Just ordered some new product in...

So, I finally ordered some more product. I've had a promo code for a discount on my fridge since some time last year and as it was going to expire this month, I decided to go ahead and use it.

I ordered some business cards as well as various button packages. I hope to order some bookmarks as soon as I find a reasonable place to have them printed. So far all I can find are places that want to print them, but at a minimum of 100 each, and I really dont need that many just yet, kay thanks!

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As for what I did order...

I ordered three sets of five buttons featuring my Alice in Wonderland characters, the White Rabbit, The Mad Hatter, and my Cheshire.

I hope to display my stuff this March at this art festival that's going to be taking place on the 6th. While selling Miche bags, I'll also have postcards, stationary, buttons and magnets for sale, as well as having my new business cards out and on display.

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In other news...

taxes tomorrow!

Postcard set: Ladies of Wonderland

Description
These little ladies will help you in telling your friends whatever it is you need to say!

The postcards come as a set of four, featuring

*The White Rabbit
*The Red Queen
*The Lost, Alice
*The White Queen

Postcards are coated with a lovely matte finish, much like the ones you find in stores. On the back of each postcard is plenty of room to write whatever your heart desires, and if requested, they can come complete with four 100% recycled brown envelopes that each feature a pocket watch stamp, and a special frame to write your address in, if you're not comfortable with just sending the postcard as is.

* notecards are sized 4x6 and professionally printed
* Brown envelopes are %100 recycled

These are perfect for keeping in touch, breaking up, or inviting your friends out to a tea-party~

Miche Bag Designs

So these are the designs I plan on submitting to Miche to see if they'll accept them into their line.

To those who are not aware, Miche makes purses that you can switch the cover to, so as to match your ourfit or the occasion without having to completely change over all the stuff you've been carrying inside the purse (which if you're a woman i'm sure you can appreciate the amount of random material that somehow manages to accumulate inside those dark voids.)

As luck would have it, Miche allows people to enter their own custom designs to be printed on the "shells", be it photos, drawings, etc etc. In some cases, depending on how the product is entered, you can submit your own artwork to be considered for their line of products. If they accept your art, you then get commission from each piece that sells through the Miche website, as well as your work out there! Sounds good to me, so I figured I'd give it a shot.

For your own Miche bag, visit :


http://www.michebag.com/

Cheshire

The Cheshire

Start of the boy's series to compliment the Ladies of Wonderland set.

Etsy Shop Up and Running!

So at the moment I only have four items listed on my etsy shop, and they're actually only two different pieces offered in various products, but the shop is up and running.

Although not listed yet as I have yet to get it back, I am offering all images as prints for sale. They are printed on very high quality paper that looks and feels as if you're getting the actual painting itself, so its very nice. Personally for a watercolor piece anyway, I think having that texture is important. As I have already posted information about this in a previous blog, I will repaste that here for your convience:

"Giclee Prints:

Fine art prints are very popular with artists who need to reproduce their artwork to sell at art shows or galleries. Please note that fine art prints are often referred to as Giclee Prints, and are high quality prints of the product. Somerset Velvet Giclee, which I use for my shop, have the authentic "look and feel" of high quality watercolor paper and are produced with Somerset Velvet paper and Epson Ultrachrome professional archival inks, so your product won't fade. Sizing and prices are as follows:

4x6 - $8.00

5x7 - $10.00

8x10- $20.00

8x12- $27.00

11x14- $40.00"

Hopefully this information helps some of you better understand the high quality of these prints. As an added offer, as well as costs, prints can include mat board. This needs to be specially requested however in "message to seller" otherwise I won't know to include it.

So, heres to a new start in a new year!

Take care~

Christi Thomas-Fealy

Magnets are in!

Woo hoo - woo hoo!


Just got my first shipment of magnets in, and I must say, they look preeetttyyyy kick-ass. I ordered a set of magnets featuring the Ladies, to be sold on my etsy shop starting Jan 1st.

They are your standard 2 1/4 size, round, with a durable scratch and UV-resistant coating. Each item is printed with vibrant colors, and features a powerful magnetic backing to ensure that it stays where you put it, be it your refrigerator, microwave, your friends knee brace, or the metal cap your dog always wears to prevent aliens from reading his mind. So get yours today! Or on the 1st! Whichever!

I apologize for the quality of the photo, and I plan to take a better picture soon but I want to post it up on here anyway. Camera phone, while high quality, is so freaking sensitive that it doesn't matter how high quality the picture is, cause no one gives a damn about a high quality blur.

Information on my Shop!

Alright, so I just got a message this morning from VistaPrint confirming that my order has been printed and shipped, and that the estimated date of arrival is on the 28th of December. Ordered it on the 13th, so assuming I got it on the 28th, that would make 16 days as opposed to the 21 day option that I picked. Not too shabby.

Etsy Shop Info:
printing services and pricing

In other news, theres been some interest among a couple of people of having my Ladies series printed and sold to them! I'm really happy about this as I've been working hard and as a professional illustrator, it's always nice to see when other people admire what you've put so much time and effort into. I plan on having several different options on my etsy site, but think i'll go ahead and list what im planning here.

Firstly, if its on the site, you can get the image in any of these formats, even if its not specifically listed as such. All one has to do is ask, and it shall be done, lolz. Okay! So for the products, keep in mind this is not a complete list, simply a list of various products I plan to have available:

• Bookmarks
• Magnets
• Giclee Prints
• Poster Prints
• ACEOs
• Stationary

Okay, so to explain, as im sure some of you are looking at this list and wondering what some of them are...

Giclee Print

Fine art prints are very popular with artists who need to reproduce their artwork to sell at shows or galleries. Please note that fine art prints are often referred to as Giclee Prints, and are high quality prints of the product. Somerset Velvet Giclee, which I use for my shop, have the authentic "look and feel" of high quality watercolor paper and are produced with Somerset Velvet paper and Epson Ultrachrome professional archival inks, so your product won't fade.

Sizing and prices are as follows:

4 x 6 - $8.00

5 x 7 - $10.00

8 x 10 - $20.00

8 x 12 - $27.00

11 x 14 - $40.00

ACEOs

ACEOS is a short way of simply saying Art Cards, Editions, and Originals. As stated by a fellow illustrator, "They bring original art into the grasps of all art collectors at an affordable price" -- Most of what I intend to be selling are Editions, which will all be signed, dated, and numbered. ACEOs are printed in a 2.5 x 3.5 format, and are the size of traditional trading cards, making them perfect to collect or trade. Pricing varies and will be set accordingly for each piece according to size, number of prints, or if its an original.

Poster Prints

Poster prints are an alternative I offer to Giclee prints for those who would like the art, but maybe looking for something a little cheaper. This is a service I will offer for any of my pieces. These images are printed on a professional laser printer using smooth acid-free paper. The resulting image in vivid and beautiful like a Giclee print, but without the watercolor texture. Its a wonderful, afforable alternative to a Giclee, and look fantastic framed.

8.5 x 11 - $10.00

11 x 14 - $15.00

12 x 18 - $20.00

16.20 - $25.00

20 x 30 - $30.00

Larger sizes are available, but pricing changes and will need to be discussed.

Stationary

This portion will include postcards to start with, but will expand into notepads and paper sets in time. The postcards will all come with envelopes, which will be (for the most part) 100% recycled brown envelopes, which you're welcome to decline should you have other options you'd like to consider. In some cases, certain designs will be placed on the envelopes to cordinate them with a series (for example, the Ladies of Wonderland come with tea party stamped envelopes).

I hope that helps with those of you looking to make a purchase. If theres something you want or need, message me and i'll be sure to get back to you. Thanks for looking!

Christi and Jedi <3

VistaPrint, a blessing or a curse?

So I ordered a couple of free magnets from VistaPrint a week or so ago and they came in last friday, and I am rather happy with them. Although the magnets feel sort of flimsy, they stick to things just fine and considering they were my free trial sample, I have to say I think I did well. I intend to slip these babies in with my etsy orders once I get the shop up and running. Now, for these sample magnets, I just used a design that was already on the site and complimentary to my own style, but you do have the option of uploading your own images to use (sometimes this cost money, sometimes its free, depending on the promotions going on at the moment.) So I got myself 25 magnets for the cost of $6.50 for shipping.

Now, VistaPrint is an amazing site and you can get a lot of quality products for relatively low prices, but you kind of have to be careful because they will throw things at you and all of a sudden you'll have a check out price much higher than what you were aiming for because you didn't read all the print. This happened to me today when I returned to check out their other free products. I discovered that sometimes when you just try something out, it'll actually add itself onto your product list in the checkout area in one way or another, so you have to really look at what youre agreeing to carefully. Anyway, I walked away with:

Free

• One small car magnet


• One rubber stamp


• One Pen with logo and contact information

Paid

• 10 large magnets for $9.74


• 2 notebooks for $23.99

Now, im not too thrilled I got had on the two notebooks, but that was my fault as I kept going back and forth between quantities. I had intended to just settle on one but, I guess that got lost in translation. I got the slow shipping for $6.60, which says 21 days, but i'll keep track of how long it actually takes to get it. I'm hoping it comes out well...these could be great promotional items to use =)

Christi Thomas-Fealy