Use vintage baseball cards to make this quick and easy DIY Baseball Card Placemat!
As you are probably aware, the Cubs are going to the World Series this year. Actually the first game of the series is tonight. And we live in Chicago. And the Cubs are notoriously cursed and haven’t won a World Series in a bazillion years (totally accurate count). So in our neck of the woods, this is a BIG! HUGE! DEAL! I thought it was crazy in town when the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup? I have a feeling that will pale in comparison. So anyway, Aa is, of course, understandably excited. So excited that I came home from doing some work on Sunday morning to this:
DIY Baseball Card Placemat (makes 1 placemat)
18 Vintage baseball cards and permission to use them from their owner (if that’s not you)
18″ wide roll of clear contact paper
- Get permission to use the baseball cards. Seriously. Do this first. Unless they’re your cards and then proceed to step 2.
- I laid out my baseball cards to see how many I wanted to use, I ended up with a grid that was 6 baseball cards wide and 3 tall with about 1/4 inch between each one. Make sure they’re all the same brand so that they’re all the same size. Cut a piece of contact paper a couple inches bigger than your grid of cards.
3. Lay the contact paper down with its backing facing UP. I lined my piece of contact paper up with both the straight edge of my dining room table and the straight edge of the table leaf (perpendicular to the table edge) so it would be easier to place my baseball cards in straight lines. I taped the far long edge of the contact paper to the table temporarily as I got started, to keep it all lined up (you can see the scotch tape in the background of the photo below).
4. Peel back one edge of the contact paper backing a few inches. (If you have a cutting mat with a grid on it, that would also work!)
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