Speedy Stamps Custom Made Stamp Review

When I was asked if I'd like to receive and review a custom made stamp from SpeedyStamps I was like HECK YEAH.

As a start up there are certain things you need, to 'look the part' but also to instil confidence in your customers.These things can cost a lot of money. Which you just haven't got. So being invited to test a service from a company who specialise in quality rubber stamps for business or personal use and are affordable and easy to deal with was an opportunity I was happy to take.

The process was extremely easy and convenient. I designed my new logo on editing software, emailed it over in as high resolution as possible, and two days later got a lovely new rubber stamp in the mail. I find the rubber stamps give you a far richer image than th clear ones, don't you?.

My stamp is well constructed,with a very comfortable wooden handle and feels reassuringly robust. You know I'm a low tec girl and I feel wonderfully Victorian stamping my little logo onto tags, business cards and envelopes.

Thank you Speedystamps.co,uk for excellent service and a lovely product which does us all proud.

Here's how Speedy Stamps describe their service from their website:

"These traditional rubber stamps are ergonomic in design and can be made to almost any size you need. Your custom rubber die design is included in the price. Please remember that a separate ink pad is required for these stamps, and if you place your order before 12 noon we’ll dispatch it the same working day"

The website tells you exactly how much you will pay up front and using that, I surmise that my stamp would have cost £15 and qualified for free Royal Mail delivery. So many of us crafters want to crate our own logos and business graphics so it is lovely to find a company that will just make up your own design and post it out with no hassle or awful forms to fill in with technical jargon that leaves you baffled. I can't be the only one that could cry when other companies insist you upload an image with a zillion criteria to fill.
I am really pleased with the stamps quality and speed of production, and recommend them thoroughly

*Full Disclosure*

This product was supplied free of charge to me, and with the understanding I would write a blog post reviewing it. I was happy to do it as the product offered fulfilled a need I had and I am a PR friendly blogger. I am offered products occasionally for the same purpose, but have declined as I didn't think they were a good fit for this blog, and if the product/company aren't what I would personally recommend, I will never publicise them. Free stuff is no good if its shoddy or takes you down roads you'd rather not travel

Getting There, Slowly

What a mad week last week was. Blogged about, and then followed by the Rock Star of paper cutting on Instagram. For all the damn hard work I'd been putting into Facebook networking, it was Instagram and Twitter, the 2 least labour intensive sites I am on that tipped me nearer towards that elusive non friend sale. Not that I mind selling to friends, but they do rather not expect to have to pay. This is the life I have chosen, after living the life given to me all these years and I will not give up trying to make a go of it. I've been cutting paper like a maniac, setting myself little goals. At the moment I am trying to list one new product a day on my Etsy store so I show up better on their search engine. Today I am having a crack at some label style cuts I sketched last night. Its a good job I love it.

I sell on Etsy

Yes I do
www.etsy.com/shop/MissJsCuriosities

Chorlton Arts Festival

Our tutor arranged a stall for 5 of us to share on what promised to be a very good exercise in customer profiling and marketing last Saturday in Chorlton. I was glad of the chance to be getting rid of some older stock and judging the reaction to my new direction of papercutting. We set up quickly, soon finding that we were quite unprepared for the low lighting and the professionalism of our fellow traders. Not wishing us to look like country bumpkins I asked our tutor to run me home for some battery fairy lights and whatever else I could scoop up in a hurry.

Doors opened and 2 girls made their first sales, I was to wait a little longer for my sale but it came in the afternoon. Far more fun was going round spying on the competition. Handmade doesnt mean hand thrown any more and we were all impressed with the level of finish and quality of the goods on offer. I was particularly taken with a ceramicist making tiny bottles and keys all with an archaeological aesthetic. It was also great to put faces to names I've seen on Twitter, Artist on a Bike being the first 'craftworld-famous' person spotted. I love her use of maps and bikes. I spent a small sum on another bike related item, namely a 3d town bike that I can't wait to put together.

All in all we all sold something and I learnt a lot.

Namely, finish your product, especially for face to face sales.

Don't ask the customer to frame your work, do it yourself and charge accordingly.

Personalize a much as possible.

Think of kits as a very good impulse buy idea.

Be prepared to work as if your boss had given you a target. Nothing sells itself.

A very good day.

Where You Can Find Me

I doodle. Incessantly. I must be personally responsible for the deaths of thousands of trees. I apologise.
I have a shop and I chose Etsy as the pricing seemed fair and the layout suits my mood.
I have a facebook and I am getting used to it.
I am a member of the best papercutting group on facebook Papercutting Help and Advice
My email is clairemccartanjones@hotmail.com if you want to get in touch for commissions or advice or suggestions.
I have a Border Collie called Bo and 2 big strapping sons and am trying to grow my own veg with somewhat sporadic results.
It's a lot.