How to sell paper flowers
How to price your products/paper flowers!
okay hi guys I had said that I was gonna
do a video on explaining on how I try to
calculate how much I like I'm spending
where I get the best deals when actually
when cuz you guys obviously know that I
go to Hobby Lobby and Michaels and there
are some stores that I do there's some
stuff I'm sorry that I do purchase
online not everything just and it's M
there's some stuff that online it's like
a little bit cheaper if you buy by bulk
but like these these are the ones I've
made these are my cutouts they're ready
to be as simple to my flower this is
that this would be like a medium sized
show you how that would look like once
it's assembled and the reason I am
showing you this is it's important for
you guys to know because
I don't wanna I don't want to do this
all backwards I want to explain it so
that way you guys kind of understand
like if you guys are a little bit
confused on how to price your item you
know and these paper flowers that are
handmade are expensive I think well
they're not expensive they're just the
reason why most people price them the
way they price them
besides you know trying to get you know
make a profit out of it it's because
they're handmade
anything that's handmade especially if
you give me you know the quality like
look at this you know like perfect you
know it's not her good it's not like I
mean of course they're not gonna be
perfect but I have came up with the way
I calculated this let me get a packet
here okay this is one packet that I buy
at Michaels when they're on sale I
always get him only when they are on
sale I do not purchase them when they
are not on sale because that's the only
way I can literally get a profit I like
make a good profit out of my paper
flowers this is the other one I made
which would be these petals
and okay I in total of the paper that I
use with this just a Michaels paper the
what is it recollections brand this is a
regulations brand cardstock this is the
rose and this is the white and midnight
the gold is it's a poster board post or
cardstock not bored cardstock and that's
a dollar at Michael's not this this is
the glitter this is the on the back it's
like gray and then it's a matte gold
that I use and then I put the glittered
gold glitter for the center but okay so
I used let me see I wrote my notes I'm
gonna read for my notes okay I use the
eight-and-a-half by 11 inch which is
this paper and for the small petals
which are these these are the small
petals it took up six sheets and to make
em I'm gonna make one two three
for four cents four sets with the three
different types of petal sizes I did
four sets so in total I used 24 sheets
you know just in the white in the rose
pink and there's like like I've told you
guys we're gonna calculate 50 feet let
me get my calculator so I can kind of
show you how I do it
okay let me hmm okay here's a calculator
okay okay here we go
so remember I am going by this number 50
sheets and we are going to calculate
that information okay so this packet
right here I got it when it was on sell
for $2 right and sometimes they go and
so for two sometimes our own sell for
250 so it just I buy them either way
when they're on two I buy them when
they're two dollars or two dollars and
fifty cents sales that's when I buy them
and I buy a lot I don't buy just to one
or two i buy a lot mm-hmm okay so we
we're gonna put two because it costs
this one did cost me two dollars
both of these cost me $2 each - and then
we're gonna divide by 50 and then we're
gonna put the equal sign and that is
that's how I got my calculations and
it's just like kind of an estimate
because sometimes I'll get like 0.042 to
2 or something like that just an example
and it's like I'm like I'm just kind of
rounded up like I'll just rounded you
know or I'll just leave it like at 4 or
something but okay so this the 0.04
cents
is how much I calculated each she is
like each paper so then from there hmm
we're gonna times 24 because I used 24
sheets just on the white and the pink
and the rose pink not including the
glittered cardstock
gold glitter card stock or the matte
gold and then we're gonna press equal
and that equal to 0.96 cents for just to
24 sheets and I made 6 may 6 medium
sized paper flowers and these are the
ones I made there's that one I still
have to assemble the other ones this is
the p1 so and then so I made six of
using these papers and now I'm gonna
talk to you guys about the excuse me
okay this one talked about this okay
Mel this is I got it at Hobby Lobby it
was ripped it did have a tear this is
part of the tear that it had you see it
had a tear like about an inch yeah about
an inch tear and I asked it was this is
never answer the big oh I know what size
it is do not know what size it is I
should've looked before I cut it well
this is the big one that they have and
they don't have that much variety in
this size I'll try to I will have that
size for this in the description box
below but on the these are never on sale
at Hobby Lobby that I know of because
every time I go they're never on sale so
I do use my 40% coupon off that you know
they they have available and after I use
a 40 percent coupon like it was ripped
they gave me a 10 percent discount and I
asked I'm like okay this is ripped and
it's the only one there I mean you have
to ask for if you can get a discount I
mean there's no look I'm not embarrassed
to ask I know there's people that are
but if you're really trying to get
something going like okay I want to make
something you know to sell or stuff you
really gotta try to get the cheapest
price or the best price you can
and so they gave me I use my 40% coupon
plus the 10% that they gave me because
it was damaged and that was the only one
there so I gotta I was gonna I was
actually looking for another one but
that was the only one and I needed it
and I'm still been using it as you can
see it's like a nice to have a barrel
pieces left and this how much was a
fifty four cents it cost me fifty four
cents and I think it was fifty four
cents
yeah so it was so cheap and I'm like and
I'm still using you see there's this is
another piece to it this is to I'll
probably end up throwing this one away
so and out of and I just cut nine of
these because this is what I mean this
is a three inch no 3.5 inch
three-and-a-half inches that I cut for
the center and from my scraps and I just
oh and this one is this this is a mat
that I was telling you about guys this
is a dollar and Michael's it's always a
dollar at Michael's and I believe that
you cannot use a coupon I have not tried
but you know you never know you can try
but since they're a dollar I'm like hey
every time it something's a doll I'm
like okay that's a good bargain for me I
mean I'm good with that
like I'm fine paying a dollar and then
these I did use scraps that I have to
come flip complete this so I'm gonna say
I used one and a half
although so it was $2.00 it was I
probably used Missy Missy I don't know a
dollar I don't know I can't think maybe
a dollar 50 to make how many three three
of these a dollar fifty to make three of
these and even though the base I'm sorry
I can't think right now but that's what
I wanted to go over on how I calculate
and then you these are the prices on the
paper flowers really it really does come
down what you mean it really does come
down to the work that you put in it that
work that I put in it in making this
because it does take time and I didn't
even add because I guess to make this to
make the six medium pink and white ones
it was 96 cents but I'm not counting the
electricity I used the glue sticks I
used which I use this a pack of 15 I
think and they're like - almost three
dollars I'm just gonna say three dollars
at Walmart I always get him at Walmart
but you know I've this this is what
works for me every time I go to Walmart
which is not like often often but it's
almost I must say I don't know twice or
once a week I'm just say I'm not sure
maybe it's less sometimes it's sometimes
it's lie sometimes it's more it varies
but every time I go to Walmart I always
get me a pack either one or two packs
depending on what I'm buying
and I have a lot of Peck cities and I've
noticed that that's a way it's like it
saves me time and I think I feel like it
does save me money on where I can use
the money like invest more in the paper
that I need to make my flowers but
that's just me
yeah that's just me that's how I do I
got every time I go I'm like okay I'm
gonna get a pack I usually get one or
two when I only go in to buy something I
don't know and I go to the Super Center
not the because they don't have a met
though
Neighborhood Market but when I'm only
gonna get one or two items that's when
I'll get three or four packs so it just
depends what I'm gonna buy and that's
why that's when I get these and okay
guys I tracked a little bit I'm sorry
okay
so take into consideration that I am not
so I'm just calculating that the 96
cents that it did cost that's just a
paper not including this not including
the glue stick not including the
electricity not including my work so you
might think Oh 96 and sets cheap but if
you if we if we really come down to
calculating everything from the
electricity I use from my time you know
I guess my labor you can say assembling
them blowing the hot gluing them us you
know the glue sticks
I'm just us I'm just doing it like
estimate and it's probably gonna be more
than 96 cents so the 96 cents was just
the paper I just want to clarify that
the 96 cents was just the paper that's
the cost of the paper just to make the
six
paper flowers the Rose and the white I
don't want to confusion I hope this
video is not so confusing
I even got myself confused I'm done okay
so I guess that was it if you guys have
any questions feel free to leave me a
message or email me I will leave my
email on here and you can send me a
personal email if you don't want you
know you don't want to post your comment
on there be public Oh on the prices on
these they do range there's different
prices it just depends roses
tend to be more expensive because they
tend to have you what I do I use more
paper than these these are just six pet
6 more petals another six medium petals
and then another six large petals but
the rose takes up more way more paper so
those will be more a little bit more
expensive and remember guys that the
prices when you're purchasing paper
flowers most likely if they're kind of
expensive besides the work that is put
into it like the time it's mostly
because the expensiveness is because of
the labor that was put into it because
it's not like oh I'm gonna go in really
quick and do it you see how almost it
looks really nice even like real clean
glued and that way like right here I
usually put my a sticker let me go ahead
and get it and add it on
because I will forget so I did just
wanted to explain them really quick I'm
trying to make this little as short as I
can but I talking too much I swear oh
yeah you see and it's not including the
labels that I put on here
you see I just put the labels I think
I'm gonna yeah I'll just put it right
there you see that's what I thought
makes it look more professional I'm more
to you and it's like a clean like a nice
back I don't know if you've had other
people if you guys bought other what do
you call it paper flowers come people
when you purchase them they're all like
messy from the back I mean I know that's
not gonna be shown but I don't know to
me when there's like a nice clean cut
that means to me it's like okay this was
done by a professional that's just me
that's the way I think but not all of us
think the same oh the gold let me show
you guys the gold any purpose
isn't this just gorgeous those are the
colors these are for a quinceanera which
for this Saturday but I am gonna be
delivering these probably Thursday if
not Friday the latest Friday I should
have these done way before then but okay
guys thank you guys for watching
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the video but okay let me know where to
put these flowers I don't want to get
them okay um I will make another video
if you do want me to make I think I
don't have a video on how to make this
nice and clean yeah I think I do have a
video on how I made this one but okay
again thank you for watching and I will
be uploading another video I don't know
what about but I'm gonna be able to read
another video bye guys until next time
