Sept 2023 Crop & Create Cards

Oooh I love the Honey Bee sneak! The others aren't loading for me so I haven't seen them yet. I somehow missed that we could register for the FB group already, so I just did that now and am pending. Can't wait to see the sneaks! I really need to be on this site more often, I've missed so much this summer.

I just saw that Altenew is doing a Christmas card event - it look awesome but too rich for my blood this year. $411 but discounted to $341 Canadian plus shipping. I bet it will be amazing though, the instructors and descriptions of the products sound awesome.

I gave the Father's Day owl card that we made in class to my Dad and it's the first time he's ever really looked closely at one of my cards and complimented me on it. He studied it and then said he had to put it where he could see it all the time, so he put it prominently in his family room. I gave one of the other owl cards to my 29-year-old nephew, and the third one to my 25-year-old nephew, and both absolutely loved it. I've really never gotten such enthusiastic reactions from the guys in my family! 

For everyone in the Facebook group, they posted a picture of the cover of the booklet so a few more sneak peeks are up.

Also, this was posted

Check your emails. The big announcement from SCT is out. It includes supply lists, schedules, etc.

Yeah, I'm not really into cupcake images, but oh well, I'll give it a whirl.

I like most of the sneak peeks except for the Pink and Main one. I'm not really into their aesthetic. I'll reserve judgement until I see the full card, though. My main complaint with them is their colour combinations, I think. Kind of garish, is that the word? At the same time, there's always someone who likes to receive them, so even if I don't like it personally, someone will.




Oh my gosh, take the days off! I'm so jealous. I can't take any days off so I'll just be joining in on Thursday and Friday nights, and then Saturday and Sunday. I'm so wiped by Sunday afternoon that I usually skip the last class and do it later. Taking off all of the event days and then Monday to recover sounds heavenly!!

lindamh , have you tried any of the non-SCT cardmaking events?

After participating in 3 different company's events over the last few months, I can say without hesitation that (IMO) the vibe for the other events is tracks back to how SCT treats their customers in general (not just the complaints I've personally shared here in the past). If you haven't tried one and get the itch to do a card event, I'd give one of the others a go! Loved PF enough to sign up for a second and loved C+9th enough to plan on taking part in some of theirs in the future. And I'm looking forward to trying other companies down the road.

Those products I will use for a good long while. Anyhow, food for thought.

I absolutely think the fall event is too big.  4 days with 4 two hour classes is pretty crazy.  I was really surprised at the schedule.

I have not gotten my box so I have no idea what's in it but I will say I'm a bit perplexed with the Gina K class.  I love the sneak peek that is posted.  However, it appears we are not getting all the supplies to complete the cards if we want our cards to look like the samples.


The main card in the sneak peek has stitched white panels but we're not getting the dies for it?  If we want the "exact same look" we need to purchase additional supplies from her store...which by the way are quite expensive?  Maybe I'm in a mood but this just seems odd.

For Copics, I took Sandy Allnock's Beginning Copic Coloring class. It's pretty in depth and I got a ton out of it.

Jenn Shurkus has a Copic coloring class. I haven't taken it specifically but I've taken lots of her other classes. I think the way she teaches is really easy to follow. I especially liked her Distress Inks, Distress Sprays and Distress Watercolor Pencil classes (3 separate classes). And her class the Creative Journey Art Retreat (not a specific focus but I like the class)

I've also taken Hero Arts classes and the free Lawn Fawn classes.

I’m having mixed feelings about this upcoming CCD. It’s great value for the price. I enjoy the event itself, the instructors…really everything about the live event. I usually don’t follow along making with the live classes so the number of classes seems like a win to me. However I am not fond of the Facebook page leading up to the event. There is so much angst and stress between the crazy organization posts and the supplies posts. I pretty much avoid it.

I just finished the March 2023 cards(I don’t work along with the live classes). I realized I didn’t enjoy several of the cards as much this time around. The LSRS, Stamps of Life, and Pink and Main projects don’t match my style at all. However I did make these cards because I have the tools, materials, and instructions, so I figure the point for me is to try something new. Simon Hurley and Brutus Monroe can sometimes be a miss style-wise for me too. I wish Pink Fresh and the Stamp Market would be back in the mix.

This time around, I already don’t mesh with the Pink and Main vibe, so I am a bit annoyed that a laminator is on the general supplies list. I don’t have a laminator because I opted for the Spellbinders glimmer plate. Now there is a class I already don’t love the style of and I can’t even complete it to be of optimal quality. Why would a laminator or a $40 just released die set be a part of the general supplies? I am sure there would be an outcry if Spellbinders projects needed a glimmer plate or their new letter press plate. It’s the same thing IMO

I loloked into the upcoming C&9th class and the combined Pinkfresh and Stamp Market classes, but they are all Christmas centered. I enjoy their stuff, but entirely Christmas themed is a miss for me too. So if I drop CCD I don’t know what will fill the card class niche for me. As a scrapbooker, I love making cards, but am not confident with it. Classes help get the card juices flowing.

I agree with so much of what has already been said. I’ve attended every online card event they’ve held and have seen it grow from two to four days. I am starting to wonder if I want to do this again or maybe just once a year instead of twice a year. I am finding as it grows, I am liking less of the projects. And like others have mentioned, I am accumulating so much stuff that I am not using. I have also attended the Pinkfresh card events and love almost every single project. You don’t receive as much, but I end up liking and using what I do receive. It is 6 classes and not nearly as overwhelming. And I feel it is a good value for the price.

I think the first event had about 600 attendees, this next one has 3400 attendees. So the Facebook group has a lot more people on it asking the SAME questions over and over. They drive me crazy. Just this week two people asked when they will get their boxes, although all the information has been emailed out and posted in two places on the Facebook page. And then there are the women that over engineer every aspect of the event, making special labels, boxes, ways to mark their book, special color charts etc. That’s good for them but when they share it all these other women freak out about how to do the same. And then there is the constant asking about supplies and people freaking out about having the exact thing used in class. Catherine and other instructors make it clear to use what you have. I probably need to stay off the Facebook page since the questions drive me crazy.

So while I think the event is a great value, I am not sure it’s going in a direction that still appeals to me. I will see how this event goes and how many of the projects I like. I would probably do another Pinkfresh card event as long as it’s not holiday themed.