It is so good to finally be able to send out postcards. To me, it says, I am currently trying to fulfill my dream to illustrate children’s books. My plan is to bombard the publishing market with beautiful samples of my work once a week for about a month. I’ve taken 5 illustrations, and ordered 100 of each. I just sent the first set last week on Wednesday. Although I didn’t have 100 people to send to, only about 50. So the rest I’ll use as sample illustration postcards for the SCBWI conventions. That way I’ll be ready.
If anyone needs a good, cheap, printing place. Vista print is fabulous. The colors are excellent and they send out emails for 100 free postcards at least 5 times a week, so you can always get 100 made for free. Of course they charge you 5 bucks for uploading your own design, and 6 bucks to send it to you, but heck, that’s still pretty good for 100 postcards. One word of caution though. Size your pic to about 3 times what the postcard size is at 300 resolution. It will turn out great every time. And don’t mistake the dotted lines as margin lines. They are the cut lines. Found that out early on when they cut part of my website address off at the bottom. They reprinted them for me and sent them back out for $2.50. All in all, it was a good experience.
I can’t wait until the summer SCBWI conference in LA. I intend to place in the portfolio contest.