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Me too..cleaning up before i start..in the middle and at the end..lol..i do find a lot of things tho..get everything neat,, n start all over agin..loves ya Gail
__________________ Gail
When the world says give up, hope whispers, try one more time.
I have to go with the insides and choosing colors. I'm definitely not an artist so I have a lot of trouble with color combos. Love my color coach. I usually leave the insides blank until I know for sure what I will use the card for. Most of my cards a pretty generic. If it is a birthday card or sympathy card I will stamp something on the inside right away. I just forget to sign the cards sometimes. Getting my layers on straight is another problem. I use the sticky tape a lot and I hate it when I go to add a layer and I drop it in the wrong place. That tape really sticks when you don't want it to. I tend to agree with the dh of an earlier poster....it's handmade, it's not supposed to be perfect.
I'm with you ... my least favorite part of making a card is definately the inside. By the time I finish making a miracle on the outside I'm just too pooped to party and do the inside!
Me too! I've taken to putting a sticker from my giant stash inside the cards, and sometimes I use the adhesive vellum card quote stacks from K & Co for the inside too, layered on some scrap CS from the card front. But for the most part 99% of the effort goes to the card front.
I also find the backstamping and signing process tedious, even though I love my little Fluffles and bar code backstamps!
Oh, I forgot about how fussy it is to mount the card front onto the card base -- the base is *always* a little off or crooked, so after I went to the trouble of cutting, scoring, and folding the base, I have to trim the sucker down to get rid of crooked edges after too.
But aside from the card front, the inside, and the back of the card, I enjoy making them! ;)
Screwin' up the very last step of a design that was otherwise very well done . . . :?
Knowing I bought something that would be the PERFECT finishing accent, but . . . it's buried somewhere in the vortex . . . to be found accidentally and only after I substituted something else that didn't work as well as the *perfect* thing would have . . . :?
I detest having to use my computer to generate custom card sentiments. I can do it, I do do it, but, I hate the time it takes to do it . . . :?
Oh, and indirectly:
Wasting too much time online, instead of spending it creatively. :?
__________________ Julie Ebersole (JulieHRR once upon a time . . . )julieebersole.com"So shines a good deed in a weary world." -Willy Wonka
I think I would have to say what I hate the most is the beginning...cleaning up left-over mess, deciding what to do....really, just getting going (after getting off the computer of course!)
I hate cleaning my precious stamps. If I use a permanent ink like Stazon it always stains, even if I use the cleaning solution the instant I finish stamping. And if I use double sided tape, collecting up and throwing away all of the waste. Mind you, it's a small price to pay for the pleasure of getting out all of my equipment and being creative.
Me too! I need a little clean up fairy. People always ask me how long it takes me to make one card. I tell them an hour on average but that includes 10 minutes to pull all the ingredients, 5 minutes here and there to run upstairs and get more stuff that I need, 10-15 minutes to actually stamp the card and 20 minutes to clean it all up!!! One of my coworkers has a tatoo of the chinese (I think) symbol for chaos because chaos is the nature of the universe. You know how you clean off the kitchen counter (or your dresser or anything else) and about 1 minute later you set something on the perfectly clean/clear surface? That's chaos. I am a very talkative girl!!!
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