When I started using spaced repetition, I felt weird internal pressure not to make too many flashcards. That was wrong-headed: empirically, I easily absorb cards faster than I can reasonably create them (myself), and it feels way better to just create tons indiscriminately.
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Do you think the fact you create the cards yourself plays a role? I.e. do you remember them better because you put work into making them?
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I think the act of making them is part of forming a densely connected network of understanding. I don't know that it makes learning the card reliably faster, but I think it increases the value of the successfully-learned card (i.e. it's better-connected to other knowledge).