Small Business Check EXCITING NEW PRODUCTS Studio Vlog
hello and welcome to another studio vlog i've actually just been on like a 15 kilometer bike ride who even am i and it's only half past 10 in the morning i don't make a habit of this i'm not that kind of person but it feels good i'm happy i did it today we are prepping new products mummy's working for me today we've got a lot of like new notepads to package and count and check and all that kind of thing we've got greeting cards to stamp and package and then i think we're gonna figure out some sort of strategy for marketing and like making sure we build up the hype about a new launch i also need to kind of come up with a date that i'm gonna release things because i keep putting off i'm thinking like late june so let me know what kind of like when is everyone's payday i would like to know that because obviously i'm self-employed so i get paid at different times every month some people get paid on the first but then a lot of people get paid on like the 25th so let me know in the comments when you get paid i don't know if that's a personal question but i i'm gonna go downstairs i am gonna help mom initially with the stamping and make sure everything's okay and then i think we've got a post office run we've just got a bit of a busy day and actually this evening i'm going to an outdoor cinema um in like a football stadium which would be quite fun so maybe i'll film a little clip for that but yes let's get going these are some of the new cards this one's gonna be a second because it's got a mark on it but i love them and then we've got how many designs we've got all together six i think so we'll show you them the others like upstairs packed mom's going to stamp these because we've got this new embossing tool it's really cool so you like press down and it adds this onto the paper how cool is that i feel very professional we've also got the photography stuff ready to go because we need to take photos of everything i'm going to do some reels and then i'll edit them together i'm sat here doing at the moment designing stuff editing the reels we'll do a time lapse of mum doing this you're making your life difficult doing it like that you do realize you just realized what you were doing yeah yeah she did this the other week to about how many like 200 there was a lot she's out of practice but you've only got like 30 more to do i think i actually want to talk about this week's sponsor which is curve i actually have a curve metal it combines all of your bank cards into one so you don't need to carry them all around you can use this single card to make payments from any of your cards you can see at the top that if i swipe across i can pick between my personal account my business account i've also got a credit card and i've also got a joint account and rather than carrying them all around or like forgetting one and like having to transfer money between myself curve has solved that issue and i've actually used curve for like i think a year and a half now i did mention this on a vlog a while ago you also get like a virtual curve card so you can get cash back so you pick like your favorite retailers and then that's like actual money that you can spend out of your curve account also with curve metal which is the card that i have i get travel insurance i get mobile phone insurance i get like discounted access to airport lounges and also when you go on the app so say i'm going to the post office i would click the business card section and then pay for something however there have been a few times where i forget to switch it which is fine because you can do this thing where you go back in time so if i accidentally paid for something for work on my personal card there's a option on the curve app to go back in time so basically it will refund the wrong card and then pay for it out of the right card i mean for a forgetful person like me this is just so good what i'm gonna do i will leave a link in the description to curve so you can check it out for yourself and also if you do lose the card you can lock it and you also get spending notifications you can keep track and it categorizes everything into like merchants so if you're spending money on food or entertainment or bills curve tracks it all across all accounts so you can really be like in control of your money so yeah curve isn't a bank account it's just a really innovative way to sort your finances out and get you together you know definitely check out curve raved about it for a long time now got mum on the real filming all a new experience for both of us but we're gonna try and these are one of the new products so this is the note to self pad so i figured like at the top like day or like reference maybe it's like a a university class you could write that in there and then just note yourself stick it up on your wall whatever there's a hundred sheets per one hardback you could buy it with the magnets as well so you could stick it on your fridge so that's that one and we've also got two more designs which i'll show you in a minute same sort of principle oh mum's going to get them for me thanks mom same principle but different colors and i think what we're going to do is you can either buy them separately or buy them together so there's a shopping list so tick down either side write the list and i like this feed the soul and then like soul & fire and obviously this one says be fearless which is my favorite one and then this one which is like throwback to like school paper i always remember having this paper with the margin so to-do list with the tick boxes on either side and then make it happen so you could get them by themselves like i said or a little trio so there's like a pale yellow this is like a gray blue sort of color and then orange so yeah i think they're really cute so we're just packaging them up now mum's stamping the backs with our logo and website and then we'll put them in the biodegradable wallet thing and then put the soul and fire sticker on so yeah work in progress i'm very excited oh also finally decided on when we're going to release things so it's the first of july which i feel like is quite a good day it gives us another like four and a half weeks to get everything sorted um i can order some new things i can get the mirror decals sorted and i feel like it's a good time of year you know so we'll see we'll see how it goes hopefully you guys like everything and i don't know you just kind of have to guess with this kind of thing you can't really judge it which is kind of scary considering how much like time and effort and money and stuff you put into it but that's the fun of it so yeah mum's still doing that i'm gonna order what am i ordering oh the stickers for the cards so that our greeting cards come with stickers on i'll show you them from the other ones so these are the stickers and what we do is we like wrap them over the top of the greeting cards because it reduces the packaging i don't use the biodegradable plastic sleeves for these because i mean they're printed nice and you know i've never had them get wet in the post whatever so i'm gonna stick with that a bit more eco-friendly so i need to order some new ones of these for the bigger cards look at that satisfied so i'm doing that now so yesterday didn't quite go as planned i actually not long after the last clip ended up with a migraine so i had to go to bed and when i get a migraine i can't look at the laptop or any screens for like the rest of the day so that was me done luckily mum continued so thank you for that mum she packed up a bunch of the notepads although we ran out like of the cello things so i need to order them so we've still got some tasks for next thursday i've done a little bit of editing i'm working from my bed today because i'm so tired i don't know what to do myself we actually did go to that outdoor cinema thing yesterday and it was so good we got back really late the film didn't finish till like quarter 12 so a bit tired not used to late nights anymore but i thought i could show you the cards that we've got so in my previous studio blog i'll leave it linked in the description and on screen i showed you me designing these and they've arrived so i'm going to show you so we've got seven designs in total originally they were six but they actually printed one without one of the details so now we have seven because they sent me them again correct um but like the first versions are fine so yeah this is the first one so it's a little birthday card it says happy birthday on the tag and then you can see like the foiled parts bright colors on this lovely like satiny paper obviously soul and fire info on the back i love these let me get the birthday ones out first actually so we need to really organize this drawer but i'm running out of storage very quickly in this room oh this is the like misprinted version of that so it's literally exactly the same actually this is the second look because this is wonky but it doesn't say happy birthday on it and they were all like that so i don't really know what happened there but i messaged them like yo this is not what i ordered and they resent them so that was good of them and then another birthday one is this one happy birthday with a birthday cake and the flames of the candles and the writing is foiled i just think that's so nice they've turned out even better than i expected them to actually then we also have this one which says you are my sunshine and i thought this would be it could either be like a friendship card or i'd send this to my boyfriend for like anniversary or just like a thinking of your card or you know like this is just i like you as a person i'm gonna send you a cute card um same kind of vibes they're all blank in the middle too so you can write whatever you want on them then i did a couple of home cards oh wait there is another birthday card i was a bit confused and i was like why have i missed one so there's three birthday cards and two home cards and one generic card so this is the third birthday card even though now we have four because of the mis print but yeah this one is just full gold foil so beautiful the quality of these are insane and then there's two new home cards because if you don't already know i am moving house soon and i'm obsessed with house things so i thought it'd be rude not to do a new home card this is definitely my favorite i want to frame this i'm going to pinch one out of this stock and frame it i think for the new house or i just send myself it you know and it's got beautiful floral elements and the foil home sweet home beautiful and then there's another home card here so this is the last card of the bunch and this one says home sweet home again and it's got a little house on it and quite blocky graphical design i'm just very happy with them let me just get them all laid out i feel like my mum's packaged these neatly but then i'm just picking them up and ruining them sorry mom i love you this is the new cards this is the part of the new collection which i'm very excited about um it's been a long time coming i've been putting it off i don't know why i get like imposter syndrome and then i feel like i'm not good enough and then i doubt myself before i'd even like drawn anything but after doing that previous vlog and seeing everything come together i was like you know what we just gotta give it a go i'm never gonna get dropping them i'm never gonna get anything done if i always think that what i do isn't good enough so i figured just give it a go you know so here we are three of the new greeting cards i'm very excited for it they're all getting released on the first like i said in yesterday's part of this vlog so yeah i don't know what i'm gonna do now i've got so much to do i don't know where to start i'm also really tired so i'm not having the most productive days it's really knocked me having yesterday like off unintentionally has really thrown me off which is very annoying but i guess i'm going to take it as like my body's way of telling me to chill out which is very difficult for a workaholic but you know i'm learning i'm learning and i am getting much better you know i mentioned a couple of weeks ago about me doing the time blocking on my calendar i am actually still doing that i haven't followed it as strictly since i've got back from my holiday i've been on like a two-week break um and i think it's mainly because i just need to get back into the swing of actually working but i'm really finding it helpful like blocking sections of time off in my calendar and then when i do get to this kind of mindset where i'm like i don't know what to do i'll just look at my calendar and it reminds me like what i should be doing and i'm finding it really helpful the only thing is because i took yesterday off i've got all the blocks from yesterday afternoon and then an entire day of today so it's throwing me off a little bit i don't really know what to do about it so in like response i'm just procrastinating so yeah i'm gonna sit down um i'm gonna put a vlog on and i'm going to i think i'm gonna plan some videos i need to plan june's videos and the start of july i like to be quite ahead and then i've also got a brand video i need to film so i'm going to prep for that so laptop heavy but let's go i've just sent off the design for a very exciting new product which i might as well share with you you know people who watch these vlogs get the inside info so this has taken quite a bit of back and forth because it is a completely new design so what i want it to be or what it is is a pencil case with like a custom screen print on the front now i want it to be like stationary based i wanted it to include the logo and annoyingly when i first did it it was too detailed they said that it wouldn't come out right that the ink would bleed so i've had to send it back and forth like i think it's like the third time i've sent it to them now but i'm actually really really happy with how the final like design has gone they sent me an image of the proof and i've approved it so fingers crossed it won't be too long these will also release on the first with everything else i've shown you today this is the design and in fact i have a mock-up of it which i can show in a second so basically it's going to be a cotton pencil case so it's like landscape and the zip would be up at the top and on it i like art supplies drawing supplies soul and fire pen and i sketched all this in procreate and i've been refining it and making sure it all should print okay and in fact let me find the mock-up so the mock-up actually has one of the older versions on it that's a bit more detailed but you kind of get the idea so this is the mock-up so you'll see that it's got a little bit more detail so there's like writing on this paint there's writing on this pane and there's a few more like brush hairs but other than that like the design that i've now proved is pretty much the same so this is the vibes we're going for i've got um it's all getting screen painted basically white ink black pouch it's pretty reasonable size pouch i think it's like 20 centimeters wide and like 15 tall or something i can't remember the exact measurements but i'm very excited to see how these go i've also ordered some like swing tags now if you don't know what swing tag is i don't have anything i can show you as an example do you like when you get some new clothes and there's like that hanging tag that comes in it with like the brand name and the price and whatever on it that's a swing tag so i wanted to put a swing tag on those pouches just for a little bit of like branding and that would effectively be their packaging because they don't need like cello bags or anything like that so i was like how can i do this differently so i've actually ordered some really cool tags let me show you the design firstly so this is the design for the tag this is where we'd punch a hole and then the logo instagram website and then on the back is instructions because it's a plantable tag now i'm actually just gonna google this plantable paper is paper that's got seeds in it like i don't know if you can see on here this is like plantable paper obviously here it's starting to grow but yeah you can get them in like different mixes you can get like herb mix and then obviously send it to a printer who will print on it originally i was gonna do it myself so i was gonna order that paper like you can order it on there you can see um and then print it here but then i realized that the ink i have in my printers isn't like eco-friendly it's nothing special it's just standard ink even though that really annoys me i wish they did better ink and trust me i'm always working i'm trying to find better ways so rather than be printing them myself even though that would have been the cheaper option i've actually ordered them from a supplier so i've ordered like business card sized bits and then me and mum can like hole punch the hole and i've ordered some like jute twine because jute's like a really sustainable material and then hopefully if you understand my vision hopefully if you can picture like this bag with this tag on it and i did the tags quite generic like it doesn't say anything about it being a pouch or anything it's not specific to the product itself because it means that i can use them from like an array of things i'm not restricting myself so yeah if in the future i want to do like tote bags or whatever i can use the same tag but i'm very excited to see how this turns out i'm kind of worried about how detailed this is because hopefully you can still read it properly but i mean i just wanted to give it a go so it was something different and i've not seen anyone do that really before so okay so what have i done so far i i actually had a salmon cream cheese bagel for lunch very happy about it i've woken up since that which i'm sure you can tell i've also made my judgments on the msi creator award entries i got the document with all the like i think msi like narrowed it down and then sent all the judges like a selection of the entries and then we're grading them on like a variety of different categories so i've been through that document i've like studied it all and graded everything i've not yet sent it back i'm gonna have another look at it tomorrow to make sure i'm being fair and like the grades are like representative of the work feels very weird i've never done anything like this so yeah i feel i do feel a little bit out of my depth but it's it's good and i'm happy to be involved and i'd love to do something else like this in the future if um if it ever arises i'm sure i'd say yes so yeah uh what i need to do now i have a client job to start which involves like patterns like making repeatable patterns which is really fun i've never actually done a client job like this before like a lot of my client work is just logo design whereas this is literally purely pattern design so i'm excited to give that a go i've not done it for a while and i i love pattern design i have done a few videos on it actually um and then i need to make some new products so it's another little bit of laptop time and then i'm gonna do some sketches for some mirror decals which i will show you and then hopefully we'll get somewhere hopefully it's gonna be a more productive day i'm literally gonna be sat on this bed for the rest of my day so soz maybe when i move house i'll have more to show you but for now it's just this office and my face aren't you lucky
2021-06-13 02:36
