So, I’m handing out most of my remaining business cards, so my wife can start in on making new ones. The old ones were nice, but there was some information that had to be replaced. The new ones won’t be as fancy unless my wife can figure out a masterful way to make them.
Does anybody know a good program for designing business cards? What about a place to get public domain graphics to use on them? We’re trying to work cheap aka free with the card stock and ink we have in the house.
Legends of Windemere 
I used Vistaprint for mine. Though I ordered from the company, I believe you can use what you design with them for no charge on your own printer if you prefer. I’d check them out and see.
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I got my originals from them, but I could only do the free cards once. I’ll look at it again to see if I can print the designs. I didn’t see the option there.
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Vistaprint is pretty cheap. I think I spent ten bucks or 500 of them for my lit magazine.
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That is pretty cheap. I was only seeing 19.99 cards when I was on there earlier, so I’ll look again.
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This was a few years ago, so I might have gotten a discount, but 20 bucks doesn’t seem too bad either.
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I can’t help you with your question but I did have an idea about your bookmarks that I wanted to share with you before I forget again. How about sticking them in the same genre as your novel at the public library?
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The library has a rule about marketing anything that would earn money. They wouldn’t take my cards or bookmarks. It’s a very strict ‘no advertising’ policy. Thanks though.
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Darn! Oh well, back to the ol’ drawing board as they say. 😛
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Have you checked MOO? I think they offer a free first set deal like Vistaprint, but I could be wrong. FedEx actually makes some pretty swanky business cards, too, but I’m not sure if they offer any free deals. As far as designing your own, if you use Linux, Gimp is a pretty easy to use program for designing things.
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Thanks. Gimp and Inkscape were suggested for the bookmarks, so we’ll give them a look for the business cards.
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I use Gimp to design (it’s like a free photoshop), and if I am unsure about the size I format them with a template in Microsoft Publisher. If you ever need help let me know! Good luck.
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Thanks. I’ll let my wife know about Gimp and let you know if we need any help.
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Any basic program should work. Word even has a business card template. Publisher is a little easier. I’m guessing you don’t have any of the professional graphics programs like inDesign and it is pretty costly so I wouldn’t invest in it for business cards.
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My wife is going to try using Inkscape, which she used for the business cards. If that doesn’t work, she’s going to try using Gimp. If that fails, she’s going to curse at the computer and use Word. I stay out of her way when she does these things.
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http://www.zazzle.com
not free but oh so beautiful and very reasonably priced
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Thanks. 🙂
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My pleasure, I got my business cards from there I love them and I get great comments about how beautiful they are
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A bunch of great information. I don’t need cards yet, but everyone’s comments give me some great sites to research.
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