I’ve been trying to make some new business cards for a month or more now. Normally I do these sort of things myself using a combination of Photoshop, Word and Publisher but my printer has thwarted my efforts. Each time I try to print the cards it shamelessly chews up a good two hours worth of work and spits them out every which way. It seems to think that if I want business cards I should either print them out on plain paper and then physically cut and paste them onto the special business card paper or find someone else to do the hard work for me and leave it alone to sleep.

So, I’ve been looking around for alternatives because I just don’t feel like arguing with the printer, which combines great with the fact that I was asked to check out the logo design facilities at logoyes.com and lo and behold they offer business cards as well!

Check out what I came up with using their nifty demo program:

It was so easy I was able to do it before the munchkin managed to destroy the house, in fact I was able to hold him on my lap and STILL get things sorted out, which is a feat in this household. I was trying to sew something onto my husband’s uniform just now and wound up doing it while running around the house chasing the child because he decided he wanted to WEAR the shirt I was trying to fix.

He’s one of the reasons my usual design efforts take longer because I have to do a tiny bit and save, do a tiny bit more and save, then wait until he’s gone to bed and hope the inspiration is still there otherwise the project is delayed for another day, which is triply hard because it’s important to have your business logo linked to your business cards, so previous to this I’ve been trying to work my red and purple haired girl into the business cards but it makes things too cluttered, a friend had suggested doing something with eyes as my business name is “Look Beyond Mirrors” but other sites have so few choices and I can never find one that appeals to me or is in the right colors.

I’m all about things that make my life easier and mean I can get done what I have to do and go back to teaching my son (or extracting him from the cabinets).