Super Spy Identification Cards

Well, 6 months later, I finally got around to making the spy I.D. cards for my daughter's friends that I had planned to make last year after her Super Spy Training Party.  Maren and Joshua were playing spies this morning and couldn't remember their spy names from her party, so we found the paper we had written them on, and I was feeling bad that I never made the cards (or had her write thank you notes - oops.  December is a busy month . . . )  So this morning I went a little crazy and made cards for all the partygoers.

Do you ever get a picture in your head of what something should look like and then spend way too long trying to get it to look just right?  Yeah.  That's what happened to me.  I generally try not to spend a lot of time on things that might be going in the trash after a short while, but I just couldn't help myself.  I couldn't find anything online that looked like what I wanted and so I had to invent it myself, and it took way too long.  I used a business card template on Pages and modified it to fit my needs.  I found images of a barcode and fingerprint on the web and used them to make it look a bit more official.

The front of the card has the agents real name, code name, and Super Spy Strength.  Maren had fun coming up with spy strengths for her friends.  Some Spy Strengths she thought of were laser beam avoidance, disguise design, voice disguise specialist,  silent sneaking, and equipment specialist.  The back says: Agent has been trained at the Super Spy Advanced Training Camp, November 2010.  This license authorizes agent in all covert operations.  Agent's ID is to be kept secret at all times.  Use code name in all communications.  I ran the cards through the laminator.

My kids really like theirs, and hopefully they'll keep them for awhile, because I'll be mad if they don't.

update 10/2012:

I've had several requests for the template for these. I made these cards in Pages, but have tried to converting it to Word so it's easier to share.  I'm not sure how well this will work, but if you want a copy to edit, try clicking here for the front and here for the back.