07.31.09
Posted in Zazzle at 10:49 pm by Administrator
Zazzle has a promotional widget called the MySpace Merch Booth. It is found in My Zazzle on the Store tab under Promote Your Store To Boost Sales. It gives the customer the ability to design their own products using their own images and text.
When designing my Merch Store, I decided to create template images with the recommended resolution printed on the image. One for T-Shirts, one for key chains and another for posters to make it easier for the customer to create their own products.
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07.28.09
Posted in Zazzle, designs, paintings at 6:15 pm by Administrator
Many of my designs for my Zazzle and Cafepress products come from photographs or drawings of flowers in my garden. If you would like to read about my garden, visit my Squidoo Lense. These are a few of my garden inspired designs.
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07.27.09
Posted in paintings at 9:12 pm by Administrator
Watercolor Painting by Rose Aune of Rosie's Workshop
Buy the framed print at Cafepress
Other products featuring this design are available at My Zazzle Store.
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07.20.09
Posted in Uncategorized at 9:54 pm by Administrator
Hi! I’m going to be moving in a few months, so I have been going through my drawings and paintings that have been collecting dust in boxes and scrapbooks for years. Self, I said, “the time has come to start doing something with all this stuff, before you have to pack it all up again.”
I go through these drawing and painting frenzies, where I produce a lot of work that may be just an idea, or may become a full blown painting. That is how I accumulated this large collection of sketches and ideas that wait for me to come back to them to finish.
To make a long story short, I selected a few works that I thought would make good posters. I have a Zazzle store, and hadn’t really spent any time learning how to use the Poster design tool. After I prepared the images for publishing, as I talked about in Preparing Images for Publishing, I uploaded the images to Zazzle to start making some posters. I had a few posters that I created earlier, but, they just didn’t look very good, in my opinion. I wanted to add backgrounds, borders and text to jazz them up a little. I realized that if I took an existing product, and then used the Customize It feature, I could create a new product, by saving it with a new name without having to start from scratch. Aha!
I like the Zazzle design interface, it makes it easy to change backgrounds, borders, text and product descriptions. When I finished making my Posters, I made a Zazzle panel that just shows Posters, nothing else. These are my new posters in my Zazzle panel.
make custom gifts at Zazzle
Please visit my website Rosie’s Workshop, my Zazzle Store, my Imagekind Gallery or follow me on Twitter.
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07.19.09
Posted in Zazzle, designs at 7:59 pm by Administrator
Many times, when trying to come up with a new design idea, I will review my drawing notebooks for ideas. Today, I found a drawing of my dog Lucy in colored pencil that would make a nice poster or other product.
Original scan of my Lucy drawing
After scanning the original drawing at 300dpi and saving the image, I start by making a duplicate layer, leaving the original image intact and hidden. If you make a mistake or change your mind you don’t have to start all over again. The duplicate layer can easily deleted. That way you can experiment with different styles and filters but still have the option of going back to the original design.
Usually, scanned pencil drawings will need to be darkened and enhanced to look good for printing, in my opinion. I often use the automatic color correction and color variations in Adobe Photoshop Elements to darken and enhance the image. To create the oval border, I use the select tool to create an oval around the design then invert the selection and fill it with color. To make the image suitable for a large poster, I increased the image size to 11″ x 16.5″. Save a copy of the image as a png file for uploading. If you are going to be using the image for email or the web, also make a jpg copy.
This is my published image on Zazzle.com
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07.16.09
Posted in Uncategorized at 9:21 pm by Administrator
Hi!
I found a really neat blog site that I hope you all will visit. http://inkwellalley.blogspot.com/
There is lots of great reading. I copied this from their site, “Inkwell Alley is a growing community where our main goal is to feature and help artists, writers and creative entrepreneurs to achieve their dream. We take pride in helping others reach their goals. Our community is based on the premise “it’s not who you are, it’s who you can become.”
I’m still in the “what you can become” stage, and need all the help I can get. Thanks, Inkwell Alley!
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07.14.09
Posted in T-Shirts, Zazzle, designs at 9:02 pm by Administrator
Today, I created a new product line at my Zazzle Store for Customizable Cards. The Lily Scroll Business Card can be customized with your name, title, company name, address, two telephone numbers, email address and slogan. Your website address is printed on the back of the card.
I love my Art instruction books, one of my favorites is Watercolor by Duane R. Light from Walter Foster Publishing, Inc., www.walterfoster.com. I like to work with pen and ink with a Watercolor wash. This design was first drawn on paper and then traced onto transparent vellum. I then inked in the design and applied the watercolor washes over the pen and ink drawing.
This design is also available on other products
I hope you like my designs and my blog. Have a great day!
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07.10.09
Posted in T-Shirts, designs at 9:09 pm by Administrator
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