Remember when I talked about all the great free products I ordered from VistaPrint? Well, I’m not going to talk about that again. Because they seem to be adverse to giving their premium products away for free anymore. Now the deal is free shipping when you spend more than $30, but it’s basically a wash because they always overcharged for shipping.
Anyway, what I am going to talk about are the self-adhesive “return address” labels. These have uses that extend far beyond being stuck in the upper left-hand corner of an envelope!
Being the clever devil I am, I co-opted them to use for quickly labelling small bottles of essential oil and custom blends.
I downloaded a template right from the VistaPrint website and added my own background. The only text I included is my URL – this leaves plenty of space for writing in names of oils. These labels have worked fabulously for my needs. I also use them to label sample bags, seal envelopes with a quick message, or even stamp with my return address so I can use them as their originally intended purpose! They are so fabulous, in fact, that I just ordered another set of 140 of them – for a whopping $2!
Now these simple, blank labels are all well and good for personal use, but when I’m selling a blend to a stranger, there needs to be a bit more information on the label. Things like volume, warnings, my business name. I’ve been printing my labels at home, but that gets tedious. (My label creation technique is this whole long, convoluted process that is probably worthy of its own blog post. Or not. Maybe it’s just worthy of some lengthy therapy sessions.)
So I came up with these babies:
Again, only $2! I tacked them onto an order of brochures and business cards so the shipping would be free.
All the necessary information is there, plus space for me to neatly print in the name of blend.
See them in action:
Now available in my Etsy shop!
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