I was speaking with one of my friend about my stamp release and she thinks that I'm releasing too many stamps in a month. She's saying that not many customer will constantly come to my shop everyweek to make purchase 2 stamps. After I thought about it, I think she's right... if I keep releasing 2 single stamps a week, I will pretty much run out of idea by the end of the summer... lol... So now, I'm thinking maybe we should try this:

Single Stamps - Release every Monday (no more thursday)
Stamp Sets - Release once a Month (no single stamps release during that week)

In this case we can make more samples. I was thinking since there will be no release on Thursdays, maybe we can try posting out some challenges for others to play with? So we can make 1 or 2 sample(s) (minimum 1 for singles, minimum 2 for sets) for the Monday release, then we can make one more (or as much ask you want.. lol) with the challenge which will be held on every Thursday? How does that sound? I would love to hear some feedback from you since I'm not a "real crafter" =P

I'm speaking with some girls about joining our team and will announce them when everything is confirmed. Our team is growing~ Yay~

I have a guest designer for this month, her name is Rachael, know as gingerbread girl. She will be making a couple of cards for me in April, and she's wanting to make more cards for me in May as a guest designer. Here's her blog: http://gingerbreadgallery.blogspot.com/

Just so you know guest designers will have no access to the DT discusstion =)

Anyways, if you have any suggestion about the stamp release please throw them at me~ I'm off to bed now! Good night girls~ Sweet dreamzzz
Laura Pryor
4/5/2010 10:38:40 pm

I think this is a great idea, Natalie. I like the idea of one release per week allowing us to make more samples if we are so inspired to! We can call it Chi Chi Memories Monday!!
I am so excited about Rachel guest designing. She is a fantastic card maker!!! And a really sweet gal! This makes me so happy! I think you are going to love what she does with your images.

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Natalie
4/6/2010 02:42:32 am

Hi Laura,

Since you are telling me that you have another "all of my heart" sample on the way. I guess we can postpone the rainy days until the week after the Mother's day set is released. I really wanna try out the challenge and see how the result is but I'm actually not too familiar with the challenges. Is sketch the most popular challenge? I "think" that one is pretty easy to do...(until I actually do it.. lol) gotta do some research on other sites' challenges. I wanna try to avoid to release the challenge on the same day as the others. hmmmm think think think... let me think over this and will send you and Jane an email by tonight =)

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Laura
4/6/2010 06:37:17 am

Ok, that would be great. I am 60% done with Rainy Days, but doing another heart would be great. Tomorrow the SCS sketch challenge comes out as well as my favorite color challenge so I would like to utilize at least one of those, especially the SCS one!! So this works great because I've realy been wanting to do a SCS challenge with your images.
About CCM challanges.....We will have to all talk about how we can work that out. I think it would be fun. I will brainstorm about this a bit. I'm starting a landscaping class tonight and in case it's boring I will bring a notebook to jot thoughts in! AAAHAHAH!!! It's something I'm doing with my mother in law.....we'll see. I hope I learn how to care for hydrangeas and prune properly...these are my goals.
Anywhooo...I will put thoughts into this. Talk soon!
Laura

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Natalie
4/6/2010 01:55:10 pm

ohh! Maybe I'm going to participate in the SCS challenge tomorrow. I want to see how everything works and I can work on the challenge with some of my older stamps just to show others what I have.. haha

my friend told me to do color challenge but I'm actually not good with color combination... LOL

I'm trying to put some thought into the CCM challenge too, like... how to make it stand out from the others? maybe I can try to give it a weird name.. lol... anyways.. my brain is kinda stuck right now, I hate that.. :(

landscaping? wow! Looks like you're enjoying your life... I wish I can be like you.. haha

anyways, I'll keep thinking... good night!

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Jane
4/7/2010 07:50:47 pm

I think this is a good idea and I LOVE Laura's suggestion - Chi Chi Memories Monday. It helps me out not having to do two posts on Thursday too. :)

A CCM Challenge sounds like fun too!

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