How to Make Your Own Printable Cocktail Card
By Taylor DiVico
Making your own cocktail card personalizes a cocktail recipe and provides a giveaway or conversation piece for cocktail parties where guests share drink recipes. You can include the ingredients and directions of how to make a drink you are serving. Cocktail cards also offer a way for bartenders to create flash cards for studying drink recipes. Cocktail cards can be added to a drink rolodex that is kept behind the bar.
Using a Template
Click the word processing icon on your desktop to gain access to word processing document options and pre-formatted recipe card templates.
Browse through the task menu to find a card category. Select a recipe card or postcard template to type your cocktail recipe on.
Type the name of the drink in the heading section. List the ingredients and amounts required to make the cocktail. Write the directions of how to mix and serve the cocktail. Include garnishes and the type of glass needed.
Click "Insert" from the tool bar menu. Click "Clip Art" to select a cocktail image that correlates to the drink recipe you added to your cocktail card.
Load 6-inch-by-4-inch, 4-inch-by-6-inch or 8 1/2-inch-by-11-inch card stock paper into your printer, based on the paper size that the template calls for. Click "Print" from the tool bar options to print copies of the cocktail card.
Without a Template
Open a new word processing document. Click the "Insert" option from the tool bar menu. Click "Text Box" to insert a box that you can write within on your document..
Click the "Center" paragraph formatting option to align the text box in the center of the page. Click the small boxes to along the sides, top and bottom of the text box while moving your mouse up, down or to the side to enlarge or shrink the size of the text box.
Click "Insert" from the tool bar to add a picture of a cocktail. Manipulate the size and placement of the picture on the cocktail card, as desired.
Type the name of the drink in the heading section of the cocktail card. Write the ingredients and amounts needed to make the cocktail. Write the directions of how to mix and serve the cocktail. Include garnishes and the type of glass needed. Change the font color, style and size by selecting from the font menu.
Load 6-inch-by-4-inch, 4-inch-by-6-inch or 8 1/2-inch-by-11-inch card stock paper into your printer, based on the paper size that the template calls for. Click "Print" from the tool bar options to print copies of the cocktail card.
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Writer Bio
Taylor DiVico is a professional songwriter, content writer, fiction novelist and poet with more than 15 years of experience. DiVico holds a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Rhode Island and an M.S. from Syracuse University.