Anyone tried making labels for 2X2's ?

Ok well I couldn't wait til I got home to mess around with it and seems I'm using Canva to make this I can do it online. Anyway I think this is what I'm settled on. So this is a full sheet, I can make 10 pairs (front & back) and obviously each one will be individualized based on the coin in the holder.

Feedback, additional suggestions always welcome and appreciated. PS everything is totally made up on these I just pulled everything out of my behind so none of it is accurate....HAHA Also the lower left on the front is my personal inventory number - i.e. this would be Washington Quarter #1 - WQ-001

 

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Very well done, the only tweaking necessary at this point would be tweaks you decide on to suit your tastes or to simplify something if it becomes too complicated or time consuming after making a few.

looks really nice, beats the heck out of my sloppy hand written ones for sure.

 

THANKS!

Ya my handwriting is not great and I always seem to cram letters into the edges....that's partly what started the idea. So ya some minor testing and tweaking to go. My 1" hole punch will be here in a day or two and if all goes well I'll get a bigger one for the next sizes up. I don't think it's worth the effort for the large dollar holders there's just not enough real estate.

 

I don't have time to create and upload a photo of an example at this time, but you are familiar with flips. The sheets you are using can house 2x2 cardboard mylars. Yet, at the same time, they will also house 1 3/4" plastic flips. If you wanted to, you could use 1 3/4" plastic flips to house the coin with a full front and back print out for the coin. You can crease the flip so that it behaves and "stays down" for you. Put the coin side of the flip into the page slot, and have the informational label outside the slot. You then just need to flip the label up to see the obverse, and turn the page for the reverse. No cutting holes in labels, and everything is uniform.

Just a thought.

 

Thanks for the idea - I'm not really a fan of flips honestly and in fact migrated some coins from mylar flips to 2x2's.

It does offer a better solution for printing info out, I also have a spreadsheet I keep with additional info beyond what I plan to put on these labels.

 

I intended to update this far sooner but me and 2 out of 3 kids managed to get COVID so I've been slowed down a tad. Also I had to wait for my punch to show up.

So first off - the lighting is horrible in these pics I just snapped em with my phone real quick here at my desk. I used a 1" hole punch made by EK and it works great. I'd like to get the next size up but 1.25" isn't going to QUITE be big enough for half dollar holders, so I'm debating about that.

In the meantime - here's my first batch. I also picked up a flat cinch no. 10 stapler so new ones will look even better with less staple "protrusion"

 

I really like that.
I think you are on to something.
Get a patent on it.

 

That came out super. You've gotten me thinking. My wife has a Silhouette cutter like yours that she has never used. So, even though using the Silhouette is probably more complex than necessary (as you demonstrated), the engineer in me says "Let's do it!"

I've seen something very similar at a vendor's showings at FUN and other shows but he used two machine-printed stickies, one across the top of the 2x2 and one across the bottom

 

there's definitely a bunch of ways to do it, but I'll tell you what, if you made it an app, made it user friendly to modify the template without the template getting out of whack, and did it in a couple formats, it might not get you rich at 99 cents or $1.99 a download, but it would be a small revenue stream for people that might have interest in printing those things out to make 2x2s prettier, but don't want to fiddle with building templates. I can't imagine there are hordes of people looking for this sort of thing, but for sure there would be some interest. and if it's media published on the internet, it's copyrighted.

 

The issue is there's no real standard for the cut outs. You could cut it with a craft cutter if you had one, although the setup might be a tad harder as far as alignment. The way I did it, although not perfect, is quite simple and really doesn't take me long now that I've got the setup out of the way, but I'm limited buy whatever sized punch I have. Which btw, you have to be careful because some punches aren't "deep" enough so that you can get the hole in the center.

Templating it as an editable document that can be printed is easy enough though, I actually did it in Canva just because I pay for a pro membership there for content creation stuff. Could just as easily be done in Word or as an editable PDF, etc.

I think there's to many variables to make it a "saleable" item per se' not that I'm after that anyway. Ideally there would be a label already cut, like avery labels, and then you just load up the template and print and peel off the labels. I doubt there's demand enough to get a standardized label on the market though

 

Avery makes a 8-1/2 x 11 sheet with 12 2x2 sticky labels on it. Just a matter of templating the text, printing it, then programming the craft cutter to slice out the center holes. I say "just" never having done it before so no doubt it would be fraught with pitfalls.

 

I know I'm still on the fence about trying something with the cutter because currently I'm limited to a 1" hole. So anything larger than a quarter I can't do at current moment. BUT, I know the alignment will be problematic. If I had one of those fancy ones that prints AND cuts......now that would be ideal.

 

Ya I think aligning the cutter is the tough part, depending on what you're using. For mine I think it would be more headache than it's worth based on my experience cutting vinyl with it. you'd have to load it EXACTLY in the right spot because it doesn't read alignment marks.

I have a paper cutter so chopping it into 2x2's isn't a big deal. That avery label might work well on one of the print and cut cricut units though because I believe you print alignment marks and then the cutter can align to those exactly the same every time.