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Since we indulged ourselves with letterpress save-the-dates, invitations, programs AND cards to explain the charity tokens, I wanted to change things up a bit for the menus and do something cute and simple. Mini menu madness, in effect!

I forgot to include something in the photo to show scale - they’re about 4 inches high. Keeping them thin and short forced me to set the margins on the inside text pretty narrow, but I’m ok with that.

The “of the land/sea/coop” is a throwback to our save-the-dates, and the fonts are Feel Script and Urgent Telegram.

I printed up a stack of them on blush pink resume paper (from Kinko’s), then printed the “Menu” side on the reverse. Then I chopped ’em down to size:

(Blurry, sorry - just to give you an idea of how far over to put the opposite side’s text.)

Next I treated them to caress from the bone folder (something I scoffed at three months ago but now swear by).

Then I trimmed off the overlap:

In the meantime, I ran five inch strips of black grosgrain ribbon through the Xyron sticker maker:

The strips are then peeled off and applied to the “spine” of the menu:

Finally, I just trimmed off the excess ribbon and voila! A box full of mini menus in no time!

Ok, I lied about the “in no time” part. This was a bit time consuming…and I had only 62 to make. But I did want something to match all the other vintage-looking, typewriter/book-themed goodness on the table.

I think these would be super cute in all sorts of colors, and the grosgrain ribbon really evokes the fabric of a book.

Anyone else doin’ something a little different for their menus?