No more Vicky 10 cards 1 kit :(

Wow! I probably would have been buying some of those kits ... had I seen those videos earlier. Seeing how a kit is used effectively is what really compels me to purchase! Especially when it is specifically for card making! My preference, for those that I saw, was the one who is stopping the 10 cards - 1 kit theme = Vicky! Elegant designs!

Okay, so...I actually haven't ever really watched hers. I got sucked into these types of videos, however, looking for inspiration on the Safari HA kit as well as the celestial one (can't think of the name). I initially stumbled upon Jess Crafts, but after a while, her videos became a little hard for me to watch (can't explain why...maybe I od'd on her older videos or something, lol) so I went looking for more...many of them suggestions on youtube using the two kits I mentioned above. Then I found Include a Thank You (mentioned above, not sure of the exact channel name) and LOVE HER to pieces! She is upbeat and easy to relate to and I just can't get enough of her 'don't give up on it' mentality. I found a kit that I really liked the look of from another company and again, found some great suggestions. From there, I stumbled upon CardCutUps.

The last channel is a bit different and features several card kits. SSS has been one. Now...the difference is twofold. The first...he's a guy! I just LOVE it! He's the first male crafter that I've actually felt interested enough in to subscribe to. The second is that he doesn't show his process, but he laughs through every detail of the cards to tell you how he made them. I usually can't watch videos that are just flip throughs because they just become so boring. 'I did this and that' and well...as a viewer, it is often easy to tell how something was put together so a video seems excessive and is uninteresting to watch. However, this guy thinks so far out of the box and commits a lot of time to his projects that I feel the walk through adds valuable information. He has started to show some of his process in some recent videos, but it isn't a full on process video posting by any means. He prints sentiments of his own when the kit doesn't have enough for him to use, he will trace images from the internet or the kit if he wants characters or shapes to go with his designs and what I find the most interesting, his cards are incredibly well thought out from start to finish. I can't imagine how much time he must put into each card design...there are very few cards he makes that end up 'well I could have thought of that' and he thinks it through down to the most minuscule detail.

Vicky Papaioannou - had to cut and paste, I'd never spell it otherwise!

Thanks for linking this guy! He had not come up in any of my suggestions so far, but I like him! I've only watched part of one video so far - one of the SSS kits that was just a headscratcher for card making. I couldn't have used it AT ALL, and I didn't even love what Vicki did with it. He acknowledged that it was not a good kit for him, but he is making it work as best as he can, and so far the cards are pretty cool. Out of the box thinking, for sure.

I'm looking forward to watching his video for the Kindness kit that I bought a while back because Vicki tempted me.

I don't mind that he does a walk through of the finished card rather than the whole process. Maybe he's able to be more creative without having a camera watching over him the whole time.