Learn how to design your own business card in calligraphy style, and much more
I will show you how to design your own business card, as well as how to design your own greeting card, recipe card design, and how to make your very own
handmade card design
unique!
How to design your own business card
I will show you how to design your own business cards, focusing on calligraphy techniques that you can implement into your designs also. If you have a business or profession you want to promote then business cards is the way to go! It’s good for creating good professional. So you have studied the different types of calligraphy and you’re developing your calligraphy skills, right? That’s great! Take your new found artistic skills and apply them to card making! Don’t sweat if you make a mistake, keep practicing and you will get better.
Things to include in your business card:- Company/Business name and logo
- Your full name and Title
- Your address
- Phone number, fax number, mobile number
- Website address
Pick your calligraphy font, paper type, printing method (reproducing each by hand or digital re-produced?), and colour scheme for your design. Pick them in accordance to fit your business’ style and theme. If your business is big and you need a large amount of business cards produced (large hundreds, thousands or millions), then you can go to a commercial printer, they have the best quality machinery and a variety of options to choose from. But a good scanner and printer is all you will need to reproduce your work faster and of course a computer. Even if your doing your calligraphy business card by hand, you can later scan it into your computer and print it many times. This saves time and energy. It also helps because when you keep trying to reproduce your calligraphy work, your cards won’t always be exactly the same, and also time is wasted by mistakes being made, thus you have to throw it away and re-start.
Want to design a double sided business card?
A lot of desktop printers don’t allow double sided print-outs. Check your printer first to see if double sided print is an option. If so think about what information you want on the back of your business card. If it’s not included, don’t worry, a one-sided business card is just fine. The back of business card options:- Map of your/businesses location
- Discounts, subscriptions, coupons, referrals...
Want to design your own greeting card?
Greeting cards is another fun calligraphy project. It builds your calligraphy, design and artistic skills. People really appreciate greeting cards of any kind, especially if their hand made. Ever gave someone something handmade and even though it was rubbish they really appreciated? This is the beauty of hand made art gifts, like greeting cards!
Greeting card, beginner designers guide!
1. Same as always, the first thing to consider is the materials and tools you will use for your card design. As this is a calligraphy greeting card tutorial, you would need your calligraphy tools. It’s good to experiment with different craft materials and techniques before you begin. Why not get a book out the library to do with craft and card making tips. Here’s a recommendation for the best craft book to help!
2. There a different card structures you could use! The possibilities go on. For inspiration on card design I look at inspirational paper craft designs like origami and even pop up books! Ok lets try not to get too overboard as it is just your first try at calligraphy card design! But there’s no harm in implementing a few creative techniques, just try to take it slow at first.
3. Draw up your design ideas on rough paper. Plan how your going to structure everything. Here’s what you have to consider, and draw roughly in your ideas scamps:Font and where it’s placed on your card (you should choose your calligraphy font if you haven’t already)- What is the card going to say?
- Is it going to be a theme based card?
- Is your card going to have poems, Thank you messages, quotations, or Quran verses?
- You can do plans of how your position type and such in your card also on another piece of paper
- Is your text going to be aligned centred, right position or left position. Plan this out. This goes for the front of card as well as inside the card and/ or the back of the card.
- Think of and draw any calligraphy images you want to put on your card. The inside and outside images should compliment each other, for a balanced visually pleasing design. To achieve this you could copy images, swashes and/ or flourishes from the out side to inside of the card, or visa versa.
Why not download our
printable free cards
,there quick and easy to make. Just; print - cut - and fold! Make sure you print them out in color to get the best quality card.
The recipe card design!
Recipes, yum yum! Why not incorporate your calligraphy and designing skills into a recipe card making project? While doing you calligraphy why not practices with recipes? You could have your own recipe book made by the end, and by not even trying! Just collecting recipes and each day or week make a card or page out of it! You would have collected so much beautiful pieces of art that you could also use; it won’t just be laying in your sketchbook. Send it to a book making company and they can even make the pages into a book for you!
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