Limited edition paper doll chronicles cards…collect all 15!
April 19th, 2004
By 6:30 a.m. on Saturday, I was dressed, packed, and ready to go to BloggerCon, but as I was heading for the door, I suddenly had an idea. It was a good idea, but as usual for me, it came at an inopportune time.At the previous BloggerCon in October, many people were curious about my weblog, and I was reduced to writing my URL and other information on scraps of paper in a nervous, unrehearsed hand. I felt unprepared and awkward and quickly began to avoid conversations with unfamiliar bloggers.
Saturday morning, as I was heading out the door on my way to the second BloggerCon, I realized that I was about to walk into Pound Hall unprepared again. I needed something like blogcards, but in this last minute moment, I would have to make them myself. So, I did, but the simple project (in my typical fashion) turned into a complicated flurry of creative activity.
Three hours later, I had created fifteen unique cards–each card printed on celery cover paper from the Paper Source and featuring a version of the simply drawn little girl image that used to be on my weblog. Each little girl was wearing a one-of-a-kind paper dress, crafted from my new stock of print-on-demand chiyogami and my vast collection of decorative paper scraps. With my colorful, homemade stack of cards in hand, I felt happy, confident, and ready to network with other bloggers.
And, after all of that effort (and the embarrassment of missing a good portion of the conference), no one asked me about my weblog.
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1. sushiesque | April 19th, 2004 at 9:34 am
Oh my god, that’s exactly what I did! Down to the celery paper! (I also used some “kraft” cardstock, also from Paper Source.) I wish we’d met; your cards sound goddamn adorable. (Mine just had sushi grass and a Sei Shonagon quote.)
2. Annie | April 19th, 2004 at 11:17 am
Your cards sound lovely. I have always liked the cartoon girl that appeared on your blog (although your new sophisticated look is good, too).
3. Amanda | April 19th, 2004 at 10:25 pm
Vernica, I’d love to collect your cards. Will you be selling them?
4. Tara | April 20th, 2004 at 1:15 pm
I feel your pain. I realized on Friday afternoon that I hadn’t bought the Blogcards as I had intended and my domain name is hard to spell and remember. So I ran out to AC Moore, got mottled brown cardstock and commenced jamming up my printer with it. But I did end up with about 30 printed cards to which I glued tiny 3D colored paper flowers.
And I didn’t have a single opportunity to use them either!
5. Vernica | April 21st, 2004 at 1:29 pm
Wow! What an unexpected response to (what I thought) was just another post about how quirky and strange I can be sometimes. I wish that I had known that there were other bloggers with hand-crafted cards at BloggerCon. We could have all swapped cards.
Perhaps, a card-swap session (or table) should be part of any future blogging conference. I would have loved to have organized something like that–if only I had thought about it beforehand!
In response to Amanda’s question, I would never sell them, but if anyone wants a card for free, I will gladly give them one. Although I love craft projects, I am not talented enough to charge for my work–at least, not yet ;-).
6. Amanda | April 21st, 2004 at 6:54 pm
Oh, please send me a card!
7. Tara | April 21st, 2004 at 11:44 pm
I really like your idea of a card swap table. Maybe even something random like toss a card into a fishbowl and take one out. Meet a new blogger that way…