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Gift Box feature 1- Get The Bag! (Ohio)

 

Gloria Ware, founder and owner of “Get the Bag” has been ordering stickers from me to include in her gift boxes to corporate teams for over a year now and I wanted to give her a shout out. There have been several companies who’ve included my products or books in gift boxes and I’m going to start featuring some of them as a way to promote them, and to share another way of getting revenue for young artists.

Besides sending out gift boxes Gloria Ware (Based in Cleveland Ohio) runs Get the Bag which lifts up Black female founders of start ups and small businesses by:
-Giving them access to multiple forms of capital
-Providing content and curriculum for business knowledge
-Helping to promote their businesses
Gloria has a background in banking, philanthropy, small businesses, venture capital, and entrepreneurship. You can listen to an interview with here (link).
Please support Gloria’s business by following her via newsletter, social media, and by sharing her resources with Black female founders whether their business be in tech, hair products, fitness, financial, automotive , food, or engineering. 
Want to see the product she featured in her corporate gift box? Check it out HERE.

Did you catch my post about how I made it to 1000 sales on Etsy? Check it out here
May 30, 2022
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Pause Sticker process

 

 Hey this is a new sticker in a series of self care/ encouragement/ affirming stickers. Sometimes you gotta hit the pause button, or maybe you need to remind someone to do it. 
Wanna see some of the creative process? Check it out:
First I did a bunch of different versions of the same word using different font styles.  The check marks you see are from my homies and my wife telling me which ones they preferred.
I narrowed it down a bit and combined some elements to make it a more simple shape.
I decided on the color scheme and did some rough color versions. And I chose the bottom right one finally.
Then I painted in gouache. Scanned it and then brought it into Photoshop and to clean it up, moving the shadow and letters a tiny bit to make it more symmetrical. I also adjusted the color a bunch because it was tough to duplicate the screen color.
And then here’s the final product. I get stickers from a bunch of different places, but one I go to often is Sticker Giant in Colorado who just shipped these to me. What do you think? Dig it? I DO!! I love how it came out and I hope others will dig them. Eventually I’ll make a sticker pack of these:
“_______” one more to go!
One day I’ll make a video talking about these stickers. But for now i’ll just say that many years ago I made a series of paintings called “positive wall affirmations” made to serve people by offering a positive message for the home, class, office, etc. The original one of a kind paintings did ok and made some folks really happy. But the stickers are a bit more affordable, especially if you’re not an art collector. 
Anyways, thanks for reading. You can get this Pause sticker here or get a sticker sheet I made a year ago for self care here as well. If you know someone who is learning to make merchandise using their art, please share this post with them.

October 20, 2021
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Breathe Vinyl Sticker

 

Here is a new sticker reminding you to “breathe”. Its number four in a series of self care stickers aimed at getting folks to slow down and take stock of what’s next and what matters. Cop one for you or for your team HERE.
The last one in the series is REST
September 19, 2021
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GROW sticker

 

Fam, I created an original painting with the word “GROW” back in 2013. Matter of fact, I painted a whole series of affirmations. In an effort to get back to making pieces that are not only affirming to me (hopefully you too) but to make it affordable, I plan to make some new stickers with affirming letter based art. I painted this piece on paper and got it printed with gold to add a bit of shine. I hope you like it. Stay tuned.




Did you catch the last sticker pack? Here it is.
January 26, 2021
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Merch feature – Buzzfeed

 

So this happened in December of 2020. My sticker sheet got featured in Buzzfeed along with some other stocking stuffer ideas. Shout out to my homie Angela Dalton who told me about this article because I didn’t know until she told me. Shout out to the journalist who included my sticker sheet in this post as it definitely drove some sales. I hope to get some more features like this in the future intentionally. 
If you missed this sticker sheet you can cop one HERE.
I also made one for librarians, bilingual language teachers.

January 10, 2021
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Sticker sheet 4 – Self Care

Can’t believe it has been two years since I made a sticker sheet. Here is a new one. I have been working on affirmations for a decade as a gift for people, to myself, and to just share my type drawing skills. This one I made as as a reminder to take care of yourself. I need it to remind myself. Please hustle, do good work, fight for whats right, stand up for your rights, all that. And….take good care of yourself because the world needs you. 
Want one? Here’s the link ETSY.
Did you see the last one? Its here.

December 5, 2019
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