Very exciting news! One of my easter cards has been featured in a treasury list on etsy. Treasuries are groups of items made along a theme and featured items from all sorts of etsy sellers. They are a massive exposure opportunity for sellers as treasuries are chosen by etsy admin to feature on the front page and in emails to etsy subscribers. The trick of course is to get your treasury noticed. Treasuries are measured in 'hotness' which is determined by the number of views on the treasury, comments and clicks ( to the individual item listings). I would really love it if you guys to check out the treasury featuring my item. If we make it to the top 10 I will give away some free stuff to one if my peeps who supported me.

Have a wonderful day my darlings
Rach

xox

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d8fc912fab46d91dd910081/pretty-purple-easter-on-etsy

Correction!!! Make that two treasuries!!! Feeling that love. xox

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d8e55f31e3d6d915fa0159d/eagerly-experiencing-easter

Thank you very much coolyarnz and mylittleangleco.  After you have finished looking at the treasury, you might want to check out thier stores.

Hooray for Sales!!!

I am very excited to post that my etsy store has made its first sale! Well technically - its first 3 sales!!!! All three items in my scarcely stocked store have sold!!! YEY!!!!!!


I could not be happier - I can't stop smiling!!!!!!


Big thank you to Graham Schulz for being so lovely and supporting my store.  Hopefully this is just the first of many sales to come.


Hope you are all having as wonderful a day as I am!


Love Rach xox

Introductions

Hi my name is Rachael - I love crafts and art and all things creative. And apparently I am now a blogger!!!  Eeeek!

So, I have never thought about starting a blog before now.  It seems odd to me that anyone other than my loved ones (who are forced to listen to my rants because that's just the price of friendship and family!) would care what I have to say.  But it is the generation of technology and social media and online communication, so I guess I should get with the program. 

From that statement you might think that I am 50+ grandma who has been taught how to check her emails by her grandchildren, but I am actually a 20 something (which my husband would point out I can't say for much longer) Gen Y'er who has only recently realised why you would ever want to access the internet on your mobile.*

But my main motivation for starting this blog is simply to get the word out about my invitation business and share with people my passion for pretty stationery.  Inviting Inspiration is an entity I created to give a legitimate basis to my hobby of creating invitations and cards.  Whilst it started out as just family and friends it is now expanding into something which actually resembles a business. NB if the bosses of my current "day-job" happen to be reading this - please don't fire me! Inviting Inspiration (whilst bigger than when I started) is still not ready to be launched on the stock exchange any time soon.  But there is always hope ;)

I think that every special occasion in our lives warrants an equally special piece of stationery to commemorate it.  And to me pretty means texture and colour and style and interest.  Something which not only catches your eye but makes you want to touch it and display it!  Perhaps I might be coming off as an invitation zealot now but its true that I like my stationery!  And nothing beats handmade.  You can't go past a piece of stationery that has been cut and assembled by someone who actually cares how it looks and more importantly cares whether you will like it!

I have tried to design a range of invitations and cards that are stylish, classic and interesting but still within an average punters price range.  But that's enough about that.  This isn't supposed to be an advertisement or a forum for saying how truly awesome I am (those who know me are already well aware of that!). But I guess the point is, if you have a special event coming up that you need a card or invitation for check out my website/facebook etc (you are all savvy people that will find the links somewhere on this page - maybe over there → ????) or drop me an email at invinspiration@gmail.com.  I would love to talk to you about your ideas and help you create the perfect piece for your event.

Until next time my lovely followers (again, I may be getting ahead of myself here) enjoy each moment of your life as if it belongs in a scrapbook.

Love

Rachael xo

*For my non-Australian readers (I may be getting ahead of myself here - I know) that is what we Aussies call a cell phone.  See my blog is creative AND informative!  Breaching the cultural barrier and all that...