on’t just assume you can throw your handmade items into a postal satchel and hope for the best. There is a little more to it than that. Depending on what your handmade items is there may be rules and regulations … Read More ...
How To Photograph Your Crochet
Are you thinking of selling your Crochet or Knitting items? Well before you start take a look at this article by RepeatCrafterMe. In this tutorial/Article, she shares how to take amazing photos of your work. A great photo can make … Read More ...
How To Professionally Wrap Bath Bombs
Whether your business produced 100 bath bombs or 1000 bath bombs a day this article by uspackagingandwrapping.com has you covered. From hand wrapping to a $6000 dollar machine. The perfect addition to your DIY handmade bath bomb business.
The Best Places to Buy Supplies for Your Handmade Products
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
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
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:
… Read More ...It’s the
How to Sell MORE at a Craft Fair
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
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
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
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
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.
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
Meylah looks like a pretty cute site. Here is the description of the site:
… Read More ...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
I have died and gone to cute beer heaven
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
OOO! 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 ...