...for selling designs online!
(Well actually, it's eleven!)
Guest Post by successful artist, photographer, businesswoman
Doreen Erhardt on my Art & Design
blog today!
Thursday, 12 May 2011
Monday, 9 May 2011
Thursday, 5 May 2011
Monday, 2 May 2011
Red Hats
The Red Hat Society began in the US but is spreading worldwide and you can read about how it started and what Red Hatters get up to here.
Here is just a selection of the greeting cards, invitations and gifts for Red Hatters that I've created for my online stores -
Here is just a selection of the greeting cards, invitations and gifts for Red Hatters that I've created for my online stores -
Click on the cards to see them full size!
These gifts are available in my Zazzle store but the greeting cards and invitations are available through both Zazzle and Greeting Card Universe.
Thursday, 28 April 2011
Monday, 25 April 2011
The Trouble with Boys...
... is that it can be extremely difficult to find suitable greeting cards for them!
Give the average girl a card with a pretty – preferably pink! –design and she will drool over it. But not so boys!
It’s easier to find cards for boys when they’re little, of course. A blue version of a pink, girl’s design will usually be simply fine. And for a while, say up to about 8 or 9, anything with monsters, pirates, dragons or dinosaurs will likely be acceptable.
(This is just a small selection. Many more similar cards - with different ages and different greetings - are available in my Greeting Card Universe store. )
But even with this younger age group, the birthday gift will probably be of far greater interest than the card – I know, I’ve seen it in my grandsons and in the boys I used to tutor in literacy. Unless the card has some particular attraction, such as a sport the boy is enthusiastic about, the card gets brushed aside quickly and sometimes even left behind, barely glanced at!
Here are a few sports I've made designs for so far, but new ideas for sports and activities are always welcome in the comments box:
My eldest grandson is now a teenager and designing birthday cards for him and his slightly younger brother has been quite a challenge in recent years. One year I got away with name cards, made from handpainted paper collage.
(I have made other names and you can find them in my Greeting Card Universe store)
This year I asked my daughter, their mother, what they were interested in. ‘X-box’ was the reply! So, as I live some distance away and am not familiar with X-box, I had to do some research and this is what I came up with.
It was well received so I based his brother’s birthday card on the comical cats too –
What teenage boys seem to really, really hate is anything that smacks of sentimentality! It doesn’t go with their attempts to give off a ‘cool’ image. They like to be seen as laid back – sometimes, in the extreme! So that, together with a lad I spotted on the opposite side of the road while waiting to cross, was the inspiration for these –
I already concentrate on greeting cards for men – these are some of my bestsellers –
And, much as I enjoy designing pretty cards for girls, I shall be adding to my collection of cards for boys whenever I can!
Give the average girl a card with a pretty – preferably pink! –design and she will drool over it. But not so boys!
It’s easier to find cards for boys when they’re little, of course. A blue version of a pink, girl’s design will usually be simply fine. And for a while, say up to about 8 or 9, anything with monsters, pirates, dragons or dinosaurs will likely be acceptable.
(This is just a small selection. Many more similar cards - with different ages and different greetings - are available in my Greeting Card Universe store. )
Here are a few sports I've made designs for so far, but new ideas for sports and activities are always welcome in the comments box:
(I have made other names and you can find them in my Greeting Card Universe store)
This year I asked my daughter, their mother, what they were interested in. ‘X-box’ was the reply! So, as I live some distance away and am not familiar with X-box, I had to do some research and this is what I came up with.
It was well received so I based his brother’s birthday card on the comical cats too –
What teenage boys seem to really, really hate is anything that smacks of sentimentality! It doesn’t go with their attempts to give off a ‘cool’ image. They like to be seen as laid back – sometimes, in the extreme! So that, together with a lad I spotted on the opposite side of the road while waiting to cross, was the inspiration for these –
I already concentrate on greeting cards for men – these are some of my bestsellers –
And, much as I enjoy designing pretty cards for girls, I shall be adding to my collection of cards for boys whenever I can!
Sunday, 24 April 2011
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