All Aboard the Fail Train

Sometimes I get so pumped up about an idea or a project that I don't give myself enough time to really think it through. I just kinda start working on it and assume that it will turn out perfectly. This is one of those projects.

Many a bee before me has shared their take on photo sharing cards, but I particularly liked Mrs. Snow Cone's so I quickly whipped up a similar business card-sized design of my own in Photoshop (stole the wording and everything. Thanks Mrs. Snow Cone!):

(front and back images for the business card)

I researched a few different photo sharing sites, but in the end I decided that a Shutterfly share site would be best for our needs because it's free and offers unlimited storage (yippee!). I also looked into sites like Flickr, Photobucket, and Picasa. There are SO many photo sharing sites out there now and they all come with their own set of pros and cons so feel free to check them out if you're interested in doing something like this.

Choosing the site and designing the cards was the easy part. I thought about just printing them myself, but Vistaprint was having one of their awesome deals on business cards (like they do every other 30 seconds) so I figured I'd spend a few bucks and save myself the aggravation of cutting out 150 little business cards. Because I am a cheapskate and was trying to finish this project for as little moo-lah as possible I did not opt to take advantage of their "print preview". For the low, low price of just $1.99 you too can order a print preview of your design! (AKA a pdf that you can print out yourself to make sure the design/dimensions are exactly to your liking.)

I'm sure you can guess what happens next. The happy day arrived and a little package from Vistaprint showed up on my doorstep:

I gleefully tore the package open to discover my lovely little business cards... That look like they have been printed in size 3 font. Seriously, what was I thinking?!

(I know it's hard to tell from my grainy cell phone pic, but just trust me on this one.)

I immediately handed one to Mr. Coyote who suggested we attach the cards to magnifying glasses. And then cracked a joke about it saving us from our wedding favor dilemma. Thanks a lot buddy. What ever happened to "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all?!?!"

So there is my giant wedding fail for the day. I really can't use these cards so I find myself left with three options. Reorder the business cards in a readable font (saving time, but not money), suck it up and print them on my own computer (saving money, but not time), or scrap the project all together (saving time AND money). Since I'm in the middle of invitation HELL right now (oh, aren't you so excited to hear about my invitation shenanigans Hive?!) I'm kind of ready to just scrap the whole damn thing, but we'll see how I'm feeling when the invites are in the mail.

Have any of your projects turned out not quite as you expected them to?