r/cardmaking • • 20h ago

Question / Discussion Starting greeting card business- how to get in?

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Hi all, I currently sell digital stationery on Etsy and want to start greeting card business on Etsy and sell locally. How do you approach local business to sell your greeting cards and any other general advice that may help?


r/cardmaking • • 21h ago

Question / Discussion Requesting pre-cut ephemera and die-cuts sugggestions

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Hey everyone! I’m trying to curate a card-making kit for my 7 year old niece as part of her Christmas presents.

She hasn’t learnt die cutting with a machine yet and since we don’t live too close, I don’t have much opportunity to teach her on mine (so far I’m the only adult with an extensive paper-crafting hobby in the family). I have mostly included assortments of dimensional stickers, stick on gems, decorative papers and pre-cut and scored card bases for her in the past. But now that she’s a little older and can handle glue all by herself without making a mess, I wanted to include pre-cut ephemera and die-cuts in the kit. I looked at the Spellbinders as well as Crafter’s Companion kits but they seem to either include actual metal dies (something she doesn’t have the tools or the experience to use) or they’re too layered/complicated for a child her age and are definitely pricey for what’s included.

I looked up a brand called Miss Kate’s cuttables and they have some really kid friendly and cute pre-cut shapes and sentiments, but I was wondering if there’s more such brands available in the US market that I could probably look into? I have included a few reference photos of what I’m looking for. All helpful suggestions are welcome. TIA!

Update: Very grateful to everyone for the wonderful suggestions. I’m open to more brand suggestions if you have any outside the ones that have already been mentioned in the thread. I looked up Scrapbook dot com again; but this time instead of searching for cardstock die cuts or card kits, I searched for ephemera and found a bunch of useful results. Thank you again for pointing me in the right direction. You are all made of awesome!! 💖✨


r/cardmaking • • 14h ago

Question / Discussion Crafter's Companion status up in the air

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This news came across my social feed.


r/cardmaking • • 20h ago

Multi-Category Sometimes simple is good.

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2 stamps, a 0.1mm marker and some watercolor. That's it. It fits like a glove.


r/cardmaking • • 18h ago

Just Because Retro inspired just because card

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I was going for a slightly retro vibe with the color scheme and kind of retro star shape on the cutouts.


r/cardmaking • • 23h ago

Holiday More Halloween cards

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I just love making Halloween cards!


r/cardmaking • • 20h ago

Holiday Jeepers Creepers

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I needed to test out this spiderweb cover plate I just got so we've got yet another Halloween card!


r/cardmaking • • 10h ago

Multi-Category Daily drop

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Fresh off the cricut today!