New stuff posted on Etsy!

Hello friends! Just a little update to tell you all what the Brightside girlies have been up too. Finally got some of our paper goodness posted up on our Etsy. We posted some hand made envelopes and stationary sets. I love writing letters and snail mail, there is nothing better then getting something in the mail that's not junk. We also have some postcards posted of some lomography photos I have taken with my lovely Diana-Mini. But I don't want to start rambling on about photography and lomography, I will spare you all the pain and save that post for a day when I run out of ideas to write about. We also have been making lots of thank you cards, which are always handy to have around. I will be posting those up on our etsy also, once I stop being so lazy. Also me and Zoei have been working on some new designs and ordering a new batch of shirts to start printing some new shirts soon! So look out for those. I will try to post pictures of our new designs as we get them done. Well I will try to, I am awfully forgetful these days. As always much love to all the support we are still getting from everyone!

 

Check out Etsy and get your self some of these fantastic envelopes! There perfect for sending letters! Lets face it everyone LOVES getting handwritten letters in the mail!

Postcards are awesome because they only cost .28 cents to send! Which is perfect if your cheap like me but still like to send friends little notes! If you like sending and receiving postcards you can always join postcrossing! Its an awesome site and its so much fun to receive postcards from around the world!

We got new junk!

Hello good friends! In case you haven't heard, we got some new printing junk! (wooohoo!) We mostly just got some new screens. Which we are super happy for because now we can retire our old wooden screens. Don't get me wrong, the wooden screens are lovely and get the job done. But light weight aluminum screens are AMAZING, and make printing so much more enjoyable. So now you know, if you ever do screen printing, spend the extra money and get the good screens. We also got some chemicals which should be interesting to experiment with.

We got a killer deal on the screens! Which makes me love them that much more!

The best part about ordering new supplies, is definitely the packaging peanuts! They are so useful!

Ways to re-use your packageing peanuts:

1) well, so you're stuff doesn't get damaged during shipping, of course!

2) alternative to confetti

3) use as snow during the summer ( same white fluffiness affect with out all the coldness.)

4)useful writing tool, you can leave lovely messages on the ground for people!

Update!

So after all the shirts we screened for Christmas, we have taken a little bit of a break. But we have some new designs we are working on. We are so stoked to start printing some new shirts. Most of you know that our studio is in the garage and is very cold during the winter so its oddly difficult to print when its chilly out, but we do it anyways. We are going to be preparing our screens this weekend and hopefully get some prints out soon. So keeps your eyes peeled, I will be posting some pictures this next week. Until then, enjoy some fantastic cute awesomeness! YAY!

    I wouldn't mind having one of these, hes too cute!

<--------This guy is totally my new bestfriend!

                                                              -----BONUS!!!-----

So it has been a while since we have posted anything on our blog so I thought I would take this lovely Saturday and do just that. There really is just so much that I could write about, Brightside is doing so great. But I would just like to take a minute and thank everyone who has supported us. We really wouldn't be able to do it without all of the support we get from friends, family and even strangers (in a non creepy way of course). Knowing that there are so many people in our lives that are there for us is seriously what keeps us going. There has always been that thought in the back of our minds of "What if no one likes our stuff" or better yet "What if no one buys our stuff and we are stuck with 200 printed tees?!?" But thanks to all of you we now know that people do like our stuff and thankfully we will not be stuck with 200 printed tees! There is a feeling we all get when someone buys a tee or even just comments on one of our facebook pics. It tells us that we are doing something, that we aren't just doing the whole brightside thing for nothing and that all of our hard work really is going towards something. So THANK YOU so much to everyone who has liked us on facebook, has looked at our etsy and a HUGE thanks to all of you who have bought tees. Your kindness doesn't go unnoticed, in fact we usually cheer to you at lunch! Thank you.



(It was either this or Thank you by Sly and the Family Stone, but this one seemed to fit a little better)

Spread the Word Contest

Want to win some free merch from BrightSide Design?!? Then I have the thing for you to do.....
To participate in our Spread the Word Contest there are just 4 easy steps (and most of you have already done 2 of them)


1.) Go to "facebook.com/brightsidedesign"
2.) "like" it
3.) Tag BrightSide Design in your status (To do this just put @ then start typing in brightside and it will come up for you to click on) make sure to say something along the lines of "help me win some free merch from Brightside Design" or "check our this great company, Brightside design!" or just anything witty-- people love witty stuff!!
4.) Send us a message on facebook or post on our facebook wall telling us that you tagged us in your status!!


Everyone who does this will be entered in a drawing, we will pick on random winner on December 1st (when our winter line comes out) You can tag us as many times as you want from here untill the 1st, every time you do, make sure you send us a message and your name will be added to the drawing every time (the more times you tag the more your chances of winning are!)

So what are we giving away exactly?? Well we really want it to be a surprised... but I will tell you its at least $35.00 in BrightSide Design merch! So its totally worth it.. so get tagging!!



Oh and just a little song to dance your little heart out to....

New Designs!

We have now officially started printing our winter line! We are super stoked about the new designs that we have! I don't want to brag but they are turning out SUPER AWESOME! All the Brightside girls are in love with all our designs! We are keeping all the designs super simple. We just ordered tons of shirts, that feel and fit amazing! We are going to be printing our little hearts out these next couple weeks! I hope you guys like our designs as much as we do! We love all the feed back we can get and love any comments and suggestions! We have lots of super cute stuff planned, so make sure you keep an eye out and buy them for all your friends for Christmas! We start selling shirts December 1st!

Our lovely screens all ready to print! All our exposures have been coming out perfectly! We couldn't have asked for things to go better.

 We have been working hard to get out some good designs. I think we have been doing pretty good so far. We will be posting a bunch of pictures on our facebook, so you can get a sneak peak at our designs before we post them to sell!

Our logo turned out awesome. I think that its safe to say we are getting better at having clean prints and are super stoked to use all our new equipment. (Which makes it a whole lot easier and more fun!)

New Equipment!

We finally got new equipment! We bought a brand new printing press! It is so shiny and quite heavy! It didn't take us very long to put together (and by us I mean Zoei and Anney). Now we are almost ready to print some amazing T-shirts! We are still getting together some designs, and figuring out all our new supplies that we got. Which is way fun, even if were not being that productive! Any who, we plan on having shirts ready by December. So keep an eye out and we will be posting updates and sharing some of our designs as they spill out of heads like vomit. (Well, good vomit of course!)

Nothing is more exciting then getting 4 huge boxes of supplies! I do believe me and Zoei did a happy dance after the delivery guy left.

I think Zoei fingers were the only ones small enough to be able to get the little bolts in. I am pretty sure she had no finger tips after this.

It's so shiny and amazing. It doesn't look like much, but it is quite important if you want to do lots of shirts. Although Zoei is freakishly good at eye balling the screens to line up the print.

They are working so hard, using tools and junk.

Woohoo! Are brand new printing press! Isn't it wonderful!