GCU Forum - A Newbie Hello

Sheryl_133470

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A Newbie Hello
Jun 12^th, 2008, 11:32am

Just want to say hi and tell you I think there are some amazing photos, designs and cards on this site. I look forward to chatting with you, seeing everyones new work, and posting more of my own. I finally uploaded and reached over 100 cards in my store. Phew... that took a while. ..he he I still have more to upload. Guess I better get busy.

Have a great day.

Sher

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Raina_133988 GCU Newbies artist Posts: 45	Re: A Newbie Hello Reply #1 - Jun 12^th, 2008, 12:08pm Welcome fellow newbie i like a lot of your flower cards they are really pretty
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Sheryl_133470 Gold Member artist Posts: 705	Re: A Newbie Hello Reply #2 - Jun 12^th, 2008, 12:16pm Thank you Raina. Your illustrations are wonderful. You are a very talented artist.
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Shari_132735

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Re: A Newbie Hello
Reply #3 - Jun 12^th, 2008, 12:41pm

Quote from Sheryl_133470 on Jun 12^th, 2008, 11:32am:

Just want to say hi and tell you I think there are some amazing photos, designs and cards on this site. I look forward to chatting with you, seeing everyones new work, and posting more of my own. I finally uploaded and reached over 100 cards in my store. Phew... that took a while. ..he he I still have more to upload. Guess I better get busy.

Have a great day.

Sheryl

Wow Sheryl! Talk about amazing photos and designs, yours are great! What type of a camera do you use for your great pictures and if any which softwares do you use to create your cards? I like to ask because I'm always learning how to take better pictures and learn new techniques to make my cards and other gift items I sell better. I understand if you don't want to share, and will not be hurt. But I love how you get the background of a lot of your flowers fuzzed out showing just the subject in perfect clarity. How do you do that? Keep up the great work! Your shop looks great!

Thanks for sharing!

Shari
www.flowerswithfeelingscentral.com
http://flowerswithfeelingscentral.blogspot.com

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Gina_133039 Senior Member artist Posts: 415	Re: A Newbie Hello Reply #4 - Jun 12^th, 2008, 12:59pm Very nice, Sheryl... I especially like the bleeding heart... I am partial to those as they are one of my mom's favorites... good luck! gina
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Sheryl_133470

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Re: A Newbie Hello
Reply #5 - Jun 12^th, 2008, 1:00pm

Thank you Shari for your very kind comments. I appreciate your support and you checking out my store.

You asked what kind of camera I am using. I own a Canon XTI and use a macro lens for photographing most of my flowers. By adjusting the f stop I can get a better blur, or nice bokeh, in the background.

The software I use is Photoshop Elements 5.0 mostly.

Your store is very cheery with your beautiful florals. I enjoyed looking through your many cards.

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Sheryl_133470 Gold Member artist Posts: 705	Re: A Newbie Hello Reply #6 - Jun 12^th, 2008, 1:11pm Thank you Gina. Your portfolio has a wonderful variety of cards. I really like your little lambs. Them are sooo cute.
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phrank_131619 Full Member artist Posts: 200	Re: A Newbie Hello Reply #7 - Jun 12^th, 2008, 1:29pm Hi and welcome Sheryl.. You certainly have a Great start. Very nice Photos. Love them all. I've been here almost a Year and Have only about 50 designs...LOL.. But I'm lazy... Great start and good Luck...capt.
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Brenda_131577 GCU Newbies artist Posts: 32	Re: A Newbie Hello Reply #8 - Jun 12^th, 2008, 3:00pm Welcome to the group! Brenda www.the-best-homemade-gift-ideas.com
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Sandra_133229 Gold Member artist Posts: 787	Re: A Newbie Hello Reply #9 - Jun 12^th, 2008, 3:09pm Welcome, Sheryl. I love your cards and wish you well, here. It is a nice outlet for our creative side! Sandra
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Sue_132963 Gold Member artist Posts: 1224	Re: A Newbie Hello Reply #10 - Jun 12^th, 2008, 4:03pm Hi Sheryl, Nice to see another photographer on board. Your focal points and saturation are especailly nice. Keep up the great job at filling your store with pleasing images. I've been here 5 months and put up about 100 images per month. Welcome, and don't be a stranger here on the forums. Sue
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Sheryl_133470 Gold Member artist Posts: 705	Re: A Newbie Hello Reply #11 - Jun 12^th, 2008, 5:32pm Thank you everyone for making me feel welcome here. I checked out your stores and, wow, you all have some amazing card designs. All unique. That's what makes this site so nice. Wishing you many sales. Thanks... Sher
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Carolyn_134044 GCU Newbies artist Posts: 28	Re: A Newbie Hello Reply #12 - Jun 12^th, 2008, 5:44pm Newbie here, too, Sher. You have some incredible cards. I love the flowers most of all. Good luck here.
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Sheryl_133470 Gold Member artist Posts: 705	Re: A Newbie Hello Reply #13 - Jun 12^th, 2008, 7:24pm Thank you Carolyn and a warm welcome to you too. I love your butterfly design. Butterflies are my favorite. It is a beautiful card. Much luck to you here as well too. Sher
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nicole_133673

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Re: A Newbie Hello
Reply #14 - Jun 12^th, 2008, 7:41pm

Hi Sher, Carolyn and all of the newbies here! You will find this is a great place to "work" Wink

Anyway in case you missed the other thread I pasted it here for you. You are all welcome to add your stores just email me directly Nikki@13BlackCatsDesigns.com with the subject of SQUIDOO LISTING and add the following:

For anyone wanting to add their store to the GCU store listing on Squidoo (http://www.squidoo.com/PaperGreetingCards) I get nothing out of this as 100% of anything earned goes to the ASPCA and The Humane Society. I am doing it stricktly for publicity to our stores.

I need the following:

1) your store link through your email link. (for the extra 50 cents) It should look something like this: (www.greetingcarduniverse.com/community/store.asp?store_id=1327&gcu=419945760 18) To get this information:

login on GCU go to "Manage Store"
Click on "Card Widget" under COMMUNITY
Click on "Get HTML" tab
Copy "Promotional Email Link"

2) a 1-2 simple sentence about your store

The only thing I ask, and by all means it is not necessary, is that you leave a testimonial about GCU in the guest book. We want people to feel comfortable shopping with us and if we work together to rank this lens high more people will see it, the more people see it hopefully the more people come to check us out. In the long run it will benefit us and hey it is FREE advertising so you have nothing to loose! It would be nice to see some more bulk sales come in so why not do everything we can?

Thanks to those that have left testimonials already and thanks for pulling together to get people to notice us!

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