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When my friends come over we drag out way too much stuff, show off all of our new aquisitions, share all of our toys, eat, drink wine, chitchat (OK...gossip!), spread glitter ALL over my dining room, and if things go really, really well, we even do some stamping!
Seriously, we've done it both ways, and we have just as much fun either way. Have fun!
When my friends and I got together. We would each make something, and have enough for the others to make it as well. We started out with 2 things each. Well that was like 8 things and we realized that it took us so long to finish them that we cut it down to 1 thing each. (there were sometimes 6-8 people) Only 4 of us brought ideas though. Because the other ones were the children or family members of ours.
I think either way you do it, it will be cool.
When I go to my girlfriend's home for a stamping session, we just play (try out new stamps, color combos, design ideas, etc) with our things (mostly hers, as I bring a limited mount of items), eat and chat. Sometimes, we have a particular project we're working on and focus on that, rather than just "playing."
Persoanlly, I think just having your firends over and being together will be enjoyable no matter how you "host" the evening ;)!
I actually have two - totally unrelated in any way - groups of friends that get together every couple months. We (both groups) always just work on our own projects and talk at the same time. We are all very open with sharing ideas, supplies, and tools, and occasionally we'll work on something similar. For example, the last time one group got together, one girl was making her baby announcements... I got tired of the project I was working on and made a few for her, using her stamp set and basic ideas, but putting my own spin on the cards.
We've found that we all have different things going on all the time, so our needs are different.... The "constant" is that we all love stamping, and we all enjoy each other's company, so it works for us to do it this way. If we want to work on the same projects, somebody will have a party, we'll all spend money, the hostess will get benefits, etc!
I always have a prize or two to give away. I wrap up a useful color of stickles, or a cute $1.00 stamp or some supply I don't use that I think others would love. Everybody loves a freebie.
When I've done it, I prefer to do the shoebox theme. Everyone makes a sample, then brings enough supplies for each other to make one each of all the cards.
When we've tried to do it "freeform" not much gets done and we felt like we were not being productive - even though we were having loads of fun.
There are only 3 of us who get together and we mostly eat and chit chat. We started out each bringing a technique to share.....cracked glass, shaker box, kissing, etc that the others havn't done. That is fun. One girl has a TON of unused pealex, we thought it would be fun for each us to research in the resource section of SCS and each do something that uses pearlex.
Just have fun!!
__________________ We cannot do great things, only small things with great love.
I have three friends that I get together with every month. We rotate houses and the hostess provides snacks and (usually) wine. The attendees bring the supplies for each person to make 3 of a card. So that means that we each have to design one card and bring the supplies for us to make (collectively) 12 of that card. Make sense? It works great and we all go home with 12 cards (3 each of 4 designs)
When my friends and I have Girl's Night we work on whatever we want to. There are 5 of us that don't miss a night and there are a couple more that show up sometimes. We are usually all working on swaps for here. We rotate houses and everyone brings some food to share. We don't allow husbands or kids for at least the first few hours. We start at 5 and usually go to 11 or later. We have a great time and all look forward to it. We do 1 Saturday night a month. We usually get more eating, talking & laughing done than actual projects. I would be lost without Girl's Night every month!
We often work on our own...but then case each other's! Sometimes one of us comes up with something awesome that we have to repeat. Sometimes we focus on a new technique, but still do our own thing...just remember to be prepared to share!
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