How can I make my own business cards?

I want to make business cards for personal use (not related to my job - my company provides business cards for that).
I bought blank business cards on 8 1/2 x 11 sheets, but I’ve
been working on the actual card design on my office computer
and at home for many hours with little success. I made the most progress on the office’s Wordperfect using the “text box” feature and added a clip art image to it, but couldn’t figure how to repeat it 10 times on one sheet to print it out. At home I have Windows 98, Word 97, paint, and Adobe Photo Deluxe (which the business card instructions
mention as usable software), but I’ve been working with those with no success. None of those applications have “Help” instructions specifically for business cards. Word
has business cards in its label function, but apparently you can’t add graphics or clip art. HELP!

Most of those blank business cards come with detailed instructions about how to make them using Wordperfect or Word or something. Have you tried reading those? I haven’t made them in a long time, but IIRC, you make a simple template and copy&paste your design into all the boxes and print.

I have no idea how to do this off the top of my head, though.

I haven’t used the business card templates in Word but I use the Label templates all the time, and you can add clip art to them. Before I go into a long explanation of how to do this, can you explain what steps you are taking? Does the picture just not show up, or does it get placed somewhere on the page and you can’t move it?

You should enable the grid lines in the table - that’s how the rectangles of cards are divided; if you don’t have the lines enabled you won’t know where to copy your image and text.

The only instructions with the cards were for Word and Wordperfect using the labels application I mentioned. That would get the text on the card, but I didn’t see any way to change the font or to add clip art.

My second post was responding to friedo. I just tried again - I was using the “envelopes and labels” function in Word - it’s a separate window, and I didn’t see anything about
grid lines. A template is an altogether different dialog box I think. (I may not be using the correct terminology here.) I’ve never done anything like this before, so if you have the time, a detailed explanation is what I need.

To change the font, select the text and choose another font from the Style toolbar.

You have to put clip art inside a text box. Draw the box, position the cursor inside, then go to Insert/Picture/Clip Art. Choose the picture you want and place it inside the text box. The box will enlarge to the default clip art size. To make it smaller, you have to make the picture - not the text box - smaller. The text box will automatically reduce its size. (If you only make the text box itself smaller, the picture remains the original size inside the box.)

The grid lines are part of the table that makes up the template for the business cards.

Open a new document in Word.
Go to Tools/Envelopes and Labels.
Click on the Labels tab, then click on the Options button.
Scroll down until you come to the Business Cards - they start with #5371. Choose the number of the Avery labels you bought.
Click Okay; you will pop back to the Labels tab. Choose New Document.
A template for the business cards will appear. This is a table that has the margins all set up for the cards you bought. If you don’t swee the outline of a table on your screen, go to Table/Show Gridlines.
You can format each cell of the table however you want - if you want the text to be middle-aligned or right-aligned or whatever. To add clip art, do what I said in my previous post.

I’m not going to have time to try it tonight MissBunny, but I’ll work on it over the weekend. If I have problems,I may contact you! Thanks a million.

Or try Business Card Designer Plus 2000, a shareware program that lets you test drive it for 30 days. Very easy to use, import graphics, complete control over your design elements. I made my business cards in about 20 minutes.

Appleworks has an easy to use assistant. Clip art and all. Works good.
You don’t need to tell anyone how you did it. :smiley:
Peae,
mangeorge

If you do end up using Word, you will be able to copy the text from cell to cell, but if you want the clip art to copy, you will have to dupe each text box (with the picture in it) and drag them over to each cell. You should then align them to make sure they are all in the same position within the cell and relative to the text.