For those of you who have been here before you will notice that the look of the site has changed. That’s because, although I loved the very pink and pretty look of before, the style was particularly difficult to read as it was very narrow and the type therefore had to be small. So to celebrate June I have changed to a new theme entitled ‘Bueno’ which is much easier on the eye.
I do hope you will find it a much better layout.
Jane
Butterfly Tag Card
Well, here it is! Last week I promised you a new section to my Galleries and today I’m launching it. And to celebrate I’m also making the download FREE – whoo hooo!!! Hurry on over to the new Printables page in my Galleries and you can try out the Butterfly Tag card for yourself.
I’d also love to hear how you get on with it and, as always, I’m open to suggestions for themes for invitations.
Enjoy!
Jane
I have been busily working away at finding the best solution to allow my clients to purchase and download my invitations. This would allow the user to either print the invitation themselves or take the document to a printer.
There are a lot of options out there and it is taking time to research the best option for my business.
Butterfly Tag Card Pack
I am also branching out into creating printable cards, templates and downloadable graphics and need to establish whether this can be incorporated into the same website or whether I should set up a new one for this side of the business. Oh dear, so much going on at the moment, but if you visit my Galleries after 31st May 2010 you will see a new category called printables where I plan to do a test run!
Anyway, keep checking up with this site (you could always subscribe to the RSS feed) and I’ll keep you informed.
I’ve been searching for ways to make an exciting Pirate party invitation for little boys … and, it has to be said, inspiration has been sadly lacking! However, with a little application and a lot of frustration I came up with these two, both of which I’m quite happy with. One is double sided but features a fun map & fanciful wording and the other is more ‘run of the mill’.
I’m always on the look out for theme suggestions so please feel free to post a comment on any of my blog posts.
What theme are you planning for your child’s next birthday party? Set me a challenge and if I take you up on it I’ll let you have a PDF file of the finished design to print yourself or to take to your local printer. Yes, that’s right, a freebie!
Get your thinking caps on then …
Jane
I felt it was probably a wise move to mention the sourcing of graphics for projects here. For me this area has always been a bit of a mine field.
Throughout most of my working life I have been an avid user of Microsoft clip art and other media files. I know that these are safe and free from royalties, etc for the uses I’ve put them to. However, now that I’ve started with Invites I’ve become aware of a number of pitfalls with regard to copyright, royalties and licencing of images, clip art and other digital graphics. All the sites I have visited during my various searches for original graphics have their licencing and terms of use posted somewhere, however not all are easy to find.
I don’t want to go into the depths of the various copyright and terms of use contracts here but generally the graphics (even if you purchase them) may only be used for personal use. Some may be used commercially, but often that means on finished products only – i.e. you may not resell the graphics in their raw form – and to me that is only fair. Some state that you must change the graphic in some way. There are all sorts of pitfalls and if you are about to embark on a similar journey to me then I would strongly recommend that you check out the origin of your graphics, clip art and images before posting them to a web site. It is often possible to purchase a licence from the designer which allows you use the graphic in the way you wish – all it takes is a quick e-mail.
So, for the sake of the designers I would ask that you take a bit of time to consider the use of the image you are about to download and out of courtesy make sure you have permission to use it as you want. If you are unsure contact the designer and ask – you may find that a simple acknowledgement is all that is required.
That said, I try very hard to acknowledge the designer of any media I use where required. If you are a designer and have found one of your graphics illegally used on my site please do get in touch with me and I will arrange to correct any error as soon as possible. It will have been a genuine mistake on my part.
Have fun looking for new graphics!
Jane
