Sooo.. this goal needs a name change

it SHOULD be called “Have a t-shirt design accepted for submission to Threadless.”

I submitted my first design today, but it was declined. I was sad :(
But the most frustrating thing – the decline reason was a a total form letter so I have no idea what was wrong with it. Did I use too many colors? Was it not the right format? I have NO CLUE.

Is there anybody with experience with this that can help me out?

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Coach Poppy

Here's a design for a wallpaper design contest for the new line of Coach purses and shoes:

Are You a Poppy Girl™? Sponsored by Visit Coach

If you like it, please vote for me and help me win a trip to NYC!

mulling over ideas

I have had an idea in my head for a Threadless design for several months now. I have Adobe CS2 on my computer and it is so slow and it takes forever to do anything! So I usually get frustrated and move on to something else. My idea is for a GREEN theme design, inspired by some sketches that I did for a drawing class last spring. I hope that by putting this on my life list, I can get this project done faster!

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first post

Hello! I decided to create a separate blog for all of my artistic endeavors since I felt it was all becoming jumbled with the rest of my thoughts and personal life on my xanga site. Actually I needed a fresh start from it all so I completely moved from xanga to blogger. You can read about my personal life in Something About Mary, and all things about my artistic life here. It was only appropriate to name this blog after my Etsy shop, mar' contraire. This shop is where I expect most of my for-fun projects to end up and this blog with help me to promote it. I will also add a few things here and there about my graphic design work and links to different artsy things. 

I like to do campaigns for Brickfish and crowdspring, and it is one of my goals to make a tshirt design for Threadless so I will periodically post links to get people to vote for me for those different things!

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." Emile Zola