Last night I dreamt that there was this new thing called a "make ticket". Make tickets were keepsake/collectible items about the size of a library card, and each one was handmade by an artist with the materials they used while making a fully realized piece.
Artists would repurpose what got discarded naturally during the creative process, or finish off any excess left over after they were done—sections of notes and first drafts, clay off-cuts fashioned into small rectangular slabs, oddly shaped fabric scraps seamed together, extra paint on a little piece of canvas.
Many were turned into miniature collages in order to reach the dimensions that people had come to expect from make tickets, or to showcase component materials that might not be visible in the completed work. It was all very zero-waste and behind-the-scenes-y and so incredibly fun.
I was given one from a painting, which looked like this:
