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DIY Business Card Envelopes

January 22, 2014 8 Comments

DIY Business Card Envelopes & New Business Cards for Hands Occupied

If you haven’t noticed from my Twitter & Instagram, I’ve been in Salt Lake City this week learning about a brand new cutting machine from Cricut. I’ll be getting one of the new Cricut Explore machines in a couple weeks and will post a full review, much like this one of the Cricut Mini. For the rest of the week, I’ll still be in SLC for my first time at Alt Summit, a blogging conference that’s known for being crazy fun and a great way to learn more about being a better blogger.

Alt is particularly famous for its fun parties, fashion and business cards. Since I’m not a fashion blogger, I knew business cards would be a place I could represent my DIY side. The DIY library pockets I shared last week were born from my new business card design, which I’d like to share with you today!

Supplies

scissors
1/2 inch circle punch
#1 coin envelopes
custom stamp kit (like this)
ink pad
business cards

DIY Business Card Envelopes & New Business Cards for Hands Occupied

Directions

The envelopes for my library card pockets and business cards share the same design. You just grab a #1 size coin envelope and trip off the flap at its crease.

DIY Business Card Envelopes & New Business Cards for Hands Occupied Then you use a half inch circle punch to cut a half circle out of the non-seam side of the flapless envelope.

DIY Business Card Envelopes & New Business Cards for Hands Occupied

This is where the business cards and pockets differ. I wanted the library-inspired envelopes my cards come in to feel very old school bookish, so incorporating hand stamping and stamping in general was what I was looking to do.

Luckily for you crafters who appreciate an old school aesthetic (like me), you can still buy custom stamping kits off the rack at major office supply stores. I got the stamping kit Staples carries, which comes with two differently sized fonts and two wood stampers – one can accommodate up to 7 lines of text, and the other, three.

DIY Business Card Envelopes & New Business Cards for Hands Occupied

Outfitting the stamp with your custom text is easy. The kit I used came with a tweezer, though I found just using my fingertips worked just fine. The hardest part was getting the text all centered and deciding how to balance the two fonts.

DIY Business Card Envelopes & New Business Cards for Hands Occupied

Then, you just ink your stamp center the text, and stamp & stuff your envelopes with cards. It didn’t even take me two full hours to make and stuff 250 cards for the Alt Summit conference. I’ve already given out a few of these, and people seem to love the librarian by day/DIY crafts blogger by night combo a lot. Yay!!

DIY Business Card Envelopes & New Business Cards for Hands Occupied

I’ll probably be a little busy today through Saturday with conference activities, so feel free to keep up on social media, which I’ll be on constantly, especially facebook, twitter & instagram at #altsummit.

DIY Business Card Envelopes & New Business Cards for Hands Occupied

Inspiration for the envelope portion of my cards comes from this design by Babel Design. 

Filed Under: How-to Tagged With: alt summit, business cards, cards, crafts, custom stamping kit, diy, librarian business cards, library envelopes

About Heidi

Heidi Gustad is a craft book author & content creator in love with primary colors & vintage vibes. She specializes in knitting, crochet, latch hook and macramé, and her first book, Latch Hook: 12 Projects for the Modern Maker, is out now!

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Comments

  1. thezenofmaking

    January 22, 2014 at 10:13 am

    These envelopes are perfect! Way to be an adorable librarian!

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  2. mary

    January 22, 2014 at 5:46 pm

    it’s dangerous to know those stamp kits exist! your card envelopes turned out AWESOME!

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  3. Rachel | 52 Weeks Project

    January 22, 2014 at 5:52 pm

    I have a feeling I’m going to see these on several Alt summit biz card round ups!

    Reply
  4. Jilly

    January 22, 2014 at 10:22 pm

    Heidi: You’re cards are SO adorable and so you! I absolutely love them and appreciate you showing us how you made them! You are so very talented. Hope you have fun at Alt. I really enjoyed meeting you at the Cricut event!
    xoxo,
    Jilly

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    • Heidi

      January 23, 2014 at 12:04 am

      Aww, thank you! I’m glad we got to meet!

      Reply
  5. Alexis

    January 25, 2014 at 12:20 am

    Amazing cards, I am looking at the one you gave me right now. So glad to have met you!

    Reply
  6. Misse Daniel

    February 5, 2014 at 2:47 pm

    I love that you showed me how you made the business cards! It is so well made that I had no idea that it was DIY until I saw this post.

    It was so great to meet you at ALT! Please keep in touch.

    #chicagobloggersarethebest

    Reply
  7. Alexander Snyder

    April 25, 2016 at 12:32 am

    Nice Collection !!

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I read recently that tiktok and Instagram are being used as search engines more and more. 🤔 I thought since I’m going to all the work of making tutorials on YouTube, I should experiment with making a quick version of them for other platforms. There are obvious teaching limitations to vertical video, short-form content like this, but I think I covered the gist of this cast on in a minute. The YouTube version also covers how to unzip this cast on because there was time for it 👍🏻 L1nk is in my profile. 
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For the first time in a long time, there’s a new For the first time in a long time, there’s a new tutorial from Hands Occupied! 🎉 The video is live on YouTube & the blog. 
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The post covers what provisional cast ons are & how they differ, and the video covers how to work a one-step provisional cast on using scrap yarn and a crochet hook. (This is a great one to save for future reference.)
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I learned several names for this method while researching this video & post. Crochet provisional cast on, one-step cast on, scrap yarn cast on - if you know even more names for this technique, please share! 
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