TE Stamp Joy Virtual Event

I can't help, but wow $149 for a virtual event? That seems like a lot. I will go check it out to see what that is about. No I have never done anything with them.

I signed up for it. I have never done one before but I did Queen for a day as a virtual (they sent me videos) and I did for free the volume mega meet events and had a lot of fun. I think it’s great to be able to do these from the comfort of my own home and have the techniques to be able to re-refer to whenever I want. All the reviews are read about past events are very positive. I’m doing some classes from CKC (the Arlington one) next weekend. I like doing stuff from home.

Sounds like fun, and I love their products, but that weekend is Canadian Thanksgiving. Good thing, cuz I just saw their additional costs to ship to Canada.

I've taken a couple of classes from Taylor at my local stamp store. She had family living in my local area, so she would teach a class at my local shop whenever she came out to visit. She is an excellent teacher, IMO, and the cards we made were super cute. If memory serves, I think I paid $40 each time for a two hour class and we made three or four cards each time. It was easily five years ago that I took those classes, too. If you're interested, here are links to my blog posts where I recapped each of the classes and show what we created.

First Class (March 2015)
Second Class (March 2016)

I'm just coming off a virtual all-day event. (not with TE though, another random virtual event I found).
It was 8:30am - 5:00pm, and was $120.
Which included stamps, dies, and everything you needed to make 20 projects (outside of general adhesive but did include pop dots).

Here's what I didn't like, it was on Facebook Live private group.
There was nobody to talk to, no socialization, no giggles, no oops, no nothing.
It was actually quite boring.
It also gave two 2-hr breaks, so really the event was like 4.5 hours.
Turns out the 2-hr breaks were to finish cards that we didn't finish during the time slot, or eat lunch.
I ended up not even doing the afternoon projects and just watching the instructions so I could do it later.
I could have got that off of You-Tube though.

The pace was what I usually like, as I'm a fast card maker, but the teacher had pre-cut and pre-stamped all of HER items, but we had to die-cut or stamp ours so it took longer, but she just kept going, so I literally was finishing the 1st card, and she was on the 3rd card.
Again - I'm not a slow maker at all, but she had a head start on everything and was just assembling, where as we were doing it all.

Also - we had a ton of issues with FB cutting out, and had to log back in multiple times during the day.
Also - her camera kept blurring and going clear every time she moved, so that was frustrating.
Technology is tough and not her fault, but still a frustrating experience.

Overall, I felt like I was working on kits, which I wasn't looking for in this event, and not for $125.

Would I do it again - nope. Unless its on Zoom where it can be interactive and we get a heads up on die-cutting a head of time.
I'm not looking for the pieces to come already die-cut, as we have the dies to do it. But dang, slow down for us to be able to do it.

Just my experience.  I hope yours is better!