Penang's Cheap Banner & Flyer Printing

For our Pesta Gawai and Kaawatan event, we had to print flyer and backdrop for the indoor stage. We made our own design to minimize the cost and next find the most affordable printing shop around the Seberang Perai area of Penang.

I found seberal printing shop at Bukit Mertajam and after requesting for quotation, I found that the pricing offered by Percetakan Nasional Malaysia Berhad (PNMB) at Bandar Perda is the most affordable. In fact, the pricing is among the cheapest in the market.

The person-in-change of the printing department is the friendliest salesperson ever! 

Between exchanging emails and through PNMB's website I found that the minimum flyer to order is 500 pieces but Mr. Shahrul of the printing department allowed us to print 200 pieces since we only need that much. How kind of him! 

And since designing for the 10 feet × 10 feet indoor banner we need a higher resolution image, I had to asked Mr. Shahrul to design it for me. And guess what, he didn't charge me for designing! Adui, where else can you find a bargain like this! For the info, designing for printing marketing tools such as banner or brochures is included in the pricing. My last experience of printing a backdrop, one certain shop charged me RM20.00.

Designing process which includes 4,5 amendments and still Mr. Shahrul is patient as ever! 

The finish product. I got to say I am fully satisfied with the color of the image printed.

For the flyer, since it's going to be circulated to the public, it has to be attractive in term of color and designs. I regret that I didn't take photo of the finish product.

The term preforation only come to my knowledge when printing this lucky draw ticket. Perforation is row of small holes punched in a sheet of paper so that a part can be torn easily.

Small details like this costs more. One shop quote me over RM200.00 just for the perforation (not including the printing!) since they'll be using machines to make the fine cut. So we decided to just print it and manually cut it later on.  

For the reader's information, I am a freelance designer. For those who are interested in designing flyer for all occassion please leave comment below or email me at feliciawilliambinsol@yahoo.com.

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Little Penang Street Market - Sell Your Craft Work Here!

After organizing my first craft booth (see my previous post), I was so thrilled by the idea of showcasing my work in a craft fair I said to myself, I want to do this again! I started to search for the next craft fair available in Penang. And I found out there is a monthly event called Little Penang Stree Market held every last sunday of the month at Armenian Street.

Handmade Earrings

Hand painted T-shirt

Paper Craft - Origami

Little Penang Street Market is a monthly event established to showcase Penang's traditional and contemporary crafts and culture. So other than providing space for interested individuals who want to sell their craft work, they have also other activities such as cultural performances and book reading.

So the fee for a 3x6 feet table is only RM90.00 for the first time and RM70.00 for the next application but till date I haven't had the chance to apply as the vendor.

For those who crochet or knit and interested to sell in a craft fair why not join me as the vendor. Doing a solo craft show can be tiring and sharing a booth can be exciting. 

So do drop comments below. Have a nice day!

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Craft Fair for The First Timers

My first craft fair was at the Mid-Autumn Festival, Penang on 7th September 2014. The festival was an annual thing where they had this whole section of the carnival just for the art & craft vendors. I remember how nervous I was cause I didn't know what to expect. But I know it was a chance to meet potential customers and when i received the offer letter I immediately think YES I'm going to do this!

So the organizer, Creativision D.C. Sdn. Bhd., provided the booth with few options in terms of sizes and rental fees. I chose a 5 feet x 10 feet booth with a fee of RM150.00.

It went well and I was so happy but after the carnival ended, I thought there were few things that I thought I should have done in preparation for the craft fair.

Well preparation is the key. You need to prepare on the craft you are going to showcase and also the craft fair itself. So here I would like to give tips to new crafters out there on preparing and organizing your first craft booth.

Have Enough Crafts
The craft I was selling were crochet handmade items and most of it were baby booties and hat for babies from newborn to 12 months old (apart from a few children and adult's hats). Now after a few hours the children and adult's hat were sold out because most family comes with their children and since people would not bring babies to the carnival some would only buy them only if they think it fits their little ones but with hesitation (whether it will actually fits them).

Although I did made a little profit but I thought I could make more if only I had the right products (crochet sun hat maybe because the weather is quite hot). Sure people would buy cute little baby booties for gifts but most of the customers who drop buy would ask me whether I had more of those crochet hats.    

So I learnt my lesson there. Do a research what kind of carnival or fair and make sure you have enough and the right kind of crafts. My neighbor in the craft fair, who I got along pretty well was a Malay lady in her 50's was selling a flower arrangement made from 'kain songket'. These flower arrangement she made are for dowry typical in a Malay wedding. Since most of the people are Chinese (Mid-Autumn Festival are celebrated by chinese), she didn't made any sales apart from handing out brochures. 

Additional Supplies

Supplies for organizing your booth is important. List out the things you will be needing a week ahead and make sure you have all the things on the day of the craft fair.

• Seller's permit
• Business Card / Company Sticker and flyers
• Display (I used recycle and cheap display. Find more about it in my next post.)
• Little Baskets for small crochet items (crochet hairpin, etc.)
• Inventory sheet and sales book (pricing for all of the items)
• Tablecloths, coverings and boxes to add height and interest

• Stands and fixtures of displaying your artwork.
• Cash box containing change in notes and coins.
• Calculator
• Signs for the stall

• Camera to take photos of your stall for your website, as well as of the fair in progress.

• Clearly label all your items with their price.
• I take custom orders too so I brought a folder with photos of all of my past crochet handmade.
• Packaging materials or merchandise bags (I put flyers in each of the bag)
• Paper, pen and scissor
• Cellotape
• Rubbish Bag
• Containers 

Personal item 
• Mirror, comb, small towel, make up item (well, you should look presentable in front of your customers right?)
• Baby wipes or tissue
• Sunglasses
• Umbrella
• Hand fan 
• Change of clothes 
• Snack and water

Handling booth 
Smile and when customers drop by to your booth stand up and entertain each of their questions. Relax and enjoy yourself! Craft fairs can be great fun and a wonderful way to meet and interact with buyers and collectors.

Done properly, craft fairs are ideal opportunities to get your artwork in front of a different audience, sell directly to customers, and get feedback on your art.


After the carnival ended, I went online and did some research on any art and craft fair that is available in Penang. And I found out that there is a monthly street event called Little Penang Street Market fair and they promote showcasing of Penang's traditional and contemporary crafts. I explain more about this craft fair in my next post. 

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Art & Craft Booth

Oh my! I am so occupied with everything right now.  But I promised myself I would work on this blog.

The mid-autumn festival was on 7th September 2014. I was one of the vendor in the art & craft section. Nervous and excited but I think I did well that day and I learned a few things.

Setting up my booth. The festival starts at 2.00pm, started to set up booth by 1.00pm.

Done setting up.

Some of my customer from Germany. There was also from Italy and the Middle East.

Another couple from Germany....I asked every one of them.

More customers... Some of them said they never seen this before. Crochet has just made a comeback here in Malaysia. An elder ladies even asked me if I held class on teaching crochet.

Julian had face painting at one of the booth in the art & craft section too.

I'm using cheap cupcake display for my baby booties.

Spray-painted egg tray as recycled display.

This is pretty much what I crochet within 1 1/2 months.

My loyal assistant, couldn't do without them since a friend who offered to help back out at the latest minute.

The theme of the festival was retro. And they had mooncake competition - mid-autumn festival is also known as mooncake festival. (Image from the event planner, Creativision)

Goodbye Mid-Autumn...

Thanks for reading. Good day.

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Art & Craft Booth for Mid-Autumn Festival 2014 in Penang.

I’ve been invited by CreatiVision D.C. Sdn. Bhd. to join them as a vendor for the Mid-Autumn Festival here in Penang. I am so excited and thrilled by the offer cause this is going to be my first time handling an art & craft booth. According to them, they came across my page, ‘Made by Fayl’, and thought I would joined them in the art & craft section for crochet handmade. I never thought to sell my handmade in a craft fair but I am so glad that they offered me this opportunity. I am grateful for the Lord for this exciting opportunity! I can’t wait! Will be posting more soon on this topic. For now, keeping my hand busy creating more handmade!

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