Increase Your Scrapbook & Card Making Income

By Karen J O'Donnell

One of the best things about eBay is the way there is a market for creative people who don't need to leave home at all to sell their work.

I like doing things with handmade mulberry paper. My latest creative effort has been applying a layer of handmade mulberry paper on a plain card. I put an aperture in the mulberry paper and then add a lacy edge.

I sell them in lots of 8 and they usually sell quickly on eBay. I could never have found these buyers 10 years ago. We both benefit.

If you have something you love creating eBay is a great place to see what the market is like.
Unless you can afford to papercraft for a hobby an important consideration will always be how long each piece takes to create.

It can be a real challenge to find items you can create that are profitable to sell. If you want to make a living online try creating a range of items.

You will want to research the market by having a good look at what is selling at the moment and what the range of prices are for the products you like. Have a really good study of the sections where people are selling their own handmade pieces.

If you like card toppers have a good look at what is being sold and the prices. You will want to create a product that is not too complicated. Simple but stylish are probably what you want to aim for.

If you don't have the materials you need for what you have decided to design think about using the materials you have already. I am sure you will have no problem coming up with ideas. Remember-time is important. It needs to be cost effective and not take up a large amount of time.

The cost of the materials is usually very small if you use up bits and pieces that you already have. People have amazed themselves by trying this. It will bring out the artist in you.
You can always keep the pieces you make for your scrapbook and card making or you can set up a business selling them.

You are not confined to eBay remember. There are lots of other places you can sell your items. You could have a website where you sell them and you can supply shops if you were able to make large quantities.

Finding your own niche within papercrafting is something you will do over time. Just enjoy what you do.

If there is an opportunity to take classes in new papercrafting techniques that is a great way to spend time. There is always something new to learn. You will never know it all.

If there are no classes in your area and you have the experience why not see if there are enough people in your area to start your own class?

You will meet lots of people with the same interests and can share ideas. You can also help other people learn papercrafting who know nothing about it.

You could have a different focus for each meeting. Some would be scrapbooking evenings and others new papercraft technique evenings.

The important thing is to enjoy what you are doing. To make money from papercrafting- either scrapbooking or card making- look out for what people want but can not find.

This might be unique card toppers. These can be used in scrapbooking as well. For inspiration look at the papercraft magazines and get some ideas but give thought to how you could do something that is different.

There has never been a better time to benefit from creative papercraft. There are lots of options for selling products and services that did not exist until recently. That will only get better.

You can create your masterpiece today and sell it to someone on the other side of the world tomorrow. But if you prefer to stay local there are plenty of ways to do that also.

Remember, if it was easy then everyone would do it but it isn't that hard either. The possibilities are huge and they get larger every day.

Karen O'Donnell enjoys papercrafting and has done it for a living for 4 years. To find out more than 25 different ways of starting a business with papercrafting : http://www.scrapbookandcardmakingforpleasureandprofit.com/
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