TE Connect with Community Card Challenge!

Nice idea, especially since I don't know any cardmakers in the area. I don't have much TE stuff, not even ink. I'm not interested in exchanging cards with people, I want to meet people.

I saw it but I don't know. I'd rather send my cards to the Peas! 

Looks awesome, I wonder if they will have one for us internationals? I have filled out the form in hope…..

It would be interesting to see how "local" the group really is. I find I like to craft when I want to, not with a sort of deadline. And if you are in a group, exchanging cards, you kind of have a deadline. Hope it works out to be what you want both want.

So, you just send cards to others in your area? You don’t actually meet to craft?

I have plenty of people that I can send cards to. Before COVID, I invited gals from church to come to my home to make cards once a month at no charge (I have more supplies than I will ever use, and it didn’t even begin to make a dent in my stash. It was fun to get together). I had taught at the LSS back near DC before they closed, and before we moved halfway across the country. I had a hard time finding anyone to craft with after I moved. Having gals from church was a good way for me to connect with others in my area. Now I know at least a few people in my neighborhood, and I am thinking of doing something like that again, although designing the cards took me so much time that I was thinking of quitting, even before COVID put an end to it. I felt like I had to keep teaching them new techniques, and it took more time than I thought it should.

I think it would be more fun to just get together with other card makers to make the cards, then donate the cards. At least you’d get some social interaction and hopefully make new friends.

I do have some TE stamps, but they are really, really old. I’m sure they are hoping and expecting that as crafters make, send, and receive cards, that it will also boost sales for them. If I get a cute hand made card, I am likely to want to know where they got the stamps or other elements used to make it. It’s a smart marketing strategy, and I like that it can connect you to other card makers in your area.

Let us know how it goes, and if you enjoy it.

Got my list as well. There are 7 of us, all within probably 15 miles of each other. Right now we’re trying to plan a time to FT or Zoom together this weekend to meet each other.

gmcwife1, the girl who started the local FB group and I were talking about the group just the other day. She doesn’t plan on removing people until the group is at least a year old, so you’ve got plenty of time to make it to a get together. It is a terrific group of women. Kind, considerate, creative, fun and funny, and not a single negative.

I got the “you are in” email; nothing since then.