Showing posts with label Thank You Cards. UPrinting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thank You Cards. UPrinting. Show all posts

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Giveaway! 50 Thank You Cards WITH Envelopes!

Yes....these come with envelopes! Mine didn't come with envelopes...maybe because I got 250! But that's ok....I know where to get the perfect size envelopes for dirt cheap! In fact, I have a bunch of them already that came in a bag full from a nearby thrift store.
Well, there's only a few more days left to enter. Katerina from Girl With A Ring is hosting this one....her FIRST giveaway! November 15th is the deadline. So hurry on over to Girl With A Ring and enter!

250 UPrinting Cards Have Arrived!

So here they are. My winnings from the UPrinting giveaway. They arrived late afternoon yesterday. I heard the sound of the UPS truck parking in front of my house, then the thud of a heavy box hitting the concrete on my porch. It's them...I just know it's them. I rushed over to the door and quickly pulled the box in. Oh....I hope they came out ok.
So.....much different than the #2 card that won in the voting, but I think I like these. This being the front of the card.....
and this being the back. Yes....I think these will work out just fine. I didn't have the words "thank you" printed on them because I knew there was no way I'd be using 250 thank you's....probably not even in my lifetime! So I made them more generic-y. I told the Mr., "Yeah, we'll just get a bunch of different stickers and put them on....bunnies (Happy Easter), hearts (Happy Valentine's) and so on and so forth. Our family can get the same card delivered to them for every occasion! lol I know you know I'm kidding, right???
Well, anyways....thank you UPrinting and Bride On A Budget!

Saturday, November 7, 2009

#2 Won, But Can Never Be

NOPE! This will not be the design printed on my UPrinting cards afterall. =(
You remember #2 sample from my poll to select your favorite of my card designs? Number 2 ended up being the favorite by far, so that is the one I sent in to UPrinting. Well, they emailed the proof, and said that the picture was blurry. They wrote I had to either fix it, send in an alternate, or approve it as is.
I wasn't about to take the chance with 250 cards coming back to me blurry and non-usable, so I tried to remedy the problem. I sent it in again, to no avail. It came back again saying the same thing. The prepress team gave me a call and discussed how I could fix this. It seems that the background I had found online to use on my card was the biggest problem. The resolution just wasn't good enough. They told me that when I create a design to send in to them, to double check it by zooming in on it 500X. Yup, a 500X zoom. They were very helpful.
So I went back to my other samples to see if they would work. Number 7 was the runner up, so I zoomed in 500X on it, and no way. Super blurry!
I went back online trying to find a nice "wallpaper" looking background and zoomed in, only to find that this was really not working out. I then decided to get my own purple scrapbook papers and take a picture of them. I uploaded, zoomed....and nope! Still not good enough. I was really tired of stressing on this, so I finally said screw it.....no background. I designed a card with just plain color background. I zoomed...looks good. Sent it in.....came back a-ok. So now I'm just crossing my fingers that I like them when they come in.
I'm not posting the "plain" design on here....you'll just have to wait and see it when I get them in the mail!
Has anyone else used UPrinting for anything? What kind of design did you use?

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Please Help With Your Vote...............

I would really appreciate you helping me by voting in my poll for these cards that I designed. I just want to get an idea on what you all think. I would very much appreciate no negative comments, so if you don't really like any of them, at least please vote on the one you dislike the least. ;)
These designs are for the 250 greeting cards I won from UPrinting. I was going to make them thank you cards, but I won't be needing 250 thank you cards, so I made them generic so that I could use them for thank you cards and for whatever else ailes us.
Thanks for the help! =)

(I think if you click on the pic, you can see it larger)
THANKS EVERYONE , FOR VOTING. IT LOOKS LIKE #2 IT IS!