Yeah, I find that too, and since you happen to have a beautiful website, why not just use your website, right? Laura And I know some people have had a lot of luck with Etsy, but personally I find that the pricing there tends to be a bit low especially for handmade cards. But I do plan to sell from my own website in the near future. And I haven’t experimented much with online or print on demand selling.
I’ve also had greeting cards made through online printers that I then packaged to sell at those events.
Well, I’ve sold my handmade cards for years in local holiday markets and pop up shops, trunk shows and things like that. So when did you start actually selling your cards and not just giving them to friends and family? Laura
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So I guess you could say that I have an expertise in both creating handmade cards and teaching others how to do the same. But instead of using other people’s images, which frequently have limited copyright use, I now illustrate my own digital stamp designs to use under my Laura Lee Griffin Designs brand. So I transitioned those workshops to Zoom last year with the pandemic and we basically create one to two greeting card designs each workshop. And I did that for a few years and then decided to begin teaching others at in-person workshops, how to create beautiful cards themselves, which I’ve been doing now for, man for about 11 years. And I would write instructional posts for their website and how to make different greeting card designs that I had created. Basically making videos on how to create greeting cards from scratch using their supplies. That’s all then I became a card designer for Hero Arts Rubber Stamps. So I began submitting my work and had over 75 greeting card designs published primarily in magazines like like Rubber Stamper, Stampington’s Take 10, PaperCrafts and a few others like that. So I actually started designing unique cards for companies and publications in the craft industry. Yeah, and I wasn’t really ready to create a big production line yet. I was investing a lot in supplies though, and decided I should try to make a little money at it to support my spending habits. Now I first just made cards for friends and family. And if you have any interest in playing with those, you should definitely take Laura’s awesome Skillshare class on Copic Marker Essentials. And you can also stamp an outlined image in black or print out a digital image on your home printer and color it in with advanced shading and texture techniques using things like colored pencils, inks watercolor, or my personal favorite Copic Markers. And essentially that’s using someone else’s image, like a stamp company, and then inking the image with colorful inks, stamping it on paper and adding different collaged elements to create a finished card. And I was first introduced a greeting card design when I started rubber stamping and paper crafting. I believe there’s something really special about receiving something handmade in the mail, especially in the digital age that we’re in. Well, Nikki, I’ve been making handmade greeting cards for over 15 years. When did you first start making them? Laura Okay, Laura, tell me your Startist story around greeting cards. Nikkiįollow along with us on our creative business journey as we encourage you on yours.
We are artists who believe strongly in the power of community, accountability, following your intuition, taking small actionable steps and breaking down the barriers of fear and procrastination that keep you stuck. LauraĪnd this is Nikki May with the Startist Society, inspiring you to stop getting in your own way and start building an art biz and life that you love. So let me ask you the questions this week, because I know that there’s a lot of questions that our listeners and I want to ask. But I’ve only designed a handful, and I’ve had them printed, but I know that you have a lot more experience than I do with both making and selling them. And I thought that this week, we’d turn it around, and I’ll interview you. So last week, you interviewed me about calendars. What are we actually talking about today? Nikki Well, I just happened to have some delicious ginger fruit juice that I thought would be really good with some cucumber vodka.
What? Is the world coming to an end? Nikki
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