How Do You Make & Sell Home Made Greeting Cards?
Greeting cards are a staple of an industry that has grown around special occasions. Whether for birthdays, weddings, holidays, funerals or any other life event, at any given moment a significant number of greeting cards are being sold and subsequently exchanged. Those cards are truly everyday art, and a form of commercial art that can be lucrative to a writer and artist who is able to impress consumers with his sentiments or wit. Such cards can be made at home and sold to stationery stores or gift shops. Write your card idea on an index card, denoting the content of the outside flap with an (O) and the inside flap with an (I). Jot down the dialogue or graphics that will appear on and inside the card. Give the idea a name and place it at the top of the card. Fold one piece of your card stock in half and measure the dimensions of one fold. Create the art for the front flap of the card, whether by taking a photo that matches your idea, drawing a sketch on your first piece of card stock or
