45: Making & Selling Greeting Cards

This week Nikki interviews Laura about her experience with designing, making and selling greeting cards. Laura has been making handmade greeting cards for over 15 years and has professionally designed over 100  greeting cards for manufacturers and publishers in the craft industry. She believes there’s something really special about receiving something handmade or custom printed in the mail, especially in the digital age that we’re in. She shares some great tips and resources to help you get started if you want to make and sell greeting cards yourself this holiday season.

TOPICS DISCUSSED:

• Laura shares how she got started making handmade greeting cards
• Her transition from hobbyist to professional greeting card designer for craft manufacturers and publications
• How she began selling her own card designs
• Types of greeting cards you can make and what sells well for the holidays - you might be surprised!
• What makes a greeting card design stand out
• Some of Laura’s favorite card designers
• Recommended supplies for hand making and printing cards
• Standard greeting card sizes and shapes
• Packing and shipping your cards
• The quickest way to produce handmade cards
• Using purchased images vs illustrating your own 
• Turning finished original artwork into printed cards
• Using a print on demand service
• Pricing your cards
• Licensing your card designs to other companies
• Laura’s plans for her own card designs

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