*dusts off cobwebs*

Hey everyone - I've been so out of the loop but it seems like we're just in time to talk about the sneaks..

really late post

happy thanksgiving! :)

space:)

thoughts on the release? finding better shops out there? share share share! :)

new post sans politics and religion

Big hello to our smackers living in parts of US hit by Sandy. Hope you're all safe.

Let's keep all political and discussion of religion to the previous post.

Has everyone been busy making Christmas cards? If you did, what stamps are you using for your projects? Anyone unable to use their pti stuff right now after all the dramatics from them? 

much needed post

Here.

I'd vote Obama ;) but i'm not from the US. That said, I welcome political discussion on this forum too but please do not cuss each other out.

woohoo new post

Here y'alls go.

postpostpost

New space and gonna put up some links to new shops over on the right.

How's everyone doing?

space

Happy weekend smackers!

I found a new stamp company http://www.clearlybesottedstamps.com hey! Thought their Christmas set is pretty nice and they marked my package as shipped a few hours after I put it through! Anyone found any new places to shop at? Ordered some of the new Wplus9 as well :) Can't wait to play with new stuff.

PS. I love Fresh Inks too... must... order....

here's some new space

Hey hey hey!

Just to continue with topic, what do you guys think of online classes for stamping/scrapping? Also, $100 for a class?!! Is this stamping college? :O

EDIT:  Unity Stamp is having a 40% sale. Ends Tuesday midnight. Code: USC40

http://unitystampco.com/

spaaace

New post... oh my god! This blog is moving slowly nowadays- I hope that's a good thing, that people don't care anymore about PTI :p

Quick scan of sales from posters in last entry (thanks for sharing the info!) and from some emails I got..
- 'halloween fun' at impress rubber stamps 15% till Sunday!
- new stuff at ellen hutson's
- restock at lawn fawn shop
- new penny black christmas stamps from pbstamps.com

ask and you shall receive

hehe. new space woot!

and i thought it was dead....

New space! Sorry it is a little late :D

Edit: Just saw the new MFT release... Cardstock! Felt! Buttons! I like that new flower medley die collection.. this may mean I can sell all the other flower dies I have. Check out their new stuff here http://www.mftstamps.com/brand-spankin-new

thought it was time for new space anyway

Hey smackers...

Nice new website huh? I like that there is a typing error in the announcement message lol.

I'm trying to get some new stamps so I've been shopping around trying to find a new company and here's one I thought was pretty cute with a style almost halfway between WMS and PTI; just had to share the link and support an independent designer. Do you have any new places to shop with?

Disclaimer: I was not paid for the link and I don't know the designer. Just sharing!

space

re. ink matches page up there: I'm manually putting it together from various charts people have posted and i only am able to do that when i have free time. rare nowadays so just be patient with that or Google it! cheers and let the smack continue.

Where did all the forum go?

Papertrey ink forum down for only some people? I haven't checked it personally.. Loved that waltzingmouse made a clear announcement, thumbs up for their customer service. Not sure why it is so hard to be honest instead of just pushing blame to customers...

Happy Sunday yall!

new post

early one!

oh no i am so late

please don't kill  me, new post here etc. i'm on a roadtrip but i'm posting as i can!


edit: no unicorns allowed unless horn has been sawed off. come on stop posting trash. f-bombing allowed though. oh and *insert smelling salts image here*~~ you know i love you guys x

all new fresh

post!!

wooop

Smack on!

August Release smack :O

Nothing caught my fancy (again)!

Who's not giving PTI $ this month? ;)

more!!!

More space.

Great to hear from our preggo ladies.. keeping you #1, in my thoughts. Hope all will be good for you on the health front. Keep us updated, I'm sure even though this is a smack board we can still have a sense of community.

Buyers with defective sunrise impression plate do take note of pti's statement regarding them.  Some details are listed on previous blog space comments!

Emargerrrddd!!! Early SPACE!!!

Fresh space and to facilitate better Google search from potential customers here are some keywords: Papertrey Ink forum down, papertrey ink deleting posts, papertrey ink reviews, papertrey ink customer service, paper trey ink forum ban.

Ohhh and papertrey ink sunrise impression plate problem. Papertrey ink refund policy. I hope that will bring us some hits from Google. Will be editing blog descriptions and hope we can funnel more potential customers here to warn them. I've personally given up on this company, this dead bird isn't going to rise out of the ashes with they way they still run things.

Edit: Will be adding ink comparisons in a separate page for quick reference, this will be updated if anyone posts comparison charts/links in the comments. Also just thought again of an Anon. poster who mentioned being pregnant again a few posts back. I hope you are doing well!

more space

I have no idea what is going on in the last thread about identity theft and whatever..  just.. yeah if you can't take thus board just close the sodding window.

Carry on!

SPACE!

Sorry, did not make you all scroll on purpose, but here is some needed space :)

New Space + Possible Ink Reference Total Resource 411? :o

Sorry for my absence. I have been quite ill, but now I'm back and let the party continue!

Re. Pages for ink references I will happy to put up a page right on this blog for product comparisons but many of these ink comparisons are all done by different customers and posted in various places. If any smackers want to help this ink comparison page along, please comment in this post with links to blogs that compare the shades or full spreadsheets, copy/pastes of someone's forum. I'll do my best to put all comparisons in a list along with user comments such as 'goes with certain color but not a match'.

How's that sound to y'all getting together and creating our own resource ink page? C'mon smackers don't have to be smacking 24/7. If everyone provided their snippets of info we can surely get that page up.

Oh and hahaha, thank you for making my day:

Anonymous said...

OMG, if you can't handle scrolling GO EAT a bag of CHEETO's or something!

26 July 2012 18:51

 

fresh space

Thoughts on stamp-a-fail? CHA? Any sets from other companies that are interesting? Anything actually new and never seen before?

it's the weekend woohoo!

A little bit late but just a bit. Happy weekend y'all!

mid-week!

did anything from this release catch anyone's fancy?

is there another place that does the polaroid die? not a cut file but a steel one? hmmmmm

aww

A 4th smack blog? I thought scrolling more might help some people burn more calories, excuse my Brit sense of humour. If the sarcasm is not obvious enough right there let me point out, that was sarcasm! Want more space more often, okay!

I'm pretty interested in a polaroid die, but what the heck is all the other stuff coming with it?

*runs in*

See? I can't tell when there will be a surge of comments. Seriously, if it gets too tiring to scroll on your phone, throw that out the window and read some magazines instead.

A new post because

Lisa Johnson has joined up with My Favorite Things (mftstamps.com) and will have her own line with them!

I'm pretty chuffed and can't wait to get some 'PTI-like style' from her work but without the pain of dealing with PTI hahaha

Yeah.. yeahh..

I don't schedule posts because the traffic can be erratic, sometimes we get a lot of comments on a day and not so much on others. Was also hoping that maximizing each post's comment limits means more people get to see what was written.

Anyway if you don't want to scroll you can leave *troll* ;) Have a great day, take it easy and try not to hair flip too hard and snap your necks!

PS. Thanks to those who shared their Cameo blade settings!

Oh hi!

Still looking for feedback on cut settings on Cameo to make die cuts out of PTI paper- I keep getting them ripped >:( Thanks to whoever it was that mentioned what settings they used in the last post!

In other news, let the posting continue!

TGIF

End of the week fresh post.

EDIT: I notice the Cameo talk! I have one but it is collecting dust at the moment- can anyone tell me what settings and which blade number they use for cutting PTI cardstock (yes I still use that because I bought a lot from before :|)  My blade always seems to mess up images with finer details by dragging some paper along as it cuts -_- Thanks for any help

Also really happy to see that announcement from Gina K. - everything that was discussed here seems to have been taken onboard. Just wanted to say if Gina does read this blog, she is getting direct feedback from the most honest customers (smackers unite lolz) and I'm sure lots of us will be looking to her company for more designs that would catch our eye now that we found someone who will actually act on customer feedback!

I need to catch up too!

Another one for y'alls, need to read the comments too ;)

Fresh space

Wheee!

Oops I am late!

But here is a new post. Also, the Rick thing? Not cool. Sorry that he outed you, that was completely unprofessional. Wait, since when is PTI professional?!

Catching before 200!

Pretty sad to see that someone actually joined the PTI DT given the rep of the company now.

Personally haven't bought a thing since feb! Going strong :D

A new post again

Sorry for the slight delay!

Edit: oops I didn't refresh my browser so this is extra early, oh well, enjoy anyway!

That was quick!

But here is a new post... Gonna go catch up!

New post!

Here we go!

A new entry

Catching before it even reached 200 entries. How add the peeks doing for everyone?

catching this before 200

whee!

I'm not sure why hexagons are so trendy :\  First they tried the triangles... And now they jump on the hexagon bandwagon too. Anyone else 'meh' at this release?

fresh

post... *yawn*

make some noise!

having a good weekend you guys?

a new post

This is a smack blog... Seriously, if you are going to get butthurt and have your fragile-as-glass egos broken by anonymous comments and then taking the time to write a whole blog post about it, please don't even visit here in the first place :|

bah dmm tss

new post

edited to add:
yes, 'bah dmm tss' is the drum sound...

Also, I've not wanted to raise my ban hammer on anyone until comments by this one person in this post. If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen. Put on your big girl panties. Maybe just stay the hell away from this blog, I know we're fantastic to read but please go and cut up some paper instead and leave the poor keyboard out of this.

New post

Here.

Freshhh

Post!

reinforcement post has arrived

tadah!

insert funny title here

More space! I'm not always online to automatically add new posts when the older one hits 200 so please be a little patient when that actually happens, I do check often to see if we need fresh posts :) Happy weekend!

Oh and a quick highlight comment!

Anonymous said...

Ellen Hutson is doing a mother's Day discount.

type in the following promotion code to receive your special 15% Mother's Day Celebration promotional discount on your entire order - momsday12

Love her CS.

11 May 2012 06:47

Post

space!

happy weekend again!

Another post and also to clear things up again.. I do NOT go around deleting the comments so it may be just Blogger screwing up.

huzzah

new post, new post for everyone.
by the way, i have not been going through and deleting any comments at all, i don't do censorship here. Arrr!

why?!

y anyone buy those bags? *weeps*

oh. 

please continue.

Space

Here's one!

sorry!!!

here is a new post

it's the weekend again

TGIF

another new post

hello!

weeeekend

i love weekends. hope y'alls are having a good one.

title

here you go

New Post

Here

:|

Here's a new post and come on guys, let's not smack each other.

Freh-sh

If PTI is too cheap to hire more CS people, do you think they will hire a proofreader?

That was quick!

Here is a new post fresh from the uh... Blog oven.

POST.

Featured comment, and oh, you are welcome.

 Anonymous said...

Thank you for taking the time to share your disappointment in the new release.

14 April 2012 07:48

Sorry!

Here's the new post... :D

wow...

This release is.. really... ugly :/

Post time!

Go!

Happy Easter!

I saw this:

Anonymous said...

PS - I'd love it if PTI Smacker could get rid of the ton of space at the end of the comments section. Pretty please?

I don't think I can, sorry :( 

Happy long weekend!

I see Rick is here! Hello there.

Slipped a little :)

But hello again! I need to catch up with the latest news :D

New space

And here we go again.

good day!

How's everyone's Monday going?

A wild post appears!

Here ya go.

more space

just for you!

SHUT UP!

Ahem... I mean, keep posting hehe :)

That was a lot of noise

Sorry for my absence...

WTF WAS THAT MAN????? I WAS IN HIBERNATION, TOO MUCH CAKE SORRY BUT.... WHAT IS THAT.

Here you go!!! FRESH POST.

It's been quiet!

Make some noise!

Hi

Space. :)

Freshly cut grass

Spring allergies anyone?

New space!! PTI finally getting their act together? Oh. Okay. About freakin' damn time, but still too late for me. Would be afraid to order if they still have the same CS people and those very same owners who let all of this crap happen, just a thought. What do you guys think?

New post

Here ya'll go!

Space

Here!

scheduled post

Voila!

ETA: Sorry I've been busy- but just a shout out to one of us: omathgoddess. You are fabulous, and I like Math, so you are totally smacker of the month ;) Also a big applause to NuttyLou and all who stood up for her against the crazy med school bitch.

A random scheduled post

Post away!

Caught y'all!

Fresh space!

Another one just in case

Scheduled post

Ahhhh

What the hell! Ok keep posting :)

A post :O

Trying to figure out best times to schedule new posts but traffic is not always same daily!

And here..

Falalala scheduled post! 


BUT EARLY!! 


Some fun.

Naked Ink said...

Question for all of you smackers:

If the "other" blogs/forums are "Rainbows and Unicorns" what are we? I would like to put a label on it...

13 March 2012 20:08

and

Anonymous said…

20:08- How about vitriol and venom? Lol

13 March 2012 20:15

I like it LOLOL. Best Ordering Advice for PTI:

Anonymous said...

Release night ordering tips...

for those who are a "special kind of stupid" who want to forge ahead with an order on the 15th, follow these simple tips for maximum satisfaction:

1) remember to write down EXACTLY what you want - since it is nearly impossible to use the search feature without knowing the exact PTI name of what you are looking for,
2) throw items into your cart QUICKLY - you need to beat the every 30 second system updates that are being blamed as the cause for dumping carts, and
3) remember to indicate you are from another country (preferably a third world nation) before indicating you are from the US. Otherwise you will not be able to enter your state information.

If these steps don't work, pour yourself a stiff drink and go spend your money at one of the REPUTABLE companies listed on this blog.

Happy ordering!

13 March 2012 16:59

New Space

Sorry, been busy. Here, have a fresh entry.

The next scheduled post is:
14/03/2012 13:00

Pacific Daylight Time


So until then, try not to break the post haha ;)

Space

Caught the 100!
(almost) keep posting :)

da fuq??

I leave you kids alone for...? 1 day? And already people start pouring in to handslap us. Actually, I don't care who you smack, personal or not, I maintain that I'm not censoring people but in all honesty, if you want all your 'happy place' and unicorns-that-poop-rainbows maybe you can go make your own fucking blog, here's not the place for that, even though I like rainbows. 


Comment spotlight goes to: 


This Has Not Fallen Off My Radar said...

Sounds like we have a couple of unicorns in from the main board trying to start something. Just keep your cool fellas, keep it real and ignore trolls.

10 March 2012 17:20

If you think about it, we're the real 'trolls'. Handslap? I'll bitchslap you. :D

Also, not gonna lie but this cracked me up:

Cheeky Monkey said...

I think that lady's avatar is a picture of her in an empty frame because someone smashed a picture over her head for being such. An. ASSTARD. Her and ribbon share girl need to shut the fuck up.

10 March 2012 21:54

A Scheduled Post

I'm hoping this works to give fresh space while I'm not around!

New Post

Space.. Again.. I'll read the comments now ;)


Best comment goes to:

Anonymous said...

Cloiseaux drives me cknutti!

9 March 2012 07:31

LOL

I'm also really interested to hear about this, do update us on the paper!

Anonymous said...

I ordered from Lilly Belles, and I think it will be here today. I'll be sure to post a review when I get it.

9 March 2012 07:35

***

Great news for all wanting to check out Wplus9's pocket dies. They are back in stock today. GO! http://www.wplus9.com/back-in-stock-dies/ Cheers!


***


PS. I have scheduled a post for the 10th at a time I am not online, hope that thing works, otherwise, I thought all our recent comments are worth the scrolling through anyway hahaha!!

Guten tag!

FRESH SPACE! Been reading the comments.. you guys are the best smackers ;)

Highlight comments from the last post (let's see who gets featured here next post ;)):

DumpCart said...

How exactly do you say Lordy Bees in French? Anyone know?

8 March 2012 09:14

ROFL.

Suggestions for the knockoff blog...

Stinkerbelle said...

Or Paper-beTreyed?

8 March 2012 17:20

FOR THE WIN!!

PS. PTI Knock Off, I will be willing to put up a big link on the sidebar to where you decide to put up your challenge blog with it's final name. For everyone else it's currently:

http://ptiknockoff.blogspot.com/

Now go and make some PTI knock off cards you smackers :P


I'm also putting together a list of other places to shop- what's over there is off the top of my head. Post your suggestions in the comments and I'll add them! 

omg wtf??

LOL 240+ POSTS?

i need to read through the comments myself now too... lol

Space

Space!

Here's your new space.

At the rate we're going I might have to post once when I get up and once before I sleep. Don't hate if I'm a bit late, I'm only one person updating this blog for you all but here ya go.

Fresh Space!

A littttle late but let's go!

Happy Weekend Smackers!

Space.

Someone wrote that there is a spam filter now on at PTI forums so if you are new there, that's why. They don't want you to sign up and start complaining, eh? What's new?

PTI SMACK III BLOG HITS 30K VIEWS :)

Celebrate. Or continue smacking.



PS- Do you guys still want new space every 100 comments? Or 200?

nearly 30k views what the.....?

You people generate a fair amount of views :P and sneaky ones who don't comment, eh, eh?

Will you guys be upset if PTI Smacker III puts AdSense in and donates every dollar earned to a local no-kill shelter? What I always wanted to do :') I never thought I would have a blog with so many views to actually be able to put an AdSense in and make cents (and dollars hopefully) and then be able to help animals :( (Edit: nah I think I won't. Maybe a donate button for this cause... one day... one day!!!)

Ok end of private, emotional moment: what's our recent news again with this fail company and why does Jenn the post lady get a card dedicated to her on the forum? Ted "jesus inside"? Really? :| Can I make an account and put 'SATAN IS MY MOTOR' and not be thrown out for my beliefs?

Newsletter excerpt:

Stock Updates

  

Many of our most popular stamp sets were restocked this past weekend. If there was something you were looking for, please take a look!

Our next die shipment is anticipated on 3/13, so the restock will likely coincide with the March release. (Please note these dates are subject to change.) 

  

Y U NO TELL US WAT IS RESTOCKED? O WAIT, U DUNNO TOO. Biatch, please.

Woot Beep Beep SPACE

Haaay guise, new space as we hit another 100 comment milestone, way to go!!!! (EDIT: YES, I FUCKING KNOW HOW TO SPELL. 'Hay guise' is part of an Internet meme, used especially in misspelled captions for funny cat pictures. What is a meme?? Google it. Welcome to da internetz)

What's the latest news in the PTI-sphere and stamp-o-sphere? Remember you can also share experiences about other companies, how you are liking them/or not, so we can all know where we can all split to for better stamp designs.

PTI Smacker 3 has personally just received some goodies from Denami and a place called The Ribbon Retreat. So many replacements for colors from PTI if that is what you are worried about AND much cheaper especially the ribbons and OH THE COLORS :) Disclaimer: not being paid to link them up just thought I would share the love.

Rant/Rave/Vent/Smack all you like- this is the place!

Weekend freshness!!!

Sorry smackers, I was out having a bit of fun and didn't notice we've crossed our 100 post fresh page agreement!! Forgive me? :)

Also I wanted to let you guys know that, one of us, a blogger named Stephinka, who bravely shared her personal thoughts on PTI with us here in a link subsequently had it posted directly to the PTI forum without her ageeement or knowledge.. I have just read on her blog that she has been admitted to the hospital. Shall we all share some love (not smack) for her on her blog for our trooper who took one for the team?

P.s. a certain J of the customer communications director whatever bullshit of a new position even asked Stephinka to remove her name from her blog post, which Stephinka actually had did so for her, but we all know who she is anyway just wanting to save her name from being trashed.

Sooooo.... any smackers got their new release already or did you think it was a big flop of one with this crap excuse of a site? And are you going to finally stop shopping with them after the great points made on that review post by Stephinka? I know I am over it, just need to use up my stupid points damn it. And really, ribbonshare girl? STOP.

Space! Having a good weekend smackers?

Lol at Nichole Heady turning off her comments on her blog. Anyone care to elaborate what happened that caused it?

Also, welcome to all new Papertrey Ink smackers, remember to tell your friends about this place. I can't believe we already have over 20k page views!  :o

Fresh Space

It's release day. PTI Smacker 3 actually got a card stock order through without any big problems. Except they did send my order confirmation an hour and a half late.

So.. who's ordering, hm? And 5%? Really? Only? Wow, ok... Lol

WTF PTI?

I've not experienced the rolling out of a new site take as long and glitchy as this one.

Why do they do it over the weekend if that means the webdesigners and developers are not at work!?!

Also, the forums are meant to be on a different server-so did someone screw that shit up too? There isn't even a forum link in the new site- maybe they are doing away with it so people can't complain there any more. Wouldn't be surprised if that's why it's gone. RIP forum? :/

New Space

Sorry for the delay!

What do you guys think about all the Anniversary hoo-hah?

New packaging- going around in circles and STILL making people pay more for the CD case now.

Space!

Crap ribbon share?

Continuous shipping problems?

cknutti, little miss t and cloiseau (or whatver her name is) needing to get smacked to?

PTI Smacker 3 really hates cknutti's (nutter)'s posts.. Makes her go a little stab happy at all the irritating things she brings up to bootlick PTI owners.

It's nearly Feb and people still don't have the sets from last year.... Laughable. Ridiculous.

Space! Space for everyone!

Fresh..... blood. ;)

New space, smackers!

Got a problem still? How's the new CS guy whatshisface making a difference?

$500 and no idea what to do with it? How about give it to charity?

Go ahead and rant on another company, rave for another great one, let everyone know what's hot and what's really not. Hurray? Hurrah? (get it?) To a new post for us!

P.S. PTISmacker3 personally really dislikes the Jane Austen set and just wanted to say it here.

Fresh Space

Hey guise~ just to let you all know I had nothing to do with the reply format turning out the way it is- it just happened because Blogger wanted to make this threaded reply thing happen. I'm trying to undo the stupid thing right now but I've tried the instructions and they don't work (go figure, it's Blogger!) in the mean time I'll be posting more fresh space, sounds good?

I edited the comment page to this current sort- comment and let me know if that's fine otherwise we're going back to the other one with the reply forms. Also, let me know how much comments we should get to before fresh space is posted. Cheers guys!

Happy New Year!!! FRESH SPACE!

Happy 2012 smackers! New space here for everyone.

Any craft/stamping resolutions? Resolutions to end spending at PTI? More PTI smacking?