Well it’s the day before Thanksgiving, and it was time to pour those chocolate nameplate molds I had made in a prior post. Here are the updates:
We always have a large thanksgiving dinner (typically 25-35 people) so placecards are helpful for keeping some sense of order. At other large gatherings I have done puzzles, and engraved acrylic place cards:
However this year, I decided that chocolate placecards would be a great project. So I started with Thick clear acrylic. and in AI make the text a compound path in a filled black rounded rectangle so the name would stand up. I increased the power a smidge as I wanted deep lette…
The set (they had just come out of the fridge, so there is condensation on them)
Detail shot
It is interesting that the Mayku can pick up the engraving lines on the mold (and that the chocolate can flow into them). All in All I am very happy.
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Mmmm… We never have placecards, but now I feel like we should!
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cynd11
November 21, 2018, 9:11pm
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I think you win Thanksgiving!
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ptodd
November 21, 2018, 10:36pm
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What fun!!! Hope everyone enjoys them … and who wouldn’t? They’re chocolate!
hansepe
November 22, 2018, 9:59pm
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For a change everybody will wish they had longer names!
Looks great, thanks for sharing the finished products.
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Showed up for Thanksgiving and there were placecards for the first time. I had to laugh! Not as fun as the chocolate, but I guess my daughter had written them while she was there on Tuesday, so it was cute.
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Perhaps you could add wingdings so folk like Bob or Joe would not feel deprived,
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