Fun LED Place Card "Holders"

My bride to be and I are getting married very soon and during our engagement and wedding planning we came with a couple of fun ways to spice up some conventional wedding ideas with technology enhanced ones.

The premise is very simple, we wanted to take place card holders and change them up from the plain holder and card and turn them into something more interesting people would actually want to take home. While the LED's won't last forever (my batteries are... dead) the overall item we created will still be semi-useful to family and friends.

Required Materials

- Frosted glass candle holders (they don't have to be frosted but the glow they naturally create give them a nice look)
- LED's any color, 2mm-5mm for this application (diffused or non-diffused is personal preference)
- 3 Volt lithium batteries (last up to a week with a 2mm LED in my tests)
- Clear mailing labels (if you want print on the glass candle holder without too much extra work)
- Half inch ribbon (any color)
- Electrical tape
- One piece of thick craft paper or plastic projector sheets

Tools Required

- Scissors
- Hot glue gun/hot glue or super glue

Optional tools

- Computer w/ mailing label template
- Printer

You don't have to have a computer or printer for this Instructable as long as you know someone who does!

Part of this Instructable was inspired by the LED Throwie Instructable on this site.

Disclaimer: All of my pictures were taken with my Droid Incredible 2 so they may not be the clearest and they do not do the LED's any justice with how bright they are when you are looking at them in person.

Safety: As always when doing any kind of project even using household materials protect yourself and use PPE.

Step 1 Materials

Pictures of the materials that I used.