DIY Geometric Place Card Holders

DIY Geometric Place Card Holders — These place card holders made from air dry clay are fully customizable and perfect for holding your table name cards, seating cards, or even printable place cards you already own!

I really love all of the geometric shapes that are popular right now, but I wanted a way to use them that isn’t totally overdone.

Initially, I thought of making geo planters, but somehow I settled on place card holders (I think it was sheer laziness, but don’t tell).

I’m also still into the whole dipped trend too, I don’t know if that qualifies me as obsessive or not, but I combined the two anyways!

Here’s how you can make your own with oven-bake clay and a little paint (or if you’re feeling lazy too, you can just buy mine)–

How to Make Easy Geometric Place Card Holders

Oven-bake clay

Clay knife/exacto knife

Wax paper

Paint color of choice

Wet/dry sandpaper (optional)

1 | Form the clay into smooth equally sized balls for the number of holders you need. I made mine about two inches in size.

2 | Use a smooth edged knife to randomly cut sections/facets from the ball of clay.

3 | Bake the geos according to your specific clay instructions.

4| If you’re kind of a perfectionist, you can use wet/dry sandpaper to smooth the sides (I use water to keep the dust down). Then dip the bottoms in all-purpose paint and let them dry!

I’m totally in love with the mint and gold color combo right now! What do you think, is this a project you would try? The possibilities are endless really: earrings, necklaces, place card holders, planters, general decor…

Easy Ideas for DIY Name Card Holders

With the amount table settings we put together around here, we’re definitely no stranger to place card holder ideas!

These are endless ways to create your own DIY versions or repurpose unexpected items to use as name cards, like we did with these ribbon candy holders!

Here are a few of my favorite past projects —

Faceted Easter egg place card holders
Clay DIY Geometric place card holders
DIY Mini mountain photo holders that you could easily repurpose
DIY candy ribbon place card holders
Simple pumpkin leaf place card holders
DIY Colorblock easter table name cards

Fair warning: some of those are oldies, but goodies!

It’s kind of crazy to think that I’ve been blogging for so many years that old photography methods look ancient to me now!

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