A surprise for Heather (PlaymoDB)

[cowabounga]

OK, the main problem remains: how can we know exactly who's in?

[Gis]

OK people lets consolidate everything:

1) Design for Canvas made! (Luis)
2) Design for Card made! (Tim)

Still needed:

3) Make actual Canvas
4) Make actual Card
5) Write greeting inside Card
6) Send Canvas and Card
7) Collect Money (Arnaud)
8) Make sure cost for production and shipping is covered send access money to Heather for ensuring Playmodb keeps running (Arnaud)

Please let me know if I forgot a step.

I have responses from some of our Canadian friends with whom I will be working on 3, 4, 6.

We need to come up with the right text for the inside of the card to make sure that noone feels left out. Maybe We should just do it as a big thank you from the Forum (with Sylvia's approval) that way nobody feels left out.
Just double checking, Arnaud you are fine with handluing point 7 and 8?

I hope to get a cost estimate of production and shipping soon so we can start working on an expected amount :-)

Well let you guys know when I have more info!

[Playmoholics]

I would like to do something as well. What can I do?

[Gis]

Guys I have found a site that will take care of everything now what I need is:

The highress image of the Canvas
The highress image of the Card (and dimensions)
The exact text to be put in the card.

Once I have that I will get it printed and shipped and will deal with Arnaud later!!

[Tiermann]

Image files sent to Gis 

[Wolf Knight]

Thank you for the update Arnaud!

[bonniebeth]

Guys I have found a site that will take care of everything now what I need is:

The highress image of the Canvas
The highress image of the Card (and dimensions)
The exact text to be put in the card.

Once I have that I will get it printed and shipped and will deal with Arnaud later!!

Have you gotten what you need on this, Gis? Do we need to discuss the text of the card or is that done?

[cowabounga]

Hey everyone.
Well, eventually, I end up in charge of ordering the canvas and card. Since the money's on my Paypal account, it seemed the simplest way. I'm waiting for the invoice from a Canadian site for both; but I guess we now have really enough money to pay for those AND make a fair donation to PlaymoDB.
I wanted your opinions on the size of the canvas. I pre-ordered a 12"X16" canvas. For those who are more familiar with the metric system (like me!) it's 30,48X40,64 cm. I think this is big enough, but we can afford a bigger one. So far the price is [....] plus a small extra for the card and shipping around [....]
The card will be 5"X7", it cannot be bigger due to the image definition (at 72 dpi, for those who know what this means); i.e. if it's bigger the dots will show on the image. Not good.
The site I'm using was provided by Gis, and will ship the presents directly to Heather from Canada. Hence, we save a lot on shipping. I will make a list of all the people who joined this thread and send it to Heather, but will post it here before for your approval. Check I didn't forget any names, and if for any reason someone wouldn't want to be on the list, please PM me. There will be no difference in the list I'll send Heather between people who donated and people who didn't.
If you agree/disagree with any of this, please feel free to post your comments below.
Cheers,
Arnaud

[tonguello]

 the bigger the better. 

[Indianna]

This all sounds great, Arnaud - thank you very much for bringing this project across the finish line!   

My feeling about the size of the canvas is this:  if the smaller size will give a better quality picture then that would be my preference.  If not, then I have no preference as to size except to say that the more money we have left over, the more we have to donate to Playmodb's operating costs.