Illustrating Greeting Cards
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Marketing your illustrated greeting cards
A place to discuss what we are doing to market illustrated greeting cards.
Here is a place for us to share our suggestions and practices that have worked for us!
Here is a place for us to share our suggestions and practices that have worked for us!
Creating Great Greeting Cards
For your online PODs
Turning an illustration into a good greeting card takes more than just plopping a photo or drawing into a 5x7 format.Things to keep in mind when creating top notch greeting cards:
1 Images are of top quality.
a. Photos in focus (unless you INTEND otherwise.)
b. Illustrations need to be clear, sharp & saved at the highest resolution/size ratio that your POD requires.
c. Have balance and focus in your design.
d. Check your spelling!
2 Give your greeting card a purpose. Perhaps it's a
Holiday - (Christmas and Mother's Day are the biggest card buying holidays,)
Occasion - (birthdays are the biggest - graduation and weddings are popular,)
Particular sentiment - (thank you, sympathy or encouragement come to mind.)
OR
"Everyday cards" should be eye catching in image and/or have wording that "speaks to" the customer.
3 Keywords: Describe image and sentiment in detail and make sure you know the POD "category" structure for profiling.
Ernestine's Easel
at Greeting Card Universe
Ernestine's Easel is full of Collage, Whimsical and traditional art Greeting cards for holidays, occasions and "just because.Ernestine will also create a custom collage for you to have made into greeting or note cards.
Greeting Card Groups & Sites
Folks with a passion for creating
Links to inspirational lenses.
- Great Advice from the Busiest Bee at Greeting Card Universe
- Top seller Corrie Kuipers shares her invaluable information on making your Greeting Card Universe experience a fun and profitable venture.
- Greeting Cards Group at Squidoo
- Great groups involved in the proliferation great art through greeting cards and small artworks.
- Paper Greeting Cards Online
- Perhaps you are looking for a card for a holiday that is not mainstream, an anti-valentine or just to say hello I miss you in French. This wonderful website pairs freelance artists with card buyers.
- Protect Our Art
- Vote "NO!" to the Orphan Works Act.
- Drawing your own Cartoons
- If you really like to draw, here are a few tips.
- Stationary
- In the past one of the most common ways of communication was by writing letters. It was good manners to hand write a note on your best stationary to thank people.
- Greeting Card Universe for Artists
- Information on setting up your own card shop at Greeting Card Universe. Has helpful pointers for "newbies" on image sizing, keywords and profiling.
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Making them, Printing them, Selling them
Sources of inspiration to create, print and market your own greeting cards.
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about creating greeting cards
David_W_Allen wrote...
Illustrations is something I have always struggled with I think I will stick to photo cards. I do love your work - very talented. Great books you refer to above another I have is called Simply Cards. Great book and full of inspiration. I got it on Amazon. I would love some feedback on my new blog too its call make your own cardsblog. I am working on some new content for it at the moment I would love some suggestions. :)
Posted November 24, 2008
Winter52 wrote...
Love the collage idea... I'm going to get started on creating something like that for the next birthday coming up and that would be for my mom. I think that she would love something like that. :)
Posted May 23, 2008
lhiller wrote...
Your lense is great Ernestine, and your artwork priceless - I love it.
Posted May 20, 2008
d-artist wrote...
LOVE YOUR CARDS!your artwork is incredible...thanks for sharing 5*s
Posted May 01, 2008
by ernestine
Ernestine Is an illustrator focusing on greeting cards. She lives in a cottage in the woods of a small town on the coast of Maine. Ernestine's artwork... (more)
