looking up jewelry making

[karadinart]

I'm pretty happy with the polyclay jewelry, I have been looking up on making jewelry from metal, either stampings or creating bezels from wire, but that's even more time consuming and expensive than clay, and would then push the prices up from maybe $50 to $100, not that it wouldn't be fun to experiment, but no $$$ to get materials and just play with it. But maybe I can try different liquid poly clay to see if Kato dries clearer, or whatever, but I have to get that mail order so more expensive than the Sculpy I've been using.

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[shezan.livejournal.com]

I've been exploring Society6 thanks to you, and I wonder whether I could ask for advice? I'm no great artist but I've been making digital "drawings" of Paris and was thinking that they'd be great presents on mugs for friends (I think they'd look pretty childish as art prints; but you apparently have to first offer a print before you can diversify). I've registered with them (http://society6.com/AEMoutet) and they ask for a specific format for a mug; "exactly 4600px (width) X 2000px (height)". I think the design on white would work fine, leaving the rest of the mug plain; the china and glaze are of excellent quality. How did you manage not to reshape your designs for your own merchandise, but leave the rest of the mugs plain?

(And I was wondering whether you were considering to reprise some of your printfection designs, on a white background? Now I have the "Three Pipe Problem" and "St George & the Dragon" I'm building up a collection & love the "Smoke Break - Two Sherlocks" mug design but I would be happier buying it with a white background than with the black you currently have on offer.)

[karadin.livejournal.com]

on the mugs at society six you have to make your own template, so first make a new image thats sized to 4600pixels wide and 2000 pixels high, 300 dpi and white.

Then open up your art file and drag it over to the white background template. You have to size down your original and either have one image centered or two images that are positioned equal distances from each other and the sides so that when the design wraps around the mug, it's on both sides in the same place.

Otherwise you can go to printfection with a free account and only select mugs (they don't offer prints) they only print on white mugs and will place the image for you on a template, and you can ask for front, or front and back.

I still have stuff at printfection if you want to buy from there!

[shezan.livejournal.com]

Thank you for this! And yes, I liked some of your Printfection stuff better (for my taste; there's a lot of lovely stuff at Society6). The mug I won, the Three-Pipe problem one, from PF, was slightly sturdier than the St George one from S6. Nothing I would have noticed if I hadn't had the previous one to compare; but that one holds beautifully and the handle is just that bit chunkier. (It's always the handles I break first...)

[karadin.livejournal.com]

my only issue with Printfection is that they drove no traffic to me, I had to do it all! But I enjoy the quality, and that as the artist, I can set whatever fee I want, whereas on Society6 - with the exception of prints, they set the prices.

But, you could perhaps select the larger size mug at Society6, that's more like the larger mug at Printfection.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

Oh, I have the larger mugs. They're both good, with a tiny advantage to Printfection.

[karadin.livejournal.com]

if I don't get the printfection account back, I can do that smoke break mug with a white background.