Saturday 2 October 2010

Baby Cards

I've had such a fantastic week, making 9 name cards up for orders! I am so happy, that I finally plucked up the courage to make some cards, for a friend of mine to sell at the todder group she runs, and I have made over £50 in card sales. She sold 17 out of the 25 I gave her, and I also had 9 orders too.

She has told me that whenever I have enough cards to give her she will take them to the Toddler Group for me, as everyone who saw my cards loved them. People loved the individual name ones, I make, and the butterfly cards flew. My friend decided that £1.00 per card was not enough, so she said they were £2.00 each and everyone was happy to pay this. It is so fantastic to make a few pennies out of something I love doing.

I started last night to build up some more cards to sell, the first of which are a couple of baby girl ones. Now that I have worked out that I can cut the gold/silver mirror card on the craft robo I am hoping that these cards will be a bit quicker to make up.

I love the first card, made with an ivory square card, and matted with pink gingham paper and ivory card. The letters are cut on the craft robo, and I have put 3d foam pads on the back of each letter to give them a bit of height. The daisy flowers were cut with a woodware punch and pink flat backed gems added to the middle of each flower.




This second card is also a really pretty one, and I have used a ivory square card base again, and matted it with 'fushia' pink polka dot paper and linen card.

I've added a couple of daisies with flat backed gems, and I have added some fushia pink ribbon and some cream teddy bear ribbon on the top to create a border at the bottom.

I'd like to enter the first 'Baby Girl' card into the following challenges:

Craft Your Days Away - Babies
Incy Wincy Designs - Anything Goes
Sew Many Challenge - Anything Goes

15 comments:

  1. Great cards and well done on selling so many cards

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  2. Fantastic cards once again Caroline.

    Well done on selling so many.

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  3. Carolyne, Your Card is pretty. I love it.
    Great Job!!!

    Thank you for playing with us at OSAAT this week. Good Luck!

    Hugs,
    Agnieszka

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  4. Your cards are adorable Thanks for Playing Incy Wincy this Week
    Hugs Nikki and the rest of the DT

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  5. Well done on your sales hun, I'm not surprised that they flew out they are stunning. x

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  6. They are gorgeous cards Caroline, they have a pure feel to them which is perfect for a baby card. Well done on the sales, how lucky you are to have a friend willing to sell them for you. I hope you make lots of money from them xx

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  7. Caroline what gorgeous cards. Well Done on your sales too.
    Thankyou for sharing with us at OSAAT for the anything goes challenge.

    Choccy xx

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  8. Great cards, love those letters

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  9. i need a craft robo. these are great cards x

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  10. Yay you go girl!! Your cards are stunning and I'm not surprised they're selling so well. Jaqui x

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  11. Wow, that's brilliant that you have sold so many and orders too!!! Such pretty baby girl cards, I love your word cards. Thank you for joining us at Craft Your Days Away, good luck with the challenge xxx

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  12. Fabulous baby cards.

    Thank you for joining us over at CYDA for our baby challenge.

    Hugs

    Joanne xx

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