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business cards for non-business cardy people.

I'm going to a fairly important event this week. The kind of place where I'll meet people I respect and hopefully gain their respect... or at least they'll learn my name. When I realised I was going to be attending this event, it slowly dawned on me that I would need to succumb to the mainstay of all networking, social-climbing pros: the business card. Ugh. I have some for my job but I've never once handed one out. But I've never had personal ones. "Do people even do that?!" I asked myself. Well, yes. Yes they do. Living in London I've been given more personal business cards than ever before - even by friends in lieu of exchanging mobile numbers or texts!

But after plenty of rumination (about three months' worth) I realised I could use this as an opportunity for a fun craft project. I'm not in the corporate world where I need to have a sleek, professionally-printed card. In fact, I'm in a field that would appreciate something handmade, original, and made of completely recycled materials. So here they are, my not-so-flashy new cards, simple and easy, and best of all cheap. At about £1.80 for a set of 36, who can complain?

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Made with recycled card stock (170 gsm-ish), with nice textured corrugations on the back. Recycled white paper ribbon. Printed on a home printer and cut to size.
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