Merch by Amazon LITs Pooches, Kitties and Other Sweet Faces has 100 Options

I have been wanting to sell my digital art on Amazon for a long time. But they don’t do custom pet portraits. I stumbled upon Merch by Amazon a couple of months ago, requested an invitation to create T-shirts using my images, and have been populating my little store there ever since. It’s called LITs Pooches, Kitties and Other Sweet Faces. At first I could only post ten items, then twenty five. And after selling a couple, the bar was raised to 100 designs. The shirts can only stay visible for ninety days unless they are sold. But luckily, the time frame has been extended to 180 days. It really takes awhile to be found! Unfortunately that new rule only applies to anything posted in the last week or so. Anyway, it takes a bit of maneuvering to meet the image upload specifications because I use my iPad to create images - not a desktop or laptop with software that is conducive to the specs. I figured out a way, but it doesn’t work as well as I’d like - and I can only use primarily vertical orientations. Merch also added sweatshirts and hoodies aside from the standard T-shirt’s but the color selection is limited. So now I have a well populated shop with several dog and cat varieties with a couple of birds, and some in process images of sketch to portrait examples. So please take a look around. It’s a great shirt for any animal lover. 

LITs Pooches, Kitties and Other Sweet Faces

I requested an invitation to join the Merch by Amazon community a couple of weeks ago. I got an approval within the day. I have to admit that I just learned about Merch, but have tried to become an Amazon merchant with my digital custom pet portraits. But they are not set up for “one of a kind” requests and probably wouldn’t get much out of that type of transaction as it is all virtual. So I’ve spent the last many days transforming my art so the backgrounds are transparent, and manipulating the images to meet the size requirements. I am allowed one image per day to upload, it then gets reviewed by Amazon, and then they send an email to let me know it is now “live.” So now I am up to six images and they all look really nice - to me. Most of them come in T-shirts for men, women, and youth with a variety of sizes and colors. I need to decide what the remaining four images will be. I might end up getting a few for myself, just to keep them stocked in the shop. As with any on line entity, the hardest part is becoming visible. Luckily for me this process is a very interesting hobby and it is one of the many sites I keep updated, track, and promote. I would love to hear any feedback about the product! Thanks for looking! 

Merch by Amazon - LITs Pooches, Kitties and Other Sweet Faces

I’ve been creating digitalart custom pet portraits for the last several years. I have an Etsy shop online, and several others. After updating my Zazzle shop over the last couple of weeks I researched what other sites might be worth exploring and came across Merch by Amazon. I’ve always wanted to get connected to Amazon, but custom pet portraits is not an option. But uploading my artwork to sell on a T-shirt is. This site requires an invitation and approval before it can be used - unlike the others that you just open a shop. So I requested an invitation and filled in the application. I then received an email that the application was approved and I could start uploading ten items only as a prelim step. Additional images can be added only after the current ones sell within a 120day period. The problem for me is that everything I do is on the iPad. I don’t have a desktop or laptop with photoshop or other artist software. I use sketchbook pro. So I first had to eliminate the “white background” on the images and make them transparent. Then I needed to resize the images to the specifications and be sure they were in png format. I figured out how to do all of that and it was terribly time consuming. So I finally uploaded several images and had to configure the product, add product details, come up with titles, descriptions, bullet points, and everything else, and review the detail page. After feeling somewhat confident I finally sent one design off to go live. I got a message that it needed to be reviewed first. Then I got the email notice that the new product was live on Amazon. If nothing else, it was exciting to see my creation on that website. So I tweeted about it, put in on pinterest, added it to my Facebook page, posted it to Instagram and am writing about it on my blog. I am hoping someone out there sees it and likes it! It’s from LITs Pooches, Kitties and Other Sweet Faces. I’m only allowed one item per day, so please check back! It was quite an ordeal, but I’m just so pleased I was able to do it!