Making business cards

Last year as a gift the UPS Stores were given Microsoft Publisher 2007.

:) More toys to play with!!! I love coming up with things to make and rearranging old stuff with it. Anna and I have lots of fun. Sam saw how much we enjoy working with it and thus when business card, fliers, and that sort of thing are needed he passes the jobs on to Anna and me. :)

Last week a woman came in with a CD that had her Business card on it. (It makes it a whole lot easier if they all ready have it and know what they want. Then you are not having to try to read their mind.) But she felt it looked to cluttered and was wondering if we could clean it up some. She did not know what needed to be changed.

(Her card to start with)

(After we played with it.)

It was really easy getting it where she was happy with it. All I had to do was make the paw prints smaller. It made a really big difference. :)

We'll do 500 B/W one sided cards for $25.00. About $17.00 of that is for the paper and printing. The other $8.00 is for the cutting.

:) This is a business card cutter. (It makes the job soooo much easier.)

Here is how it works...

First you cut it long ways.

Then you cut each of those again.

And just like that there is your card.

:) It works best if two people are working on it. One feeds the paper in and the other turns the wheel. If you are doing a good job working together there is always a paper in the tray.

One time about a year ago Anna and I were working on a cutting some for the first time. We had not been working here for very long. We were talking, laughing, and just having a good time. Then the bright idea came up that why don't we cut more then one paper at a time... after all it would make the job go twice as fast. :) It was working wonderfully for little bit. (Remember that if your doing it right you'll always have a paper in the feeder.)

After it was broken and the paper taken out we saw the little sign on the feed tray that reads 'STOP! CUT ONLY ONE SHEET'. Dear Sam took it home and fixed it on his weekend off. :( We were very sorry and have not done it again.

:) Then there is my favorite... The big paper cutter. It is lots of fun to use. (Exept for the little bit of time it was waiting for the part to come in after I had broke it.) I'll have to tell you about it latter.

Hope you are having a great day. I am :)