The rest of the story...a place to freely discuss "the hub of the digital scrapbook community"
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Happy Easter!
I told you I would be back around Easter! What has been going on around the digi scene? Looks like the Scrapper Awards are coming to DST soon, always some good controversy with those. National Scrapbook day coming hopefully some good sales.
Wow, if DST dies, where are you bitches going to flock to? It would be really boring to have no place to whine about. I doubt some of you are bullied. Stop expecting everyone to just agree with your or simply take it. And just because they do not agree with you, that does not mean you are being bullied. Get over yourself. I highly doubt you care to make the digi world a better place. PULease.
Wow, if DST dies, where are you bitches going to flock to? It would be really boring to have no place to whine about.
April 20, 2009 6:02 PM
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It's people like you that make places like DST the way it is. You stand there so superior to everyone else, but here you are, in the muck with them. Get the heck over yourself.
There are instances of bullying at DST - take the Faith True threads for a start. How about all the Mo Jackson crap that went on? And the time someone dared to say something about Christina Renee when she was the design star.
There are instances of bullying at DST - take the Faith True threads for a start. How about all the Mo Jackson crap that went on? And the time someone dared to say something about Christina Renee when she was the design star.
April 20, 2009 6:19 PMAnd what about the Joedee instance, when the store was hacked and the charity money just disappeared from her paypay. Those of us that were upset about the whole thing got all kinds of grief. We shouldn't be upset that our personal info might have been leaked. And those of us that bought the charity kit shouldn't be upset that the money never made it to the charity. The designers who helped with the kit shouldn't be upset that they were never told that the money never made it to the charity. As long as everyone fell all over Joedee saying how they understand, it was all well and good. But for those of us that didn't agree, well it wasn't all pretty. If you've never read that whole mess here you go, and tell me once again that there's no bullying at DST. http://www.digishoptalk.com/boards/showthread.php?t=76767&highlight=hospital
Wonder if anyone still thinks the site was "hacked".
April 20, 2009 8:46 PMI wonder how many of us ever believed it to begin with? Just like I wonder how much money the hospital charity ever actually received.
Wonder how anybody with half a brain actually believed the money was ever left in a paypal account to begin with. Unless she was really was that stupid and did leave it in there.
Anyway, that's old news and for whatever reason, people believed her, puckered up on her ass for a while and life goes on.
again, nothing discussed here is new. just the same old bitterness over and over again.
April 20, 2009 9:55 PMIt wasn't meant to be new news. Someone asked for examples of bullying at DST, that's what they got. That's just one of many threads where, if you aren't a member of the sunshine and kool-aid crew, you get shit on. I can go back and find more, but that one is always the first one to come to mind.
At least Tara Dunstan got what she deserved. That whole drama was at least handled professionally and her fraud was taken to and handled by the police.
Nice to know that on occasion digiland can handle things as they should be handled. Hopefully people will now think twice about committing fraud in digiland. But then maybe I am dreaming!
I read the entire thing. I did not see any bullying. I see someone saying something that's not really what the majority of people posting were thinking and then someone replying disagreeing with what was being said. And then it gets a bit heated and some people got personal or took things personally. But I wouldn't exactly say that anyone was bullied. The thread was never locked and it was allowed to run it's course. Everyone got to say what they thought if they wanted to do so.
At least Tara Dunstan got what she deserved. That whole drama was at least handled professionally and her fraud was taken to and handled by the police.
Nice to know that on occasion digiland can handle things as they should be handled. Hopefully people will now think twice about committing fraud in digiland. But then maybe I am dreaming!
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I was wondering about that the other day. Did anyone find out if charges were laid or not?
As much as I would like to know, it's also not our business. The money was recovered and paid to the charity and that's all we are entitled to know.Actually, we are entitled to any and all information regarding charges being brought or not, punitive action, etc. Any criminal action becomes a matter of public record, and anyone who knows the name and location of the person who committed the crime is free to look up the legal court records and get all of the information that is available. If I knew where Ms. Dunston lived, I'd be happy to look it up. It is usually a quick and easy thing to find online.
So yeah, it is our business - but thanks for the self-righteous hand-slap anyway. ;)
That's all going to depend on whether Australia or New Zealand (I don't remember which) has the same public records law as the States. That's where she is from, that's where Pickleberry Pop is based out of, that's where law enforcement got involved.
Actually, we are entitled to any and all information regarding charges being brought or not, punitive action, etc. --------------
Actually, no you aren't. In Australia, unless you are directly involved in the proceedings, you aren't entitled to any information at all. It's only when charges have been MADE not brought, that it can go on public record.
Charges MADE and charges BROUGHT is the same thing. It's when a CONVICTION is recorded that it becomes public knowledge and even still, you need to be involved in the case to be able to go to a courthouse and get information. The only other way to know is via the media but I doubt her case would make it that far.
Blushbutter sounds like one of the bigger troublemakers in digi. ^^^ Possibly, but I can unequivocally say that she's one of the crappiest designers in digi! Those crazy dolls of hers are beyond creepy.
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Saying she is one of the bigger troublemakers in digi is a complete understatement. Blushbutter has to be the biggest whack job, drama queen on the net period. Her and her little "make art" button in poser shows zero talent and is so cheesy for scrapping.
I do not see bullying at DST. I see people talking and sometimes disagreeing. Just because someone disagrees with you doesn't mean they are bullies. I think some people aren't comfortable talking with people who have totally different views than theirs and they interpret them as bullies. Some people are louder, more intense and like to argue. While others like me are quiet and reserved. It's what makes life interesting.
Just becuase someone has a different style from you doesn't make them a bad scrapper or "cheesy." She's doing her own thing and isn't putting out the same thing that everyone else is. I personally don't care for her style, either but it doesn't make her a poor designer.
Let's see if I can get this straight: You bitch when someone copies you, you bitch when someone makes something too different, you bitch when they use too much CU, you bitch if they're too popular, you bitch if they're a newbie....bitch..bitch..bitch.
Just becuase someone has a different style from you doesn't make them a bad scrapper or "cheesy." She's doing her own thing and isn't putting out the same thing that everyone else is. I personally don't care for her style, either but it doesn't make her a poor designer.
April 22, 2009 11:15 AM
There are more and more people putting out that poser junk day after day, nothing new and unique here. As a matter of fact she is a poor designer. Her renders are very poor , she is just loading in her pre-bought characters, poses, lighting and hitting the render button. Great talent! Not! If you want to see someone with some talent that actually puts time into her work then check out Jaguarwoman.com Jaguarwoman is someone Blushbutter poorly has been trying to emulate.
Yeah, Jaguarwoman hand-paints everything. She has more talent in her little pinky-nail than most designers out there put together. Probably all designers put together. I can't stand it when I see some designer putting her stuff in a kit as it is. *ehem* babycakes among others close to her. *vomit*
Blushbutter's not the only one trying to simulate her style, either.
I've never bought blushbutter's stuff but if you say it's crap, then I can't argue. Originality and quality dictates the talent of a designer to me, not style. That's all I'm saying. There's some really ugly stuff out there (mostly CU) that I have to wonder who in their right mind would actually use it but that's just me.
Even though it's starting to crop up everywhere, I don't see anything wrong at all with using Daz/Poser, as long as it's done well and with some originality behind it. Blasting out render after render to package up and put a CU sticker on is just tacky to me but, again, that's just my taste. It's really no different than using stock images or Dover books. Soon, it'll be flooded and people will stop and move on to the next big thing.
(LOL my verification word is "hanablis" That's the best one I've seen yet!)
Blushbutter has been making those for a long time. She's been doing it since before I was scrapping, I remember her products from when I first started scrapping at least 2 years ago.
I think she has some pretty stuff. I wouldn't scrap with it because it's not my style, but it's not ugly either.
I wouldn't say she is copying either since she's been doing it long before anyone else brought it to digi (that I know of).
I wouldn't say she is copying either since she's been doing it long before anyone else brought it to digi (that I know of).
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No, Dana has been doing it much longer. I do not know that she is copying Dana. I do think if she is gonna be selling poser figures she should brush up on her skills and not just use Daz and Rendo items out of the box. Anybody with Poser can do that. Just my 2 cents. Carry on
I do not see bullying at DST. I see people talking and sometimes disagreeing. Just because someone disagrees with you doesn't mean they are bullies. I think some people aren't comfortable talking with people who have totally different views than theirs and they interpret them as bullies. Some people are louder, more intense and like to argue. While others like me are quiet and reserved. It's what makes life interesting.
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While I agree with this in part, as some people do see a simple disagreement as bullying, there have been instances of bullying at DST.
5:30 PM I'll concede because I hadn't seen Dana's stuff back then, but that doesn't mean it wasn't there.
But Blushbutter has been doing it a long time, way before you started seeing posers pop up in every ad.
I don't think I'll ever find a reason to put one on my pages, but she is not that bad. I've seen some hideous stuff come through ads. And she is levels above them.
I don't know her personally to comment on whether she is a troublemaker or not, just that she has been around a long time and I don't think she is copying anybody.
They can't even come up with original names for their games? Praise game, blog train?
Is that run by Digital Candy? Do these stores not get enough traffic to their own forums? They have to start new ones to get attention? Just wondering. Why aren't they bringing them to their own forum?
DTS (digitownsquare) is owned by the same folks that own DC but they are not directly correlated. One really has very little to do with the other. Last I checked DC had it's fair share of traffic... maybe they just wanted an alternative DST ????
But why do they need another forum, why not just turn their own little world into something great? _____________________________
I was wondering the same thing. Wouldn't' it be better to put all your energy into one community and make it great instead of spreading yourself too thin?
Even though it's starting to crop up everywhere, I don't see anything wrong at all with using Daz/Poser, as long as it's done well and with some originality behind it. Blasting out render after render to package up and put a CU sticker on is just tacky to me but, again, that's just my taste. It's really no different than using stock images or Dover books. Soon, it'll be flooded and people will stop and move on to the next big thing. -----------------------------------
I would liken it to using an action to create a ribbon or other element, but dover no. Unless you are using the colour vector graphics you actually have to know how to create something out of the plain black clipart in dover books. Most of the time you can't just use the clipart as is, particularly if you want it to be a quality element!
Fresh off the press, the Bud Club is not going to be ran by A.D anymore from what I have heard. owners of the new site are taking it over.
April 22, 2009 8:47 PM
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I call bullshit on that one. If someone else was "taking it over" they would have had the smarts to change the name so it wouldn't be associated with her in ANY WAY. What I find REALLY funny ->She had several posts on there 3 days ago, and now that its been posted here her name doesnt even show in the member list. Too funny. Must be a sad life to have to go incognito because you've pissed off everyone in the community you supposedly "love".
Upon re-reading it, she wasn't so much a bully, as a down and out self righteous bitch.
April 23, 2009 2:08 AM
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she took a pretty hard beating from a lot of people for expressing her opinion (including DST owner). Not that it wasn't deserved. So she didn't get away with the bullying if you want to call it that. She's not a bully to me. Just a loud mouth who didn't think before posting.
She's not a bully to me. Just a loud mouth who didn't think before posting.
April 23, 2009 7:27 AMOh that was just one mild post from her, there were several others when she was more than just a self-righteous bitch. She was just plain nasty. So I guess nasty, mean, self-righteous and racist (and no I don't use racist lightly) doesn't necessarily make you a bully, but it does indeed make you a very not-so-nice person. So much so that I even stopped buying from the designers that she CT'ed for. Does that make me a smaller person, maybe, but as long as the designers condoned her behavior I wasn't buying from them.
Once I have some spare time I'll be more than happy to look up some of the old links for you, but for now it will just have to wait.
Wow, what a effin' c*nt. I don't use that word on just anyone. She must've had her feelings hurt because after some people started putting her on ignore, she left the thread.
here's one past claudia post for you. ----------------------------------- Bullying???? Get a life. Claudia is not a bully. She is a disgruntled black woman with a chip on her shoulder.
Wow, I've just read a few posts by this Claudia. While I wouldn't call her a bully she certainly has issues. One is that she has not grown up enough to realize that the world doesn't revolve around her and her opinions. She is extremely closed minded and intolerant of those who don't think like she does. She harps on racism but in my opinion she is what I call a reverse racist. She puts down white people because we are white and what our ancestors did to her ancestors. You know what, the statute of limitations of blaming me for what my ancestors did is OVER. Frankly, the reason people don't like her is that she is a rude, ignorant, not nice person. It has nothing to do with the color of her skin.
2. Shannon doesn't "allow" bullying to go on at DST. She totally admonished Claudia and asked her to stop her rude behavior.
April 23, 2009 1:46 PMWell actually rude is quite an understatement, IMO, when it comes to describing her. And, yes, Shannon did admonish her in that ONE thread. I don't care anymore, she's gone and hasn't posted at DST for 2 years, so it's good riddance as far as I'm concerned. Like someone else said, she's old news and, unless she's being her typical bitchy self somewhere else, not even worth the time it takes to smack her.
hmmm...So why are we wasting time even talking about her?
Because it's about time she got raked over the coals for all those nasty, bitchy posts! And I agree, she is the definition of reverse racism and has the biggest chip on her shoulder that I've seen anywhere.
You all are talking about this claudia chick like she's some huge bitch. That may be the case but I'd say that description sums up the majority of the visitors on this blog. Ya think?
That's right...you're just bitches on this blog. In a public forum, you're sweet as pie. At least this clauida person didn't hide behind a fake personality.
Because it's about time she got raked over the coals for all those nasty, bitchy posts! And I agree, she is the definition of reverse racism and has the biggest chip on her shoulder that I've seen anywhere.
April 23, 2009 3:10 PM
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That "about time" happened two years ago and you're still dwelling on it? She's moved on and don't think she's thought much about DST since then.
Most of the store sites are requiring their products to be used for challenges. I don't mind since I only do them at places I buy from.
I think SSD has the best challenges/inspiration. But you have to use their products. If you don't care about posting your layouts or getting points there then just go read through them and get ideas.
I need a place that has some fun challenges to get my scrapbooking mojo back. Preferably a place without a lot of CT pimping going on.
Any suggestions? ^^^^^
All of the store sites will have CT pimping going on. The forum and challenges are there to sell products from the store. So it'll be hard to find what you are asking for.
I read through some of Claudia's posts and she wasn't bitchy all the time. In fact often she was very nice. I wonder if something was going on in her life that caused her to be a bit caustic and that is why she left. The fact is she hasn't been around so there is really no sense in dragging 2 year old posts up trying to *prove* that there is bullying going on at DST.
I haven't seen any real evidence in any bullying. What some of you may call bullying, I call heated debate. The two year old links you have provided only help reinforce my opinion.
I would suggest for the future, if someone perceives that someone is being a bully, why don't you just put that person on ignore and move forward. It is not your job to take the bully down. Often once the offender is not getting the attention they will move on.
All of the store sites will have CT pimping going on. The forum and challenges are there to sell products from the store. So it'll be hard to find what you are asking for. ----------------------------------- You are right. But I would like to find a fun site to hang with. I mean, DST isn't really a fun place. You can go there to see new products and view layouts for inspiration. But I want to do scrapbook stuff not just chat. Things like challenges, tutorials, chats, etc. KWIM?
I hangout at the two that I buy the most stuff from. I don't care if they pimp it because I want most all of the new releases. So that might be a good place for you to start.
That's right...you're just bitches on this blog. In a public forum, you're sweet as pie. At least this clauida person didn't hide behind a fake personality.
April 23, 2009 4:04 PM
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Actually, no. I'm not a bitch on this blog and I'm not a bitch in the public forum. I'm not as sweet as pie either, I tell it like it is, both here and in the forums. Not everything fits into neat little boxes.
You are right. But I would like to find a fun site to hang with. I mean, DST isn't really a fun place. You can go there to see new products and view layouts for inspiration. But I want to do scrapbook stuff not just chat. Things like challenges, tutorials, chats, etc. KWIM?
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Me too, some place where people really participate and don't just dump their layouts to get points and products.
Actually, no. I'm not a bitch on this blog and I'm not a bitch in the public forum. I'm not as sweet as pie either, I tell it like it is, both here and in the forums. Not everything fits into neat little boxes.
April 23, 2009 4:11 PMWow, so now you know who four of us are. I sure hope you don't think we're the only 4 from DST reading here. And look at that, even DST admin reads here. Was your little post above supposed to be a hand slap, or just a little warning?
I was trying to be helpful. The page started with 1 person visiting 2 nights ago and it has gone up to 10 known user names. I'm not surprised by a few of the names on the list.
Why would I think you are the only ones reading here? You are the only ones who visited that page without being smart enough to log out at DST first. I'm sure there were 39 others that logged out first.
Well then I apologize, and thank you for the warning.
And no, I'm not panicking at all. I looked, I posted here, and everything I said I was true. I'm sure it was a thread that got a lot of attention, as I'm sure the searching for posts by Claudia did also.
I actually find it rather amusing that someone would actually come here and post that they now knew who some of us were. My remark about a hand slap and warning were sarcasm, nothing more, nothing less. I really could care less who knows I read here. Some of the stuff posted here is highly entertaining, some is utterly ridiculous, while some is nothing more than the rants of someone with a bug up their ass. But the entertainment factor, it gets me every time. What can I say?
Go to any forum and down the bottom. Just above the list of "who's online" you'll see a link "Currently Active Users". Click on that and you'll see what people are looking at. Why would anyone care what someone else is looking at anyway? Good grief!
I'm a mod at another site and I don't see who reads posts. ^^^^^ Actually you don't have to be a mod at most forums. If a member knows what to click, they can find that information.
If you visit a member profile at DST it will show who visited that profile.
There is a DST mod reading this forum according to Claudi's profile.
There is a DST mod reading this forum according to Claudi's profile.
April 24, 2009 1:15 PM
This isn't news. DST mods read here a lot. Just a day or so after Michelle Pearson's classes were being discussed here, the DST thread with two complaints was moved. Hardly a coincidence.
Why do we need to log out of DST? It isn't a crime to read this forum. Not everyone who posts here is mean and nasty. But it has got me to thinking that if I wouldn't want anyone to know that I was reading this forum it is probably not a good thing to be doing.
Why do we need to log out of DST? It isn't a crime to read this forum. Not everyone who posts here is mean and nasty. But it has got me to thinking that if I wouldn't want anyone to know that I was reading this forum it is probably not a good thing to be doing.
April 24, 2009 5:19 PM
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So why didn't you post with your real name if it's no big deal, Anon?
Not who you're talking to, but because everyone else is anon here too... It's an anonymous blog.
April 24, 2009 11:00 PM
No, actually you CAN log in and use a name. A few designers have done it! Being anonymous is a choice. And so if it isn't a big deal for people to know that you are here, then why not use your name?
I prefer to remain anonymous. And I warned others to log out of DST because I'm sure if noone really cared if people know that they read and post on this blog, then they would use their names.
Where does it say a week later? It just says "today". I tend to think it is the same post. One which she caught and fixed but not before some smarty caught a screen shot of it.
Secondly, just look at the facts. The kits are very ala A D, no doubt about that. Furthermore, this woman has come out of no where to burst on to the digi scene? With a 2 week old blog and no prior involvement in the community? Come on people. Please.
But strange that these well known designers would collab with a total unknown. If she hasn't been active in the digi scene how did the even meet each other? Did they contact her or did she contact them?
LilyAnne was a paper designer, like she designed paper for scrapbooks then came into digi. Since the accusations of her being Amanda Dykan, she was disabled at ES and SO
LilyAnne was a paper designer, like she designed paper for scrapbooks then came into digi. Since the accusations of her being Amanda Dykan, she was disabled at ES and SO
April 25, 2009 6:43 PMSo LilyAnne is really LilyAnne? Call me confused, so she really is a real person, and not Amanda call-me-crazy-as-a-freaking-loon Dykan? Funny thing is even doing a google search, and going through the first three pages of returns, the only things I've found so far about this person point to digital. I have yet to find anything to link her to the paper scrapping biz.
April 25, 2009 6:43 PMSo LilyAnne is really LilyAnne? Call me confused, so she really is a real person, and not Amanda call-me-crazy-as-a-freaking-loon Dykan? Funny thing is even doing a google search, and going through the first three pages of returns, the only things I've found so far about this person point to digital. I have yet to find anything to link her to the paper scrapping biz.
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Well that's what I heard. When she started at ES, people were saying they were a big fan of her papers when they were into scrapping before digi. And she's talked about it before.
"Then, a few years ago, I began working as a creative designer for a scrapbook paper company. It took a while, but the endless hours of sitting in board meetings, listening helplessly as the executives tore apart my work, changed a color here, added a swirl there….on and on…. took it’s toll. While I still do some of that, it feels mighty good to be able to create my paper lines for no one but ME. Thus began, “Imaginary Crackers”."
I do not believe for one minute that this 'Lily Anne' is really who she claims to be. She's just a little bit too fake, with all her colloquialisms and down-home Texas-girl slang. (Amanda Dykan just happens to be from Texas too... fishy?? Naaaahhh!)
If 'LilyAnne Taylor' really did design for a paper-company, I want to know which company, and see her alleged paper-products, because there is NO web footprint of her anywhere before March of this year, when she started showing up on the digi scene.
If 'LilyAnne Taylor' really did design for a paper-company, I want to know which company, and see her alleged paper-products, because there is NO web footprint of her anywhere before March of this year, when she started showing up on the digi scene.
April 25, 2009 9:32 PMExactly! And from March through today you can search through 8 pages of a google search and the only mention of her involves digi. She appears out of nowhere and is suddenly everywhere but yet appears to be nowhere, other than shabbypickle and gracing the pages of a google search. So inquiring minds want to know who she really is and where she came from, other than the middle of nowhere.
And just for the hell of it check out the display for her doodles at SPD http://www.shabbypickledesigns.com/boutique/product.php?productid=17220&cat=0&page=1 and then look at the display for these http://www.amandadykan.com/shoppe/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6&products_id=177
And yes I realize they're different doodles, but the display?
WV hypetenu, like in a little too much hype about this person, okay made me chuckle.
Why the heck would she do this. With all the energy it must have taken to create a new persona she could have put that much into any one of her existing ventures and been successful. This will have a much worse affect on her reputation than any screw up she did in the past.
I wonder how she got found out. Could it have just been from that post ??
I don't know. The gal on the right looks a bit like LilyAnne
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Not really, the 'gal' in the picture with AD has a much broader nose, her eyes are further apart. Other than being female and blonde, I don't really see that much similarity.
The screen shot looks dodgy to me. I think some people are just fishing and I hate to say, plain old jealous. A designer comes out of nowhere and manages to connect with some good stores and designers. Just shows, it's not what you know, but who you know.
Why the heck would she do this. With all the energy it must have taken to create a new persona she could have put that much into any one of her existing ventures and been successful. This will have a much worse affect on her reputation than any screw up she did in the past.To get the last laugh. Especially collaborating with Sweet Shoppe designers. She must have been hysterical over that one.
On the other hand, I agree the screenshot is a bit questionable... Both of their profiles have blinkies in the signature, but no blinkies in the post. Can't imagine why she'd have turned of her signature for that post.
1:15 AM - That's Kristy Krouse in the photo with Amanda.
You all and your conspiracy theories are funny. Why doesn't someone start calling the paper companies and ask if there is anyone who designed paper supplies by the name of LilyAnne.
But if the truth were known, that would take all of the fun out of the game that M started.
I don't have to do anything. I've seen the aftermath of what she's (or would that be you instead of she since you're so defensive already?)started before.
You (or she) will implode on your own someday without any help from me.
On the other hand, I agree the screenshot is a bit questionable... Both of their profiles have blinkies in the signature, but no blinkies in the post. Can't imagine why she'd have turned of her signature for that post. ------------------------------------
Maybe the person who took the screenshot has signatures turned off in their profile.
I just used an initial. I didn't even use both. Just one little M. There's lots of people whose name starts with M in digiworld. It didn't even have to be a designer. You immediately identified with M. Afraid everyone will find out exactly how much you have started? Afraid they'll find out the things you've done to try to ruin other designers?
Someone else must know you well too, seeing as they figured out right away who M was.
Sure does sound like you're trying to help bring someone down
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Easy for you to say until you are one of the ones left in her rubble of destruction. This person needs to be brought down. She's lit the fire on a number of shitpots.
Easy for you to say until you are one of the ones left in her rubble of destruction. This person needs to be brought down. She's lit the fire on a number of shitpots.
April 26, 2009 9:13 AM
Grow up and take this back to SSD where it belongs.
The difference between her and I? I've never tried to bring someone down before, period.
I don't think it's right what she has done over and over again. So, for once I'm saying something about it. I'm not trying to destroy someone out of jealousy, spite, or just for the fun of it.
The difference between her and I? I've never tried to bring someone down before, period.
I don't think it's right what she has done over and over again. So, for once I'm saying something about it. I'm not trying to destroy someone out of jealousy, spite, or just for the fun of it.
April 26, 2009 9:17 AM
What a load of crap. You are trying to bring someone down right now.
Slither on back to SSD and keep your poison pen shit private. People like you have ruined enough of digi.
April 26, 2009 9:20 AM I'm not from SSD either, not a designer, not on their CT, don't even shop there.
Anyone else think there might be a ring of truth to what I say with how defensive some are getting about M? I think M has tried to destroy enough people.
Anyone else think there might be a ring of truth to what I say with how defensive some are getting about M? I think M has tried to destroy enough people.
April 26, 2009 9:27 AM
No. People with the truth are not afraid to put it out there.
Since the only place that SSD designers hang out is SSD, I call bullshit that the shit-stirrers aren't from SSD.
You wouldn't know anything about the things MB does unless you have personal experience with her.
If you really do have something on her, more power to you. Take it to SSD and deal with it. Otherwise, quit polluting this blog with the Sweet Shoppe's dirty, stinky laundry, please.
Not jealous of her. But you can place me in whatever category you would like.
I actually liked and admired her at one point.
I'm not one who runs around taking screen shots of everything I see, every IM conversation I have, nor do I have a recorder hooked up to my phone hoping that I can use it all to bring people down.
Not jealous of her. But you can place me in whatever category you would like. ~~~ Ok, I place you in the chicken shit, crazy beyotch with an ax to grind category.
IF Melissa Bennett is slandering innocent people, why won't someone REALLY speak up and put it out there?
Why do so many digi designers seem to have everyone in the community so intimidated? For pete's sake, the only way it's going to stop is if they get exposed and people speak out against it.
Vague anon accusations are not going to accomplish what you want. You have to be brave enough to put it out there if there really is something
How about here: The difference between her and I? I've never tried to bring someone down before, period.
I don't think it's right what she has done over and over again. So, for once I'm saying something about it. I'm not trying to destroy someone out of jealousy, spite, or just for the fun of it.
April 26, 2009 9:17 AM
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I've never been victimized on a smack blog. Never seen my name posted on one.
I'll leave it at that. She'll do herself in if she continues with her destructive behavior.
I hope she takes this as a warning that she should stop.
Her store at Scrap Orchard was disabled because of one screen shot on a smack blog? Is there more to the story here? ----------------------------------- No, a store like Scrap Orchard is not going to react and close a designer down because of an accusation on a smack blog.
I don't have a clue what is going on. But the screen shot is probably fake. There is a strange innuendo to "M" and suddenly the conversation is away from AD. Melissa Bennett is accused of trying to bring someone down. And SSD, someone's favorite subject, gets thrown into the mix.
There is probably more to the story but it is hard to differentiate fact from fiction on a smack blog.
Because back when they were at Get Digi With It and you all posted about that trying to destroy Amanda back then, I looked at the pictures of the designers that were in the store then.
I think it has everything to do with Scrap Orchard. (how the heck did SSD even play into this, she never sold there). I doubt anyone would kick anyone out over the screen shot, but I'm sure questions were asked. Something more has to be going on that hasn't leaked, yet, about why Lily Anne isn't at Scrap Orchard anymore, yet she's still at Shabby Pickle..so maybe there really isn't anything to it?
It's right to slander a possibly innocent person? Should she keep getting away with it? ------------------------------ Seriously...things said on a smack blog are not slander. Things said by anonymous people are not slander. You have to take every thing said here with a grain of salt.
And whatever happened with Amanda Dykan's "top-secret" agreements with the stock photo sites?? She said that she would be vindicated on that front. Was she?
She has her own store too. Maybe that is now her base and she's going to guest at other stores. ----------------------------- But there is nothing in her store. And why has she changed stores twice in the two months she has been around. ES to SO to SP??
I'm not saying she has done anything wrong but it just seems a strange way to introduce yourself to digi land.
Where are the personal posts? Has she been participating at other sites? I don't know any designers that just jumped into the biz with all these kits already created and have had absolutely no exposure on any of the forums. She obviously understands etiquette and on the four layouts she posted she used other designers products and credited them appropriately.
It is possible that she is someone else who's been lurking around in the community. Or even another unknown designer who's been selling for awhile and then quit.
But if she really worked in the paper world she would need to know how to design. She can draw too which makes her kits unique.
I don't think she's Amanda Dykan. She's too dingy and would have messed it up already. (I don't believe the pic posted above. It was probably altered.)
I have seen MB's sneaky ways first hand. I started at ES shortly before she left. She was still friends with people there. Including the owner. She still had forum designer privileges there even after she left. Meaning she could still get into the designer part of the forum and talk with us.
Well when ES started selling chipboard albums the owner enabled the shipping option in the store. In doing that anyone that had not entered their address was set to the default which was the store owners town and state. Well MB make a purchase there and the same day post a thread at DST saying she thinks a store has been hacked because her town and state now shows up and it says Phoenix, AZ. She never said the store in the Original Post but plenty people had shopped there and had the same thing, thus scarring them all.
She could have easily came to the designer forum and asked, pm'd a mod there (Since she knew them all) or called the owner since they were friends. But instead she decided to take it to DST and put doubt in customers minds and scare them.
Why would someone do that without first trying to find out what really happened? Unless you had bad intent!
I think the attacks on MB are probably coming from AD. She sees it as revenge. because it was MB who originally said that AD had plagiarized her. And now AD has ~~almost~~ successfully taken the attention off of herself, albeit temporarily.
I am just an average scrapper, not a designer. I am not active on any CT's, although I have been in the past. I am not active in any "scrapbook community", I don't post on the message boards, and I don't post my layouts online anymore. I read the Digi boards for entertainment, and am constantly amazed at what people share on the internet. I freely admit to reading the scrapbook smack blogs, it is a guilty pleasure.
You can email me at: DSTHallofFame@gmail.com
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 400 of 1420 Newer› Newest»And three's been so much of that that hasn't already been brought up at DST? It's just the same bitter crap over and over.
April 20, 2009 5:08 PM
Not true at all.
Wow, if DST dies, where are you bitches going to flock to? It would be really boring to have no place to whine about. I doubt some of you are bullied. Stop expecting everyone to just agree with your or simply take it. And just because they do not agree with you, that does not mean you are being bullied. Get over yourself. I highly doubt you care to make the digi world a better place. PULease.
Wow, if DST dies, where are you bitches going to flock to? It would be really boring to have no place to whine about.
April 20, 2009 6:02 PM
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It's people like you that make places like DST the way it is. You stand there so superior to everyone else, but here you are, in the muck with them. Get the heck over yourself.
There are instances of bullying at DST - take the Faith True threads for a start. How about all the Mo Jackson crap that went on? And the time someone dared to say something about Christina Renee when she was the design star.
There are instances of bullying at DST - take the Faith True threads for a start. How about all the Mo Jackson crap that went on? And the time someone dared to say something about Christina Renee when she was the design star.
April 20, 2009 6:19 PMAnd what about the Joedee instance, when the store was hacked and the charity money just disappeared from her paypay. Those of us that were upset about the whole thing got all kinds of grief. We shouldn't be upset that our personal info might have been leaked. And those of us that bought the charity kit shouldn't be upset that the money never made it to the charity. The designers who helped with the kit shouldn't be upset that they were never told that the money never made it to the charity. As long as everyone fell all over Joedee saying how they understand, it was all well and good. But for those of us that didn't agree, well it wasn't all pretty. If you've never read that whole mess here you go, and tell me once again that there's no bullying at DST. http://www.digishoptalk.com/boards/showthread.php?t=76767&highlight=hospital
Alright. Point taken.
Wonder if anyone still thinks the site was "hacked".
Wonder if anyone still thinks the site was "hacked".
April 20, 2009 8:46 PMI wonder how many of us ever believed it to begin with? Just like I wonder how much money the hospital charity ever actually received.
Wonder how anybody with half a brain actually believed the money was ever left in a paypal account to begin with. Unless she was really was that stupid and did leave it in there.
Anyway, that's old news and for whatever reason, people believed her, puckered up on her ass for a while and life goes on.
old news. blah blah blah.
again, nothing discussed here is new. just the same old bitterness over and over again.
again, nothing discussed here is new. just the same old bitterness over and over again.
April 20, 2009 9:55 PMIt wasn't meant to be new news. Someone asked for examples of bullying at DST, that's what they got. That's just one of many threads where, if you aren't a member of the sunshine and kool-aid crew, you get shit on. I can go back and find more, but that one is always the first one to come to mind.
that was just a bunch of people arguing. no different than this place.
At least Tara Dunstan got what she deserved. That whole drama was at least handled professionally and her fraud was taken to and handled by the police.
Nice to know that on occasion digiland can handle things as they should be handled. Hopefully people will now think twice about committing fraud in digiland. But then maybe I am dreaming!
http://www.digishoptalk.com/boards/showthread.php?t=76767&highlight=hospital
April 20, 2009 6:49 PM
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I read the entire thing. I did not see any bullying. I see someone saying something that's not really what the majority of people posting were thinking and then someone replying disagreeing with what was being said. And then it gets a bit heated and some people got personal or took things personally. But I wouldn't exactly say that anyone was bullied. The thread was never locked and it was allowed to run it's course. Everyone got to say what they thought if they wanted to do so.
At least Tara Dunstan got what she deserved. That whole drama was at least handled professionally and her fraud was taken to and handled by the police.
Nice to know that on occasion digiland can handle things as they should be handled. Hopefully people will now think twice about committing fraud in digiland. But then maybe I am dreaming!
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I was wondering about that the other day. Did anyone find out if charges were laid or not?
I was wondering about that the other day. Did anyone find out if charges were laid or not?
April 21, 2009 12:49 AM
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As much as I would like to know, it's also not our business. The money was recovered and paid to the charity and that's all we are entitled to know.
As much as I would like to know, it's also not our business. The money was recovered and paid to the charity and that's all we are entitled to know.Actually, we are entitled to any and all information regarding charges being brought or not, punitive action, etc. Any criminal action becomes a matter of public record, and anyone who knows the name and location of the person who committed the crime is free to look up the legal court records and get all of the information that is available. If I knew where Ms. Dunston lived, I'd be happy to look it up. It is usually a quick and easy thing to find online.
So yeah, it is our business - but thanks for the self-righteous hand-slap anyway. ;)
3:04 PM
That's all going to depend on whether Australia or New Zealand (I don't remember which) has the same public records law as the States. That's where she is from, that's where Pickleberry Pop is based out of, that's where law enforcement got involved.
Go look that up for us why don't you darlin'.
Actually, we are entitled to any and all information regarding charges being brought or not, punitive action, etc.
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Actually, no you aren't. In Australia, unless you are directly involved in the proceedings, you aren't entitled to any information at all. It's only when charges have been MADE not brought, that it can go on public record.
Charges MADE and charges BROUGHT is the same thing. It's when a CONVICTION is recorded that it becomes public knowledge and even still, you need to be involved in the case to be able to go to a courthouse and get information. The only other way to know is via the media but I doubt her case would make it that far.
Blushbutter sounds like one of the bigger troublemakers in digi.
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Possibly, but I can unequivocally say that she's one of the crappiest designers in digi! Those crazy dolls of hers are beyond creepy.
April 18, 2009 11:24 AM
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Saying she is one of the bigger troublemakers in digi is a complete understatement. Blushbutter has to be the biggest whack job, drama queen on the net period. Her and her little "make art" button in poser shows zero talent and is so cheesy for scrapping.
I do not see bullying at DST. I see people talking and sometimes disagreeing. Just because someone disagrees with you doesn't mean they are bullies. I think some people aren't comfortable talking with people who have totally different views than theirs and they interpret them as bullies. Some people are louder, more intense and like to argue. While others like me are quiet and reserved. It's what makes life interesting.
Just becuase someone has a different style from you doesn't make them a bad scrapper or "cheesy." She's doing her own thing and isn't putting out the same thing that everyone else is. I personally don't care for her style, either but it doesn't make her a poor designer.
Let's see if I can get this straight: You bitch when someone copies you, you bitch when someone makes something too different, you bitch when they use too much CU, you bitch if they're too popular, you bitch if they're a newbie....bitch..bitch..bitch.
Just becuase someone has a different style from you doesn't make them a bad scrapper or "cheesy." She's doing her own thing and isn't putting out the same thing that everyone else is. I personally don't care for her style, either but it doesn't make her a poor designer.
April 22, 2009 11:15 AM
There are more and more people putting out that poser junk day after day, nothing new and unique here. As a matter of fact she is a poor designer. Her renders are very poor , she is just loading in her pre-bought characters, poses, lighting and hitting the render button. Great talent! Not! If you want to see someone with some talent that actually puts time into her work then check out Jaguarwoman.com Jaguarwoman is someone Blushbutter poorly has been trying to emulate.
Yeah, Jaguarwoman hand-paints everything. She has more talent in her little pinky-nail than most designers out there put together. Probably all designers put together. I can't stand it when I see some designer putting her stuff in a kit as it is. *ehem* babycakes among others close to her. *vomit*
Blushbutter's not the only one trying to simulate her style, either.
I've never bought blushbutter's stuff but if you say it's crap, then I can't argue. Originality and quality dictates the talent of a designer to me, not style. That's all I'm saying. There's some really ugly stuff out there (mostly CU) that I have to wonder who in their right mind would actually use it but that's just me.
Even though it's starting to crop up everywhere, I don't see anything wrong at all with using Daz/Poser, as long as it's done well and with some originality behind it. Blasting out render after render to package up and put a CU sticker on is just tacky to me but, again, that's just my taste. It's really no different than using stock images or Dover books. Soon, it'll be flooded and people will stop and move on to the next big thing.
(LOL my verification word is "hanablis" That's the best one I've seen yet!)
Blushbutter has been making those for a long time. She's been doing it since before I was scrapping, I remember her products from when I first started scrapping at least 2 years ago.
I think she has some pretty stuff. I wouldn't scrap with it because it's not my style, but it's not ugly either.
I wouldn't say she is copying either since she's been doing it long before anyone else brought it to digi (that I know of).
I wouldn't say she is copying either since she's been doing it long before anyone else brought it to digi (that I know of).
April 22, 2009 5:05 PM
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No, Dana has been doing it much longer. I do not know that she is copying Dana. I do think if she is gonna be selling poser figures she should brush up on her skills and not just use Daz and Rendo items out of the box. Anybody with Poser can do that. Just my 2 cents. Carry on
I do not see bullying at DST. I see people talking and sometimes disagreeing. Just because someone disagrees with you doesn't mean they are bullies. I think some people aren't comfortable talking with people who have totally different views than theirs and they interpret them as bullies. Some people are louder, more intense and like to argue. While others like me are quiet and reserved. It's what makes life interesting.
April 21, 2009 10:52 PM
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While I agree with this in part, as some people do see a simple disagreement as bullying, there have been instances of bullying at DST.
How many DST clones will there be?
hot off the press:
http://www.digitownsquare.com
been there? thoughts?
I see the Bud Club is moving to this one. Guess they arent aware of the drama that IS A.D. lol...
there have been instances of bullying at DST.
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link us up!
5:30 PM I'll concede because I hadn't seen Dana's stuff back then, but that doesn't mean it wasn't there.
But Blushbutter has been doing it a long time, way before you started seeing posers pop up in every ad.
I don't think I'll ever find a reason to put one on my pages, but she is not that bad. I've seen some hideous stuff come through ads. And she is levels above them.
I don't know her personally to comment on whether she is a troublemaker or not, just that she has been around a long time and I don't think she is copying anybody.
Fresh off the press, the Bud Club is not going to be ran by A.D anymore from what I have heard. owners of the new site are taking it over.
How many DST clones will there be?
hot off the press:
http://www.digitownsquare.com
been there? thoughts?
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They can't even come up with original names for their games? Praise game, blog train?
Is that run by Digital Candy? Do these stores not get enough traffic to their own forums? They have to start new ones to get attention? Just wondering. Why aren't they bringing them to their own forum?
DTS (digitownsquare) is owned by the same folks that own DC but they are not directly correlated. One really has very little to do with the other. Last I checked DC had it's fair share of traffic... maybe they just wanted an alternative DST ????
Just my two cents....
But why do they need another forum, why not just turn their own little world into something great?
Here's another, not exactly hot off the presses -- but not yet mentioned.
http://www.digiscrapaddicts.com/
--- run by Scrap Orchard.
But why do they need another forum, why not just turn their own little world into something great?
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I was wondering the same thing. Wouldn't' it be better to put all your energy into one community and make it great instead of spreading yourself too thin?
wow talking about jaguarwoman, check out this rant lol
http://www4.cbox.ws/box/?boxid=3706510&boxtag=1ev53l&sec=archive&i=340&p=0
Claudia was a bully. She probably posts here.
She had very strong opinions and wasn't afraid to express them. I didn't think she was a bully.
Claudia was a bully. She probably posts here.
April 22, 2009 10:33 PM
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She had very strong opinions and wasn't afraid to express them. I didn't think she was a bully.
April 22, 2009 11:27 PM
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How about the time she told a new designer to change her name because it was the same as a popular designer. That was pure and simple bullying.
has she changed her user name? She hasn't been around since 2007. More old news.
Even though it's starting to crop up everywhere, I don't see anything wrong at all with using Daz/Poser, as long as it's done well and with some originality behind it. Blasting out render after render to package up and put a CU sticker on is just tacky to me but, again, that's just my taste. It's really no different than using stock images or Dover books. Soon, it'll be flooded and people will stop and move on to the next big thing.
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I would liken it to using an action to create a ribbon or other element, but dover no. Unless you are using the colour vector graphics you actually have to know how to create something out of the plain black clipart in dover books. Most of the time you can't just use the clipart as is, particularly if you want it to be a quality element!
How about the time she told a new designer to change her name because it was the same as a popular designer. That was pure and simple bullying.
April 22, 2009 11:41 PM
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It must have been deleted. I can't find it.
But she doesn't appear to be around anymore. I didn't think she was a bully.
It must have been deleted. I can't find it.
But she doesn't appear to be around anymore. I didn't think she was a bully.
April 23, 2009 12:48 AM
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Found it, it's here:
http://www.digishoptalk.com/boards/showthread.php?t=75904
Upon re-reading it, she wasn't so much a bully, as a down and out self righteous bitch.
Fresh off the press, the Bud Club is not going to be ran by A.D anymore from what I have heard. owners of the new site are taking it over.
April 22, 2009 8:47 PM
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I call bullshit on that one. If someone else was "taking it over" they would have had the smarts to change the name so it wouldn't be associated with her in ANY WAY. What I find REALLY funny ->She had several posts on there 3 days ago, and now that its been posted here her name doesnt even show in the member list. Too funny. Must be a sad life to have to go incognito because you've pissed off everyone in the community you supposedly "love".
Found it, it's here:
http://www.digishoptalk.com/boards/showthread.php?t=75904
Upon re-reading it, she wasn't so much a bully, as a down and out self righteous bitch.
April 23, 2009 2:08 AM
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she took a pretty hard beating from a lot of people for expressing her opinion (including DST owner). Not that it wasn't deserved. So she didn't get away with the bullying if you want to call it that. She's not a bully to me. Just a loud mouth who didn't think before posting.
I would liken it to using an action to create a ribbon or other element...
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When you get right down to it, you can liken it to using just about any CU product available.
She's not a bully to me. Just a loud mouth who didn't think before posting.
April 23, 2009 7:27 AMOh that was just one mild post from her, there were several others when she was more than just a self-righteous bitch. She was just plain nasty. So I guess nasty, mean, self-righteous and racist (and no I don't use racist lightly) doesn't necessarily make you a bully, but it does indeed make you a very not-so-nice person. So much so that I even stopped buying from the designers that she CT'ed for. Does that make me a smaller person, maybe, but as long as the designers condoned her behavior I wasn't buying from them.
Once I have some spare time I'll be more than happy to look up some of the old links for you, but for now it will just have to wait.
http://www.digishoptalk.com/boards/showthread.php?t=91463&page=2
here's one past claudia post for you.
Wow, what a effin' c*nt. I don't use that word on just anyone. She must've had her feelings hurt because after some people started putting her on ignore, she left the thread.
You're right, she's not a bully, just a bitch.
How many DST clones will there be?
hot off the press:
http://www.digitownsquare.com
been there? thoughts?
I see the Bud Club is moving to this one. Guess they arent aware of the drama that IS A.D. lol...
April 22, 2009 7:13 PMWell these sort of forums mean MONEY!!!
http://www.digishoptalk.com/boards/showthread.php?t=91463&page=2
here's one past claudia post for you.
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Bullying???? Get a life. Claudia is not a bully. She is a disgruntled black woman with a chip on her shoulder.
1. Claudia is not a bully she is a rude person
2. Shannon doesn't "allow" bullying to go on at DST. She totally admonished Claudia and asked her to stop her rude behavior.
Wow, I've just read a few posts by this Claudia. While I wouldn't call her a bully she certainly has issues. One is that she has not grown up enough to realize that the world doesn't revolve around her and her opinions. She is extremely closed minded and intolerant of those who don't think like she does. She harps on racism but in my opinion she is what I call a reverse racist. She puts down white people because we are white and what our ancestors did to her ancestors. You know what, the statute of limitations of blaming me for what my ancestors did is OVER. Frankly, the reason people don't like her is that she is a rude, ignorant, not nice person. It has nothing to do with the color of her skin.
1. Claudia is not a bully she is a rude person
2. Shannon doesn't "allow" bullying to go on at DST. She totally admonished Claudia and asked her to stop her rude behavior.
April 23, 2009 1:46 PMWell actually rude is quite an understatement, IMO, when it comes to describing her. And, yes, Shannon did admonish her in that ONE thread. I don't care anymore, she's gone and hasn't posted at DST for 2 years, so it's good riddance as far as I'm concerned. Like someone else said, she's old news and, unless she's being her typical bitchy self somewhere else, not even worth the time it takes to smack her.
Thank you 1:58, very nicely put and a perfect description!
Thank you 2:09. I got caught up in the posts and didn't realize that she has been gone for 2 years. I guess I don't hang out at DST much anymore!
hmmm...So why are we wasting time even talking about her?
Is anyone having problems getting into DST??
hmmm...So why are we wasting time even talking about her?
Because it's about time she got raked over the coals for all those nasty, bitchy posts! And I agree, she is the definition of reverse racism and has the biggest chip on her shoulder that I've seen anywhere.
You all are talking about this claudia chick like she's some huge bitch. That may be the case but I'd say that description sums up the majority of the visitors on this blog. Ya think?
That's right...you're just bitches on this blog. In a public forum, you're sweet as pie. At least this clauida person didn't hide behind a fake personality.
you should log out before you look her up on the member list!
http://www.digishoptalk.com/boards/member.php?u=128
now I know 4 people who read this blog.
Because it's about time she got raked over the coals for all those nasty, bitchy posts! And I agree, she is the definition of reverse racism and has the biggest chip on her shoulder that I've seen anywhere.
April 23, 2009 3:10 PM
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That "about time" happened two years ago and you're still dwelling on it? She's moved on and don't think she's thought much about DST since then.
:yawn:
any RECENT bullies?
So 14 visitors who knew to log out first:)
So only 18 visitors. I would have thought this blog had more of a following.
I need a place that has some fun challenges to get my scrapbooking mojo back. Preferably a place without a lot of CT pimping going on.
Any suggestions?
Most of the store sites are requiring their products to be used for challenges. I don't mind since I only do them at places I buy from.
I think SSD has the best challenges/inspiration. But you have to use their products. If you don't care about posting your layouts or getting points there then just go read through them and get ideas.
So only 18 visitors. I would have thought this blog had more of a following.
April 23, 2009 4:30 PM
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or very few care to discuss Claudia who hasn't been around in 2 years?
I need a place that has some fun challenges to get my scrapbooking mojo back. Preferably a place without a lot of CT pimping going on.
Any suggestions?
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All of the store sites will have CT pimping going on. The forum and challenges are there to sell products from the store. So it'll be hard to find what you are asking for.
I read through some of Claudia's posts and she wasn't bitchy all the time. In fact often she was very nice. I wonder if something was going on in her life that caused her to be a bit caustic and that is why she left. The fact is she hasn't been around so there is really no sense in dragging 2 year old posts up trying to *prove* that there is bullying going on at DST.
I haven't seen any real evidence in any bullying. What some of you may call bullying, I call heated debate. The two year old links you have provided only help reinforce my opinion.
I would suggest for the future, if someone perceives that someone is being a bully, why don't you just put that person on ignore and move forward. It is not your job to take the bully down. Often once the offender is not getting the attention they will move on.
All of the store sites will have CT pimping going on. The forum and challenges are there to sell products from the store. So it'll be hard to find what you are asking for.
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You are right. But I would like to find a fun site to hang with. I mean, DST isn't really a fun place. You can go there to see new products and view layouts for inspiration. But I want to do scrapbook stuff not just chat. Things like challenges, tutorials, chats, etc. KWIM?
I hangout at the two that I buy the most stuff from. I don't care if they pimp it because I want most all of the new releases. So that might be a good place for you to start.
Where do you buy most of your stuff from?
That's right...you're just bitches on this blog. In a public forum, you're sweet as pie. At least this clauida person didn't hide behind a fake personality.
April 23, 2009 4:04 PM
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Actually, no. I'm not a bitch on this blog and I'm not a bitch in the public forum. I'm not as sweet as pie either, I tell it like it is, both here and in the forums. Not everything fits into neat little boxes.
You are right. But I would like to find a fun site to hang with. I mean, DST isn't really a fun place. You can go there to see new products and view layouts for inspiration. But I want to do scrapbook stuff not just chat. Things like challenges, tutorials, chats, etc. KWIM?
April 23, 2009 5:19 PM
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Me too, some place where people really participate and don't just dump their layouts to get points and products.
Me too, some place where people really participate and don't just dump their layouts to get points and products.
April 23, 2009 6:19 PM
Then you have to find a place that doesn't give out points but then noone will participate.
Seems people are looking for digi utopia. No pimping, no posting for points or freebies, no CT.
Let me know if you find it.
Actually, no. I'm not a bitch on this blog and I'm not a bitch in the public forum. I'm not as sweet as pie either, I tell it like it is, both here and in the forums. Not everything fits into neat little boxes.
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you should log out before you look her up on the member list!
http://www.digishoptalk.com/boards/member.php?u=128
now I know 4 people who read this blog.
April 23, 2009 4:11 PMWow, so now you know who four of us are. I sure hope you don't think we're the only 4 from DST reading here. And look at that, even DST admin reads here. Was your little post above supposed to be a hand slap, or just a little warning?
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I was trying to be helpful. The page started with 1 person visiting 2 nights ago and it has gone up to 10 known user names. I'm not surprised by a few of the names on the list.
Why would I think you are the only ones reading here? You are the only ones who visited that page without being smart enough to log out at DST first. I'm sure there were 39 others that logged out first.
Was your little post above supposed to be a hand slap, or just a little warning?
April 24, 2009 7:22 AM
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And right here lies the problem that a lot of you have with DST. You take everything as a hand slap even someone trying to be informative.
Why the hell do you think the poster was slapping your hand? The poster protected my privacy thanks to that WARNING.
Perhaps you're panicking now and maybe that caused you to overreact?
Well then I apologize, and thank you for the warning.
And no, I'm not panicking at all. I looked, I posted here, and everything I said I was true. I'm sure it was a thread that got a lot of attention, as I'm sure the searching for posts by Claudia did also.
I actually find it rather amusing that someone would actually come here and post that they now knew who some of us were. My remark about a hand slap and warning were sarcasm, nothing more, nothing less. I really could care less who knows I read here. Some of the stuff posted here is highly entertaining, some is utterly ridiculous, while some is nothing more than the rants of someone with a bug up their ass. But the entertainment factor, it gets me every time. What can I say?
How do you know who read the post? Are you a mod? I'm a mod at another site and I don't see who reads posts.
BTW, I read that post WAY back when it was originally posted. Can you tell who JUST read it?
I did notice once at DST it had everyone who had read a post listed at the bottom but I thought it was a glitch. Can all mods see that?
Go to any forum and down the bottom. Just above the list of "who's online" you'll see a link "Currently Active Users". Click on that and you'll see what people are looking at. Why would anyone care what someone else is looking at anyway? Good grief!
I'm a mod at another site and I don't see who reads posts.
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Actually you don't have to be a mod at most forums. If a member knows what to click, they can find that information.
If you visit a member profile at DST it will show who visited that profile.
There is a DST mod reading this forum according to Claudi's profile.
There is a DST mod reading this forum according to Claudi's profile.
April 24, 2009 1:15 PM
This isn't news. DST mods read here a lot. Just a day or so after Michelle Pearson's classes were being discussed here, the DST thread with two complaints was moved. Hardly a coincidence.
Why do we need to log out of DST? It isn't a crime to read this forum. Not everyone who posts here is mean and nasty. But it has got me to thinking that if I wouldn't want anyone to know that I was reading this forum it is probably not a good thing to be doing.
Why do we need to log out of DST? It isn't a crime to read this forum. Not everyone who posts here is mean and nasty. But it has got me to thinking that if I wouldn't want anyone to know that I was reading this forum it is probably not a good thing to be doing.
April 24, 2009 5:19 PM
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So why didn't you post with your real name if it's no big deal, Anon?
Not who you're talking to, but because everyone else is anon here too... It's an anonymous blog.
Not who you're talking to, but because everyone else is anon here too... It's an anonymous blog.
April 24, 2009 11:00 PM
No, actually you CAN log in and use a name. A few designers have done it! Being anonymous is a choice. And so if it isn't a big deal for people to know that you are here, then why not use your name?
I prefer to remain anonymous. And I warned others to log out of DST because I'm sure if noone really cared if people know that they read and post on this blog, then they would use their names.
Wow. LilyAnne Taylor is really Amanda Dykan. Shocker.
Wow. LilyAnne Taylor is really Amanda Dykan. Shocker.
I highly doubt that, they neither spell nor pronounce their names the same.
Wow. LilyAnne Taylor is really Amanda Dykan. Shocker.
April 25, 2009 6:41 AM
PROVE IT!
Duh.... I know you can logon. But protocol seems to be anon.
For starters there is this proof
http://i42.tinypic.com/2r1zhmq.jpg
I call fake.
She posted an intro in the DCR as Lilyanne on 4/17. Why would she post another a week later?
Can mods check IPs at DST? We just need a mod to confirm or deny if those 2 people have posted from the same one.
Where does it say a week later? It just says "today". I tend to think it is the same post. One which she caught and fixed but not before some smarty caught a screen shot of it.
Secondly, just look at the facts. The kits are very ala A D, no doubt about that. Furthermore, this woman has come out of no where to burst on to the digi scene? With a 2 week old blog and no prior involvement in the community? Come on people. Please.
Not everyone who reads this blog posts to the blog. Some are just lurkers.
I post anonymous because most people post anonymous. It is the generally norm for this blog.
Who would sit on that screenshot for a week and THEN post it here?
So how did she manage to collab with Faith True, Misty Cato etc right off the bat? I doubt it was by saying "OH HAI IM AMANDA DYKAN IN DISGUISE".
well she doesn't have a store at scrap orchard. did she lie about that? but she is open at shabby pickle. i wonder if they know who she is?
Who the heck is LilyAnne Taylor?
In March there are posts from Elemental Scraps welcoming her but there is no store for her at ES?
But strange that these well known designers would collab with a total unknown. If she hasn't been active in the digi scene how did the even meet each other? Did they contact her or did she contact them?
It looks like her store at SO was disabled.
I'm not sure who she is but it looks like she jumped in rather quickly.
In March Elemental Scraps welcomed her as a new designer. She is not at their store.
She is not at the Scrap Orchard store. Her Cafe Chic kit with Bren Boone is not there anymore.
She is doing random collab kits with various designers.
All sounds a little suspicious.
hmmm....if you try to click on the Boutique kit from Misty Cato's blog it isn't available either.
Seems like another on bites the dust.
I suppose I never imagined Amanda would NOT try to come back some how. That she would just walk away like that.
*word verification* blecto. Funny.
www.imaginarycrackers.com
is this her?
I'm not sure what's going on and if this stuff is true but LilyAnne's stuff is so better than Amanda's. I don't think they are the same person.
If it is true then it creeps me out that she has so many pictures of "LilyAnne". Who is the women in the pictures???
LilyAnne was a paper designer, like she designed paper for scrapbooks then came into digi. Since the accusations of her being Amanda Dykan, she was disabled at ES and SO
LilyAnne was a paper designer, like she designed paper for scrapbooks then came into digi. Since the accusations of her being Amanda Dykan, she was disabled at ES and SO
April 25, 2009 6:43 PMSo LilyAnne is really LilyAnne? Call me confused, so she really is a real person, and not Amanda call-me-crazy-as-a-freaking-loon Dykan? Funny thing is even doing a google search, and going through the first three pages of returns, the only things I've found so far about this person point to digital. I have yet to find anything to link her to the paper scrapping biz.
April 25, 2009 6:43 PMSo LilyAnne is really LilyAnne? Call me confused, so she really is a real person, and not Amanda call-me-crazy-as-a-freaking-loon Dykan? Funny thing is even doing a google search, and going through the first three pages of returns, the only things I've found so far about this person point to digital. I have yet to find anything to link her to the paper scrapping biz.
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Well that's what I heard. When she started at ES, people were saying they were a big fan of her papers when they were into scrapping before digi. And she's talked about it before.
This was in a blog post on Lilyanne's blog
"Then, a few years ago, I began working as a creative designer for a scrapbook paper company. It took a while, but the endless hours of sitting in board meetings, listening helplessly as the executives tore apart my work, changed a color here, added a swirl there….on and on…. took it’s toll. While I still do some of that, it feels mighty good to be able to create my paper lines for no one but ME. Thus began, “Imaginary Crackers”."
I think she left ES to go to SO?
Yup, that is for sure Amanda Dykan. She is one crazy ass woman. Gives me the creeps!
I do not believe for one minute that this 'Lily Anne' is really who she claims to be. She's just a little bit too fake, with all her colloquialisms and down-home Texas-girl slang. (Amanda Dykan just happens to be from Texas too... fishy?? Naaaahhh!)
If 'LilyAnne Taylor' really did design for a paper-company, I want to know which company, and see her alleged paper-products, because there is NO web footprint of her anywhere before March of this year, when she started showing up on the digi scene.
http://www.amandadykan.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=54
I don't know. The gal on the right looks a bit like LilyAnne
If 'LilyAnne Taylor' really did design for a paper-company, I want to know which company, and see her alleged paper-products, because there is NO web footprint of her anywhere before March of this year, when she started showing up on the digi scene.
April 25, 2009 9:32 PMExactly! And from March through today you can search through 8 pages of a google search and the only mention of her involves digi. She appears out of nowhere and is suddenly everywhere but yet appears to be nowhere, other than shabbypickle and gracing the pages of a google search. So inquiring minds want to know who she really is and where she came from, other than the middle of nowhere.
And just for the hell of it check out the display for her doodles at SPD http://www.shabbypickledesigns.com/boutique/product.php?productid=17220&cat=0&page=1 and then look at the display for these http://www.amandadykan.com/shoppe/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6&products_id=177
And yes I realize they're different doodles, but the display?
WV hypetenu, like in a little too much hype about this person, okay made me chuckle.
http://www.amandadykan.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=54
I don't know. The gal on the right looks a bit like LilyAnne
April 25, 2009 10:23 PMYou could be on to something there. So she changes her name and uses her friend's pic, yep sounds like something AD would do.
I downloaded LilyAnne's freebie and the previews look really good.
I'm hoping she is not the person you think.
Why the heck would she do this. With all the energy it must have taken to create a new persona she could have put that much into any one of her existing ventures and been successful. This will have a much worse affect on her reputation than any screw up she did in the past.
I wonder how she got found out. Could it have just been from that post ??
http://www.amandadykan.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=54
I don't know. The gal on the right looks a bit like LilyAnne
April 25, 2009 10:23 PM
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Not really, the 'gal' in the picture with AD has a much broader nose, her eyes are further apart. Other than being female and blonde, I don't really see that much similarity.
The screen shot looks dodgy to me. I think some people are just fishing and I hate to say, plain old jealous. A designer comes out of nowhere and manages to connect with some good stores and designers. Just shows, it's not what you know, but who you know.
Why the heck would she do this. With all the energy it must have taken to create a new persona she could have put that much into any one of her existing ventures and been successful. This will have a much worse affect on her reputation than any screw up she did in the past.To get the last laugh. Especially collaborating with Sweet Shoppe designers. She must have been hysterical over that one.
On the other hand, I agree the screenshot is a bit questionable... Both of their profiles have blinkies in the signature, but no blinkies in the post. Can't imagine why she'd have turned of her signature for that post.
1:15 AM - That's Kristy Krouse in the photo with Amanda.
You all and your conspiracy theories are funny. Why doesn't someone start calling the paper companies and ask if there is anyone who designed paper supplies by the name of LilyAnne.
But if the truth were known, that would take all of the fun out of the game that M started.
Her store at Scrap Orchard was disabled because of one screen shot on a smack blog? Is there more to the story here?
omg LOOK!
http://i44.tinypic.com/2vjcxv5.jpg
And, Walker Texas Ranger is in Texas, too! Irrefutable!
April 26, 2009 7:33 AM
ROFLMAO
That's it. Chuck did it! Chuck is Amanda Dykan and LilyAnne all rolled up into one. Let the stake burnings begin.
I feel sorry for this girl if she's legit. It would suck to be new and promising and to be dragged through the mud like this.
But if the truth were known, that would take all of the fun out of the game that M started.
April 26, 2009 7:10 AM
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who's M? is that MB?
But if the truth were known, that would take all of the fun out of the game that M started.
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Put up or shut up, bitch.
April 26, 2009 8:21 AM
Yep
April 26, 2009 8:36 AM
I don't have to do anything. I've seen the aftermath of what she's (or would that be you instead of she since you're so defensive already?)started before.
You (or she) will implode on your own someday without any help from me.
On the other hand, I agree the screenshot is a bit questionable... Both of their profiles have blinkies in the signature, but no blinkies in the post. Can't imagine why she'd have turned of her signature for that post.
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Maybe the person who took the screenshot has signatures turned off in their profile.
Crap, I figured she was involved. She's the source of most digi-drama.
You (or she) will implode on your own someday without any help from me.
April 26, 2009 8:59 AM
Sounds like you're describing yourself here, since you're the one stirring the shit-pot.
Who the hell is MB?
You (or she) will implode on your own someday without any help from me.
April 26, 2009 8:59 AM
Then why bring it up at all? Sure does sound like you're trying to help bring someone down, ya big ol hypocrite!
April 26, 2009 9:06 AM
I just used an initial. I didn't even use both. Just one little M. There's lots of people whose name starts with M in digiworld. It didn't even have to be a designer. You immediately identified with M. Afraid everyone will find out exactly how much you have started? Afraid they'll find out the things you've done to try to ruin other designers?
Someone else must know you well too, seeing as they figured out right away who M was.
Sure does sound like you're trying to help bring someone down
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Easy for you to say until you are one of the ones left in her rubble of destruction. This person needs to be brought down. She's lit the fire on a number of shitpots.
Christ, the SSD CT bitches are here in full force starting yet another smear campaign.
Go the fuck away.
Easy for you to say until you are one of the ones left in her rubble of destruction. This person needs to be brought down. She's lit the fire on a number of shitpots.
April 26, 2009 9:13 AM
Grow up and take this back to SSD where it belongs.
ha ha @ SSD having a troublemaker in their midst. You reap what you sow!!!
April 26, 2009 9:09 AM
The difference between her and I? I've never tried to bring someone down before, period.
I don't think it's right what she has done over and over again. So, for once I'm saying something about it. I'm not trying to destroy someone out of jealousy, spite, or just for the fun of it.
This whole MB smoke screen has successfully diverted attention away from Amanda Dykan.
Christ, the SSD CT bitches are here in full force starting yet another smear campaign.
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Whatever. I'm not SSD CT. I don't ever go there.
The difference between her and I? I've never tried to bring someone down before, period.
I don't think it's right what she has done over and over again. So, for once I'm saying something about it. I'm not trying to destroy someone out of jealousy, spite, or just for the fun of it.
April 26, 2009 9:17 AM
What a load of crap. You are trying to bring someone down right now.
Slither on back to SSD and keep your poison pen shit private. People like you have ruined enough of digi.
April 26, 2009 9:17 AM
Nice try at justifying your ugliness, but it doesn't fly. Not even a little bit.
What you are doing right now is just as bad or worse than anything you're claiming to be getting revenge for.
Congratulations. You just brought yourself down to the level of every meanie you're claiming to ever have been victimized by.
You're no better than those you condemn.
ENOUGH of this chicken shit posturing!!!
If Melissa Bennett is so bad and evil, please put some proof out there so that we can all see it for ourselves.
Otherwise, just go right on back to your hidey hole and quit trying to stir up trouble where there is none.
April 26, 2009 9:20 AM
I'm not from SSD either, not a designer, not on their CT, don't even shop there.
Anyone else think there might be a ring of truth to what I say with how defensive some are getting about M? I think M has tried to destroy enough people.
April 26, 2009 9:22 AM
I've never been victimized on a smack blog. Never seen my name posted on one.
I'll leave it at that. She'll do herself in if she continues with her destructive behavior.
I hope she takes this as a warning that she should stop.
I would LOVE to see proof that MB is a troublemaking bitch.
But since you refuse to do anything but throw out vague innuendo, I have to put you in the 'jalous' camp and ignore you.
Too bad-I was looking for a reason to justify my dislike of MB.
Anyone else think there might be a ring of truth to what I say with how defensive some are getting about M? I think M has tried to destroy enough people.
April 26, 2009 9:27 AM
No. People with the truth are not afraid to put it out there.
This is just another anon. smear campaign
Since the only place that SSD designers hang out is SSD, I call bullshit that the shit-stirrers aren't from SSD.
You wouldn't know anything about the things MB does unless you have personal experience with her.
If you really do have something on her, more power to you. Take it to SSD and deal with it. Otherwise, quit polluting this blog with the Sweet Shoppe's dirty, stinky laundry, please.
She stirs up crap without any truth or proof to it and people just buy into to. Unbelievable.
April 26, 2009 9:33 AM
Not jealous of her. But you can place me in whatever category you would like.
I actually liked and admired her at one point.
I'm not one who runs around taking screen shots of everything I see, every IM conversation I have, nor do I have a recorder hooked up to my phone hoping that I can use it all to bring people down.
You wouldn't know anything about the things MB does unless you have personal experience with her.
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She's been at more places that just SSD. Idiot.
It would be fine if she would just stay there but she doesn't.
April 26, 2009 9:38 AM
@@ No, you just start smear fests on anon blogs and sit back and wait for the fall-out. You're just a peach.
Try and justify it to yourself all you want. What you're doing is wrong and you know it.
No, you just start smear fests on anon blogs and sit back and wait for the fall-out. You're just a peach.
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If you're such a peach, what the hell are you doing here ready the smear fests on the anon blog?
She's been at more places that just SSD. Idiot.
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Oh, I bow to your superior intelligence, lol!
I read this blog, and never made any claims about my superior morals.
You can't say the same
Try and justify it to yourself all you want. What you're doing is wrong and you know it.
April 26, 2009 9:44 AM
WORD
If you're such a peach, what the hell are you doing here ready the smear fests on the anon blog?
April 26, 2009 9:45 AM
^^^
defensive much??
I guess someone hit a nerve!
April 26, 2009 9:38 AM
@@ No, you just start smear fests on anon blogs and sit back and wait for the fall-out. You're just a peach.
Try and justify it to yourself all you want. What you're doing is wrong and you know it.
April 26, 2009 9:44 AM
I read this blog, and never made any claims about my superior morals.
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Neither has the OP. She made claims against MB's morals and behavior.
Not jealous of her. But you can place me in whatever category you would like.
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Ok, I place you in the chicken shit, crazy beyotch with an ax to grind category.
April 26, 2009 9:49 AM
For the record, that wasn't me. But whoever it is has a point.
April 26, 2009 9:44 AM
I've never started a smear campaign before. Just tired of what she has gotten away with.
April 26, 2009 9:47 AM
And what other people do on this blog is right?
It's right to slander a possibly innocent person? Should she keep getting away with it?
Neither has the OP. She made claims against MB's morals and behavior.
April 26, 2009 9:51 AM
Au contraire. She (well, really you;) has claimed to be superior to MB. That's very transparent BS
April 26, 2009 9:53 AM
That's fine.
It's right to slander a possibly innocent person? Should she keep getting away with it?
April 26, 2009 9:54 AM
If this is true, PLEASE tell the whole story or provide some proof. Otherwise, they just keep getting away with it.
has claimed to be superior to MB. That's very transparent BS
April 26, 2009 9:54 AM
WHERE?
April 26, 2009 9:54 AM
Wasn't me, I usually speak in the first person when talking about myself.
IF Melissa Bennett is slandering innocent people, why won't someone REALLY speak up and put it out there?
Why do so many digi designers seem to have everyone in the community so intimidated? For pete's sake, the only way it's going to stop is if they get exposed and people speak out against it.
Vague anon accusations are not going to accomplish what you want. You have to be brave enough to put it out there if there really is something
WHERE???
How about here:
The difference between her and I? I've never tried to bring someone down before, period.
I don't think it's right what she has done over and over again. So, for once I'm saying something about it. I'm not trying to destroy someone out of jealousy, spite, or just for the fun of it.
April 26, 2009 9:17 AM
OR HERE:
I've never been victimized on a smack blog. Never seen my name posted on one.
I'll leave it at that. She'll do herself in if she continues with her destructive behavior.
I hope she takes this as a warning that she should stop.
April 26, 2009 9:29 AM
For the love of all that's good and holy, PLEASE take this SSD drama back to SSD
PLEASE!!
Her store at Scrap Orchard was disabled because of one screen shot on a smack blog? Is there more to the story here?
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No, a store like Scrap Orchard is not going to react and close a designer down because of an accusation on a smack blog.
I don't have a clue what is going on. But the screen shot is probably fake. There is a strange innuendo to "M" and suddenly the conversation is away from AD. Melissa Bennett is accused of trying to bring someone down. And SSD, someone's favorite subject, gets thrown into the mix.
There is probably more to the story but it is hard to differentiate fact from fiction on a smack blog.
That's Kristy Krouse in the photo with Amanda.
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And you know this how?
10:05 AM:
I don't see where she says she's superior.
She's just saying that she will reap what she sows.
And I agree.
But if the truth were known, that would take all of the fun out of the game that M started.
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And you know this how?
Great job at diversion away from the topic.
April 26, 2009 10:23 AM
Because back when they were at Get Digi With It and you all posted about that trying to destroy Amanda back then, I looked at the pictures of the designers that were in the store then.
That's Kristy Krouse in the photo with Amanda.
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And you know this how?
April 26, 2009 10:23 AM
http://getdigiwithit.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=8
Kristy doesn't look like LilyAnne to me.
M hasn't destroyed anyone. People don't get destroyed by innuendos on smack blogs. People destroy themselves by their own actions.
April 26, 2009 10:32 AM
She does when she fakes stuff to bring down people. She's done it before, I wouldn't be surprised if she did it again here.
Yes, let's get back to the real subject.
There's got to be a reason that so many of LilyAnne Taylor's kits have disappeared. Is she still at Shabby Pickle? I'm off to look.
It's pretty weird that someone who claims to have been a paper designer does not show up anywhere on the web other than in digi sites.
I think it has everything to do with Scrap Orchard. (how the heck did SSD even play into this, she never sold there). I doubt anyone would kick anyone out over the screen shot, but I'm sure questions were asked. Something more has to be going on that hasn't leaked, yet, about why Lily Anne isn't at Scrap Orchard anymore, yet she's still at Shabby Pickle..so maybe there really isn't anything to it?
For the love of all that's good and holy, PLEASE take this SSD drama back to SSD
PLEASE!!
April 26, 2009 10:06 AM
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The only way that this involves SSD is that MB sells her designs there.
It's here, just deal with it.
It's right to slander a possibly innocent person? Should she keep getting away with it?
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Seriously...things said on a smack blog are not slander. Things said by anonymous people are not slander. You have to take every thing said here with a grain of salt.
And whatever happened with Amanda Dykan's "top-secret" agreements with the stock photo sites?? She said that she would be vindicated on that front. Was she?
There's got to be a reason that so many of LilyAnne Taylor's kits have disappeared. Is she still at Shabby Pickle? I'm off to look.
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SHE CHANGED STORES. Every freakin' designer in digiland does this.
She has her own store too. Maybe that is now her base and she's going to guest at other stores.
She's only a guest at Shabby Pickle, so she didn't just CHANGE STORES.
She has her own store too. Maybe that is now her base and she's going to guest at other stores.
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But there is nothing in her store. And why has she changed stores twice in the two months she has been around. ES to SO to SP??
I'm not saying she has done anything wrong but it just seems a strange way to introduce yourself to digi land.
Where are the personal posts? Has she been participating at other sites? I don't know any designers that just jumped into the biz with all these kits already created and have had absolutely no exposure on any of the forums. She obviously understands etiquette and on the four layouts she posted she used other designers products and credited them appropriately.
You have to agree that it all seems a bit odd.
I'll say it again:
She has her own store too. Maybe that is now her base and she's going to guest at other stores.
You have to agree that it all seems a bit odd.
April 26, 2009 10:53 AM
It is possible that she is someone else who's been lurking around in the community. Or even another unknown designer who's been selling for awhile and then quit.
But if she really worked in the paper world she would need to know how to design. She can draw too which makes her kits unique.
I don't think she's Amanda Dykan. She's too dingy and would have messed it up already. (I don't believe the pic posted above. It was probably altered.)
Can you link me up to her store? I can't find it and actually I am loving the cafe chic kit.
I'll say it again:
She has her own store too. Maybe that is now her base and she's going to guest at other stores.
April 26, 2009 10:53 AM
Say it till you're blue in the face, but there's nothing in her store. The links don't work.
Where did that 'screenshot' come from? The DCR or a regular forum?
All of her kits are at Shabby Pickle.
Maybe she's just trying out stores until she finds the one that fits?
Designers quit stores for so many reasons. Maybe she quit SO and will find a home after her two month guest spot at SP?
She has quite a few kits over at Shabby Pickle.
http://www.shabbypickledesigns.com/boutique/manufacturers.php?manufacturerid=45
She seems quite talented.
I agree that the screen shot is most likely fake and shame on whoever posted it.
I don't care if she's Amanda Dykan. What was all the drama around here anyway?
I love Lilyanne's designs.
It wouldn't be unusual not to find her name on the web relating to paper companies. Some paper companies do not release the names of their designers.
Either way, her stuff is beautiful.
I have seen MB's sneaky ways first hand. I started at ES shortly before she left. She was still friends with people there. Including the owner. She still had forum designer privileges there even after she left. Meaning she could still get into the designer part of the forum and talk with us.
Well when ES started selling chipboard albums the owner enabled the shipping option in the store. In doing that anyone that had not entered their address was set to the default which was the store owners town and state. Well MB make a purchase there and the same day post a thread at DST saying she thinks a store has been hacked because her town and state now shows up and it says Phoenix, AZ. She never said the store in the Original Post but plenty people had shopped there and had the same thing, thus scarring them all.
She could have easily came to the designer forum and asked, pm'd a mod there (Since she knew them all) or called the owner since they were friends. But instead she decided to take it to DST and put doubt in customers minds and scare them.
Why would someone do that without first trying to find out what really happened? Unless you had bad intent!
I think the attacks on MB are probably coming from AD. She sees it as revenge. because it was MB who originally said that AD had plagiarized her. And now AD has ~~almost~~ successfully taken the attention off of herself, albeit temporarily.
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