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Mrs. Kitten, Austin/Grand Cayman Age and Occupation: 25, Law Student Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Dental Student Engagement Date: October 19, 2006 Wedding Date: April, 2009 Venue: The Grand Old House, Grand Cayman About Me: In 2009 I will get married (after a two and a half year engagement!), become an Army wife, graduate from law school, take the bar, move from Austin to Washington, D.C., and start my career as a lawyer! With all this going on, Mr. Kitten and I decided to have a tropical, "stress-free" destination wedding. Nevertheless, my micromanaging, detail-oriented, perfectionist side has prevailed---I am currently obsessed with every last detail of my "stress-free" destination wedding! But most of all, I'm beyond excited to become Mrs. Kitten on a fabulous Caribbean vacation surrounded by my friends and family!
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A while back I posted about the idea of creating trivia cards to keep guests entertained during our cocktail hour. I printed them on Moo business cards. Moo cards are great because not only can you print on both sides, but you can print a different image on each card! I’ve been getting some questions about how the process works, so here’s a little tutorial on how to make your very own Moo cards.

Here’s how it works–say you have two sides to the card, Side A and Side B.

On Side A you can print a different image on each card–that’s the easy part! On Side B you can either have text or an image, but the only catch is that you have to have the same thing on every card. And if you choose the text option, you have to enter the text through the Moo text editor, which has pretty limited font and formatting options.

Because I needed each Trivia Card to have a different question on it, I had to print the questions on Side A. That means that I had to upload the questions as images. I have Photoshop, but had never used it, so my lovely roommate gave me a quick tutorial and I was on my way. With Photoshop I was able to create the cards in our rainbow sherbet palette AND put the answers to the trivia questions upside down on the bottom corner of the cards. The only challenging part was making sure I had enough buffer space around the edges so the wording wasn’t cut off (the correct buffer was about 5 mm on each side). On Side B I printed one of the following engagement photos:

Photo by The Nichols

Photo by The Nichols

Here are some examples of the front sides of the cards! I ended up making 100—50 Kitten trivia, 25 Cayman trivia, and 25 wedding trivia. I’m told our guests had fun during the cocktail hour, turning the trivia cards into a contest to see who could get the most right!

Are you planning any cocktail hour diversions for your guests?

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29 Responses to “A Moo How-To: Cocktail Hour Trivia Cards!”

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laurajane
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laurajane (message)  320 posts, Helper bee

These look great! Love the photos you chose!

 
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Mrs. Hot Cocoa (message)  1,721 posts, Bumble bee

I love this idea! That’s so funny that I also posted on Moo business cards today (I swear that Moo’s not paying us to do their advertising!).

 
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Dimplez1978
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Dimplez1978 (message)  23 posts, Newbee

I love these cards! When I tried to create one today though, it didn’t allow me to preview it before I decided to purchase it. Is there something I’m missing or do you really have to make the purchase without getting to see a final preview first?

 
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Miss D'orsay (message)  1,293 posts, Bumble bee

OooOOo, We love this idea!

 
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Gilneas
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Gilneas (message)  1,029 posts, Bumble bee

What a fun idea! I didn’t realize you could upload an image for the static side of the MOO cards. Good to know!

 
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Emily

quick question: if you do the wording at the image on side A, can you still have multiple pictures on side B?

 
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cappuccinoaddict (message)  99 posts, Worker bee

Wow, these are awesome! I’m totally going to “borrow” this idea. I noticed they’re based in the UK, approx how much was shipping to the states?

 
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Grey56 (message)  535 posts, Busy bee

Um….well, I wasn’t planning on it….but now…. This is a great idea!

 
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Miss Gloss
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Miss Gloss (message)  1,057 posts, Bumble bee

I love this idea!! And your e-pics look great!

 
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mary-alice-me
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mary-alice-me (message)  1,870 posts, Buzzing bee

We were planning on doing trivia too! I need to go back to your first post. Very clever to work around the limitations of Moo!

 
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JennyBryde
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JennyBryde (message)  1,148 posts, Bumble bee

I love this! We are trivia buffs, so this is PERFECT! Thanks for posting this! Love it!!!

 
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Mrs. Sushi (message)  970 posts, Busy bee

Such a cute idea!

 
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tea
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tea (message)  2,656 posts, Sugar bee

that is such a great idea. your cards are super cute!

 
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Emily

I’m interested to know what shipping costs on these since it is a UK company. Thanks!

 
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MissPotterbear (message)  32 posts, Newbee

We just made some moo cards for our wedding…shipping was surprisingly low for being international, much like domestic shipping. You can also find discount codes if you do a search…retail me not is a good one.

Ours came out great and the packaging is super cute:)

 
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frenchbulldog
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frenchbulldog (message)  6,077 posts, Bee Keeper

This is a really cute idea :) I hadn’t even thought of cocktail hour diversions :-/ I need to get on that.

 
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1Bride2Be

My fiance and I met playing bar trivia, so this idea REALLY appeals to me. I have been trying to figure out a classy way to incorporate the trivia thing into the wedding/reception and this is the perfect way. Thanks! I’m totally going to copy! :)

 
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lethie
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lethie (message)  230 posts, Helper bee

What a cool idea. Love the pictures!

 
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Tracy

How did you give the cards to your guests? As in, did they get one with their drink, or were they pre-spread over the tables, or was there a stack of them somewhere for guests to pick up, or what?

 
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Mrs. Espresso (message)  1,064 posts, Bumble bee

Those are so cute!

 
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Annui
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Annui (message)  314 posts, Helper bee

What a cool idea!

 
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msam007562 (message)  27 posts, Newbee

i love this idea!! super cute

 
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Mrs. Champagne (message)  1,068 posts, Bumble bee

so cute:) I bet your guests had a blast learning even more about you!

 
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purpleHaze79
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purpleHaze79 (message)  875 posts, Busy bee

Love LOVE Moo cards!!! Seriously… I’m DYING to incorporate them into our wedding stuff!

 
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honeymyheart
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honeymyheart (message)  763 posts, Busy bee

that’s a great idea for cocktail hour. we haven’t thought of anything yet, but that goes on the list :)

 
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Lola

How big did you make the images? The same size as the cards or did you make them bigger? Do they scale things down automatically?

 
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Mrs. Kitten (message)  705 posts, Busy bee

@Emily: If you mean wording like I used (images with wording on them) then you can only do one image on the back of the cards. But since I made 100 trivia cards and they come in packs of 50, I made two packs so I put a different image on the back of the each set. Does that answer your question?
@cappuccinoaddict: We had 200 cards made (100 of them were photo-sharing cards, which I will debut soon), and the standard shipping was around $20. Of course, I procrastinated and had to get expedited shipping from the UK, which was around $45. Still, not too bad.
@dimplez1978: The last step of the process is called “check preview & add to cart.” You should be able to see all the Side A images you chose and your Side B image or text side by side so you know what they will look like!
@Tracy: We had them sitting on the cocktail and lounge tables in our lounge area.
@Lola: I made the trivia the same size as the cards. They did scale down my pictures for the B Side though.

I also forgot to mention that for Side B there is an option to do text with a small image, which is what Mrs. Hot Cocoa did for her adorable puppy photo-sharing cards.

And like MissPotterBear mentioned, there are discount codes out there! We saved about $14 by using one!

 
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stacy

This is such a great idea! I would love to see more of your samples. Where did you get the wedding trivia questions?

 
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MightySapphire
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MightySapphire (message)  2,608 posts, Sugar bee

Why oh why do you torture me with new DIY projects??? So…much…to…do…

 


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