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KwiteKreative
PeaNut
PeaNut 95,025
July 2003
Posts: 276
Layouts: 21
Loc: Louisiana
 |  Posted: 2/19/2013 7:27:06 PM
Okay, confession time...
Over the years I've made a lot of cards, card sets, and empty layouts (with photo mats but no photos) for the purposes of teaching classes.
The layouts I'll eventually use (in that magical, mystical "someday" , and I know I should use the cards too, but here's the thing. I can't. They're mine, I made them, and I love them. And I'm just not ready to part with them just yet. Now, I'm not claiming they're any great masterpieces - but just looking at what I can accomplish makes me happy.
So...do the Peas have any suggestions about creative ways to store your projects while not having them out on display all over the house? I'm thinking I'd like some sort of book to flip through, but I just can't catch a vision for it. |
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Gem Girl
PeaAddict
PeaNut 460,363
March 2010
Posts: 1,387
Layouts: 7
Loc: Lost in thought
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How about posting them here in the Gallery, so that we can ALL admire them?  |
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I've been a dilettante, but I'm thinking of dabbling in something else.
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tntlehman36
PeaNut
PeaNut 395,842
October 2008
Posts: 36
Layouts: 0
 | Posted: 2/20/2013 5:57:11 AM
I have many blank mini albums for that same reason. "Too pretty" to put pics in I just display them around my craft area to admire! It's a sickness
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thepinkkitchen
PinkKitchenStudio
PeaNut 14,286
April 2001
Posts: 15,204
Layouts: 244
Loc: Louisville, Ky
 | Posted: 2/20/2013 6:11:11 AM
How about photographing all your work and putting it into a sort of look-book type album. Then you could either display/store the rest or go ahead and use some of it, but still have a record of your creations.
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Just Me the Pea
PeaNut
PeaNut 468,574
May 2010
Posts: 367
Layouts: 0
| Posted: 2/20/2013 8:06:01 AM
I get too attached to my layouts and hover over people who look at my albums because I am overly protective of somebody manhandling my albums.  That is probably a whole other post.... | |
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loveallcrafts
PeaFixture
PeaNut 383,577
July 2008
Posts: 3,694
Layouts: 108
Loc: Ontario, Canada
| Posted: 2/20/2013 8:18:46 AM
I have to join the club.
I love to make mini albums. If I don't make them for someone specifically I keep them and have only put photos in one.
Same with my cards.
I spend a lot of time on my cards as I love to colour the images with my Copics.
But again if I don't make them for someone they are hoarded.
The thing is I do have photos of them all as I share them on my blog, but after a while I think of them as old stock. I can't give out a card that someone has seen already, lol.
I made a "just because" card for my friend and when she received it she said I'm not sure if I'm more excited that you made me a card..or that you gave me your card, lol.
I think we need a recovery program, lol.
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LindaBabe54
PeaAddict
PeaNut 120,429
December 2003
Posts: 1,011
Layouts: 2
| Posted: 2/20/2013 12:01:07 PM
I've been photographing my stuff for about 40 years, before giving it away, or selling whatever it is. You can imatine that's quite an array of pictures! | |
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KwiteKreative
PeaNut
PeaNut 95,025
July 2003
Posts: 276
Layouts: 21
Loc: Louisiana
| Posted: 2/21/2013 5:57:50 AM
Well, I'm glad to know I'm not the only one with this particular sickness! LOL
I have taken pictures of most everything. Maybe at some point I'll print them and use them in divided page protectors. Could be a fun project in itself. |
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Scrapn Nana
PEAring through my camera lens
PeaNut 272,954
August 2006
Posts: 6,972
Layouts: 19
 | Posted: 2/21/2013 7:06:30 AM
I used to do this. Then I started a blog just for my projects. Now I take photos or scan them, post them on my blog, then give them away. I can still enjoy them, but I bless someone else by giving them away, and it frees me from having to find a way or place to store them. |
My Scrapn' Blog
Photographers are violent people. First they frame you, then they shoot you, then they hang you on the wall; but if you're real good, they will scrapbook you! | |
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Frazzled Mom
Ancient Ancestor of Pea
PeaNut 22,352
October 2001
Posts: 5,408
Layouts: 0
Loc: Between a rock and a hard place
 | Posted: 2/21/2013 9:01:25 AM
I've gotten like this with cards. I started making my own thank you notes for my students and some of them turn out so cute that I don't want to use them.
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