2017 Christmas Card Designs & 2018 Calendars.

Wow it's been awhile since I've posted here. Had a super busy fall, but I did find time to design 2 Christmas Card designs and update my Calendars for 2018.

The Lion & Mouse design is the card I'm using as my personal Christmas card this year. I had some hand lettering fun with The Peace Dove. I have a few other concepts in the works but they probably won't make it into my shops for the 2017 Holiday Season. Please Click on the card icons to see more details or to purchase. Please Click HERE to see all the Christmas Card Designs in my shop:  greetingcarduniverse.com/dianascards

   

Here are my new Calendars: 2018 Animal Fair Calendar & 2018 Flora Calendar. The calendars are available in 3 different sizes. Pick what works best for your space. Click on the links below if you want to flip through the calendars to see my illustrations or to purchase. Please visit my shop zazzle.com/deloshdesigns* for other nifty gifts.

2018 Animal Fair Calendar
by deloshdesigns

2018 Flora Calendar
by deloshdesigns

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Christmas in July 2017

Not sure where that phrase originated from, but as a card designer, I definitely should be thinking of Christmas in July. So here I am hiding out in my studio with the AC blasting trying to think of winter holiday ideas. To get me in the mood and hopefully inspired, I review what was popular in my store, greetingcarduniverse.com/dianascards last winter.

Here are my 5 most popular winter holiday cards of 2016. Click the images to view them bigger and for more info.

       

   

• Three of these designs are New Year's cards.

• Two of the designs  show off my hand lettering skills.

Looks like I should be adding more New Years cards and designs featuring hand lettering.

When I first opened my shop at GCU in 2007, I thought it was a waste to even create New Year designs, but did add a few as they had a category for them. Hey what did I know? The first few years, I had very few sales for this holiday. How times have changed.  My personal theory on the growing popularity of New Year's cards is that there's just so much to be done right before Christmas that some people are opting to send out New Year's rather than Christmas cards. My other thought is that not everyone celebrates Christmas and sending out good wishes for the coming  year is a way to join in the joys of the season.

My hand lettering is something I've been having fun with so I'm gratified that my playing is paying off. I'll definitely be designing some fun festive wintry sayings for my store.

Now back to the studio to think, doodle, sketch... and come up with hopefully popular designs for Winter 2017.

Click:
to see ALL my current Christmas Cards
to see ALL my current New Year's Cards

Winter in the Summer

Geez it's been awhile since I posted on this blog... so no  excuses just jumping back in. I've been busy working on winter designs for my POD, Print-On-Demand shops. Why now you might ask. It's POD, afterall, don't you just upload and it's ready to buy, almost instantaneously? True - but it does take a few months for the search engines to find your design and index it so it can be searched and found by a possible buyer. Hence working on winter designs in summer in my ink and watercolor style and some hand lettering.

Here are a few NEW Christmas card designs I've  created and put in my store: GreetingCardUniverse.com/DianasCards. Please Click on the images to see the inside and the back of the card.

Christmas Girl Raccoon Dressed for Winter in the Snow
Click  to see the New Year's Card version.

 
Hope you enjoy them. I will be sharing more designs from my stores soon.

You may personalize the inside of  ALL the cards on GCU. That means you can add an image or text to the inside left side and change the greeting on the right side to meet your needs.