Make Money with Greeting Cards

You can make good money with greeting cards.  You don’t even have to be creative or talented, but it does help.  Artist like Tiffani Taylor http://www.tiffaniart.com are creating beautiful greeting cards for sale and you can too.

Last year at my fathers retirement party we were sitting and opening his gifts and cards when we noticed there were duplicates of most of the cards.  He received 3 or 4 of the exact same card.  It made me start to realize how generic most cards seem. 

Several months later I saw te same thing at my sisters baby shower.  So many of the cards (and gifts) were repeats.  I now try to find unique and creative cards from local artists or create them myself.

If you are talented at drawing, painting, or graphic design creating greeting cards for money will be easy.  You have to create the art in whatever medium you choose and get it into digital format.  If you are a painter that will require taking a photograph of the painting or having a professional do it for you.  Then load the image onto your computer, easy with a digital camera, a few more steps with a 35mm.  You will need to develope the film, scan the photos or have your proceesing company put it on a CD for you.  Once it’s on the computer or disk you can take it to a printer or go to an online printer. 

I recommend these printers to start with…

       
Create Full Color Postcards. 1-2 Day Turnaround & Great Rates!

Once you have your product now you need to sell it.  You can sell it online directly yourself through avenues like ebay, your own webpage, or etchy.com.  You can also take samples of your products to local shops and craft malls and inquire about them buying them.

If you aren’t talented enough to do your own art work you can hire someone to do it for you.  Take out a free ad on Craigslist or backpages.com and look for artists to do it for you.  Or even easier buy stock photos to use.  Be careful to read all terms of the stock site before using an image. 

Some wonderful stock sites are

Fotolia Images are as low as $1.00 each.

Dreamstime Has an amazing, quality selection.