DIY: Business Card Holder

I don't talk about work much, for a number of reasons. Mainly, I'm trying to keep up the illusion that I'm much more professional than my 23-year-old brain feels it should be. Also, there's none of the extra mind-game crap I dealt with at my previous job, so usually I just go along my merry way.

I work for a print-shop in Napa. The company has been around for a gadzillion years, and has been staffed by family (or might-as-well-be-family) for the entire time. We do everything from business cards to banners, and I have the lucky position of seeing a job from its inception to the final product. I do sales, I do customer service, I do project management, I tap around the building in my pointy gold shoes and jeans, kindly asking "could I have this done yesterday, please?". I love it. Love love love it.

I've been carrying my super fancy business cards around the standard 250-count box since I started last April, and I don't think it's doing any justice to the foiled-embossed-glued back greatness I hand out to future clients. So, after seeing Schlosser Design's tutorial, I whipped up a cute little carry-case.




I used a 1/8" seam allowance (rather than the suggested 1/4") to accommodate for my quadruple thick cards, and yes, I did mick fabric to match the blue of our logo. (finally cut into Joel Dewberry's Modern Meadow 1/2 yd I've been hoarding for almost a year thankyouverymuch.)

A link to our website is over there to the right, under "Shop Local". Maybe you've got a great photo you want printed on canvas? Or fancy shmancy business cards of your own? You know who to call.

Just a peek.

Has anybody seen my digital camera? The iPhone isn't capturing this quite right. Hmph.



Oh well. I can't post pictures until I give this to Elizabeth anyway :)

Blogger's Pillow Party!

Remember my Fresh-Quilting inspired pillow? Yeah you do, it's the most sewing I've done this past month. No? C'mon...





Yeah, you remember. Anyway, Stitched in Color is hosting a Blogger's Pillow Party for the first 6 months of the year, and this baby is getting entered! Keep your fingers crossed...I've entered so many give-a-ways recently, I'm dying to get my pin-pricked fingers on some loot.