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My mom is getting started making cards. She brought some paper over yesterday for me to cut some things out with my cricut and Storybook cart. I cut out a bunch of the frames, label shapes, and flowers. I was thinking about cutting some out for myself to have for when I'm in a hurry and need to make a card. Does anyone else do this?
I've done that quite a lot. Of course, you must then match your colors to what you've cut, but for holidays especially, it is quite easy. It seems quite a waste to just cut one thing.
I do that with punches. When I'm working on a project and punch a few out of a piece of cs I finish punching that piece as many times as I can and place into little ziplocks. For me it takes less space to keep the shapes and the used pieces of cs are not bent or crumpled and when I need a lil somethin somethin I grab that bag of punched pieces. Or when the kids want to "play" (mine are grown now but still like to play) I can simply hand over the bag of punched images and let them go wild not having to give out my punches or cs.
I do this all the time, but only in white. I cut out several nestability shapes in white. I keep them in a tin so they don't get bent. When I want to use a nestabilities shape, I pull out the size I want and stamp on it. Then I pull out the big shot and cut out a larger nestabilities shape in a color to match my card. Then I cut out more white shapes to replace the ones I used.
I like to do this for items with glitter. That stuff is just way too messy to use for just one thing. I like it mainly for border strips. I use border punches on leftover paper scraps, run them through the Xyron, and apply glitter (which probably tells me it is time to vacuum!). The borders folder is right at my work table; so it's something I reach for often. I like to glitter some punch shapes too, the ones like flowers and butterflies, that I have theme files for.
Me, too, Anne. Or if I do remember, and actually find it, and it's in good shape, most of the time the piece is not the right color or shape I thought it was.
Me, too, Anne. Or if I do remember, and actually find it, and it's in good shape, most of the time the piece is not the right color or shape I thought it was.
I end up with little punched pieces stacked up in bags and bins. Then when I finally get tired of looking at it, they all go into my recycling!
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My mom is getting started making cards. She brought some paper over yesterday for me to cut some things out with my cricut and Storybook cart. I cut out a bunch of the frames, label shapes, and flowers. I was thinking about cutting some out for myself to have for when I'm in a hurry and need to make a card. Does anyone else do this?
I just got my Gazelle, and it's super-humid here right now so it's being persnickety, but I have made "card candy" for other people. For a gift for a friend, I am actually going to make a lot of card candy, pre-cut fronts to cards, and cut out the sayings for the insides to make kits, that way it all coordinates and she can put together a card in minutes.
For myself, I used to do pre-cuts and then found I didn't use them. It always ends up not matching exactly what I am doing, or I forget to get them out, or something. I just ended up with a bunch of embellishments that weren't "quite right".
I do cut out stuff ahead of time for specific projects, if I am doing assembly-line style. I cut and score everything, then cut out the embellishments, set them aside, do the paper piercing, etc, one step at a time. But as far as doing it ahead of time, it just doesn't work for ME. It works great though for the little girls, to cut stuff out for them. They love getting a baggie with different stuff for them to make crafts with. I ended up giving them all my pre-cut stuff, and now I cut once I know which project it is for and what colors I am doing.
If you are super-organized it can and will work. If you change colors or patterns or themes on a whim, like I do, it doesn't work very well.
Do you cut out shapes, etc, ahead of time?
Or if I do remember, and actually find it, and it's in good shape, most of the time the piece is not the right color or shape I thought it was.
