Greeting Cards Featuring Original Watercolour Sketches

My artwork has been a little scarce recently, as I try to get back to terms with watercolours. It has been so long since I used them in anger. However, one or two sketches have grown on me and I have put them onto Greetings cards.

All my cards and most products can be completely customised to include your own personal greetings message.

Keep Calm & Enjoy Your Birthday, birthday card by ArtyfaxCards
Create custom greeting cards at Zazzle.

Keep Calm & Enjoy Your Birthday, birthday card by ArtyfaxCards
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Keep Calm & Enjoy Your Birthday, birthday card by ArtyfaxCards
Shop for more greeting cards online at Zazzle.

A New Watercolour Painting Now Available On My Zazzle Store

I have recently placed a new watercolour painting on canvas and paper media at my Zazzle store. I will be placing it on a number of other products in the near future. As with any of my designs, if you like the look of an image whether photographic or painted, I will be only too pleased to place them on any product which it is not already available on.

This may obviously be dependent upon size and other factors, but I will look carefully at any requests

Please either leave a message in the Zazzle store in which you have seen the image or in the comment area on this blog. I will answer as soon as possible, hopefully with a positive response.

But back to this new watercolour, first of all a poster version:-

This Road Leads Me There, poster by PastelsByArtyfax
Browse Painting Posters

As standard, this is a matte finish, but is available in semi-gloss or full-gloss finish to your requirements. Simply choose CUSTOMISE and edit. It is also available in different sizes.
It is also available as a stretched canvas print.

Lastly for now, one of the other possibilities is one of the range of mugs which are available on Zazzle, from basic mugs to steins and more:-

This Road Takes Me There, Mug by PastelsByArtyfax
Design custom steins at Zazzle

For many other, different art and photographic designs visit my Zazzle profile which lists five separate stores .

The icons are a little fuzzy at the moment, Zazzle rehashed its page designs and my lovely small icons for the stores and departments are now being shown at twice the intended size. Oh well, I just need to find more time to sort out those little niggly problems. BUT be assured the images on the designs are not similarly afflicted. They are sharp and focused on the products, honestly.

A Mug For A Musician

I have just posted a story about how I have found a second wind as a musician, because I was bought a ukulele as a Christmas present. Read it under the tab, "Musical Me", which will take you to my blog, "Guitar Bashin".

This is just a quick post about a mug I have just posted onto Zazzle.

Have UKE will travel mug by ArtyfaxProducts
Browse more Ukulele Mugs

You can buy one if you want and even change the image to one of your own, showing the recipient of the mug if it is a gift. Or even go the whole hog and replace the text to reflect another instrument. Have fun ...

Abstract Photographs Using Oil And Water

Colourful abstract images easily created by using oil and water.

I have used a very interesting technique, which my son found on the internet to create abstract photographic images for the products on these pages. Essentially Take a shallow dish, cover the bottom with water and sprinkle on some vegetable oil from the kitchen. Complete the rig with a glass sheet (from a photoframe) some coloured paper and a househhold lamp.

Read more on Oil and Water, Bubblews

I had great fun taking the photos and decided that  I could use them on Zazzle. The first products were to be stretched canvas prints, more will be added in the near future. Here is the first:-

oil and water, blue and yellow canvas prints by artyfax
Look at more canvas art prints at zazzle

And using the image and a handy photo-editor I then changed the colours to provide an extra image for another product. See the follow-up article.

And the canvas print created using this new image is:-

oil and water, purple and blue canvas print by artyfax
More Digital Canvas Prints

If you like the prints but would like to see them on another different product do leave me a comment, and that of course applies to any of the images on my Zazzle store.

Humerous Tee Shirts, On Zazzle

Humour seems to be a major selling point on Zazzle for a number of products, if I can judge by the number of products on sale. So here are a few more tee-shirts with text-based humour. I do keep trying to increase my portfolio of products even though sales are not as successful as I know that some people claim they can be. I guess it is all down to promotion, my designs can't be that bad.

Too many cooks, ladies' t-shirt by artyfax
Check out other Humour T-Shirts at zazzle.com

LUV TO SHOP, ladies' t-shirt by artyfax
See more Humour T-Shirts at zazzle.com

Don't Ask, men's tee shirt by artyfax
Design your own custom t shirts at zazzle.com

Floral Decorated Mugs on Zazzle

To team up with the greeting cards offered in last weeks post, a selection of ceramic mugs with similar decorations.

A red rose (check out the language and meaning of roses):

Roses are red mug by ArtyfaxHome
Design your own customized coffee cups at Zazzle

A blue iris(read about the iris family on Wikipedia):

Blue iris mug by ArtyfaxHome
Browse more Blue Mugs at Zazzle

And last but not the bunch of flowers for a wonderful lady (the meaning of various flowers ).

Mulit-coloured flowers mug. by ArtyfaxHome
Look for more mugs at Zazzle

Back next week with more goodies from Zazzle ....

Floral Greeting Cards On Zazzle

I seem to see a lot of greeting cards with floral images, and my own store is no exception. Many of these are my own photographs but I will use Public domain and CC licensed images when available.

The first cards here use images available from Dover Publications samples which are available for use in your own work, personal or commercial as long as you obey their rules which are really quite lax.

blue iris blank greeting card by ArtyfaxCards
Check out more Flower Cards at Zazzle

blue iris blank birthday card by ArtyfaxCards
Make custom notecards at zazzle.com

You will see that that there is a  difference in the text between these two cards; if you know Zazzle then you will know that it is nearly always possible to edit (or customise as Zazzle calls it) any item in their product range. Store owners/designers often allow customers to chcosse their own wording or edit what is shown to allow for the customers own personal message.
Also, many cards are left blank for those personal messages which seems to be a modern trend with art or craft based greeting cards.

Cards are available in three different sizes from 8.5 x 11inches (large card) to 4 x 5.6 inches (notecard). Prices reflect the size of the card.

Another similar design using a Dover sample, an image of a rose:-

red rose blank greeting card by ArtyfaxCards
Add your photos and text to blank greeting cards at Zazzle

The next card is an example of my own photography, this shot was of a wonderfully colourful bunch of flowers, too good to miss making further use of. One of a number of Mother's Day cards on my 
Zazzle store:-

To a wonderful Mother Cards by ArtyfaxCards
Create card designs on Zazzle

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