Ongoing ATC Swap discussion thread for 2012!

[Brackish Potato]

Your collection is amazing, M&C! I don't have near as many!

[suereal]

Oooo very nice!  I love seeing all those ATCs together!  You have quite the collection!  My box o' ATCs is so stuffed!  I never thought I would ever fill it, and now I'm thinking I might need a new box!  Ack!

That is part of the reason I haven't been swapping ATC.  I have told my self "No More!" until I get the ones I have into their books.  I'm treating them like photos and putting them on blank page albums with photo corners to hold them in.  But I get overwhelmed trying to decided what goes next to what.  Perhaps I should have gone with the box method

PS...I noticed today in the Michael's flier they have a great deal on photo boxes for this week.  I think they are about 2 bucks each?  What size box are you using jillybeans?

[pilarfarmer]

nice collection m&c...i was wondering how everyone stores their atc collection. i just started putting them in a album and i love that it is easy to enjoy and share them with others than the box i was using. i don't have that many yet, i used a scrapbook album i bought and never used for scrapbooking  and used double side tape to hold them and i can still slip them out of the plastic sleeves to see the back. what is everyone else doing??? i would love to see pics like m&c. 

[jillybeans]

oooh good suggestion, suereal!  I love those boxes!  I'm currently using an old cassette storage box for my ATCs that I found at a thrift store.

Here it is:

http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=385960.0

Imagine it really really full though.  lol!  Its like a little suitcase.  ^_^

[Mountains and Clouds]

But I get overwhelmed trying to decided what goes next to what.  Perhaps I should have gone with the box method

Hehe I do that too.  Every few months, I seem to take them all out and re-sort them like a crazy person (but it's nice, because it reminds me of cards I've pushed to the back of my brain!)... I think the baseball card pages make that easy enough!

[suereal]

ooh good suggestion, suereal!  I love those boxes!  I'm currently using an old cassette storage box for my ATCs that I found at a thrift store.

Here it is:

http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=385960.0

Imagine it really really full though.  lol!  Its like a little suitcase.  ^_^

I love those boxes!  I have a few, but I all ways tear the cassette dividers out.  Never thought they would be usefull for other things!

[gala_apples]

My monsters and fairies will be in a scrapbook, but they're currently in a pile. My weird hobby people will be going into a altered book, which I'm currently working on.

If you have a theme you only want a certain number of, 9 ATCs will fit almost perfectly into an 8.5x11 frame, the kind they sell in Dollar Trees. That's what I did for all my anatomical hearts. It needs a little matting, but it works pretty well.

[dewshinesdopp]

I miss you guys... I wanna come play again.  I have been busy over in hoopla-land, but ATC-world has been beckoning...

I haven't figured out yet how to store my ATC's.  I don't have enough of any particular theme to do much with them yet.  I guess I should come back and work on that.

[gozer]

yes, Come back and get so many ATCs that you HAVE to figure out what to do with them! 

[Brackish Potato]

Don't forget about the printer's trays. That way everyone can see your lovelies! I put mine up using sticky tac and then I can rotate the cards when I get new ones.