PrintablePretty.com Has Launched! Clipart, Seamless Patterns, Junk Journals, SVG Files....

[PrintablePretty]

Just wanted to pop in and let you guys know if you need an additional source for design files to please check out my site https://printablepretty.com/

I am selling clipart, seamless patterns, svg files, junk journal kits, sublimation designs, tumbler wraps, and much more is coming! I plan to sell card backgrounds, templates, oodles of printable etc. There are also plenty of freebies to be had as well. 

It just launched in May and already I am getting quite a bit of traffic. I have HUGE plans for it and would love your support! Having my shop here on Zazzle is what inspired me to get back to my roots and sell design resources. 

I have a degree in multimedia graphic design and have been doing this for 25 years. I sold clipart for many years before I started my Zazzle shop and I sold all of my assets and the rights to designbundles.net to focus on Zazzle. I’ve decided to go back to my roots a bit and give it a go again! 

These were my stats for August. I am excited about the growth and can’t wait to see where it goes. 

[jadendreamer13]

Wow, what a great collection. Will you offer a subscription option so POD folks can access and use all your clipart for a monthly or annual fee?

[PrintablePretty]

Thank you! Once I get more stuff on the site I am debating on adding subscription/membership options. Not sure if I will do monthly and yearly, or just yearly. One of my concerns is people signing up, downloading everything, and canceling. If I offer monthly I’d have to set up clear terms that commercial use is only allowed while the subscription is active. I know that can be a pain for POD sellers — being one myself, I wouldn’t want to constantly worry about pulling designs from my shops if I had to cancel. So I’ll have to keep pondering about it lol. 

[GagCartoonist]

Looks fabulous! The future is bright x

[Nelda_Hoxie]

Your clip art is great. FYI I would never sign up for a subscription that I have to use in perpetuity to ensure my Zazzle products are valid. Most clipart is so reasonably priced, I personally don’t see the need for it. I am more concerned with the license allowing POD usage. 

[jadendreamer13]

I was coming in to add the same comment. I would not sign up for a subscription where my license to use the art I purchased was only valid if I had an active subscription. Something for you to think about/decide on if you offer subscriptions. I’d be more likely to pay for a monthly/annual subscription instead of buying clip art individually — along with an extra license fee added to each purchase. There should be only one price for each item/bundle that a customer can purchase.

Also, Zazzle designers would need to know whether the clip art they’re purchasing contains AI art, since they have to report that on their listings.

If you can work these items out, I’d definitely buy clipart from you.

[PrintablePretty]

Great suggestions! I actually mentioned earlier that if I ever do a subscription, I wouldn’t make people lose rights to what they already bought. That would drive me crazy as a POD seller too. Honestly though, I don’t think I’ll be offering subscriptions at this point due to the potential of people taking advantage of short term subscriptions (ie Downloading EVERYTHING in one swoop then canceling). 

Contemplating maybe offering a monthly or yearly drive bundle, where I’d place everything added the month or year prior into a google drive. Another option I am considering is just adding big bundles to the site directly at a discount, or a bundle and save discount feature etc. Feedback on any of those ideas is welcome! My goal is to make sure I am giving people value and a reliable go to resource. 

Moving forward, all designs on my site will be exclusive and not sold anywhere else. I still have a few things up on Creative Market and Creative Fabrica, and will probably still post the freebies on CF but with the traffic I’m getting now I don’t feel like I need to post there anymore.

I also just made an AI category and I’m working on getting products sorted in there. I bring every AI piece into Procreate to tweak or add details and manually clean up edges with my Apple Pencil because I’m ridiculously picky about quality. There are some horrendous AI packs floating around out there and I just cannot with that level of sloppy . Even the Ai sets take me hours to create and post process. I’m also thinking about adding “Hand Drawn” and “Made With AI” labels on previews so it’s crystal clear what you’re getting. Pretty much if you see a perfect watercolor set… it’s AI. My degree taught me vector design inside and out but definitely not watercolor painting. The gouache texture pack is mine though and was done in Procreate.

Thanks again for the feedback it really helps me keep improving the shop.

Since you’re both experienced sellers, I’d actually love your input on pricing and license set up. Here’s how my license options are set up right now:

Personal Use (Free Files) – Freebies are personal use only. No commercial use allowed without addon license.

Free Standard Commercial Use (Paid Files Only) – Covers up to 250 physical items per design set. Perfect for Etsy sellers, handmade artists, and small-shop owners making their own physical products.

POD & Extended Commercial License (+$5) – For businesses using POD services (Zazzle, Printify, Redbubble) or selling digital templates and planners (flattened use only).

Unlimited Commercial License (+$25) – For large-scale sellers, agencies, and brands that want unlimited use everywhere with no limits.

Would you suggest tweaking the prices to make the POD or Unlimited options more appealing? Lower my base price and POD license price so sets are more affordable? Offer a one off lifetime license that covers everything? Initially I had the POD license at $3 but my chat GPT busines advisor told me it was too low lol.

And do you guys prefer mostly hand drawn or do you like clean well put together cohesive Ai packs too? Now that I have the shop stocked a bit better and traffic up I have had more time to focus heavier on handmade stuff. I like to doodle in procreate and watch murder podcasts on youtube

My goal is to keep things super clear and fair for other designers and POD sellers while still valuing the work that goes into creating these assets. Your feedback would be gold to me as I refine this!

[jadendreamer13]

I think like anything artists post on the internet, there will be people who will steal or misuse your work, including subscribing to your entire library for a month, downloading everything, and cancelling their subscription, like you fear.

There is no way to stop unscrupulous people from doing that. However, that will likely be only a small fraction of your users.

I think, in time, your biggest customers will be POD heavy hitters, who will want an annual subscription with a full commercial POD use license, and those same users will renew their subscription annually, so they always have a fresh library of images to choose from.

I don’t spend any time looking for or worrying about unscrupulous people who might be stealing my designs. I can’t stop them. I focus my attention on creating great designs, matching my designs with customers who need and appreciate them, and growing my business. The other stuff can be a distraction if I allow it to be.

I would be interested mainly in vector art, where I can manipulate it heavily (in Illustrator) to make it my own. Even if I start with clip art, I want my designs to be unique and a reflection of my own, unique recognizable style.

I would not be interested in using any art created by AI, and I would want to be able to filter it out of my search results.

Please keep us up to date on what path forward you ultimately decide.

[PrintablePretty]

Thank you so much for your additional insight. You are absolutely right that I can’t control what people do. I had the #2 clipart shop on all of Etsy many moons ago and theft/misuse of my art was rampant. I didn’t lose sleep over it then and I wouldn’t now. however I also don’t want to cheaply hand my catalog over on a silver platter to a small group of people who I’d know would abuse it. Because of that, monthly subscriptions are off the table for me, but a yearly option is still something I’m considering.

I like your idea about annual subscriptions being best for POD users. I’d want it to feel like a no brainer for serious designers who renew because of the value. I myself prefer vector and SVG files and I have been starting to add more of those to the shop. A lot of the hand drawn clipart starts out with stuff I make in procreate and then I vectorize it . I prefer doing all of my seamless pattern design in illustrator and it makes it easier for me to kill two birds with one stone. 

I hear you on the AI as well. I just made these preview images to go on every set . Will take me a bit of time to get them all marked. I want people to be able to filter them out if AI isn’t their thing.

I’m at a stage in life where I have a laundry list of health issues and can’t crank out everything completely by hand the way I could 15 years ago so I actually welcome the help AI gives me. It lets me keep creating consistently, and I still put a ton of time into cleaning, refining, and finishing every single piece before it ever hits the shop. My first love will always be drawing by hand and I am focusing on adding even more of it to the shop as I can. 

[jadendreamer13]

An annual subscription would be expensive enough that it would help weed out fraudsters looking to make a quick buck on the back of other people’s work without having to shell out any money, or a small amount of money. I have a couple of designers on CreativeFabrica who I follow because their design style closely matches mine. And they have a recognizable design style, not designs that are all over the place. Having a clip art source with a consistent design style helps keep me on brand.

[GagCartoonist]

With the licensing, I’d just scrap it altogether as when Podsters see various options they may become confused and the time you spend confirming and explaining what they can and can’t do you could be enjoying a break or creating. I think simplifying things is better over all. And as you know licenses don’t deter thieves in any case. 

[PrintablePretty]

That is actually genius Leah. I just want to have fun with this and create art not stress about the nuances or have to worry about confusing people lol. My main goal when I started this was to be as helpful as possible and make anything I put out as usable as possible. Licenses are like laws people will break them and do what they want anyway lol. I’ll see what I can come up with for my terms page just to make it simple as can be, no reselling as a clip art set etc like the common sense stuff and then just do away with the license options. Price of product includes whatever you wanna do with it even if it is a freebie​‍. If it winds up all over Mexico and China oh well It will anyway if they want it bad enough. Feels kind of freeing

[PrintablePretty]

New terms updated: 

What You Can Do

Use my designs for personal projects.
Sell physical products you make with them (stickers, shirts, mugs, planners, whatever).
Use them on POD sites like Zazzle, Printify, Redbubble, etc.
Flatten them into your own digital designs like templates, invites, planners, etc.

What You Can’t Do
Resell my designs as-is, share them as freebies, or bundle them as clip art/digital papers.
Claim you made the artwork yourself.
Sell the files as editable design resources (no re-uploading to Canva Elements, or other marketplaces).

That’s it. Simple, clear, no headaches. The price of the product includes commercial use — no extra licenses, no hoops to jump through.

[PAZP]

Thanks. Happy to support you. 

[Amanda23]

I will get this moved up and into our community resources post soon!  

[PrintablePretty]

Thank you so much!