Best color for cards? and peg hole or no peg hole?

[Shawn808]

Hi Everyone
OK I have my jewelry set and have outsourced a few things that take too much time like my Fimo and having them carded.

I contacted a sales rep agency and am now almost ready to get going.

Question is I have to decide on what color to make the cards for my pendants and earrings. My jewelry is 925 Sterling Silver and my fimo pendants are multi colored.

I went to the large stores like MACYs etc and most of their cards are a tan-ish color. (like this forum)

Many people say my jewelry designs are nice but I also dont want them to get "lost in the crowd". Esp if I land accounts like Sears or Macys. Is "tan" the best color or is there another good color for Sterling Silver that will set the jewelry apart and still make it look great?

Also I am on a small budget and have to decide if I want to offer a lip card with a peg hole or without one. This is purely cosmetic but do peg holes on the lip cards make the jewelry look cheaper? How many stores might want peg cards rather then lip ones?

So what is a good "safe" color for jewelry cards for Sterling Silver and do peg holes on lip cards make it look cheaper or uglier?

Sorry to many questions I am new to all of this.
Thanks
Shawn

[Polly]

From my experience (I worked 10-15 years in a .925 & handcrafts store, plus a fine arts gallery, and spent 20 summers at a jewelry booth at state fairs), I think that lip cards are more versatile.

Macy*s (which I still think of as The Bon Marche') uses lip cards on their spinning counter displays.  
The stores I worked in put the less-expensive earrings on spinning counter displays, and the rest got straight-pinned onto cloth-covered foam board, in glass-front display cases.
The lip cards worked fine for the pins (and perfect for the rotating displays racks, of course).
The peg-hole cards usually hung a little funny if we used the peg hole, so we normally pinned above or below it, and it sometimes ripped through.

Peg-hole cards only seem to work well if you are stacking a bunch of the same type on a peg.  Most retail places that I've noticed, don't stack jewelry behind other jewelry.
So I would steer clear of peg-hole cards.

[Polly]

Not sure about the color!  
Black is always pretty with silver.  White shows up little tarnish bits the worst.
Tan is nice and basic ... but not my personal favorite with sterling.

[Val]

Black is very striking with silver jewelry, it also lends a high quality, upscale look to your product.