After some research, I managed to find a heavy white card stock which will serve nicely for the card base. The photo has been trimmed to 3.5 x 4.75 inches to leave a generous border on this A2 card which is 4.25x5.5 inches.
This requires that I have a photo I can afford to trim .25 off one side. It comes down to the composition which I will work on. Two of these are off to my card exchange group.
Do you give paper cards or electronic?
Does the cost of postage make you hesitate to give a card?
What type of occasions do you give cards for?
Do you prefer to have a card specific to the occasion? Or will a generic card suffice for almost any occasion?
Do you have a preference between a card made with stamping and designer paper or a card like these art cards?
You can leave me a comment with any information you would like to share. Thanks so much.
I make and sell cards as well from my photos. Mine are often printed up (Vistaprint.com does an amazing job at a very reasonable price and they often have sales. I used to do the original photo on card stock and that has some advantages -- they do get an original. Both are good. I also do original art cards -- mini-collage on 5x7s. Both go well but not nearly so well as they did four or five years ago and I know it's the internet and e-cards. As for myself, I tend to send a lot of cards, mostly my own but I will buy others at shows. Postage? Not a problem though I won't buy the square ones to mail as in the states they take 21 cents additional postage. I'll send cards for many things -- birthday, get well (a little less), sympathy (more and more) and blank ones for thank you notes and letters. I usually do birthday cards specific and sometimes those are the ones I will buy to fit the personality. Often with get well and sympathy I go for a blank card because I like to write a note. I don't buy stamped cards or use them (much). If I'm going to charge for a card it has to be more original than a pre-done stamp. Now I'm pretty much painting all my background papers, too, although I still have some preprinted that I will use if appropriate. The thing I've found useful with note-card sized cards is to sell them as a set at a slightly different discounted price (about one card free). My photo note cards are small (not 5x7) and they are 2.50 for one or 13 for a set of six in a ribbon packet. Sometimes two complimentary designs, sometimes six of the same. The 5x7 collage cards are $4 each. I'm not doing as many of those now. In terms of time I should up the price but I don't think the market will take it. Watercolor cards are $5 and all original. Of course, if you're selling through a shop, they'll take their cut and you have to up the price to make what you do. It hink with your photos you'll have quite a market. They're lovely.
ReplyDeleteJeanie, Thanks so much for your response to my questions. The last 2 years here selling cards has been very difficult. I know when our postage went up some folks just quit cards altogether. The economy is slowly improving so I hope sales will be better this fall. Your prices are very similar to mine. I do some of my own background paper which I love to make. Sylvia D.
DeleteNot much help from here I'm afraid. . I have taken my own photos to Walgreens a couple of times to have cards made, they sell them in packs or singly with the envelopes. I don't remember what I paid.
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