Project A Day: Day 7 {Laser Cut Business Cards}

I've been SUPER busy lately trying to get everything ready for graduation and my BFA final exhibit AND finals. I didn't post yesterday because I was busy finishing up my business cards and a packaging project! (I'll post that project tomorrow) I'm so happy with how my cards turned out, I will now share with you!





I printed my info on the back in three different colors; mint, salmon/pink, and navy.





I first had to get my cards printed, I went with Square One Printing. I have been printing with another local company because they were cheap, but I will never go back to them. Square One was awesome! I could blabble on about them for a while, so to save you from that, I will just leave it at they are awesome. For reals. I kept the cards on sheets so it would be easier to laser cut and then I took off to the laser cutters. I spent 5 hours of my day working on these in the laser cutting shed of Country Lazer. As I was trying to come up with some actual do-able plans for my business cards (that wasn't a billion dollars to execute) I heard of these guys from one of my friends in the interior design department at U.S.U. I couldn't find a local laser cutter when I was searching on google or calling around, but turns out Country Lazer is just 15 minutes away from my house! They are just a small mom and pop shop that operates out of a shed on the side of their house. They are such nice people and I will definitely being going back for future projects. The thing I liked a lot about them is they let me work along side them to get it done. I supposed I could have just left and let them do it, but we were both switching out the paper and punching out the lasered holes...we were quite the team I tell ya! I would love to have a shed on the side of my house where I could just work and craft away. I would have a letterpress machine, a laser cutting machine and my own pantone color match printer (whatever they're called...you know the way awesome printers that can print EVERY color imaginable...even metallic colors!) That is my dream shed :) and when I get it you are all welcome to visit anytime!

And just because I love stuff like this and could watch things be cut by a laser all day long, I recorded part of my project. Take a look!