Great video Amber. Thank you so much for taking the time to give the results after the craft fair. You definitely have me interested in doing this next year. I made several of these and gave out to family. Each were a big hit. You are just amazing and I am thankful for you!
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I don’t think it looked crowded at all. It looked like you had a huge variety with tons of choices. It’s the kind of booth I gravitate to when I shop at craft shows.
How wonderful of you to take time to share not only your crafts and ideas with us but also the fair with a recap of best/worst sellers. That is so very generous and such a huge huge help for all of us who enjoy your videos and creativity. You inspire us and I appreciate you! Thanks and I look forward to every single video!
Desiree Jones I completely agree with you Desiree. Amber is so busy with her demanding job, I also appreciate her taking the time to do these videos for us. Thanks Amber I love this craft fair series. Already looking forward to next years! hehe :D Camille
Thank you for sharing the results of the craft fair. One thing I've found that helps sales is having your display go up vertically. Like drape fabric over boxes & have things at different levels. Things can get lost when they are all behind each other at one level. I've found that displays that go up tend to catch my eye more when I'm shopping. I spent the weekend scouting out more shows that I can possibly do next year! I'm glad you did so well on many of your items! You did have a lot of cute things that I would have purchased if I saw them!
Laura Tieri I agree..... and also amber you mentioned you should have had a sample out of your mini journals and I think so too....and maybe those would cater to the younger crowd....so maybe cutesy paper rather than grown up pretty paper?i showed my friend some of theses same items I am making and she was all over the recipe keepers and the Christmas planners...... paper products are sooo new in our area....
Amber thank you for sharing this recap, I'm so glad you made out well at your fair. This is a great recap and love that you share your craftiness and let us know your best and worst sellers. thanks again.
Amber I’m a long time subscriber of yours and I just wanted to tell you that your Craft Fair Series is my absolute favorite! I look forward to it every year! This years was especially great and I love this recap video so much! I’ve been doing craft fairs for 10 years and it’s so fun to see what other people create.
Thank you so much Amber I just loved this series! I made a couple of them for gifts this year. My favorite part is how you showed us how to use up our scraps in such wonderfully creative ways! You are an amazingly talented woman! I hope you have a great Christmas.
Thank you so much for given us a report on your craft fair. This was the first year that I offered the scrap paper embellished items. As I watched your videos, and made mine, I just fell totally In love with each project. My craft fair was this weekend and I'm telling you folks went CRAZY over them ! And I am hooked ! While at the craft fair, I was told of another craft fair in 2 weeks in a resort area in the mountains...she told me that the ones attending would love them, so I'm back with my supplies and will offer these beauties! Thank you again, for spending your time and please thank your sister as well...
I'm excited that you did well, I've always loved craft fairs and mainly because it's nice to see how creative people can be when creating an item to sell and I can't wait until your next fair to see what you come up with! Many blessings to you Amber.
Love this after craft fair video! It is nice to see how people react to different items. I’ve noticed in stores or at fairs that if someone is raving about an item either to the seller or to someone they are with, anyone who hears them will definitely want to see what the fuss is about. I’m glad you and your family did well at your fair! Thanks for sharing!
Great job! Congrats to all of you and thank you so very much for making a review and sharing your best & worst sellers! You're the BEST! Blessings & hugs from Louisiana!
Thank you Amber, for taking the time to make this video and breaking down each item. Its really encouraging to see that you have your ups and downs in selling. It makes me feel better when j have a show and certain items just don't move and others do for whatever rhyme or reason. Keep up the good work.
Amber and Brie... Thank you so much for your video! This was a great idea to share this info! I made my hot cocoa packs for the first time and they sold completely out by noon. I made 65 of them and could have made 3 times that many and sold them! I am so thankful for all of your creativity!
Thank you for posting this update! I'm getting ready to participate in my first craft fair and Am planing on incorporating some of these in my booth. This years' projects looked awesome, cant wait for your next series!
Thank you so much for doing this video! It truly helps out. Thank you for being so generous in sharing your ideas and tips with us. Love your channel, love that all your family crafts together at fairs and love your kind spirit!
Congrats on your show! I love your display. I recently did a craft show. I made the notepad stack sets from your series. They were my top seller! So, many thanks Amber. I had them displayed flat on my table and not in a basket. Maybe that was the reason you didn't sell many because we both know they're awesome! I also made Christmas tags and they didn't sell.
I discovered your channel with this craft fair series and I'm so happy I did. I don't do craft fairs but I really love all the ideas I got from watching your series. Thank you so much for the wrap-up! I'm so happy your Christmas journals were a best seller because that was my favourite item that you made and I want to make some myself. I look forward to seeing more from you! Congratulations on your craft fair success!
Thank you for sharing your best (and worst) sellers. That was very nice of you! I love watching your videos because you explain everything so well. My plan to do craft fairs didn't work out this year, but hopefully next year. Thanks again!
I LOVE the cereal box notebooks, bookmarks, etc!! What a fantastic idea! These were all great items, thank you for sharing, you are so talented and lovely to share your ideas!
Love hearing your results and glad you did well at your show. I did the nuggets for my show this year and sold all but 2. Love it, thanks for the idea.
Wow thank you for this series and for the recap. Very good information that most probably wouldn’t share, so we appreciate that! I sell at farmers markets all summer. I would say that since your things are so lovely, they deserve better than the plastic baskets you have them in. I have learned that presentation is everything. Signage is super important. You are a crafter...make some cute crafty signs! Your items are so pretty and look high-end. Make your display and signage reflect that.
We are so happy you did well on your craft fair. What an informative recap! Thanks for all you do to inspire us and the great tips and tricks you provide to help us. You are appreciated and are such a blessing to us:) - JoAnn
Hi Amber, I haven't really commented on your videos but have been watching them for several months. For some time we have had the intention of doing different things for craft fairs but your videos help get us going. I had planned on making a bunch of cards at different price points, some altered composition books and planners but after seeing yours and some other videos we went with the variety (not as many as yours but we did several of your items). We started crafting too late so we were doing a lot over the last two weeks. As we shopped at the Dollar Tree, some of what you made inspired me to make a couple different items with the breath drops and tissues. I am happy to share with you what we did but this is more to thank for the inspiration and all of your updates. Interesting that a couple of your best sellers were similar to ours although we did a different twist on the hot chocolate and use the pockets to put packets of Capucinno packets with a biscotti cookie. Thanks again for you all your inspiration!!! Also, your updates showing us what you do at the booth, and how you evaluate the sales is awesome!!
Thanks you so much for sharing your craft fair series and the update. I so very much enjoyed it. Look forward to next bear's. Thanks again for sharing.
I have truly enjoyed your craft fair series from start to finish! Thank you so much for sharing such wonderful ideas with us and giving me so much inspiration for my own craft fair. I really appreciate it. Though some things didn't sell as well as you would have liked, it sounds like you did very well at your craft fair. Congratulations! Can't wait for the next series!
Thank you so much for all of your videos. You have given me several ideas. I had two in the last two weekends and they were both so different in what they sold. I agree that display is most of what makes things sell. Tag sets sold great at one but not at all at the other even though they were displayed the same.
Thank you for sharing with us, Amber. I always love the items that you, and your sisters make and show us on here. I love all of the beautiful things that your mom makes too, but look and admire is all I can do, there. She is an awesome seamstress, and I can't darn a sock, lol. I am sure that I am not the only one who appreciates you letting us know what sells well, and what doesn't, also. I will be doing a Christmas, or holiday sale here in my little town over the next few weeks, and I'm working on making some of the items that you showed in your videos. I think that the gratitude journals will be a big seller here, along with the candy treat holders and the cocoa/apple cider pouches. Many Blessings to you and your family.
Dear Amber, Thanks for sharing - most people will try to give away as little as possible about how they did and more so for how specific items did! I have been selling several types of crafts but my long time standing thing is dollhouse miniatures. And one thing I have learned is that there are a lot of customers lacking inspiration of what to do with items they see. So it comes as no surprise to me that your bestselling items were either ready to go - like the chap stick or the twix items and of course the tey bag thingies - or very clearly denominated, such as the christmas notebooks. Clear instructions were invisibly written all over them. No extra work. No creativity needed, ready to use. Just a thought. Best of everything, Stef
Thank you for your series of videos and this great re-cap of how your sale went! I have a craft show on 11/25....I have made some of the similar items you had....I am glad to hear your Hershey Nugget packs sold well....I have a bunch of those!
Just one more comment to the many already posted. Such a wonderful and eye opening series. Your talents, the time you take for crafting and sharing and the obvious love and enthusiasm for your art are contagious.
Great recap Amber! So glad to hear you all did so well. Your booths looked so bright, easy to see the prices and you were all so welcoming. It was fun to see you gals again. Hugs, ❤️💕💖
Hi Amber, so glad you and Bri did well! I took your advice about packaging and wrapped all of my items separately in plastic envelopes and put the price right on the plastic so that ppl don’t wonder what the price is. Also I bought cute little christmas bags to give out with their purchase...instead of using grocery bags (which I have done for years)and it really shows you think about the shopper too (thanks for that idea too). I had a friend over to show them my stuff and have a “pre sale”just for them and they commented on how professional everything looked packaged up and they LOVED the little bags I put their stuff in! I agree with a few comments below, bring some of your items “up to eye level”. I did that last year after reading a lot about how to sell at craft fairs and it looked better and I am sure I sold more. One more thing I did was put on the signs what they item could be used for, such as “great teacher gift”or “stocking stuffers” and “secret santa gifts”...and I could actually hear ppl say..oh yeah, great idea and then sold! Thanks so much for this series, and telling us the price of your items. Although we pay much more for stuff in Canada I just priced mine accordingly. I usually figure out how much it cost me to make it (including packaging) and double it. My craft fair is on the 25th so I can’t wait to see if the ideas I took from you sell! Thanks again!!!
I have never sold my crafts at a craft fair but I so enjoyed your series and saved a bunch for me to make for happy mail for now. Eventually I would love to get a table at a craft fair so am glad you shared all your crafts with us. Congratulations on a successful show.
I agree with so many others: Your DIY Craft Fair Series are fabulous and this recap is excellent. I'm happy to hear your craft fair was such a success, and thank you for all you do for your You Tube family.
Glad to hear that your show was a success. I have my 1st of 3 shows this next weekend and hope I am as successful as I was last year. Thank you for all your inspiration and sharing with us your successes.
Im so happy that your craft fair goodies were a success! Congrats! I can't do any craft fairs this year, maybe next year. However, I got a ton of great gift ideas I will try. Thank you for taking the time to share these with us!❤
What a great run thru of the craft fair series items! You & your sister's tables looked awesome. I so enjoyed your craft fair series & made a few items from it. TFS!
Thank you for sharing! You make the most gorgeous crafts ever and you are so awesome and creative. I enjoy watching your videos and getting so many great ideas from you! Keep your creativity flowing!!
Thank you so very much for sharing your craft fair recap. I know that when I did craft shows there were items that people just looked over because they really didn't know what they were. Some would take the time to ask, but others would just look and keep walking.
i always like looking at all your new and old ideas. they are all great. i love your mini journals and your tags and the air heads. probably people didnt know too much of what it was. Love it all! Awesome job!
Thank you so much for this video. I've been watching your craft fair series and looking for exactly this information. I really appreciate your honesty and new ideas for the slower sellers. 👍
Amber thank you so much for the recap. I have been following your series and I have made a few of the items that you made. Thanks to your recap. I have went and made some adjustments. You make it look so easy and I'm sitting here all over the place hoping my items look nice and sell okay. Thank you for sharing your ideas, tutorials and other craft fair insights.
Thank you so much for sharing these results! I am always encouraged to sell my items in this manner, but question whether or not it would be the best idea for me. It is great to know what appeals to customers, and I truly thank you for posting this!
You and your family are so creative, your table looked lovely and bright! I really appreciate your going through what sold and what didn’t. I did craft sales for years and I used to find that what sold like crazy at one show was a real bummer at the next show or in a different area, you just can’t predict how a show will turn out!
Thank you for doing the re-cap! So many people do craft fair vids, but no one gets back on and talks about it! It's nice to hear the good, bad and ugly, lol. It's very true about where things sell well, etc. also, areas and people are different. tfs! Laura
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this video. After watching how you make all your cute things it is super interesting to see how they do at your craft fair.
Thank you so much for the recap! I used so many of your ideas for my first craft show. You have great ideas for using up paper! Thank you again and please keep giving us good ideas!
Thanks for the update!! I love your series!! It makes me want to do paper crafts but I sew and don’t have anymore room on my 8’ table!!! Darn!! So many ideas and not enough space!!!!
Thank YOU so much for all of the ideas and suggestions. I had a table at an event at my church this past Saturday. Since the shoppers only had about an hour with us, I only made 10-15 of each item. I sold out of all the things you predicted would be best sellers! It was the most fun and profitable event I've ever done and I am ever grateful that you and Bri are so generous with sharing your time and talents! Hugs.
Amber, Thank you so much for the recap! Great feed back for all of us crafters! I watch all of your posts and appreciate all of your time and effort you put into them. Thank you for sharing your creativity and all of your secrets! I too am a crafter and paper lover however, the clientele at the craft shows that I sell at don't have much interest in paper crafts. I do keep trying though. I did better with the chocolate goodies. You give out some great tips so I thought I would give you my best tip...I did find that if you elevate things rather than displays on a flat table, to bring them eye level, helps tremendously! In one post I noticed that your mother has some type of screen, (it looked like chicken wire) to hang the aprons, try packaging some items in bags with toppers or ribbons and hang them on a similar vertical display. Or, easy one, Try putting some empty boxes on your table, tall ones in the back row and shorter ones in front of them, creating a "stair step" effect. Then put your tablecloth over them. This will elevate your items and make a more pleasant display. I have also put 2 small wood shelves (like those white cubes that you can purchase at Michaels or Joann's or even some wooden wine crates) placed on each end of the table, put a long board across top of the 2 boxes, creating a 2 level display.....keep it simple, yet effective. I actually pack things in my wine crates and then use the crate in the display. Google craft show booth set up and have a gander at what others are doing. One more thing, ... if you raised your prices just 25 cents on each item, it would still not be overpriced, it would still be reasonably priced and you would make a better profit. Thank you again and God bless you and your family. 😉
Wow, thank you for making this video. I'm an at-home mom interested in entering the craft fare field. While I don't work with paper crafts I do appreciate your candor in what worked for you and what didn't. Wish me luck!
I loved watching your whole craft series this year! Thank you for sharing your after video with us, I was hoping you would! 😀 Glad to hear you did so well after all the work you put in on making everything! I think your air heads would sell at your next fair as stocking stuffers if you remove the middle paper from each one so they can see what the candy is, like you did with the twix packages. Also you can get a medium sized stocking and have a few different candy packages peeking out of it to help give your customers the idea to use them as stuffers. Good luck on your next craft fair! TFS! 😊
Thanks for making a video on what sold well and what didn't! Your insights are very helpful to this "newbie" to craft fairs! I am a paper crafter and have so many ideas and want to make some items that will be worth the time. The nugget packages and hot chocolate packets are already on my agenda!
Amber....thanks for sharing! I just got done with 2 craft shows over the last two weekends......my best sellers in both were my Hershey bar snowmen that I found on Pinterest. I make the nuggets also but make them into little snowmen and those were my best sellers last year. Like you, I have been selling a long time and it is a learning process as you say. Thank you for all your ideas and have a Happy Holiday!
Thank you for the informative video. It really helps to show what does well and what does not. I know there is no guarantee from event to event, but it still is helpful to people like me who set up to know what to keep in mind. Thank you again.
Omg!! I love ur craft fair series. always informative and fantastic creative ideas. makes me wish I could be a paper crafter, however I make jewelry. I love the cereal box cover notebooks. they probably would sell better at a back to school fair , like in July or August. another suggestion , I agree with gift tags, beautiful but stamp on it the ' to' and 'from. much love from long island, N.Y.
Thanks for sharing all of your wonderful ideas and doing a recap. I would get up every morning over the last month and check youtube first thing to see if you had a new video! Can you tell us a little more about the craft fair in general - where it was, types of vendors, # of people, etc. Thanks!!
Hi Amber, Your hands were busy and I love your craft fair series let me just say there was nothing that I wouldn't have brought everything look so nice and I love the cereal box note pads what a fantastic idea 💡 you tell your sister that those were a hit in my book👍🏼👏🏼🙌🏼😊
First off, I LOVE everything you do! That being said I know I’m really late to the party considering it’s practically Easter 2019. This is my 3rd video and I’m already looking up some of the things on Amazon (it’s storming so I can’t go to the Dollar Tree and I have a craft room that could restock most Michael’s). I am in awe! I so wish you lived next door to me! I’m not sure where you are but dang your stuff is affordable! I’m in the process of launching an Etsy store soon to be followed by its own website and the product line is growing. I love Anna Griffin products so you can imagine that all of the things I Create are expensive just to create. However we’re including other products and other designers and I love what you do. You seem to know your market very well and I envy that, it is the one thing I will miss with an online business. If I may offer a few suggestions, and please bare in mind I haven’t watched your other videos so you may have already addressed these areas... Your sister’s bows: okay here in the South most girls are “bow heads” we like bows. Would it be possible to hang a long wide ribbon or a large braid or yarn and clip the bows on it. It will show many diff colors/designs and likely get Mom’s and daughter’s attention. I’ve learned that most people who do crafts or like crafts are generally very kind and caring people because to craft is to make something with love. I think your Gratitude journals did so well because your audience knew what they were. Perhaps with your other journals have examples as you mentioned, perhaps one as a travel, one as a sort of personal “calendar and keep up with my to dos”, also think about creating a prayer journal or a wish journal (for those who don’t want to be tied down to a specific religion). I know one artist who will take prayer requests/wishes and write them on a canvas before she begins painting and then they are contained under the art sealing your prayer for all eternity. Your gift tags: I personally love gift tags! You’re going to laugh but I think perhaps you had too many in the package, sometimes creating the idea of scarcity is a good thing. I would only put about 6 in each package, charge perhaps $1.50, keep them in the same color family. Did the all season ones say happy birthday or congratulations or anything like that? The paper is beautiful and you and I will always be drawn to it but I fear a customer may worry about matching it. Also if it didn’t have a ribbon on the end to attach it just add one. Also get a small table top Christmas tree and hang the tags from it as if they are ornaments. You can also wrap and empty box, use one of the tags and your sister’s bows as the bow on the package. Loved the cereal box notebooks and when you had them standing up I knew what they were. When I saw them in the basket I thought they were a cookbook using that product, remember when Campbell’s soup put out a cookbook and Hershey? One thing someone else told me also was to offer something for $3 each or 2 for $5 or if you notice one item isn’t selling like you expected when you’re checking someone out at your table or your sisters tell the customer that with every purchase over “x” dollars today we’re offering 20% off (of the item that isn’t selling). I hope I haven’t overstepped my boundaries. Please know that every bit of what I’m saying is in pure love. You just have me so excited with your enthusiasm and ideas that I want to run out and do a craft fair right now!
Great video Amber. Thank you so much for taking the time to give the results after the craft fair. You definitely have me interested in doing this next year. I made several of these and gave out to family. Each were a big hit. You are just amazing and I am thankful for you!
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I don’t think it looked crowded at all. It looked like you had a huge variety with tons of choices. It’s the kind of booth I gravitate to when I shop at craft shows.
How wonderful of you to take time to share not only your crafts and ideas with us but also the fair with a recap of best/worst sellers. That is so very generous and such a huge huge help for all of us who enjoy your videos and creativity. You inspire us and I appreciate you! Thanks and I look forward to every single video!
Desiree Jones I completely agree with you Desiree. Amber is so busy with her demanding job, I also appreciate her taking the time to do these videos for us. Thanks Amber I love this craft fair series. Already looking forward to next years! hehe :D Camille
Thank you for sharing the results of the craft fair. One thing I've found that helps sales is having your display go up vertically. Like drape fabric over boxes & have things at different levels. Things can get lost when they are all behind each other at one level. I've found that displays that go up tend to catch my eye more when I'm shopping. I spent the weekend scouting out more shows that I can possibly do next year! I'm glad you did so well on many of your items! You did have a lot of cute things that I would have purchased if I saw them!
Laura Tieri I agree..... and also amber you mentioned you should have had a sample out of your mini journals and I think so too....and maybe those would cater to the younger crowd....so maybe cutesy paper rather than grown up pretty paper?i showed my friend some of theses same items I am making and she was all over the recipe keepers and the Christmas planners...... paper products are sooo new in our area....
Amber thank you for sharing this recap, I'm so glad you made out well at your fair. This is a great recap and love that you share your craftiness and let us know your best and worst sellers. thanks again.
Amber I’m a long time subscriber of yours and I just wanted to tell you that your Craft Fair Series is my absolute favorite! I look forward to it every year! This years was especially great and I love this recap video so much! I’ve been doing craft fairs for 10 years and it’s so fun to see what other people create.
Thank you so much Amber I just loved this series! I made a couple of them for gifts this year. My favorite part is how you showed us how to use up our scraps in such wonderfully creative ways! You are an amazingly talented woman! I hope you have a great Christmas.
Amber, I'm so happy that you had great success with your craft fair. Thank you so much for sharing your creative journey with all of us. Hugs
Thank you so much for given us a report on your craft fair. This was the first year that I offered the scrap paper embellished items. As I watched your videos, and made mine, I just fell totally In love with each project. My craft fair was this weekend and I'm telling you folks went CRAZY over them ! And I am hooked ! While at the craft fair, I was told of another craft fair in 2 weeks in a resort area in the mountains...she told me that the ones attending would love them, so I'm back with my supplies and will offer these beauties! Thank you again, for spending your time and please thank your sister as well...
Thank you for giving us the results of ur craft fair. Now I will definitely give craft fairs a try with some of ur ideas.
I'm excited that you did well, I've always loved craft fairs and mainly because it's nice to see how creative people can be when creating an item to sell and I can't wait until your next fair to see what you come up with! Many blessings to you Amber.
Love this after craft fair video! It is nice to see how people react to different items. I’ve noticed in stores or at fairs that if someone is raving about an item either to the seller or to someone they are with, anyone who hears them will definitely want to see what the fuss is about. I’m glad you and your family did well at your fair! Thanks for sharing!
Great job! Congrats to all of you and thank you so very much for making a review and sharing your best & worst sellers! You're the BEST! Blessings & hugs from Louisiana!
Thank you for going over your items for us and letting us know what sold well.
Thank you Amber, for taking the time to make this video and breaking down each item. Its really encouraging to see that you have your ups and downs in selling. It makes me feel better when j have a show and certain items just don't move and others do for whatever rhyme or reason. Keep up the good work.
Amber and Brie... Thank you so much for your video! This was a great idea to share this info! I made my hot cocoa packs for the first time and they sold completely out by noon. I made 65 of them and could have made 3 times that many and sold them! I am so thankful for all of your creativity!
Thank you for posting this update! I'm getting ready to participate in my first craft fair and Am planing on incorporating some of these in my booth. This years' projects looked awesome, cant wait for your next series!
I love how you shared this video with us! I am thinking of starting to sell my crafts and very excited! Keep inspiring Amber!
Thanks a bunch, Amber, for sharing all that you do. You and your sister’s packaging is top notch. Every item looked terrific!
You did amazing items this year. I congratulate you & and your family in all your efforts & sharing this with all of us. Great job Amber!
Thank you for the recap....I love your adorable ideas. Its great to know what sells and what doesn't....GOOD JOB!!
Thank you so much for doing this video! It truly helps out. Thank you for being so generous in sharing your ideas and tips with us. Love your channel, love that all your family crafts together at fairs and love your kind spirit!
Thanks for sharing the hits and misses of your craft fair. Glad things seem to have gone well.
Congrats on your show! I love your display. I recently did a craft show. I made the notepad stack sets from your series. They were my top seller! So, many thanks Amber. I had them displayed flat on my table and not in a basket. Maybe that was the reason you didn't sell many because we both know they're awesome! I also made Christmas tags and they didn't sell.
I discovered your channel with this craft fair series and I'm so happy I did. I don't do craft fairs but I really love all the ideas I got from watching your series. Thank you so much for the wrap-up! I'm so happy your Christmas journals were a best seller because that was my favourite item that you made and I want to make some myself. I look forward to seeing more from you! Congratulations on your craft fair success!
Thank you for sharing your best (and worst) sellers. That was very nice of you! I love watching your videos because you explain everything so well. My plan to do craft fairs didn't work out this year, but hopefully next year. Thanks again!
I LOVE the cereal box notebooks, bookmarks, etc!! What a fantastic idea! These were all great items, thank you for sharing, you are so talented and lovely to share your ideas!
Love hearing your results and glad you did well at your show. I did the nuggets for my show this year and sold all but 2. Love it, thanks for the idea.
Wow thank you for this series and for the recap. Very good information that most probably wouldn’t share, so we appreciate that!
I sell at farmers markets all summer. I would say that since your things are so lovely, they deserve better than the plastic baskets you have them in. I have learned that presentation is everything. Signage is super important. You are a crafter...make some cute crafty signs! Your items are so pretty and look high-end. Make your display and signage reflect that.
I absolutely love your craft fair series, I followed along the entirety of your craft fair journey. Thank you for sharing!
We are so happy you did well on your craft fair. What an informative recap! Thanks for all you do to inspire us and the great tips and tricks you provide to help us. You are appreciated and are such a blessing to us:) - JoAnn
Hi Amber, I haven't really commented on your videos but have been watching them for several months. For some time we have had the intention of doing different things for craft fairs but your videos help get us going. I had planned on making a bunch of cards at different price points, some altered composition books and planners but after seeing yours and some other videos we went with the variety (not as many as yours but we did several of your items). We started crafting too late so we were doing a lot over the last two weeks. As we shopped at the Dollar Tree, some of what you made inspired me to make a couple different items with the breath drops and tissues. I am happy to share with you what we did but this is more to thank for the inspiration and all of your updates. Interesting that a couple of your best sellers were similar to ours although we did a different twist on the hot chocolate and use the pockets to put packets of Capucinno packets with a biscotti cookie. Thanks again for you all your inspiration!!! Also, your updates showing us what you do at the booth, and how you evaluate the sales is awesome!!
What a wonderful series. Thank you so much for the follow up as well.
Thanks you so much for sharing your craft fair series and the update. I so very much enjoyed it. Look forward to next bear's.
Thanks again for sharing.
Thank you so much for doing the craft fair series and the wrap up on how you did at your craft fair. Hugs!
Loved your craft show series "again" this year. I actually used a couple of your ideas that sold really well at my first craft show this year. TFS!
I have truly enjoyed your craft fair series from start to finish! Thank you so much for sharing such wonderful ideas with us and giving me so much inspiration for my own craft fair. I really appreciate it. Though some things didn't sell as well as you would have liked, it sounds like you did very well at your craft fair. Congratulations! Can't wait for the next series!
I love when you do updates on your craft fairs. Love your toturals!!
Thank you so much for all of your videos. You have given me several ideas. I had two in the last two weekends and they were both so different in what they sold. I agree that display is most of what makes things sell. Tag sets sold great at one but not at all at the other even though they were displayed the same.
Thank you for sharing with us, Amber. I always love the items that you, and your sisters make and show us on here. I love all of the beautiful things that your mom makes too, but look and admire is all I can do, there. She is an awesome seamstress, and I can't darn a sock, lol. I am sure that I am not the only one who appreciates you letting us know what sells well, and what doesn't, also. I will be doing a Christmas, or holiday sale here in my little town over the next few weeks, and I'm working on making some of the items that you showed in your videos. I think that the gratitude journals will be a big seller here, along with the candy treat holders and the cocoa/apple cider pouches. Many Blessings to you and your family.
Dear Amber,
Thanks for sharing - most people will try to give away as little as possible about how they did and more so for how specific items did! I have been selling several types of crafts but my long time standing thing is dollhouse miniatures. And one thing I have learned is that there are a lot of customers lacking inspiration of what to do with items they see. So it comes as no surprise to me that your bestselling items were either ready to go - like the chap stick or the twix items and of course the tey bag thingies - or very clearly denominated, such as the christmas notebooks. Clear instructions were invisibly written all over them. No extra work. No creativity needed, ready to use.
Just a thought.
Best of everything, Stef
Thanks for the update. I don’t do craft fairs, but make your items for my friends. You have such great ideas.
Thank you for sharing the results, Amber! And thank you for sharing all your ideas! Crafty hugs! 💕🤗
Thank you for your series of videos and this great re-cap of how your sale went! I have a craft show on 11/25....I have made some of the similar items you had....I am glad to hear your Hershey Nugget packs sold well....I have a bunch of those!
Just one more comment to the many already posted. Such a wonderful and eye opening series. Your talents, the time you take for crafting and sharing and the obvious love and enthusiasm for your art are contagious.
Great recap Amber! So glad to hear you all did so well. Your booths looked so bright, easy to see the prices and you were all so welcoming. It was fun to see you gals again. Hugs, ❤️💕💖
Hi Amber, so glad you and Bri did well! I took your advice about packaging and wrapped all of my items separately in plastic envelopes and put the price right on the plastic so that ppl don’t wonder what the price is. Also I bought cute little christmas bags to give out with their purchase...instead of using grocery bags (which I have done for years)and it really shows you think about the shopper too (thanks for that idea too).
I had a friend over to show them my stuff and have a “pre sale”just for them and they commented on how professional everything looked packaged up and they LOVED the little bags I put their stuff in! I agree with a few comments below, bring some of your items “up to eye level”. I did that last year after reading a lot about how to sell at craft fairs and it looked better and I am sure I sold more. One more thing I did was put on the signs what they item could be used for, such as “great teacher gift”or “stocking stuffers” and “secret santa gifts”...and I could actually hear ppl say..oh yeah, great idea and then sold!
Thanks so much for this series, and telling us the price of your items. Although we pay much more for stuff in Canada I just priced mine accordingly. I usually figure out how much it cost me to make it (including packaging) and double it. My craft fair is on the 25th so I can’t wait to see if the ideas I took from you sell! Thanks again!!!
pikeandike Great ideas! Thanks for sharing. Hope you do well. Would love to know the results.
I have never sold my crafts at a craft fair but I so enjoyed your series and saved a bunch for me to make for happy mail for now. Eventually I would love to get a table at a craft fair so am glad you shared all your crafts with us.
Congratulations on a successful show.
I agree with so many others: Your DIY Craft Fair Series are fabulous and this recap is excellent. I'm happy to hear your craft fair was such a success, and thank you for all you do for your You Tube family.
Glad to hear that your show was a success. I have my 1st of 3 shows this next weekend and hope I am as successful as I was last year. Thank you for all your inspiration and sharing with us your successes.
I loved watching all of you ideas...they were all great. Thank you for sharing the best and worst. It is so hard to know what makes people tick.
So happy that you all did well at your craft fair. Tks for sharing
Im so happy that your craft fair goodies were a success! Congrats! I can't do any craft fairs this year, maybe next year. However, I got a ton of great gift ideas I will try. Thank you for taking the time to share these with us!❤
What a great run thru of the craft fair series items! You & your sister's tables looked awesome. I so enjoyed your craft fair series & made a few items from it. TFS!
Thank you for sharing! You make the most gorgeous crafts ever and you are so awesome and creative. I enjoy watching your videos and getting so many great ideas from you! Keep your creativity flowing!!
Thank you for your recap! This information is very valuable. Glad the craft fair went well for you and your family.
Thank you so very much for sharing your craft fair recap. I know that when I did craft shows there were items that people just looked over because they really didn't know what they were. Some would take the time to ask, but others would just look and keep walking.
Thank you for sharing all your knowledge.. I truly helps the beginners.. You do
such a great job. Your one of my favorites to watch
i always like looking at all your new and old ideas. they are all great. i love your mini journals and your tags and the air heads. probably people didnt know too much of what it was. Love it all! Awesome job!
Thank you so much for this video. I've been watching your craft fair series and looking for exactly this information. I really appreciate your honesty and new ideas for the slower sellers. 👍
all they are so beautiful. I am always excited to watch you craft fair collection. Thanks for sharing..
Amber thank you so much for the recap. I have been following your series and I have made a few of the items that you made. Thanks to your recap. I have went and made some adjustments. You make it look so easy and I'm sitting here all over the place hoping my items look nice and sell okay. Thank you for sharing your ideas, tutorials and other craft fair insights.
Thank you so much for sharing these results! I am always encouraged to sell my items in this manner, but question whether or not it would be the best idea for me. It is great to know what appeals to customers, and I truly thank you for posting this!
Congratulations! Thanks for sharing your progress with the sale!!
You and your family are so creative, your table looked lovely and bright! I really appreciate your going through what sold and what didn’t. I did craft sales for years and I used to find that what sold like crazy at one show was a real bummer at the next show or in a different area, you just can’t predict how a show will turn out!
Thank you so much for sharing your craft fair results. I enjoyed your video. You gave wonderful recommendations to anyone who wants to do craft fairs.
Thank you for sharing your results. You are so upfront and giving. Hugs, Lisa
Thank you for doing the re-cap! So many people do craft fair vids, but no one gets back on and talks about it! It's nice to hear the good, bad and ugly, lol. It's very true about where things sell well, etc. also, areas and people are different. tfs! Laura
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this video. After watching how you make all your cute things it is super interesting to see how they do at your craft fair.
Amber, thanks for sharing this video and the entire series. I truly enjoyed it!
Thank you so much for the recap! I used so many of your ideas for my first craft show. You have great ideas for using up paper! Thank you again and please keep giving us good ideas!
Thanks for the update!! I love your series!! It makes me want to do paper crafts but I sew and don’t have anymore room on my 8’ table!!! Darn!! So many ideas and not enough space!!!!
Thank YOU so much for all of the ideas and suggestions. I had a table at an event at my church this past Saturday. Since the shoppers only had about an hour with us, I only made 10-15 of each item. I sold out of all the things you predicted would be best sellers! It was the most fun and profitable event I've ever done and I am ever grateful that you and Bri are so generous with sharing your time and talents! Hugs.
Chellie Beaudot That's so great! I'm so glad it was a success! xo Amber
Loved seeing all the crafts in one video. Thanks for the recap on the fair, Amber!
Thank you Amber for all your tips and being so honest
Great video to show everything and advice on display. Very generous of you. Thank you 🌹
Amber,
Thank you so much for the recap! Great feed back for all of us crafters!
I watch all of your posts and appreciate all of your time and effort you put into them. Thank you for sharing your creativity and all of your secrets!
I too am a crafter and paper lover however, the clientele at the craft shows that I sell at don't have much interest in paper crafts. I do keep trying though. I did better with the chocolate goodies.
You give out some great tips so I thought I would give you my best tip...I did find that if you elevate things rather than displays on a flat table, to bring them eye level, helps tremendously! In one post I noticed that your mother has some type of screen, (it looked like chicken wire) to hang the aprons, try packaging some items in bags with toppers or ribbons and hang them on a similar vertical display. Or, easy one, Try putting some empty boxes on your table, tall ones in the back row and shorter ones in front of them, creating a "stair step" effect. Then put your tablecloth over them. This will elevate your items and make a more pleasant display. I have also put 2 small wood shelves (like those white cubes that you can purchase at Michaels or Joann's or even some wooden wine crates) placed on each end of the table, put a long board across top of the 2 boxes, creating a 2 level display.....keep it simple, yet effective. I actually pack things in my wine crates and then use the crate in the display. Google craft show booth set up and have a gander at what others are doing.
One more thing, ... if you raised your prices just 25 cents on each item, it would still not be overpriced, it would still be reasonably priced and you would make a better profit. Thank you again and God bless you and your family. 😉
Wow, thank you for making this video. I'm an at-home mom interested in entering the craft fare field. While I don't work with paper crafts I do appreciate your candor in what worked for you and what didn't. Wish me luck!
So happy to hear you did very well at your craft fair...TFS all the items were packaged so beautifully. sending hugs and blessings..happy crafting :)
Thanks so much for the recap. I’m happy to know where to spend my time and energy.
I loved watching your whole craft series this year! Thank you for sharing your after video with us, I was hoping you would! 😀 Glad to hear you did so well after all the work you put in on making everything! I think your air heads would sell at your next fair as stocking stuffers if you remove the middle paper from each one so they can see what the candy is, like you did with the twix packages. Also you can get a medium sized stocking and have a few different candy packages peeking out of it to help give your customers the idea to use them as stuffers. Good luck on your next craft fair! TFS! 😊
This series was amazing. I hope you plan in doing more series like this throughout the year coming.
Thanks for making a video on what sold well and what didn't! Your insights are very helpful to this "newbie" to craft fairs! I am a paper crafter and have so many ideas and want to make some items that will be worth the time. The nugget packages and hot chocolate packets are already on my agenda!
Thank you for sharing the outcome of your craft fair and giving us tips. xoxoElaine
I loved your video! I have been thinking about doing a local craft fair and will save your video to help to choose what to take.
I would love those cereal box note books! My boys would go crazy!
Amber....thanks for sharing! I just got done with 2 craft shows over the last two weekends......my best sellers in both were my Hershey bar snowmen that I found on Pinterest. I make the nuggets also but make them into little snowmen and those were my best sellers last year. Like you, I have been selling a long time and it is a learning process as you say. Thank you for all your ideas and have a Happy Holiday!
Thank you for the informative video. It really helps to show what does well and what does not. I know there is no guarantee from event to event, but it still is helpful to people like me who set up to know what to keep in mind. Thank you again.
Omg!! I love ur craft fair series. always informative and fantastic creative ideas. makes me wish I could be a paper crafter, however I make jewelry. I love the cereal box cover notebooks. they probably would sell better at a back to school fair , like in July or August. another suggestion , I agree with gift tags, beautiful but stamp on it the ' to' and 'from. much love from long island, N.Y.
Thank you so much for sharing this information, it's so helpful. You're a blessing!
I'm a new subscriber Amber and I adore the craft fair tutorials. Thank you for all the work you put into them. And sharing how each one sold
Wow great job! Way to go! Sounds like you did very well...love that it's a family affair...thats the best...making memories with the family!
Thanks for sharing all of your wonderful ideas and doing a recap. I would get up every morning over the last month and check youtube first thing to see if you had a new video! Can you tell us a little more about the craft fair in general - where it was, types of vendors, # of people, etc. Thanks!!
Hi Amber, Your hands were busy and I love your craft fair series let me just say there was nothing that I wouldn't have brought everything look so nice and I love the cereal box note pads what a fantastic idea 💡 you tell your sister that those were a hit in my book👍🏼👏🏼🙌🏼😊
Really enjoyed your recap, very informative, THANKS, you are APPRECIATED!!!
Thanks for sharing - it's great to see a review after the event!
That was so nice of you to give out this information. I love your items.
Enjoyed all your craft fair ideas. You gave me some awesome ideas. Thanks for much for sharing. Happy I found your channel
First off, I LOVE everything you do! That being said I know I’m really late to the party considering it’s practically Easter 2019. This is my 3rd video and I’m already looking up some of the things on Amazon (it’s storming so I can’t go to the Dollar Tree and I have a craft room that could restock most Michael’s). I am in awe! I so wish you lived next door to me!
I’m not sure where you are but dang your stuff is affordable! I’m in the process of launching an Etsy store soon to be followed by its own website and the product line is growing. I love Anna Griffin products so you can imagine that all of the things I Create are expensive just to create. However we’re including other products and other designers and I love what you do.
You seem to know your market very well and I envy that, it is the one thing I will miss with an online business.
If I may offer a few suggestions, and please bare in mind I haven’t watched your other videos so you may have already addressed these areas...
Your sister’s bows: okay here in the South most girls are “bow heads” we like bows. Would it be possible to hang a long wide ribbon or a large braid or yarn and clip the bows on it. It will show many diff colors/designs and likely get Mom’s and daughter’s attention.
I’ve learned that most people who do crafts or like crafts are generally very kind and caring people because to craft is to make something with love. I think your Gratitude journals did so well because your audience knew what they were. Perhaps with your other journals have examples as you mentioned, perhaps one as a travel, one as a sort of personal “calendar and keep up with my to dos”, also think about creating a prayer journal or a wish journal (for those who don’t want to be tied down to a specific religion). I know one artist who will take prayer requests/wishes and write them on a canvas before she begins painting and then they are contained under the art sealing your prayer for all eternity.
Your gift tags: I personally love gift tags! You’re going to laugh but I think perhaps you had too many in the package, sometimes creating the idea of scarcity is a good thing. I would only put about 6 in each package, charge perhaps $1.50, keep them in the same color family. Did the all season ones say happy birthday or congratulations or anything like that? The paper is beautiful and you and I will always be drawn to it but I fear a customer may worry about matching it. Also if it didn’t have a ribbon on the end to attach it just add one.
Also get a small table top Christmas tree and hang the tags from it as if they are ornaments.
You can also wrap and empty box, use one of the tags and your sister’s bows as the bow on the package.
Loved the cereal box notebooks and when you had them standing up I knew what they were. When I saw them in the basket I thought they were a cookbook using that product, remember when Campbell’s soup put out a cookbook and Hershey?
One thing someone else told me also was to offer something for $3 each or 2 for $5 or if you notice one item isn’t selling like you expected when you’re checking someone out at your table or your sisters tell the customer that with every purchase over “x” dollars today we’re offering 20% off (of the item that isn’t selling).
I hope I haven’t overstepped my boundaries. Please know that every bit of what I’m saying is in pure love. You just have me so excited with your enthusiasm and ideas that I want to run out and do a craft fair right now!
You are completely fabulous! Thanks for your channel full of ideas, inspiration and motivation. Love it all!
Love this video!! I keep whatching over and over. Thank you!!