How do you save sample cards safely?

[housefan]

I had my favorite cards in a notebook and it fell apart. The pages just were not sturdy enough to take pulling cards in and out. For those special cards you want to save so they won't fade, get dusty, or bent, how do you save those? I am so mad at myself that I bought 6 of these binders and lots of pages and now a year later the pages are just falling apart. The whole system has to be tossed and I need to start over. Keeping them in baskets or photo boxes does not work for me. Cards are too hard to find when I need them and have to sort through a whole section of a box. I have about 300 samples that I want to keep.

[olivia'smom]

I just keep mine in a tupperware that allows them to stand.

[parrothead]

I have mine in jacket covers and then have them stored in SU Forget Me Not Keepers.

[nsruss]

I don't keep any sample cards anymore. I used to but couldn't find a way to store them that I was happy with, plus they kind of take up a bunch of room. What I do instead is photograph the cards I'd like to keep in an idea book (which is a photo album with pockets) and they go in there! I take the pictures with my digital camera so I can shoot as many pictures as I like. I do this with projects as well. It's pretty easy to store photoalbums on shelves in my craft area.

[KTstamper]

I keep them in photo boxes.

[newstampinaddict]

I keep mine in the Century Photo Polaroid sleeves. That works really well for me.

[gotmarried505]

I do what nsruss does. When I first started stamping I didn't want to use any of my cards, because I had to have them for ideas and inspiration. Now I just take a picture of the card before I send it.

[Kittypaws]

I store mine in plastic card protector sheets - 4 to a page (8 if you put them in back to back. Here is where you get them:

Here's the link to Century Photo Products for the card protector sheets.
The item # is PP100-534.
http://www.centuryphoto.com/servlet/...Shopping?Dsp=1

[JulieHRR]

I don't have this system exactly, BUT, something similar--just can't remember right now where I got it . . .

Anyway, it's a really nice concept! The one below is by Cropper Hopper:

Card Keeper

HTH!

[queenoe]

I started out keeping the actual cards and gave that up after about 100 or so. Then I scanned and printed a copy and kept them in really inexpensive 4x6 albums from Walmart. That took up too much space, so now I upload what I scan (I number them first) to Webshots, any time I need something I have done I just download from the site and print a copy to look at. Works for me. I keep a photo box of actual cards until I give them away.

[MasJac]

I keep mine in photo boxes..works well for me

[Mary Hammerschmidt]

I have mine is plastic sleeves and then pt them in photo boxes from Michael's.

[ScrappinCEO]

I've been going over this in my head for the last couple days. Due to a pending move, I'm having to condense and it's tough!

I am filing mine by occassion in a photo box. I'll have cards to begin using over the next year while I work on more.

Ones I need to keep for ideas, I am scanning to disk as well as a MS word document of what I used. When I need ideas I open up the disk and browse - kind of like going through the scs gallery hehehe

Kelly

[JeanneMarie]

Check out http://www.stampmagick.com/catalog/p...oducts_id=637t
I got these and they work great--all my cards are in 1 binder and the sheets are nice and sturdy.

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