Kellibeans Featured at Nicole's Homemade Treats!

I was ever so happy to learn that my Watercolor Pear ACEO was featured as part of the Favorite Friday Feature over at Nicole's Homemade Treats!  Swing on over there and check out this page, it's totally worth the trip for all the mouth watering eye (and tummy) candy!

How to create your own gingham patterns

Have you ever wondered how to create your own Gingham backgrounds in Photoshop or another graphics editing program? The article, "How to Make Your Own Gingham Backgrounds in Photoshop" gives you a step by step tutorial on how to create them.

How to prepare for a television appearance

If you have never appeared on television before, the article "Ready for Your Closeup?" gives you some tips and tricks for men and women on how to prepare your makeup and dress for a television appearance.

How to Guerrilla Marketing with Sales & Samples

The first part of this article, Guerrilla Marketing & You #2 - Give It Away Now covers how to use samples and sales to market your business.





Part two, Guerrilla Marketing & You #2 - Give It Away Now (2 of 2) covers contests and gives you tips on how to have a successful giveaway.

Wists 101 article on Handmade News

My article, "Wists101: Building a Social Shopping Network" is now live over at Handmade News. It covers the Wists phenomena and how handmade business owners can utilize it to their marketing advantage within the web 2.0 social shopping network. Check it out.

Movin' On Up

As some of you who know me on a personal level, I have hum-hawed for years with my writing, dabbling with getting something small published here and there, but I never really did try to take off with it, mostly because I always felt I wasn't good enough to compete with the "big dogs".

However, after being coaxed (a lot) by a friend (You know who you are Miss Goddess), I applied for a really awesome opportunity to write for one of the largest crafting/handmade communities on the net. I didn't REALLY think I'd get it or else I wouldn't have applied. Weeks and weeks went by and being the pessimist I am, I knew I had been right in thinking I wouldn't get it.

Imagine my surprise when I get hired on as the newest writer in the Marketing Department at www.HandmadeNews.org. I have my own column!

I am a "real" writer now...for real. LOL
Wow, the validation really DOES feel awesome.
I should have jumped on something like this years ago.

And to make things even more awesome, KentuckyHandmade.com was kind enough to post on their blog and share the news and make me blush a lot.

My first article, Guerrilla Marketing and You - Part 1: Traditional vs. Non-traditional Marketing went live on the site this past Sunday.

I'll be publishing two articles a week (maybe more if the marketing muses prove cooperative), and I will be having one feature article per month on the site. If you are a handmade artisan or own a small business, there are a literal TON of articles already on there to help you enhance and attract buyers to your business.

Here's a link to my columnist bio page, I have my default Kellibeans pic up until I can get a more "professional" looking one done. From there you will have a link to every article I will write/have written.

Using Custom Stickers to Enhance Your Brand

Have you ever wondered about using stickers in your promotional efforts for your website? This article, "Say it With Stickers" covers the basics about how to go about acquiring your own custom stickers for your handmade business. Check it out.

Matroyshka!

Meet Myra Matryoshka, my newest fabric ACEO. She is the standard size for an ACEO (which stands for Art Cards, Editions, & Originals), which is 2.5 x 3.5 inches, the same size as most any other trading card, and they're meant to be traded and displayed by artists, art lovers and fans of the ATC/ACEO movement alike (just like any other trading card!)

Myra is number one in a set of 10 Matryoshka cards in this style. I will design each card using different fabrics, with each one's face and hairstyle being unique. Though she may resemble her sisters in this little Matryoshka family, Myra truly IS one of a kind! See her in all her original, undistorted glory in my Etsy shop!

She is available for $6.00 (US) plus shipping, details in my Shop.
Buy small artwork with a big heart!