K-Tee's CreeativeWorks

Four days ago, I was putting a post together to show examples of what items could be made out of a Silly Lil' Doodles order, and wanted to include a kisscut sticker. I went over to Fourthwall  to do this and was met with a window talking about upgrading to a Pro account.

In an earlier post, I discussed a...very strange problem with my stores over on Zazzle that only continued to get worse over time. And when I came back to posting about KTCW on Pinterest , I decided it was best to delete all the pins that were tied to those stores. I still couldn't figure out why my account was having this problem or if it was worth contacting support over. I just knew that there wasn't a point in having links up for products, if they're not going to lead potential customers to them. 🤷🏾‍♀️ I published...maybe somewhere around 50 listings and it dropped down to only several public results. 😐 Zazzle has been the toughest time I've had making listings on any Print-On-Demand website so far. Perhaps this was my own fault out of my minimal experience, but it seemed a lot like it would be way too much work trying to rebuild what I lost. If editing these hidden listings didn't result in making them public again, I was ready to give up. Last week, as I ...

Back in December, I checked my stores in preparation for my website launch, and noticed that a  LOT of my Zazzle item listings are missing!! 😨 Were the materials out of stock? Where they no longer offering these items?  I searched my e-mail for all the newsletters Zazzle sent me and couldn't find anything about site changes that could have caused this. I also looked for notifications from Zazzle but only found the ones telling me my products had been posted for sale back in 2023. I then went digging around on the web to see what could have caused this strange occurrence to happen and if anyone else came across the same issue. This lead me to Zazzle's community forums where someone posted a topic about their items missing during the year I stopped uploading designs. They noted that there were changes to the collection rules...could this possibly have something to do with my situation? I checked out the page on how this feature works but couldn't find anything that I ma...

If you've looked at my print-on-demand shops, you may have noticed that most of the shirt options are unavailable. Why is that? Well...most of my designs include my KTCW logo and I had lowered the opacity of this layer to make it more transparent. This was done because I wanted to make it less distracting to the rest of the design, but I didn't consider how that would transfer to a shirt...😬 Here's how Teepublic printed my "You Can Be Seal-ious" Sad Seal  design to a shirt. (The color was altered a bit to reduce glare.  I'll  provide a better screen-to-print comparison in the future) A lot of it looks pretty good. But when you takes a closer at the logo... It's completely blurry and unreadable. 😭 It's supposed to look a little more like this: I want to let people know who made these designs but I can't sell any clothing with the logo looking like that! There's no point. I'm going to have to go back to the original files and figure out...

Redbubble  was the first print-on-demand site I ever tried. I can't for the life of me remember when I had first heard or found out about it--the company's been around since 2006; that's quite a while--but I think I decided that I wanted to use it somewhere between 2019-2021. I was fed up with an ongoing situation and wanted to pivot over to something else. I had already said for the longest time that I wanted to get back to revising my characters and selling original art, so, this was a good time to do something productive with  that , instead of being upset. One of the biggest draws to Redbubble was how beginner friendly it was. You could join it for free and have your own storefront on the website!  The other features were nice too: The ability to protect your work by adding a watermark to previews Getting to adjust the placement and size of your design Having the options to create patterns out of your design Providing mockups to give you and your customers an idea of ...

Back in the day of 2010's-internet, Redbubble was a good way to start selling your own merch. But after introducing artist account tiers in May of 2023, it has greatly fallen out of favor with creatives, causing those who once enjoyed the platform, to search for other print-on-demand sites that work similarly, or better, to how RB used to. Where else is there to go? There are multiple places, but here's a short run-down of the ones that I'm currently using: