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4 years ago
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Check out my store on Etsy, I'll try my best to list items here on FA but if you want to see everything I'm making you'll need to check out my store
https://www.etsy.com/shop/TicTocCreation
If you enjoy what I create and would like to help out a little so I can make bigger and more detailed things consider a Coffee.
Everything donated will go straight to supplies and new and better equipment.
https://www.ko-fi.com/tictoccreations I've been going to craft shows for 2 years now. I've tried making jewelry, boxes, cutting boards, business cards, every one of them had thousands of competitors everywhere.
Especially cutting boards, everyone and all of their relatives, from what I've been told, repeatedly, all make cutting boards.
Just for the hell of it last November I bought a mug press because I wanted something to set me apart from the other Cutting board makers so I started printing my business card on mugs, you buy a board, you get a mug, it helped get a couple sales, but not many.
On a whim I made a demo for a business I did an occasional craft show with, and that resulted in an order of 110 mugs https://www.furaffinity.net/view/40809193/
That got my creative juices flowing so I made one or two original designs and another order, 6 this time.
Since January I've made fewer and fewer cutting boards and I've expanded my pre-printed mug selection, however..........
Just like everything else, a big brand, Cricut, who only made vinyl cutters and other scrap booking stuff..... Released a mug press, with overpriced vinyl sheets for mugs as well as extremely overpriced mugs.
So 4 months into making mugs, all of a sudden everyone with a Cricut cutter became a mug maker, and they are all using the exact same premade cutout designs with a vinyl plotter.
I have already been accused of ripping off one of these makers and stealing their designs at a market that I've been going to for a year now and they just showed up that week,
they spent that entire market blocking one of my tables and yelling at people I was talking to.
If these High School kids were gonna be pissed off about a vendor that had been there a year longer then them then the gloves were off
So the next week I reserved one of the prime spots at that market and setup a new mobile printing office and took custom orders and made them right there at the market.
Average wait time was about 20-30 minutes which includes 10-15 minutes to let the mug cool off after heating up to 380 degrees Fahrenheit.
Biggest difference between my setup and theirs is I do sublimation printing, the real kind, not the severely over priced Cricut version, and unlike them.
I have the full capability of a photo printer, from simple graphics to full color photographs.
Towards the end of the market a few of the other vendors told me that they went and complained to the market coordinator because
how dare I make mugs at the market and demanded that they be the only ones allowed to do that.
He basically told them that if they didn't like it they could either deal with it or go to a different market because I was one of the original vendors at that market.
I'm not sure what the outcome of that is but the way they were glaring at me as they left I'm not 100% sure if I'll be seeing them at the market next Sunday
Especially cutting boards, everyone and all of their relatives, from what I've been told, repeatedly, all make cutting boards.
Just for the hell of it last November I bought a mug press because I wanted something to set me apart from the other Cutting board makers so I started printing my business card on mugs, you buy a board, you get a mug, it helped get a couple sales, but not many.
On a whim I made a demo for a business I did an occasional craft show with, and that resulted in an order of 110 mugs https://www.furaffinity.net/view/40809193/
That got my creative juices flowing so I made one or two original designs and another order, 6 this time.
Since January I've made fewer and fewer cutting boards and I've expanded my pre-printed mug selection, however..........
Just like everything else, a big brand, Cricut, who only made vinyl cutters and other scrap booking stuff..... Released a mug press, with overpriced vinyl sheets for mugs as well as extremely overpriced mugs.
So 4 months into making mugs, all of a sudden everyone with a Cricut cutter became a mug maker, and they are all using the exact same premade cutout designs with a vinyl plotter.
I have already been accused of ripping off one of these makers and stealing their designs at a market that I've been going to for a year now and they just showed up that week,
they spent that entire market blocking one of my tables and yelling at people I was talking to.
If these High School kids were gonna be pissed off about a vendor that had been there a year longer then them then the gloves were off
So the next week I reserved one of the prime spots at that market and setup a new mobile printing office and took custom orders and made them right there at the market.
Average wait time was about 20-30 minutes which includes 10-15 minutes to let the mug cool off after heating up to 380 degrees Fahrenheit.
Biggest difference between my setup and theirs is I do sublimation printing, the real kind, not the severely over priced Cricut version, and unlike them.
I have the full capability of a photo printer, from simple graphics to full color photographs.
Towards the end of the market a few of the other vendors told me that they went and complained to the market coordinator because
how dare I make mugs at the market and demanded that they be the only ones allowed to do that.
He basically told them that if they didn't like it they could either deal with it or go to a different market because I was one of the original vendors at that market.
I'm not sure what the outcome of that is but the way they were glaring at me as they left I'm not 100% sure if I'll be seeing them at the market next Sunday
Disney said it - 'People will pay for quality'.
you, my friend, are quality...
V.
I seem to have a knack for finding them, always have.