How to display cards at craftfair

How do you display your cards for sale at craft fairs? Do you seperate them by theme? Just lay them on a table? Prop them up? Any ideas will be helpful. Thank you.

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So far, I just lay them on a table. But I've looked to find various other display methods. The ones I've found or thought of are:

* Pinboards. Fairly cheap, but need to be hung from something or fixed to a wall.

* Hanging them from a horizontal string. Very cheap, but only works for folded cards, has limited capacity, and you need somewhere to fix the string.

* Little card racks that you stand on the table. Probably fairly cheap, but capacity is limited by the size of the table.

* "Card display books". These are books of twenty or so pages, each containing clear plastic pockets to hold the cards. Cheap (around £5 in the UK) and available from most stationers, as well as easy to carry, but make the customer work to see the cards.

* "Card spinners". These are the wire racks mounted on a floor-standing vertical pole that shops sell postcards from. Can hold more cards than a rack on the table, and are probably the easiest choice for customers to view cards from, but are more expensive (a quick search suggests £50 to £200 in the UK), and not so easy to carry.

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I've wondered the same thing.

I've seen two different ways - one was to use a small plate stand (the triangular thing) to show the first with the remaining in photo boxes.

The other is a wooden stand that kind of looks like a bookcase with a back.

I've been making my own cards for 10+ year and finally thinking of doing a craft fair this fall with my Christmas cards. Both my husband and my mother have been telling me to do this for years but my confidence just hasn't been there, until ... my co-worker bought 10 cards from me this year and someone else wants some for next year. So I thought why not?

Good luck!!

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Go for it! But why wait until near Christmas? Could you adapt some of your designs to make birthday cards, or just gift cards? You never know when someone is going to pass your stall and think "Ah! Just the thing to send to my friends — it suits their tastes so nicely."

In the UK, we have farmers' markets, where local food producers sell direct to the customer. These are usually held in school halls, local cultural centres, and so on. The one I go to in Oxford, East Oxford Farmers' Market, is weekly, and sells arts and crafts as well as food, so it's good for selling cards at short notice. We also have, less frequently, table-top sales (to raise money for charities), bazaars, plant sales which allow non-plant stalls, sales to raise money for local schools, and so on. Stall rents are usually cheap for these, between £5 and £10. Don't know what you have where you are, but you ought to be able to find something before next fall.

Spinny,how much did you sell your cards for?

They are some good ideas!! I would never of thought of anything like that!

These are wonderful tips! And I would LOVE to know how much to sell cards (or packs of) for! Does the price vary dependent upon amount of work, embellies, etc? Do you use the sleeves to hold the cards?
Gift card holders are a wonderful idea and would sell at any time of the year!
My DH wants me to do this next year so I need to start building up stock!!!

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you were4n't asking me but I thought I would answer to. I sell them for 5 bucks. 7 for ones with moving parts(pop up, sliders etc) and those trifold ones. I've been selling since last summer.

This past year was my second year doing craft shows. My mom & I do 2 at Xmas time. I find that people are a little free-er w/their money around the holidays, plus usually people send out more then just 1 or 2 Xmas cards. I did get a couple steady customers from doing craft shows & they contact me all the time for cards. So though you might not always sell a lot at the shows, you are able to get your contact info out there so people can get ahold of you all year long. Remember to put a tag or something in w/your card w/email &/or phone #. I did buy a small card rack through ebay- it has 10 pockets & can hold @20 cards. I also put some in cute baskets for people to look through. I live outside Buffalo, NY, a very blue collar town, so I sell my cards for $3.00 each and sometimes that is a hard sell. I don't care though, I make cards because I love to, I only sell them, because what else would I do w/the 100's of cards I make -lol!!!

Like other posters said ... it depends on the card. Usually between $3.00 - $5.00 depending on the products used and the time invested.

But again like other posters this is something I LOVE to do not something I do to make money. I just enjoy knowing that my cards can make others happy.

Thanks for the answers. I am looking forward to doing a craft fair, hopefully this Fall.

I've put mine in woven baskets. If you don't have any that already would work, lots of times M's and other places have baskets for 40-50% off. Look for ones that are rectangular and slightly shorter than the card is tall. You can then separate them by theme as well. I put the envelopes in the back and they can grab an envelope after they've chosen their card.