Make Your Own Pet Adoption Bumper Sticker

What better way to support your favorite pet adoption charity than to create your own t-shirts, stickers, bumper sticker(s) or buttons?

Of course you should not use - nor can you use - a logo or image created and in use by any organization. You're dealing with legal copy right issues but you can most certainly type your message on products at Visages.

"Adopt a dog" is a simple message but if you want your personalized shirt or bumper sticker geared toward a specific breed or another animal simply change your message.

"Adopt a Rhodesian Ridgeback", or my favorite, "Adopt a ferret".

Have a picture to emphasize your message? If you have a digital camera (and who doesn't now days), you're probably familiar with how to get the image on to your computer.

But what if all you have are prints? Walmart and Walgreens offer a transfer service for under $25. They'll take your prints and put them onto DVD or CD.

Of course it's cheaper if you know someone who has a scanner. Just be sure to scan the picture at 300 dpi for a crisp, clean reproduction.

So, let's create a bumper sticker. Visages has one set up and ready for you to customize.

Click "Customize it!" beneath the picture of the bumper sticker.

Click on the ferret picture.

Click the edit button, select delete.

Time to upload your photograph...

Click "Add Images", find the image you saved to your computer

Adjust the size to fit in the space allotted.

You can leave the text as is or you can change the font (style of the letters) and even type your own message. But for ease, let's leave as is.

All that is left is to buy it... Really, it is that simple!

Life as a Zazzle Seller/Associate

It ain't easy being a Zazzle designer and seller, let me tell you...

The Beginning

Butterfly T shirt

I can't tell you how I found Zazzle because I don't remember. If you're not familiar with Zazzle you should check it out. Of course I'm directing you to my store, Visages, but for the short description: it's a Print on Demand (POD) online gift store with literally billions of items to shop created by thousands of artists from all over the world. Hundreds of thousands of these gift items you can personalize with names, dates, events, just about anything you want.

If you can't find the gift, you can upload your own art, kids art or pictures to create you own personalized, custom and uniquely special gift.

So... as I said, I found Zazzle and being an artist I thought, "Finally! A place where I can sell my creations. Saints be praised...". And so began the mad activity of creating, uploading, describing and properly tagging cups/mugs, t shirts, key chains, aprons, tote bags, coasters, and goo-gah more of stuff.

I sweated, I fretted, I typed and pasted until I was cross-eyed and weary. Then one day, it occurred to me: "Who's going to see all my great stuff besides my family and friends?"

Off to the Zazzle forum I dashed. I began clicking and reading, more clicking, more reading struggling to find information as to how to get my store, Visages, and me known. Then it happened. Within the same month I created Visages, I made my first sale.

<blink, blink> "Wait... am I reading the email right? I made a sale?! I MADE A SALE!!. Hon, " I screamed throughout the house. "I made a sale!" The Zazzle gods love me, I decided.

But... this was only the beginning. There is more to tell but not today. Today I have to continue designing more Christmas gifts and begin thinking about Valentines Day.

I found this video of a young lady who designed her own shoes, ordered and received them and now gives her review.