Wooden Photo Albums - Point of Purchase Sales

With craft show season fully upon us, I've been coming up with more ideas for point of purchase items. Online I make most of my sales on personalized items. People know they will have to wait for their item to arrive, so why not wait a couple extra days and have it personalized! But at shows, people want to take their item with them. They want it now and they don't want to wait on shipping.

Knowing this, I've starting adding new items to my show inventory and started adding them to my shop as well. I blogged about my new recipe book designs last month and these have done well. I've sold a few online and I hope to sell more at my shows as well.

My most recent line of  point of purchase items are my Wooden Photo Albums. I've added three new designs so far and, as always, have ideas for so many more! My Woodland themed books have done very well, so I thought a photo album would be a good next step. I've sold these mainly as baby albums, but I think they'd also be good for camping photos or just fun photos.

I'm really excited about the Grandma's Brag Book. It's an item I've wanted to make for a while, but hadn't come up with all the pieces yet. I love that the wood covers make it ideal for grandma's with grandsons and daughters. No pink or blue to choose from...it's perfect for everyone :) I'm thinking I need a Grandpa's brag book next.

I also added a Holiday Memories book as well. Christmas is one season where we always take a lot of photos, so this book would be great! I might need one for each year!

 Some other ideas I'm throwing around are Disney photo albums with autograph pages as well. And wedding photo albums that can be bought as a point of purchase item or personalized as well. I love that the ideas are endless with these!

Turning Lemons into Lemonade

Or in my case...turning a ruined photo album into something even better and more beautiful :)

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A while back, I had a brain drain while trying to engrave one of my leather photo albums. I didn't focus the laser properly and ruined not one, but two albums before I figured out what the problem was *headdesk*! I thought I might try and decorate these with some flowers and scrapbook embellishments and still be able to use them or give them as gifts. But I came up with an even better idea the other day :)

I made this beautiful Wood Photo Album! I love the bigger size and all the possibilities it holds! I cut the inside photo pages from the "ruined" albums and bound them in the wood album! Genius!

I love this design, but don't want to ruin anymore albums to be able to make more! So I went in search of more pages like these and was able to find some double photo pages like these from one of my suppliers! So I'll be able to make many more of these :)

And of course, I'll be able to personalize them any way my customers like!

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Have you made any "lemonade" lately?