DIY Business Cards

1. Design your business card. Most common size I've seen in the USA is 3×2.5 inches. DPI should be at least 400 so you can scale and edit things.
2. Export your design as an image. PNG or a high quality JPG is fine for most purposes.
3. Copy/paste the design in a grid pattern
4. Print on thick cardstock
5. Cut them out. I use a guillotine paper cutter to cut multiple sheets at once. It is easiest to cut out rectangle and square shapes.

Generic uncoated cardstock prints lighter of course, but you can find cardstock pretty much anywhere.

We are still using Aunt Janet's 90's coated computer paper, and you can see how much more vibrant the colors are on it. Still, it's harder to write on with pencil, and it's very thin like normal copy paper. We're gonna use them with coupon codes on the back for people who are like “oh man i dont have space to buy this” so we can be like bet???

I also have some pearlescent cardstock which is VERY thick and sturdy, but the ink needs a lot longer to dry. And it's gonna be faded because the coating does not absorb the ink. Still, it's a cool look.

You can get sheets of business card paper at office supply stores, but I don't like the way those look with the perforated edges. I am fine using my guillotine that I also use for cutting zines. It only took like 10 minutes to cut 100+

Overall I'm totally fine with these being slightly different in size and look, due to being hand cut and homemade, because most of these are thank you notes for online orders. And people who take them irl randomly are probably just gonna lose them LMAO.

If you need an American Psycho quality business card with embossed gold foil text to hand off to a billionaire angel investor, you'll probably still want to outsource your cards 😀 i like having the ability to print multiple designs and test them at home!