Welcome to Angel Fire Mountain Designs! This is our first official post. Here, we’ll explain who we are and what we do. Let’s get started!
Who We Are
Angel Fire Mountain Designs is a blog by Sher Vacik. I’m the
writer and designer behind this blog. I've been writing another blog for several years, which is called Czech Off the Beaten Path. There, you can learn about my
expat life in the Czech Republic. CZOBP is the first blog I started soon after
moving to the Czech Republic. In fact, that blog is what got me started in
creating designs.
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| Prayer Journal on Zazzle |
Working with Images
On my Czech blog, I started out with some of my own photos,
along with photos from public domain sites such as Pixabay. However, I grew
tired of just using the image that was downloaded. I wanted to improve the
images somehow and make them a little more interesting.
It was at this point that I started working with Gimp. It’s
one of my all-time favorite programs! I still rely on this great tool today!
From Gimp, I began to slowly experiment with other tools and found I really
enjoyed working with images.
My First Zazzle Shop
As a result, I started my first Zazzle shop—Czech Off the
Beaten Path (same name as the blog). While I won’t say this shop has been a huge success, it has been another iron in the fire, so to speak. People buying the products encouraged me to continue creating.
Next, I started a second Zazzle shop—Sher’s Inspirations.
Here, you can find a wide variety of products from greeting cards to t-shirts,
home products, and more. This store has been a little more successful. However, I’ve not had too much time to work on it in the last couple of
years. Even so, it still makes a few sales here and there.
A New Place to Write
After this, I began writing for another site—the BellaOnline Women’s site. My topic was asthma. In fact, part of my work there was to write a book and get it on Amazon! This was my first self-published book called "Asthma's Nothing to Wheeze At!". Today I would call the book something different. But it was my first and you learn as you go!
The book
has made a few sales; however, I’m currently in the process of updating the
material and the cover. My book was originally published back in 2013, so it’s
past time to get this book taken care of and updated with new material!
My Interest in KDP Low Content Books
In the past year or so, I learned about publishing low
content books with Amazon’s KDP program. This was something entirely new for
me. The idea appealed to me—if I could create low content books and put them on
Amazon, could that become another iron in the fire?
I decided to take the chance and get started with publishing
low content books. As a result, I created this site and a publisher of the same
name.
Angel Fire Mountain Designs – Angel Fire Mountain Publishers
Angel Fire Mountain Designs & Angel Fire Mountain
Publishers are geared toward Christian designs. This means everything will have
a Christian theme. Even so, the products can be used by almost anyone. I’m starting
out with prayer journals for Zazzle. I’m also working on some prayer journals for
the KDP program.
In addition to Zazzle and KDP, I’m also creating printables for
my Gumroad shop. We’ll see how this goes. Right now, I’m looking at these as
experiments and places to learn. We’ll have to see how it goes!
No matter what, these experiments are always great learning
experiences. Through experimenting, you gain new skills, knowledge, and more that
can help you in other areas. I’m usually one that avoids too much risk. However,
if you don’t try, you’ll never know what you could have accomplished or learned
along the way.
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| Pretty in Pink Journal on Amazon |
My KDP Adventure Has Just Started
That’s what this blog is about! I’ll share my KDP adventure and more.
We’ll also cover some of the tools used, YouTubers to follow, etc.
We’ve reached the end of this post. I’d like to invite you
back again to see what’s happening here! It may be slow, but I’ll post as often
as possible.
Be sure to come by again and see what’s happening with our
experiments! Thanks for stopping by!
Sher
