Etsy FREE FOR ALL!!!!!!!

Yes, Congratulations indeed! 'Cos I got such a buzz from my Etsy shop being VIEWED, WOOP!!!, I was desperate to actually sell something...and since I have neither time or patience to wait until I produce something worth buying I have announced on my Etsy shop Banner that all day tomorrow I will be willing to 'sell' anything I have listed in exchange for nothing but a little constructive criticism and feedback!!!
We'll see if I'm still congratulating myself if it turns out I quite literally can't give them away, but it's all about the education, I'm sure...
Also interesting though, the distribution of the views: could it be that the newer cards - my decided 'design', having dumped the woven-paper idea - all look similar and PALE when viewed side by side in the list, whereas the older ones, the woven-paper prototypes, look bright red in contrast (the colour of the card) and though the most amateurish of them all in my opinion are therefore getting more views than some of the others. Hm - food for thought.

Growing pains

So I'm happy with the images, the paper/card, the 'design', the embossing idea and the end result...and the pictures look absolutely crap! Grr!
I did what I have read recommended: put taking the pictures off for three days until I had the time to do it in the morning light; changed the white balance on my sister's beautiful new camera; USED my sister's beautiful new camera - a panasonic lumix (sumthinsumthin), 8 optical zoom, 12 megapixel wonder machine...colour Blue! How could it fail?!
And yet, they all look awful. My only idea is to try taking them beside the big sliding door windows, as opposed to under the velux window upstairs, which I was convinced was a touch of genius by the way!
FINAL straw to be clutched at: it was pouring rain that day...although having said that when is it NOT going to be overcast during an Irish December?!