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What do you do with all the cards you make? I can make far more than I could ever send to people. I would like to try to make a profit from my beautiful cards. I have just gotten started w/ SU and not a demonstrator or anything. Any suggestions
I package them and give them for gifts. A package of six, either all alike or assorted, makes a very nice hostess gift when I am invited somewhere. I sometimes put packages at each place when I give a luncheon. Teachers love to get a package of thank you notes. You get the idea. My problem is having enough cards.
The cards that I make that are not for a specific person just sit. I won't use them. When an occasion comes up where I need a card I make one specifically for that person. After I make something I always feel I could do better, so unless I need it right away I will re-make it.
Piratefan, mine just sit in a drawer. Like you I wish I could figure out a great way to sell them. I'm thinking at a craftsfair perhaps...but how would I best display them so that people can look through them without getting them damaged?
I package them in 4 or 6 cards and sell them to friends and family. I get many orders from people seeing my name on the back too. Which is a nice perk. I also keep them in a photo box to share with friends/family members. And Do send cards out when need to.
I contribute mine to a Stampin' Fellowship card ministry at two of our local churches. They go to shut-ins, people who are ill or need encouragement, and we make birthday cards for the elderly and kids in Sunday School. That keeps us busy! Also, I send out cards all the time when I hear of a need. People need our cards -- get them out and send them!
I just started stamping in the fall and I made tons of Xmas cards to sell in my daughter's office. All the money went to the United Way. Now that Xmas is over, I'm just putting them in albums. I hope to be able to give some to a hospital auxilliary or something similar.
It’s so nice to see some doing for charity.
The majority of my cards go to the charities in my signature but I’m fortunate to get most of my card stock supplies from a print shop otherwise I couldn’t afford to do so many. I allow myself a hundred dollars in postage per year and I would like to find something local here in Michigan but haven’t come up with anything yet.
I like to be able to sign my cards with my own or the charities signature so I know it’s being used for charity and not someones private use but I have donated without signing. I also did some bookmarks for a Brownie troop.
I have also done cards for a friend to use as shower gifts and they were in packages of ten and were a big hit. I also do my own Christmas and other greeting cards throughout the year.
Those that I don't use during the year I give as gifts -- to friends, to teachers and to my female relatives. Each Christmas I give 14 cards to 15 different people: Sisters, SILs, MIL, Friends, Teachers, etc. What happens now is that I have people asking for them all year long.
I do sell a few, but I just don't have time to market them!
By all means, sell them, send them or donate them. Don't forget SCS's Stamp Your Heart Out campaign. There's a link in the left column if you scroll down. You can either write a message to send to a serviceman or send some blank cards that they can then use to send to their loved ones back home.
(I'm not biased or anything - as you can tell by my avatar.)
i give a lot to friends for gifts. I have found that giving cards to friends that AREN't current customers is an opportunity to display the craft. I brought cards in to work to sell at Christmas time, and now have had 6 people come to Open Houses.........
i also found myself inundated with swaps, and donated duplicates and extras to a retirement home. The people LOVED them!!!! and were excited to send to their friends and family.
I take all the ones I dont use,need or that are from RET. sets and I use them for the CARDS FOR WOUNDED TROOPS BACK FROM THE WAR program I have up and running...
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I know many of you have said something similar, but I just wanted to reiterate the many things you can do. I put together a box of 50 cards for each of my female relatives last year because i just had soooo many! They LOVED them and it helped to build my business. I got several bookings off of it. Now, I leave a basket in the break room for people to snag when they are desperate for a card. I sell them for a measly $1 just to get rid of them! They sell very well and I just keep adding to them. Also, for men in my family, I will give a card organizer with everyone's birthday and anniversary listed appropriate cards and stamps because most of the men I know can't remember to send things...now they do it all in the beginning of the month and they don't have to go out shopping!
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Got card fronts?
Please if any of you have card fronts & want to put them to good use, please send them to me I will make them into full cards include an envelope and I can then pass them on to Monicas Cards for Wounded Troops! All it will cost you is to send them to me, I'll take care of the rest. If you have full cards you don't know what to do with send them also, I'll include envelopes for those too!
I can suggest putting them in a plastic bag of some sort then into the mailing envelope or box.
I can PM my mailing address on request.
If they are cards made using Stampin' Up stamps you will need to use the copyright stamp on the back before you can sell them. And you can only sell them at craft fairs. Stampin' Up doesn't allow you to sell them in shops. They have pretty strict rules about where you can sell their images.
I bring my cards to nursing homes for the residents to use. You can get someone at the front desk to write you out a donation slip that you can use for your taxes and it makes you feel good inside. It's a good deal all around. You get to stamp, someone gets the cards to use (someone on a very tight budget!) and you get a tax break! The people in the nursing homes LOVE it. They prefer birthday cards the most, then thinking of you, get well and I give very little sympathy cards, it's mostly birthday, both adult and children's cards.
Any 'spare' cards I have will be donated to our local Hospice Society. I also hope to make a load more to sell at a Craft Fair (which I need to suggest we organise!) and on the new Hospice ward when it opens here in our part of BC. Hopefully that will be sometime in May which co-incidentally is Hospice Month! So you see I have a few months to get busy and be creative.
By the way if there are any of you in who are interested in making and/or donating cards, please PM me. Thanks.
Any 'spare' cards I have will be donated to our local Hospice Society. I also hope to make a load more to sell at a Craft Fair (which I need to suggest we organise!) and on the new Hospice ward when it opens here in Mission, BC. Hopefully that will be sometime in May which co-incidentally is Hospice Month! So you see I have a few months to get busy and be creative.
By the way if there are any of you in the Fraser Valley(Mission, Abbotsford, Chilliwack and area) who are interested in making and/or donating cards, please PM me. Thanks.
Ruth
Ruth, (or anyone else who may do craft fairs), may I ask how much you generally ask for each card that you sell? I would also like to sell my cards at a craft fair in the future.
Thank you.
Sorry I don't have your real name. That's a good question about pricing hand stamped cards. I hadn't actually got to that point yet so I need to give it some thought! It's a hard call, 'cos you want to sell stuff but you don't want to price yourself out of the market yet you should get a fair price for the work you've put in!! I'm going to have to check around the shops locally that sell handmade cards and then take it from there. Does anyone else have input on this subject? Mind you I'd have to 'change' into Canadian $ if the replies are from US SCS'ers.
I give them away as sets for gifts. For example, I'll have 2 birthdays, 2 graduation congrats, 2 thank yous, 2 sympathy and 2 baby congrats. Like others I put a label on the back for all to see. :P
I only make card fronts and get card fronts during swaps. so what I do is get those plastic photo pages and store them in there and then put them into a 3 ring binder. Seems easier to have people look through them. The only time I make an actual full card is if I need to give a birthday card or christmas card, etc.
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One of the things I do with my extra cards, is that I put them in a big box of 'stuff'. I am a demonstrator, and when someone new, or someone brings a friend to my Stamp Nite, I let them go through the box and pick something out. I have old projects that I have extras of, incentive stamps, etc. I am thinking of bundling some of them to send to the troops overseas, so they have cards to send home. Not sure how to do this, though. Suggestions?
Also, I know I'm obsessed :twisted: , but I keep a copy of every card I've ever made. I bought a photo album - PioneerMP-46 - It is a top-loading 4x6 album, so the 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 cards fit perfectly! I have this on display at Stamp Nite or at shows, it gives my stampers great ideas!
Keiki Cards sends homemade cards to terminally ill children, you can bundle up all your extra and they will distribute. also check out Make a Child Smile where they post ill childrens contact address and you can personalize and send them a card for bday, event or just to let them know they are in someone's thoughts. One of our local youngsters (age 9)is now headed for his third bout with cancer and his mom has said that it really perks the kids up just to know people out there care. Cancer can be beaten if the attiutude is strong and stays positive.
My church has a 'shut-in' list and I send each a card on their birthday as well as special occasions like Valentines day etc. Also this year my sons boy scout troop adopted a local nursing home (small one) and I helped them make cards to deliver to the patients there.
I put a prototype of each card I really like into a cello bag and keep them in a container, so that when I need insperation, I can just flip through it. The majority of the rest I give to family and freinds on the appropriate occasions. Anything thats left over I send to Keri (serikastamper) for the troops.
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I have TONS of cards from swaps and ones that I made - I ususally disassemble the cards and use the parts for my scrapbooks! Its is a great idea! The possibilties are endless!
I usually make cards for a specific reason, then send them. I just did a little Valentine Exchange on another board I belong to. I made 14 Valentines which isn't really that many since I made 54 Christmas cards this year. Michelle
I store my cards in a photo box in different catagory's. If I need a certain one I will go to my photo box under that catagory and sent it out. that way they are organized and if I need a card in a hurry I dont have to try to think of an idea in a pinch. I get the photo boxes at Michaels or Hobby Lobby for under 3.00 sometimes they are on sale for around 1.00
What do you do with all your cards???
