20 DIY business cards
Business cards can be made of anything from cereal boxes to candy! Here are 20 creative ideas on how to make business cards.
1. Cereal box business cards
Turn an empty cereal box into a creative masterpeice with a personalized stamp and a sewing machine.
2. Letterpress cards
Melissa made her own business cards with letterpress.
3. Fabric and stitch
Krista sewed a border around her business cards and used a label maker for the front.
4. Finger puppets
The stinky crafter turned her business cards into finger puppets with a sewing machine and googly eyes.
5. Laffy Taffy business cards
Turn candy into a business card with a printable address label!
6. Cardboard boxes
Don’t just limit business cards to cereal boxes, use any box from the recycle bin!
8. Stamped manila label tags
Originally found on Design Sponge, these manila label tags make a great simple background to add business details and social handles. (Great deal on a 120 pack here!)
9. NYC metro card
10. Playing card
11. Personalized stamp
Buy a personalized stamp for the business and use it to stamp on any peice of sturdy paper! (Here’s an easy, inexpensive way to make a stamp.)
12. Recycled envelopes
13. State cut outs
Sugar Beans used a cutting machine to cut state shapes out and add scrap fabric tassels- very memorable!
14. Coffee sleeves
15. Paint chips and doilies
Paint chips and doilies work great as business cards for yoru creative endeavor!
16. Watercolor and stamped
Card stock + water color + stamp via Akula
17. Masking tape embellishment
18. Confetti and kraft paper
Use kraft paper and tiny glassine envelopes filled with confetti to make a memorable business card. via Burkatron
19. Embellish printed cards
I love how Haeley had simple business cards printed and then embellished each card with a pair of scissors and a zig zag cut. via Design Improvised
20. Painted edges
Comments & Reviews
I printed the opposite side with a comment “I have a pet at home that needs attention please take care of them.” and added my business name to the bottom of this side. The card goes in their wallet in case they have an accident so authorities will take care of their pet. I’ve gotten calls months later from customers who said seeing that card reminded them to call me.
Thanks so for including my Design Improvised cards Jamie! 🙂
You’re welcome!!!
Nice post and very inspiring… I never made mine because I had this great opportunity to made some throught moo.com ( i won a giveaway )^_^ Relly like those with spoons
Ally
those are some great ideas….and saving money is always a plus. :0)
So many great ideas I am going to have to have a collection!
Blue Skies,
Charlotte xo
Such creative ideas for calling cards. Will have to put on my thinking cap and revamp mine.
That's fantastic, I never actually thought about making my own card. I now have a bunch of ideas!
Thanks for sharing this. I love that playing card one, would be perfect for my brother, who is a professional card dealer.
Love it and love you for finding the most unique things! Also love you for voting for my photo at I Heart Faces. 😉
I hand make a lot of things for my business, actually… my DVD covers for one thing. I'll have to show them off on the blog sometime and link to you!
MUAH!
all totally fabulous ideas!! Perfectly creative 🙂
I wanted my business cards to be bookmarks so hopefully people would hang onto them. http://www.ajennuinelife.blogspot.com/2010/10/jennuinedesign.html. Free to me since my BIL made them, but anyone could order from http://www.promodeli.com.
ohhh, awesome, I have to say #1,3,and 8 are my favorites. Great ideas, really love it.
Thanks for the inspiration!!
Bella 🙂
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