Card Maker Success Summit? Free four days of cardmaking

I find the format difficult to use. Sometimes I can't access the videos, even though I've signed up with my free ticket. I get a not available yet message, even though it is the correct day. And for some presenters, there is way too much self promotion.

During a previous event, someone here posted links and I was able to find the videos and we discussed what we saw. That event was worth my time only because of the Peas.

I signed up for the free ticket just to try it out.  I'm not sure I'll be able to follow everything live but its free.

I did the CMSS in the spring and the Get Organized one a few months later. I have purchased the all-access at $40 or $45 because I value being able to time-shift events and watch when it works for me. There is NO WAY I would do that at the "full price." It is VERY DIFFICULT to figure out how to find where you're supposed to find the classes on their site. I sent a message to customer service that first time because I couldn't figure it out and they responded pretty quickly. Don I know just gave up.

I agree that some instructors leaned way too hard into the self-promotion -- Catherine Pooler's presentation during the Get Organized one seemed to focus solely on how their patterned paper tells you what colors of card stock and ink match, so you're organized (though maybe that's just how I remember it)! That Get Organized summit was one that definitely was enchanced by Pea discussion.

The other Cardmaking one had a fair number of Cricut/SVG-based classes I skipped, but there was plenty of good content I enjoyed. I did see a great class on using Prismacolors with watercolor to color stamps that I really enjoyed. I still haven't tried that technique, but I did get a smallish set of Prismacolors I'm enjoying learning to use. Crafty Al showed a SLoC not available elsewhere. All-in-all, I think my $40 was better spent on the cardmaking one than the organizing one.

I am considering this one, but it starts during an audit at work and ends while I'm away on vacation. I would absolutely have to time-shift it significantly.

I was watching Justine Hovey yesterday and she mentioned it, but I'm pretty sure she said everyone was making holiday cards. I am not so interested in that. But now that it has been mentioned that you will get a lot of emails and solicitations, yeah no thanks!

ETA: And I get turned off with too much self promotion. I get that you want to promote your stuff by using it, but just use it, don't tell me 20 times it's from your such and such collection. 

Ardyth is doing square stencil turning so if you're not into stenciling that's an easy pass. She said she is using the Stencils360 tool but also has versions without.
Justine is sharing tips for mass production. Her content is hit or miss for me and Ardyth already has a great playlist of her tips for this, including the class she shared at the Xmas summit a couple of years ago:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGLSuElJ3ywh5o2X64xveUc-hH0Xd15mI
Crafty Al's Sheetload is usually worth watching but I'm pretty sure I can see how she's cutting her patterned paper for this one without any need for a guide so if I try that out and it works I don't really need to sign up for that.
I skip all the cricut stuff and only watch a few mixed media things even though I don't care for actually doing mixed media. If I see anything compelling closer to the event I might get a free ticket just before to minimize emails.

The paid pass does come with some discount codes for shopping so that can help make it worth getting, or can just get you deeper in the hole, throwing good money after bad to justify having paid for the ticket...

I feel like several of my former favorite YouTubers are more like infomercials now 🙁 I used to watch a few card makers all the time. Now their videos are more about promoting lines of different companies.

I got my free ticket, but I’m pretty picky about what I spend my time watching so I probably won’t watch all of them.

I thought I saw on FB that someone is doing a Halloween card, fwiw.

Yes, the organizing one was like that - all of the day’s videos were unlocked in the morning, but some people got confused because the Live Q&A might not be scheduled until 2pm and so they thought they would have 24 hours to watch the video starting at 2pm. Nope - everything locks back up again as the next day’s videos go live the next morning.

The live sessions are all available any time (and IMO are seldom worth watching) so it’s best to prioritize watching the recorded sessions you want to see first. I fast forwarded quite a few last time and only watched a couple properly each day. And no live Q&As for me, thank you. They’re too cringe, but I guess if you’ve watched the recorded video and have questions you could ask them.

This is coming up in a couple of days I'm waiting until the last minute to sign up to minimize emails. Has anyone gotten the all access pass and already watched the videos? Any reviews?

right?  Along with all the emails on the prizes you can win - but not if you are outside the US.  

I thought I signed up awhile ago and I was getting a bunch of bs emails , but no email with the links arrived . So I guess I didn't signed up after all. 🤷‍♀️

I haven’t had any emails at all since signing up this morning! Nothing in spam either.

I was going to ask if anyone can share the schedule. I don’t want to miss any of my favorites but also don’t want to try signing up again if it did work the first time. 

Thank you MDscrapaholic I was able to watch them.

Thank you so much! I didn't realize that some of the presentations I was most interested in were today!!