How many cards do you make?
Do you count the cards you make? Keep track by pictures or samples?
I ask because so much time is used to keep organized and I am curious. I actually have to schedule time out from organizing to design. I make between 350-400+Designs a year. I do not count multiples of same design. My cards vary from clean and simple to ones that take several days to complete for special occasions. I count gift bags, boxes, tags as a design along with the cards. I photo them on an iPad, then transfer them to a computer for storage yearly. After sending to friends and family, my designs are donated to various charities for fund raising. I like to design, use my supplies and tools, but lack enough people to share them with. i hope you will share your production info with me. |
That is what what I plan to do. I donate cards for fund raisers and also am looking into sending cards to over seas orphan missions. I use bable fish to help write sentiments in the language of the country the mission is located in.
Do you keep a record of your donations for tax purposes? |
I make hundreds as well. I keep track of them here in my gallery and once they're uploaded, I put them in the card rack I use to mail cards from - it really helps me send them out randomly if I can see them.
Hey - I was born in Buffalo :) Went to college in Rochester :) |
What a thoughtful and wonderful idea.
I do not take a tax deduction in that it takes too much record keeping. I am retired and had my own business and choose not to do that anymore. If you are making quanities to send, I recommend you keep a basic stash of supplies that you have receipts for for your records. You can "trade" supplies from your personal stash. |
Lydia, looks like Buffalo and Rochester lost a talent to Austin.
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aww you are too sweet.
I sure miss the fall and spring there. The winter - not so much :) Oh - and the FOOD. No good Italian food here whatsoever. |
Thanks for the responses. I really enjoy being able to ask questions and getting answers from those who are in the know. I am also retired and would like to have some tax write off. I do not sell my cards, but prefer to donate them to special causes. Blessings
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I don't count the cards and other projects I make. If the project is something I have not directly CASEd, then I upload it to the gallery here usually, but not always. Sometimes I just don't feel like photographing and entering details! I don't have a blog, so this is the only place I share.
I am a pretty organized crafter, thanks to DH! He said I could have half the family room for my hobby IF I made it look nice and neat. Well, I did, and so now messes are never an issue. I also am not a shopper, so I don't have a ton of stuff, relatively speaking. I make more cards than I can send out, so I give them as gifts, sell some at an antique store, and leave some in a box at my church for others to freely take. I also have a group of women come over once a month to make cards that I design for them. All this keeps my supplies nicely in check and gives me a reason to buy new things! I do take a tax deduction each year for what I've donated, but I estimate it. I have no receipts and as a former CPA I should know better but it is so small that I don't care. |
UnderstandBlue, I'm from Buffalo ( & my husband is from Rochester). Any time you want "Real" Buffalo Wings, Beef on Weck. White Hots from Wegmans or Logan Berry I will be glad to send them to you.
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Takinmytyme, do you still live in Buffalo? Would love to know of any stamp happenings besides Buffalo Stamps &Stuff. Am very aware of them. I do go to a stampin Up technique group once a monthalso.
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How many cards do I make?
Not nearly enough to justify the amount of money I've spent on supplies!
Dea |
I never did before. But I do now. I send out 30 cards a month to the my sister. who then uses them for the church members Birthdays, Get Wells, so on and on.
Plus I also make for swaps and family members birthdays. So I'm looking at about 50 cards a month. |
I have absolutely no idea how many I make. I take photos of all my cards just so I can remind myself what I have done and of a card I liked so I can do it again. I sure dont keep track of how much I spend, if I did I think It would just depress me so what ai dont know doesnt bother me.
I hardly ever remember to send cards out but I do love giving card packs as gifts. Christmas, Birthday, just because any excuse. Once the box I have them in gets too full I make up bundles and put aside to gift. Have also found a great person who goes to my hairdresser and likes my cards, notepads, giftcard holders and will take a box full to her work and sell them all in record time. I only do this about 4 times a year, enough to cover my and my daughters hair cuts, colours and streaks. |
Wow, you are all so productive!! I only make one card about every 1.5 days. Mostly I send them to my nieces and nephews. Occasionally I'll give a bunch to a friend's daughter to use for the kids in her daycare room (as their 2nd birthday nears, they transfer out to another room - she gives them a birthday card as they leave). Once in a while I'll give a few to Operation Write Home. I photograph and upload the cards, but I don't keep track of anything else.
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I don't keep track of how many cards I make, but I do scan and save them for future reference, and also upload some of them here in my gallery.
I have a "card list" of friends and family that I send cards to on a regular basis, so I keep busy making cards. I send about 30 cards to folks on my list for most of the major holidays. Christmas, Valentines, Easter, Mothers Day and Fathers Day, Halloween, and Thanksgiving. I also send many Birthday cards. We have a large extended family, with 5 grown children and spouses, and 19 grandkids and 4 greats. Someone is having a birthday every month, it seems. Sometimes many "someones." June is a big month around here, with 7 birthdays! In addition to birthdays and occasions, I try to send "just because" cards, because I think unexpected cards are the most fun to receive!:) |
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Have to include Abbot's frozen custard too. We now have one about 50 miles from us...and they sell Zweigle's as well! But no Wegmans :( |
Well, since you asked, last count about two weeks ago was 1,110. Yeah, I love to make them, tried selling in stores, just didn't seem to work. I have an awesome stash, but still like to make them when I need them and if I don't like what turns out, I just pull out of my stash. I can create better when I don't feel pressure.
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