Business Cards v. 2014

Hours before I left for Craftcation I decided to make some new business cards.

Yes, I said hours.

And I kinda love them.

I'll even share with you how I made them.

I picked out 9 photos from the past year and loaded them on to PicMonkey.

Next, I created a collage with 1 giant photo and 1 small photo, but then left the bottom photo blank.

After the collage was good to go, I moved on to editing the photo and adding text (blog address, my name, and my e-mail).

I then printed them at home. I chose the wallet size and printed on a piece of 8.5 x 11 inch photo paper.

Now it was time to break out the scissors to cut each one out and then I used a corner rounder punch to finish off the edges.

That's it. Done. Bam.

And I bet you can guess which one is my favorite....

Have any questions? Leave me a comment and I can provide more details....

Reuse...Reduce...Recycle

I mentioned a few days ago that I'm headed to the Snap blogging conference.  Well, I've been following Snap's blog and it appears that super, over the top, cute business cards are a must. And while I have business cards, they are not the slightest bit cute.

I blame the husband for that. He thought I should earn money from my business before I invest in cute  expensive cards. Darn that man can be overly practical!

So, I've been meaning to buy new cards for the conference, but feeling bad for the 500 sitting in the box on my bookcase. It's not their fault that they are super cute. I mean, I'm the one that ordered them to be printed, right?

Then I came up with the idea to reuse them. I'm painting the blank backside, then adding a magnet to the front. I'm still playing with different paint/marker colors and magnet shapes/placement. So, it's a work in progress at this point.

But I'm having fun. And I'm pretty happy with them so far (if only paint did not warp paper). And I'm feeling good about not tossing out the perfectly OK cards. And, so far, I have not spent a penny on the makeovers. I happen to have PLENTY of supplies on hand.

So, any thoughts? Cute? Stupid? Color suggestions? I need some feedback to take the pressure off the hubby (who thinks everything looks fine). Fine? One does not say fine in these types of situations!

I'm going for super, over the top, cute!