine. However, cutting cork is tricky especially if it's the crumbly kind of corks where when you cut it, chunks come out. I would think small pins that serve as like easel legs might work. They have short map tacks or baby coated straight pins that would all be one color and not sharp on the table side.

Aspen93

I used champagne corks. (believe there are pictures in my bio).  My FIL cut slits in the top and flatted each of the bottoms with some kind of power tool, but it can be done "manually" as well.  I found a bunch on eBay from a winery in California.

ashleeandwhatshisname

i was helping my friend with her wedding last weekend and she used wine cork....they were sooo cute....we cut a slit for the card and then cut a small sliver off the other side so it was flat and would sit up.

Nikki1029

I did this. I actually glued two corks together and then used a gold thumb tack to hold the seating card in place. There's a pic in my planning bio, and here's a direct link to what the place cards looked like: http://tinyurl.com/mcjna7

sono74

Thanks for all the replies and suggestions. Wish me luck for when I start accumulating corks... I guess it'll be trial and error, good thing I've got 10 months to do this :-))