Where are your cards going?

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june barker		#11	[-]
Posts: 1243 (01/05/2008 19:15:25) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	claire, you are not sad. one of our nurses is getting married in june and i made 3 wedding cards, or start to make 3. one of them turned out as an enagament card, it looked more like an engagement card than a wedding card. the second one i will give to her but the third one, well it is lovely, i think it is stunning and i am keeping it for myself. no one will be given that card. also that card is not going in a drawer, i have it on my dresser. its a bookatrix card. love june xx
Sassie		#12	[-]
Posts: 8280 (01/05/2008 20:16:19) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Don't laugh!..............................please! I have a sausage box or 10, into which I put all the ones that get knocked out like sausages on a converyer belt. They get kept for when someone knocks at the door for a card as they are ready to go. I also put in the sausage box anything I am trying to develope as an idea needing fine tuning. I mainly do commissioned work now for extra special cards and wedding stationary.
janetannc		#13	[-]
Posts: 1269 (01/05/2008 21:18:47) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I have about 100 assorted cards in a box under my bed. I make up packs for gifts for elderly relatives and friends who don't get out, so they appreciate a selection of cards to use. Apart from that, I've just been asked for 2 dozen for the local WI market and neighbours sometimes pop in for one, Otherwise they sit in their cello packets in a box under my bed, waiting.......... Janet!
Pat		#14	[-]
Posts: 289 (02/05/2008 09:33:40) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I love that Janet,sitting in the box,waiting,that about sums me up at the moment,very good.Thanks.
craftycol		#15	[-]
Posts: 659 (02/05/2008 11:03:50) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	As I have been making cards for about 9 years I have hundreds of made cards in a box, all in cellophane bags ready for sale. I do make a lot of special orders, but other wise they are gathering dust. I used to sell them in the village post office until it closed. I am a bit wary of selling into shops - small business and tax etc - but I have a friend who sells them for me. She lives the other side of the country, and at the moment I only send her A6 sized cards and she sells them at the weekly dance (pensioners) and to friends, who keep asking for more, so I have obliged this week with another parcel containing larger and shaped cards (handbag/shoes etc) I dread to think what each card has cost me, must be in the hundreds, when you take into account the amount of stuff in my craft room. I expect I am not alone there !!! Coralie
murchison		#16	[-]
Posts: 3711 (02/05/2008 12:56:40) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	i sell my cards and a few i give to mencap
jannyb555		#17	[-]
Posts: 3788 (02/05/2008 13:12:54) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I make a lot for a hospice near me. I get the odd order here and there. Family and friends.....I too have a box and YES! someone always wants the one type that isn't there lol! Jan x
sylvie63uk		#18	[-]
Posts: 126 (02/05/2008 17:22:43) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I had a stack of cards building up, I kept them in boxes. I tried to sell a few times on a craft stall but I picked bad venues.. so it's put me off a bit.. ... So, I packed up 95 cards and Kaylie packed the extra 5 to round it up to 100 cards... and we sent them to Afganistan for the soldiers to send home.. Hubby has a gaming pal who has a brother serving out there.. so we had someone to send them too.. He has since posted half of the cards via the red cross to Iraq where the rest of his regiment is stationed.. It feels good to have done this.. and we will now be making more to send over at Christmas..(smile) Hug Sylvie A
Lavender		#19	[-]
Posts: 9443 (03/05/2008 00:22:11) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I have only recently started to build up a stock of cards, but they will probably largely be for me to send. I don't sell them as a general rule as I find that people don't often appreciate the work that has gone into them and don't like to pay enough to cover the costs. Lavender XX
calonie		#20	[-]
Posts: 960 (03/05/2008 01:20:52) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I tend to make cards as I go along, although I do have a few stashed in a couple of boxes and I have still got the very first card I made. I don't like making cards for people who you know will not appreciate them. I get special requests for cards from friends and people at work, I really enjoy doing these as quite often they are challenging requests, I am in the midst of making my third set of wedding stationary, these are a slogg but worth it when you know your efforts have been appreciated. But will I ever make money at this??.... like most out there... probably not. I started out like a lot of others thinking it would be cheaper to make my own, Dauh!!!!! I soon got my eyes opened there, my craft come dining room will verify that, but the circle of friends I have made in the last couple of years far outweighs the cost. Carol x

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