Two things happened recently:
- I finally needed to make business cards for my blog.
- I had a bunch of book pieces left over from my book project.
Why not put these two together, literally?
I printed some business cards on white cardstock. I dug through my stash and decided to put For Whom the Bell Tolls to good use.
I roughly cut out the business cards and glued each one to a book page using Mod Podge.
After leaving them to dry between some heavy books so they wouldn’t curl, I used my rotary cutter to trim them up.
Presto! Interesting but still functional. I made a few of these and will probably go back to the craft table soon to see if I can do even cooler things with more book pages.
Almost Never Clever 
For what did you need business cards? 🙂
That is very cool! Makes me want to stop by the used book store and search out some old treasures. 🙂
Yup, a well-used book works the best! The price is usually right and the pages are nice and yellowed.
Ooooh, more reason to cut up old books. heeheeee, sometimes when I go searching for books to do that to, I feel guilty, but it’s so much fun using them.
I already had these books from another project, so I had already gotten over the initial hurdle of cutting them up. I thought I would feel guilty but I didn’t. I actually covered the guilt topic in this post if you are interested: https://almostneverclever.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/book-project-epilogue/
That’s dang clever lady! And if I ever do this I’ll let you know!
Thanks! Yes, I’d love to see it if you try it!
I like it! I may do it with my business cards.
Great, I’d love to see your take on this. Let me know if you try it!
This is a really cool idea! I’ll have to keep it in mind if I ever need to make business cards.
Thanks! I hope you try it!
I’ve been debatinf making mommy/family cards. This would be a fun idea and very unique.
I can scare something up for you if you have extra book pieces lying around. I also have extra Harry Potter pages and a couple other kid picture books that I got used with the intent of cannibalizing 🙂
I just came to the point where I needed business cards for my blog as well and then I remembered this! I think I’m going to use some of the papers I’ve picked up on my adventures as backing!
Sweet! I’d love to see what they look like!