First, some bad news: You know how I was making business cards out of cereal boxes? Well, I finally broke my printer. Got it fixed for $50, but my printer fixer dude says I shouldn’t do that anymore….
Since then, I’ve been looking at some v. cool business cards, like this one you can grow alfalfa in (right; image from Jamie Wieck), or this one that just sprouts stuff (left; image from inhabitat). But I’m not a big biz, and can’t afford to seed my biz cards yet. Still, I want something sorta nifty –
Perhaps serendipitiously, Sustainable Group — maker of 100% recycled CD ReSleeves, folders called RePockets, as well as ReBinders — recently came up with Response — recycled business cards you can print up on your laser and inkjet printer.
These Response business cards (right; image from Sustainable Group) should be much thinner than the cereal box cardboard I was using — but I’m still afraid to feed these into my printer, which I now see as a fragile, break-down-prone machine.
My temporary solution’s to just print ‘em up at my school printer — tee hee! Hopefully it won’t break those.
Another idea I’m considering: Getting a rubber stamp made, so I can stamp my biz cards on used cereal boxes. Feasible?
May 26th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Would it be possible to have a local print shop that could accomodate the cereal box cardboard print them off for you? I’m a big fan of local printers for special requests like this, but you’d probably need a reasonable sized order for it to be worth your and their while.
May 27th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
Good suggestion! If the rubber stamp thing doesn’t work out, I’ll try stalking my local printers :)
May 28th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
You can make your own rubber stamp with an Xacto knife and a rubber eraser (and a bit of artistic talent or at least the ability to write backwards). It’s not terribly difficult and kind of fun.
June 20th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
check out this website: http://www.greenfieldpaper.com/
You can buy handmade seeded paper that grows. Stamp this paper and tell people to grow it!