All plants are artificial.

lona ...ok Debby downer

Anxyety*

Kristy Hanson life*

can someone look at my etsy? Just search JewelsbyannieStudio please! i work hard on it C: and i dont get many orders and its mostly under 5$!!!!

U totally should! U only have one life, why not live it to the fullest without any regrets?

snowflake It’s money boo 💰 These things drain a lot of money to begin

T y l e e oh woops sorry my previous reply was for another comment. But yeah of course it costs money but hey, just save up a lot and start a business. You can always go back to another job even if the job isn’t good. At least u knew u followed ur dreams

It doesn't cost as much as you would think you can find this that are cheap and easy to make.

Do it!

can someone look at my etsy? Just search JewelsbyannieStudio please! i work hard on it C: and i dont get many orders and its mostly under 5$!!!!

@@alexgray3654 okie! im so grateful for my 16 orders. (26 items sold) i normally get 1-2 in a month but this month i got 6

HP has an amazing ink program 300 full color prints for $10 a month and it rolls over. I sell mad stickers on Etsy and the HP ink program is a must.

I go to Costco to buy printer ink. Instead of paying over $30 for new ink, Costco’s photo center restocks my ink cartridge for like $12. It depends on the printer ink you got though since they only have certain kinds of ink refills.

Bianca N I think Walgreens has a similar service.

All I could think about was “pull your hair up and put on a shirt that fits!!!!!!” Couldn’t watch past two minutes. I know. It’s a me thing. #ocd

HotSauseCandy wow ur telling us all the goods hehehe thanks for sharing :)

online labels is bulk

Yeah I was noticing that too...like michaels is making so much money off of her if she’s going there 2x a week.

rfrprof09 she mentioned goes there 2 times a month for the sticker mats

@@jina6760 she also said the people recognize her dog, because she goes there 2-3 times a week x

Can you elaborate on that?

Yes, I think Catherine Kay from Katnipp (see KZfaq channel, Etsy store, Insta etc from the UK) has started using these also as they are the environmentally responsible option. Not as see through but customers preferred them to plastic. 👌🏼⭐️

can someone look at my etsy? Just search JewelsbyannieStudio please! i work hard on it C: and i dont get many orders and its mostly under 5$!!!!

Ashley Reaume I use Las Totally Fabolous from dollar tree and an old gift card to lightly scrape off the dust and leftovers after it soaks for about two mins. Then rinse it under water and dry it off. I’m going on over a year with the same mats too! I cringed hearing buying mats twice a month! That’s almost $40 wasted in my world!!! 😂

Yes I do this as well! I usually am able to clean it 3 times before the stickiness is not good anymore. The problem more so usually is that my mats start warping from the amount of stickers I cut each week so I have to unfortunately replace them once per month. 🙁

I guess that’s just good signs of business! ☺️🙃♥️

There is a glue that you can tack things over and over again, basically a repositionable glue, I am wondering if that would work on my old mats, I've been wanting to try that for a while.

I just recently watched a video where Silhouette has the option to load without a mat. That would save TONS of money!

Do you mean aesthetically? Not hating or correcting. I am just wondering if that's what you meant. 🤗

Miss B. I was wondering if that was the right word! Smh you’re a absolutely correct! Thanks!

@@nigeria5332 oh okay. 👍

Trey Stevens that was month ago. She edited it it said something else

can someone look at my etsy? Just search JewelsbyannieStudio please! i work hard on it C: and i dont get many orders and its mostly under 5$!!!!

That's more than a 'bit personal'. You want an entire breakdown of her finances.

Misty Windmaker I’m kinda wondering the same. I was wondering if she actually makes money off of it. If she enjoys it though I’m sure it’s fine. She seems to enjoy it.

I can give you breakdown for my shop. Jenny and I have approximately the same number of sales, although our product line up and equipment is slightly different. My specs: I have a professional laser printer, because it's much more economical to purchase toner rather than ink (although she would need an inkjet to print "prints", because an inkjet prints finer detail for art). I run 3 Silhouette machines. Currently, I run 2 Portraits and 1 Cameo. I have a 4th (Cameo) but it's not in the lineup currently. I use Amazon subscriptions to have Mats sent every 2 months, and blades every 3 months. I have a Rollo label printer and buy labels in 500 qty sets (no ink in the Rollo). Amazon is cheapest for toner (I have an HP...I buy the XL toner cartridges, which have ~2000 pages life (about $100 ea, 4 colors). I need toner 3 times a year. I buy sticker paper from Onlinelabels, usually in qty 1000 sheets ($100 ish). I repurchase every 2 months. I purchase my cellophane envelopes and shipping envelopes (cardboard mailers) from Amazon too--cheapest, even compared to wholesale. I buy in qty 200-500, depending on the time of year (right now we're swamped!) Cello are about $6 for a pack of 100, mailers are $25-30 for 200. I have some extras I add for "packaging", white paper slip envelopes (like treat sacks, I use these if there are multiple cello envelopes in an order) 200 for $12. I also add one of a few different Thank You labels that I buy in bulk from Amazon (1000 for about $10--cheaper than I can make them!) Ok so alll of that breaks down to roughly $180 a month in expenses. After Etsy takes their cut, I average a little more than $3000 a month in Etsy payouts. October - February are my busiest months, with May and July-Aug also being good. March-April, June, September are all slow in the sticker biz. You have to adjust, as with any self-employed business owner. Obviously the math doesn't include my time, which is also valuable. It takes a lot of time to run an Etsy shop! I also have to design and do social media, which is neverending. I kind of suck at the social media. Not enough hours in the day! I preschedule posts with Hootsuite, but I wish I had more time to devote to gaining a following. Maybe this is all helpful? :D

@@mistywindmaker6547 No problem at all! I know when I was starting out it was hard to find ANY info online. People were wary about sharing their "sources" or even how they packed and shipped/where they sourced those supplies etc. I've been a graphic designer for more than 15 years, and my hourly rate is $50. I use that as a general pricing guide for my "time" when pricing sheets (I use a crafting business calculator Excel sheets I found online. I may have even paid $1 or 2 for it). I found that with my expenses the minimum I can charge per sheet is $3 and still make a decent profit (that's running the 3 machines per hour of course). I was originally a digital download shop and brought in roughly $50 a week. It was a nice "play money" side gig (I teach graphic design as my day job in a career & tech high school). Passive income is the best! You really need several revenue streams (hopefully at least a couple with passive income) to cover those slow times and make it worthwhile.

@@planfantastic this is such great info! thanks so much for sharing. what kind of printer do you have if you don't mind sharing. I've been looking into the canon pima pro 100 but not sure if it's eco enough for printing stickers.

ExtraJexi but the products would get more expensive...the question is if still as many people would buy her product

@@ninal6339 definitely!! I have an Etsy shop and use zero waste packaging, seem to be doing reasonably well for my market despite my slightly higher prices and I feel like it attracts the best kinds of customers too!

Nina L I get a pack of 50 for 3-4 dollars from Target. Let’s say she can fit one order in each bag, that’s 50 orders, but if she needs more than one bag per order, then I see your point.

Dr. Arianna - American Academy of Mind-Body Healing, thank you for sharing as well!!!

Plastic bags can be recycled and wax paper can not.. :(

can someone look at my etsy? Just search JewelsbyannieStudio please! i work hard on it C: and i dont get many orders and its mostly under 5$!!!!

Kate Calderwood AWW how cool! I was hoping someone might see their order in there! 🥰 and thank you Kate!!💕

can someone look at my etsy? Just search JewelsbyannieStudio please! i work hard on it C: and i dont get many orders and its mostly under 5$!!!!

@@sunnyxsideskittles1922 im broke, but when i have more money I'll make sure to visit ur shop!

@@y_snwfluff_t2409 thank you!!

Sparkles1331 I’ve only just got a Cricut machine so have been overdosing on KZfaq videos; I didn’t realize you could get generic versions of some of the items; wish I knew that before buying loads of stuff! 🤦🏻‍♀️

Buy fake plants and get you some twinkle lights lol.

I suggest getting low maintenance indoor plants like all variety of snake plants, pothos, cast iron, Chinese evergreen variety, etc. Might be tempting to buy those unique ones, but you’re better off sticking with beginner friendly plants.

pothos are cool. didn’t water mine for a month (oops) came back and found it droopy, but still bright green. watered. was normal again the next day. lucky bamboo are cool too, if you get a decently sized pot/giant mug, fill with little fake pebbles, put in bamboo and fill it with water it’ll be good for like 3 weeks. clean the water though.

Okay I have the opposite problem, I bought a small cactus, and now it’s in my largest pot and has overgrown it😂

can someone look at my etsy? Just search JewelsbyannieStudio please! i work hard on it C: and i dont get many orders and its mostly under 5$!!!!

can someone look at my etsy? Just search JewelsbyannieStudio please! i work hard on it C: and i dont get many orders and its mostly under 5$!!!!

@@sunnyxsideskittles1922 Charge more!!

@@sholaking5027 i cant, ive gotten 45+ people hating on the prices, thats more than 4x the amount of orders i get

@@sunnyxsideskittles1922 Wow! 🤯 Can't believe people would do that.

@sunnyxskittles Listen, you might have people who don't like what your price has increased but they might not buy from you anyway. Increase your prices cos it'll mean your products reach a new set of customers. People who might appreciate your products

Hard work? She has multiple machines printing AND cutting the stickers. Nothing handmade about it.

DaphneReloaded right, it’s not like she draws the illustrations, sets and lines everything up, packages them and ships them...absolutely nothing handmade...

DaphneReloaded its more efficient this way and she couldn’t possibly cut out this much it would be too much x

DaphneReloaded you need those materials to make stickers either ways it’s her art so it’s handmade

Brandy DuBois is that what the cleaning spay is called? Or what kind do you use?

Princess Corina yes. It’s called LA’s Totally Awesome cleaner.

Brandy DuBois thank you!

+1 I use eco enclose for all of my work! love them

can someone look at my etsy? Just search JewelsbyannieStudio please! i work hard on it C: and i dont get many orders and its mostly under 5$!!!!

Samantha Timms I would recommend listening to some podcasts or reading a book such as “be the artist” but the most important thing is just to start!

Loved the Gold Finch, have you seen the movie?

No, I didn’t see the movie. “The Winter Garden” and the Nightingale” by Kristen Hannah are also excellent books.

@@debandrew2802 thank you, I'll have to check those out. The movie was good but the book was better

Deb Andrew ooooh The Goldfinch ❤️❤️❤️

Madison Niece thank you so much!! 🤗

Jenny Journals you’re welcome pretty girl!

She mentioned on a higher up response that it's more to do with the mats warping due to the amount of stickers she cuts on them in a month!

Whiskey Black Agreed. It’s so wasteful and a waste of money. Use a scrub sponge, like a dobie to scrub off all the old sticky from the mat (it’s easier than you think and takes just a few minutes - like scrubbing dead skin off), use this (link) and just swipe it across in lines until the whole thing has one even layer, then let it air dry (without clear cover) until the next day. It’s like a brand new mat AND the stick is even better than the original green mat. Zig MSB30M1P Memory System Two Way Glue Pen, Carded, Jumbo Tip www.amazon.com/dp/B006ODUQIS/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_O4nnEbVRJ1A63

@@madnessintomagic That won't help the mat warping unfortunately.

🤷🏼‍♀️ I’ve used the same mat, re-stickied three times, for over 18 months making hundreds of Leather earrings. I’ve never seen any warping.

aignaciodc she did reply to another comment that she also use the scrub sponge but her main problem is the warping thats why she have to replace it

bebe0222 it is from michaels! Here is the one I have: www.michaels.com/artists-loft-all-media-flat-surface-easel/10280355.html

Oogle at Luxury ooo what’s the coupon? I spend tons of money on Michaels and have no coupons

Shameem Zee sign up for the rewards program or go to the coupon tab on their website!! Michaels has 40-50% off coupons ALL THE TIME. & with the rewards program I think you can use multiple coupons per purchase :)

You can’t use Michaels coupons on cricut stuff

Essentially Haley I love it! Wonder where she got it from?

It looks like a drawing board/easel (seems to have lip on one edge). I have one just like it! They sell them at Hobby Lobby. (And probably Michaels) But for a really cheap bed workspace you can buy an ikea desktop without legs (like $10).

try 7 months now