Tips & techniques on how to sell your handmade crafts easily, confidently & successfully : Stampin Up! Best of 25 years

Welcome to another week!

This week I'm going to be showcasing the wonderful Best of 25 years sets that Stampin Up recently released - here's some more information from a few days ago...

Stampin Up! Best of 25 years - flowers

Here's the gorgeous hydrangea flower resplendant in Wisteria Wonder & Lucky Limeade, having been coloured in with Stampin Write markers. The base is crumbcake cardstock with Naturals Ivory for the flower background. I love this cardstock as it is a lovely off cream colour with tiny speckles which gives it an expensive, unique look. The ripped & distressed corner is sponged in wisteria wonder ink.

Here's a closer look at the naturals ivory card - can you see the speckles?

The card is framed with slivers of wisteria wonder and lucky limeade card. The little brad is one of the retiring designer printed brads (122940 £7.25 for 40 mixed colours). The Naturals Ivory card has been punched with the scallop edge punch to finish.

I've paper pierced the edges with the paper piercing tool (126189 £3.50) and pack (126187 £7.25 for 3 templates).

The little handmade flowers in Wisteria Wonder and Lucky Limeade were punched with a scallop circle punch and then cut into spirals and rolled. The sentiment is from, yes you've guessed it, Bring on the Cake (w 121899 £34.95, c 121958 £27.95)

Lucky limeade will be retiring in a few weeks so if you want to grab this colour before it fades order from me today!

The best of flowers set has 4 lovely flower stamps in it for just £13.95 - it's only around until October or whilst stocks last - order yours today!

133342 Best of Flowers £13.95

Check out the retiring lists on the left hand bar to see what's left - once they've gone, they've gone!

Challenges for this card are Ladybug crafts - colour wheel (purple & green), Crafty creations #226 - sketch, Fab n funky #175 - birthday, Daring cardmakers - flower festival. Craft Room challenge - here comes summer.

Come back and see us again tomorrow for another stamp from the Best of Flowers set :)

Praise & feedback

You really have become my guiding light and I've shared your page several times with my fellow Etsians. Sound and smart advice and guidance! Know you are appreciated.

- Paula Wasiluck Doan, BeDotted

Just popping over to say a huge thank you for all your tips recently. I've picked up loads of things that have been very handy. Big, big, thank you.

- Kate Moore, The Literate Stitch

A couple of months ago I asked you about increasing interaction on my page & you gave me advice around engagement and asking questions to my customers building up trust. Since doing this I have noticed that my interaction talked about figures have gone up people are engaging more in my posts and we are building up trust which had resulted in a few more sales!

- Vaishali Mcmillan, The Little Treehouse Children's Boutique

I started to make jewellery as a hobby in 2010 since then i have gathered various skills, which has caused customers at work, friends and family to say "oooh you should sell your creations". I fumbled around with advertising, a single fair and a couple of car boots. I found i wasn't doing very well and started to get frustrated and looked for help. I immediately found Marketing Creatively and since then everything has changed for my business and I! Using the 50 "cardinal rules" (as i call them) and every single piece of information i can suck from your blog, I am starting to expand my reach ten fold, i am finding networking much easier and much more focused, I am now blogging, which to my surprise is a big hit, and i am also planning to do tutorial videos and contact my local newspapers and such to get a bit of coverage. All in all I can't thank you enough. You have been such a great inspiration and help and I know I couldn't have done it without your support, and the support.

- Freya Lucy Elizabeth, Serendipity Jewelery

Pages

Stampin Up! Best of 25 years - Best of flowers stamp set tour