Foldees now in 4 new stores!

Slowly but surely, we are taking over the world.

Foldees recently signed a deal with Designer Greetings and Precious Thots to place our cards in their shops, conveniently located in some of the busiest malls in the Klang Valley.

The guys that run these companies are a really fun bunch of women, who share one thing in common with us – a love for this little rock we live on. Not only do they recycle boxes, minimise use of plastic and conserve energy – but they even have a box of earthworms in the back of their warehouse to process compost! How cool (ewww, but wicked) is that!? We didn’t have our camera on the last visit, but we’ll be sure to make a return trip down to find out how these little earthworms change everyday trash into the best natural fertiliser and insecticide in the world.

So if you need a card in a rush, or don’t have a credit card, do look for our cards (guilt-free!) at Designer Greetings and Previous Thots stores in Mid Valley Megamall, 1 Utama Shopping Centre and Bangsar Village! Check out all our retail locations here on our new Store Locations page.

Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto! Greeting Card Contest

I have a confession. Due to time constraints, and severe lack of talent, I have never drawn anything on the site (aside from buttons and text). I know, i know... it's quite shameless seeing as how I own the world's only vector-art greeting card site. So anyway, I finally caved in to the guilt, had some spare time today, and started work on this simple little poster.

Whaddaya think? Not too bad right? Well, ok, shutup. Stop laughing.

Anyways, welcome to the new contest. We figured what kinda greeting card company called Energon wouldn’t run a contest using robots right? With all the interest in Transformers and WALL-E lately, we figured it was about time anyway.

So the contest? Yup. Robot-themed cards. Mechanised birthdays, cyborg party girls, whatever your sick (and sometimes brilliant) minds can conjure!

You can find out more about it here. Deadline is August 12th 2009 so GET CRACKING!

The Designer Widget is done!

We’re proud to announce the launch of designer widgets. It’s been long overdue, and for that we apologise. In fact, it’s been so long overdue that some of our designers have even come up with their own versions of the widget.

 

Anyways, as pretty as that one is, we’ve decided to come up with our own! This one’s not explicitly for voting, but more for you designer people to highlight your designs to visitors on your blog. Yes, it’s just part of the little service we offer. Anyways, without further ado, here it is!

Yes, given that they do look just a wee bit similar, but isn't ours groovy?! If you’re a Foldees designer, you can add yours by going to http://www.foldees.com/widgets. You need to be logged in though.

Also, it’s using iframes, so that while Blogger is a cinch (and right now is the only officially supported blog), it means that myspace and wordpress are going to be tough, but we’re looking into that at the moment. In the meantime, if you have any other blogs that you’re using that you’d like to embed this on, let us know and we’ll try to the best of our ability to figure out a way for you.

Do let us know your thoughts on the widget. It’s our first, so we’re pretty sure there are ways to improve it. Once again, you can grab your customised widget code here.

PLAY NICE: Part Two

Guys, we’ve been noticing some comments being posted on some of the designs that clearly do not classify as either compliment or constructive criticism. While we’re not deleting them yet (because they are short, and thus far decent), do note that we will be taking a closer look should the situation escalate.

Please refer to our earlier blog posting about the dos and don’ts of commenting. Essentially, it follows what mummy used to say. If you ain’t got anything nice to say, then don’t say it. Unless you think it will help the artist improve his future submissions to our site. Speaking of which, if you’d like to leave a nice compliment to the designer, do check out our new Designer Profile Pages.

On another note, if you guys haven’t noticed yet, a few last-minute entries have been added into the running for this contest. Most of them were in less than three days after ratings commenced, so they shouldn’t be affected in terms of the overall result. One design has also been removed from the running due to use of non-original vectors, although the designer’s other submissions have been kept for now.

That’s all for now! Happy Rating!

Designer Profile Pages now active!

By popular request, we have now launched Designer Profile Pages! You can access them by clicking on the designer names in most places that you see em! Here are some profile samples featuring a few of our designers who have quite a number of designs :)

www.foldees.com/designers/fox

www.foldees.com/designers/mdavidct

www.foldees.com/designers/milkberry

It’s quite basic now, but we’ll be adding more features as we go along! In the meantime, one of the most important features is that we’ve also included your designer URLS on the back of every card we sell! 

This means that if the recipient or sender likes your card, they can now visit your personal profile, leave you a message, or better yet, buy more of your cards! This applies to cards bought both online, and at our ever expanding retail presence (more on this next week!).

Yes yes, we love you too.

75 confirmed entries PLUS a few more to come!

As you might have guessed from the recent flurry of activity on our site, the MONOCHROME contest has been a real barnstormer for Foldees. We received more than 200 entries this time, of which, a select range of 75 have been initially picked. A few more will be added in the coming days, but if you think your entry should be up here, do drop us an email at design@foldees.com and we’ll be more than happy to check it out for you.

First off, apologies to those who did not receive feedback, or who missed the contest deadline. For the former, unfortunately, when all the entries come in at the eleventh hour, it’s difficult for us to provide quality feedback to everyone (although most of you will know that we’ve tried our damndest!). For the latter, we will be revising our rules to ensure minimum confusion next time.

Anyways, a great big huggy thank you to all those who submitted entries for our contest this time around, and congratulations to those who’ve already made it through! We’ll definitely be offering some bonus prizes this time around, so keep your ears to the ground, and tell all your friends to come in and help us pick a winner!

Also, we’ve provided this nifty Latest Comments tool for you guys so that you don’t have to keep refreshing the same pages. We’ve barely tested it before releasing it, but we wanted to make sure it was out in time to help you keep track of the usual flurry of comments once the ratings period begins.

AND thanks to Kokuzo for guessing that YES, we were very busy, cos there were some last minute technical details that we needed to fix with some of the cards before we uploaded them. And thanks to all of you for your patience :)

Enjoy the ratings period as usual. ONE FREE CARD per full round of ratings, so go get em, tigers!

All cards for A-Buck-A-Piece

To commemorate the loss of our milk teeth, Foldees.com is offering all our cards at US$1.00 a piece! If you’re looking to stock up on Birthdays for the rest of the year, now is the time!

Check out www.foldees.com for details. Offer ends July 1st 2009!