Take 2

Look what just arrived in the mail!  SQUEEE!!!

I am so excited about my brand-spankin-new business cards.  I ordered them from Overnight Prints, which is a misnomer.  I mean, sure you can get your cards overnight if you hand over your right arm, or you know, for a price.  But if you get regular shipping, it takes about a week, which is fine because THIS year I got my act together much sooner than I did the last time I decided I needed business cards.

Last spring, when I got invited to Disney World to a mom blogger mixer, I realized THE DAY BEFORE I LEFT that it might be nice to have a business card to pass around.  So I real quick placed an order with Karla over at Fruition Designs (she does a GREAT job, by the way), who was able to get something back to me within a matter of hours.  And then I shot it over to Staples, who got them all printed out in record time so I had cards for my trip.

But the cards didn’t match my blog design, so before going to She Speaks in July, I got smart and made up my own business cards to match my blog and ordered those cards from Vista Print.  But they came back kinda fuzzy.  And I was all, Vista Print ruined my gorgeous design! And I totally blamed Vista Print for my shoddy business cards.

Until I showed my neighbor, who is a REAL graphic designer, unlike myself — I just play one on the internet — suggested that perhaps I didn’t save the file in the right resolution.  And he got all geek speak on me and I realized that I saved the design for the web (as I always do when I create a blog header) instead of saving it in a printable format.  So then I was all, D’oh I guess there’s nothing wrong with Vista Print’s services after all!

He also suggested that the cardstock wasn’t very good quality and told me to order from Overnight Prints next time.  SO.  I went back and saved my design at the proper resolution and reordered, this time from Vista Print, and they came out perfect!  And the card stock was much nicer, THANKS ANDREW!

But then January rolled around and I realized that I had all new blog colors so I decided to order fresh business cards in my new colors for BlissDom.  I went back to my original file and changed the colors and ordered a new set.  When the box arrived on my doorstep, I was so excited to rip into them.  Until I found this.

Yep, I ordered 100 business cards with the red and blue “guides” printed on them — guides that you use to make sure that you leave enough room around the edges, but guides that YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO REMOVE before saving for print.  D’OH!  How many kinds of idiot am I?  The site even warns about that before you place your order.

SO.  I went back to my file and took a look, and would you know that I had done something in my graphics program to hide the guides from my view so that although I couldn’t see them, they were still there.  WHO DOES THAT?  Well I do, obviously.

SO.  Take 2.  I ordered AGAIN, and today I found on my doorstep 100 of the most adorable little business cards.  They are just PERFECT, and they are printed on a very nice, thick, glossy cardstock, and on the back they list all my blogs and what they’re about.  So I’m just about all set to go to BlissDom in a few weeks.  Now all I have to do is decide what to wear!

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I'm a transplanted Virginian living in the suburbs of Philadelphia with my husband and three lively children and author of this mom blog. When I'm not buried under piles of laundry, you will mostly likely find me with my nose stuck in a book or hanging out on Twitter: JoLynneS.

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