Is it just me or have the new releases at SSD been really bad? I thought having new designers at the store would make it better, but it hasn't. It's just getting worse.
Well not another 2 template designers that's for sure. Cindy is enough. I was hoping for people who had kits that would catch my eye and I would just have to have it. Most of the designers I would have liked to see there are already in big stores.
Design Seeds has some of the worst color choices I have ever seen in my life. Yet designers go to it for color inspiration. ------
It's very hit and miss. I went there for the first time when DST was asking about color palettes for the site redesign. I think it was on page 6 before I found one that I really liked.
The new releases at SSD look like every other release. What exactly is wrong with them? I'm curious as there have been several people complaining about them. I don't see any difference. Not being snarky either, just honestly curious.
#14, That's just the thing. They aren't different. With 6 new designers there should be some difference.
As to rabid CT members, what about rabid designers? Wouldn't Nicole be considered rabid? Since she pretty much slammed all scrappers that don't journal to her standards.
Not sure if I quite follow but what is considered a rabid CT or designer? Not who but what. I just want to know so I can keep an eye out. We can get a list of who later.
#18 - not being different is one thing, but being horrible?
I agree on there should be something different with new designers on board, but even when there is, it's never different for long. Any designer with a different style is pretty soon producing the same cookie cutter stuff as the othwrs.
Just out of curiosity, how do you know that SSD picked the wrong designers. What if the "right" designers didn't apply? Maybe they picked the best applications.
Before anyone starts throwing accusations, NO I AM NOT LENA. I'm just catching up on the past week here in digismackland and thought this was stupid. -------
Now, see, this is what they call a hanging participle. What exactly do you think is stupid? Not being Lena or catching up?
I am the original poster who posted about the c word. I am Australian and I think it is crass. I am no prude, I don't swear alot but I don't not swear either, but the C word just makes anyone who uses it look like trash because it is such a demeaning word. There are many less crass swear words to use instead.
Well not another 2 template designers that's for sure. Cindy is enough. I was hoping for people who had kits that would catch my eye and I would just have to have it. Most of the designers I would have liked to see there are already in big stores. ------------ You still haven't said WHO you would like to have seen at SSD. Who?
Well not another 2 template designers that's for sure. Cindy is enough. I was hoping for people who had kits that would catch my eye and I would just have to have it. Most of the designers I would have liked to see there are already in big stores. __________________________________________________
^^ because every designer should know exactly what it is that will catch your eye. Of course, how silly of them all to NOT know. Tsk tsk.
I've got an idea... Why don't y'all just design your own kits in the perfect colors seeing as y'all are such experts and all?
As far as SSD, I see no real difference. Studio Basic's templates are out there and so are her color palettes. They do stand out in the sea of sameness. But, I never went to SSD to see anything innovative. To expect that to change is moronic. They are what they are and that works for a lot of scrappers, but to think it will work for everyone is beyond stupid.
If designers change to something else while they are there, I would have to assume it's because it's what SELLS. Most designers aren't going to change their style to something that sells worse...
If designers change to something else while they are there, I would have to assume it's because it's what SELLS. Most designers aren't going to change their style to something that sells worse... -------- AMEN.
My guess is Jen C. I don't think anyone else has been there as long. Not sure, though. Just know she's been there awhile and recently guested at PBP. So, that's likely where she's going.
Jen C's designs are full of CU. (Tons of Miss Tina crap). She appears to be nice and active (forums, Facebook), but I can't get past all the CU I see in her kits.
I've got an idea... Why don't y'all just design your own kits in the perfect colors seeing as y'all are such experts and all? ---------
I've got an idea ... why don't you grow a brain, seeing as you don't have one.
No one was saying they were 'experts' and could do it better. They were expressing disappointment in the latest releases at SSD. How that makes someone an expert and ready to design is beyond me.
Do designers ever worry that if they apply to another stores call, get turned down, that their current shop owner will find out and be mad? Or do they understand it is just a business thing? I'm not sure how that works.
Jen C's designs are full of CU. (Tons of Miss Tina crap). She appears to be nice and active (forums, Facebook), but I can't get past all the CU I see in her kits.
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I see her stuff everywhere and it's really not exciting but she's guesting all over the place and has a fairly big FB following ... I guess maybe it proves customers don't really care about CU?
She's REALLY (truly, honestly) a nice person. I used to work with her at a former store and she is genuine. Who cares if she uses CU? Apparently, she is giving customers what they want, or I doubt she'd be everywhere she is.
I see her stuff everywhere and it's really not exciting but she's guesting all over the place and has a fairly big FB following ... I guess maybe it proves customers don't really care about CU?
___ this has nothing to do with Jen. I have only used one of her kits. But as a buying member of the digi scrap community, we dont care about the CU. Only other designers do. It doesnt make you better than other designers when you don't use CU. What makes you better is catering to your market. Learning what your customers want. Just because someone uses a lot of CU doesnt make them less of a designer. Because, I promise you I dont want to learn how to design. I rather pay you guys to do that for me. So I could care less if it is loaded with CU. More power to you for using what is out there to help you make money. However, not using CU doesnt make you a bad designer either. It is just catering to your market. I have bought those kits too when the fancy strkes me. Just put to bed the CU battle. Obviously it works for them. And obviously you not using CU works for you.
CU products are just tools and should be used as such, CREATIVELY. Anyone could take a shape from Photoshop and sell it as a plain tag, and that does not show much skill or creativity, but someone else might take the same shape, use it in a different context, with different combinaisons of other tools and create something unique. So with the same starting point, one "designer" will be called "lazy" or "repackaging", while the other will really be seen as "designing". Same tools, different use, different application and in the end, different result. It is not the starting element that should concern us, but the end result.
But as a buying member of the digi scrap community, we dont care about the CU. Only other designers do. -----
Not true. I'm not a designer and do care about CU use, if it's used badly. I don't want to find out after purchasing, for example, 6 different kits from 6 different designers at 6 different stores, only to find that I have the same damn CU element or elements in all the kits, with nothing or very little changed.
What's wrong with the product? I can see it as a cute alternative to stars on a potty training chart. Print them out blank, let the kid color one in for each time they use the potty.
But as a buying member of the digi scrap community, we dont care about the CU. Only other designers do. -----
Not true. I'm not a designer and do care about CU use, if it's used badly. I don't want to find out after purchasing, for example, 6 different kits from 6 different designers at 6 different stores, only to find that I have the same damn CU element or elements in all the kits, with nothing or very little changed.
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I apolgoize. I should have said some do some don't. I do think that was the point that was gotten across through the rest of the post though. ;) Some are going to use CU and some are not. Just go with what your customer base likes. It does seem like it really works for some.
I usually do a pretty good look-see before buying a kit in hopes of trying to keep from buying 6 of the same thing. (I do realize some are too cluttered to see it all b4 you throw that out) But again, I am not going to get my nickers in a twist if I have the same CU elements used in different kits. b/c 9 times out of 10 they are not going to be the 100% exact same. Again, I rather pay the designers to do all the recoloring to match my new kit. Even if it is just that "very little thing" that was changed.
Call it lazy, but I dont want to do it recolor or whatever. Just like I rather pay the farmer to grow my veggies, and the factories to make my clothes. I rather spend my time scrapping (or cooking and wearing in the other examples. lol)
----- If your product is digital design, your logo should be superb. Bad logos, blog, & packaging is just bad business. the little boobies and weird noses are just creepy.
Agreed - digiscrap design is not the same as graphic design, just as graphic design is not the same as web design. Actually, I think its a lot smarter to realize you aren't a a graphic designer and pay to get a logo done than it is to NOT realize it and create your own logo that sucks.
^^^ I wrote that before looking at the logo in question ... and I have to say that it is a prefect example of what I was referring to. Cute doodles can be much appreciated in the digiscrap world, but those designers have ZERO graphic design skills and should hire someone to do their logo for them.
It is good to know what you can and cannot do. But if you are designing digitally you are a graphic designer. Doodling or not. You fall into the Graphic Designer category. ;) But I really don’t think Graphic designer semantics is the point here. The point is you are selling an artistic product designed digitally. your digitally designed image (logo/blog/store/packaging) should be up to par. If not, you are reflecting subpar digitally designed products to your customer.
I have seen it nearly every month's post about BG's previews. It doesn’t matter how good your unzipped product it. If your presenting yourself to your customer with bad window front and sign, they might not walk in the store.
It is good to know what you can and cannot do. But if you are designing digitally you are a graphic designer. Doodling or not. You fall into the Graphic Designer category. ;) But I really don’t think Graphic designer semantics is the point here. The point is you are selling an artistic product designed digitally. your digitally designed image (logo/blog/store/packaging) should be up to par. If not, you are reflecting subpar digitally designed products to your customer.
I have seen it nearly every month's post about BG's previews. It doesn’t matter how good your unzipped product it. If your presenting yourself to your customer with bad window front and sign, they might not walk in the store.
It is good to know what you can and cannot do. But if you are designing digitally you are a graphic designer. Doodling or not. You fall into the Graphic Designer category. ;) But I really don’t think Graphic designer semantics is the point here. The point is you are selling an artistic product designed digitally. your digitally designed image (logo/blog/store/packaging) should be up to par. If not, you are reflecting subpar digitally designed products to your customer.
I have seen it nearly every month's post about BG's previews. It doesn’t matter how good your unzipped product it. If your presenting yourself to your customer with bad window front and sign, they might not walk in the store.
I don't want to find out after purchasing, for example, 6 different kits from 6 different designers at 6 different stores, only to find that I have the same damn CU element or elements in all the kits, with nothing or very little changed.
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If you buy 6 different kits from 6 different designers from 6 different stores and DON'T notice that the same elements are in each of them, you have a problem and should probably pay more attention to your purchases. OMG.
Anyone who makes logos for the digiscrap community is probably being short-changed. You get what you pay for. Typically a logo in the "real world" would cost upwards of $400 dollars. In the digiscrap world people get them for under $100.
Does TLP have the largest number of designers under one roof now? For a while they were a pretty small boutique store, but they're a mega store at this point. Must be a good place to sell since most of their guests seem to stay. Anyone have the inside track on that?
I know they have turned down alot of designers that have applied to sell there. They did lose Lauren Reid to her own shop, so maybe they replaced what she brought to the store in money by adding 3-4 more designers. They do have alot of guests that just guest for months.
It is good to know what you can and cannot do. But if you are designing digitally you are a graphic designer. Doodling or not. You fall into the Graphic Designer category. ;)
But I really don’t think Graphic designer semantics is the point here. The point is you are selling an artistic product designed digitally. your digitally designed image (logo/blog/store/packaging) should be up to par. If not, you are reflecting subpar digitally designed products to your customer.
I have seen it nearly every month's post about BG's previews. It doesn’t matter how good your unzipped product it. If your presenting yourself to your customer with bad window front and sign, they might not walk in the store.
She did miss the point. Telling me I had a problem because I couldn't see that several kits had the same elements is not only downright rude, but incorrect. So many designers do not show decent element previews and if all they list is three flowers, how the heck am I supposed to know which three flowers they are if they aren't showing in the previews.
She did miss the point. Telling me I had a problem because I couldn't see that several kits had the same elements is not only downright rude, but incorrect. So many designers do not show decent element previews and if all they list is three flowers, how the heck am I supposed to know which three flowers they are if they aren't showing in the previews. __________________________________________
Awww someone is down right rude on this blog? Don't come here often huh?
#92 - yes, you can be a downright rude bitch for the sake of being a downright rude bitch because you come to this blog, because you are so fucking lame, you can't do it in real life. And yes, I posted twice! So shoot me!!!
#92 - yes, you can be a downright rude bitch for the sake of being a downright rude bitch because you come to this blog, because you are so fucking lame, you can't do it in real life. And yes, I posted twice! So shoot me!!!
***** ha ha ha!! you just called yourself a downright rude bitch!! That is hilarious!
People people people. When you get all torqued up about people posting on this blog and get all high-and-mighty about it. Then feel the need to post about how horrible we all are for posting on here, you just stooped to our horrible, bitchy, catty, rude-ass, level. You came, read, you bitched.
She did miss the point. Telling me I had a problem because I couldn't see that several kits had the same elements is not only downright rude, but incorrect. So many designers do not show decent element previews and if all they list is three flowers, how the heck am I supposed to know which three flowers they are if they aren't showing in the previews.
___________________ #72 said the same thing and no one got all upset about it. If you are buying 6 kits with the same elements in it YOU should be paying more attention. One or two maybe. 6, open your damn eyeballs. Be aware of your surroundings. Or maybe just broaden your tastes and dont buy 6 of nearly the same type of kits. ;)
I do not see one even half-way decent item. That template by Maris' crap is horrid. Not everyone can design templates. She is for sure not one of them.
Well there are some that aren't too bad although I wouldn't download them. I wish designers would realize that with any color palette you need a add a neutral(usually a white - though not a true white). But wow - just wow- some are obviously real beginners. I wonder how they were ever let into a store? And some just went in such a different direction that a 'wedding theme' would suggest that I'd be hard pressed to use the papers - so I think I'll pass on this one.
Wow... I don't even know if I want to participate anymore. I am signed up for it... But most of those submissions are such crap I don't know if I would want whatever I would make to stand next to it all. Just yuck :(
This seems like a good place to point out that the palette, to begin with, is a train wreck. It's not right for the time of year, nor for the theme. And since it lacks anything resembling light and shade (or a neutral), all the wannabe-designers likely have no clue how to work with it and make something decent from it. It's really just a pile of muddy colors that don't work together at all.
This is the problem with taking a palette from design seeds (no idea if that's where they got the palette from) or other places like that. The photos obviously look great but when you only pick out 4 or 6 colors and then forgot the white or the lighter hues you're going to end up with crap. It's the neutral that creates an offset or balance on the photo. You can't just pick out 4 dark colors from a photo and expect your combination to work cuz it doesn't.
I didn't sign up for that one because the palette was so bad. I don't understand why so many people signed up saying 'love the colors' or similar bullshit. Why not just say 'those colors are a good start but can we ad some neutrals?'
Design Seeds can be great if you use the PHOTO not just the 5 colors she pulls from it.
when using a color swatch many designers know that it is ok to add a white, black and neutral color to the swatch along with a darker or lighter version of the colors in the swatch. If the designers from the blog train only used the swatch colors as shown without adding any of the others then they don't know much about designing IMHO. Any swatch is just a an idea of colors. If they were smart they would take Design Seeds and pull out more colors from her photos!!
^^^ I actually remember someone getting smacked for doing just that. Someone was very displeased that they were such a poor designer that they couldn't manage to use the palette the way it was supposed to be.
^^^^^^ Well let them smack away as it has nothing to do with using the exact swatch. Yes you use the colors in the swatch, along with neutrals and lighter or darker versions of the colors. What is a swatch? but an idea of a color range to use in designs. Obviously whoever posted that smack didn't know much.
I hate holier than thou big mouth fucking designers who believe they are so much better than anyone else in the industry. Their attitudes are horrible, and yet people flock to them like starving people to food; sucking up, allowing the designer to believe they are even better than they originally thought.
#119, that is way to common these days. There are some who refuse to believe that their products are anything but perfect. People flock to them in the hopes that they can get free stuff.
Time to start smacking those blog train kits - some are so horrible it would be doing them a service and others need to be to pointed to the right track. OMG! So many look like they are graduates of Hummie's School of Design!
Anonymous said... 119 I hate holier than thou big mouth fucking designers who believe they are so much better than anyone else in the industry. Their attitudes are horrible, and yet people flock to them like starving people to food; sucking up, allowing the designer to believe they are even better than they originally thought.
Random thought for today.
---- That didnt feel too random. I dont understand why people come here and vent but feel afraid to actually say names.
CQC heads up Captivated Visions CT - started doing templates. Branched out to kits, which are iffy at best. Sells at TDC and now back at Scrap Matters (watch for her to go exclusive at SM, that's my bet). Very bitchy and demanding.
Captivated Visions is an egomaniac bitch for sure. I've never known CQC to be demanding, but her kits are nasty. She really needs to stick to templates.
The only truely nasty person I have come across in digiland is Carly/snaggletooth/queen of hearts. But I have gathered that is the way she just is. But I try to steer clear of her. She is just in general grumpy, rude, & crude.
I love her templates though. lol. Guess you dont have to be nice to make money.
That's funny because I have never seen her really be nasty to anyone. That could be because I take her a different way than you do, plus I was on her CT team and she was nothing but nice and very easy to CT for.
Nicole of Sugarplum is really stuck on herself. Ever since she "left" TDC and went to SSD, she has really gotten a I'm better than you attitude. It is getting really annoying. She is not any better now than when she was at TDC.
I don't really know CV that well but I heard her CT terms are terrible and she lost alot of CT members because of them. Melissa, I do have to agree is a total bitch.
#136, This is not cookie cutter? http://www.thedigichick.com/shop/One-Day-At-A-Time-Mega-Kit.html Your kidding right? It's terrible and the colors are just ugly. Are you sure you are talking about the same designer?
You know who is annoying? Jeanye Labaya. You want to see someone who just complains or just likes to act bi-polar or full of themselves, watch her for a day. Not only does she retire alot and move shops every few months, but her templates are ugly.
^^^ I dont "know" her through the digi-world. I did noticed she shop hopped majorly. I am a fan of her templates and literally had to hunt her down. It was when she was between FPD, PBP, and wherever she is now. It kinda put me off from her designs. I dont like to have to hunt down designers.
Lizzy (Fizzy Pop or whatever), Kami from SO (not in a stuck up designer way, but in general), Flergs, Laura Banasiak, Maya, and Captivated Visions all have their heads so far up their own ass it's not even funny. That's my list of stuck up snobs.
I really like CV a lot but agree on the colors. She needs to branch out. I've also heard that her CT terms are difficult.
Melissa is a total sweetheart, I don't know where anyone gets that she's a bitch. I love her templates but hate her kits and hope she goes back to just templates.
Jeanye is a great template designer, I don't know her personally so I can't comment on the mental state but her templates are great.
It's not so much them being a bitch but them thinking their shit don't stink. Laura, it seems like she reuses the same doodles over and over in some of her kits. However, alot of designers reuse stuff so it is not just her. CV, my thing with her is her colors. I get so tired of seeing the same colors from her. I get that you can mix and match them but branch out a little. I believe that there is a whole lot of ego over at SO. A whole lot. Isn't that common for most successful stores though?
I believe that there is a whole lot of ego over at SO. A whole lot. Isn't that common for most successful stores though? Apr 25, 2012 6:30:00 AM --------- I think if you have to talk about how great you are, then you're not really all that great. You just want everyone to *think* you're great. Hype. Scrap Orchard is all hype. Always has been. Always will be.
I think SSD used to be great years ago when there weren't a lot of other stores. Their recent business decisions (especially this year) have led me to believe business there is not as good as they want everyone to believe - or as good as it used to be.
I'm sure both stores do better sales than some other "no name" stores, but I think those snobby bitches would be quite shocked at how much the designers they look down upon actually make.
Random question of the day: In your mind, what length of time makes a store "established"? Are there other criteria you feel are equally or more important?
And what makes you feel like a designer is established?
What doodles do you see Laura reusing? I buy from her now and again and haven't noticed that at all. Although, how many different ways can you draw a flower or other general element? I like her more recent themed kits.
I'm curious about specifics on why the above mentioned designers are stuck up or think their sh*t doesn't stink.
Any good stuff out there for iNSD? It always sneaks up on me every year. What about this amazing race thing that starts that weekend? Is it worth doing?
I do hang out at Scrap Orchard a little and haven't seen the attitudes or egos that the PP mentioned. Seems like just SO haters or jealousy to me. I'm sure the person who said that is a designer at another store. I don't hang out at SBG so I don't know about Lizzy Fizzy or Flergs.
I don't hang out at SSD or SO, but have interacted with the designers mentioned in a variety of ways over the years. I'd say the list is quite accurate. No designer is foolish enough to be an outright bitch right in the public forums, but they're more than OK being that way when they think no one is around to see it.
It happens every year. Apr 25, 2012 1:53:00 PM -------- I wouldn't even consider signing up until the list of host sites is posted. The prizes last year totally sucked.
It happens every year. Apr 25, 2012 1:53:00 PM -------- I wouldn't even consider signing up until the list of host sites is posted. The prizes last year totally sucked. ------------- AGREE! I was going to do it...just to get some pages done, but after last year I don't think I want to waste my time...the prizes sucked and the whole "themed" race was a mess
I think it just goes back to the whole clique thing. It is unfortunate but it happens when you get a bunch of females together. This group isnt going to like this group. And so on. Makes it worse that it is a competative business.
Everyone smiling and kissing rear in public forums but bashing and bitching on private forums, IMs, and these places.
It happens every year. Apr 25, 2012 1:53:00 PM -------- I wouldn't even consider signing up until the list of host sites is posted. The prizes last year totally sucked. ------------- AGREE! I was going to do it...just to get some pages done, but after last year I don't think I want to waste my time...the prizes sucked and the whole "themed" race was a mess
Are you only it in for what you can get for free out of it-the prizes???? cause this Race has been running for about the last 5 years and a lot of planning goes into it and not all participating stores come thru which causes lots of headaches but the whole idea is to enjoy the challenge and the scrapping NOT collecting free stuff. As usual people who feel totally entitled or they won't play is the typical theme here.. Then again don't sign up because those of us who want to have fun with this Race don't want you!!!!
#164 - You need to calm down. It's exactly your mentality that takes the fun out of these things. Of course people are in it for the prizes. Anyone can scrap by themselves or do forum challenges, etc.
Sites sponsor these things for exposure. Period. Not out of the goodness of their hearts. They want to MAKE MONEY. If you really think that most scrappers and sites participate in this event for the love of scrapping, you seriously need a clue.
And then last year there was that one person in particular who kept complaining about how the theme of family was causing her emotional duress because her family was so horrible. I'm sorry she had such a bad life, but seriously, why are you scrapping to remember if all you want to do is forget?!
And like you said, I can scrap ANY day I want to. I have participated the last few years in the race and I have seen it go down hill the last couple. The theme was stupid: I do the race to challenge myself and NOT scrap about something I ALWAYS scrap about..and DUH anyone and everyone is in for the prizes! If you say you are not, you are lying through your teeth!
No designer is foolish enough to be an outright bitch right in the public forums, but they're more than OK being that way when they think no one is around to see it. ---
So? I don't care how they behave in private, it's their public face that I interact with and that goes for all businesses.
And like you said, I can scrap ANY day I want to. I have participated the last few years in the race and I have seen it go down hill the last couple. The theme was stupid: I do the race to challenge myself and NOT scrap about something I ALWAYS scrap about..and DUH anyone and everyone is in for the prizes! If you say you are not, you are lying through your teeth!
------------- LOL, seriously? What sort of people do you hob nob with? Do you really think you can speak for everyone? I think the ADSR is a lot of fun. I could care less about the prizes, I'm not doing it for what I can get and I know I'm not alone in that. I'm in it for the fun of working with my friend, the challenges to help take me out of my scrapping box, get some layouts done and to just have fun creating. Why is it so hard to believe that there are more people who approach it as I do? I don't get to scrap very often and I love to do it. It forces me to scrap instead of constantly having choosing to work.
And regarding #164. She doesn't need to take a chill pill. She realizes that events like this take a lot of time and effort and to see you all being a$$holes on here rankled her. Hell, it rankled me and I have nothing to do with ADSR. I also thought good riddance to all you snobby cheapskate bitches.
185- and you think you're better than everyone else in saying what you did. No one called anyone a bitch regarding ADSR until you showed up (not even crazy 164).
To me, even if you had a valid point, you'd still be the biggest bitch of them all.
#185 to #186: Well, yeah, that was my intention...I thought that is what the smack blog was for? So many of you get on here and are total bitches. So, I just called some out on being snobby cheapskates too. I can be a bitch, yes. Not always and not often but I think we all can be. Especially when it's anonymous ;)
You know that's not true. If a man has a problem with you he's in your face but most women won't directional confront - they gossip, they're catty, snarky and passive agressive. Sorry but it's the truth. I'd rather work for a man any day than a woman.
You know that's not true. If a man has a problem with you he's in your face but most women won't directional confront - they gossip, they're catty, snarky and passive agressive. Sorry but it's the truth. I'd rather work for a man any day than a woman.
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Kinda have to agree with the "working for a man" comment, at least you mostly know where you stand. Also when you're a woman, trying to confront another woman, they tend to take it OH so personally. Very frustrating ...
Kinda have to agree with the "working for a man" comment, at least you mostly know where you stand. Also when you're a woman, trying to confront another woman, they tend to take it OH so personally. Very frustrating ... Apr 27, 2012 2:18:00 PM
I prefer working with a man until they become threatened by me - even though I'm 100% happy doing MY job and don't want HIS job. Then I'm not sure what's worse, working for a man or a woman.
You know that's not true. If a man has a problem with you he's in your face but most women won't directional confront - they gossip, they're catty, snarky and passive agressive. Sorry but it's the truth. I'd rather work for a man any day than a woman. --------
It may be your truth, but doesn't mean it's everyone's truth. No man has ever been in my face, ever, when he has had a problem with me. Men gossip, they are snarky and bitchy etc, just like women.
It may be your truth, but doesn't mean it's everyone's truth. No man has ever been in my face, ever, when he has had a problem with me. Men gossip, they are snarky and bitchy etc, just like women. Apr 27, 2012 6:18:00 PM
You might want to leave the trailer park every once in awhile.
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#196, you have to do this now.LOL.
I didn't realize that Carly girl was a designer - just thought she was a rather rabid/passionate CT member?
There are alot of rabid CT members out there. I have run across quite a few. I didn't think this was a new thing?
#4 - Who said it was a new thing?
Is it just me or have the new releases at SSD been really bad? I thought having new designers at the store would make it better, but it hasn't. It's just getting worse.
Yes they have been horrible.
They picked the wrong new designers.
I like Nettio but her templates are way to high priced for a 3 pack.
I'm a most disappointed SSD shopper.
Who would you have wanted to join SSD?
Well not another 2 template designers that's for sure. Cindy is enough. I was hoping for people who had kits that would catch my eye and I would just have to have it. Most of the designers I would have liked to see there are already in big stores.
Design Seeds has some of the worst color choices I have ever seen in my life. Yet designers go to it for color inspiration.
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It's very hit and miss. I went there for the first time when DST was asking about color palettes for the site redesign. I think it was on page 6 before I found one that I really liked.
The new releases at SSD look like every other release. What exactly is wrong with them? I'm curious as there have been several people complaining about them. I don't see any difference. Not being snarky either, just honestly curious.
#3 - Carly's been designing for around a year now.
Ok sorry but who's Carly? Not familiar with that person. Don't have to go into a long story or anything.
From reading the last page, someone assumed something that was said came from her because it sounds like her.
#14, That's just the thing. They aren't different. With 6 new designers there should be some difference.
As to rabid CT members, what about rabid designers? Wouldn't Nicole be considered rabid? Since she pretty much slammed all scrappers that don't journal to her standards.
I am curious. Didn't SSD asked for exclusivity ? Because on Nettio personal store her fave-o-rites vol. 1 are the same that you find at SSD.
Not sure if I quite follow but what is considered a rabid CT or designer? Not who but what. I just want to know so I can keep an eye out.
We can get a list of who later.
They're allowed to have a personal store.
#18 - not being different is one thing, but being horrible?
I agree on there should be something different with new designers on board, but even when there is, it's never different for long. Any designer with a different style is pretty soon producing the same cookie cutter stuff as the othwrs.
Since she pretty much slammed all scrappers that don't journal to her standards
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No she didn't.
#23, From what I got out of it, yes she did. I thought it was very rude.
I didn't get that vibe at all and didn't think she was rude - I have no affiliation with her, I just checked out the links that were posted here.
Just out of curiosity, how do you know that SSD picked the wrong designers. What if the "right" designers didn't apply? Maybe they picked the best applications.
#26 - best damn comment ever!
But you see, some people think they 'know' everything! When, in fact, they know nothing, or very little. They just suppose.
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I thought Lizzy calling her old template packs 'vintage' was kind of clever actually
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In what way? It's not at all clever, but it is highly pretentious and, apparently, marketable. Call it vintage and they will come.
Before anyone starts throwing accusations, NO I AM NOT LENA. I'm just catching up on the past week here in digismackland and thought this was stupid.
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Now, see, this is what they call a hanging participle. What exactly do you think is stupid? Not being Lena or catching up?
I am the original poster who posted about the c word. I am Australian and I think it is crass. I am no prude, I don't swear alot but I don't not swear either, but the C word just makes anyone who uses it look like trash because it is such a demeaning word. There are many less crass swear words to use instead.
Well not another 2 template designers that's for sure. Cindy is enough. I was hoping for people who had kits that would catch my eye and I would just have to have it. Most of the designers I would have liked to see there are already in big stores.
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You still haven't said WHO you would like to have seen at SSD. Who?
Well not another 2 template designers that's for sure. Cindy is enough. I was hoping for people who had kits that would catch my eye and I would just have to have it. Most of the designers I would have liked to see there are already in big stores.
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^^ because every designer should know exactly what it is that will catch your eye. Of course, how silly of them all to NOT know. Tsk tsk.
I've got an idea... Why don't y'all just design your own kits in the perfect colors seeing as y'all are such experts and all?
I've got an idea... Why don't y'all just design your own kits in the perfect colors seeing as y'all are such experts and all?
Couldn't have said it better myself !! LOL
Is Jenn Barrette really leaving SSD for TLP? I read something on here about that.
I've got an idea... Why don't y'all just design your own kits in the perfect colors seeing as y'all are such experts and all?
Couldn't have said it better myself !! LOL
Apr 19, 2012 9:41:00 AM
I think you should post this on your design blogs/FB fan pages so your customers can see what you really think of suggestions and input.
As far as SSD, I see no real difference. Studio Basic's templates are out there and so are her color palettes. They do stand out in the sea of sameness. But, I never went to SSD to see anything innovative. To expect that to change is moronic. They are what they are and that works for a lot of scrappers, but to think it will work for everyone is beyond stupid.
If designers change to something else while they are there, I would have to assume it's because it's what SELLS. Most designers aren't going to change their style to something that sells worse...
If designers change to something else while they are there, I would have to assume it's because it's what SELLS. Most designers aren't going to change their style to something that sells worse...
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AMEN.
Another long time designer is jumping ship at Funky Playground.
and who might that be?
Jen C designs and I've heard that many are unhappy with the new owner and are on their way out.
My guess is Jen C. I don't think anyone else has been there as long. Not sure, though. Just know she's been there awhile and recently guested at PBP. So, that's likely where she's going.
Guess we posted at the same time. :)
Can´t find Dani Mogstad at SSD anymore....
Anyone know where she is?
Dani has her own shop. I still don't understand why she left SSD. I always looked forward to her releases on Saturday.
Can´t find Dani Mogstad at SSD anymore....
Anyone know where she is?
Apr 19, 2012 1:44:00 PM
And a simple, 2 second search would tell you.
Jen C's designs are full of CU. (Tons of Miss Tina crap). She appears to be nice and active (forums, Facebook), but I can't get past all the CU I see in her kits.
Where is she going? Any guess?
So who are the new designers at GP?
Everyone who didn't get picked in the SSD call.
I've got an idea... Why don't y'all just design your own kits in the perfect colors seeing as y'all are such experts and all?
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I've got an idea ... why don't you grow a brain, seeing as you don't have one.
No one was saying they were 'experts' and could do it better. They were expressing disappointment in the latest releases at SSD. How that makes someone an expert and ready to design is beyond me.
#50 here - I realize my last sentence doesn't make a whole lot of sense and I look an idiot. However, I'm hoping you will know what I mean.
LOL not quite. I didn't bother.
I understood what you meant.
52 was in response to 49.
Do designers ever worry that if they apply to another stores call, get turned down, that their current shop owner will find out and be mad? Or do they understand it is just a business thing? I'm not sure how that works.
A better question would be, have any designers had a shop owner get mad when they have applied to other stores.
To 38 - where did you hear she was leaving? It's not on her Facebook or at FPD?
I just checked her Facebook page and it's not there. What a shit thing to do if you are part of Funky and have 'inside' information.
Jen C's designs are full of CU. (Tons of Miss Tina crap). She appears to be nice and active (forums, Facebook), but I can't get past all the CU I see in her kits.
^^^^
I see her stuff everywhere and it's really not exciting but she's guesting all over the place and has a fairly big FB following ... I guess maybe it proves customers don't really care about CU?
I've never heard of her.
She's REALLY (truly, honestly) a nice person. I used to work with her at a former store and she is genuine. Who cares if she uses CU? Apparently, she is giving customers what they want, or I doubt she'd be everywhere she is.
I agree with #61, Jen is a really sweet person
I see her stuff everywhere and it's really not exciting but she's guesting all over the place and has a fairly big FB following ... I guess maybe it proves customers don't really care about CU?
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this has nothing to do with Jen. I have only used one of her kits. But as a buying member of the digi scrap community, we dont care about the CU. Only other designers do. It doesnt make you better than other designers when you don't use CU. What makes you better is catering to your market. Learning what your customers want. Just because someone uses a lot of CU doesnt make them less of a designer. Because, I promise you I dont want to learn how to design. I rather pay you guys to do that for me. So I could care less if it is loaded with CU. More power to you for using what is out there to help you make money. However, not using CU doesnt make you a bad designer either. It is just catering to your market. I have bought those kits too when the fancy strkes me. Just put to bed the CU battle. Obviously it works for them. And obviously you not using CU works for you.
-thanks.
your customer base.
The same old CU battle is still going on. Is it really that big of a deal if someone uses CU?
CU products are just tools and should be used as such, CREATIVELY. Anyone could take a shape from Photoshop and sell it as a plain tag, and that does not show much skill or creativity, but someone else might take the same shape, use it in a different context, with different combinaisons of other tools and create something unique. So with the same starting point, one "designer" will be called "lazy" or "repackaging", while the other will really be seen as "designing". Same tools, different use, different application and in the end, different result. It is not the starting element that should concern us, but the end result.
Combinations, even.
All a matter of being lazy, I guess.
#65 - I concur.
But as a buying member of the digi scrap community, we dont care about the CU. Only other designers do.
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Not true. I'm not a designer and do care about CU use, if it's used badly. I don't want to find out after purchasing, for example, 6 different kits from 6 different designers at 6 different stores, only to find that I have the same damn CU element or elements in all the kits, with nothing or very little changed.
OMG - http://onestorydown.com/shop/product.php?productid=17854
Not only the product, but their logo.
What's wrong with the product? I can see it as a cute alternative to stars on a potty training chart. Print them out blank, let the kid color one in for each time they use the potty.
The logo, on the other hand, is kinda creepy.
this product with the repetitive brush scratches is much worse
http://onestorydown.com/shop/product.php?productid=17802&page=1
But as a buying member of the digi scrap community, we dont care about the CU. Only other designers do.
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Not true. I'm not a designer and do care about CU use, if it's used badly. I don't want to find out after purchasing, for example, 6 different kits from 6 different designers at 6 different stores, only to find that I have the same damn CU element or elements in all the kits, with nothing or very little changed.
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I apolgoize. I should have said some do some don't. I do think that was the point that was gotten across through the rest of the post though. ;)
Some are going to use CU and some are not. Just go with what your customer base likes. It does seem like it really works for some.
I usually do a pretty good look-see before buying a kit in hopes of trying to keep from buying 6 of the same thing. (I do realize some are too cluttered to see it all b4 you throw that out) But again, I am not going to get my nickers in a twist if I have the same CU elements used in different kits. b/c 9 times out of 10 they are not going to be the 100% exact same. Again, I rather pay the designers to do all the recoloring to match my new kit. Even if it is just that "very little thing" that was changed.
Call it lazy, but I dont want to do it recolor or whatever. Just like I rather pay the farmer to grow my veggies, and the factories to make my clothes. I rather spend my time scrapping (or cooking and wearing in the other examples. lol)
OMG - http://onestorydown.com/shop/product.php?productid=17854
Not only the product, but their logo.
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If your product is digital design, your logo should be superb. Bad logos, blog, & packaging is just bad business.
the little boobies and weird noses are just creepy.
There are so many bad logo's out there. They make no sense to the design name.
There are so many bad logo's out there. They make no sense to the design name.
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agreed. which is sad since it is essentially graphic designs.
There are so many bad logo's out there. They make no sense to the design name.
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agreed. which is sad since it is essentially graphic designs.
Apr 19, 2012 9:42:00 PM
Whats even more laughable is when designers post in the DCR asking for logo designer recommendations.
Why is that laughable? Just because you are good in one area of design, doesn't mean you are good in all areas of design.
Agreed - digiscrap design is not the same as graphic design, just as graphic design is not the same as web design. Actually, I think its a lot smarter to realize you aren't a a graphic designer and pay to get a logo done than it is to NOT realize it and create your own logo that sucks.
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I wrote that before looking at the logo in question ... and I have to say that it is a prefect example of what I was referring to. Cute doodles can be much appreciated in the digiscrap world, but those designers have ZERO graphic design skills and should hire someone to do their logo for them.
It is good to know what you can and cannot do. But if you are designing digitally you are a graphic designer. Doodling or not. You fall into the Graphic Designer category. ;)
But I really don’t think Graphic designer semantics is the point here. The point is you are selling an artistic product designed digitally. your digitally designed image (logo/blog/store/packaging) should be up to par. If not, you are reflecting subpar digitally designed products to your customer.
I have seen it nearly every month's post about BG's previews. It doesn’t matter how good your unzipped product it. If your presenting yourself to your customer with bad window front and sign, they might not walk in the store.
It is good to know what you can and cannot do. But if you are designing digitally you are a graphic designer. Doodling or not. You fall into the Graphic Designer category. ;)
But I really don’t think Graphic designer semantics is the point here. The point is you are selling an artistic product designed digitally. your digitally designed image (logo/blog/store/packaging) should be up to par. If not, you are reflecting subpar digitally designed products to your customer.
I have seen it nearly every month's post about BG's previews. It doesn’t matter how good your unzipped product it. If your presenting yourself to your customer with bad window front and sign, they might not walk in the store.
It is good to know what you can and cannot do. But if you are designing digitally you are a graphic designer. Doodling or not. You fall into the Graphic Designer category. ;)
But I really don’t think Graphic designer semantics is the point here. The point is you are selling an artistic product designed digitally. your digitally designed image (logo/blog/store/packaging) should be up to par. If not, you are reflecting subpar digitally designed products to your customer.
I have seen it nearly every month's post about BG's previews. It doesn’t matter how good your unzipped product it. If your presenting yourself to your customer with bad window front and sign, they might not walk in the store.
I don't want to find out after purchasing, for example, 6 different kits from 6 different designers at 6 different stores, only to find that I have the same damn CU element or elements in all the kits, with nothing or very little changed.
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If you buy 6 different kits from 6 different designers from 6 different stores and DON'T notice that the same elements are in each of them, you have a problem and should probably pay more attention to your purchases. OMG.
Anyone who makes logos for the digiscrap community is probably being short-changed. You get what you pay for. Typically a logo in the "real world" would cost upwards of $400 dollars. In the digiscrap world people get them for under $100.
Does TLP have the largest number of designers under one roof now? For a while they were a pretty small boutique store, but they're a mega store at this point. Must be a good place to sell since most of their guests seem to stay. Anyone have the inside track on that?
I know they have turned down alot of designers that have applied to sell there. They did lose Lauren Reid to her own shop, so maybe they replaced what she brought to the store in money by adding 3-4 more designers. They do have alot of guests that just guest for months.
Any idea who they have turned down? Just curious.
Does TLP have the largest number of designers under one roof now?
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Have you seen all the designers that GingerScraps has? They seem to have a lot of guests stay, too.
I believe Divine takes the cake in that category - 55 designers
#80 - you completely missed the point, didn't you? OMG!
It is good to know what you can and cannot do. But if you are designing digitally you are a graphic designer. Doodling or not. You fall into the Graphic Designer category. ;)
But I really don’t think Graphic designer semantics is the point here. The point is you are selling an artistic product designed digitally. your digitally designed image (logo/blog/store/packaging) should be up to par. If not, you are reflecting subpar digitally designed products to your customer.
I have seen it nearly every month's post about BG's previews. It doesn’t matter how good your unzipped product it. If your presenting yourself to your customer with bad window front and sign, they might not walk in the store.
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#80 - you completely missed the point, didn't you? OMG!
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I don't think she was missing the point. Rather stating a different point. A point already pointed out previously. Just in another way. (#72's post)
She did miss the point. Telling me I had a problem because I couldn't see that several kits had the same elements is not only downright rude, but incorrect. So many designers do not show decent element previews and if all they list is three flowers, how the heck am I supposed to know which three flowers they are if they aren't showing in the previews.
#88, Who is BG?
She did miss the point. Telling me I had a problem because I couldn't see that several kits had the same elements is not only downright rude, but incorrect. So many designers do not show decent element previews and if all they list is three flowers, how the heck am I supposed to know which three flowers they are if they aren't showing in the previews.
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Awww someone is down right rude on this blog? Don't come here often huh?
#92 - I come here all the time. Man, some people are so fucking stupid.
#92 - yes, you can be a downright rude bitch for the sake of being a downright rude bitch because you come to this blog, because you are so fucking lame, you can't do it in real life. And yes, I posted twice! So shoot me!!!
Awwwww, MAN!!!!!! **pounds fists in a tizzy**
#95 - whatever, I know you are too lame to be your true self, so you have to come here.
bang
Anonymous said... 91
#88, Who is BG?
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I would imagine Bella Gypsy.
Anonymous said... 94
#92 - yes, you can be a downright rude bitch for the sake of being a downright rude bitch because you come to this blog, because you are so fucking lame, you can't do it in real life. And yes, I posted twice! So shoot me!!!
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ha ha ha!! you just called yourself a downright rude bitch!! That is hilarious!
People people people. When you get all torqued up about people posting on this blog and get all high-and-mighty about it. Then feel the need to post about how horrible we all are for posting on here, you just stooped to our horrible, bitchy, catty, rude-ass, level. You came, read, you bitched.
the end
welcome to the bitch club!
Anonymous said... 92
She did miss the point. Telling me I had a problem because I couldn't see that several kits had the same elements is not only downright rude, but incorrect. So many designers do not show decent element previews and if all they list is three flowers, how the heck am I supposed to know which three flowers they are if they aren't showing in the previews.
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#72 said the same thing and no one got all upset about it. If you are buying 6 kits with the same elements in it YOU should be paying more attention. One or two maybe. 6, open your damn eyeballs. Be aware of your surroundings. Or maybe just broaden your tastes and dont buy 6 of nearly the same type of kits. ;)
So funny how worked up people get over getting called an idiot on a smack blog. One of the reasons I continue to come here and read, love it.
Anonymous said... 101
So funny how worked up people get over getting called an idiot on a smack blog. One of the reasons I continue to come here and read, love it.
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People get worked up being called an idiot anywhere. The platform doesn't make it anymore easy to take or any less rude.
OMG the blogtrain..........
Is it that bad again. LOL.
Worse than anything that has come before.
http://photobucket.com/mayBT2012
p/w - mayroyalwedding2012
Oh sweet Jesus
Oh sweet Jesus
Apr 22, 2012 8:35:00 AM
Amen to that! Wow.
I do not see one even half-way decent item. That template by Maris' crap is horrid. Not everyone can design templates. She is for sure not one of them.
Do any top designers ever participate in that?
all I have to say is yuck.
Well there are some that aren't too bad although I wouldn't download them. I wish designers would realize that with any color palette you need a add a neutral(usually a white - though not a true white). But wow - just wow- some are obviously real beginners. I wonder how they were ever let into a store? And some just went in such a different direction that a 'wedding theme' would suggest that I'd be hard pressed to use the papers - so I think I'll pass on this one.
Wow... I don't even know if I want to participate anymore. I am signed up for it... But most of those submissions are such crap I don't know if I would want whatever I would make to stand next to it all. Just yuck :(
This seems like a good place to point out that the palette, to begin with, is a train wreck. It's not right for the time of year, nor for the theme. And since it lacks anything resembling light and shade (or a neutral), all the wannabe-designers likely have no clue how to work with it and make something decent from it. It's really just a pile of muddy colors that don't work together at all.
This is the problem with taking a palette from design seeds (no idea if that's where they got the palette from) or other places like that. The photos obviously look great but when you only pick out 4 or 6 colors and then forgot the white or the lighter hues you're going to end up with crap. It's the neutral that creates an offset or balance on the photo. You can't just pick out 4 dark colors from a photo and expect your combination to work cuz it doesn't.
I didn't sign up for that one because the palette was so bad. I don't understand why so many people signed up saying 'love the colors' or similar bullshit. Why not just say 'those colors are a good start but can we ad some neutrals?'
Design Seeds can be great if you use the PHOTO not just the 5 colors she pulls from it.
when using a color swatch many designers know that it is ok to add a white, black and neutral color to the swatch along with a darker or lighter version of the colors in the swatch. If the designers from the blog train only used the swatch colors as shown without adding any of the others then they don't know much about designing IMHO. Any swatch is just a an idea of colors. If they were smart they would take Design Seeds and pull out more colors from her photos!!
^^^ I actually remember someone getting smacked for doing just that. Someone was very displeased that they were such a poor designer that they couldn't manage to use the palette the way it was supposed to be.
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Well let them smack away as it has nothing to do with using the exact swatch. Yes you use the colors in the swatch, along with neutrals and lighter or darker versions of the colors. What is a swatch? but an idea of a color range to use in designs. Obviously whoever posted that smack didn't know much.
I hate holier than thou big mouth fucking designers who believe they are so much better than anyone else in the industry. Their attitudes are horrible, and yet people flock to them like starving people to food; sucking up, allowing the designer to believe they are even better than they originally thought.
Random thought for today.
And who would that be?
#119, that is way to common these days. There are some who refuse to believe that their products are anything but perfect. People flock to them in the hopes that they can get free stuff.
She must be talking about SO or SSD designers. People flock to them like no other. They aren't any better than any other designer out there selling.
Time to start smacking those blog train kits - some are so horrible it would be doing them a service and others need to be to pointed to the right track. OMG! So many look like they are graduates of Hummie's School of Design!
LMAO @ Hummie's school of 'design'.
Her "store" is open now. Pathetic.
#119 I'd love some specifics on who you think these holier than thou, my shit don't stink designers are.
I'm guessing there is some behind the scenes tension at some shops. Spill.
Anonymous said... 119 I hate holier than thou big mouth fucking designers who believe they are so much better than anyone else in the industry. Their attitudes are horrible, and yet people flock to them like starving people to food; sucking up, allowing the designer to believe they are even better than they originally thought.
Random thought for today.
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That didnt feel too random. I dont understand why people come here and vent but feel afraid to actually say names.
Because they are afraid that **someone** will figure out who they are. And they don't want that.
Then why even bother to post at all? L.A.M.E.
I've got one... Captivated Visions anyone? I don't think anyone could get a bigger head.
Oh and you can't forget her right hand man, Melissa of Cluster Queen Creations. She should have stuck to template making because her kits are UGLY.
#130, I agree 100% on Captivated Visions. She is good but not as good as she thinks she is. She needs to branch out to some new color schemes.
I'm not sure I have heard of Cluster Queen Creations? Where does she sell?
http://www.thedigichick.com/shop/Cluster-Queen-Creations/
Cluster Queen looks like a Lauren Grier, Captivated Visions rip off.
CQC heads up Captivated Visions CT - started doing templates. Branched out to kits, which are iffy at best. Sells at TDC and now back at Scrap Matters (watch for her to go exclusive at SM, that's my bet). Very bitchy and demanding.
Captivated Visions is an egomaniac bitch for sure. I've never known CQC to be demanding, but her kits are nasty. She really needs to stick to templates.
I am a fan of CV. I just wish she would branch out on colors. I have stopped buying her kits lately b/c they are just all too similiar.
I think CQC kits are getting better. I like that they are not cookie cutter like everyone elses. I think she has potential kit wise.
No. not friend. not ct. just my thoughts.
The only truely nasty person I have come across in digiland is Carly/snaggletooth/queen of hearts. But I have gathered that is the way she just is. But I try to steer clear of her. She is just in general grumpy, rude, & crude.
I love her templates though. lol. Guess you dont have to be nice to make money.
That's funny because I have never seen her really be nasty to anyone. That could be because I take her a different way than you do, plus I was on her CT team and she was nothing but nice and very easy to CT for.
Nicole of Sugarplum is really stuck on herself. Ever since she "left" TDC and went to SSD, she has really gotten a I'm better than you attitude. It is getting really annoying. She is not any better now than when she was at TDC.
I don't really know CV that well but I heard her CT terms are terrible and she lost alot of CT members because of them. Melissa, I do have to agree is a total bitch.
#136, This is not cookie cutter?
http://www.thedigichick.com/shop/One-Day-At-A-Time-Mega-Kit.html
Your kidding right? It's terrible and the colors are just ugly. Are you sure you are talking about the same designer?
You know who is annoying? Jeanye Labaya. You want to see someone who just complains or just likes to act bi-polar or full of themselves, watch her for a day. Not only does she retire alot and move shops every few months, but her templates are ugly.
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I dont "know" her through the digi-world. I did
noticed she shop hopped majorly. I am a fan of her templates and literally had to hunt her down. It was when she was between FPD, PBP, and wherever she is now. It kinda put me off from her designs. I dont like to have to hunt down designers.
Lizzy (Fizzy Pop or whatever), Kami from SO (not in a stuck up designer way, but in general), Flergs, Laura Banasiak, Maya, and Captivated Visions all have their heads so far up their own ass it's not even funny. That's my list of stuck up snobs.
I really like CV a lot but agree on the colors. She needs to branch out. I've also heard that her CT terms are difficult.
Melissa is a total sweetheart, I don't know where anyone gets that she's a bitch. I love her templates but hate her kits and hope she goes back to just templates.
Jeanye is a great template designer, I don't know her personally so I can't comment on the mental state but her templates are great.
It's not so much them being a bitch but them thinking their shit don't stink. Laura, it seems like she reuses the same doodles over and over in some of her kits. However, alot of designers reuse stuff so it is not just her. CV, my thing with her is her colors. I get so tired of seeing the same colors from her. I get that you can mix and match them but branch out a little. I believe that there is a whole lot of ego over at SO. A whole lot. Isn't that common for most successful stores though?
I believe that there is a whole lot of ego over at SO. A whole lot. Isn't that common for most successful stores though?
Apr 25, 2012 6:30:00 AM
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I think if you have to talk about how great you are, then you're not really all that great. You just want everyone to *think* you're great. Hype. Scrap Orchard is all hype. Always has been. Always will be.
I think SSD used to be great years ago when there weren't a lot of other stores. Their recent business decisions (especially this year) have led me to believe business there is not as good as they want everyone to believe - or as good as it used to be.
I'm sure both stores do better sales than some other "no name" stores, but I think those snobby bitches would be quite shocked at how much the designers they look down upon actually make.
Random question of the day: In your mind, what length of time makes a store "established"? Are there other criteria you feel are equally or more important?
And what makes you feel like a designer is established?
143 - our list is pretty much identical.
$2.50 for a single QP. What a rip-off.
http://scrapbookbytes.com/store/digital-scrapbooking-supplies/SilviaRomeo_NaturelleQuickPage02.html
What doodles do you see Laura reusing? I buy from her now and again and haven't noticed that at all. Although, how many different ways can you draw a flower or other general element? I like her more recent themed kits.
I'm curious about specifics on why the above mentioned designers are stuck up or think their sh*t doesn't stink.
Any good stuff out there for iNSD? It always sneaks up on me every year. What about this amazing race thing that starts that weekend? Is it worth doing?
What amazing race thing? Link us up.
I'm curious about specifics on why the above mentioned designers are stuck up or think their sh*t doesn't stink.
Apr 25, 2012 10:28:00 AM
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Have you never said or thought, boy, that person is stuck-up? or, that person thinks their shit doesn't stink?
If not, I can see asking this question. If so, then you already have your answer.
#153, They might not hang around SO or SSD that much to see what other people see.
I do hang out at Scrap Orchard a little and haven't seen the attitudes or egos that the PP mentioned. Seems like just SO haters or jealousy to me. I'm sure the person who said that is a designer at another store. I don't hang out at SBG so I don't know about Lizzy Fizzy or Flergs.
So, just because someone thinks a designer at SO is stuck-up, they are SO haters or jealous?
I don't hang out at SSD or SO, but have interacted with the designers mentioned in a variety of ways over the years. I'd say the list is quite accurate. No designer is foolish enough to be an outright bitch right in the public forums, but they're more than OK being that way when they think no one is around to see it.
I can't find anything about the amazing race thing. What is that? A Contest?
http://ndisb.com/?page_id=258
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http://ndisb.com/?page_id=258
It happens every year.
http://ndisb.com/?page_id=258
It happens every year.
Apr 25, 2012 1:53:00 PM
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I wouldn't even consider signing up until the list of host sites is posted. The prizes last year totally sucked.
http://ndisb.com/?page_id=258
It happens every year.
Apr 25, 2012 1:53:00 PM
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I wouldn't even consider signing up until the list of host sites is posted. The prizes last year totally sucked.
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AGREE! I was going to do it...just to get some pages done, but after last year I don't think I want to waste my time...the prizes sucked and the whole "themed" race was a mess
I think it just goes back to the whole clique thing. It is unfortunate but it happens when you get a bunch of females together. This group isnt going to like this group. And so on. Makes it worse that it is a competative business.
Everyone smiling and kissing rear in public forums but bashing and bitching on private forums, IMs, and these places.
Just us women being women.
http://ndisb.com/?page_id=258
It happens every year.
Apr 25, 2012 1:53:00 PM
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I wouldn't even consider signing up until the list of host sites is posted. The prizes last year totally sucked.
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AGREE! I was going to do it...just to get some pages done, but after last year I don't think I want to waste my time...the prizes sucked and the whole "themed" race was a mess
Are you only it in for what you can get for free out of it-the prizes???? cause this Race has been running for about the last 5 years and a lot of planning goes into it and not all participating stores come thru which causes lots of headaches but the whole idea is to enjoy the challenge and the scrapping NOT collecting free stuff. As usual people who feel totally entitled or they won't play is the typical theme here.. Then again don't sign up because those of us who want to have fun with this Race don't want you!!!!
#164 - You need to calm down. It's exactly your mentality that takes the fun out of these things. Of course people are in it for the prizes. Anyone can scrap by themselves or do forum challenges, etc.
Sites sponsor these things for exposure. Period. Not out of the goodness of their hearts. They want to MAKE MONEY. If you really think that most scrappers and sites participate in this event for the love of scrapping, you seriously need a clue.
^^^This!
And then last year there was that one person in particular who kept complaining about how the theme of family was causing her emotional duress because her family was so horrible. I'm sorry she had such a bad life, but seriously, why are you scrapping to remember if all you want to do is forget?!
Does anyone know where to find a tutorial for making these type of things. I'm not sure what you would call them. Would you need Illustrator?
http://www.damaskboutique.com/custom-characters/custom-characters-waist-up/prod_102.html
Ask at DST.
You can do them in PS too. I would imagine you would create them like any other vector image.
I wish this blog was like Facebook so I could click "like" next to #165's comment. And #166 too.
"11 anonymous posters liked this comment".
^ Like.
171 - LOL, literally
Thank you! 165 & 166 -- I was the infamous #162
And like you said, I can scrap ANY day I want to. I have participated the last few years in the race and I have seen it go down hill the last couple. The theme was stupid: I do the race to challenge myself and NOT scrap about something I ALWAYS scrap about..and DUH anyone and everyone is in for the prizes! If you say you are not, you are lying through your teeth!
Have you never said or thought, boy, that person is stuck-up? or, that person thinks their shit doesn't stink?
If not, I can see asking this question. If so, then you already have your answer.
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Not the OP, but no, I've never said that or thought it.
No designer is foolish enough to be an outright bitch right in the public forums, but they're more than OK being that way when they think no one is around to see it.
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So? I don't care how they behave in private, it's their public face that I interact with and that goes for all businesses.
Does anyone know where to find a tutorial for making these type of things. I'm not sure what you would call them. Would you need Illustrator?
http://www.damaskboutique.com/custom-characters/custom-characters-waist-up/prod_102.html
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why on earth would you want to?
Everyone smiling and kissing rear in public forums but bashing and bitching on private forums, IMs, and these places.
Just us women being women.
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Men are just as bad, if not worse.
Not the OP, but no, I've never said that or thought it.
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Me either. Here's a hint: If something happens to you over and over, it might just be YOU.
#143 calm it calm it lolz.
lolz? Seriously? What are you, 12?
#181 very clever
180 = Dizzy Pop
I bet you #180 is a 50 year old woman.
And like you said, I can scrap ANY day I want to. I have participated the last few years in the race and I have seen it go down hill the last couple. The theme was stupid: I do the race to challenge myself and NOT scrap about something I ALWAYS scrap about..and DUH anyone and everyone is in for the prizes! If you say you are not, you are lying through your teeth!
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LOL, seriously? What sort of people do you hob nob with? Do you really think you can speak for everyone? I think the ADSR is a lot of fun. I could care less about the prizes, I'm not doing it for what I can get and I know I'm not alone in that. I'm in it for the fun of working with my friend, the challenges to help take me out of my scrapping box, get some layouts done and to just have fun creating. Why is it so hard to believe that there are more people who approach it as I do? I don't get to scrap very often and I love to do it. It forces me to scrap instead of constantly having choosing to work.
And regarding #164. She doesn't need to take a chill pill. She realizes that events like this take a lot of time and effort and to see you all being a$$holes on here rankled her. Hell, it rankled me and I have nothing to do with ADSR. I also thought good riddance to all you snobby cheapskate bitches.
:)
185- and you think you're better than everyone else in saying what you did. No one called anyone a bitch regarding ADSR until you showed up (not even crazy 164).
To me, even if you had a valid point, you'd still be the biggest bitch of them all.
#185 to #186: Well, yeah, that was my intention...I thought that is what the smack blog was for? So many of you get on here and are total bitches. So, I just called some out on being snobby cheapskates too. I can be a bitch, yes. Not always and not often but I think we all can be. Especially when it's anonymous ;)
Men are just as bad, if not worse.
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You know that's not true. If a man has a problem with you he's in your face but most women won't directional confront - they gossip, they're catty, snarky and passive agressive. Sorry but it's the truth. I'd rather work for a man any day than a woman.
You know that's not true. If a man has a problem with you he's in your face but most women won't directional confront - they gossip, they're catty, snarky and passive agressive. Sorry but it's the truth. I'd rather work for a man any day than a woman.
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Kinda have to agree with the "working for a man" comment, at least you mostly know where you stand. Also when you're a woman, trying to confront another woman, they tend to take it OH so personally. Very frustrating ...
177 - Fair comment. lol This is more what I'm wanting to make.
http://www.sanqunettidesign.com/
Kinda have to agree with the "working for a man" comment, at least you mostly know where you stand. Also when you're a woman, trying to confront another woman, they tend to take it OH so personally. Very frustrating ...
Apr 27, 2012 2:18:00 PM
I prefer working with a man until they become threatened by me - even though I'm 100% happy doing MY job and don't want HIS job. Then I'm not sure what's worse, working for a man or a woman.
You know that's not true. If a man has a problem with you he's in your face but most women won't directional confront - they gossip, they're catty, snarky and passive agressive. Sorry but it's the truth. I'd rather work for a man any day than a woman.
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It may be your truth, but doesn't mean it's everyone's truth. No man has ever been in my face, ever, when he has had a problem with me. Men gossip, they are snarky and bitchy etc, just like women.
It may be your truth, but doesn't mean it's everyone's truth. No man has ever been in my face, ever, when he has had a problem with me. Men gossip, they are snarky and bitchy etc, just like women.
Apr 27, 2012 6:18:00 PM
You might want to leave the trailer park every once in awhile.
#193 You might want to leave the trailer park every once in awhile.
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We'll all come and visit yours then shall we?
You might want to leave the trailer park every once in awhile.
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Funny, but I was kind of thinking the same thing but you were a bit more witty in articulating it.
You might want to leave the trailer park every once in awhile.
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And you might want to live with some civil people. It's only trailer park trash that gets in your face.
Getting in your face simply means that men confront the problem head on not behind your back.
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