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When you first started stamping did you throw away cards that you just thought were totally lame? I have made some cute cards and some that just look like a kindergartner made them. I have ideas but sometimes I don't execute very well.
I kept them ALL! I have only been stamping for a year, and I look back at my first cards and realize what a long way I've come!! Some of them were okay, but for the most part they just are awful. lol I have been known to cut em up and use them for background paper. hehe
OMG, my cards were beyond lame. My friend got them out to show me once when I was low and they were just beyond awful.
The reason she has them is because I throw nearly all my cards out after a few months as I think they look terrible , so she rescues them out of the garbage and stores them.
I go thru every few months and separate into piles: give away (just not my style any more but an okay card), give to the little kids to play with, and BURN! :-) Then I just keep my current favorites in my card box.
I take old cards that are totally UGLY, and cut the card front off and THROW it away!, but save the Backside of the card and use it on other cards, For layering my cards.
I used to do just DTP cards...So sometime I can re-use these cards.
My husband still keeps them on his desk and won't let me get rid of them. I just crack up because they are not cut straight, no layers, ink right on the colored cardstock, etc.
I still keep some of my first easy cards because everyone has to start somewhere. It gives inspiration to my friends that just start stamping.
I didn't have a scanner for a few years, so my early cards that I created are just gone. But I kept almost everything I made at monthly workshops for a couple years - mostly because she only did card fronts and I was too lazy to make a card out of it - and because then it becomes YOUR card and they weren't my style. I was learning techniques, but my then-demo just has an opposite style from what I like.
I keep meaning to pull that box out and go through it, but I always have something better I want to do.
__________________ Kathy Wrose "Fun must be always." - Tomas Hertl, San Jose Sharks "It was fun." - Kirk, Star Trek: Generations
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