grammadee/card hosts: an observation & suggestion

The only points we have been counting are for the monthly TEAM members.

They each earn a point for taking on any of the Tuesday card challenges before the end of this month.

And any cardmaker can take on any Tuesday card challenge at any time. No deadline on them at all. So if you have some crafting time and are looking for ideas, you can take on any of them or all of them. Just asking that if you DO, that you link your creation to the original challenge thread. Please also tag the OP of the challenge so she can come back and see your work.

I know when I host I try to keep up with responses by bookmarking the thread but sometimes I stop getting notifications on it after a while... not sure why... I try to check back from time to time. 

But as to tagging - if you hover over the person’s name on the left that you want to tag you’ll see a little linky pop up thingy that shows their actual name (sometimes it’s the same like for you scrapnnana and me too, but some people have changed their names over the years and so their tagging names are different). When you want to mention them you can just type the @ symbol and that name in the text and it will convert into a link that notifies them when you post your reply.
Another way you can tag someone and be certain you don’t get a typo is to make sure you’re in the full reply window (if you’re in quick reply you’ll see a “reply” button in the blue bar top right which will take you to the proper reply window with all the icons) and one of those icons is a person with an @ symbol behind them (6th from the right). It will pull up a window where you can start typing a person’s name like “gram” and all the people whose names start with gram will pop up there so you can chose the right one. That will enter the same little tag into your text.
Hope that makes sense!

I don't think you're necessarily overlooking anything.

For the last one that I hosted, I hosted on March 17... that was the week that everything fell apart in my state, so I'm gonna plead special circumstances on that one.  (Also, when I did check, I think there was only one project posted, although I think there may be at least one more now.)

I'm also frequently guilty of out-of-sight, out-of-mind.  The card sub-board topics aren't often the most recent one on the homepage, so while I read NSBR a lot, I sometimes forget to go scope out the actual craft section of the board.  This is especially true if my brain is coasting on autopilot after work.  (So now that Jo's given you instructions, feel free to tag me to get my attention any time.)

I try to go back and check on my posted challenges, but sometimes people post their completed cards on the monthly challenge board and I usually don't check it there.

I have linked the card challenges to the op in the stickied sign up thread here and to the Master Challenge list on the Challenges board, so people can find these challenges when they are looking for ideas. Like gale w I  hope to come back to these when I am card making.

Didn’t include the challenge topic though in my links. Right now I am looking for inspiration on stamping on patterned paper. Didn’t someone post a challenge on THAT?

I know-I want to come back to that too! It took me a bit to get the hang of it, but once I embossed, I ended up REALLY liking the results.