Will You Be My 100th Sale?

I can hardly believe it, but it's true! I'm almost at 100 sales! To offer my appreciation, I want to offer to my 100th sale, $20 in shop credit to be used for anything you want in my shop. In addition, I will do a feature on the winning shop right here on my blog. Thanks to all of you who have made this possible! ♥♥♥ Love, Kat ♥♥♥

Super Groovy, Super DJ Kid Card

Here's a card I made for my nephew a couple of weeks back for his 10th birthday, he has two pet guinea pigs that he adores. I wasn't going to list this because I used a stock image, and most of my cards are original design or my own photography, but my sister encouraged me to, because she said it came out really cute.

So, I emailed the photographer, hanua from stockxchange.com , and she graciously gave me permission to use her image. You can get this card personalized the way you want here: Personalized Super DJ Birthday Photo Card.

Possible Amore Bride Banners

Etsy Day!

The Etsy Forums have united and declared Friday, April 24th, 2009, Etsy Day! Hurray! This is a grassroots, marketing blitz to raise awareness and create a buzz about Etsy. We want to educate the public by throwing the word out there in mass numbers. One of the ideas on the Etsy Storque was to support a new seller by buying an item from someone with no sales (you can find them on Pounce Undiscovered), and wish them a "Happy Etsy Day" in the Message to Seller field when you check out (or if you always forget to 'Message the Seller' like I do, convo them later.) The shop I pounced was DeslynnWDesigns. At Deslynn's you'll find some very pretty handmade cards. Isn't this a great card purchase!

Wordless Wednesday - The Voca People

How to Make Clear Watermarks for Images Using Photoshop Tutorial

Clear watermarks are a great way to protect your images, and at the same time not distract from what it is you are selling. This is a Photoshop tutorial, it is the program I most work in. Please be sure to click on the images if you need to zoom in.

1. Open your image. Hit Cntrl D to set your forground to black. Type out your Name (If you want a copyright symbol hit ALT 0169). Size it and position it where you think it looks best.

2. Rasterize your text by right-clicking on the layer in the layers palette and selecting rasterize.

3. In the Filter menu, under Stylize, choose Emboss. Apply the following settings: Angle 135° Height 3-5 pixels (where ever you like it) Amount 100% Click OK.

4. To Smooth the edges, go to the Layers palette, turn on Lock Transparent Pixels (the first icon fron the left in the Lock section), and add a 2-3 pixel Gaussian Blur (Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur).

5. To make the Watermark Transparent, go to the Layers palette and change the Blend Mode to from Normal to Hard Light.

What's New This Week?

Bronze Safari Mini Notecards

These leopard, tiger & giraffe patterns create a very classy, elegant set of mini 3x3 inch notecards. Each animal print notecard comes with it's own coordinating hand-made (yes, hand cut and glued by me) bronze-colored envelope. The insides of the card have been left blank for your own message. Perfect for sliding a thank you into your customer's package, or for letting that special babysitter, teacher, post office carrier know how much they're appreciated. Sold in a set of 6 or set of 3 cards.