Poems On Posters

I read an article on Squidoo recently, making money from poetry and one of the suggestions as to how to do this was to try creating posters on POD sites and make money by selling the posters. Well I was not absolutely convinced but thought that it was worth a try.

So I have created my first two posters in this group. The first uses a background image provided by one of my pastel paintings .

Poster: A poem by John Dyhouse by artyfax
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The second utilises a public domain photograph.

A Poem: The Waterfall by artyfax
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Both poems can be seen and read in my Squidoo lens, Poems on attitudes to life

I have ordered a couple of Tee-shirts from my store as nobody else seems to be buying them, LOL. Seriously tho', I decided that I really liked some of the designs and in order to use up some of the money which I have been accumulating, I would treat myself to a couple of shirts.

Vintage Mothers Day Cards

Wow, sure is hard to make posts here regularly - I really must try to gee myself up. With the latest new poetry blog I now have seven on the go and I am writing articles on one or two web-sites. I am going to have to start to make a concerted effort to rationalise and plan my on-line activities.

Do you find that you spend too much time on forums without doing anything really positive ..... thats me; always procrastinating. I read rather than get down to doing that which I should be doing. A much more positive approach is needed.

Ok, enough self-development, what have I been doing on Zazzle?

I made a set of St Patricks Day cards and begorrah, I sold 24 of one design. A nice little earner.

Mothers' Day in the USA in 2012 is Sunday May 13th and a few weeks ago I started to create some mothers day cards with a view to possibly getting a few sales for this holiday. So far I have sold one card. That isn't going to make me rich. It is a small victory however, and I will be looking for more opportunities to create cards and expand my portfolio.  Like everything else on the internet, you need lots of "stuff" to even stand a chance. I am also trying to improve my SEO understanding to bring more visitors to the Zazzle store as well as my other web-sites.

Here are a sample of the vintage cards that I have in the store:

Vintage mother and daughter greeting card by ArtyfaxCards
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Happy mothers day greeting card by ArtyfaxCards
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Of course not being sexist, I am also putting together a set of vintage fathers day cards, June 17th in the USA. Here is an examples of this set I have designed so far:

Vintage gentleman fathers day card by ArtyfaxCards
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All the cards can be customised by changing or adding/subtracting any text and sentiments to make the cards personal. You can even add your own photographs.

New Greeting Cards On Zazzle

So much has been happening at home and I haven't had much time for the internet in any form. But I am finally able to see a littlte light at the end of what has been a very long tunnel. I have not been working on my Zazzle inventory until today and I have added a couple of cards to my Artyfax cards store. 
I have been working on some vintage greeting cards, these are the  images I seem to have easily available. For instance, this image of an owl ( from a collage sheet by Kim Newberg) has allowed me to use a little Harry Potter reference. Is he still cool and of the moment? Anyway here it is:-

A message by owl post greeting card by ArtyfaxCards
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I wanted to use this next image, also from Kim Newberg, but couldn't see exactly where it might be used. However that is the beauty of Zazzle, a buyer can personalise their messages if an image catches their fancy.

to say hello, greeting card by ArtyfaxCards
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This last card uses a recent pastel painting of my own, with sentiments from the internet. I do mostly use my own words but found this and will be trying it out.

Red and yellow landscape greeting card by ArtyfaxCards
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Hope I will be  making more regular posts from now on.

A source of public domain photos - HubbleTelescope gallery

Looking for inspiration for a new source of available public domain images I came across a gallery of images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. As these are government sourced, they are in the public domain and an be used with attribution where necessary. In fact many government sourced scientific images are in the public domain and would provide a vast source of images. Try googling and see what you can find.

Being interested in the science of astronomy myself, I found this an absorbing source of images. It is necessary to be selective to find images of suitable size for the products on Zazzle but there are some very colourful and fascinating images available.

I have started with a few different products in my various stores, utilising these images. Such as these birthday cards:-

mystic mountain, hubble image birthday card by artyfax
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Hubble photo: The Crab Nebula. Birthday card by ArtyfaxCards
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or these small gifts:-

helix nebula keyring by ArtyfaxProducts
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white dwarf star keyring by ArtyfaxProducts
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Helix Nebula, look to the skies mug by ArtyfaxProducts
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white dwarf star tie by ArtyfaxProducts
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Many more products with these images on are available from other stores and I will feature some of these in my next post.

Christmas gifts from Zazzle

I have started a series of Squidoo lenses which feature similar groups of product as christmas themed gifts, for example:- aprons, ties, abstract canvasses. There will be a few more to come over the next few days but this is a start.

Christmas themed ties such as

Blue Santa Tie by ArtyfaxProducts
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A number of selected designs can be found on Squidoo under

Unique Ties As A Gift For Your Man This Christmas

Aprons with a christmas touch, for example :-

Blue Father Christmas Apron by ArtyfaxProducts
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can be found under

Unique Aprons As christmas Novelties

And if you are looking for Ceramic christmas ornaments , wether for a tree or for more general use:-

christmas star ceramic ornament by ArtyfaxProducts
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You can find a fine selection at

Ceramic Christmas Ornaments

New products from Zazzle

Zazzle has just announced another nine different products in its range of Print-on-demand items. I have of course started to post products based on some of these. Examples are:-

Notebooks:-

Yellow abstract landscape by artyfax
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Plates:-

red poinsettia plate by artyfax
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I have been linking these products to Zazzle.com but if you are in the UK then you can see all of my products at zazzle.co.uk, a selection are in my main store:-

Is it too soon for christmas

I have decided that it is time I started posting a few christmas orientated products on my Zazzle shop. There are many public domain images on the internet so there is no shortage of ideas and images to use, I just need a little time to start to get some work done and design a few. I thought starting off with a few cards would be best. Then once I have uploaded some images for these I can start to turn out more products. Christmas ornaments seems to be a possibility for the next batch.

Here are a selection of the first few cards that I have posted:-

Snowman Christmas card by ArtyfaxCards
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snowflake christmas card by ArtyfaxCards
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Poinsettia Christmas card by ArtyfaxCards
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 Except for the snowflake design (from Brenda-Starr in the flickr group, collage images) , the images used above were obtained from Kim Newberg's art community, Paper Digital Art and Images by Kim