Hosting an event with equestrian style?  These seating cards are absolutely perfect, and are incredibly easy and inexpensive to make.  I used them for the English Equestrian Birthday Tea Party [1], but they're so elegant, they could be used for a much more formal event (like a wedding) as well.

Materials for Equestrian Horse Seating Card:

• Cardstock
• plastic toy horses
• silver spray paint
• coping saw

I started by ordering these inexpensive toy horses [2] from amazon.  

Then I spray painted them with silver spray paint.  I needed several light coats of the paint to get good coverage.

After the paint had dried, I used a coping saw [3] to cut a slit in the back of the horse.  I used a coping saw because I had it on hand, but I'll bet any number of other tools could do the job--even a serrated kitchen knife (be careful!).  The plastic isn't very hard.

Make a simple rectangular cardstock rectangle for your name card.  I used some fabric cardstock [4] for embellishment; it's an easy way to make the name card something really special without much effort at all.

Of course, plastic horses are just one example--imagine the possibilities out there!  Cars, zoo animals, dinosaurs...  You can bet you'll be seeing me use this technique again.