so, last month i was able to attend altitude design summit (alt!) again, and it was such a blast!
i made the mistake last year of showing up with a sub-par business card, and i knew i had to step it up a bit this year.
i didn’t have a lot of time or funds to hire someone to design my card, so i decided to go the DIY route. i was hoping other bloggers and DIY types would appreciate the effort.
i first designed a custom stamp for the cards, i got the stamp idea from melissa of ISLY’s cute cards last year.
i liked the stamp idea, because you could do several colors, and stamp on a variety of surfaces. i stamped my logo and information onto lifestyle crafts mini cards. i love how they are already cut to size and they are thick cotton-based high quality paper.
for the back of the cards, i wanted some texture and some fun, so i used the lifestyle crafts L letterpress with the wintertide polka dot plates, and hand rolled the back of the card with hot pink letter-pressed polka dots. (loving polka dots!)
i couldn’t decide on a color, so i ended up doing three! a turquoise with pink polka dots on the back. a gold with pink polka dots on the back, and a hot pink with gold letter-pressed polka dots on the back.
now for the fun part!
i decided i wanted to hand out a few goodies to my friends at alt. so, i placed my business cards in a small glassine bag, and put a few of my favorite candies inside with a sticker attached that had my QR code.
a QR code is a label you can scan with a smartphone and it will bring up a website. so, when you scanned my stickers they brought up my blog.
i attached the QR code stickers to some of my favorite asian candies, hi-chews and guava candies, along with a tiny pack of chicklet gum.
i stuffed it all into the glassine bag, and sealed it with some japanese masking tape. and, viola!
it was fun to make, and hand out the little goodies with my business card! hopefully everyone i met along the way liked them! (i was up way to late finishing them up, and i am not a night person, ha!)
so, there you have it! some fun DIY business cards!
there is something simple and elegant about a nice meat, fruit and cheese board. It can be arranged in no time, but the presentation is a huge wow factor!
there isn’t much rhyme or reason to putting one together either. i like to put out a few of favorite cheese selections, some sliced dried meat, fruit, olives, and crackers. but, really you can do a number of combinations.
with the super bowl coming up this sunday, a nice spread like this may just be the winning ticket at your party!
for my cheese board I used:
castelvetrano olives
carr table crackers
dried dates
gruyere cheese
dried sliced salami
cambozola cheese (it’s like a mix of brie and blue cheese, love!)
green grapes
cutie clementine oranges
i mentioned a while back that some friends and i got together to make quiet books. we each made twenty of one page, then we swapped pages to make a complete book of different pages! we got together in december and finally swapped pages! it was a huge project that we started way back in march of last year, so it was fun to finally see it all come together!
i am still working on putting the binding on my pages, so i will share all of the pages soon, but today i wanted to share with you the page i made.
i did a basic shapes page. i am really happy with how it turned out! i had a lot of time to kill in the car on the way to california last fall, so i decided to hand embroider the shapes onto the page. wow, did i underestimate how long that would take. twenty four hours later in the car, i still didn’t finish. but, oh well. it’s pretty cute, right?
i used my die cute machine from lifestyle crafts and cut out the basic shapes out of wool blend felt (it only works with thicker felt)
i can’t wait to show you the rest of the book! everyone really did some amazing work!
and, i can’t wait to get it finished so my kids can actually use it! that is, if i let them, wink!
