flehmen: noun

a mammalian behavior (as of horses or cats) in which the animal inhales with the mouth open and upper lip curled to facilitate exposure of the vomeronasal organ to a scent or pheromone
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Stamping for Pleasure - Rudolph Day March
Pause Dream Enjoy Challenge #6 Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Anything Goes

 

  Cricut has been asking for Christmas stuff and one of their requests was for gift card holders. And I got to thinking, why not make Gift Card holders for sale at the Art MoB? 

  I used Cricut's Doodlecharms cartridge, p. 87 for the mail box. Stamped a Rudolph stamp by Walmart
( gasp, lol  I admit it, I shop at Walmart ) on the flag and added a brad by Karen Foster. 

 

 

Next I cut out the envelope which holds the GC, again from Doodlecharms, p. 86 but removed the heart cut on the envelope in the Cricut Craft Room and extended the flap cut by hand so that I could slide the gift card up and under the flap. Stamped the Ho, Ho, Ho by Karen Foster on the flap and added a Martha Stewart poinsettia sticker on the corner to add some balance to the red flag. Outlined everything with a Faber Castell PITT pen.

 

Although the picture doesn't show it very well, it's actually a card, so the whole 'mailbox with GC' is the front of the card, leaving the person that sends it, a traditional inside to write their greetings.

 

 

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I have been asked how well sales have been going over at the Art MoB, and I have to say that I have been very lucky. The sales are definitely tourist driven so we had a couple of slow months during winter and I am still in the learning phase of what sells and trying to keep an open mind to what I can make that interests people.

 

So here is a recap of just the card sales:

 

September - 19 cards

October - 26 cards

November - 2 cards

December - 24 cards

January - 28 cards

February - 15 cards

 

A total of 114 cards sold in the first 6 months.

 ( female birthday seems to sell the best )

 

I try and keep 20 cards out at all times in each category, restocking once a week.

 

'basic cards' which stay up all the time consists of:

 

Birthday Female

Birthday Male

Thank you

 

then there are the 'fluctuating cards' which consist of:

 

current seasonal

upcoming seasonal

speciality cards

 

So, I have 6 displays with 20 cards in each display, that's 120 cards out for the customer's perusal.

It takes a lot of work to make sure I have a variety of cards but I do think that is important so that the customers have many things to choose from.

 

 I will consider myself successful if I help someone along the way from what I learn. Any questions? Feel free to ask. :) Any suggestions, feel free to offer. ;)