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Showing posts with label Sunshine Sight. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sunshine Sight. Show all posts
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Christmas card giveaway
The holidays are over, right? I don't have to make sure I didn't set the house on fire cooking the turkey or wonder what in the world happened to that extra can of whole cranberry sauce that I was sure I bought until I was in the kitchen rummaging through the cupboards pondering where I could have possibly put it (only to find it in the trunk of my car the next day)...
It's Tuesday now, and I finally got my make-up sleep for the holiday.
Anyhow, Christmas is around the corner, and I design snowflakes & make Christmas cards — so it's time for a giveaway.
It's Tuesday now, and I finally got my make-up sleep for the holiday.
Anyhow, Christmas is around the corner, and I design snowflakes & make Christmas cards — so it's time for a giveaway.
Up for the taking are 8 snowflake Christmas cards (the ones pictured above; the winner gets 4 of each design)
The cards measure 4.25 X 5.5 inches & come with envelopes.
The message inside of the cards reads: Have a lovely Holiday Season! Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
The message is printed in violet colored ink in a cursive style font.
(wanna see: click here)
To enter:
send an email to sarkni@live.com with the word "giveaway" in the title of the email.
The names of the entrants will be written on paper, and one will be drawn from a vessel of some sort. The drawing is this Friday (3 December 2010). I will then email the winner, because, obviously, in order to send you the cards — I need your address, and I don't expect anyone to publicly declare that sort of thing in a blog post, hence the relative privacy of email.
I don't have a mailing list, newsletter, or forward email addresses, or anything spammy like that. The email is exclusively for the giveaway.
The message inside of the cards reads: Have a lovely Holiday Season! Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
The message is printed in violet colored ink in a cursive style font.
(wanna see: click here)
To enter:
send an email to sarkni@live.com with the word "giveaway" in the title of the email.
The names of the entrants will be written on paper, and one will be drawn from a vessel of some sort. The drawing is this Friday (3 December 2010). I will then email the winner, because, obviously, in order to send you the cards — I need your address, and I don't expect anyone to publicly declare that sort of thing in a blog post, hence the relative privacy of email.
I don't have a mailing list, newsletter, or forward email addresses, or anything spammy like that. The email is exclusively for the giveaway.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Autumn & Artfire
I had planned to go out and wander around and take photos, so, of course, it rained. Perhaps this is why I so seldom make plans.
Anyway, instead, I sat down at the computer and opened up some of the thousands of digital photos I have hanging around here and there and everywhere, and decided to have some fun playing with Photoshop. Let's just say that in reality neither of these were photos of red leaves...
Anyway, instead, I sat down at the computer and opened up some of the thousands of digital photos I have hanging around here and there and everywhere, and decided to have some fun playing with Photoshop. Let's just say that in reality neither of these were photos of red leaves...
sublime maple alchemy
So, I'm taking the plunge, and I opened an account on Artfire called SunshineSight. There you can find these and eventually probably all of the rest of my work.
Artfire is offering a pretty cool deal on their accounts, which is valid if you sign up before 10-01-2010. Where a "pro" account is only $5.95 USD a month. It's the same basic price as listing an item a day on Etsy, except with an Artfire account, for the flat monthly fee you can list as many items as you want. Obviously, I encourage you to check it out.
Artfire is offering a pretty cool deal on their accounts, which is valid if you sign up before 10-01-2010. Where a "pro" account is only $5.95 USD a month. It's the same basic price as listing an item a day on Etsy, except with an Artfire account, for the flat monthly fee you can list as many items as you want. Obviously, I encourage you to check it out.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Sunshine Sight at Big Cartel
"Sunshine Sight" is now open on Big Cartel.
I have been looking for a new, different, or alternate venue to sell online for some time now. I haven't stopped looking, but I've decided to throw down some roots at Big Cartel and see if it works out.
I found the place when I was looking for a former fellow 'Etsian' a while back. There used to be a seller on etsy called "artandghosts." I remember 'hearting' her shop when I first set up shop there... and at some point I went back through my etsy favorites and discovered that she had disappeared from the site. Fortunately, as she is quite talented, she's not dead or anything horrible like that. She simply moved on. I found her on her blog: http://artandghosts.typepad.com/ which was where I found her Big Cartel shop. I was intrigued. And so, I decided to learn more about the site....
I also decided — around last October — that I wanted to come up with a different name to brand my artwork and products. "sarahkdesigns" is literally something I scrawled onto a piece of scrap paper in the breakroom at work one night when I was trying to come up with a name for a seller account on ebay. Remember when ebay seemed like a good place to give it a try? Yeah.
While sarahkdesigns is obvious — I am Sarah K, well, it's so obvious that other people use it too. It annoys me to google myself and find other people. That and my name is Sarah Knight, which is apparently like the "John Green" of female names. It's not quite "John Smith" common, but my — there are a lot of us Sarah Knights!
Besides that, I have looked around etsy at the successful print sellers usernames. While there are the folks who simply use their first name, there are more that don't. Creative folks like theeye, BirdNerd, strangefascination, arabbitgirl, ThisYearsGirl, mincingmockingbird, atwhim, and papermoth (to name a few) have more branded identities... So, I needed something more original, more arty, and less generic. I also decided to make this decision around Halloween, I'm not quite sure why.
I was going to pick "A moment's sunlight." Why? Because it's my favorite line in the Youngblood's song "Get Together" — which I had stuck in my head for weeks after having seen the movie "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" — which is one of my favorite books. It's a long name though.
So, I was brainstorming alternatives and through the process of elimination (again, while at work in the middle of the night) came up with Sunshine Sight. It's got that lyrical quality to it — not unlike "plastic acid" but apparently doesn't quite seem like such a stoner drug reference. Plus "Sunshine Sight: illustrations by Sarah Knight" conveniently rhymes with my name.
Sunshine was also apparently the runner-up to "Sarah" when my mother was deciding my name. Sunshine Knight - get it? Oh, Mom.
And, as someone with an openly sarcastic streak, Sunshine has always been the de facto sarcastic nickname bestowed upon me by co-workers. As someone who enjoys their sarcasm, I find that amusing.
So, I invite you to check out my Big Cartel shop: Sunshine Sight
I apparently also decided to open on "Earth Day" : )
So, go outside and wish the earth a beautiful day today!
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I also invite you to participate in my giveaway
The winner will receive a free Mother's Day card
You can read about it here: send some flowers giveaway
I found the place when I was looking for a former fellow 'Etsian' a while back. There used to be a seller on etsy called "artandghosts." I remember 'hearting' her shop when I first set up shop there... and at some point I went back through my etsy favorites and discovered that she had disappeared from the site. Fortunately, as she is quite talented, she's not dead or anything horrible like that. She simply moved on. I found her on her blog: http://artandghosts.typepad.com/ which was where I found her Big Cartel shop. I was intrigued. And so, I decided to learn more about the site....
I also decided — around last October — that I wanted to come up with a different name to brand my artwork and products. "sarahkdesigns" is literally something I scrawled onto a piece of scrap paper in the breakroom at work one night when I was trying to come up with a name for a seller account on ebay. Remember when ebay seemed like a good place to give it a try? Yeah.
While sarahkdesigns is obvious — I am Sarah K, well, it's so obvious that other people use it too. It annoys me to google myself and find other people. That and my name is Sarah Knight, which is apparently like the "John Green" of female names. It's not quite "John Smith" common, but my — there are a lot of us Sarah Knights!
Besides that, I have looked around etsy at the successful print sellers usernames. While there are the folks who simply use their first name, there are more that don't. Creative folks like theeye, BirdNerd, strangefascination, arabbitgirl, ThisYearsGirl, mincingmockingbird, atwhim, and papermoth (to name a few) have more branded identities... So, I needed something more original, more arty, and less generic. I also decided to make this decision around Halloween, I'm not quite sure why.
I was going to pick "A moment's sunlight." Why? Because it's my favorite line in the Youngblood's song "Get Together" — which I had stuck in my head for weeks after having seen the movie "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" — which is one of my favorite books. It's a long name though.
So, I was brainstorming alternatives and through the process of elimination (again, while at work in the middle of the night) came up with Sunshine Sight. It's got that lyrical quality to it — not unlike "plastic acid" but apparently doesn't quite seem like such a stoner drug reference. Plus "Sunshine Sight: illustrations by Sarah Knight" conveniently rhymes with my name.
Sunshine was also apparently the runner-up to "Sarah" when my mother was deciding my name. Sunshine Knight - get it? Oh, Mom.
And, as someone with an openly sarcastic streak, Sunshine has always been the de facto sarcastic nickname bestowed upon me by co-workers. As someone who enjoys their sarcasm, I find that amusing.
So, I invite you to check out my Big Cartel shop: Sunshine Sight
I apparently also decided to open on "Earth Day" : )
So, go outside and wish the earth a beautiful day today!
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I also invite you to participate in my giveaway
The winner will receive a free Mother's Day card
You can read about it here: send some flowers giveaway
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