tl;dr
Run composer install
in your project's root folder.
Explanation
This happens when you create a project by downloading and extracting the laravel/laravel repo from GitHub, not by using the Composer command:
composer create-project laravel/laravel your-project-name
In this case the dependencies are not installed, so the vendor
folder that contains Artisan doesn't exist. Running composer install
in your project's root folder will install the dependencies vendor
folder.
For more, see my other answer on how to install Artisan.
Side note
This is independent from your problem but your Artisan command is a bit deficient. You forgot =users
(the table name) from the end. Also if you create a table you dont have to specify the table name again with the --table
option so this command would be enough:
php artisan migrate:make create_users_table --create=users