Is It Possible For Someone With Little Money To Get Anything Done?

 I'm thinking don't get your hopes up. I made a small collage to get printed as sticker labels for my small card holding boxes for the Match Me card game, the labels would be 3"x4".  I chose GotPrint to do the job, I had used them in the past with good results. The least you could order was 100. I uploaded my design, got a message it was approved, and waited.  The stickers arrived yesterday and at first glance they looked good.

But as I looked further I noticed the color missing in a LOT of the images. The stickers on the left, perfect, the stickers on the right no so much.  The cats jacket turning partially or totally from green to yellow, the blue sky disappearing, the blue and white birds head turning white in some, The green foliage turning yellow. About 30 of the stickers were perfect all the rest had color issues. When I contacted GotPrint about this I was told the fault was mine because the resolution was too low and this would cause pixelation and graininess.  I do not see pixelation or graininess in this printing, I see color loss. How could 30 be perfect and the rest not be? I was told I could redo what I had sent them (with higher resolution) and they would redo it or I could have $45 in store credit. They refused to admit it was a printing error, clogged heads? low ink?  70 stickers into the trash. Ugh.

Just got word my stickers (from a different printing company) for the back of each card are arriving today. Fingers crossed🙄

Holidays Approaching

 The Holidays. Seems I'm more of a humbug kind of person when it comes to holidays, even as a kid they were always more tense than warm and loving times. Expressing warmth and love I don't think came natural to my parents. Ha.....I was trying to think about my parents the other day and realized I didn't even know them, as people I mean. Silence seemed to be the best survival skill you could develop to try to keep tensions at bay. But I digress........

Fourthwall :-) I finally mastered creating the website, now I have to learn (at 73 mind you!) how to use social platforms to promote it.  This is not going to be easy. 

I removed the prints part of the website for now.  I continue to mess around with designs and ways to create the prints (mostly the note cards) in the least costly way. I'm leaning toward printing them myself mostly because I've spent so much time and money on trying different papers, buying ink, learning how to print them properly etc etc.... I'd hate to give up and resort to using an outside company, but time and money will tell.  This is the main reason I removed the prints part of the website for now......I have to know if someone orders something I can fulfill it confidently. 

I'm also continuing to rework the Match Me card game, redesigning the label a bit of the cards box, ordering more prints of more recent works to add to the collections and figuring out ways to lower the cost of producing the end product.  For example, the cards themselves aren't that expensive but add on printing on both sides or rounding the corners of the cards things begin to add up. So of course I purchased a corner cutter and I've ordered stickers to adorned the back of the cards (just til I learn how to make my own stickers ;-) at home.

There are two versions of the game, one of birds of course, and one for still lifes of fruits and vegs. All prints of my ACEO paintings.  I had these free logos created via AI online, the stickers of each will arrive in a day or two as will the new labels and cards and I'll be back on here with pictures of the end product.