Selling cards?

[jaustic]

I've had friends say that I should sell my cards, does anyone here do that? Are there copyright laws to follow? I'm not sure that I even want to, but have become curious after having more than one person bring it up. Thanks!

[cardmaker2]

I do sell my cards mostly privately at my work but a little local boutique also has some that they mark up and sell.
On the back I use a StampinUp logo stamp along with my signature so if any one turns it over, they see both the words StampinUp and my name. I admit I am not super careful about it, if I use another company product for any part of the card, I don’t have any way of acknowledging them.
I sell on such a small scale, I’m not too concerned about it. Good luck with your decision!

[bjeans]

Each company will have an angel policy on its website that spells out how their designs can be used. If you don’t quickly see it on their website, there’s often a link at the bottom of the home page or on the side, or a search can be done on their website.

Or sometimes the easiest way is doing on-line search with the company name and “angel policy.” For example, googling “hero arts angel policy” brings up this link at the top: https://heroarts.com/pages/angel-policy

[jaustic]

Thank you! After my post, I did see a thread on this website about various company's angel policies.

[lutheran]

I had a good 18 months or so of selling cards but I stopped. Too much pressure for them to be original and perfect, too much time away from my first love --scrapbooking. If a close friend needs a few cards, I will do them but I am over the retail part of it.
Mary Beth

[basketdiva]

My friends have suggested the same thing but since I mix stamps from various companies on cards, I don't want to deal with looking up every angel policy or adding info to the back of the cards.

[shazsilverwolf]

It's not only stamp companies. I have this vague recollection that I heard Cuttlebug- is it Provocraft- would not allow any of their folders to be used on cards being sold. Actually just Googled, and came up with this thread from SCS, going back to 2009.

[bjeans]

Circuit/Provocraft’s angel policy (tap/click on the word “Legal.”)
Legal Some of their products use incensed images from Disney, for example, and those couldn’t be used.

[Ellibelle]

I used to sell cards on etsy. Two of the companies I use regularly I emailed and received written authorization to sell a limited amount of cards with their stamps, as it wasn't stated in their policy therefore I had to ask.

That said, I sort of quit selling cards as it's gotten too stressful. I'm too much of a perfectionist to let any type of imperfection go through when I sell my cards and I stressed about having them packaged perfectly as well. Maybe if I were to sell them locally it wouldn't be such a big deal to me.

[canada goose]

Besides cards have any here tried selling gift or wine tags specifically at Christmas?

[wavejumper]

I cant find it but there is a thread about selling all kinds of stuff here somewhere...darn it. It's probably right under my nose...

[lesliespringer]

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Originally Posted by jaustic

I've had friends say that I should sell my cards, does anyone here do that? Are there copyright laws to follow? I'm not sure that I even want to, but have become curious after having more than one person bring it up. Thanks!

This thread has a ton of information

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