July 2, 2009

Business Cards




Here is the first attempt at my business card from the company I bought from. There were slight revisions after this set. This is the front and the back of the card. The price for 5000 cards was incredibly low for the quality and you can purchase as few as 500 cards in one order. They are great quality and wonderful to work with. Shiny surface and crisp pictures. You can find them here http://www.gemgraphics.net/ Monica Kaufman is the contact. Tell them Magpie Gemstones sent you.

I believe having an image of a piece of jewelry on your card will make a big difference in follow through with sales. Jewelry is such an emotional purchase and a strong beautiful photo will get people more interested than graphics.

February 27, 2009

Disc Turquoise in Jewelry

The new rondelles (discs) hand rolled by Bill are in the store and questions are coming in asking "how" would you use them. I like them on big necklaces with bead caps on each end strung with leather as in this necklace.

I did a bit of google searching and found a few designers doing some really interesting designs with discs. Here is one. Her name is Sante Me . Amazing designs.


Bead Arts has a beautiful necklace as well with an intriguing design.


Green Roundel Earrings from Heddyjack.

Sassyandabittwised made a bangle along the lines I like.Lots more to see on google. I could get lost for years!
In NO way am I endorsing copying an others style. Just offering up some visuals to get the muse hopping.