C&9th Summer Camp 2024

I finally have a free day so I am die cutting today.  Just a tip if you are going to do the donut class.  BEFORE you take the large 3 piece frosting dies off the backer, on the cutting side, take a sharpie and mark a spot on all 3 dies where they need to line up.  Once you do that, take them off the backer and mark the same spot on the backside of the die.  It is a pain in the butt to try to get the outer and middle dies to line back up if you don't mark them.  Ask me how I know...

Well I spent at least 6 hours die cutting and I'm not done yet.  I'm confused by the instructions for Jennifer's class so I left some of that until class.  Also, it's a bit annoying that one of the dies for her class does not fit very well on an A2 card panel. I did not get to Kristina's class but I had already decided I'm not doing the greenhouse box things but I do want to make flat cards with her products.

If you've opened your box and looked thru the field guide, did you notice the cards in the booklet are not the same cards that were in all of the IG summer camp posts? They are similar but not the same.  I actually like the IG cards better and will probably replicate those.

That was the weirdest unboxing event. Here’s a bag of stamp and here’s a bag of dies, now moving on to the comedy hour. 😳

The changes are minor but the biggest thing is they seem to have replaced Grasshopper in the original cards with Eucalyptus which makes the cards in the book dull in my opinion.  I'm switching back to Grasshopper.  I'm just not a huge fan of the Eucalyptus color.

A few of the things I noticed about the differences between IG & the book:

--Laura's cards were more pink but the book has more green.  The pink/orange is really want made me love the cards. I'm probably the only one who noticed the pinkness 

--Meghann's turnabout card switched Grasshopper with Eucalyptus.  The Thanks for Being You sentiment was cut wild berry, watermelon, grasshopper and rainforest where the book uses creamsicle, watermelon and briar rose.  The big sentiment was laying on the turnabout stamped paper which looks great.  The tiny square sentiment gets lost in the card.

--Jaycee's flowers petals switched Grasshopper with Eucalyptus.  The second card probably uses grasshopper but the orange ink blending mutes the color.

--Carissa's donut box was white but pink in the book.  I also think some of the donut layers were cut with pebble cardstock instead of wheat.

--Jennifer's rainbow card has different colors on the person.  (I prefer the book colors on this one)

--Kristina's two dimensional boxes are not even in the book.  They are way cuter than the white box in the book.  The box using the wheat cardstock is the best one.

Again, this is all minor but what made me realize it is that the stuff in the book just seems dull/muted.  I thought it was the paper the book was printed on but then I realized it was really the Grasshopper/Eucalyptus switch. The bright colors are what drew me in when I signed up so it just seemed off when I opened book.  It's a super easy switch since I have the ink and paper that I prefer, so that's great.