Making cards - Ideas for beginners (part 4)

lei_armstrong

Wow you ladies really can talk! I'm just catching up on the last few pages but wanted to say a big thank you to CT1972 as my stash swap arrived yesterday. Haven't had a proper chance to look yet but did notice lots of pretty shiny things and some fab bright orange ribbon . Hopefully i'll have time to sort yours out over the weekend - sorry it's late x

lei_armstrong

Crafty_JuJu wrote: »

Hi, been trying to get my head around costs of what to charge for the wedding invites.....I'm thinking £1.45 for each card? The overall cost to make it is about 80p (the ribbon is the dearest part...going to see if I can find it cheaper!) but I've not got the paper for the inserts yet! Is that a reasonable mark up or is it too much?! Sorry, its my 1st time doing this, I don't want to over charge but then again I need to add a little for my time!

Have you thought about buying white ribbon from the haberdashery part of the Range (or similar) then colouring it with ProMarkers? I got a 5m reel for about £2/3 x

Crafty_JuJu

RustyFlange wrote: »

Craftyjuju - was I your first customer? :j shop looks good, get some more things set up in there

Yes you were Thankyou :j:T

Gemma85 - bit off topic...sorry.....you know when you sold your 1st item today on Facebook did it remove the item from the shop window or did you have to remove it so that no-one else tried to buy it? Only asking cos when Rusty bought the bracelet it stayed in the shop page as if it was avaiable! Also (sorry) do you know if theres a way of getting updates about the fan page without actually going onto the fan page?
Done now sorry x

Tired_Mom

RustyFlange wrote: »

Tiredmom - enjoy your class, you will have to show us what you make, are the classes expensive? how did you find out about the one you go to? I would love to go to something like this but classes up here are few and far between!

Pepop - Fab link, although how she crafts with those nails :eek:

I googled card making classes and the area. She came up as she is a stampin up demonstrator. I don't think they are particularly cheap but the fact that it is me time as well makes it priceless!:j

Once a month she does a general class which you pay £3.50 for. You take your own materials and can do what you want but get to use her glues, tapes, inks etc and also her huge array of stamps, dies, punches etc and also endless tea, coffee, biscuits and minstrels. That class I think is ok value.

The other one she does, again once a month, is on stamping techniques and for that we pay £10. For this she does provide everything and also we have her expertise. There has only been one so far and we did wax resist, roll around, bleaching and something else that I can't remember.

Tonight's is £12.50 but everything is supplied and we get to make 4 cards.

The classes last 2 - 2.5 hours and it is worth going just to gawp at her amazing purpose built brick huge craft room at the bottom of her garden that is stocked floor to ceiling with everything you can possibly imagine.

I was going to say the same to PepPop lovely link but she may have got on better with the DS tape if she hadn't had those nails!

Off to tidy downstairs now, why is it that your happy for your own mother to see your mess but however lovely your MIL is you just need it to be spotless, OH thinks I'm mad.

Oh Creativity magazine has just arrived, ordered yesterday, thanks so much for pointing that out. Still nothing from Poppicraft so mildly concerned I may contact Bambanz.

X

dragonllew

Gemm - well done on getting your first sale from you facebook shop is it easy to set up wondered I might sell a few cards that way as I make way more than I can use and all my orders seem to be special made to order cards.


JHB - Hope you feel better soon.

Mumoffour - hope your aunt gets better soon.

Jowri - happy anniversary.

Bunbun - I think it was Tomsmum who was looking for the heart embossing folder.

Have just put a wall hanging that I made for Aimee on my blog big thanks to Wendy for the beer mats.

RustyFlange

papillongirl2 wrote: »

Rusty I have quite a few ProMarkers, but not quite the whole set, my DS however has even more as he gets one every week for pocket moneyThe ones I bought today (over 1000) are for the shop, lol

Do you know I was being thick as I never even imagined you was on about buying for the shop :rotfl: I am supposed to have all of them bar 10, but still missing 30 somewhere thanks to RM :mad:

Tired_Mom wrote: »

I googled card making classes and the area. She came up as she is a stampin up demonstrator. I don't think they are particularly cheap but the fact that it is me time as well makes it priceless!:j

Once a month she does a general class which you pay £3.50 for. You take your own materials and can do what you want but get to use her glues, tapes, inks etc and also her huge array of stamps, dies, punches etc and also endless tea, coffee, biscuits and minstrels. That class I think is ok value.

The other one she does, again once a month, is on stamping techniques and for that we pay £10. For this she does provide everything and also we have her expertise. There has only been one so far and we did wax resist, roll around, bleaching and something else that I can't remember.

Tonight's is £12.50 but everything is supplied and we get to make 4 cards.

The classes last 2 - 2.5 hours and it is worth going just to gawp at her amazing purpose built brick huge craft room at the bottom of her garden that is stocked floor to ceiling with everything you can possibly imagine.

I was going to say the same to PepPop lovely link but she may have got on better with the DS tape if she hadn't had those nails!

Off to tidy downstairs now, why is it that your happy for your own mother to see your mess but however lovely your MIL is you just need it to be spotless, OH thinks I'm mad.

Oh Creativity magazine has just arrived, ordered yesterday, thanks so much for pointing that out. Still nothing from Poppicraft so mildly concerned I may contact Bambanz.

X

Wow thankyou, I will have a look as I know there are a couple of Stampin up reps locally so may be able to find if they do any classes or can recommend anything?

Gemm85

Thanks for the congrats everyone! :beer:

giggle you asked about my fanpage, it's here


craftyjuju well done on your sale! I'm sure you'll sell loads as your jewellery is gorgeous, mine just pales in comparison! did you have any problems adding pics? as I had terrible trouble last night, for some unknown reason it doesnt like certain pics, I can't pin it on anything like the file size though as Ive checked that! oh - and when you mentioned about getting updates about the fanpage, how did you manage to fix that? xx


still at work (on lunch) so will catch up with cards on blogs tonight

pointofnoreturn

Gemm and Juju - do you include postage prices in the prices shown on your shop on FB????

Gemm85

PONR I put free shipping on as I didn't want it to get too complex (or offputting!) so the price you see is the final price

Crafty_JuJu

Gemm85 wrote: »

craftyjuju well done on your sale! I'm sure you'll sell loads as your jewellery is gorgeous, mine just pales in comparison! did you have any problems adding pics? as I had terrible trouble last night, for some unknown reason it doesnt like certain pics, I can't pin it on anything like the file size though as Ive checked that! oh - and when you mentioned about getting updates about the fanpage, how did you manage to fix that? xx

Thankyou You too :T Yours is lovely too, don't put yourself down its ace With the pics I've not had any probs so far...touch wood! I've not figured it out yet either how to get updates.....I just go to my fan page & chaeck there, was thinking there must be an easier way!!

pointofnoreturn -
Gemm and Juju - do you include postage prices in the prices shown on your shop on FB????

Yes I've put £1 (for 1st Class) p&p on mine, it shows up on the item page when you've clicked on it. I find this just covers the cost to post, especially as Royal Mail have just put the prices up again! :eek: