{"id":1034,"date":"2011-12-08T11:13:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T15:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2011-12-08T16:12:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T20:12:19","slug":"merry-fishmas-christmas-card-craziness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/merry-fishmas-christmas-card-craziness\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Fishmas! Christmas Card Craziness"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Merry<\/a>

Merry Fishmas Christmas Cards by Concertina Press $14 for 8<\/p><\/div>\n

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*Whew* it has been a WHIRLWIND for me the past month or so – as of today I’m so proud to announce that I have 174 sales in my stationery etsy shop<\/a> – 20 sales in the past week! wow!<\/p>\n

I introduced nautically themed holiday cards to my collection about halfway through November, and they have really taken off. My Merry Fishmas card<\/a> made it all the way to the front page of Etsy.<\/p>\n

yay! Now I know how to plan better for next year so I’m not making 5 sets of notecards every night like one of santa’s frenzied elves.<\/p>\n

This one is also wildly popular:<\/p>\n

\"Seahorse<\/a>

Seahorse Reindeer Christmas Cards by Concertina Press $14 for 8<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s that mythical creature, the seahorse reindeer<\/a>!<\/p>\n

I also have a classy New Year’s card:<\/p>\n

\"Snow<\/a>

Snow Queen Reindeer New Year's Card by Concertina Press- $14 for 8<\/p><\/div>\n

I used an old children’s book illustration in black and white and colored it in – I was thinking of arctic summer when the sun never quite sets, or the Northern lights – who knows who this mysterious little girl is? The caption said “The Snow Queen”.<\/p>\n

This is what it looks like in my studio!<\/p>\n

\"Merry

a big fat stack of Merry Fishmas Cards - about 125 pictured here<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"stacks

stacks of folded up Merry Fishmas Cards ready for packaging - I hand fold them all too!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  *Whew* it has been a WHIRLWIND for me the past month or so – as of today I’m so proud to announce that I have 174 sales in my stationery etsy shop – 20 sales in the past week! wow! I introduced nautically themed holiday cards to my collection about halfway through November, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[99],"tags":[182,180,183,181],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/1041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}