I read on Facebook that TC is on a Scrapbooking Cruise right now. Then read from someone that is attending that the scrapbooking portion of the cruise was cancelled....?????
I don't know what's going on with TCW. As of April 2, she said she'd lost 46 pounds. Whether from health issues or an elective diet, that's a huge amount of weight. She was in Orlando happily waiting to board a Caribbean cruise ship with Brian.
She said on her blog that the scrapping cruise scheduled for March 19-26 was sold out, but nothing more was said about it.
She is on a low calorie diet. Good for her. weight loss is hard.
She's been claiming her events are sold out for years. Seems odd that you rarely see her fans posting raving reviews about these "sold out" events. I've always found that strange. Almost like the events never live up to the hype. If the scrapbook portion of her cruise was cancelled, I hope the attendees receive a refund. No Frye Fest here
I saw the Heidi Swapp Storyline stuff. I can understand her fans buying it because they love all things Heidi but I am done buying any more PL type stuff. I have soooo many cards left plus so many cut apart papers I haven't used yet.
When I tried Project Life I jumped in with both feet and bought so many card sets and also 12x12 cut apart sheets to use. After working on my first PL album I just don't love the look and am going back to regular 12x12 scrapbooking. I regret buying all those card sets especially since there are so many duplicates.
Lots of people said from its start that Project Life was nothing but a high workload racket that would make Becky Higgins a millionaire. That's apparently the case. I feel sorry for scrappers like 5:12 who were misled into spending a fortune on it and ended up with a mountain of unwanted, ugly supplies.
No two ways about it. Scrapping is not popular any more. I've certainly lost interest in it. The industry has gone overboard with planners and expensive mixed media products that don't interest mainstream paper crafters. When the last scrapping store in my region closed last month, they couldn't even give away their pricey wood shelving and storage units. No one wanted them.
It also appears that several of the smaller online stores and kit clubs bit the dust because there haven't been any newsletters from them for ages. My e-mailbox used to be full of them. I don't even remember their names any more. Glad I didn't give up my other hobbies because they're still going strong.
I like to use a lot of 5x7 pictures mixed in with my 4x6 and I take mostly vertical pictures. I found the thing that was most frustrating for me with PL pages was not having my pictures going the right direction for the page protector openings on the PL sheets. This sounds weird but I have found Becky Higgins herself has more of a plain jane style, anything unique or pretty are from other artists. She is the brains not the artist (not that there's anything wrong with that, she has made a lot of money off that).
I may be the only one who doesn't want foil, gold or glitter on my PL cards. I looked at the new Little You sets at my Michael's because I really liked that Crate Paper line. But the Becky Higgins cards have dark green foil on the boy cards and a maroon foil on the girl cards. The foil makes them garish looking and ruined them for me.
When I first started scrapbooking around 2000 I had a couple friends and family members who were into it too.
My sister-in-law was my last scrapbook buddy but after her last child graduated from high school 4 years ago she made an album for people at the graduation party to look at and hasn't scrapbooked since. I am now the only one still actively scrapbooking.
I can see why people got excited about PL because it didn't take up much space, not everybody can have a scrapbook room to store all their stuff (my supplies are in my bedroom). But the collecting tendencies gravitated to PL and now I see people who buy every kit that comes out so it kind of defeats the purpose.
We lost all 5 scrapbook stores in my town, and we had some good ones. We just have Michael's, JoAnns, and Hobby Lobby left. I buy almost all of my scrapbook stuff online now.
And Becky big time pushes her digital photo books, seems like she is concentrating on the digital side way more than selling the physical products and photo albums.
Did you all see that Susan Opel is coming back. She is going to be the new editor of Scrapbook and Cards. SC is just another Creating Keepsakes. Mainly mormons and pages about babies and breeding....ugggghhhh...
If you plan on visiting RefuPeas, be sure your anti-virus software is current. A friend was nailed over there last week. A professional geek was needed to fix her computer.
IMO there's nothing worth going there for. All of the top crafters from the original Two Peas boards seem to have vanished.
Did Studio Calico fall off the map? Not hearing much from them anymore. Also did anyone purchase 'Where Women Create' this month? It has Jen Gallacher and her daughter who is now creating with her and her business.....Dang is Scrapbook and Cards becoming the next Creating Keepsakes...
Many long-time scrappers and papercrafters are leaving this hobby here and in the UK. There's not much incentive to stay in it. A lot of them are unhapppily stuck with rooms full of obsolete stuff no one wants.
LSS's, meetups and good online forums are history. Literally insane message boards were allowed to take over and they turned off a lot of very talented people. Many online stores went out of business because consumers are tired of mixed media overkill, junked-up planners and generally paying a fortune for crap made in China.
My future hobby money will be saved for new computerized sewing equipment. Durable, fun machines, not rotting paper and dried up glue. Fortunately, I was never a hoarder or a compulsive shopper, so my junk-free stash is relatively small and it contains mainly collector's items. The two die cutting machines can also be used on fabrics. I've always had other well stocked hobbies, so there's no shortage of leisure-time activities here.
Yes, I regret wasting so much money on papercrafting. My sewing room could have been beefed up for half of what was blown on it. I got into paper in 2010 when there were lots of wonderful collections done by professional graphic artists. Sadly, Most of them were fired less than two years later in favor of hair-flipping DT's, bad-to-mediocre kit clubs and other stuff that doesn't interest me.
Aside from making Halloween decorations and occasional cards for a few special people, I'm through with this boring scene.
Are you going to start quilting or sewing for yourself? I live in a medium sized city and we have at least 3 decent sized/stocked quilt stores in town. They are fun to shop in and dream. If I made a quilt I wouldn't know what to do with it. I went through a sewing phase where I sewed all my clothes for work and my coworkers would tease me "is this new? we haven't seen this before". I took an alterations class so I could alter my own patterns, line skirts and pants. I made pretty dresses and things. It was a lot of fun! Good luck to you on your new adventure!
@11:35 We can't generalize from our own perceptions and feelings. You have to look at actual marketing studies, and paper crafts, including scrapbooking are doing just fine:
Not so, Anon June 4. When you look at the massive sales volume generated by home sewing industries, scrapping and papercrafting aren't even blips on on the craft and hobby radar. Global fabric stores abound online and fabulous stuff can be found there. Brick and mortar fabric stores are fewer in number now but they're easily found as well.
New home sewing and embroidery machines run anywhere from $75 starters with just a couple of decorative stitches to $14,000 supercomputers that even set crystal beads. All types are very attractive items and they sell like hotcakes.
Also, an increasing number of normal, very talented men are getting into home sewing and buying expensive computerized machines. What they see in them are new types of power tools using heavy-duty materials like jeans-weight denim, upholstery fabrics, vinyl and leather.
Globally, home sewing of all types also has a massive, highly interactive online presence at all skill levels. It's attracting newbies like mad with free YouTube instruction from high-level industry professionals and leading manufacturers. Very cordial, extremely knowledgeable people.
Meanwhile, LSS's, crops and crafting meetups died like flies, as did all of the great scrapping forums and message boards that were destroyed by mean girl celebs and flat-out crazies. People aren't interested in ripoff paper and glue from China, especially younger ones needed to keep this hobby alive. Men won't touch it. With hefty prices, the huge shift to mixed media and dumping graphic arts professionals, scrapping is just holding its own, not flourishing.
Papercrafts can't compete with megabucks artist hobbies like painting and drawing either. Art supplies from good dirt-cheap ones to pro-level products are made worldwide. Aside from online giants like Illinois-based Blick/Utrecht, fun artist supply stores are all over the place, including Aaron Brothers which is owned by Michaels.
I live in a major US city with hundreds of stores, but the nearest scrapping supplies are in the boonies over 100 miles away. Zero interest in them here. However, sewing machines, sewing classes and fashionable fabrics are sold by local independents, plus easily reached Joann stores. All of our regional Joann and Michaels stores made big reductions in their papercrafts inventory a few years ago. What's left us to either shopworn or house brand junk.
"Meanwhile, LSS's, crops and crafting meetups died like flies, as did all of the great scrapping forums and message boards that were destroyed by mean girl celebs and flat-out crazies. People aren't interested in ripoff paper and glue from China, especially younger ones needed to keep this hobby alive. Men won't touch it. With hefty prices, the huge shift to mixed media and dumping graphic arts professionals, scrapping is just holding its own, not flourishing."
See this is what I meant. Impressions, feelings, thoughts don't cut it. Back up your statements with objective statistics, marketing information, etc. In fact, much, if not most of our paper crafting supplies come from China,are made from raw materials from China, or are assembled there (look on your products for verification). Also see: http://www.worldstopexports.com/paper-exports-by-country/
Also the popularity of buying directly from China for crafting from Aliexpress.com has grown enormously in the past couple of years. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD9lLTXz9QQ Your idea of people's attitudes toward Chinese products are incorrect. Although sewing and fabric crafts are more popular than scrapbooking alone, I was including card making and mixed media crafts that include paper in my term "paper crafting." These continue to be huge, as you can see from the first marketing study link I included above.
Scrapping forums and message boards abound. Your comments hold true only for blogs and other forums available on internet websites. All of these still exist in huge numbers on Facebook and Instagram. Pinterst paper crafting information flourishes.
5:33 - You're wasting your time with her. She is the reason most people left this and other sites. She goes on and on with her long boring diatribes and the way she talks about herself she thinks she's a member of the royal family.
Yeah 1.47 you are wasting your time but I enjoyed your post anyway and you made valid points. Thanks for giving worthwhile information. I'm a card maker and I buy a lot of stuff and follow a lot of blogs. We are alive and well despite the doom and gloomers.
DCWV in Provo, Utah went out of business. No details, just a Web notation in red stating "Permanently closed". Their papers and TCW's were just about the only ones Joann sold. Now both of them have gone down the tubes. Joann was probably DCWV's biggest wholesale customer.
6:04 - I guess they feel superior because they were ahead of the curve and quit scrapbooking and started sewing instead. Just like when Michelangelo heard that painting was going out of style so he switched to making macrame plant hangers.
I know that places like HSN laughs at scrapbookers. But then they probably put us all in the same category as the elderly ladies calling in to buy the Anna Griffith frou frou crap.
Why would places like HSN "laughs" at scrapbookers? HSN sells other brands and styles besides Anna Griffin's. She's been popular for more than a decade --nothing new about that. Were people laughing at scrapbookers back in 2006 when Anna G. was featured on QVC or did the laughter start recently?
Can we talk about Fun Stampers Journey for a while? I was a Stampin Up demo for a while but I've gotten so bored with the same old designs, plus their quality has gone way downhill. I do enjoy my clubs and stamp groups, so I was looking into becoming an FSJ "coach". Their stamps are really neat but there are some things that really turn me off about the company. Richard Garay seems to be the founder but he also has his own line which sells in stores so it seems like FSJ maybe isn't his focus. I also don't like that coaches have to PAY to attend the online trainings. And there is something about him that seems really false. kwim?
American Crafts bought DCWV's paper division, but DCWV makes other crafting products. American Crafts works like most American companies The definition of success here is bigger is better --eat everyone up while shouting about how wonderful our competitive market is.
DCWV has been failing for years due to bad designs and poor quality paper. Successful businesses don't scrap corporate websites and move entirely to no-class, cheap-ass facebook. AC undoubtedly bought the company for pennies on the dollar.
With very few exceptions, this static hobby is boring and mediocre. It can't attract genuine talent.
11:18 DCWV paper quality is good; that's not their problem. Not everyone wants heavy cardstock for all projects. I know I don't, especially when I'm layering. Their problem appeared to be limited distribution or their exclusivity agreement with JoAnnn.
Did anyone watch the promo for Heidi Swapp's new 'Storyline'? Another Project Life concept...it's getting boring.
ReplyDeleteI read on Facebook that TC is on a Scrapbooking Cruise right now. Then read from someone that is attending that the scrapbooking portion of the cruise was cancelled....?????
ReplyDeleteI don't know what's going on with TCW. As of April 2, she said she'd lost 46 pounds. Whether from health issues or an elective diet, that's a huge amount of weight. She was in Orlando happily waiting to board a Caribbean cruise ship with Brian.
ReplyDeleteShe said on her blog that the scrapping cruise scheduled for March 19-26 was sold out, but nothing more was said about it.
She is on a low calorie diet. Good for her. weight loss is hard.
DeleteShe's been claiming her events are sold out for years. Seems odd that you rarely see her fans posting raving reviews about these "sold out" events. I've always found that strange. Almost like the events never live up to the hype.
If the scrapbook portion of her cruise was cancelled, I hope the attendees receive a refund. No Frye Fest here
I saw the Heidi Swapp Storyline stuff. I can understand her fans buying it because they love all things Heidi but I am done buying any more PL type stuff. I have soooo many cards left plus so many cut apart papers I haven't used yet.
ReplyDeleteWhen I tried Project Life I jumped in with both feet and bought so many card sets and also 12x12 cut apart sheets to use. After working on my first PL album I just don't love the look and am going back to regular 12x12 scrapbooking. I regret buying all those card sets especially since there are so many duplicates.
Sell them on Etsy or on Ebay. Someone will buy it!
DeleteLots of people said from its start that Project Life was nothing but a high workload racket that would make Becky Higgins a millionaire. That's apparently the case. I feel sorry for scrappers like 5:12 who were misled into spending a fortune on it and ended up with a mountain of unwanted, ugly supplies.
ReplyDeleteNo two ways about it. Scrapping is not popular any more. I've certainly lost interest in it. The industry has gone overboard with planners and expensive mixed media products that don't interest mainstream paper crafters. When the last scrapping store in my region closed last month, they couldn't even give away their pricey wood shelving and storage units. No one wanted them.
It also appears that several of the smaller online stores and kit clubs bit the dust because there haven't been any newsletters from them for ages. My e-mailbox used to be full of them. I don't even remember their names any more. Glad I didn't give up my other hobbies because they're still going strong.
I scrapbook because I like it. The fact it is waning in popularity is irrelevant. I don't pick my hobbies by popularity.
DeleteI like to use a lot of 5x7 pictures mixed in with my 4x6 and I take mostly vertical pictures. I found the thing that was most frustrating for me with PL pages was not having my pictures going the right direction for the page protector openings on the PL sheets. This sounds weird but I have found Becky Higgins herself has more of a plain jane style, anything unique or pretty are from other artists. She is the brains not the artist (not that there's anything wrong with that, she has made a lot of money off that).
ReplyDeleteI may be the only one who doesn't want foil, gold or glitter on my PL cards. I looked at the new Little You sets at my Michael's because I really liked that Crate Paper line. But the Becky Higgins cards have dark green foil on the boy cards and a maroon foil on the girl cards. The foil makes them garish looking and ruined them for me.
ReplyDeleteWhen I first started scrapbooking around 2000 I had a couple friends and family members who were into it too.
ReplyDeleteMy sister-in-law was my last scrapbook buddy but after her last child graduated from high school 4 years ago she made an album for people at the graduation party to look at and hasn't scrapbooked since. I am now the only one still actively scrapbooking.
I can see why people got excited about PL because it didn't take up much space, not everybody can have a scrapbook room to store all their stuff (my supplies are in my bedroom). But the collecting tendencies gravitated to PL and now I see people who buy every kit that comes out so it kind of defeats the purpose.
We lost all 5 scrapbook stores in my town, and we had some good ones. We just have Michael's, JoAnns, and Hobby Lobby left. I buy almost all of my scrapbook stuff online now.
Now Becky Higgins constantly pushes the Project Life App so it is obvious her focus is no longer on the physical PL products any more.
ReplyDeleteAnd Becky big time pushes her digital photo books, seems like she is concentrating on the digital side way more than selling the physical products and photo albums.
DeleteDid you all see that Susan Opel is coming back. She is going to be the new editor of Scrapbook and Cards. SC is just another Creating Keepsakes. Mainly mormons and pages about babies and breeding....ugggghhhh...
ReplyDeleteHas she left MFT?
DeleteAnd Paige 'we OWE 4 years of dental service' Evans is a design team member now. I could throw up every time I read this statement in her description.
DeleteYou're not kidding about another CK, now Cathy Zielske has a column. Ugh
DeleteI laughed when I saw that about Susan Opel. Oh brother.
ReplyDeleteBecky Higgins acts so buddy buddy with her team, I'm surprised nobody has said anything about the one woman's huge eyebrows that look like commas.
ReplyDeleteIf you plan on visiting RefuPeas, be sure your anti-virus software is current. A friend was nailed over there last week. A professional geek was needed to fix her computer.
ReplyDeleteIMO there's nothing worth going there for. All of the top crafters from the original Two Peas boards seem to have vanished.
Whoa that's weird about RefuPeas giving a virus
DeleteDid Studio Calico fall off the map? Not hearing much from them anymore. Also did anyone purchase 'Where Women Create' this month? It has Jen Gallacher and her daughter who is now creating with her and her business.....Dang is Scrapbook and Cards becoming the next Creating Keepsakes...
ReplyDeletehttp://2peasrefugees.boards.net/thread/61733/donating-scrapbook-celebritys-medical-billsupdatepg7
ReplyDeleteDid Teresa Collins Webber delete her personal Instagram account? It's gone.
ReplyDeleteMany long-time scrappers and papercrafters are leaving this hobby here and in the UK. There's not much incentive to stay in it. A lot of them are unhapppily stuck with rooms full of obsolete stuff no one wants.
ReplyDeleteLSS's, meetups and good online forums are history. Literally insane message boards were allowed to take over and they turned off a lot of very talented people. Many online stores went out of business because consumers are tired of mixed media overkill, junked-up planners and generally paying a fortune for crap made in China.
My future hobby money will be saved for new computerized sewing equipment. Durable, fun machines, not rotting paper and dried up glue. Fortunately, I was never a hoarder or a compulsive shopper, so my junk-free stash is relatively small and it contains mainly collector's items. The two die cutting machines can also be used on fabrics. I've always had other well stocked hobbies, so there's no shortage of leisure-time activities here.
Yes, I regret wasting so much money on papercrafting. My sewing room could have been beefed up for half of what was blown on it. I got into paper in 2010 when there were lots of wonderful collections done by professional graphic artists. Sadly, Most of them were fired less than two years later in favor of hair-flipping DT's, bad-to-mediocre kit clubs and other stuff that doesn't interest me.
Aside from making Halloween decorations and occasional cards for a few special people, I'm through with this boring scene.
Are you going to start quilting or sewing for yourself? I live in a medium sized city and we have at least 3 decent sized/stocked quilt stores in town. They are fun to shop in and dream. If I made a quilt I wouldn't know what to do with it. I went through a sewing phase where I sewed all my clothes for work and my coworkers would tease me "is this new? we haven't seen this before". I took an alterations class so I could alter my own patterns, line skirts and pants. I made pretty dresses and things. It was a lot of fun! Good luck to you on your new adventure!
Delete@11:35 We can't generalize from our own perceptions and feelings. You have to look at actual marketing studies, and paper crafts, including scrapbooking are doing just fine:
Deletehttp://craftindustryalliance.org/craft-industry-growing-in-dollars-scope/
Not so, Anon June 4. When you look at the massive sales volume generated by home sewing industries, scrapping and papercrafting aren't even blips on on the craft and hobby radar. Global fabric stores abound online and fabulous stuff can be found there. Brick and mortar fabric stores are fewer in number now but they're easily found as well.
DeleteNew home sewing and embroidery machines run anywhere from $75 starters with just a couple of decorative stitches to $14,000 supercomputers that even set crystal beads. All types are very attractive items and they sell like hotcakes.
Also, an increasing number of normal, very talented men are getting into home sewing and buying expensive computerized machines. What they see in them are new types of power tools using heavy-duty materials like jeans-weight denim, upholstery fabrics, vinyl and leather.
Globally, home sewing of all types also has a massive, highly interactive online presence at all skill levels. It's attracting newbies like mad with free YouTube instruction from high-level industry professionals and leading manufacturers. Very cordial, extremely knowledgeable people.
Meanwhile, LSS's, crops and crafting meetups died like flies, as did all of the great scrapping forums and message boards that were destroyed by mean girl celebs and flat-out crazies. People aren't interested in ripoff paper and glue from China, especially younger ones needed to keep this hobby alive. Men won't touch it. With hefty prices, the huge shift to mixed media and dumping graphic arts professionals, scrapping is just holding its own, not flourishing.
Papercrafts can't compete with megabucks artist hobbies like painting and drawing either. Art supplies from good dirt-cheap ones to pro-level products are made worldwide. Aside from online giants like Illinois-based Blick/Utrecht, fun artist supply stores are all over the place, including Aaron Brothers which is owned by Michaels.
I live in a major US city with hundreds of stores, but the nearest scrapping supplies are in the boonies over 100 miles away. Zero interest in them here. However, sewing machines, sewing classes and fashionable fabrics are sold by local independents, plus easily reached Joann stores. All of our regional Joann and Michaels stores made big reductions in their papercrafts inventory a few years ago. What's left us to either shopworn or house brand junk.
"Meanwhile, LSS's, crops and crafting meetups died like flies, as did all of the great scrapping forums and message boards that were destroyed by mean girl celebs and flat-out crazies. People aren't interested in ripoff paper and glue from China, especially younger ones needed to keep this hobby alive. Men won't touch it. With hefty prices, the huge shift to mixed media and dumping graphic arts professionals, scrapping is just holding its own, not flourishing."
DeleteSee this is what I meant. Impressions, feelings, thoughts don't cut it. Back up your statements with objective statistics, marketing information, etc. In fact, much, if not most of our paper crafting supplies come from China,are made from raw materials from China, or are assembled there (look on your products for verification). Also see: http://www.worldstopexports.com/paper-exports-by-country/
Also the popularity of buying directly from China for crafting from Aliexpress.com has grown enormously in the past couple of years. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD9lLTXz9QQ
Your idea of people's attitudes toward Chinese products are incorrect.
Although sewing and fabric crafts are more popular than scrapbooking alone, I was including card making and mixed media crafts that include paper in my term "paper crafting." These continue to be huge, as you can see from the first marketing study link I included above.
Scrapping forums and message boards abound. Your comments hold true only for blogs and other forums available on internet websites. All of these still exist in huge numbers on Facebook and Instagram. Pinterst paper crafting information flourishes.
5:33 - You're wasting your time with her. She is the reason most people left this and other sites. She goes on and on with her long boring diatribes and the way she talks about herself she thinks she's a member of the royal family.
Delete1:47 Thanks for the heads up. I'll say no more about paper craft marketing.
ReplyDeleteYeah 1.47 you are wasting your time but I enjoyed your post anyway and you made valid points. Thanks for giving worthwhile information. I'm a card maker and I buy a lot of stuff and follow a lot of blogs. We are alive and well despite the doom and gloomers.
ReplyDeleteWhat do theese doom and gloomers gain? Why do that?
ReplyDeleteDCWV in Provo, Utah went out of business. No details, just a Web notation in red stating "Permanently closed". Their papers and TCW's were just about the only ones Joann sold. Now both of them have gone down the tubes. Joann was probably DCWV's biggest wholesale customer.
ReplyDeleteThen link the Web notation that says "Permanently Closed" because their Facebook page is alive and well.
Delete6:04 - I guess they feel superior because they were ahead of the curve and quit scrapbooking and started sewing instead. Just like when Michelangelo heard that painting was going out of style so he switched to making macrame plant hangers.
ReplyDeleteThat's hilarious!
DeleteDCWV's FB and website look normal to me!
ReplyDeleteDCWV is just fine. They're not out of business. It's so juvenile to spread these false rumors.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how Heidi Swapp's new "Storyline" is doing? I liked one of her albums but then saw it was postbound, wonder why she didn't go with 3 rings?
ReplyDeleteI know that places like HSN laughs at scrapbookers. But then they probably put us all in the same category as the elderly ladies calling in to buy the Anna Griffith frou frou crap.
ReplyDeleteWhy would places like HSN "laughs" at scrapbookers? HSN sells other brands and styles besides Anna Griffin's. She's been popular for more than a decade --nothing new about that. Were people laughing at scrapbookers back in 2006 when Anna G. was featured on QVC or did the laughter start recently?
ReplyDeleteCan we talk about Fun Stampers Journey for a while? I was a Stampin Up demo for a while but I've gotten so bored with the same old designs, plus their quality has gone way downhill. I do enjoy my clubs and stamp groups, so I was looking into becoming an FSJ "coach". Their stamps are really neat but there are some things that really turn me off about the company. Richard Garay seems to be the founder but he also has his own line which sells in stores so it seems like FSJ maybe isn't his focus. I also don't like that coaches have to PAY to attend the online trainings. And there is something about him that seems really false. kwim?
ReplyDeleteI agree, Garay seems fake to me too. FSJ has some super cute stuff though!
ReplyDeleteOh, so American Crafts bought DCWV. They own almost everybody now.
ReplyDeleteAmerican Crafts bought DCWV's paper division, but DCWV makes other crafting products. American Crafts works like most American companies The definition of success here is bigger is better --eat everyone up while shouting about how wonderful our competitive market is.
DeleteI think someone had to buy DCWV or they would have had to close the doors.
DeleteDCWV has been failing for years due to bad designs and poor quality paper. Successful businesses don't scrap corporate websites and move entirely to no-class, cheap-ass facebook. AC undoubtedly bought the company for pennies on the dollar.
ReplyDeleteWith very few exceptions, this static hobby is boring and mediocre. It can't attract genuine talent.
If you hate this hobby so much, why are you here?
Delete11:52 She has Trumpitis, she's an insecure twit who needs to feel superior to everyone else so she has to insult them.
DeleteSays Picasso
ReplyDelete11:18 DCWV paper quality is good; that's not their problem. Not everyone wants heavy cardstock for all projects. I know I don't, especially when I'm layering. Their problem appeared to be limited distribution or their exclusivity agreement with JoAnnn.
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