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The Best Places to Buy Supplies for Your Handmade Products

June 5, 2016 by Katie Smith Leave a Comment

Where do you purchase supplies for your handmade projects and products? Do you have a favorite local store or is it mostly online? Rebecca George from the Creative Income blog is sharing her top places to buy crafting supplies online.… Read More ...

Free Printable Thank You Cards For Your Etsy Shop

May 2, 2016 by Katie Smith 1 Comment

As etsy shop owners it is always good to find ways to connect more with your customers. Including a simple than you card in the packaging is a great way t do that!

Kim from Everything Etsy designed some free … Read More ...

How to Package Christmas Gifts for Mailing

December 6, 2015 by Katie Smith Leave a Comment

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Are you mailing out any last minute etsy orders for the holidays, or are you shipping gifts to friends and families? If so, you might find the above infographic helpful.

The infographic is by Collect+. They say:

It’s the

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How to Sell MORE at a Craft Fair

November 1, 2015 by Katie Smith Leave a Comment

If you have been selling your handmade goods at craft shows for a while now, then you may be wondering what you can do to increase sales. Maybe getting a card reader? Or vending at larger craft fairs?

Vikki O’Dell … Read More ...

Craft Fair Tips and Lessons Learned

August 27, 2015 by Katie Smith Leave a Comment

You can learn a lot from attending just one craft fair. Here are some of really great tips and lessons learned by ChiWei at One Dog woof!

She attended a craft show with her friend, selling crocheted hats and accessorizes … Read More ...

50 Handmade Giftwrap Ideas

November 11, 2014 by Katie Smith 1 Comment

Here’s a fun round up of over 50 gift wrapping ideas that Kimberly from Buga Boo Blog shared!

If you like the packaging on your presents to be just as eye catching as the contents, then this is the round … Read More ...

Packaging Tips and Tricks

July 5, 2014 by Katie Smith Leave a Comment

 

Alison from Adventures in Making shared some tips for packaging your handmade items to sell! As Alison says “Packaging can go a long way to making your goods more valuable. The right kind of packaging can make a big … Read More ...

Craft Shows: Designing a Display

August 23, 2013 by Rosie Bromberg 3 Comments

Designing a Display

One of the hardest parts of the craft show business is  displaying your wares. After all your hard work in creating your product, whatever it may be, you must now decide on the best way to create an appealing shop. … Read More ...

Stitch – an app for inventory management from StitchLabs SF.

October 21, 2011 by Minnie Leave a Comment


I love that there are so many apps coming out to help the small creative businesses out there. You may have gleaned from reading this blog that I help organize the annual Conference of Creative Entrepreneurs. One of our … Read More ...

Cute packaging on a small budget

March 3, 2010 by Minnie 2 Comments

Meylah looks like a pretty cute site. Here is the description of the site:

Here at Meylah, our goal is to help creative folks succeed in building their businesses online. We know it can be tough, but with our weekly

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I have died and gone to cute beer heaven

October 2, 2009 by Minnie Leave a Comment




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Originally uploaded by elphster

I didn’t even know there WAS a cute beer heaven but I guess that is the genius of packaging design. It takes you to a place were cute fat owls look at you … Read More ...

Sprout Chicago How To – Eco Envelopes

May 18, 2009 by Minnie 4 Comments

cereal-6OOO! I need to go make one of these cool eco envelopes out of an empty cereal box right now! Actually I might change it up a bit to make packaging for my booth at Maker Faire.

I can’t wait … Read More ...

Milk and Cookies Earrings and cute packaging

February 10, 2009 by Minnie 1 Comment

I’ve been paying attention to peoples packaging skillz lately. I’m terribly easy to impress since my own skills in this area are nil.

First off, aren’t these earrings by illi cute as all get out? I want them on me … Read More ...

Indie Crafters Go Greener

May 20, 2008 by Jamie Leave a Comment

clearbags.gifI know this is not necessarily “indie craft”, but I was excited to see that plastic and paper supplier Clear Bags has come out with a new greener line of plastic bags. I know many indie crafters rely on ordering … Read More ...

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