I was not planning to do another giveaway so soon, but this came up and I just had to do it because I think it would be useful to most of us crafters who sell on Etsy, Zibbet, and Artfire. From marketing materials to personal cards, business cards have come a long way from the boring rectangle with printing on one side. This giveaway is about trying new options and daring to be different with more modern cards in innovative shapes including rounded corners, square cards and slim cards. Our sponsor for this giveaway, Uprinting.com, has a vast array of business card options to create a card appropriate and unique to your handmade business.
Giveaway Prize:
250 Die Cut Business Cards for One (1) Winner
2 x 3.5”, 2 x 2” (square card) or 1.75 x 3.5” (slim card)
Die cutting options available: Rounded Corners, Leaf, Rounded One-Corner, Half-Circle Side, Circle
Paper Type: 14pt Cardstock Gloss, Matte, or High Gloss; 13pt Cardstock Uncoated
Color: 4Color Front, Blank Back; 4Color Front, Black Back; 4Color Both Sides
Limited to US residents only 18 years old and above (Sorry any international residents!)
The winner will be drawn by random.org on September 28th, 2010. And as an added bonus, if you are not sure the best way to utilize these new die cut shapes, I will be happy to design your business cards for you. You don't have to take me up on that offer, but it is certainly there for the winner. I will design the card and e-mail you the file that you can simply upload onto Uprinting.com and reuse whenever you wish. It gives me a chance to build my graphic design portfolio, and you get a swanky new card design.
How to Enter? (Separate Blog Comment for Each Entry!)
1. Respond to this post by telling me any creative uses for business cards, or how you plan on using your new die cuts. (1 entry)
2. You can follow this blog on any one of the social networks to which we belong (BlogFrog, Google Friend Connect, Facebook, NetworkedBlogs, Twitter) via our Social Networking Page. Just tell me your username on the one you subscribed to so I can make sure the winner checks out. If you are already following, that is fine too! Just remind me. (1 entry per follow, separate comment post for each)
3. Share this giveaway any way you can and post a link to it! This can be via a forum post, tweeting, facebook mention, blog mention, etc! However, please do not spam people. (one entry per mention, and venues cannot be repeated. I.E. if you tweet, you get one entry. If you tweet 100 times, you still only get 1 entry. But if you tweet and facebook once, you get two entries, one for each venue). Please make a separate comment for each!
I am really looking forward to trying my own set of die cut business cards which I will also get a chance to play with as the host of the giveaway. I am thinking of using the half-circle side cut and putting my "Keiko" logo using the circle as the top of her head. I am looking forward to reading about how you plan on using yours!
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 at 11:18PM 
Well everybody, the Business Card Giveaway from UPrinting.com has come to a close and our winner is lucky number 26! Which means... Alice from MimiandColette!
