Wednesday 10 February 2016

Help me design pin-up stationery!

First off, the January raffle winner has gotten back to me.  Congrats to rcadwallender, who has asked for 20 sheets of the vintage butterfly frame in colour.  I'll be shipping that out at the end of the week.

I finally broke down and tried, once again, using fake lights to take some pictures of new stationery that is piling up and still unlisted.  The pictures came out *okay*, but definitely not great.  I'll be cropping them and creating listings this week too.  And hopefully I'll get some sun with no wind in Toronto soon!

In other news, I'm kind of struggling with a set I'm working on.  It's an ironic pin-up girl set.  Did I ever mention I did my undergrad in Women & Gender Studies?  We talked a lot about the era of pin-ups, and the way we currently use women's bodies to advertise and sell things.  When I found this pin-up art, I was totally in love, and I wanted to make a set of several pages with them.  However, I'm not sure I've got the wording right to get my point across.

And so, I'm turning to my customers for help!  And I'll give prizes.  :D  Each person that votes for the quote that ultimately gets picked will be entered to win a small prize - 10 sheets of any design you want.  I'll probably leave this open for 3 weeks.  I'll also do it in two batches of three pages - the first three today, the last three by Friday.

Below are the pages, and I'm hoping you'll vote for the wording you like best for each sheet in the comments or on Facebook.  Some sheets only have one current option, so please suggest an entirely different quote of your own if you have one, and people can put their vote behind that one.

Once this set goes on sale, there will be an option available to buy it *without* the words, if you just want the images without the semi-snarky quote.

ps.  the first two pages are finished, but I'm still tweaking the design for the rest of them.  Don't be surprised if the finished product is slightly different.


Page 1 - Gardening

a)  I love to garden in my Sunday best!




Page 2 - Picnic

a)  Come eat some pie while I finish this hot dog.
b)  What a delightful afternoon!  Pie?
c)  What a delightful afternoon!  Hungry?
d)  Hungry? / Are you hungry?




Page 3 - Peach Picking

a)  High heels on a ladder isn't dangerous at all!
b)  Peaches for my peach, at any cost.
c)  Peaches - as sweet as they are lovely.
d)  Pretty as a peach.