Here are some examples of card makers who sell their handmade cards.

Sally loves card making and she makes them for all occasions. She kept her handmade cards in boxes in her spare room ready for a friend’s birthday or the next family christening. Before long her spare room was full of boxes of cards – more than she would ever use herself so she decided to try and sell them. Sally got a stall at a regular craft fair that takes place every 6 weeks. The stall was quite expensive to rent for the day and she worked out she would need to sell between 30 and 40 cards (depending on the price of the card bought) to break even for the cost of the stall and her petrol to get to the venue. At first she just about broke even and then started making a small profit. She doesn’t make enough to give up the day job, but as she says, “I love making cards and if I didn’t sell them at the Craft Fair, what would I do with them all?”

Debbie sells cards for charity. She sells them at charity events which take place once or twice a year and the rest of the time she sells them at car boot sales. She found the card boot sales tough, even though Debbie has a really outgoing personality, as everyone wanted to haggle over the price of the cards. “I’m selling them for charity, for goodness sake!” she cried. Madeleine advised her to put her prices up and then let the customer haggle them down to the price she wanted for them in the first place – which she did.

Ginny used to sell her cards on Ebay and had to give it up when she became too successful. Ginny made a steady income from selling her cards although it wasn’t a massive amount she was quite happy with the sales. Her designs were really good and eye-catching. The she got an email enquiry for 150 cards. Was this for real? Yes, it was, and the customer paid up front. Ginny said, “I was working until 2 o’clock in the morning to get that order out on time – I don’t want to do that again.”

Jill sells her cards in a village store a few miles away that does sells just about everything. It’s the sort of shop that does little bits of this and little bits of that. Jill prices her cards at