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Post by lilacgal on Aug 3, 2022 1:20:46 GMT
I’m sure there are more than a few of us who do both. Today is my daughter’s 14th birthday, so I made her a card. This tiny 5 1/2” x 4 1/4” card took me almost four full hours start to finish. It only takes me an hour to fully finish a 12x12” layout. This was a shaker card but a simple rectangular one.
Am I the only one where the smaller project takes ages longer than the larger project? All that time and I don’t even get to keep it!
My sweet husband said I should sell my cards. I’d have to charge $80 for one to make it worth my while. 🤣
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Post by lisae on Aug 3, 2022 1:50:26 GMT
I'm sure your daughter loved her card. You could put the card on a layout for her along with a photo of her on her birthday.
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Post by lisacharlotte on Aug 3, 2022 1:53:13 GMT
I’m generally a slow scrapper and slow card maker. However, I usually make duplicate cards for swaps and once the first one is done it goes much faster. I get caught up in design and figuring out final dimensions for each piece that goes into the card.
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Post by gizzy on Aug 3, 2022 2:16:37 GMT
That's about how long it takes me to make cards, too. For whatever reason, I find them harder than making pages. I bet your DD will love her card.
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Post by kate on Aug 3, 2022 2:18:07 GMT
I am a cardmaker who occasionally makes a scrapbook page. I am slower than molasses in January! It's a very good thing my income doesn't rely on my crafting - we'd be living on the street! LOL
For cards, though, I *can* make them up quickly in a pinch with some tried-and-true designs. I just *prefer* to make truly custom designs for each person/occasion.
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Post by PaperAngel on Aug 3, 2022 2:39:02 GMT
Happy birthday to your daughter! Hope she enjoyed her special day (& your custom shaker card)...
Perhaps because I'm left-brained, indecisive, & s-l-o-w, I exclusively scrap 12x12 layouts (& include various sizes & configurations of page protectors to hold extra photos & memorabilia in my albums); no time or interest in cardmaking, junk journaling, mini albums, projects (e.g. OLW, WITL, DD), etc.
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Post by kmage on Aug 3, 2022 2:47:18 GMT
Am I the only one where the smaller project takes ages longer than the larger project? I've done some Citrus Twist albums for vacations and they take forever. Way longer than a regular 12x12 for me, and don't get me started on the one time I tried project life. For anyone that doesn't think that is "real" scrapbooking, they need to think again. That took so long, and it was so much more intensive than I thought it would be. It is not all just popping cards in slots people! It's a ton of decision making, editing, mini-crafting for those cards, etc... |
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Post by Elsabelle on Aug 3, 2022 3:16:24 GMT
Card making is really frustrating for me. Whenever I say anything about making someone a card both of my DDs shout out Nooooo! Apparently every time I make a card I complain the whole time and say I'll never make another card. They take forever and I'm never happy with them. Totally different experience than scrapbooking.
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Post by Embri on Aug 3, 2022 8:37:35 GMT
Scale matters.
I'd say that bigger sized elements are actually easier to work with when it comes to cards vs. layouts. Anytime I need to break out the tweezers to finangle a teeny, tiny, itty bitty piece of paper into *juuust* the right spot, before the glue dries significantly slows down the whole creation process.
I love paper piecing but it's painstaking, especially when working on small things. Recently did a set of three carousel horses where the largest element, the horse itself, is ~5cm (that's two inches for the American folks). Most of the bits are "sneeze and it's gone" sized. And there's lots of tack, flowers, pennants, ribbons, etc. Each horse is easily 2-4 hours of work. By comparison I can put together a much bigger critter in 1/10th the time because it's not nearly as hard to get things positioned.
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Post by Chinagirl828 on Aug 3, 2022 8:44:02 GMT
I don't really consider myself a card maker although I can make one when I need to. I tend to stick to really simple designs, mostly basic paper layering so I can make a card in under an hour, slightly faster than a layout. I love the look of fancier cards but I think it's just outside my patience level for something I'm giving away.
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Post by lilacgal on Aug 3, 2022 12:26:16 GMT
It’s not just me! Thank goodness. I never considered how fiddly I have to be compared to a 12x12. That’s totally true! Plus there’s the coloring of the animals and die cutting repeatedly. I feel so much better now. She did love her card. She knows how much time it takes because she will often make cards too. lisae, I never thought about putting it on a layout. That’s a great idea! |
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Post by marg on Aug 3, 2022 12:43:45 GMT
I do both, as well, and cards definitely take longer than I'd like. I started making an intricate die cut inlay card and had to put it aside because there were so many little bits to cut in different colours and then to inlay. It's still sitting on my desk staring at me, but it takes up so much time that I'm doing other things now. I'm more into 12x12 scrapbooking right now so I'll come back to the card later. She did love her card. She knows how much time it takes because she will often make cards too. lisae, I never thought about putting it on a layout. That’s a great idea! I've always made cards for my nieces and nephews, and a few years ago I found out that my sister-in-law made a special album just for the cards I made for my 2 nieces. Every year since birth she put them in a scrapbook. I had no idea, she only told me this after about ten years of making them cards. I was really touched, and it makes the time I spend on their cards that much more rewarding knowing that they are cherished like that. My other niece once said "oooh, I can't wait to see what you've made!" when I handed her her birthday card one year. She was in her early twenties and I had been making her birthday cards since she was a little girl. It was so nice to hear her say that! I really make a point of making her cards extra-special now, too. I have no expectations when it comes to sending birthday cards I make - they can throw them in the trash if they want, it's out of my hands once I pass it one - but it is so gratifying when people really appreciate them. I’m sure there are more than a few of us who do both. Today is my daughter’s 14th birthday, so I made her a card. This tiny 5 1/2” x 4 1/4” card took me almost four full hours start to finish. It only takes me an hour to fully finish a 12x12” layout. This was a shaker card but a simple rectangular one. I would for sure put this on a layout. It's also a great opportunity to scrap about the love that goes into the cards you make her, too. |
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Aug 3, 2022 15:51:48 GMT
Card making is really frustrating for me. Whenever I say anything about making someone a card both of my DDs shout out Nooooo! Apparently every time I make a card I complain the whole time and say I'll never make another card. They take forever and I'm never happy with them. Totally different experience than scrapbooking. this is me, too- although it's odd, because I started out card-making (my sister took me to a Stampin' Up! party). Then a few years later, I went to a CM party and switched to 12x12 scrapbooking. Ever since that time, I am totally design-challenged when it comes to cards. Something about the size, or shape? I dunno... but I can't make cards I'm happy with unless I have some sort of a sketch or inspiration card as a starting point. And if it's a card I'm making a batch of (Christmas, etc.) it will take me HOURS to make that first one. I used to make cards for everyone's birthdays, Easter, Halloween, etc. Now I typically don't even make our Christmas cards.) |
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Post by grammadee on Aug 3, 2022 16:38:00 GMT
I find cards pretty time consuming too.
I think it because of a couple of reasons: 1. I am making a card FOR someone and I want it to be perfectly suited to that someone. and 2. I feel the need to focus on the details. On a scrapbook page, I focus on telling a story, then the overall design, but the details are not nearly as important to me--or to the people looking through my albums.
I have to be in the right mood to enjoy the process of card making. Cardmaking leads me to learn new techniques and use new products, so I have to remind myself that while it is taking some time and I am giving this away, I am gaining skills at the same time.
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Post by marg on Aug 3, 2022 19:02:00 GMT
I find cards pretty time consuming too. I think it because of a couple of reasons: 1. I am making a card FOR someone and I want it to be perfectly suited to that someone. and 2. I feel the need to focus on the details. On a scrapbook page, I focus on telling a story, then the overall design, but the details are not nearly as important to me--or to the people looking through my albums. I have to be in the right mood to enjoy the process of card making. Cardmaking leads me to learn new techniques and use new products, so I have to remind myself that while it is taking some time and I am giving this away, I am gaining skills at the same time. These are all really good points. I am very detail-oriented with my cards, too, since they're for public consumption and I want the giftee to find them meaningful or at least to see the love I put into it (for the most part, lol, there are a few exceptions). Cardmaking pushes my boundaries more, for sure. It's a place where I try new things. I follow along more with cardmakers and try to learn their techniques. So, you're absolutely right, for me at least. |
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Post by cmpeter on Aug 4, 2022 0:36:37 GMT
It takes me way longer to make a card than a layout.
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Post by karinec on Aug 4, 2022 1:34:44 GMT
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Post by tealpaperowl on Aug 4, 2022 13:50:26 GMT
I love making both! My approach to both is similar, I like really full pages and cards. My cards always have inking, watercoloring, stamping, copics, die cuts, patterned paper, sequins, nuvo drops, etc on them. So they take me awhile but do do my layouts. I've heard many times I should sell my cards.. that would have to be like $20 a card lol.
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Post by joblackford on Aug 5, 2022 1:22:33 GMT
I definitely think a card could take as long or longer than a layout, but I guess it depends a lot on how you design and how special you want it to be. I can spend hours and hours on a single card but I can also make a dozen cards in an afternoon or 30 in a weekend. I suspect that you’re just a really efficient, confident scrapper at this point lilacgal ! And you probably have lots of go-to sketches in your head. If you made cards more often you’d probably get to be just as quick with them, although they can be fiddly and time consuming, especially if you’re stamping/cutting/coloring all the elements yourself. (patterned paper and die cuts are a lot faster!) |
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Post by don on Aug 5, 2022 2:33:09 GMT
When you care enough to send the very best, who cares about time.  |
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Post by scrapnnana on Aug 6, 2022 5:36:49 GMT
Making cards takes time. I think that my layouts take longer, but the cards take a chunk of time, too.
I was a card maker before I learned to scrapbook. I love both. I wish I were faster, but I am slow, no matter which one I am doing.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Aug 6, 2022 10:45:02 GMT
I used to make cards, but my recipients are not the type to appreciate them. They'd rather store bought.
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Post by kitbop on Aug 6, 2022 13:27:52 GMT
My sweet husband said I should sell my cards. I’d have to charge $80 for one to make it worth my while. Your post really strikes a chord with me. I'm not a mass producer. I typically make cards for a specific reason. That's why I've done 2 of the card-making events by SCT... I now have a little stash of beautiful cards that I can grab from instead of sitting down for 4 hours every time I need one! What feels worth it and good? - I have SEVERAL people in my life who have displayed my cards for years, and tell me "I'll never throw them out!" - I was asked to make wedding invitations for some friends because they loved my cards so much. I did it as their present. It was...a lot. The design itself took me 20 hours because we made several other prototypes and changed the design as we went. Then, each card took about 4 hours to make because they were so fiddly and the letters on each were die cut and layered 3 high and they were OUTLINE letters! Fortunately, the bride and groom cried when they got them   wedding invitation by kirstendrew, on Flickr |
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Post by hop2 on Aug 7, 2022 12:59:06 GMT
I used to make cards, but my recipients are not the type to appreciate them. They'd rather store bought. I have people like that on my card list too. And I say too bad. I’m not going to the store & spending 5$ each on hallmark cards when I can take a card class at my local store for $20-$30, enjoy learning new techniques, socialize with other crafters and walk away with 3-5 cards. I have barely bought a card in 4 years and I do not care what the recipients think of that. I also don’t care if it is immediately thrown out either. The money I paid was for the class, for the experience, the card was just a result of that. ( exception last Valentines I bought my kids each one of those. Super intricate cards that unfold & stand up. I’m not going to carve out an intricate cherry blossom tree by hand or fiddle with it on my silhouette. I found a sale and called it good ) |
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Post by don on Aug 7, 2022 15:11:43 GMT
I used to make cards, but my recipients are not the type to appreciate them. They'd rather store bought. If your recipients don't appreciate your hand-made card, they won't appreciate the store bought card either. |
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