Snarkface: a collaboration between Amelia Snarkface and yours truly

So in my last post, I was going on about how great Greeting Card Universe is. I'm still going to post a ton of cards on GCU (I've already had a bunch of sales -- thanks to the people out there who bought my cards!), but these will mostly be blank inside. The reason: getting some types of cards past their approval process is MUCH more of a pain than I expected.

I couldn't get my Witchy Spore Addict approved because they didn't want me to mention a company name, so I had to change "Spore" to "computer games." Then I tried to turn the following image into a Valentine's card and then rejected it, saying it didn't have anything to do with Valentine's:



Fair enough, I thought, maybe it's a tad cynical. So I submitted it as an Anti-Valentine instead (yes, there was such a category). It was rejected again! In order to be approved, they said, I had to actually WRITE something on the inside that made it clear that it was an Anti-Valentine.

Grmble. Anyway, I've decided just to submit most of my GCU cards as generic blank cards from now on so they get approved right away.



That put me in a snarkish mood, however, which got me thinking about how much fun I'd have doing snarky cards. Clearly I wouldn't be able to post them at GCU, however, so I'm posting them in my new Snarkface card shop at Zazzle instead. To help further differentiate my Snarky cards from my regular cards, I'm even using a pen name for my Zazzle profile: Amelia Snarkface. You can read my bio if you click on "About" on my Snarkface page.

Anyone looking closely at the copyright notice on the back of the card will see it's really me, but I'm betting that most people probably won't bother.

Anyway, I uploaded a bunch of snarky Christmas cards last night. It was very therapeutic. :-)

So if you're tired of my cute and happy greeting cards, feel free to check out Amelia Snarkface's contributions at Snarkface. At $2.95, their full-size single cards are slightly more expensive than GCU but still cheaper than Cafepress.



I'm having fun doing these cards. One example is the card above, inspired by those Christmas cards you get which have more than one signature but you -know- was signed by just one person. And yeah, sometimes I do the same thing with Jeff but I'm going to try VERY hard not to do so from now on.

The fact is that whenever I get a card supposedly signed by two people but actually just in one person's handwriting, I always wonder if the other person even knew that his signature is on the card...but I -do- know that he (or she, to be fair) couldn't be bothered to take the time to sign his own name.

Ahem, but I digress. As you can tell, I have plenty of snark lurking inside my otherwise sweet and cheery exterior, waiting for expression. :-)

And to you Canucks out there, have a great Thanksgiving!

Comments

[Jodi]

Hee! LOVE these, Deb. :D Tempted to start purchasing them so that I can send them to clients. ;)

[Lissa]

The two-names-one-person signing thing is not always the fault of the person who did not sign the card of course - sometimes the person who did sign it didn't even give them a chance to sign the card, like I often don't with Phil and birthday cards to his nieces (usually because I'm sending them at the last minute from work!).

[Peter]

Poor monster! Not only was the Valentines card he gave rejected, but the Valentine's card he was *in* got rejected. :-(

[Beckett]

If these don't take off and become wildly popular I'll eat a bug. (Okay, I won't, but you know what I mean.)

[Debbie G.]

How could the broken "Be Mine!" heart _not_ be deemed a Valentine's card (or at least an anti-Valentine's card). I don't think the sentiment needs to be expressed in words to come across.

And he's so cuuuuuuuute....

[Monica]

Oh, those are fantastic! I might even send some -- and I don't do Christmas!