I’ve been away at a crafting conference all weekend and I am always in awe of the uniqueness of the products you can make with a crafting machine. It seems that every conference, my crafty eyes are opened to more and more things you can make with the machines – especially when you push the…
Ever wanted to go away for a weekend without the kids and spend it crafting with a few hundred new friends that are interested in their Silhouette, too? You are in luck, the All Things Silhouette Conference is a one-of-a-kind experience that allows you to take off for the weekend and learn all kinds of…
I’ll be honest with you, I was looking through some small business Facebook Pages a few days ago and so many of them were boring and repetitive. On a few of the pages, they just seemed to post products for sale – and nothing else. Let me tell you a secret: Fans get bored of…
Public Service Announcement: Using ‘Not Your Photo’, or ‘Not Yours’, or ‘Not Your Picture’, or ‘Mine’ as a watermark across your product photos is not effective. Unfortunately, I keep seeing crafters using generic, blanket statements across product photos or photos they share in crafting groups. I wanted to take a minute today to highlight that…
School is out and the temperatures are heating up! If you are planning on making crafting part of your summer, here’s a list of summer sayings for crafters. These short sayings are perfect for greeting cards, t-shirts, wood signs, social media captions, and more. 50+ Summer Sayings for Crafters Good times and tan linesSeashells are…
Does it sometimes seem like the craft market is saturated? Do you feel that everyone now has their own Silhouette or Cricut machine? If you do, it might be time to go looking for customers in different places. Instead of listing products for sale on marketplaces (like Etsy or Goimagine) and social media (Facebook, Instagram,…
There seems to be a lot of new Silhouette and Cricut owners lately, and many of them are interested in using their machine to make money. If you are one of them (congratulations!), but I urge you to learn from the mistakes of the small business owners that came before you. Today, I’m sharing the…
One of my favorite things about Spring is the birds chirping, grasshoppers jumping, and flowers blooming. Today, I’m excited to share a free Spring SVG cut file for Silhouette or Cricut from Michelle at My Designs in the Chaos. She captured the sentiment of Spring perfectly in her ‘It’s Bird Chirping Weather’ cut file. If…
I don’t know about you, but I have a lot of ideas! Since you are a small business owner, I bet that you have a lot of ideas, too! Human brains aren’t able to remember everything we think of, so the best way to keep track of all your ideas is to write them down….