Hi I am looking for some advice from my fellow crafters. I make handpainted cards which are watercolour paintings but it takes me a long time to create each one. Anyone know how I’d get my original printed onto cards so I can sell them as prints rather than originals all the time. Do I need to contact a printer? And if so anyone know a good one and what sort of prices do they charge? Any advice would be great.xx
Sorry I can’t help at all but just wanted to say I love your paintings and have just favourited a couple of your lovely mother’s day cards. 
I’m really sorry that I have no mother to send one to otherwise one of them would be in my basket by now xx
Sorry I can’t help with your query either but your painted cards are beautiful and you’ve got yourself two sales. Can’t wait to receive them! 
There are plenty of companies who will print cards from your own images, if you can scan them yourself to a high enough quality. I use Sixprint http://www.sixprint.co.uk/cards.html for mine, and use their templates to set up exactly how I want the cards to look.
If you don’t have a decent scanner, you should be able to find a local printer (or art shop/framer/gallery) who will do that for you (at a price because their scanners are really high quality) and probably do your cards too. The advantage of that route is you have an actual person you can stand next to and ask all the questions you want, whereas online it’s a bit remote.
So plenty of choice. Watch out for ‘minimum order quantities’ (or you may end up with boxfuls under the bed!) One reason I like Sixprint is you can have a minimum of 10 off each design, which isn’t too much of a risk to begin with - and provided you have the same size for each one, they all count towards volume discounts (so 10 each of 6 designs counts as 60 for their pricing rates).
I have a friend that used to sell (very successfully) cards printed from original collages. She went with a local printer in the end as she was able to have more control over the quality and was also not having to post the originals anywhere.
Love your work!
Hi Helen, thank you so much for your very detailed advice and taking the time to reply. It was very kind of you to give me the website link you use, I will certainly give it a go. I have only just started to use the Folksy forum and it has been great getting feedback and advice from other, so again thank you. Jackie xx
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Thank you joy for taking the time to look at my work and giving me such lovely feedback.x
No, thank you. I just realised that I may not have a mother anymore but I do have an older sister who will be 11 years older than me on March 7th and who loves blue flowers. That’s her card sorted She will be delighted.
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