What Can We Make Today?
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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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.
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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!
