You have used five different designs - and five different design styles on this one card, so it lacks cohesion and consistency. It also lacks a place for customers to add a photo, their own holiday greeting, and their names.
The front features a modern, minimalist text-with-graphic design plus a photo-realistic border of pine needles, peppermint sticks, and ornaments. The inside two pages feature a snow globe silhouette on one side and a folk-art style border on the other side. The back features another unrelated graphic of a Christmas stocking.
There is also a lot of white space on the front of this card that would be better used to add a customizable photo or two. Now that it’s Black Friday, it’s mostly too late to be adding Christmas cards to your shop, so you should start focusing on products that will be selling 2-3 months from now.
But you can use this time to develop your design skills for future products. You can’t depend on Zazzle designers to critique your products and teach you how to improve your design skills. They are all busy creating their own products.
Jen and Elke Clarke (elkeclarke.com) have a new Design Divas course that can help you improve your Zazzle design skills. For a reasonable monthly fee, they will help you improve and refine your Zazzle design skills. If you can afford it, I’d start there.
