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A message board to express gratitude and encouragement to friends and upperclassmen graduating from school, or to colleagues transferring or leaving a company.
At farewell parties or on graduation day, it’s common to give a colored card or album filled with honest messages from each member.
You may be looking for ideas for a heartfelt message board.
In this article, we’ve gathered and highlighted handmade message board ideas.
From stylish designs to warm, hand-drawn illustrations, check out these handmade message boards you can use to suit any occasion.
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[Handmade] Message Board Ideas That Convey Your Honest Feelings (1–10)
gift box
This is a vibrant and cute group message board with colorful gift boxes packed across the backing.
A folded message card decorated with a gift-box pattern is tucked under each ribbon, so recipients can pull them out to read the messages.
Try to avoid repeating card patterns as much as possible, and layer them with the ribbons to really emphasize a lively feel.
If the ribbons are loose, the cards may fall out, so making sure the ribbons fit the cards snugly is also an important point.
A heart that flips through like fluttering pages
If you want a slightly elaborate and stylish group message, the “Flip-Through Hearts” is recommended.
First, make heart-shaped message cards—one per person—using colored construction paper.
Next, take a rectangular sheet of paper, draw lines at 1 cm intervals around the center and crease them.
Then, glue the heart cards on, shifting each one slightly as you go.
Fold the rectangular paper over at the last heart, and secure it in a band shape with another strip of paper while the two layers are stacked.
When you pull the side without the hearts, the message cards will flip through like pages.
Attach it to the cover of an album or similar, and you’ve got a stylish message card ready to go!
Rabbit frame
To keep the messages in a group note from overlapping, it’s standard to enclose each person’s message in a frame.
Try drawing such frames with a rabbit motif to draw more attention to the messages.
It’s simple: when framing the entire message, draw two long ears at the top, and once the whole is enclosed, add whiskers on the left and right.
Choosing colors that evoke a rabbit or adding small rabbit illustrations within the messages will help emphasize the rabbit theme throughout, which is highly recommended.
muted color(s)
This activity involves cutting muted-colored construction paper into free-form designs to create frames around each message.
By using pale colors as the background, the text of each message stands out, and the surrounding decorations also appear more vibrant.
You’re free to choose any shape, but we recommend selecting motifs that match the writer’s image or the content of the message.
If you use only muted colors, the overall look may become too soft, so try incorporating other colors as well as you put together the group message board.
A colored paper where the message is hidden
This is a group message board where each message is hidden and can be opened to read individually.
Since they’re arranged closed on a base like a colored board, no one else will read them while it’s being made, and each contributor can include a personal message for the recipient.
Each message is a simple bi-fold sealed with a sticker, and you can get creative with the folding style and the illustration visible when it’s closed.
If you use a design that looks like a letter, it strongly emphasizes the idea of a “gift of a message,” so it’s highly recommended.