Sentiments and Sentiment Strips

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!

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.

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.