Afternoon all!
No blog post from me yesterday as I had a very rare day of entertaining lovely people so I swapped blogging with baking! I made a rather fancy looking banoffee cake complete with gold leaf dust and red glitter (ok, ok, so the cake probably looked better than it tasted, but hey, who’s complaining!?!)
Yummy sparkly banoffee cake
So, I thought I’d better get something a bit exciting for you today. I’m going to point you in the general direction of the design service that I offer for custom work.
I get through A LOT of custom orders. I reckon for every stock design order I make, I must make about 5 custom orders!! I really love making different designs up for you guys, it makes it somewhat of a challenge for me – especially when the design involves loads of artwork, colour, glazes and lustres (I really love lustres!!). I always suggest getting the design package as part of your custom order with me as so often, details can be lost in translation – it’s really quite difficult to design without imagery and emails are always hard to decipher!! With the design service, you get to see initial ideas, make any alterations needed and then see the final design as it would look in ‘real-life’. The best bit of this is making sure that your design is PERFECT before we get started on it – I always want you guys to be happy with your designs.
Final Custom CAD Design
Final Custom Wedding Sign
So, how does it work??
Well, firstly, you need to pick the right design package for you… there are 3 base packages and then a selection of ‘add ons’ that you can select either at the start of the design process or during it.
* Sketch me up package – This package is the most basic and involves a selection of hand-drawn sketches. You can have up to 3 initial idea sketches and then 1 final sketch. These are for illustrative purposes and won’t exactly resemble the outcome. The cost of this package is £10.
* Sketch and CAD me up package – This package is the most popular as it gives you up to 5 hand-drawn initial idea sketches and then 1 final CAD design. This is also the package that I would recommend the most for general custom orders. The CAD designs are a brilliant help, especially if you like to see exactly what you’ll be getting. I try to make the CAD pics replicate your design as closely as I possibly can, so that you’ll get a good idea of how your final piece will look. These are also in full colour, including details such as lustres, glazes and ribbons. The cost of this package is £15.
* CAD me up package – This package is a bit of a super deluxe job! It is most definitely the one you want if you are looking to get the most perfect result. I certainly recommend this package if you are after something really, really special & perfect.You will get up to 5 initial CAD designs and then 1 final CAD design. This is perfect for tweaking the design and getting a sense of exactly how your piece could look with different fonts, different colours and additional details like buttons and crystals. The cost of this package is £20
Final CAD Design
Final Custom Wedding Heart
*Add ons – any of these packages can have extra bits added to them to tailor them to your needs. Sometimes you just need one extra drawing to get the idea right, or you might want to see your idea in CAD, you might even want to get a few different colour variations to look at. These add ons are only available in addition to a design package. There are various costs for each add 0n: Extra hand-drawn sketch= £2, Extra CAD design = £3, CAD tweaking (e.g. a colour change or slight location change for text/image) = £1 for up to 3 tweaks.
CAD Design Tweak 1
CAD Design Tweak 2
CAD Design Tweak 3
Final Custom Wedding Heart
Do you know what the best bit of this is?? It’s knowing that you guys get £5 off all design packages until the end of the month – so, till March 1st, you guys can grab yourselves some bargain design work and make sure that your custom piece is EXACTLY what you want!!
Have a fab week peoples x
