Difficulty rating in gallery

[kmccullo]

I know this sounds silly, but how do you do your difficulty rating? If I even fill that in, I almost always put 1 for easy. Sometimes I will get bold and put 1.5 down ;) I guess I figure everything I do is easy compared to the fancy cards in the galleries.

What do you all do? My goal this week is to make something worth a ranking of more than 1. I just don't know what that means

Have a blessed day!
Kate

[Quiltnstamper]

I have had the same question about ratings. My sister is just starting out in stamping and I feel that if she can do something it is a 1. If she doesn't know how to do the technique I feel it is a 2. It is all so arbitrary.:confused:

[austamper]

I don't rate. I feel that difficulty is relative. Something easy to me might be hard for someone else and vice versa.

[sf9erfan]

I usually rate my cards a 1. If they have some cuttlebug embossing, heat embossing, diecutting, lots of gluing or something like that I give it a 2. I rarely see cards above a 2, but I tend to shy away from the difficult technique cards.

[Shanon]

I rated my advent calender a 5 because it was VERY time consuming. I am not capable of making a difficult card. (trust me). ;)

[catstamp]

Ditto. If it takes a while to make or has a lot of steps, I usually give it a higher rating. I don't think I've rated anything higher than a two though.

[SDiegoGal]

I almost always put "1" for my cards. They aren't that difficult at all!

[SophieLaFontaine]

I stopped putting a rating on a long time ago. But when I was actively filling in a rating, I always put down a "1", unless the card used bleach. Then that was a 5, because of the fumes.

[sassyat30]

Because I'm such a basic stamper, I always put a 1.

[craftyteaspoon]

I usually rate based on techniques used --- number of them, time it takes, # of steps, etc.

It is difficult because what is simple to some may be very difficult for others.

[RevLinda]

I've wondered about the ratings too. For a beginner, an idea about time would be helpful. Some looks so awesome I immediately think I'd never tackle anything that elaborate -- even if the steps were easy.

[beccabatgirl]

I skip the rating thing.

[guatelicia]

I usually try to think of somebody that is just starting to stamp and base my rating on how easy or difficult it would be for them. I don't think I have ever rated one of my cards a 3 or higher.

[Suzy_H]

I only rate if it was very difficult or time consuming to warn people.

[basketballmom]

Mine move up to 2 if there are some time-consuming steps ... or a lot of them.
However, most of my cards are 1 ... Very easy for others to duplicate. (If a group of 11yo girls can do them, they're a 1!!)

[Donnarie]

I rate things based on my own personal and very arbitrary scale. Most things get a 1 or a 2. If something took a bit longer (keeping in mind that all my cards take just about forever to make ;) ), but it wasn't especially difficult I'll usually rate it a 3. Things that are really fussy get a 4. You probably won't see a 5 in my gallery -- I don't have the patience for those projects!