Homemade Card
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- BarryWhiteZombi
I have to make a business card for my sister in law and there is no budget.
So does anyone have a techniques or suggestions for making cards that look as professional as possible from home.Right now it's just going to be nice paper and a deskjet printer , but are there ways to fake a good embossing or apply foil etc... She's an opera singer so I can make it look a little homemade but it has to have class.
Fuck I write a lot
- Rand0
have one of those ciorporate seal stampers made with an embossed mark of your own design
- BarryWhiteZombi0
I'll look into those, thanks
- Nairn0
I always used to make my own business cards...
Get one of those roller blade things (for card, not your feet). Make good use of crop marks and get yourself a nice, high-edged metal ruler.
Choose good card - anything 'soft' will bleed like fuck when the ink drops, ruining the print resolution - which is the bit you pay for with professional cards.
I never embossed bits, but have done full, muted images, print on the reverse, which can make each card unique.
- _salisae_0
i suppose you enjoy clubbing seals as well rand
- _salisae_0
by the time you buy paper and ink and other supplies you'll spend about as much as it would cost to get them professionally made.
cards are cheap as hell. have you looked into it?
- Rand0
I am sensitive to the sacredness of all life, even blubbery seals
- BarryWhiteZombi0
When you say "soft" how soft are you talking. I didn't want to print on too smooth of a card. I was hoping to give a bit of age and sophistication with a more textured paper. Will I end up with everything looking like I added a blur to it?
- BarryWhiteZombi0
The printer I use here would charge about $250 for anything under 250 cards.
I like her, but not $250's worth
- Dancer0
This gives you an opportunity to make every card unique, e.g putting (music) notes, handdrawn on the cards to make them different.
I do all my own business cards on my home inkjet printer. You need good thick stock, and printer both front and back on the same sheet butted up next to each other. Like this you can score the card down the edge, spray fith glue and VOILA you have a proper 300gsm card.
You can also run your graphic around, i.e:
- Dancer0
shop around, that's a rip off
- Nairn0
advntages in DIY cards:
Waste reduction. Most people don't require 1000 cards. Why not print 'em in 10s and 20s, as required?
Full customisation. Anything beyond a plain-vanilla print does actually cost a lot, commercially.
Most materials are lying around the studio anyway. You can also use whatever material you like.
Any changes can be done in-house. New telephone number? Change in email? Edit, print, re-cut. Simple.
Bored? Change it. Not stupidly expensive.
My 2 cents. If You're stupidly busy, have your job to run and need lots then yeah, of course - outsource.
- isheh0
listen to the people who talk about paper... professional is in the paper. make your design match your paper needs.
and don't be afraid to look into a color digital copier around the corner... don't be a purist... they can do good cards on good paper if you design it right, and its mega cheap.
- spendogg0
you can get like 500 for 80 bucks.
Back in the day they used to have color tag that was foil that you could iron on to laser printer toner. Dont know if they make it anymore.
- designaked0
Since she is an Opera Singer and not working for a major corporation or a designer or artist or architect or.....basically, someone who professionally benefits from having a ridiculously kickass foil stamp embossed diesel powered 4 wheel drive HEMI Powerwed business card......come up with a really clever / tight / quality design and then have one of these places print it up and ship it out to her:
http://www.4by6.com
http://www.48hourprint.com
http://www.jakprints.comIf you want to spend $150 for 500 cards then the Satin finish card from 4by6 is kick ass. Otherwise, go with JakPrints or 48HourPrint and get 500 cards for $55. Saves time, effort, energy and effort and for what your sister does professionally it will work just as good as a handmade/homemade card.
- Nairn0
Well, way back when, all our branding was eco-tinged and I started off with quite a thick textured vellum card which bled badly. All you can do is experiment - get yourself down to an art shop or stationer and find things that look like they'd enjoy being skewed through your printer.
oh yeah - our canon was a bit funny with card, so the print template had a lot of 'give' in relation to front/back alignment and I had to leave a large (2") blank header on the card, to allow the printer to bite and reduce slippage.
- Nairn0
er.. that's 2" header on the pre-cut card.. not on each individual business card - that'd be too minimal! :)
- Rand0
http://4by6.com/html/Learn.asp?t…
4 over 4 satin-very nice
- Nairn0
oh.. and, if you wish, you can obviously make the card any shape you like!
though, have a bit of respect for other people's purses/wallets!
- designaked0
Hey, does anyone know what David Felt ever did for his card? I know he was thinking of going with an actual piece of felt but I never heard back on the final card.
- Dancer0
though, have a bit of respect for other people's purses/wallets!
Nairn
(Dec 14 05, 07:55)nah FUCK it give'em a DL sized card, if she's a big lady
;Olast time I spoke to Felt they were at the press