new adventures with my earring cards

As many of you already know, Edi of memoriesforlifesb designed my earring cards.

Edi does awesome design work, and she prints, cuts, and punches the cards professionally.  The design aspect is one thing that I have yet to tackle when it comes to creative endeavors.  However, I'm still pretty crafty and thought that I could handle the printing, cutting, and punching side of the project.  So recently I contacted Edi to see if she'd be willing to sell PDF or JPEG files of my cards for me to print myself.  I was excited that she said yes.  We worked out the agreement, she made and sent the files, and I got to work making my own sets of both sizes of cards.

Most of the cards Edi has printed for me have been on glossy card stock.  All I have left over from teaching is matte so I'm using that for now.  I like both looks.  I purchased all of my card stock in bulk for teaching.  I forget where I got this particular batch, but generally I bought from Office Depot or Wal-Mart.

I think I got this little paper cutter from Target.  It's perfect for smaller projects like this.

Here are my cut out cards.  I trimmed a couple of them down a little more so they would all be uniform size.  Yes, I did botch a couple of them in the process.  Good thing paper is cheap!

Then I punched the earring holes.  I got my puncher from Michael's.  It's a Martha Stewart 1/16" punch.  Sorry that this photo is a little blurry.  I followed Edi's guidelines from the last set she did for me for where to punch the holes.  My dangle earrings vary a lot in width so I may need to make some with holes that are further apart.

Here are a couple cards that are punched.

Thanks again, Edi!  I will continue to use this awesome design for a long time.  I always get compliments on the cards at shows and any other time people look through my items in person.

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earring cards, metallic bangle redone

I started asking around for general advice about earring cards on both the EBW message board and the EtsyBloggers forum thread a couple weeks ago. I got a lot of great tips about them from both groups. Thank you to everyone who did respond! Sharla (BeadedTail) suggested that maybe Edi (memoriesforlifesb) could make something for me. Edi very generously offered not only to make some for me but to create a custom design. We worked together to figure out what background/lettering/etc. and sizes I wanted. You can see Edi's sweet blog post about it by clicking here.

The cards came today, and I had to take a picture of them, too.
Thank you again Edi! :) I am so excited about how they turned out! Thank you to all who left wonderful comments about them on Edi's blog. I hope that others who view them here like them as well. I ordered rubber earwire backs from Art Beads today to secure my dangles on their cards (and for anyone who might want some when they purchase their earrings).

I completed the last couple items that needed to be reworked for my old custom order last night. Here's the new metallic bangle that will be on its way tomorrow.
This means that the original, smaller version is available again (although as always, I'm happy to create something in a different size for you). I took new pictures of it this weekend for my Etsy shop. Click on the picture to check out the listing.