Flannery O'Connor Button

I have a new category in the Zazzle store, and here's the first item:

Flannery O'Connor Button
by BestRegards

If you love the American writer, Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964), here's a small button you can wear to writer's conferences and workshops, library gatherings or even bars. If a person "gets it" (and, Lord, how I hate that expression, but it'll keep this post shorter ...) then you probably have just found a friend. If someone asks you about it, you might make a friend or introduce an existing friend to the work of one of our best Southern writers. One of our best writers-period.

Bosch writer and producer Tom Bernardo on Flannery O'Connor:

Easter is 50 Days of Multiple Alleluias!

The long season of Lent has come to an end, we walked through the days of the Triduum (Holy Thursday and Good Friday, culminating in the glorious Easter Vigil) and now EASTERTIDE is here! Also known as the Paschal Season, it extends from Easter Sunday (this year, April 1st) until Pentecost (May 20th) and you can send a religious Easter card during the entire season!

Greeting Card Universe:



and Zazzle:

The LORD is risen! Alleluia, Alleluia, ALLELUIA!

Happy Eastertide, everyone.

LENT

Well, it's that time of year again. The Church puts on purple, the color of penitence, we get ashes on Ash Wednesday (and no ... Father did NOT put them in the shape of a heart this year!!!) and we pick a penance. I won't divulge mine, but part of it involves something that starts with "net" and ends with "flix."  Here are some products I posted on Zazzle:

Lent Card Blank
by BestRegards

Lent Coffee Mug with Psalm 91 by BestRegards

Lent Greeting Card
by BestRegards

LENT Women's Plus Size Raglan T-shirt
by BestRegards

And this little item has a spot where you customize it with whatever penance you picked for Lent:

Customizable Penance Magnet for Lent
by BestRegards

More St. Patrick's Day ...

This design on Zazzle has a sweet and pithy Irish blessing (NOT "May the road rise to meet you ..." That blessing, though beloved of the Irish diaspora, has been done and done again by many terrific designers.) Also, if you delete the inside St. Paddy's day sentiment, you will have a lovely blank note card to send for any occasion on any day of the year. You can customize it, as well!

Pithy Irish Blessing Card St. Patrick's Day
by BestRegards

St. Patrick's Day is on the way!

Here's the newest card on zazzle.com/bestregards -- I rather like it. It has LOTS stuffed into it: celtic knotwork, green, orange, shamrock-ish, white, irish gaelic and it's understated without being ... understated. Here ... see for yourself:

Celtic Knotwork Sláinte St. Patrick's Day Card
by BestRegards

Oldie but Goodie - one of the first for Greeting Card Universe

Here is one of the first designs I did for Greeting Card Universe. Very vintage, very fifties! GCU asked for a general "having a girl" version and I also did a "having a boy" version, both vintage. But I thought, "What if mom and dad decided not to know the gender of the baby?" and "What if Baby is African American?" and I put this one out:

Obviously, I did not ask myself one more question: "What if Baby is bald?" But that's a design for another day!

One design, many cards. As many cards as there are people ...

National Bleeding Disorders Month Cards on Greeting Card Universe

When we think of March, we don't often think of hemophilia or other devastating bleeding disorders. A couple of years back, Greeting Card Universe put out a call for greeting cards acknowledging the significance of the month for bringing awareness to the issue. Here are a couple of the designs I submitted. Besides the month of March, World Hemophilia Day is April 17. The inside of these cards is completely customizable.

For National Bleeding Disorders month - March

For World Hemophilia Day April 17

Reorganization of Products

Best Regards Cards has products on both Zazzle and Greeting Card Universe. I have been out of the design business for a time, but my greeting cards (and other products on Zazzle) have continued to sell. I honestly have no idea how, but I suppose it's because many of them have been up for a long time. At right are a couple of the retro valentines I've designed:

Greeting Card Universe is relatively straightforward. All my designs are under one user name and share one "storefront." I cannot say the same for Zazzle. Over the years, I've had many stores on Zazzle, along with domain names that "pointed" to my Zazzle products. I don't own any of the domain names anymore and my products are scattered over the site in terms of "storefronts." Zazzle now has an option to enable sellers to get existing products into a different "storefront," so I'm giving that a whirl.

Please bear with me as I clean everything up and get it all into one place. New designs are forthcoming, as well. Below is my most popular card (talk about a niche!) on Greeting Card Universe:

Greeting Card Universe