Crop & Create Cardmaking March 2022

pinklady I'm with you. Busting the box open the second it gets in my greedy little hands 😂

Got a shipping notification this morning, but only the label was created so no date for arrival yet.

leeny I had 2 of my friends come over for the classes they were interested. We will do the same thing.

My box is arriving on Fridayyyy! So exited.
In FB group sneak peak of Elle’s studio mini class

Oh man, I have serious FOMO for this one! I will definitely do the fall one again!

Thanks, but I can’t do this one. Wah!

Mine still says Monday too, but its in Goodyear, AZ. 30 miles from me , I just hope that will arrive sooner

My box came today but I'm waiting until my bestie gets hers so we can open together. I hope she gets it today because I really want to open it!! This is our first Crop & Create cardmaking event. We did the Pinkfresh event and loved that one as well.

Does the book has pictures and instructions for the mini classes on Friday?

In the past some of the lunch and learns would post a pdf in the guides.

Glad I unboxed mine. I received 2 sets of all the make and take projects instead of the bag with the items for the Gina k, lawn fawn, hero arts, and stamp market classes. I emailed Catherine and I know they will take care of it as they have awesome customer service but I’m glad I’m not closer to the event first figuring that out. They mailed out 2000 boxes so I expect some mistakes to happen. I wonder who got the extra set of class kits, we need to do an exchange :-)

Heather

Edited to add I heard from Catherine and I’m going send them the extra back & they will send me the missing kit. I love these events and I think they do an awesome job. This is my third cardmaking one.

I'm a first timer for this event. My thoughts so far (no spoilers!)

1) My box arrived on Thursday and, since I have no restraint, I opened that big box up. Lots and lots of stuff. I was very pleased with the quantity and quality!

2) The vast majority of the stuff is to my style and taste. I expected that, given the manufacturers involved. I will get my money's worth out of it.

3) The wire bound book for the Saturday and Sunday classes is great. Thorough instructions and lots of photos.

My only disappointment is that there were no instructions provided for the Friday make and takes. I hope they will provide links for those of us who are not on Facebook.

So far, so good. I'm excited!

I joined FB for last October’s event with a separate name and email address. I resisted for years. There’s been no difference in ads or email since then. I don’t look at the email account.

I don’t know if all SCT info that’s in the Guides and Files tabs is also sent to participants. I’m not saying it’s not - you might want to email to ask - they’re very responsive. A number of participants have also posted ink matching comparisons in those tabs - not that matching is necessary. I look at the book to decide which inks to grab - often Distress Oxides. Sometimes I select a different color scheme.

SCT posted on FB that the day after the live unboxing - which is on FB - they’ll provide info for the Friday mini’s and make-n-takes. (The Q&A sessions with instructors following each youtube class are only on FB.)

ETA: Friday’s activities are only on FB.

The FB group is very active - questions, silliness, photos, reminders from SCT, etc. I’ve enjoyed it, partly because until very recently I couldn’t do much because of a fall/break. But I 100% get not wanting to be a member - especially after listening to a fascinating NPR radio interview with the author of “Zucked - Waking up to the Facebook Catastrophe.” (He was a colleague and investor.) I think some things have changed since then but not enough.

I received my box Friday and opened Saturday. This is my 4th event, I did the scrapbooking one first, cards last spring, the holiday and now this cardmaking. I am not that into the whole box opening and all the hype that goes with it, nothing against those who enjoy, just not my thing. I was very overwhelmed by everything and am continually impressed with the quality and variety of these events. This is an event I do with my Mom who is exclusively a cardmaker. I prob wouldn't do it, except just to spend the time with her. I will probably only actually complete like 3 of the classes and just watch & play on the rest.

Just looking forward to some creative time!

As far as Facebook, I also avoided all facebook based events until the SCT ones came along. I hadn't been a member there since 2009ish, but for these events only I created a "fakebook" with alternate email and login. I have no friends on there and just participate in the group stuff. Since I haven't been on in so long, I honestly don't even know how to use it, I just go to the group page and look at everything there. It's really not a problem and I don't care that I have tons of unanswered friend requests bcz family/friends maybe recognized me.