New Art Contest online…

I don’t think this qualifies as a real art contest, I think it’s more of a promotional site that pays for quality artworks.

Comozo Art Contest asks for illustrators and artists to send in their designs. Once received they judge either through the site (or other means) how popular a piece is and then award the chosen a limited print edition contract (200 in the edition) to print said artwork as a high quality canvas giclée prints. Chosen artist receives a set of 200 “certificates of authenticity” to sign and return for said artwork.

Sounds like a pretty good deal in my opinion and they seem to pay pretty well up to US  $4600 or $3000 Euros. It’s a European site, I think french from the sound of it, and seems to be all and all legit. Heck who wouldn’t mind making up to that kind of cash from a sale of 200 limited edition prints?!? I know I wouldn’t mind much.

~L~

Qassia… what is this?

I was wondering that same thing when an online acquaintance referred me. I’m still a bit in the dark but I’m getting an inkling as to what the site is about.

Qassia.com appears to be an ad revenue sharing site that involves people joining up to share their personal sites and information on various topics. Every time you add a personal site (they insist you have permission to add sites) you get a certain percentage of virtual revenue to use to pay for your ads online. They also pass this along to any sites you may already have joined such as Google Adsense. The amount of hits and referrers (haven’t tried this bit yet) as well as how interesting people rate your original news articles that you’ve written adds up to virtual ad revenue from Qassia and is split as you decide between your listed pages. So far I’ve managed to acquire close to $450 Quassia dollars for ad revenue.

The site is still in Beta so I’m still trying to figure out exactly what their purpose is and how it works. They seem to be trying to run a kind of virtual advertising budget that helps to get people out in the forefront with help by their online peers and draw traffic to member sites through this same peer system. I just like seeing how things are and what they are for if they’re helping to advertise sites. Plus it’s free and you can quit when you like.

Check it out for yourself… don’t take my word for it.

~L~

Year of the Rat revisited

I’ve since drawn another image to celebrate this year’s animal: The rat. So if you are into the Chinese horoscope, check this out:

You can buy a copy of this at my Zazzle shop. Thanks for looking!

~L~

Año del raton! (Year of the Rat)

Yep… this next year is the year of the rat. Apparently it’s my sign for the Chinese calendar despite most of the sites saying for some reason that I am an Ox (not literally, but you know what I mean :P)

So to celebrate the year of the rat, I drew this pic:

It’s for sale at my Zazzle shop. Check it out!

I hope everyone has a happy holidays and very merry new year!

~L~

Holidays Deals at Zazzle!!!

If you need stamps for holiday cards, Zazzle has their special going on.

You can save on shipping if you buy three or more qualifying sheets of postage (sheets of 20) for free shipping. The coupon code FREESHIPSTMP must be entered during checkout to receive the offer. The free shipping offer is for ground shipping to U.S. addresses only. Shipping charges will apply to orders being shipped on an expedited basis or outside the U.S. Offer is valid from October 16, 2007 at 12:01 am (PDT) through December 31, 2007 at 11:59 pm (PST). Your order must be placed during that time to qualify for this special offer. This promotional offer may not be combined with any other Zazzle promotional or discount offers.

Also starting on Thanksgiving Day, you get any sheet of 20 stamps for only $10.99!!! Talk about a great deal. Here’s the specifics:

Promotional price is valid for any number of sheets of twenty Zazzle Custom Stamps with a denomination of 41 cents. Offer is valid from November 22, 2007 at 12:00am PST through November 26, 2007 at 9:00am PST. Your order must be placed during that time to qualify for this special pricing offer. This promotional offer may not be combined with any other Zazzle promotional or discount offers.

So if you are interested in buying stamps from my shop or make your own on Zazzle, now you have reasons why.

~L~

Sound Experiment…

I am by no means a musician… but here is my attempts at an acapella piece of my own creation…

Click to hear me trying to sing

Just incase you wanted samples…

Zazzle is offering 5 free cards to anyone who wants greeting / note card samples.

This offer expires on November 8th, 2007

Use promo code GET5FREECARD at the checkout and receive 5 free cards… up to the value of $14.95 ( Mix & Match.)

You can use this offer to get five of my cards, free. Check out my shop to see my collection.

~L~

Beading frenzy

I don’t know what it is… maybe I’m just realizing I like hands on sorts of things and I miss that but I went to this Jewelry local meetup on Sunday and OMG!!! … I just so want to do this now! I went home and rested and did laundry and then got online and looked up all sorts of things concerning patterns and ways to do the Peyote Stitch. I had alot of fun learning that stitch and the instructor let us take the needles and such home after the lesson, so that was cool. I can actually practice.

I’m just a bit disappointed with the designs I found online. They’re like bad bitmap images done in MSPaint. I was like “eeeew” I wouldnt’ make much less wear that design if I was paid to. A few patterns were really well done but I need to make my own stuff once I figure out how to get better and just get me a space to work in. I think I could make some cash off this if I tried. Maybe do some D’ni based designs or something.

I’m going to look up beading online. See what sorts of beads they have and colors. I’m feeling a bit excited about looking stuff up about beading today. Not sure why. LOL

~L~