The traditional business card is dead. 🪦 Enter the business card of the future. 🚀

I am absolutely thrilled to announce that this card just won GOLD for “Best Use of Foil/Embossing – Business Card” at the 2026 FSEA Gold Leaf Awards! 🏆✨

When we designed this for our sales team at Big Dawgs Promotions, we wanted to completely bridge the gap between premium, tactile print and cutting-edge digital tech.

Here is the winning recipe:

✨ The Look & Feel:

• Raised Holographic Foil that dances in the light.

• Texturized Raised UV for an undeniable, premium touch.

• Custom Airbrush Edge Painting—we blacked out the core entirely so it looks and feels like one solid, luxurious piece.

📲 The Tech (The real magic):

• A hidden NFC chip embedded directly inside the paper.

• One tap to any smartphone instantly loads a custom digital menu (contact info, social links, videos, you name it).

• The kicker? It integrates with Google Ads. When someone taps your card, they instantly enter your retargeting funnel. 🤯

A massive thank you to the Foil & Specialty Effects Association (FSEA) for this incredible honor!

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TRANSCRIPT (AI-GENERATED)

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[00:00:00] All right, guys, Eddie Davin back again. This is one of our bigDAWGS business cards, and this is what the sales staff uses. Uh, but I thought this would be great to enter this into an awards like the Gold Leaf Awards, uh, for the FSEA this year. And man, like I, I just love this card, the way it just dances in the light.

So it has, uh, raised holographic foil with this texturized effect, and also there’s a little bit of raised UV as well, uh, with a pattern. And we have that cool, cool feel to it. Uh, but we also did that edge painting, so I don’t know if you guys can see, but you don’t see the white core. Uh, we actually painted it, airbrushed it, uh, black, so it looks like a very solid piece.

And actually, people think this is plastic for some reason, I guess because of the soft touch feel. But that doesn’t end there. Uh, inside is actually a chip. We put an NFC chip inside. That’s why I’m holding a phone, right? So what you do, uh, how do you use that chip? You just take your phone, and you just tap it on that [00:01:00] card, and you s- Did you see that?

I’m gonna do it again. Just you guys, you gotta look this. What… So look, nothing on my phone. I’m gonna tap the card, and wow, that is a menu. So you tap the card, it loads up the menu, and basically you can contact us, uh, follow us on social, you know, text, email, um, that sort of thing. Even watch videos if we put it on the menu as well, if we’re pushing certain products and seeing our specials.

But yeah, this gives a whole level in, into connectivity. But that’s not it. You know, just because it’s tied in, it actually goes to Google Ads. So you know, imagine giving this to customers, and they start tapping with your, your f- your, um, their phone, and you know, magically later they actually start seeing your ads of some of your products and stu- and, um, services.

That is done through NFC, and we have the technology. This is our, uh, back end. So we can definitely help you out with that. But, hey, look, enough with that. Uh, I’m just wanna know, do you guys think this could win an award? And if so, why, why? Do you think because of the actual [00:02:00] pattern, the raised UV? Do you think of the, uh, difficulty with the edge painting?

Maybe the NFC, or maybe a combination of all three. Let me know in the comments below.