Sept 2023 Crop & Create Cards

Woo hoo! I intend to get on the waitlist for now. Once I have a better idea on what my living situation will be like at that time I can reassess.

I feel like I should finish with this one before I decide if I want to sign up for the next one.

I mostly ignore the FB group - IMO the fan girling is ridiculous. I'm quite happy with the amount of excitement that is generated here on 2peas.  

Oh the excitement is real! I might splurge on this and do it

I might have plenty of time if I hadn't signed up for SO MANY other things in the meantime.

Have you two started seriously looking yet? And have you decided on a specific community yet? 

I’m going to do the fall card making event. I took Thursday and Friday off for the spring event and really enjoyed myself. I did some homework, watched most of the classes with a delay and did not stress about following along. I actually swatched my inks during most of the classes or watched them in bed.

I have only completed the two cards I did during the event, but it helped me find my mojo. Since the event I have cleaned and reorganized the pen and ink area of my room. I have completed swatching and labeling at least 90% of my inks and I made two Easter cards.

I agree with a lot of pinklady and MichyM’s opinions on many of the classes. The fangirl stuff drives me crazy as did CZs singing and trying too hard.

Is the Pinkfresh holiday one only cards again? Have they said/confirmed? I would be ALL OVER that one if it was cards and layouts too. I always love their Christmas collection packs.

I didn't participate last fall, but as I recall, it was all cards.

Pinkfresh holiday event last year was $175. Hope they stay around the same pricing this year too. I love their events.

I attended 3 SCT events before and could not stand all the fangirling during the events. So it's an easy pass for me unless they release some amazing sneaks and have some newer companies joining. I would love for PF and the stamp market to make a come back.

It is amazing the difference between PF events and SCT events. SCT is way, way, WAY over the top IMHO. 

I'll be signing up again.

I like the SCT events because of the variety of products and the value. I really liked C&C this time, but I had a slightly different experience than past events. For all the prior events I participated in the FB group and watched in real-time. This time I mostly scrolled by a lot of FB stuff, mainly reading what SCT or instructors posted. I started the first class of the day when the second class began, and I could pause and re-start the class as needed without missing anything. I started the next class as soon as a class was done. Not hanging around for the Q&A portion. I didn't read any of the in class comments or watch the re-cap of the day. I felt like this was good way for me to enjoy the event (basically making cards) without the hoopla.

Adding - I think a lot of people like the connection of "talking" with and getting to know the card making celebrities. And I won't begrudge them, but in this stage of my life I'm not into it. I will admit that I've done my bit of fangirling when meeting some of these people at in-person events I've done (pre-covid).

ETA: With the way I took the classes I could take the dog out, have lunch and dinner, use the restroom, whatever without threat of missing anything. I will do it the same way next time too.

This was exactly how I did it too. No stress and I really enjoyed myself. I can’t sit that long at my desk, so I’d watch a class, take a break and then watch another. Later in the day I’d watch from bed, usually on my massage pad. 

I actually don’t really enjoy ‘lives’. I dislike the disruption when the host welcomes people or stops to talk to them or when they get distracted by trying to keep up with the comments. Most of the instructors were seasoned and I loved it when they had their support people reading the questions to them.

I’m also at a point where I’m not interested in the fangirl stuff. I don’t have a need to feel connected with the instructors. I’m able to see this as business not friends, so I tend to not engage in most of the ott love. I support them by word of mouth and with my $$. I did much more shopping then I intended but I have been very happy with what I got.