Day #2 of 4 Days of Free Vintage Christmas Fairy Girls Clip Art!

 Hi friends! It's time for our second free graphic!  For those who missed it yesterday here's the scoop:

This beautiful artwork is for you to print out at home (or you can take the file to a printer and have them print them out for you, they are .jpg files.)

Use them for crafts, card making, in your scrapbooks or junk journals, print out as wall art for your home, or for any paper craft you can think of - but know that these are for personal use only and not for commercial use. (That means you may not sell the images or the files and you may not claim to be the artist of this artwork - the copyright remains with me.)

To save the image to your computer, simply right-click on the image and choose save. That's all there is to it! I'd love to see what you create so be sure to share an image of what you make with the images to my Facebook page or tag me on Instagram!

This sweet little Christmas girl with fairy wings is the second of four, and I call her Helen.

I hope you love these little ones as much as I do! I'm excited to share the next one with you so don't forget to come back tomorrow and see who it is! 

Have a great week

Laura

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4 Days of Free Vintage Christmas Fairy Girls Clip Art! Day 1

Hi friends! 

This beautiful artwork is for you to print out at home (or you can take the file to a printer and have them print them out for you, they are .jpg files.)

Use them for crafts, card making, in your scrapbooks or junk journals, print out as wall art for your home, or for any paper craft you can think of - but know that these are for personal use only and not for commercial use. (That means you may not sell the images or the files and you may not claim to be the artist of this artwork - the copyright remains with me.)

To save the image to your computer, simply right-click on the image and choose save. That's all there is to it! I'd love to see what you create so be sure to share an image of what you make with the images to my Facebook page or tag me on Instagram!

This sweet little Christmas girl with fairy wings is the first of four, and I call her Sara.

I hope you love these little ones as much as I do! I'm excited to share the next one with you so don't forget to come back tomorrow and see who it is! 

Have a great week

Laura

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Free Mason Jar Sunflowers Printable for Mother's Day

 

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there! My gift to you for Mother's Day is this free watercolor printable that I created of a vintage Mason Jar with Sunflowers!

To download your free printable, just left-click on the image and then right click to save. This is a transparency, so you can put it on any background. 

Use as clip art, for cards, on t-shirts, or however you like! You can even use it commercially on products you sell, but you may not sell the graphic as-is or as part of a collection, and copyright of this artwork remains with me. 

I think it looks great printed and framed as wall art for spring and summer.  I hope you enjoy it!

Happy Mother's Day!

Laura

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Free Printable! - Antique Bluebird China Plate Design Patent

Great news! I finally got around to uploading a new free printable to share with you. This is an actual vintage patent from 1917 and if you are a china collector you are especially going to love this one! This is an actual bluebird china dinnerware design patent, the real deal, and I've transformed this vintage image into a downloadable file for you print out and use.

This bluebird china plate artwork is for you to display in your home and goes great with farmhouse and cottage style decor. If you are a bluebird china collector then this is for you!

I've edited this design with lots of cleaning up of dust and scratches, straightened it out, and added two backgrounds: a smooth solid soft blue background and a lightly textured soft blue background. Chose whichever you like or print them both! 

Let me know how you like this artwork and if I get enough interest from these I'll make more. If you download the artwork and print it out, let me know how it goes for you, as I am still at the starting point and eager to work out any glitches. 

As I mentioned, this artwork is for you to display in your home, so it is for your own personal use. You are free to print up to 5 copies of this artwork for display in your home or work, but you are not allowed to sell any copies of it in any form (this means you may not sell the digital file, prints of this artwork, or items such as t-shirts with this artwork printed on it.) Just know that it's for your own personal use and you may not sell it in any form. 

If you would like to use this image for other applications or for more copies, please contact me to purchase a usage license.

This is a sample version of the image. Downloadable version does not have watermark.

Here are the details: I created this special file to be approximately 10" by 8" so it's perfect size for display and easy to print out right from your home printer. I also saved it as a high res .PNG file so you could have the best possible print quality.  

To get the file, simply click on the links below to be taken to the files (Do not "right click and save" on the above sample image because that is just a small watermarked .jpg sample-sized image and is not the full size or print-quality file.) 

Textured background version

Smooth background version

Please enjoy this print and be sure to check back for more free printables! Also, I would LOVE to see how you display this artwork in your own home so be sure to post a picture on my facebook page, tag me on Instagram @laurabethlove, or email it to me at sales@dishfunctionaldesigns.com so we can share it with everyone! 

Click here for the textured background version of the bluebird plate graphic

The legal stuff: You are permitted to print out up to five (5) copies for your own personal use. You are not allowed to sell prints of this artwork or any other type of tangible copies or facsimiles of this artwork such as t-shirts with this artwork, nor are you allowed to sell a digital copy of this artwork either by itself or as part of a collection without purchasing special rights from me.

Textured background version

Smooth background version

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How To Protect Your Online Store From Freebie Solicitors

The other day I received an interesting email through my Etsy shop. It was from an individual soliciting me for free jewelry. In exchange for the jewelry, she said, she would wear it, take a photo of herself wearing it, and then put the photo on her blog. In exchange for doing this "review" she would then get to keep my jewelry. As soon as I saw the words "send me jewelry" my danger meter started to go off because these types of situations seldom end well. But, before I declined, I figured I would give her the benefit of the doubt and first take a moment to check out her blog to see if there was any value in this proposed exchange. I had never heard of this person or her blog. At the bottom of her email was a link to her blog, as well as her email address.

Getting back to that danger meter for a moment... first and foremost, I knew that soliciting someone through Etsy is considered spam and is against Etsy's policies. That was red flag number one. She could have contacted me though my website or blog, but instead she chose the Etsy route. Right away that gave me the impression that there was a high possibility that she was "shopping" Etsy sellers for products that she fancied. 

Red flag number two was her long email. It was clearly of the copy and paste variety and did not seem to be personalized to me or about the specific items that I create and sell. That made me think that she was most likely sending this same exact email to numerous other Etsy sellers. Instead, a simple one sentence email sent to me through my website or blog to the tune of, "Check out my blog and let me know if you would like to exchange product for advertising." would have saved us both so much time. But that's just it - she didn't have anything of quality to exchange with me. How do I know this? I checked out her blog stat numbers and they were nonexistent. 

How did I find out this information? I ran a domain report on her blog. A domain report is obtained through a traffic insight website which is a webpage that compiles the basic information about any URL on the internet. This report will give you a rough estimate of the US and global ranking of any website or blog. (The #1 ranked website in the world is the one with the most internet traffic - right now that's Google, by the way, followed closely by YouTube.) Though this ranking number is a rough estimate, it still provides you with some critical information. 

Other useful information found on a domain report are the URL's web traffic stats, the number of other sites linking in and out of that particular site, how many visitors that site has per day, as well as an idea of the site's bounce rate (the percentage of visitors who visit and then leave, rather than stay on the site) as well as other useful information. Basically, by looking at a domain report you can find out whether a particular blog or website is active or static, popular or not popular. For example, for my own blog, a few of the sites linking in to me are Home Depot and Huffington Post. Those are quality sites with tons of traffic. Now, everyone's blog rankings go up and down and experienced bloggers know that this is directly related to a number of things, some of which are: the frequency of publishing blog posts, the quality of the published blog posts, and also the promotion of your blog across social media, aka the visibility of your blog. Statistic numbers for blogs and website rankings and traffic fluctuate up and down. That's to be expected. 

I copied and pasted her blog URL into a few different traffic insight websites  (alexa.com and semrush.com are two, and there are plenty of others out there as well), clicked search and checked out the results. I noticed right away that there was very little information available about her blog (which told me that it was either very new, not promoted, or had no traffic or followers). There was only one ranking: global, which was around 8,000,000. Eight million. There was no US ranking, meaning the blog had so little popularity that it didn't even register on the charts in the United States. I pulled my own blog status up in another window just as a comparison. My own global ranking read 461,037. Wow, what a difference. Now why would I want to be promoted by someone whose own blog stats were a mere drop in the bucket compared to my own? Think I was being scammed? I sure do. 

But just in case the numbers I had pulled up were not a true reflection of her content, I also visited her blog to see what it was all about. Perhaps it was brand new but still amazing. Unfortunately, it wasn't. There were a few blog posts that dated back a year or two that consisted of photos of herself, pet, and child, but there were no written articles or quality information. It was bland and contained no useful information whatsoever. There was no block or list of followers on her sidebar, nor were there links to Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest accounts - all of which are good indications of social media presence. 

To successfully promote someone else you need to have these things:

• Quality content that is fresh and well-written
• A very strong organic social following
• A visually appealing blog

Don't get me wrong, there are great bloggers out there who can successfully promote your shop and your items, but to be completely honest, they really are few and far between. They need to have quality content that is fresh and well-written. Look for great articles that are both interesting and informative and that have reader comments. They need to have a very strong organic social following - by organic I mean followers that are not purchased (and I'll be writing a future blog post about this too, so be sure to check back!) Lastly, their blog should look good. It should be clean and well-organized and free from too much clutter. But most importantly, it needs to be on the charts.  

Final word?  No matter whether you sell your goods on Etsy, through another online venue, or through your own website, be alert to scammers and those who are out to take advantage of you. A little bit of research can save you a lot of headaches and wasted time and can prevent you from being taken advantage of. Have you ever received a shady, soliciting email like the one I did? I'd love to hear your experience, so please share your comments below!

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