Castle Argghhh!!! Creations: January 2009 Archives

Yesterday, I spent a ton of time trying to upload (from our faster than dial-up but slower than broadband satellite access to the internet) photos of my blank notecards made from, what else, my photos - to Artfire.com.

I think that the link to my "studio" is : www.artfire.com/modules.php

or this - http://www.artfire.com/modules.php?name=Shop&seller_id=17160

Hmmm. Not sure how that works. I’m still working on how to display things, and I have many things to add, including supplies like carded kid mohair for needle felting and blown eggs for egg artists.

So I’d be very happy to get any kind of feeback from you. I should probably also set up shop at etsy.com and ebay.com. Then I can compare which works best for me!

So, I have been looking at a lot of my photos, and I think that printing them as blank notecards would be a way to sell my work.  So, I have been checking the prices on several on-line photo developers - from Exposure Manager (where I store all my photos) to Walmart and everything in between.

Basically, unless you want to purchase a full dozen of one design,  the cost per card approaches $1.50 each.  Now, if I want to sell 4 cards (with envelopes) for something like $6.00, there is really not enough profit to make it worthwhile - it is not like I would be selling hundreds of cards or anything!

I’ve been doing some searches trying to discover what other photographers and artists do to sell their work as notecards and I was somewhat surprised that many of them do it themselves with their good ink jet printers on good card stock.  Hmmmm.  I need to research this!

I think these photos would make nice notecards - what do you think?  Honestly, now, don’t pull any punches!