Just giving you new space...and I like the comment above.
Actually, I went over to DST to find some smack worthy stuff, and I couldn't find anything. Pretty boring over there unless you are into arguing over health care reform.
So I don't want to kill the conversation started in the last thread...Why has DST lost its luster? Have people moved on to a new craft, have people moved to store forums, are people actually scrapping for themselves or have they all turned into designers?
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And SBR was ruined by all the rampant pimping a long time ago. DST has jumped the shark.
I think DST started going down when they created the Happy Place and it turned into Rampantly Advertising Kits instead of real RAKS. I've noticed there are members there who only post in the hopes of getting free kits.
Then, when Hot Topics remained after the election, it went further down hill.
The place needs an overhaul. Sadder still, it seems that the only people trying to do something positive at DST are two mods, Ripal and Darcy. Where the heck is Shannon? I know she's busy, but c'mon, it's her site. If she's no longer interested, sell it to someone who is!
ITA, 6:22.
There's so much wrong with DST now, that it just seems unfixable.
So where is the viable alternative?
I feel sorry for the diamond members............
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I feel sorry for the recent ones but the Diamond Members who have had their m/ship for 2 years or more are probably not as sad.
I'm a Diamond member. I bought it the second time they were offered.
I look at the new kits on offer about every 3-4 months. Download them anyway, because I can, and then they just sit there on my HD. :P
I loved DST at the time and I don't regret my purchase. The $100 would have been long gone either way.
2 posts in the last 24 hours on the NSBR board.
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I see more than two posts in NSBR in the last 24 hours, not including Hot Topics.
Has anyone noticed the poor choice of some of the latest sugarbabes at SSD? Some of their layouts are so beginner-ish they are laughable. How exactly are they supposed to inspire? I could easily list a handful of better choices that are regulars in the community.
September 27, 2009 9:58 AM
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I agree. Who would you have chosen, though? I'm a regular in the community but did NOT apply for a SugarBabe spot. I was SHOCKED at the choices. There were several girls who were very deserving--some on 10-12 SSD teams that seemed to be obvious choices. One of the girls was on at LEAST 15 SSD teams and wasn't chosen. I can't imagine how these girls must have felt. I don't know if they're all still active or not, but I can tell you that if I were in their situations, I would have left and never looked back.
I agree. Who would you have chosen, though? I'm a regular in the community but did NOT apply for a SugarBabe spot. I was SHOCKED at the choices. There were several girls who were very deserving--some on 10-12 SSD teams that seemed to be obvious choices. One of the girls was on at LEAST 15 SSD teams and wasn't chosen. I can't imagine how these girls must have felt. I don't know if they're all still active or not, but I can tell you that if I were in their situations, I would have left and never looked back.
September 28, 2009 7:51 AM
I (personally) would never give a store CT spot to someone already on 10-15 teams.
Where the heck is Shannon? I know she's busy, but c'mon, it's her site. If she's no longer interested, sell it to someone who is!
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I thought I read in a post that Shannon was not going to be doing much on DST anymore that DST Daddy would be doing most of it.
Looks like Hot Topics has died down. Haven't seen Lara Payton or txmusicmom on there, which is a good thing. No one minds a good discussion, but it doesn't seem to be as hate filled.
Opeysmama seems to have crawled back into her hole, too.
I do have the feeling that DST has been abandoned to the Hot Topic and the CT people.
I dont see any designers or anyone fun. It is all pimps or political whores.............
I also feel sorry for the people that bought diamond memberships. It takes more than 4 years for the break even point. Thanks to this site I didnt buy into that batch of kool aide. Thanks!!
As a designer, I stopped advertising at DST a long time ago. My product gallery hasn't been updated in over a year (does anyone still look there??). My new product and/or sales announcements get like 10 views max and never a comment.
The only forum that gets much attention (barring Hot Topics and CT pimping) is that Happy Place, where everyone is just hoping to get something for free rather than seeing what is new and on sale. What irritates me is that some people copy/paste their same response to reply to all the "Win my kit!!!!" threads, without even reading them properly.
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I so agree!! I like that some of the designers make their give aways a mini comp or something similar. Like, tell me your fav time of year. I dislike that that so many responses are 'thanks for the chance' and nothing more. Personally, if I were a designer, that response wouldn't get a thing, it's not fair on those people who took the time to do it right.
Holy smokes, the long rumored site redesign at DST is underway. Will wonders never cease.
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Ouch my eyes!!!!
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Yeah.. cute design, but the colours are TOOOOOO BRIGHT!!!
Actually, just tone down the blue background and you would be on your way....
Who chose that??? I agree - OUCH
I think it's pretty. It's a lot better than the orange and brown.
I like it except for that greeny yellow color. I'm sure it'll be tweeked in a few hours. Cute design. Certainly better than the suicide brown.
Uh... I think it looks almost exactly the same, but blue. Not really a 'redesign' but a minor change in color scheme with a slightly different passe vector-flower. Meh....
OMG that really is puketastic.
I think it's FUGLY! That pukey pale yellow is gad awful. It doesn't match with anything in the header. A big thumbs down from me.
People here are so predictable.
Eeeeeewwwww I haaaaate DST the brown and orange are so uuuuuuuglyyyyyy. When are they going to chaaaaaange it?
Oh wait...they did?
Ok, then, what I actually meant to say is: Eeeewwwww I hate DST!! The blue and green are so briiiiiiiight. I haaaaaate it. boohoo!! Nothing ever makes me haaaaaaappyyyyyyy. waaaaaaaah.
I can't wait until they change or don't change something else there so I can whine about it.
September 28, 2009 11:25 PM
Exactly what I meant by predictable.
I didn't whine just for the sake of it. I really don't like it. Each to their own but I'm allowed to say I don't like it just as you are allowed to say you do.
I didn't hear anyone say they liked it. Whine about whatever you want to whine about.
September 28, 2009 11:35 PM
I think you missed the whole point.
11:46 I think you missed the sarcasm.
September 28, 2009 11:25 PM
Exactly what I meant by predictable.
September 28, 2009 11:27 PM
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Yes, you are predictable.
One of the girls was on at LEAST 15 SSD teams and wasn't chosen. I can't imagine how these girls must have felt. I don't know if they're all still active or not, but I can tell you that if I were in their situations, I would have left and never looked back.
September 28, 2009 7:51 AM
I (personally) would never give a store CT spot to someone already on 10-15 teams.
September 28, 2009 10:07 AM
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I would agree with you but if you notice, the 'girl' in question is on 10-15 SSD teams, meaning designers that already sell at SSD. She's practically a site CT as is.
I have a CT question for you. If you are a designer, would you take someone on your team who is an amazing scrapper. But posts in drama threads like in ht?
I just had someone apply to my team who creates wonderful pages. But she posts in HT type forums. I didn't find anything that screamed "idiot" at me from the few posts I looked at. But it made me wary.
I'm not trying to be pig headed. It's just that I watched the train wreck last week as Tami1999 made a huge ass of her racist self publicly at DST.
I found myself reading her lame comment, and instantly looking down to her signature to see who the designers were that she was advertising with her blinkies. I wouldn't buy from them anyway because none of them are my style. But I definitely took notice.
It's not that I don't think people should voice their opinions. I'm just nervous about a person doing it in controversial threads in a place where I advertise my work. Which is how I make a living.
Wondering how much that kind of thing REALLY matters to people who purchase kits from a designer.
Also, if it were you, and you were declining the ct application, would you tell them that was the reason why?
If nothing she posted offended you, I don't see a problem. I wouldn't have a problem with it myself, as long as the CT kept her tone and posting respectable.
Wondering how much that kind of thing REALLY matters to people who purchase kits from a designer.
September 29, 2009 12:12 AM
Of course it matters. Or you wouldn't see Anonymous posts all over this blog too.
I wouldn't. It's highly unprofessional to mix personal opinions and controvercial subject matter with your business. In the 'real' world, I've heard of people being fired and turned down for job positions based on their twitter and facebook entries. Believe it or not, employers do online checks of potential employees all the time. What you put on your personal pages can speak of your character, reliability and attitude.
Back when I was fresh out of college with my brand-spankin' new technical degree, I applied for a job at a web design company. I totally thought I had the job in the bag but they just wanted to see what I was capable of. At the time (I was 23) I had built my own website from scratch -- just for fun and I used that as my portfolio. Big mistake...lesson learned. It didn't contain anything bad, controvercial or even any bad language but it was a really silly site that I made for me and my friends to hang out at (it was quite good, for being so young and being in the mid-90s. lol). I truly feel I was turned down for the position because of that website. I was completely professional at the interview but the site showed my not-so-professional side. Unfortunately, I don't think they could see past the commentary and site content to see the actual site structure itself.
The HT ladies can whine that it's "just" their opinion all they want and keep on dishing it out but it's very REAL that all kinds of people are reading it and it IS making a difference on how people percieve them.
I have a CT question for you. If you are a designer, would you take someone on your team who is an amazing scrapper. But posts in drama threads like in ht?
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I probably would because I don't ask my CT before hiring them are you posting in HT at DST. What are your political views. What are your religious views. These people have a right to post in a forum at DST or anywhere else. It has nothing to do with their capabilities as a scrapper.
I think the HT has become a big topic here because others want to stir up trouble, just like they want to dis DST, or certain designers. Posters here want to slam everyone and everything. Isn't that what this blog is for. Unfortunately newbies finding this site might believe everything they read here which is just too darn bad. Because just like the posters here have their right to voice their slams so do the posters at DST have the right to post their opinions. To me it's absolutely positively no different other then the fact that in HT there are many who want to learn about the issues and how others feel. Here most don't care. It's just fun to slam and most do it so well.
One of the girls was on at LEAST 15 SSD teams and wasn't chosen. I can't imagine how these girls must have felt. I don't know if they're all still active or not, but I can tell you that if I were in their situations, I would have left and never looked back.
September 28, 2009 7:51 AM
I (personally) would never give a store CT spot to someone already on 10-15 teams.
September 28, 2009 10:07 AM
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I would agree with you but if you notice, the 'girl' in question is on 10-15 SSD teams, meaning designers that already sell at SSD. She's practically a site CT as is.
10-15 teams is a lot, even if the designers already sell there. I don't think most site CTs get to use their personal team pages towards the site requirements. I could be wrong.
I have a CT question for you. If you are a designer, would you take someone on your team who is an amazing scrapper. But posts in drama threads like in ht?
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I think it depends on your application. If you have something like "need to be respectful as you are one of the faces of my designs" then yes, if they are a rabble rouser at HT then you shouldn't have to hire them. If you do not, then it shouldn't matter. There are some people that post at HT that are respectful and should not be grouped into the same disgusting boat like Tammy or Lara Payton. Those people should not be tagged as rabble rousers because they have an opinion.
The HT ladies can whine that it's "just" their opinion all they want and keep on dishing it out but it's very REAL that all kinds of people are reading it and it IS making a difference on how people percieve them.
September 29, 2009 7:08 AM
Very true. The Tammys, opeysmamas and Lara Paytons of the forum put forth their opinions in a really obnoxious way-so whether they like it or not, it's affecting the business of the designers they represent.
It's just not good for business when you have a jerk standing right at the front counter.
The DST "re-design" is funny to me. It took over a year to accomplish THAT? hahaha
Although I do have to say that almost ANY color is an improvement over the nasty orange and brown.
I'm not in love with DSTs new look. I mean, it's ok, but eh.
It's just as ugly as the brown was. Sure don't make you want to stay awhile. :(
I like the DST redesign, although I admit it pretty generic but when people with no personalities pick a site it's bound to lack creativity.
hey now, the only blog that has that nasty orange brown...
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is this one
I like the DST redesign, although I admit it pretty generic but when people with no personalities pick a site it's bound to lack creativity.
September 29, 2009 4:39 PM
LMAO!!
no one gives a shit what this place looks like. dst looks like some cheap ass scrap kit. who the hell designed it. not just that. what is the point of having DST Daddy in charge of DST and not Shannon? Clearly it is nothing but a source of money for them. Why else would her husband be so interested in the community? No wonder that place has gone down the crap hole.
http://lilaccreative.com/
so this is the person responsible for the new look.
"Because just like the posters here have their right to voice their slams so do the posters at DST have the right to post their opinions."
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yeah, everyone has a RIGHT to voice their opinions but doing so openly isn't always SMART; hence the anonymous posting here
http://lilaccreative.com/
so this is the person responsible for the new look.
September 29, 2009 8:46 PM
That is Genevieve Sass. she used to be an Oscraps designer, not sure if she still is.
I would agree with you but if you notice, the 'girl' in question is on 10-15 SSD teams, meaning designers that already sell at SSD. She's practically a site CT as is.
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If you're talking about Linz, I'm not surprised she didn't make it. I don't know what those 15 designers see that I'm not seeing, but her layouts all mostly look the same: embellishments poured on, picture(s) of kid with wide open mouth, and no real point to the page.
I guess if you're doing 15+ layouts a week about one kid, there's not much left to do but slap a bunch of stuff on a page.
Collecting CT's to have in your siggy will not win you over with designers.
Apparently it will, or people would never have more than 3-4 CTs. ;)
Apparently it will, or people would never have more than 3-4 CTs. ;)
September 30, 2009 4:59 PM
Have to agree--or else how did it get to the point where people are on 10-15 teams? Really, any more than 2 or 3, I'd ask the same thing.
Obviously, the designers are going for it, or someone wouldn't make it onto that many teams.
re: the 10-15 SSD team thing: I'd go effin' crazy if I had to scrap with that much cutesy, cookie-cutter crap!
http://lilaccreative.com/
so this is the person responsible for the new look.
September 29, 2009 8:46 PM
That is Genevieve Sass. she used to be an Oscraps designer, not sure if she still is.
September 30, 2009 12:12 PM
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If she sells under the name Sweet Genevieve, then she's still at Oscraps.
Have to agree--or else how did it get to the point where people are on 10-15 teams? Really, any more than 2 or 3, I'd ask the same thing.
Obviously, the designers are going for it, or someone wouldn't make it onto that many teams.
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Exactly! Makes you wonder if there are people left to buy stuff anymore!
yep-I think designers have gone way overboard with the CT thing. I can understand having a few quality scrappers with varying styles for a CT, but not the mega teams I've been seeing. And, I don't need 10 or more CT layouts to help me decide whether or not to buy the kit-ESPECIALLY when the LO's all look so similar!
I don't mind the new green color of DST, but that header is fucking UGLY!!
I don't get the mega teams either, especially if most of the team members post in the same place. If you are going to have that many people, at least spread them out for maximum advertising, or what's the point?
Are the people complaining about large CTs here designers who can't assemble a good CT because all the good scrappers are taken by better designers? Or maybe you are scrappers that applied for CTs and didn't get the spot because too many better scrappers are taking up all the good spots?
I just don't understand why anyone else would care or even notice. All the hating on CTMs and designers with large CTs reeks of a bitterness. Life is so much sweeter when you aren't eating sour grapes.
Neither. And I'm not hating. Just don't see the point of giving so many kits away and having everyone post in the same place. It's like dumping the same catalogue through the same mail box 10 times.
Seeing as you are the one who seems to see either jealousy or bitterness; maybe it's more your speed. Some of us are not so narrow visioned.
As for the platitudes and cliches, really, sour grapes? Did your mommy tell you if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all? Thumper wisdom is so passe.
For the peeps looking for Niecey, she's back :)
http://www.gottapixel.net/store/manufacturers.php?manufacturerid=104
Can we gripe about something non-DST related here for a bit?
Wondering if anyone else hates site challenge rewards that are an entry into a drawing for a store GC. I hate those! I know I'm never gonna win. Would much prefer a piece of a collab kit per challenge or even a point reward system for store purchases. But the chance at a $10 GC is one more opportuntiy for cherry picking and there's too much of that to begin with.
you know I hate seeing CT members win contest on challenges such as Hodge-Podge or DigiDare. Many times I see people win who I know got everything on the layout for free. Those types of contest should be for paying customers.
you know I hate seeing CT members win contest on challenges such as Hodge-Podge or DigiDare. Many times I see people win who I know got everything on the layout for free. Those types of contest should be for paying customers.
October 1, 2009 10:54 AM
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CT members can't be paying customers too? I'm on 4 CTs and I shop a lot. I don't understand the concept that CTs and Customers are mutually exclusive.
But you don't buy from the designers you CT for. If you were on 11-15 teams, I think you'd pretty much have more stuff than you knew what to do with.
I might be in the minority but I didn't mind the old color scheme at DST. I am not a fan of the new color scheme at all. These are not welcoming colors to me. It looks like they went for a triadic color scheme but the light blue background doesn't really jive with it. I don't think they used a color schemer software to choose the colors. Something is just off to me. hmmmmm.....maybe it is just my monitor???
It's not your monitor, the saturation of the blue is clashy. The skinner obviously didn't really think through the linking colours either, as the blue links are almost invisible when they appear on the green background. They are hard enough to see on the white. I also hate the header graphic, which is way too big and I just loathe that pseudo-retro 'I have Illustrator' look anyway. I think the old design was better, just because it didn't try and fail to be something it wasn't.
I prefer a white background though (reaching here for the 'say something nice' item).
wv: fartast. The new DST look is fartastic.
I just don't understand why anyone else would care or even notice. All the hating on CTMs and designers with large CTs reeks of a bitterness. Life is so much sweeter when you aren't eating sour grapes.
September 30, 2009 11:42 PM
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Since when does providing an opinion mean you are bitter? Oh wait, maybe you are one of those designers who have a massive CT and are feeling a tad defensive? Maybe I am making assumptions, but then so are you!
Wondering if anyone else hates site challenge rewards that are an entry into a drawing for a store GC.
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I've never seen one of those.
I was wondering if perhaps my monitor was making the colors look bad also.
I'm another one that wasn't bothered by the old color scheme. I do think the old look needed to be updated but this just doesn't feel updated to me.
In fact I am actually a DST regular that is being turned away by the new look. The colors bother my eyes (might be my monitor) so I don't read or reply to the threads now. I wish there were options of styles to use for the DST forums...
In fact that would be an awesome advertising tool. Shannon could have designers pay her to create a style that would advertise their product and give them credit on the style. Users could then choose which style to use.
Wondering if anyone else hates site challenge rewards that are an entry into a drawing for a store GC.
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Why would that bother anyone? What would rather get, a kit? With the gift certificate you can choose what to buy.
For the peeps looking for Niecey, she's back :)
http://www.gottapixel.net/store/manufacturers.php?manufacturerid=104
October 1, 2009 8:31 AM
who is Niecey & what's she done??
Wondering if anyone else hates site challenge rewards that are an entry into a drawing for a store GC.
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Why would that bother anyone? What would rather get, a kit? With the gift certificate you can choose what to buy.
October 1, 2009 10:57 PM
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Because you aren't guaranteed the GC, that's why it would bother anyone. You are only entered into the drawing of the GC.
It would be okay if there was still a "participation" gift too and then have the GC as an extra bonus but if the GC is the only "prize" it's not really much of in incentive to join in on a challenge.
It would be okay if there was still a "participation" gift too and then have the GC as an extra bonus but if the GC is the only "prize" it's not really much of in incentive to join in on a challenge.
Ah, I think I know the site you are talking about. Actually, it's more of an incentive to me because the more challenges you enter, the more chance you have of getting a $10 certificate. I would much rather have a coupon like that than a percentage off because I never use the percentage off since I don't do enough challenges to warrant a huge percentage. So I would rather have a chance to win than 20% off or less. Basically, I'm cheap and don't want to spend money if I don't have to. :)
Also, participation prizes are usually trashed. Designers tend to wait until the last minute to make them and they are often craptastic. Either that, or they only include like two papers and 2 elements. If sites are going to give participation prizes, I think they should be quickpages made from kits in the store.
If you're talking about Linz, I'm not surprised she didn't make it. I don't know what those 15 designers see that I'm not seeing, but her layouts all mostly look the same: embellishments poured on, picture(s) of kid with wide open mouth, and no real point to the page.
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I'm not even a member at SSD, but this comment made me want to go look and I disagree.
While it's true that there are many layouts with kid with mouth open (LOL), at least she's scrapping here own photos and real memories.
I'd MUCH rather see pages like those than all the stock photos that so many CT members use. And all the fantasy/extracted pages that have no basis in reality.
Linz exemplifies what scrapping is all about...JMO
Anyone know what happened to Doris Castle? She's no longer with SBG - is she now selling elsewhere?
My theory on the designers with 15+ CTs that post 20+ previews for each kit: It has nothing to do with NEEDING that many layouts to show the products, and EVERYTHING with trying to create the right PERCEPTION. Designers are collecting CT members like 'badges of honor' just to create the perception that they are popular. And the CT members benefit from being part of the trendiest teams. It's a win/win for them. It's just like in High School - those who can collect the most friends become the most popular. But this strategy wouldn't work if everyone would not get pulled into playing the game
[i]It would be okay if there was still a "participation" gift too and then have the GC as an extra bonus but if the GC is the only "prize" it's not really much of in incentive to join in on a challenge.[/i]
Not much of an incentive? How about a scrapped page? Everyone wants a handout.
you know I hate seeing CT members win contest on challenges such as Hodge-Podge or DigiDare. Many times I see people win who I know got everything on the layout for free. Those types of contest should be for paying customers.
Unfortunately, participation is really low. The winners are most likely one of, like, four scrappers even participating.
Is it really hard to find a good CT right now or something? Or is it hard to get on one? Not trying to be snide. I'm honestly just confused why so many seem to be upset about large CTs. It isn't something I've ever really noticed before.
[i]Anyone know what happened to Doris Castle? She's no longer with SBG - is she now selling elsewhere?
October 2, 2009 8:09 PM[/i]
who cares? her customer service is shit.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
My theory on the designers with 15+ CTs that post 20+ previews for each kit: It has nothing to do with NEEDING that many layouts to show the products, and EVERYTHING with trying to create the right PERCEPTION. Designers are collecting CT members like 'badges of honor' just to create the perception that they are popular. And the CT members benefit from being part of the trendiest teams. It's a win/win for them. It's just like in High School - those who can collect the most friends become the most popular. But this strategy wouldn't work if everyone would not get pulled into playing the game
October 2, 2009 9:06 PM
ITA..
I think that at MOST a designer's CT should create 3 layouts from 1 kit. Depending on the "style" a designer likes with her products or finds is most popular with her products. For example maybe 2 layouts created in a "paper" type style and 1 in the "fantasy" style or (even better IMO) 1 made with the kit that has papers/elements etc...really, really changed up..used in a way that you wouldn't immediately consider when you first see the kit. Something to show real versatility.
Anything over 3 is overkill and (for me anyway) makes me sick and tired of seeing the kit let alone wanting to buy it!
Designers are collecting CT members like 'badges of honor' just to create the perception that they are popular. And the CT members benefit from being part of the trendiest teams. It's a win/win for them. It's just like in High School - those who can collect the most friends become the most popular.
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So childish, but unfortunately,it's probably true.
I'm honestly just confused why so many seem to be upset about large CTs. It isn't something I've ever really noticed before.
October 3, 2009 2:09 AM
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No one is upset. If you read the posts, you'll see that most see it as pointless. Which it is. I'm confused why you are seeing people being upset.
[i]Anyone know what happened to Doris Castle? She's no longer with SBG - is she now selling elsewhere?
October 2, 2009 8:09 PM[/i]
who cares? her customer service is shit.
October 3, 2009 8:24 AM
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As is her product.
Linz exemplifies what scrapping is all about...JMO
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I disagree. I think Tracyfish is more along the lines of what you are saying. She's on a bunch of CTs, still cranks out adorable layouts (that are not all the same), and she truly document's her son's life in them by telling a story on every page.
Linz just throws shit on there.
No one is upset. If you read the posts, you'll see that most see it as pointless. Which it is. I'm confused why you are seeing people being upset.
You have a point. No one said that they were upset. Wrong choice of wording. I really just don't understand why people care about other people's CTs. How does it really affect you?
I seemed to have hit a nerve with you though. So which are you, the not so great designer or the not so great scrapper?
Neither. I'm just fed up with the same junk hitting the same galleries all the time. It's bad advertising.
Do you usually see the world in terms of black and white?
play a game of it..try to figure out if you can
1. guess the designer
2. guess the ct
or a better one
3. guess where they bought the cu item and did they really modify it or just slap it in there
and lastly
4. is it a stock photo or their own?
it's a fun game really
wv: conic..so close to comic...so close
To 8:55
The only nerve that seems to have been struck is yours. Seems you don't like it when you fail to strike the nerves of others. Try using your energy on something constructive.
ROFLMAO!!! Constructive? Yeah, because everything else posted on this blog is so positive and constructive! Saving the world one smack at a time!
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Oh yeah, your nerves have been hit big time.
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2:06, save your righteous indignation for something else. That's been done to death here, and it's not going to affect anything except your blood pressure.
Am I the only one who wants to slap Pachimac? I'm so fucking tired of her whining about their financial shit. GET A JOB, DUMBASS BITCH! Homeschooling is not more necessary than rent and food! She lives with her parents and her husband who is out of work, but for some reason she's the only one who can homeschool the kid? Losing their home and having to move in with her elderly parents is better than public school? Bullshit. She's just too lazy to work and is using homeschooling as an excuse.
So, any word on the reason for the mass exodus from SBB? Amy had been neglecting that place for a long time, so I'm just wondering why so many of the designers up and quit at once?
Am I the only one who wants to slap Pachimac? I'm so fucking tired of her whining about their financial shit. GET A JOB, DUMBASS BITCH! Homeschooling is not more necessary than rent and food! She lives with her parents and her husband who is out of work, but for some reason she's the only one who can homeschool the kid? Losing their home and having to move in with her elderly parents is better than public school? Bullshit. She's just too lazy to work and is using homeschooling as an excuse.
I agree!! She is so annoying with her judgemental ass. I dont feel the least bit sorry for her. I think its funny that two years ago she was showing off her Gymboree loot on her blog and now she had to sell all of that crap to scrape by.
^^^^^^
My question would be why is she TTC if she and her husband are in financial difficulties?
Pachimac can be pretty uptight and judgmental, but I just can't whoop it up at her troubles. Too much like tempting fate, or spitting at Karma, and I've got enough difficulties in my life without doing that.
^^^^^^^^
I'm not whooping it up, just wondering why she would rather whine on DST than get off her butt and do something to improve her situation.
My question would be why is she TTC if she and her husband are in financial difficulties?
October 4, 2009 5:31 PM
She is?? I'd have to ask that same question--and isn't she fairly old to be TTC???
Didn't pacimac say she was applying for a job? I thought I read that in her thread about moving in with her parents.
My question would be why is she TTC if she and her husband are in financial difficulties?
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what the heck does TTC mean?
I think its funny that two years ago she was showing off her Gymboree loot on her blog and now she had to sell all of that crap to scrape by.
You think it's funny? Damn that's pretty harsh. She has an annoying personality, I agree. She also doesn't seem to be doing much to pull herself out of a bad situation. But I don't think it's funny.
I feel bad for her kids. Hard times can happen to anyone.
TTC=Trying to Conceive
At least Pachimac isn't sucking up government aid.
Don't read it if you don't like what she has to say! Get a life!
I do wish people would stop saying get a life. It's so childish and irrelevant. It doesn't mean anything.
At least Pachimac isn't sucking up government aid.
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Hey, I'm not either and you don't hear me whining all over the place.
At least Pachimac isn't sucking up government aid.
Don't read it if you don't like what she has to say! Get a life!
She talked about getting her daughter on some kind of medical assistance. I'm not familiar with the program, but it sure sounds like some kind of government aid to me.
Is it really hard to find a good CT right now or something? Or is it hard to get on one? Not trying to be snide. I'm honestly just confused why so many seem to be upset about large CTs. It isn't something I've ever really noticed before.
October 3, 2009 2:09 AM
I am not wanting any new CTs nor am I wanting to be on any CTs.. it is just an observation many people make, an opinion..why does that mean you are upset?
I might be in the minority but I didn't mind the old color scheme at DST. I am not a fan of the new color scheme at all. These are not welcoming colors to me. It looks like they went for a triadic color scheme but the light blue background doesn't really jive with it. I don't think they used a color schemer software to choose the colors. Something is just off to me. hmmmmm.....maybe it is just my monitor???
October 1, 2009 5:12 PM
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Umm no, triadic would be purple, green and orange.
Color schemer software doesn't guarantee a good color scheme by the way, there is a lot more to color theory than just colors picked from software.
You want some thing inviting, that encourages people to hang around.. peaceful and calming. Aqua blue is the exact opposite of that.. it screams hurry up and get your business done and then go away. Must like loud fast paced music does in a clothing store.
WARNING about RUSTY PICKLE.
This was posted on 2Peas:
"Wondering if anyone has had similar experiences with Rusty Pickle and can lend advice."
AlyciaSanders
PeaNut
PeaNut 220667 - 8/27/2005
Posts: 129 Layouts: 79
Loc: Salem, Oregon
Posted: 10/4/2009 8:34:55 PM
The problem is that they won't pay me and they're more than a year over due. I've emailed Tasha several times, a few times she's responded with, "I'll get the check in the mail" and never does and other times it's just, "We don't have the money." I was on their design team for nearly two years. I resigned last month because I was really tired of putting up with their profound lack of professionalism and careless ways.
I've contacted both the Utah Labor Commission as well as the one here in Oregon and they've both told me the same thing: I'm not protected because I was an independent contractor. So, I'm wondering if anyone has had similar experiences and can lend advice as far as what else I can do to get paid.
I appreciate anything anyone can tell me.
http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/mb.asp?cmd=display&forum_id=42&thread_id=2893479
I appreciate anything anyone can tell me.
You could take them to Small Claim Court. You don't need an attorney. You can have the Court send you the paperwork to fill out and file. The only money involved is usually the filing fee. I don't know if living outside of the State where the claim is being made then requires you to attend the hearing. You'd have to do some research on their Small Claims Court procedures.
Utah Small Claims information: http://www.utcourts.gov/howto/smallclaims/
RP hasn't paid you in a year!! That is absurd. Find out who the owner is and send them to collections. It generally costs 40% to the collection agency. But after a year the odds of getting paid are slim to none. By sending them to collections a mark will go on their credit report and if they ever try to take out a loan say to buy a car or a house it will show up and they will have to settle the debt to get their loan. It is such sweet justice when that happens.
Look in the yellow pages under Collection Agencies. You should not have to pay any fees unless they actually collect.
There was lots of talk a while back on Scrap Smack about Rusty Pickle not paying, and their lack of professionalism. Lance Pickle, in particular has been smacked in the paper world quite a bit.
How much do you think Izosoft is making in payments from sweetmade? Yeah it's the same shit. DL it for yourself check and see. Let's see how long that stays in the store. CAUGHT!!!
Thought I saw this shit somewhere!
IzoSoft Vol.17 - New Year 1
http://www.grafamania.net/uploads/posts/2008-11/1227093281_izosoft.vol.17-newyears1-100-cat.jpg
http://www.scrappity-doo-dah.com/store/product.php?productid=1934&cat=2&page=1
I was reading some TOUs yesterday, checking to see if I could use stuff for my blog when I came across this
You may not make alterations to graphics in any way that will take away from the artistic integrity of the original creation
I get the whole don't redistribute yadda yadda, but telling me I can't change the original is just ridiculous.
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wow, to that, I am always color changing, or will cut out a piece of their cluster, leaf and use it...
I know most designers aren't like that, but wow, that is a cruddy TOU, here you can buy this, but the ribbon must go horizontal, and the button has to be to the left of the red flower?
buy this but I still own it...you can borrow it, but I want it back??
ha ha
wv confu
as confucious says
designer who makes stinky in her tou will sit in her own poo!
Even though I think it's a little over the top, I can kind of see where the designer is coming from. If you make a bad job of altering one of her elements and you credit her, she's going to look bad, isn't she? No one is going to think the scrapper did it, are they?
Still seems a little possessive though.
Go back and look at all of sweetmade's stuff, esp. her kits. 90% of it contains some kind of stock image. Those kinds of sites pop up left and right when searching for images. I don't trust them. I clicked on a Google link once when searching, brought me to a pirate site like that and I got a virus just by entering the site. She'll get burned one day.
Funny you were at one.
http://www.izosoft.com/collections/IZ085_Orchids/IZ085_Orchids.htm
how about posting the actuall website??
you post from a pirate website ?
i think i am doing more than i have to here, but because you are bashing in the door to a friends store with the emails who have fake adresses and i can not respond to you.
i felt i need to post here with the information. if you really purchased these as you claim in one of your emails to the store owners plz contact me with an working email and a order number so i can forward you the original permission email. can you please stop the acusations? ask me in person, i am more than willing to speak to any customer of mine. i wish i was aforded the opportunity to answer you in private rather than a smack blog.
http://www.sweetmadeinc.com/contact-email.jpg
my email is located on my website and my store.
SWEETMADE: You disguss me. No one will ever believe you get permission of other artist to resell their original work, expecially with no credit given.
You're a thief and everyone who makes collab with you look bad as well. Get a real job, learn your software, take so art classes and learn to draw, not just trace other people's doodles... no wait! It's working for you! Customers actually buy your pirated shits and use them in their business. Some day, karma will bite you in the ass. Can't wait to see that.
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wow, get a grip ... you really need to rein in the green eyed monster there!
Not 1.36 but I don't think it's jealousy at all, I think it's very valid comment. If there IS permission, why isn't it credited and why not just post it publically? If you show it to one person are you going to show it to everyone that asks? If not why not, and if so why not just post it?
Have to admit I am impressed that Sweet Made has such great Russian language skills to be able to navigate the actual IzoSoft website. And to make the necessary phone call to find out what their licence terms are (they don't put them on their site, you have to phone).
Ahem.
Not everyone requires credit,
We don't run around and ask the designers who use dover to credit as well.
The website posted up there is also in English, you just press the button on the left there where it reads ENGLISH.
Are we going around and ask everyone for a receipt from the dollar store next?
Did Izosoft make the garland too? Oh wait I am sure they credited the company who made the garland in their cds.
She was right to remove the copy of the email conversation between them and her, obviously she doesn't have to show you a thing. You don't even have a name nor can you even carry a meaningful conversation without getting emotional.
And if u say you are not 1.36 you most likely are! funny how both post are full of personal hate/sarcasm.
Except, Einstein, that the collection in question isn't on sale on that site, because that's not their website (its just three products).
This is the IzoSoft website, where you can buy all their graphics from.
http://www.izosoft.ru/
And no English button.
Not so brave as to use your name for the follow ups Sweet?
The only one sticking up for sweetmade is sweetmade.
You are a pirate and need to be banned at DST/Scrappy-do-dah and commercial use.
I will never purchase anything from those stores again until you are gone. Those stores condone your actions by keeping you employed there and must be fucken blind to let this shit slide. You hurt every single one of those designers by putting your pirated shit in the stores.
You have been caught and saying you have a email from Izosoft is such bullshit! no one will swallow that poison you dish out.
Get a life
If you think the post sticking up for Sweetmade was made by her, you are all mistaken. The language is totally different, or are you so blinded by your own arrogance and self righteousness, that you can't see that?
Get a life
October 7, 2009 3:57 PM
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She has a life. Stop saying that!! It's so juvenile. What the hell does it even mean?
How ironic that you don't know
love the drama! this place was getting boring!!!
Type in www.izosoft.ru and you get what looks like a graphic site. No English button.
Type in www.izosoft.com and you get the same building site.
Type in http://www.izosoft.com/collections/IZ085_Orchids/IZ085_Orchids.htm then back space so you only have http://www.izosoft.com and you end up back at that building site. What's with that??
Anonymous Anonymous said...
How ironic that you don't know
October 7, 2009 5:01 PM
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The phrase is completely meaningless, yet you think it's ironic that I don't know. How ironic.
so pull Amanda Dyko over the coals for pirating a image for personal use and then this sweetmade is still selling pirated commercial use items in stores. Seems it was swifter for AD than this sweetmade
I have to say those jolly clusters are wonderful! love that pirated pine tree image with ugly bows over it. It's a winner!!
Wasn't it the owner of the stolen image who contacted the store owners in the AD case?
^^^
All the bitter designer drama!
It's designers themselves that are going to be the downfall of digi
Sweetmade, even if you did purchase those images, you don't have the right to sell those images for Commercial Use.
Amanda Dyko is not only a pirate, but she's a thief, and a pathological liar. That loon has major psychiatric issues.
Trying to comapare anyone else to Psycho Dyko is just way wrong.
Sweetmade, even if you did purchase those images, you don't have the right to sell those images for Commercial Use.
October 7, 2009 7:31 PM
Put up or shut up. If you had any evidence, you'd go to someplace that really counts and pony it up, not a smack blog.
You are not the internet police.
internet police? in digi scrappin'
nope, doesn't exist...
just she said, she dids...
one designer can take a pic and painstakingly extract something, add a bow, and say it's her design...
another can download a pic of same picture...do an extract and add a bow and it's hers
or they can both, buy the item from a supplier, add the bow and it's theirs
or one can get it from a pirate site, add a bow(or not) and resell
hey who owns the original...unless it's disney, no one really cares!
Put up or shut up. If you had any evidence, you'd go to someplace that really counts and pony it up, not a smack blog.
You are not the internet police.
October 7, 2009 7:35 PM
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WTF are you talking about? I don't have to prove anything. You cannot buy a commercial use product and then sell it as commercial use.
I never claimed to be the police and I quite honestly don't give a rat's fuck if she is using pirated goods or not. I was simply sayingt that purchasing a CU item doesn't mean you can sell it as a CU item.
blah, blah, blah, blah . . .
WTF she is totally pyscho. She pirates stuff to sell as CU then when she is called out she all of sudden "misplaced/deleted" the email. What a bunch of bullshit.
Come on store owners I thought you didn't put up with pirates at your stores and here is one.
I would love to see that email to the store owner.
Yes they gave me permission to use their stuff for cu.
Oh no I didn't have to pay for the stock images I just stole those of the internet.
Oh yes it's ok I have a email saying so but I lost it. You believe me right? Because even thou I have been caught so many times no one gives a shit that I do this because I am still working here.
Without knowing whether or not she actually stole those images, or if she has an agreement to use them, it's pretty low to accuse her of piracy. You obviously have no proof that she did that or you would have shown it to us.
She may have actually stolen the images none of us knows because we haven't seen proof either way. But without proof, you are dragging a possibly innocent person through the mud. That's a really crap thing to do out of boredom. How would you like it if someone smeared you because they suspected you of something without real evidence?
Find the proof. Contact the company and ask for proof yourself. Write Sweetmade and ask for the proof. But don't come here shooting off your mouth because you have suspicions. You don't ruin someone's name, and destroy their access to income for their family over your paranoid suspicions. That shitty.
can someone pu-lease school me?
if i buy a CU item? why can't I turn around and sell it? isn't that why there are so many ladders, chandeliers, owls, and clouds?
just wondering???
not being rude or snarky, just thought that is what some designers did?
can someone pu-lease school me?
if i buy a CU item? why can't I turn around and sell it? isn't that why there are so many ladders, chandeliers, owls, and clouds?
just wondering???
not being rude or snarky, just thought that is what some designers did?
October 8, 2009 12:23 AM
You can only do that if the terms are CU for CU, most CU is only for personal use designs. It is getting ludicrous...
Next it will be CU 4 CU 4 CU.....
Safest way to design, make your OWN stuff and stick to CU sources like Dover.
....That shitty.
October 8, 2009 12:19 AM
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I think you're shitty!
Find the proof, my ass.
Sweetmade keeps pirating stuff and making money out of it because of people like you who ask for "real proof".
If she doesn't want to be acused, then she should come clean.
We KNOW she traced a doodle from a stock photo and said her daughter draw it. It's the kind of things she does every day.
I don't trust her and I'm glad to see I'm not the only one.
Find the proof. Contact the company and ask for proof yourself. Write Sweetmade and ask for the proof. But don't come here shooting off your mouth because you have suspicions. Y
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Not the OP about Sweetmade, but I love how you completely overlook the reselling of CU which is against every single license I have ever seen and read.
There is, in fact CU4CU stuff out there now. Just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it's not available.
can someone pu-lease school me?
if i buy a CU item? why can't I turn around and sell it? isn't that why there are so many ladders, chandeliers, owls, and clouds?
just wondering???
not being rude or snarky, just thought that is what some designers did?
Oc
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You cannot buy a CU item and resell it as, no changes at all, as another CU item. Yes, you can buy a CU item and put it into your kit as part of a package, but you can't sell that item for someone else to use commercially to put into their kit.
You need to check the designers TOU as to what you can and cannot do with their product. Commercial sites like Commercial Use.com or Digi Scrap Warehouse have TOUs readily available to read before you buy or you can always contact the designer and ask for the specifics. There are designers that allow you to put an item from their kits as is right into your kit. There are other designers who specify that you must do something with the object and that you can't just take it as is and plop in a kit.
Sweetmade is a pirate for sure. I did buy some of her stuff and now feel dirty. What a waste of money. I trashed it all. I don't want to be using any of her stuff.
Seems like those store owners don't care either. So I am another one that will never spend money in those stores until she is gone.
doodles my ass I was taken in big time. Never again
I guess I just don't understand why some of you get so heated over these things,
people generally make lots of mistakes in their life, sometimes no one even finds out when one makes a mistake or cheats or steals. Heck I made a ton of bad decisions, I have taken something that doesn't belong to me as well, granted I learn from my mistakes, at times I payed a price for them too, there is some no one knows about, I would die if someone found out. I guess its easy to be anonymous and spit out some names for fun, true or not because in the end we don't know about you, who you are what mistakes you`ve made, we cant sit here and discus them either, point our Digi fingers at you and your family. Its easy for you to say come here designer, explain yourself, then when they do come all you do is tear them apart even more, get personal and express your hate for them anonymously.
Just as the person above said, designers will be the down fall of digi, there is no professional way to handle copyright or theft anymore. What amazes me even more that the person who posted the original smack post pointing to the pirate site isn't upset that so many things are pirated there, isn't upset that some scrap kits are on that site, isn't going to report it either, I`ve yet to hear the words who is reporting this website for copyright infringement, obviously it is full of stolen goods. Isn't this a double standard?
And yes even with AD case she admitted the wrong doing like you all wanted yet you are not able to let go, you will follow her for ever and email anyone who she works for or with to let them know of her past sins, is this in fact the right thing to do? Even bill collectors have to follow rules when calling your job about your debt. The Blog-owner is right , this Blog is full of smut rather than reality.
no one is safe from being slammed here, DST, big or small designer, ct, customers, plain scrappers with shitty layouts, people who have an opinion, people who are too quiet, people who talk to much, those who use caps, those who cant spell or speak proper English, new stores, old stores.... same old rumors, same old smut
yawn, stock photos again..
does anyone play any online games you like here?
I think you're shitty!
Find the proof, my ass.
Sweetmade keeps pirating stuff and making money out of it because of people like you who ask for "real proof".
If she doesn't want to be acused, then she should come clean.
We KNOW she traced a doodle from a stock photo and said her daughter draw it. It's the kind of things she does every day.
I don't trust her and I'm glad to see I'm not the only one.
I'm shitty? Ok that's a strange response to me asking for some evidence but I guess some people resort to name calling when they can't control their emotions. I didn't call you shitty. I said that trying to ruin someone without evidence is a shitty thing to do.
I don't know Sweetmade from a hole in the wall. I know nothing about her at all. There's a damn good chance you are right that she is a pirate. I know nothing about her past, but I have never seen any evidence proving that she's done anything wrong. If there is some, please show me. I'll gladly apologize to you, stfu, and scoot off to let you continue happily on your witch hunt without continuing to put in my 2 cents.
All I'm saying is that it isn't right to ruin someone without proof that what they are doing is wrong. If you feel like it's ok to destroy someone's name on a hunch, well, I hope you are someone I don't know in real life. That isn't something a decent person does to someone else.
And you can get mad and call me names again. It's ok if it makes you feel better to act like that. But I really do think you should explore this a tiny bit before you try to ruin her. Because it doesn't seem to me that you've even tried to get proof. It sounds like you saw something that you thought might cause drama and skittered on over here as fast as you could to smear it all over this blog.
Same old witchunts over and over and over again.
Designers will never learn.
If designers spent even half as much time designing as they do trying to play pirate police on each other, things in digi would be much better all around.
But go on with your bad, seek-and-destroy selves and see where it gets you.
We KNOW she traced a doodle from a stock photo and said her daughter draw it. It's the kind of things she does every day.
I don't trust her and I'm glad to see I'm not the only one.
October 8, 2009 1:53 AM
And how do "we" KNOW about the doodle? Proof?
FFS, if you've got it, show it. If not, shut the hell up.
http://julieannshahin.blogspot.com/2009/10/my-new-disclosure-policy-as-of-october.html
huh?
http://www.sweetmadeinc.com/email1.jpg
I understand you hate me you think what you think about me, All I asked for you to e mail me privately with valid information
I doubt you even purchased any item of any designer from the stores you have e mailed these Slander e mails to.
I know you keep changing from which email you send out your hate messages, because when ever you send a message to a store via their contact form a IP address is attached to your message you with all your personalities you are one and the same person the same person who e mailed SDD tons yesterday the same person who is Emailing my friends and any store owners today demanding they remove me because you speak the truth.
You have not e-mailed me once not once did you ask me for any proof. You are only wanting others to think I am a pirate. Its not right.
This doodle thing you claim how hard is it for you to go and contact the original owner of the art work you say I stole and ask them to peruse me Legally since I stole his/her art or even ask me to remove their art.
Because its not their art. We drew it did we look at someones doodles and made similar ones? Well you didn't ask. I do know how to draw and operate the Ai, it is not hard at all draw with a marker that's my tip that will trace best in Ai and plz if you draw jagged just simplify your path until your edge is super smooth. Its really very easy if you know how to doodle at all. I own all hard copies of the drawings on paper not scanned printed not traced but drawn free hand. But I would show you if you only had some sense to contact me in person with a real email address not a made up one. Its almost like I have to make a video now where I draw scan in and edit the doodles.
Please stop this I am asking you because you already went to far this email here (link) is complete slander.
Also posted some photos of my hard copy doodles on my blog maybe that will help you understand what they look like before hand.
I suggest you read these sm:
http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080406033440AAbmH5l
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/shanerichmond/5144547/Online_comments_are_more_like_slander_than_libel_says_judge/
http://reputationmanagers.com/ripoffreport-com-the-mother-of-all-slander-websites/
http://ezinearticles.com/?Is-Email-Harassment-Illegal?&id=1465539
http://help.uk.msn.com/safetyandsecurity/protect/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4135665
NEW TOPIC!!!!! PLZ...boring,boring same old crap,
for what its worth that E-mail to Admin is over the top. lied right in that email, not every page is about SM being a pirate, this whole thing stinks of revenge for some reason to me. That just me, I don't shop in any of the stores mentioned, I love scrap artist - drama free..
all she has to do is show the email that said she could use those products. Since she contacted them once I am sure it's easy to get that email resent. Also the email from dover saying she can use their images to sell as cu. Since I have that Dover tile book and saw her selling those as styles at commercial use I am sure she has that email also.
So once she has cleared the air I am sure it will all blow over.
Same old witchunts over and over and over again.
Designers will never learn.
October 8, 2009 1:28 PM
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Oh please, no one as far as I know is saying anything about SM outside of this blog, so hardly a witch hunt. Stop thinking this blog has so much power, it hasn't.
Since I have that Dover tile book and saw her selling those as styles at commercial use I am sure she has that email also.
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You can use Dover for CU as long as it's no more than 10 items per pack being sold. That's why everyone has so much Dover stuff as it's much cheaper than general CU and they have generous terms.
http://julieannshahin.blogspot.com/2009/10/my-new-disclosure-policy-as-of-october.html
huh?
October 8, 2009 2:05 PM
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I'm guessing it's a result of this thread at DST yesterday
http://www.digishoptalk.com/boards/showthread.php?t=213833
I think you're shitty!
Find the proof, my ass.
Sweetmade keeps pirating stuff and making money out of it because of people like you who ask for "real proof".
If she doesn't want to be acused, then she should come clean.
We KNOW she traced a doodle from a stock photo and said her daughter draw it. It's the kind of things she does every day.
I don't trust her and I'm glad to see I'm not the only one.
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Wow you sure sound angry. Is there any possiblity that you hold some sort of personal grudge against Sweetmade?
It just seems that if your true intentions are to protect the original artist that you claim she stole from, and to do your part to eliminate piracy in the digi world, you would contact that artist and make them aware of the situation.
How likely is it that the orginal artist even reads this blog in order to discover a potential problem?
It seems more likely to me that you want to start drama, you hold a personal grudge against someone, and you are using this blog and your anonimity to smear someone's name.
That isn't the manner in which person with good intentions handles a situation such as this.
http://julieannshahin.blogspot.com/2009/10/my-new-disclosure-policy-as-of-october.html
huh?
I'm guessing it's a result of this thread at DST yesterday
http://www.digishoptalk.com/boards/showthread.php?t=213833
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It's standard for anyone who makes money or is otherwise reimbursed for blog posts. I had one on my blog (back when I had a blog) because I wrote paid ads. Mine had nothing to do with free CT kits, but it looks like hers might. It's not a big deal though.
October 8, 2009 4:44 PM
Someone needs to get out their Dover book and reread the TOU. Or maybe do a search for Dover in the DCR. It's been explained many times. People have emailed Dover and asked for clarification.
I love how people act like they know everything when really they are talking out of their ass.
Why are people still using Dover?
Dover states:
“You may use them for graphics and crafts applications, free and without special permission, provided that you include no more than ten in the same publication or project.”
wow this sounds like someone has something personal against Sweetmade. I can only assume jealousy or something like that. If you can't even email her personally, and come here and smack her, you are pretty low. Even lower that you're sending a rash of emails to her stores. I've purchased stuff from her before and was quite happy with everything. I will continue to purchase from her until someone can provide concrete PROOF that she's done anything wrong. Until then, you sound like someone with a personal vendetta.
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Me too. I don't base my purchases on a witch hunt by a few bitter people on a smack blog.
can someone tell me what i up with hummie? i cant stand that person and never have. i think her avatar has always been a huge turnoff and I some how have associated her with cheap looking product. Point is I have never understood why people like that person. I dont even know if its a girl or a guy.
You all give me my morning laugh. It is like you all think you need to pick on someone like you probably did in school days. If you buy anything from anyone and think there is an issue deal with the designer. Deal with the store if you get no response. If you didn't buy, you have nothing to complain about. Dragging designers or non designer through the mud is plain screwed up. Most of you all act like your someone special, some act all jealous thinking designers are making a killing, I go back to buy what you like, don't buy what you don't like and give up trying to ruin sites, designers and CT members. You have to have other priorities in your life besides this blog? Again, I read not to see if I am being dragged around, but for the laughs, kind of the Sunday Funnies. But it is getting old. It would be nice to see some nice comments that are from the heart, not mean comments from the bile within your stomach. And yes I do understand that this a SMACK blog, I think you should be asking someone someone for proof before you come dragging someone into this or any blog and you also should not be sticking your nose up someones ass unless you purchased something. If you feel the urge to stick your nose up an ass and didn't buy, buy a flipping dog, they wouldn't mind your nose up their ass.
As a store owner I would ask to see the receipt for the Izosoft cd she purchased. I would like to see the email of the permission she had for selling those as commercial use.
I would also if she lost the email. Like the contact number as to who I could personally contact to see if she has permission like she has stated.
It's that easy. If she can not come up with it then I would have problems no matter what sob story she gave. It's simple give me the information so I could check to make sure she is telling the truth so I could protect my store and my designers working there.
If she can supply that information from Izosoft and with this accusation I would follow it up then we would have no problems.
So only time will tell to see if she can supply the information to store owners.
October 9, 2009 10:02 AM
I'm sure the store owners have done this already, at least one that I know of has.
9:29 blah blah blah. please don't waste our time with your bullshit again. if you want to see some head up some ass hit the forums.
I am a consumer. I have every right to question a designer if allegations of pirating come up. I don't understand the difficulty with showing an e-mail with approval concerning using the rights of their product. This is not difficult stuff.
Checking out Hot Topics and it looks like Lara Patyon is nowhere to be found. No account (unless I missed it). No threads.
I have to agree as a consumer I want to know what is going on. I am not blind I can see the picture is the exact same as that cd set from Izosoft. It isn't hard to get the information out right away if they gave you permission but that's not coming.
I want to know that as a designer what "commercial use" products you have purchased from her so I can stay away from your products until this is finished. I am not taking any chances in buying any kits that were made with her "commercial use" products.
I would hope that the store owners and dst owners will set us all straight so as a consumer I don't have to worry about buying kits with illegal images.
Same old witchunts over and over and over again.
Designers will never learn.
October 8, 2009 1:28 PM
So true!
Someone sure has it bad for Sweetmade.
If you feel the urge to stick your nose up an ass and didn't buy, buy a flipping dog, they wouldn't mind your nose up their ass.
October 9, 2009 9:29 AM
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cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo!
I have to agree as a consumer I want to know what is going on.
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lol, now you're agreeing with yourself! Pyscho much?
I will continue to purchase from her until someone can provide concrete PROOF that she's done anything wrong. Until then, you sound like someone with a personal vendetta.
October 9, 2009 7:23 AM
Amen, sister! Some crazy hater has turned this blog into their own personal dumping ground.
Take the blog back!!
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Checking out Hot Topics and it looks like Lara Patyon is nowhere to be found. No account (unless I missed it). No threads.
October 9, 2009 1:09 PM
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She has the username DustyBear now.
Next everyone should start forking up all receipts for items purchased in stores, antique shops because they could have shoplifted the item rather than purchased it, and post it on this blog so others can take forget your receipts. How do we know the ones using dover are using actual books they purchased? There are dover books pirated on the .net as well. The way you are all demanding some receipt from her to be made public, every designer should be afraid, like someone said this blog is not that powerful.
If you want to know, its not hard to email her with your name and working email, period.
"This doodle thing you claim how hard is it for you to go and contact the original owner of the art work you say I stole and ask them to peruse me Legally since I stole his/her art or even ask me to remove their art.
Because its not their art. We drew it did we look at someones doodles and made similar ones? Well you didn't ask. I do know how to draw and operate the Ai, it is not hard at all draw with a marker that's my tip that will trace best in Ai and plz if you draw jagged just simplify your path until your edge is super smooth. Its really very easy if you know how to doodle at all. I own all hard copies of the drawings on paper not scanned printed not traced but drawn free hand. But I would show you if you only had some sense to contact me in person with a real email address not a made up one. Its almost like I have to make a video now where I draw scan in and edit the doodles.
Please stop this I am asking you because you already went to far this email here (link) is complete slander.
Also posted some photos of my hard copy doodles on my blog maybe that will help you understand what they look like before hand." Sweetmade
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I see you use tracing paper to doodle on. Interesting.
You would think you'd use a heavier paper or even ink jet printer paper to get a smoother line and less bleeding of the marker. Oh wait, then that would make it hard to see what you're tracing underneath wouldn't it?
You would think you'd use a heavier paper or even ink jet printer paper to get a smoother line and less bleeding of the marker. Oh wait, then that would make it hard to see what you're tracing underneath wouldn't it?
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OUCH!
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