Beautiful Shamrocks Business Card | Zazzle #Sold!

Size: Standard Size Business Card, 3.5″ x 2.0″

When it comes to your business, don’t wait for opportunity, create it! Make a lasting impression with quality cards that WOW.

• Dimensions: 3.5″ x 2.0″
• Full color CMYK print process
• Double sided printing for no additional cost
• 100% satisfaction guarantee

Paper Type: Signature UV Matte

An upgrade from our Standard Matte, Signature UV Matte features a thicker and stiffer paper coated with a protective finish that can be written on. It provides the perfect base for creating long-lasting, high-quality designs with robust color and detail.

• 18 pt thickness/ 325 GSM
• Bright white, matte finish
• UV coating adds an additional layer of protection
• Made and printed in the USA

Source: Beautiful Shamrocks Business Card | Zazzle

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Vesta Tilley Business Card | Zazzle #Sold!

Size: Standard Size Business Card, 3.5″ x 2.0″

When it comes to your business, don’t wait for opportunity, create it! Make a lasting impression with quality cards that WOW.

• Dimensions: 3.5″ x 2.0″
• Full color CMYK print process
• Double sided printing for no additional cost
• 100% satisfaction guarantee

Paper Type: Signature UV Matte

An upgrade from our Standard Matte, Signature UV Matte features a thicker and stiffer paper coated with a protective finish that can be written on. It provides the perfect base for creating long-lasting, high-quality designs with robust color and detail.

• 18 pt thickness/ 325 GSM
• Bright white, matte finish
• UV coating adds an additional layer of protection
• Made and printed in the USA

Source: Vesta Tilley Business Card | Zazzle

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Oseille des Prés Business Card | Zazzle #Sold!

Size: Business, 3.5″ x 2.0″, 100 pack

Show your customers, clients, and potential employers you mean business with our customizable business cards. Upload your own logo, photo, or graphic, or use a pre-existing template. Skinny profile cards are a cool alternative to standard-sized business cards and fit even more easily into a wallet or small purse.

• 2″l x 3.5″w
• Choose from eleven types of premium card stock
• Full-bleed, full-color printing on both sides
• Use the “Customize it!” button to choose for more style options
• Designer Tip: To ensure the highest quality print, please note that this product’s customizable design area measures 2″ x 3.5″

Paper Type: White

This 110lb, ultra white card stock is a great choice if you are looking for the very best quality and feel.

Source: Oseille des Prés Business Card | Zazzle

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First Night Design | Parrot in a Gilded Cage #Art ‘Don’t Even Think It!’

Parrot in a Gilded Cage Double-Sided Standard Business Cards (Pack Of 100) by FirstNightDesign

When I posted The Merry Widow image the other week, BeetleyPete assumed (it was a compliment) that I had coloured the central image. In fact, I hadn’t, and the colours were on the original Play Pictorial Cover. However, Parrot in a Gilded Cage is a different matter. The illustration is a black & white sketch from one of my vintage Children’s Encyclopaedia and I coloured it. So there you go, Pete!

Parrot Quote Greeting Card by FirstNightDesign

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First Night Design | Heavens to Betsy—25 Sold #Thanksgiving

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Heavens to Betsy! My weekend has been totally transformed by an email from Zazzle telling me I’ve sold 25 of these Give Thanks Postcards.

The main image is a photograph of our garden – they’re actually Cretan olive trees in the background – and a couple of textures. I’ve used Photoshop to create a Thanksgiving scene with a pumpkin from The Graphics Fairy and an open book from The Cottage Market.

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Are you wondering about the phrase ‘Heavens to Betsy’? I have to acknowledge that it’s one of my favourite sayings. I learn, however, that it’s fallen out of use and considered far too anachronistic. Tough. I shall never stop using it. It seems it originated in America in the late 19th century. No one knows who Betsy was and the etymologist Charles Earle Funk said the origins of the phrase were ‘completely unsolvable’. [#1]

The Oxford English Dictionary gives the first written use as from a short-story collection by Rose Terry Cooke, Huckleberries Gathered From New England Hills published in 1892. [#1; #2]

I’m also very fond of ‘Heavens to Murgatroyd!’ but I’ll leave that lovely for another day.

Available at the following galleries:
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First Night Design | My Secret Garden 50% Off Business Cards

My Secret Garden Double-Sided Standard Business Cards (Pack Of 100)

I’ve recently sold several packets of these business cards, though before Zazzle brought in their special offer. Zazzle are now offering 50% Off Business Cards & 20% Off Everything Else. Ends Tonight!

USE CODE: NEWBIZCARD4U

Business cards available at the following galleries:
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First Night Design | Bring out the Bath Chairs!

Bring out the Bath Chairs! 13 Cm X 18 Cm Invitation Card

I created the invitation above very soon after I joined Zazzle. I was uploading my images onto greeting cards, which was taking an inordinate amount of time, and I thought I must offer other products as soon as possible. It remained on its lonesome until I came across it accidentally the other day. Time, I thought, to create some other products with this vintage bath chair.

Did you know that bath chairs are extremely comfortable? They beat a wheelchair hands down. Having said that, I only have one experience of a Victorian bath chair. I was appearing in a production of an early play by Alan Bennett, Forty Years On. My character did not use the bath chair but you can be damn sure I made use of it out of hours, so to speak!

Bring out the Bath Chairs! Throw Pillow

Bring out the Bath Chairs! Greeting Card

Bring out the Bath Chairs! Double-Sided Business Cards (Pack of 100)

Bring out the Bath Chairs! Shipping Label

Bring out the Bath Chairs! Stationery

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First Night Design | Postcard Lemons Business Cards

Postcard Lemons Business Cards

Postcard Lemons has always been one of my favourites from the early days and I’m delighted to say that I have just sold a pack of the business cards on Zazzle.

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“When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.”
― Cathy Guisewite

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“We live in a world where lemonade is made from aritificial flavoring and furniture polish is made from real lemons.”
― MAD Magazine

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Available on all products at the following galleries:
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First Night Design | The Windmill #Art

This is an extremely early piece when I was only just beginning to realise what textures could do for a photograph. The windmill, from Wikimedia, is on the Île de Noirmoutier, an island that lies off the coast of France, and I used a filter from Snap Art, one of my background textures, and one from Skeletal Mess.

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Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on–that is, badly. Animal Farm by George Orwell

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The Windmill 3 Ring Binder

The Windmill Pack Of Standard Business Cards
The Windmill Postage

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First Night Design | “Nature does not seek to perpetuate the human species but to…”

Parrot with Plums Double-Sided Standard Business Cards (Pack Of 100)

“Nature does not seek to perpetuate the human species but to secure the biodiversity of the species.” Theophrastu

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First Night Design | Peggy Babcock stars in her own show!

Simple Teal Gradient Pack Of Standard Business Cards

Simple Terracotta Orange Gradient Business Cards

Who’s ‘Peggy Babcock’ when she’s at home? Peggy Babcock will be well-known to those who dabble in tongue twisters and very familiar to any actor who has had to improve their diction with its use its use. I’ve always thought that if she were a character in a play, she would be one of those hearty, middle-aged games mistress at a 1950s boarding school!

Peggy Babcock, Peggy Babcock, Peggy Babcock…

Can you say the above in quick succession without tripping over the words? Try this one and see how you go!

Roy’s employed in Droitwich
At the choicest oyster bar.
Moira coyly loiters
As she sips her Noilly Prat.
How pointedly adroit he is
When he disjoints an oyster,
And Moira deploys lemon juice
To make his oyster moister.

Simple Raspberry Pink Gradient

Simple Apple Green Gradient Pack Of Standard Business Cards

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