girloncanvas

Online Printing Services

Christie — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:48:33 +0000

Finding a perfect place for online printing services can be tough. You design, you edit and you design again. You upload, and submit it. And then you pray… you pray your design will look beautiful printed. Just as you had imagined. To me, getting my final piece in the mail is like a mini designer Christmas. It’s so exciting when you open the box and look at your design… alive and in color!

With PrintRunner.com you don’t have to worry about worrying you know you will have something beautiful delivered to your doorstep. What I love about Print Runner is the fact that they started small ten years ago and are now a 25,000 sq ft facility doing all the work on the premises. You do not have to worry about anyone playing “telephone” with your design. Located in Southern California, Print Runner can complete all your printing needs from invitations to stickers.

Print Postcards

Christie — Tue, 15 May 2012 12:19:11 +0000

Depending on who you know it might be easy to find someone to design a simple postcard but when it comes to finding a place to print postcards it can be tough. I had quoted a few local places in my town but it became too much. Printing costs can be insane if you don’t know where to look. The best place to print postcards price-wise is online. Most places will let you upload a file with your own design (don’t forget the margins!). Some have their own online design tool which is great – if you’re not a designer. For me it seems limited compared to what I can do with photoshop but for someone who just needs something simple and has a good sense of grammar the online design tools are great.

Custom Stickers Giveaway

Christie — Mon, 14 May 2012 00:03:30 +0000

Would you like to win a set of your own custom stickers? You have the option to upload a file with your design. Stickers are awesome so if you’d like to win leave a comment on this entry and tell us what you’d do with your stickers. Deadline of submission of winners is on May 29, 2012 to be included on our prize awarding this coming 31st of May.

The giveaway prize: Stickers
Sticker Shape: Standard Stickers
Width: 2″ Flat Height: 3.5″
Quantity: 250
Paper: Premium Sticker Stock
Colors: Full Color ( 4 Color Process), Black and White
Proof: NONE
Ready to Ship In: 3 Business Days
*Giveaway is open to US Residents only, ages 18 years old and above.

This giveaway has been sponsored by PrintRunner.com, and I will receive a set of stickers for hosting this. Follow them on Twitter and Like them on Facebook. It can be tough searching through many online printing companies to choose where you want to have your designs printed.

design your own stickers

Christie — Fri, 11 May 2012 03:24:36 +0000

Back when I was in middle school/high school I had a huge sticker collection. I’m not really sure what made me want to collect them (probably the lack of internet in my life at the time LOL). But I had a ton, and now that I’m a full time designer I love the fact that I can create basically anything I want and have it printed. I’ve been searching for a company that does sticker printing. Print Runner offers many options on sticker printing but the thing I am super excited about is the fact that they offer them in a roll! Not just sheets of stickers.

Now my only issue is deciding what to put on the stickers. Designing for someone else – that’s easy. Designing for me? It will be the design that never ends! Any suggestions on what I should print on stickers?

Instagram on Canvas

Christie — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:07:26 +0000

It’s only been a few weeks since Instagram was FINALLY released on Android and I’ve been having a lot of fun with it. During this time I’ve come across some really amazing products that work with Instagram. It’s interesting to see how 1 person had an idea to make this app and now it has snowballed into so many awesome things! What can I say? I’m a sucker for old photos.

Sticky Gram – Instagram pictures on magnets

Instagram on Canvas by Canvas Pop

Webbygram.com

Webbygram was built by Brenden Mulligan, who got tired of waiting for Instagram to build a web view. I’m really glad he did because the interface is wonderful! View my instagram profile here: http://webbygram.com/girloncanvas/

The Earth Without Art…

Christie — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:10:19 +0000

My mom emailed this to me, not sure where it’s from but it made me smile =]

Unconventional Tattly #4

Christie — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 13:45:16 +0000

A few weeks ago I submitted an idea to Tattly. What’s tattly you ask? Fun, temporary tattoos made by designers. Back when I was a waitress, and when we had nothing to do I would take the temporary tattoos from the machine and make it stick to the cardboard on the back of my writing pad.

I was reminded of this when I first heard of tattly. So I went ahead and bought myself one of those Moleskin Cahier Notebooks. And had a party with it.

Some tips when applying to cardboard:
- It might be sticky to the touch for a little while, just let dry.
- It might crack and weather over time but to me that’s what makes temporary tattoos awesome!

Amazing Artist – Jayson Lilley

Christie — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 02:37:19 +0000

You may recognize the artist name… or even this painting. I wrote an entry about Mr. Lilley last year. I truly loved his work… contrast just draws me in… and hooks me! [I'm actually convinced I'm addicted to high contrast, if that's possible] Anyway, I had asked him if I were able to purchase one of his paintings. I hadn’t heard from him for a while and the next thing I knew he asked for my address. What!? I am still shocked but super excited. He sent me one of his paintings… the same one I was in love with last year. His “Moo Cow” – Red Devon.

His work is amazing but it is even better in person. I’ve never seen red so perfect before in my life. I have an “art wall” in my apartment and I plan to hang it there next to my tree painting. I’ll post more pictures later on but I wanted to take the time to say THANK YOU to Jayson!

Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you

Make sure you follow him on twitter and tell him how awesome he is! – @iamjaysonlilley

Yes, I’m a font snob

Christie — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 17:52:07 +0000

I was searching the other day, trying to figure out how I could get Helvetica on my Windows computer at work. Of course only you can understand if you are a “font snob” yourself, how very different Arial and Helvetica are. But, that’s besides my point. I came across some funny things as I was searching.

This shirt being one of them:

Then I saw this:

I also read this blog post which I thought was hysterical. What if Windows 7 came bundled with Movie Stars? You will have to see for yourself.

TV and Movie Graphics

Christie — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 02:00:52 +0000

This video was pointed out to me by my Uncle – he emailed it to me thinking I might enjoy it. He was right! We are far from our clearly-animated but still very awesome 80′s movies. It is very hard to tell what is real and what is fake anymore! This is a video showing how scenes from the TV show Boardwalk Empire. It’s incredible how much of each scene is created by computer graphics.

Boardwalk Empire VFX Breakdowns of Season 2 from Brainstorm Digital on Vimeo.