12 | Encouraging Creativity and Adding Income With Printables for Preschoolers

As a former preschool teacher turned homeschool mom, Carmen Vermillion realized her kids didn’t know about a lot of holidays and there was so much more she could do with adding seasonal play and activities into their homeschool day. She decided to create printable packs that incorporated fun learning, colorful designs and seasonal activities into a monthly subscription service for kids ages 3-7. Happy Day Printables is a passion project (that also provides some nice additional income) that Carmen is excited to share with her kids and enjoys having them help her and try all the materials before she releases them. Her kids are learning entrepreneurship along with their regular school subjects and Carmen gets to fulfill a passion for design and fun projects at the same time.

SHOW NOTES

• Getting started with a printable subscription business

• How her school age kids participate in the business

• The very minimal costs in a printables business

• How working with subscription box owners inspired her to create her own

• How you can promote your items on Etsy without having to pay some of the Etsy fees

• Choosing to run businesses that aren’t a burden to her family financially; she chose businesses with minimal overhead

• Inexpensive ways to take product photos

• You don’t need to take the expensive route in order to turn a profit

• How she manages two businesses while homeschooling

• One of the best things for women working from home that happened as a result of the pandemic

• How Carmen started getting followers and publicity for her business

• Resources, programs and tools Carmen uses to create and sell her designs

  • Creative Market - design elements

  • Adobe Illustrator - graphic design tool

  • Canva -free-to-use online graphic design tool

  • Adobe Stock - royalty-free stock photos

  • Deposit Photos - royalty-free stock photos and videos

  • Wordpress - website

  • Siteground - website hosting

  • Etsy - online marketplace where you can create a “shop” and sell your items

  • Lightroom app - photo editing

• Happy Day Printables (website)

• Happy Day Printables (instagram)

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