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This is not this month's tutorial, lol, just a random tutorial since I'm putting a lot of pins on backing cards and I also enjoy optimization and stabbing things.

For anyone who's wondering, backing cards are literally just business cards; you can buy them in various sizes and thicknesses to back your pins with just for a bit of display oomph. The ones here are 18pt thickness, which is thick enough to look good but also thin enough to stab pretty easily. You could probably do thicker or thinner or more or less bells-and-whistles depending on if you think people will throw them away or not but, this was for a strongly-branded Kickstarter, so I wanted them to look nice. 

Making pins is fun and relatively easy... So far the most annoying part has been removing all these little backing nubs by hand, haha.

I'll be picking the winner of the pin contest later tonight too, so one of you will get one of those thrips :]

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Whitney Huskey

Business cards! I wondered!

Der-shing Helmer

Yeah! You can buy business cards in really any shape/ size/ material/ treatment... when you think about it, things like gift cards are really just round-corner plastic business cards with a code printed onto them, or whatever. You can even buy things like this to get the "hang" punch <a href="https://www.staples-3p.com/s7/is/image/Staples/s0515160_sc7?$splssku$" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.staples-3p.com/s7/is/image/Staples/s0515160_sc7?$splssku$</a>

J Luna Dungca

Receiving nicely packaged pins is so satisfying.. I kind of wonder if business card printers and enamel pin manufacturers have been getting a boost in recent years from indie artists. I mean everybody uses business cards I guess but I see a lot of creative uses from artists. Also, these look way nice, well done 👌