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splat vibes afterthoughts - I did a lot better than I thought I would, I really expected to go negative but I didn't :) - People really liked the turquoise and silver colours which is funny because those were later additions - I probably should've brought more colouring pencils - (continued)

- I made too much of some stock (prints, beaded keychains) and too little of others (silver tags) - Big Man was by far the most popular idol for merch, this may have been because the other vendors didn't have his merch - The lower down on the rack, the more likely customers will just miss an item

my supplier replaced the wrong thickness acrylic !!! now I can make..... 10 card holders.... in 2 days............ in the mean time I have been making photocards and badges and have made a good amount of stock of those. still have to do 1 photocard design, 2 tag designs and 1 sticker design minimum

originally I wanted more designs but I narrowed it down to just those as the minimum stock, because I'm vending at a Splatoon focused event so it's important to me to have all the idols and also at least 1 Splatoon themed sticker

not much to report lately, I've been working on drawing up some stuff digitally. also have a domain now! (it points to nothing right now)

More card making updates! Finally got prints I was happy with. Applying the laminate was a bit annoying due to having to align it and avoid creases and air bubbles, it's thinner than I expected it to be. The spray adhesive is awesome stuff though

After cutting out the cards the final step is to round out the corners. It makes more of a difference than you'd think, they look much better with the rounded corners in my opinion...

More card making updates! Finally got prints I was happy with. Applying the laminate was a bit annoying due to having to align it and avoid creases and air bubbles, it's thinner than I expected it to be. The spray adhesive is awesome stuff though

Speaking of the spray adhesive! Basically I'm printing on card, then gluing a second layer of card onto the back. You really cannot tell the cards are made of 3 layers. This is going pretty high on my adhesive ranking list. (Acrylic cement, on the other hand... maybe I'm using it wrong)

[Crafting blade visible in images, viewer discretion is advised] Card prototyping process. I've finished the first piece of artwork for my custom photocards. The next task is wrangling with the print settings to get the colours to be accurate... as you can see they're... not

I also probably made the margins between each copy too big. I don't really want to waste that much paper. The *next* thing to figure out after this is the ol mythical Double Sided Printing

Today I'm figuring out my setup for printing cards. I previously made my own cards with a manufacturer, but I'd like to be able to do it myself. Using some old artwork for the test prints since the new files aren't ready yet... finding the right paper and settings is tougher than it seems