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Post by Shakti on Feb 28, 2023 0:14:43 GMT
Do you make them ahead? What's your process? How do you store them?
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Post by Shakti on Feb 28, 2023 1:05:47 GMT
At some point, I saw a SU demonstrator just sort of stamp a skinny phrase and chop the excess paper off. Seemed simple enough until the first time I wanted to do something similar and didn't have an appropriate scrap -- the card stock waste seemed excessive, yet I was still hesitant about sentiment strip dies.
Then I saw another SU video with many sentiments and various punches or dies, making them ahead and storing them in boxes. I should watch that one again probably, because I don't remember the workflow she used for stamping and then punching/cutting (or maybe the other way around?). I have collected a few likely boxes for storage.
The preprinted and extra sentiments I have currently are in pockets in a binder a la Totally Tiffany (I speak regularly of the couple weeks or so I spent over the summer down the TT rabbit hole).
Recently, I saw a Jennifer McGuire video with some great options for efficiently producing sentiments. The sentiment strip products she recommended made a lot of sense and I acquired a couple. She also shared her new storage method -- magnetic photo albums. This I'm not so sure about. She said she moved to this method from the pocket sheets in binders and finds it easier. Anyone tried this?
Has anyone tried the Taylored Expressions storage for sentiment strips? Do they work with other brands of sentiment strips?
I've been thinking for some time that I need to have a focused sentiment-generated session one of these weekends. I'd like to have a robust game plan for both the production and the storage/organization of the results.
Thanks for sharing any experience and/or insight!
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Post by cmpeter on Feb 28, 2023 1:30:50 GMT
I generally don’t make extras ahead of time. I found that I just didn’t use them…the extras were always the wrong color, shape or sentiment.
I saw JMs video with the magnetic albums and think I would have the same issue. Let’s see how often we see her using it or if she ever shows it with more pages full. She really only had a few pages loaded with sentiments.
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Post by Shakti on Feb 28, 2023 2:14:58 GMT
Yeah. Back in the day, I stored photos in them. I don't recall them as being that easy to peel open and stick back down. And I vaguely remember that they'd wear out if you messed with them too often.
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anaterra
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Post by anaterra on Feb 28, 2023 14:55:09 GMT
I have a composition book that has all.the.words!
flat words.. any way.. not foam or chipboard
I cut all the words out of sticker books...
I take all the words out of ephemera packs... all the words i want to use off cut aparts...
The words that are on the branding strip like winter days or hippity hop or whatever the word is that identifies the collection or sheet of paper....and can be used... unless the branding strip has a strip of pattern.. that i dont cut up...
If they have no sticky... I run them thru my xyron to make them stickers....
I put them in the comp book by color.. I always flip thru it doing a lay out or a card just to add a little word or phrase... they are all in the comp book so easy to find what I may want to use.. and even words I didn't think about...
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Post by anaterra on Feb 28, 2023 14:56:17 GMT
duhhh to answer the question.. no I dont make sentiments before hand... but I am a very new card maker.. so it may be on my to do one day..
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Post by Shakti on Feb 28, 2023 15:17:58 GMT
Hi, anaterra. Sounds like you've been primarily a scrapbooker. It seems to me that "all the words" for scrapbooking is kind of like sentiments for cards, but not exactly the same. It sounds like your composition book is kind of like Jennifer McGuire's photo album. I'm not completely clear on how the words stay in the book. You say you use your Xyron to make them into stickers...do you glue the sticker backing onto the composition book pagers? Then use the word by peeling it off the backing, which stays behind in the book? |
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Post by mbanda on Feb 28, 2023 15:30:39 GMT
The only time I really make sentiments ahead of time is if I am doing hot foiling. Since I have to take my foiling machine out I try to do batches of things that I can use on future projects (backgrounds, sentiments, etc).
I have the Pinkfresh sentiments foiling plate where you foil & die cute multiple sentiments with one pass so I will make a few of those in different colors. I usually store them in a little zipper bag I keep near my desk.
I also have a few of the Taylored Expressions sentiment strip stamps & dies and with those, I usually keep the extras in the plastic envelope where I keep the stamp.
I did see JM's video using the magnetic albums & while I like the idea, I don't necessarily think it would work for me as I don't really have a need to have so many sentiments already made.
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Post by scrapnnana on Feb 28, 2023 15:48:57 GMT
No, I don’t do sentiments ahead of time. In fact, I have stopped buying sentiment stamps because despite my huge collection, somehow I never have just the right one I need for my card.
I type my sentiment on my computer and print it, then cut it with whatever die that suits it. Is it a waste of card stock to do that? It could be, but I use my scraps for card making, so it’s not really a waste.
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Post by GiantsFan on Feb 28, 2023 16:13:45 GMT
I have the MFT Bitty Birthday Wishes stamp set and I heat embossed the whole set, white embossing on black cs and black embossing on white cs. I painstakingly cut them apart...and there they sit, unused.
I'm more of a do it all at the time kinda crafter.
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Post by scrapperal on Feb 28, 2023 17:56:24 GMT
I purchased The Ton's Easy Expressions stamps and dies, but I haven't used them yet. I originally thought I would keep them in little baggies or boxes, but I like the idea of flipping through book. I wonder if I have an old magnetic photo album sitting around, though I think I purged them all. |
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Post by anaterra on Feb 28, 2023 18:27:06 GMT
Shakti I glue the back of sticker sheets and the back of the xyron sheet to the pages in the comp book... I pull the words off as I use them.. the backing stays behind... I don't know what the magnetic albums that you are talking about look like... But I love comp books, spiral notebooks or binders for keeping most of my stuff organized... its easier for me to flip thru than to dig into... this is the same method i use for all flat stickers and die cuts... mostly by colors... except words flowers animals christmas and halloween I have different colors, florals, animals,
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Post by joblackford on Feb 28, 2023 20:04:40 GMT
I go through cycles of making lots of sentiments and then using up lots of sentiments. If I'm going to make a few I tend to make a lot because I'm a lazy cardmaker and I prefer to grab a ready-to-go sentiment and stick it on my card rather than change workflows and stamp a new sentiment just for one card. I'm making multiples of cards to donate so that's what fits my workflow and style.
I have a folder of white and black scraps next to me and I reach for them constantly for sentiment strips or extra dimension. If I end up with a lot of a narrow scrap, maybe trimming a specific sized panel for many cards, I try to find a sentiment that I can stamp onto that size in bulk. I do computer-typed sentiments here and there but always try to fill a half sheet of cardstock with extras. I stamp sentiments onto the negative pieces of square/rectangular window frame dies to avoid wasting those. If my folder gets too full I will sort scraps into sizes and then die cut them into banners, small shapes, or words so they're more likely to get stamped on and used.
I have a binder full of old 3x4 pocket pages that holds stamped and die cut pieces, sentiments and images, ones I've made and Doodlebug ones. Not much organization in there and I do have some sentiments that I'm unlikely to use again but at some point I'll toss them to make space for something new. I go in cycles though - I'm in a use-it-up cycle right now.
I liked the look of one of the strip dies that JM showed. I could use that for colorful scraps too. I haven't bought any stamps that create lots of sentiments at once though because I almost always use 20% of my sentiments 80% of the time and never touch certain sentiments. I've never seen a Taylored Expressions strip set that had enough sentiments I would actually use and I don't want to end up with dozens of extra unwanted ones every time I make the ones I want.
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Post by Shakti on Feb 28, 2023 20:37:51 GMT
I only learned of The Ton's Easy Expressions sets this past weekend at CMSS. They're interesting because they give the look of a big sentiment with a complimentary sentiment strip in one go. On the other hand, selected those two elements independently seems like it would be more versatile. I think I have a number of different card making workflows. Club Scrap has their assembly line process with all the sentiments pre-printed, so nothing to do there. When I'm "afflicted by a vision" and making a card for a specific person and occasion, I'll create the sentiments one-off, but I think it would be nice to have black on white/white on black sentiment strips to add on as well. I don't get every Paper Pumpkin kit, and may be it on a longer hiatus soon rather than skipping individual months, but those I tend to put together without sentiments so I have quick cards to grab for colleague and teacher things. Given that they come with die cuts to put sentiments on, and that PP white is different from normal SU white, I'm thinking I might take those die cuts and some other scraps and just stampsome common generic sentiments on them (with sympathy, get well soon, happy birthday, thank you). For donation cards, it seems like it would make sense to batch-produce sentiments, if I had a straightforward way to do so. JM used Hero Arts products in that video. The sentiment stamp & die set (Friendly messages) that was "supposed to be" used separately that she kept connected is the new spring release one that's going to be used in the Stamp Along. I have sentiments, but none with dies and I'm registered for the Stamp Along, so I got that one. Not sure how I feel about using it attached, but it seems worth trying at least once. I strongly suspect that, like you joblackford, I'll want more of 20% of them before the other 80% have been used, but I guess that's when I cut the dies apart and move on. The one I thought was really intriguing was the sentiment strips die that cuts entire sheets of sentiments where there are multiple sentiment strip stamps that work. Because JM had just featured them in a video, they were hard to find. I think I got the die at SB.C and was unable to find the "Everyday" sentiment strips stamp. Three hours after placing my order with HA I got an email saying it was back in stock, so I contacted them and they sent it along with free shipping. The other two sets I saw that work with the die were a love/Valentine's-themed set and a holiday one. I thought she said they planned to continue putting out stamps that work with the die. There was a third HA Stamp & Cut set she showed that was out of stock everywhere, but I think I should play with what I've got first anyway. I think I must've had that same reaction to the TE strip stamps. Certainly they never appealed for some reason. |
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Post by scrappinheather on Feb 28, 2023 21:17:44 GMT
I actually do like having extra sentiments on hand. I have all the TE sentiment strips and I have them in white, gold embossing, silver embossing and I embossed white on black cardstock. I store them all in the containers TE sells in combo with stamp n storage. I am trying the JEn McGuire method of the albums for my other toiled sentiments as I am tend to do a bunch of those at once and so far so good
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