CUTE Custom Business cards!

This fall I am hoping to do a few craft shows with my Sgt. J's mom who makes super cute sweater mittens.

These are the ones she gave me for my birthday :) They'll make the coming cold weather a little more cheery anyway!

So anyhow, we would do a booth together. 
As I was thinking about what I might need to do to get ready (besides make tons more purses to have on hand) I realized that I should perhaps have something that visitors could take in case they were interested in checking out Sew Gloried online...hence the trusty business card.

Below you will find my take on the standard business card...and how I jazzed it up just a bit.

Tools:

Computer

Printer

Cardstock

Cutter (you could use a good old fashioned scissors :)

Edge Paper punch

STEP 1

Design your business card.  I designed mine in Paint.NET by creating a new canvas that measured 3.5" wide by 2.5" tall (the size I wanted my business card) and centered my design towards the bottom of the canvas so that I would have room to edge punch the top without going into the words.

STEP 2

After saving my graphic I opened up a word doc and inserted my graphic. I adjusted the page margins so that I could fit 8 on a page.  Because I created my image with the dimensions I wanted my card cut I did not have to worry about adjusting space between the copies to allow for cutting room.  Print on cardstock.

STEP 3

Cut the cards to the size you wanted.  Originally I cut mine to 3.5" by 2.5" after edge cutting those, as you will see, I decided I had enough room to cut them shorter and ended up doing the rest 3.5" by 2 & 1/8" only slightly larger than a normal business card which is 3.5" by 2."

STEP 4

Using the edge puncher, punch the top edge of the cards.  If you don't have an edge puncher you could also use one of the decorative edge scissors to jazz up the top edge.  

And there you have it! Cute business cards that are just a little different (and a whole lot cuter in my opinion) than the average card!

SIDE NOTE

The picture below shows the two different sizes I accidentally ended up with in figuring out which height I liked best.  But as I was thinking about it the taller ones have a space toward the top right that would be just perfect for attaching earrings to.  You could modify these cards soo easily for different uses just by leaving more space toward the top of the design creating room for bobby pins, necklaces, etc.

Happy Creating!

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