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Showing posts with label age specific cards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label age specific cards. Show all posts
Thursday, 26 August 2010
Sunday, 9 May 2010
It's felt more like March this week...
...but I haven't minded that too much as it's been a particularly busy week, beginning with my daughter in Sweden asking me to send a couple of dozen of my cards for her to try to sell at a kind of flea market her friends are having - so lots of printing, folding, trimming, packing etc. And then getting ready for a friend to 'drop in' with some of her friends for a glass of wine and a chance to see (and buy!) some of my cards on Election Night - and the very good news is that she has offered to arrange a 'cards' get-together with some more of her friends as soon as her kitchen refurbishment is finished!
And then, of course there was the election itself! I watched and waited - and waited and watched until the dawn chorus began and I realised it was getting light, having hoped to go to bed with some indication of who would form our next government - but here we are 48 hrs later, still not knowing what's going to happen, and I'm still feeling slightly muzzy-headed from lack of sleep. Which wasn't ideal for sorting out all the catalogue numbers on my website and coordinating them with my paper catalogue yesterday, some of which had got in a bit of a muddle to say the least! But I needed to do it sooner rather than later as I was expecting an old friend from Norfolk to place the first order for my 'party-plan starter pack' (which includes the catalogue!) and the first order of cards chosen from my website!
Luckily she didn't get around to doing it on Friday - probably because of the election! - but phoned her order through this afternoon, by which time the numbers were all present and correct! So another hectic week ahead as I now have another 20 or so cards to print (and some of the collage 'name' cards to make from scratch!) and get in the post to reach her before she goes away next week! She is hoping to sell them at her church for a charity she supports, which is a whole new selling angle I hadn't really thought much about.
So I've had a whole week with no new designs made. But I have managed to fit in making a few more 'Age-specific' and 'Relation-specific' greeting cards and uploaded them to Greeting Card Universe. I used a screenprinted design that I made more than 20 years ago! I had always liked the colour combination but it seemed to need something to 'lift' it -
- and I think the white lettering has done precisely that. It seemed almost as if I'd purposely left the space in the top right-hand quarter to fill with some text!
I'm very fond of those salmon pink geraniums and this design was based on one given to me by a friend when my son was born - in 1978. I've had a few in pots in my garden ever since, some of them from cuttings from the original and a few more I've bought over the years. Sadly, this year the very low temperatures in January killed the last of them in my front porch where they've previously over-wintered happily - the end of an era!
But they are preserved in my design!
Recently I haven't been spending as much time on Zazzle as on GCU, where I seem to sell more, though my recent little flurry of sales ended as abruptly as it began! But I did 'create' a mug -
- and some more floral slip-on Keds:
And now, after all that fun with 'creating', I'd better remove my Mother's Day cards from the front of my GCU store and replace them with Father's Day! It's certainly a busy life so if I don't write anything more this week, you'll know why!
And then, of course there was the election itself! I watched and waited - and waited and watched until the dawn chorus began and I realised it was getting light, having hoped to go to bed with some indication of who would form our next government - but here we are 48 hrs later, still not knowing what's going to happen, and I'm still feeling slightly muzzy-headed from lack of sleep. Which wasn't ideal for sorting out all the catalogue numbers on my website and coordinating them with my paper catalogue yesterday, some of which had got in a bit of a muddle to say the least! But I needed to do it sooner rather than later as I was expecting an old friend from Norfolk to place the first order for my 'party-plan starter pack' (which includes the catalogue!) and the first order of cards chosen from my website!
Luckily she didn't get around to doing it on Friday - probably because of the election! - but phoned her order through this afternoon, by which time the numbers were all present and correct! So another hectic week ahead as I now have another 20 or so cards to print (and some of the collage 'name' cards to make from scratch!) and get in the post to reach her before she goes away next week! She is hoping to sell them at her church for a charity she supports, which is a whole new selling angle I hadn't really thought much about.
So I've had a whole week with no new designs made. But I have managed to fit in making a few more 'Age-specific' and 'Relation-specific' greeting cards and uploaded them to Greeting Card Universe. I used a screenprinted design that I made more than 20 years ago! I had always liked the colour combination but it seemed to need something to 'lift' it -
- and I think the white lettering has done precisely that. It seemed almost as if I'd purposely left the space in the top right-hand quarter to fill with some text!
I'm very fond of those salmon pink geraniums and this design was based on one given to me by a friend when my son was born - in 1978. I've had a few in pots in my garden ever since, some of them from cuttings from the original and a few more I've bought over the years. Sadly, this year the very low temperatures in January killed the last of them in my front porch where they've previously over-wintered happily - the end of an era!
But they are preserved in my design!
Recently I haven't been spending as much time on Zazzle as on GCU, where I seem to sell more, though my recent little flurry of sales ended as abruptly as it began! But I did 'create' a mug -
- and some more floral slip-on Keds:
And now, after all that fun with 'creating', I'd better remove my Mother's Day cards from the front of my GCU store and replace them with Father's Day! It's certainly a busy life so if I don't write anything more this week, you'll know why!
Wednesday, 28 April 2010
The tedious business of uploading, tagging, describing, categorising.....
I've been really busy putting age numbers on some of my birthday cards this week because I noticed that quite a few of my sales had been that type of card. It's boring work, especially all the uploading and writing descriptions and tags - though I seem to have got a bit quicker with the 'categorising' as time has gone on - and I've just had the first batch approved by GCU. I think the reviewers must have seen 100 new cards suddenly appearing and decided they'd better get stuck in!
With all that going on, it doesn't feel as if I've done much painting this week but in fact I've made four new designs, all 'creatures' of one sort or another, the last for a while I think as I seem to run out of steam with one 'range' of cards quite quickly - low boredom threshold perhaps? Just as well I have several 'styles' to fall back on!
First up my mouse and elephant again, in a birthday card or birthday button role this time -
.
- followed by a kangaroo for Mother's Day in the same style -
- also available on a T-shirt.
And today I've tried a collage again (and hoping for the best as far as my back is concerned!) for Father's Day -
I was surprised how well it showed up on a dark T-shirt too -
I still have about 80 of my new 'age' birthday cards to put on Zazzle but my enthusiasm has waned a bit because they seem to do so much better on GCU. They appear immediately in my 'store' though so if I do a few every day, they'll probably all be available on Zazzle at about the same time as on GCU!
With all that going on, it doesn't feel as if I've done much painting this week but in fact I've made four new designs, all 'creatures' of one sort or another, the last for a while I think as I seem to run out of steam with one 'range' of cards quite quickly - low boredom threshold perhaps? Just as well I have several 'styles' to fall back on!
First up my mouse and elephant again, in a birthday card or birthday button role this time -
.
- followed by a kangaroo for Mother's Day in the same style -
- also available on a T-shirt.
And today I've tried a collage again (and hoping for the best as far as my back is concerned!) for Father's Day -
I was surprised how well it showed up on a dark T-shirt too -
I still have about 80 of my new 'age' birthday cards to put on Zazzle but my enthusiasm has waned a bit because they seem to do so much better on GCU. They appear immediately in my 'store' though so if I do a few every day, they'll probably all be available on Zazzle at about the same time as on GCU!
Saturday, 3 April 2010
'Life is what happens when you'd planned something else'
I was so looking forward to a nice quiet long weekend with nothing 'fixed' to do but plenty of time to catch up with making more 'name' birthday cards and starting a series of specific 'age' cards for children. But 'the best laid plans...' and so on came upon me in the form of my Central Heating boiler going on strike, late on Thursday evening - why does it always happen on a Bank Holiday?! - and a really bad dose of backpain. (The two are not unrelated, I suspect.).
But I have somehow managed to do a few more of the most popular names - Daniel, Edward and Emma seemed to be a bit feeble for a 'series' of specific name cards! - in between waiting to hear back from plumbers and making hot drinks and hot water bottles to keep warm!
'Sarah' girls' T-shirt by helikettle
View other Sarah T-Shirts
But I have somehow managed to do a few more of the most popular names - Daniel, Edward and Emma seemed to be a bit feeble for a 'series' of specific name cards! - in between waiting to hear back from plumbers and making hot drinks and hot water bottles to keep warm!
This one also has a white background version.
This one also has a 'black background' version.
And I've made a few matching gifts on Zazzle, as well as uploading them to Greeting Card Universe -
and
'Sarah' girls' T-shirt by helikettle
View other Sarah T-Shirts
- and possibly the most positive thing to happen this weekend - I have at last learnt how to link to products in my Zazzle store on my blog - simples!!! And, all being well, by this time tomorrow, I should have hot radiators and hot water again!
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