Making Business Cards for Steemfest

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Last year on Steemfest 2 in Lisbon, I noticed a lot of people handing out business cards, I still have a few tucked away in a memento box. I of course didn’t have any cards of my own, since I’m not running a business, but I thought it was nice to have something tangible from a person you talked to.

For the past year, on most Sundays, I do a set of Sunday Polaroids, that are always self portraits. I’ve had a bit of a break with them but I’ll get back to it soon. I have accumulated a huge stack of them and for a long while I had no idea what to do with them. I even asked you if you had any ideas, and a few suggested that I should sell them. It’s kind of an okay idea, but I don’t know who would want to buy them and if someone did, then I would have to be mailing them out and I’m lazy.

Then an idea struck me. I would use them as my business cards! All I would do is put my username under the picture and that is it, the picture itself will do most of the talking. So now I’m selecting polaroids and dymo-ing(?) my username to them, which is taking it’s sweet time, but it’s kind of fun. I’m not sure yet how many I will make, maybe 50+, I know I won’t be talking to every Steemian attending Steemfest so I won’t make 300 cards.

All of the polaroids are one of a kinds, and some might even be rare ones that the blockchain hasn’t seen before. There are both black&white and coloured ones, some nice and some naughty. Ask for a nice one if you are afraid your wife might get mad finding it in your jacket pocket after the weekend.

I’m a bit shy and awkward and won’t probably even remember to hand these out, so if you want one, just ask and you shall receive!

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OMFG! SOOOOOOOOO smart, @eveuncovered!

Old good Polaroids all time helps out :) ... very cool Idea :)

Omg! I need to dig up my old cards and show you! They were small Polaroid pics of myself too! I wish I was attending that way I’d get to personally meet you friend☺️💜

Cool idea with the polaroids and stickers, also want one 😊

That's exactly the right idea. Self-portraits are what you do.

That is at least what I am known for, even when I do other things too 😁

So sorry I am not able to make it this time to come to Steemfest. Would be a pleasure to meet you there and collect ALL of your business cards!

Hey, there's that rug again. I feel like we are old friends having a chat with coffee everytime I recognize something :)

Very cool idea. The sticker-text thing is a nice touch.

Stylish as always. I have designed mine but dang it, not going already this year. #lamelife LOL Love yours and the name stamp is genius!

Geniously genuine!

To avoid handing them out to people just put them all around the place :) they will find their owner. :)

That is a great idea! That way I can avoid all the unnessesary human contact!

Just getting one of these "business cards" would be reason enough to go to Kraków!

So why aren't you going?! 😤

I simply have too much work to do at the moment and two job related trips planed in the near future... plus the thought of being away from my sweetheart for almost a week is too hard to bear 😥

I guess having work is good, it's much better than not having any work. Where are the work trips taking you? Next year you'll have to bring your sweetheart with you!

Going to Prague again and then to Paris for "Art en Capital" with a large oil painting, early next year. Opening night is February 12, in case you want to plan a trip 😉. Although there might be better times of the year to go to Paris...

Most likely I might go to Belgrade shortly after that for another exhibition.

Thought about going with her, but except for the parties, she'd be bored to death I'm sure. She hardly even checks her e-mails, let alone any social network, so I guess steem talk wouldn't do much for her unfortunately...

I've started mine too, for 2019...I heard Steemfest will be in Australia in 2019.

What a great idea Eve and now I feel like I'm one of the few in the know, who knows to ask for one :-)

I already know from reading some of your posts that you may be one of the crew sat in a corner enjoying observing as much as interacting. I'm kinda like that sometimes, and I know @soyrosa is of the introverted persuasion. We can't all be social butterflies ;-)

Sometimes alcohol can flip me over from intro to extrovert but my natural inclination doesn't go that way. Anyway, look forward to seeing you, and your business cards, at steemfest 3. It's so close now I'm starting to get fired up!

Well then, one corner for me, one for you, and one for @soyrosa, the rest can fight for the last corner! but what if the room is round!?

I'm definitely an introvert, but I have the social butterfly somewhere inside me that comes out at times, usually in the evenings in a bar and having downed a few drinks...

No worries. I'll throw a paper airplane at ya with a message on it if I'm in the other corner 😂 Although, looking at the latest SF3 announcement post from Roelandp it looks like the club he booked is round so no hiding in corners for me 😉

Vodka should solve those lack-of-corner problems.

If the room is round we use your huge fatboy box to sit in and we'll look at the room through holes :D

I hope I'm getting a Polaroid; I always loved them.

I promise you will!

Cool idea i am so sad i can not join steemfest =(

I’m sorry that you can’t join, maybe next year!

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i have a shirt with my steem id on it. :D - so far that was enough. Everbody has their cellphones with cams anyway.

and iam not talented enough for special cards like this.

steem on and see you at steemfest!

And people do have id patchs hanging on their neck, and the app has a new feature to make note of who you meet. I just want to be a little different, like alway ;) I also don’t want to be with a phone in my hand all the time, now that we have a chance to really talk to each other!

"there is no wifi in this bar, look up and talk to eachother"

agree. Iam excited to see the difference between digital and real life appearance, even though many humans are quite frank on steemit.

What I have noticed with meeting many steemians is how fast it feels like you have known each other for ages already!

yeah - that is actually what i am expecting too.

You are brilliant!

I do think so 💁🏻‍♀️

Nice idea, perhaps you could put a QR code sticker on the back that links to your blog...

If people are lazy enough to type my name in, they don't need to follow me.

That’s damn brilliant!

Come and get yours ;)

I would love that. But, we have too many plans already for this November. Next year...🤞🏾

Maybe we could have Steemfest in Puerto Rico next year ;P

Damn. Now you’re talking and that would be fantasticall given Puerto Rico‘s special tax advantage for folks living here while earning income by providing services beyond the island. A.k.a. creating a blog.

In other words it would be advantageous for Puerto Rico to host steemfest to recruit people to move here.

But ya...I’d just like to have an excuse for you to come and visit us.

Exactly!

And honey you don’t need an excuse to visit...open door policy for our friends to visit and stay with us. Xo

The unique, one and only business card! Super creative and it is limited edition.

I do think I am being pretty clever with this 😛

Ohh, a photo, an autograph and a pair of socks - my goodie bag is going to be full!

So what is your shoe size? If it’s huge, I won’t have time to make you a pair 😝

Should have started earlier!

9/10 I think. Don't stress though, i'm only messing... sort of :P