Make Your Own LED Wedding Table Cards

Step 4 Prepare your Clips

Here's where the poster stickies enter the project.  When first making these I found that there needed to be some kind of padding where the binder clips touched the leads from the LED.  The issue wasn't just to keep the leads off the metal clip, but the LED will move around in the clip if all the pressure is just on the leads.  By adding padding it distributed the force across the top of the battery allowing a firmer grip on the LED.

I cut the rounded ends off the poster tabs, but you really shouldn't see them so it doesn't matter, I just like the symmetry of it.  Remove the adhesive backing from one side and then stick one on each side of the clip.

Now black worked for us as a color for the base, but depending on your wedding color, you may want to try spray painting the clips.  For instance, if your wedding colors were blue and silver you could get blue LEDs and paint the clips (and the plastic widgets if you wanted to) silver and customize it to your wedding.  Just make sure you get a good paint meant for sticking to metal, I believe Krylon makes some excellent choices.

Comments

[Paulybo]

Thanks for the tip on distributing the weight. I have a tip for others to slightly lower the cost. You can get "Foam Mounting Tape" which is double sided from Office Depot or a lot of other stores. It is a roll of tape 1/2 inch wide, 75 inches long. I am making about 70 of the name cards, so I plan to cut out 1" strips. Costs about $3-4 per roll.