Ten Uses for a Redbubble Card

For those who didn’t know already, I am one of the many artists selling their photography upon Redbubble.com. But I am one a few who buys his own artwork. My wife and I purchase around 30-60 cards a month (at a minimum) … and then sell, give and use for many different things.

Tonight I got to thinking: How many different uses can I find for a Redbubble card? Could my readers suggest something that I couldn’t think of myself? So I had a go at listing all the possible ways. Can you figure out some new ways that are not listed below?

Yes, quite a few of these will have a similar basis. They are the great directions in which my mind took a simple idea to give it a new purpose.

1. Give to a your neighbor.

For looking after our home whilst we take a five day holiday on kangaroo island. Yeah, I did this. Didn’t get any further sales out of this. But the cards have been sent somewhere around Australia and the world, so it’s nothing if not free publicity.

2. Fold up into a aeroplane.

Rip a page out of one of these photo-front notebooks, write a love message on it, fold it as expertly as possible, then casually fly it towards your loved one. Expensive, yes, but romantic with the right message. Or else this could be a deadly weapon.

3. Casual or Business Cards.

Since there is no writing inside the cards, you can simply hand-write your name, phone number, business name, street address and a quick “Hey Babe, I got some serious $$$ you can spend on yourself.” Possibly not the cringiest way to pick-up, so it could work.

4. Speed Dating cards.

Yeah, yeah. Wink wink, you know what I mean here!

5. Personal cards.

We all know the excitement of meeting someone new, followed by the despondency of discovering you have no way of giving them your contact details. Scribbling on a napkin with lipstick just doesn’t look professional does it?

So buy a bundle of cards displaying your art, have stickers put on them with extra details, and you’re in your way!

6. Presentation / Exhibition.

For those with a limited budget, rather than printing your gallery at A4 or A3, pin the cards to a white cork board and sell them straight off the wall. Your art can be replaced before anyone can blink!

7. Fridge Magnets.

Craft stores sell stick-on magnets … you do the math. The perfect addition to households that have limited wallspace for hanging Piccaso‘s or canvas Monet‘s to receive the full sun every day.

8. Postcards.

Fold it inside out, slap a stamp and address on the back of the photograph (for historic remembrance), put a hand-written message of love and affection inside & sticky tape the edges closed. Would your postal service accept it? Yes they do!

9. Leaving the most obvious to last: Christmas Cards.

It’s only 5 weeks away before your family, friends & horse-faced auntie will want a gift. Why spend a fortune? Get them a card that will last forever, and has a picture front of Australian features, landscapes, animals, sunsets, flowers , dilapidated buildings around Adelaide – and everything in between!

I can hear you saying, “Wait, that was only 9!” I’ve done that deliberately – because I want your input. What great ideas for the use of a card do you have?