Vistaprint Business Cards & Figuring out Illustrator

Good morning!

I received an order of business cards from Vistaprint earlier today, although I love moo.com's cards they are a bit too expensive for me to keep purchasing them.

Vistaprint offers good quality for the price. I've ordered from them before and although their card isn't as thick as moo.com, I find Vistaprint's cards to be true to colour, clear, and I hadn't found one printing error in the last 500 I ordered, which is very impressive. They also have more frequent discount codes, at the time of ordering I was able to automatically get 25% off without having to wait for a sale or search for a voucher.

I've also been trying to learn a little bit about the program Adobe Illustrator. I've ordered some new tags for my pillows and wanted to have my shop name properly vectored in my own handwriting to ensure that the quality wouldn't be lost at whatever size I needed it, and also to make sure that no other brand would have the exact same font as me.

I started with a rough sketch created in PaintTool SAI and took it to Illustrator to vector. It took me a while to get the hang of it, and I still feel like I don't know what I'm doing at all. I'm pretty good at using Photoshop but Illustrator is a whole other ball game. Familiar tools don't do what you assume they will, and I doubt I'll get the hang of it anytime soon, but I'll keep trying.

I'm using the text below for my Etsy banner, my blog banner above, on my new business cards and soon to arrive pillow tags.
What I love about having vectored text is that it's easy to change anything you'd like without losing quality, I find this especially handy when changing the colour.

The rest of today will be spent here at my computer, I'm hoping to get a couple more greeting card designs finalised by Wednesday, because although moo.com are quite expensive, I love the quality of their greeting cards and they're currently having a 25% off sale until midnight tomorrow. Time to get to work!