card stock & menues??

Ok I saw card stock in the store and they did not sell it 8 1/2 * 11?? so I have to cut it 1st

Please help me with my menue making

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I have purchased 81/2x11 cardstock at staples, and Michaels....

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We got our cardstock for menus at paper-source.com, they have all sizes. HTH!

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These are mine and I described how I did it below. You can pretty much use this method to make any style menu you like.

I got the cardstock from Michaels while they were running a huge sale. They were 8.5 by 11 sheets, the green I cut in half and the cream was cut to 7.5 by 10... to give 1/2' all around. Print your menus out before cutting. Use word to make the menus by making a table of 2 cells sized to the final menu size (7.5 by 10) so when you print everything is already sized right. If you use a very light border it can help line things up when trimming.

I used a paper cutter to do it all because I can't cut straight at all. Then to attached the two sheets, I used a ruler and made a mark in pencil for the 1/2' margin... when you put the edges of the cream sheet on these marks it should be pretty much centered. If you are as anal as I am, I remeasured and made sure all sides were equal. Just shift the paper till it looks right. Now take a piece of double sided tape, lift the menu sheet slightly (trying not to not shifting it) and put the tape on the green sheet, press the cream sheet down and that will secure it. Then just use the tape in the corners to make sure it is totally secure and will not move.


I hope that all makes sense. If not let me know. I broke it down into nights because it can get very tiresome after awhile.

Good luck!

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Posted by m&m2005

These are mine and I described how I did it below. You can pretty much use this method to make any style menu you like.

I got the cardstock from Michaels while they were running a huge sale. They were 8.5 by 11 sheets, the green I cut in half and the cream was cut to 7.5 by 10... to give 1/2' all around. Print your menus out before cutting. Use word to make the menus by making a table of 2 cells sized to the final menu size (7.5 by 10) so when you print everything is already sized right. If you use a very light border it can help line things up when trimming.

I used a paper cutter to do it all because I can't cut straight at all. Then to attached the two sheets, I used a ruler and made a mark in pencil for the 1/2' margin... when you put the edges of the cream sheet on these marks it should be pretty much centered. If you are as anal as I am, I remeasured and made sure all sides were equal. Just shift the paper till it looks right. Now take a piece of double sided tape, lift the menu sheet slightly (trying not to not shifting it) and put the tape on the green sheet, press the cream sheet down and that will secure it. Then just use the tape in the corners to make sure it is totally secure and will not move.


I hope that all makes sense. If not let me know. I broke it down into nights because it can get very tiresome after awhile.

Good luck!

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wow thanks so much! I have been dying for some kind of instruction on this. How much did you wind up spending on your menus?

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I don't remember exactly but the paper was I think 4 sheet for $1 or even less than that. I had 2 menus per table and 15 tables I think. I also picked up the little card board stands that get attached to the back and I think that ran the most. I would say in all less than $20 for 30 menus and 15 table camera cards. I waited for the best sales between Michaels and AC Moore.

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If you like the card stock a lot figure out how many you can get off of one sheet and bring it to kinkos to have them cut it. They charge 10 cents a cut and do I think up to like 25 sheets at a time so it's really cheap.

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I was going to do the menues 8x5.5 taking the 11x8 inthe landsacpe form and cutitng it in half, did not even think of a border I think I am going to keep it symple maybe add a few butterfly stickers floating on the sides/
I guess I will see
thanks for the instructions

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We got ours from Papermart.com and they cut the cardstock for us so all we had to do was print. This isn't the best shot of the menus but it's somthing!



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What size font did you use for the Menu? I did a sample of what I want and it's 8x5.5 but I feel like the font is sooooo small! Did anyone else feel this way?

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Posted by m&m2005

These are mine and I described how I did it below. You can pretty much use this method to make any style menu you like.

I got the cardstock from Michaels while they were running a huge sale. They were 8.5 by 11 sheets, the green I cut in half and the cream was cut to 7.5 by 10... to give 1/2' all around. Print your menus out before cutting. Use word to make the menus by making a table of 2 cells sized to the final menu size (7.5 by 10) so when you print everything is already sized right. If you use a very light border it can help line things up when trimming.

I used a paper cutter to do it all because I can't cut straight at all. Then to attached the two sheets, I used a ruler and made a mark in pencil for the 1/2' margin... when you put the edges of the cream sheet on these marks it should be pretty much centered. If you are as anal as I am, I remeasured and made sure all sides were equal. Just shift the paper till it looks right. Now take a piece of double sided tape, lift the menu sheet slightly (trying not to not shifting it) and put the tape on the green sheet, press the cream sheet down and that will secure it. Then just use the tape in the corners to make sure it is totally secure and will not move.


I hope that all makes sense. If not let me know. I broke it down into nights because it can get very tiresome after awhile.

Good luck!

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WOW that looks amazing!

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ok I got card stock that doesnt say how heavy it is?? did landscaping so I can put 2 on one page then I will cut it in 1/2....put some butterfly stickers and that is it. SHould I laminate them so they are shiny and a little more heavyer??

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BUMP

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I got my cream linen 8.5x11 stock at staples

i got the chocolate 12x12 stock at the paper mill store

i bought the ribbon, corner punch and rhinestones from michaels.



i set the page size of MS Publisher (you can use Word) to 4.25x11 and printed 2 up on a page. I cut them in half and trimmed them down to 4 b/c it was cleaner. (the first paper cutter was horrible)

I cut the brown stock to 4.5x11.5 so there was .25 all on sides and corner punched it.

i hot glued the rhinestone on to the ribbon & paper at the same time so save time and steps. wrapped the excess around the block and rubber cemented them together