For those who create labels for the kitchen

[Barbara]

I just sold a label for grape jelly to someone who transferred it to a gift tag. Never once did it occur to me that, of course, people giving jams, jellies, and other preserves as gifts might want to hang a tag on the jar instead of gluing a label to it. If it never dawned on you either, we should be transferring the designs to tags.

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[PenguinPower]

For sure - I've been working hard expanding my line of food labels. While the stickers do, I think, sell more often, I do make sure to include gift tags too. I'm hoping maybe some day I'll pick up some farmer's market customers.. 

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[JulieV]

Wow, these are so cute and so practical. Thanks for sharing. 🙂

[CrazyMermaid]

People use templates for many reasons that we never envision. A lot of my wedding and bridal shower signs, banners and stickers are used by crafters for their products and craft fair displays. If they didn't leave reviews and message me, I would never know this. I have a graduation sticker that I sell thousands of in smallish orders to one person who buys them in mystifying groups once a year. The order is huge. She buys the small orders because she uses them for her etsy products and needs a variety of customization. This went on for 5 years before she finally left a review and a picture. So I have learned never to limit customers, make all text editable and let them move elements around. I also never assume that I know what they are up to. 

[almdrs]

So cute. Nice idea.

[Barbara]

I create a lot of my own kitchen concoctions for which I no longer use sticker labels. They become more and more difficult to remove over time, forcing the use of lighter fluid to remove the things. I watch a lot of videos done by people who store and/or preserve and have noticed many use tape, usually blue painter's tape. (My own choice is yellow FrogTape.) Food storage is trending big time.

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[PenguinPower]

I figure the folks who buy any of these - even the stickers, are giving the items or gifts or selling them.... For just sticking in my own freezer, sharpie marker has always been good enough 😛 (clearly Martha Stewart, I am not)

[Barbara]

Yup, Sharpies for the freezer; tape + Sharpie for glass and plastic. My neighbor and I pass goodies back and forth, often not bothering to label the stuff at all. Let's hope our customers aren't quite so pragmatic.

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[Jadendreamer13]

I use rubbing alcohol to remove labels from canning jars.

[Barbara]

@Jadendreamer13 

It was a lady who worked in a variety store who, years ago, told me how they removed old price stickers with lighter fluid, which they kept on hand for the job. I tried it once, and ever since, I've kept lighter fluid in the house. A product called Goo Gone works fairly well too and doesn't stink quite so much. Maybe labels should come with those instructions.

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[NettaT]

This makes me smile. I had jam labels as favor tags and never thought of putting them onto labels, until someone transferred my design to a label. I added these to my shop and they outsell the tags. Go figure ! You always need to think strategically of where to put your designs !!

[KeegansCreation]

I had somebody buy a set of address labels that I had put a picture of a vintage deer on. Doesn't sound like it fits this thread, right? But when I went to the Product Insights tab to see the most recent search term(s) used, the term was "venison". I did not have a venison as a tag so I guess he also used "deer".

[Barbara]

The results are in! If we do tags, maybe we should also do labels, and vice versa.

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