for a decent hand made card with insert, verse etc.  I would welcome your thoughts as I have been cardmaking for a bit and recently got two fairly large orders for cards but dont know what to charge.  Your comments please :)

Michelle x

To be honest I don't know since I design my own cards and haven't bought one for ages.

But have you thought about looking for similar cards and take the price of them as a guideline? I suspect that whatever you charge won't actually reflect the time and creativity that's gone into your cards but that tends to be the way of things I'm afraid.

A girl at work makes cards, and very nice they are too. Any occassion, any design, boxed. She charges £2.50 I've had some lovely winnie the pooh/tigger ones, 18th and 21st, baby boy and special anniversary. I love hand made cards :)

Dee

I pay between £2 and £2.50 because they look so good and people appreciate them more as the thought has gone into it.

I would say £2 to £2.50 each dependant on volumes :)

Well in shops you can pay as much as £2.50 for a pretty regular card. For a regular birthday I would pay £3.50 max, but to be honest for a wedding or a very special occasion, or a personalised card, I might pay £5. I think you could definitely get more for special occasions.

I buy embroidered breed cards every Christmas and pay £3 for them.

I have a shop selling handmade wedding stationery and bespoke cards. They sell for anything from £1.50 to £3.50 but remember when pricing to take into account the time spent making them.

A simple way to figure it out is to estimate how many of them you could make in an hour and charge accordingly - say £7 an hour divided by 3 cards you could make within that hour = £2.33 plus the cost of materials. This is going to be a fairly intricate card if you can only make 3 in an hour!

Hope that helps?

I make personalised cross stitch birth cards and charge £5.  It takes me around 8 hours to make, but it is my hobby, so the money is irrelevant really.  This is just a price someone offered to pay me and I have stuck to it ever since.  Also, people usually have the cross stitch framed and put up in the babies room, so it is a decorative item also.