Sundry Works Help · Business card

Designing an artist's business card

The card you hand out, laid out down to the last millimetre.

What it's for

A live designer for the card you hand out at shows and galleries. It draws the card at 300dpi and shows it beside the settings as you work, so every colour and every nudge is visible before you print anything.

It sits under Making with the other things the app draws, but it is the one that does not need a painting open: it is drawn from your own details rather than from a piece. Change your name, your logo or your colours on the Business tab and the card has them before you get here.

Regular or Square, Front or Back

Two rows of buttons sit at the top of the settings. The first chooses the card: Regular is 3.5 by 2 inches, Square is 2.5 by 2.5 inches. The second chooses which side of it you are working on, Front or Back. Each shape keeps its own design, so a size tuned for one never spoils the other.

The tab remembers which shape and which side you last had open, on that computer.

The front

The front uses your name, brand line, tagline and contact details from the Business tab. Its fonts come from Brand type on the Business tab: your name is the Script, the brand line the Brand, the tagline the Serif, and the email, website and socials the Typewriter. The card has its own colour, texture and layout controls, so you can change its look without changing your profile.

• Background - upload a full design or background image to fill the card behind everything, or leave it off to use the texture and colours instead.
• Visible elements - turn each part on or off: logo, artist name, brand line, tagline, divider, email, website, social handles, accent bar and border. Handy when you supply your own background.
• Design - set card-specific background, text and accent colours ("Reset from profile" syncs them back). Choose a texture (solid, paper grain or linen weave), a border style, a divider (line, dots, ornament or none) and an accent-bar height.
• Which comes first - "Name, then brand" or "Brand, then name", for a card that leads with the business and has your name underneath.
• Sizes & spacing - grouped by part: name, brand line, tagline, divider, email, website, socials, QR code and logo. Each has its own size, letter spacing and gap sliders, so you can tune one without touching the rest.
• Socials - the handles sit side by side and move down to a new row when they will not fit across the card. "Most in one row" sets how many share a row, so four accounts can sit as two and two.
• QR code - tick "Show on card", then set its size and move it with the Left to right and Top to bottom sliders. "Back to the corner" puts it bottom right again.

The back

The back has three things. A custom image fills the whole back and is trimmed to the card's shape; make it 1050 by 600 pixels for Regular or 750 by 750 for Square and nothing is cut off. With no image the back is plain, in the front's background colour.

A QR code works the same way as on the front, but starts in the middle of the card.

Four text boxes start empty. Pick Text 1 to 4, type the words, and set the font, weight, italic, size, letter spacing, colour, alignment and position. The font list starts with the five Brand type fonts, which follow what you choose on the Business tab, then your own fonts, then the built-in ones, which stay exactly that font. A box you have not set is the Typewriter from Brand type.

Saving and printing

Export saves whichever side is showing as a print-ready PNG. The back's file name ends in -back.

The Regular print sheet lays ten cards out for standard Avery 10-up business-card stock. The Square sheet puts twelve on US Letter, 3 across and 4 down, edge to edge with half-inch margins, so every cut is one straight line. In the print dialog set scale to 100% and turn off extra margins.

Printing the fronts and the backs on the same card lines them up, because both sheets have the same margin on the left and the right.

Print a few on plain paper first and hold them against the card stock to the light - it is the cheap way to find a printer that shifts the sheet.

The rest of the Help

Start here

• Getting started with Sundry Works - What Sundry Works does and how the tabs fit together.
• Using Sundry Works on your phone - Setting up the phone, whether or not there is a computer as well.

Your catalogue

• What's due and what's unfinished - The first tab: what's coming up, what's still to do, what's unfinished.
• Cataloguing your paintings - Your catalog - add paintings and open the one you're working on.
• Reviewing everything one painting makes - Everything the open painting makes, on one page, with the one decision each needs.
• How to price a painting consistently - Work out a consistent price for the open painting.
• Tracking what sold and who bought it - What sold, who took it home, and what it brought in.
• Printing show labels and a portfolio - More than one at a time: a whole show's labels, or a portfolio to send.

Making things from a painting

• Writing a story for a painting - Generate a written story for the painting and keep the best one.
• Making a printed card for a painting - Lay out the printed card for the painting.
• How to make a certificate of authenticity - A painting's two printed documents: its certificate, and the label for its back.
• Web-sized copies of a painting's photo - Export web-sized copies of the painting's photo.
• Branded posts of your paintings - Branded static posts for Instagram, Pinterest, and Facebook.
• Making a reel of a painting - Build the vertical reel frame and video for social media.
• Designing an artist's business card - The card you hand out, laid out down to the last millimetre.

Running the business

• Setting up your artist brand - Set up once: your identity, brand assets, colours, and AI key.
• An address book for galleries and collectors - A simple address book for galleries, collectors, suppliers, and more.
• Checklists for shows and studio jobs - Reusable checklists for shows, errands, and anything you repeat.
• A calendar for shows and deadlines - Shows, deadlines, and events, with a countdown to each one.
• All your post comments in one list - What people said on your posts, from every platform, in one list.

Connections and setup

• Posting to Instagram and Facebook - Connect your accounts so you can post directly from Sundry Works.
• Posting your paintings to Threads - A second Meta connection, separate from Instagram and Facebook.
• Posting your paintings to Bluesky - The easiest connection of the four - a handle and an app password.
• Scheduling posts to go out later - Line a post up now and let it go out later, with the computer off.
• Configuring Sundry Works - Where everything plugs in: your social accounts, your website, your AI service, and where the catalogue lives.