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I bet you are right. I can't see Rick commenting on the DT and Mish, although I would love to have the inside scoop. Hopefully he will be back when the CS problems start rolling in again.
When did junky-looking become so popular? A card with 18 things stuck to it in layers and bits and pieces is not likely to be easily mailable and looks like a hoarder's desk to me.
I agree with 19:14.. If Mish wants out - say it out straight to NH and don't bother posting for PTI. Her blog post was lame. Unless it's all about the $$$?? I don't get it...
Saying "spend more time with family" is standard. Don't think it's a big deal. Seems some of the smackers are desperate for there to be more trouble in PTI than there is.
I certainly don't know if there's anything going on between Mishie and Nichole. But just what we saw, one day she's spending more time with family and the next day she's doing the Project Life thing which IMO appears to be a lot of work. So it looks fishy. And then she's not on the forum at all like once in the last 3-4 months. And then her complete lackluster project yesterday. Can you even call that a project? I can see her being done with PTI soon. Just depends on how many more sets she collaborated with Nichole on.
Oh no, Kristina Werner knows exactly what hot linking is. When I first found her blog I remember reading a huge dissertation about how she didn't want people hot linking back to her site because of band width and what not and that if they wanted to post one of her photos they should copy it to their own computer and upload it that way, making sure to give her full and proper credit ONLY after they've asked her permission and that if she found out someone was hot linking she would send them a nasty gram.
Put a very bad taste in my mouth for that pretentious beyotch.
Not that protecting your bandwidth is pretentious, just her tone and the attitude she conveys is very "peasant, i'm better than you".
Nice to see KW using colors other than kraft all of a sudden. Or maybe she has been....I'm just so grossed out by her attitude that I don't visit very often anymore.
MIsh'a strawberry post with just a tag was a bit under-whelming - wonder if she got the dies in her pre-release package. Maybe she only qualifies for the 'stamps' since that is what she helped design.
The PTI forum is really, really quiet. Looks like the DT have been told to come up with ideas to get it going; like 'what's your favorite stamp', inspiration to get you going' etc. Guess even PTI know that haven't been very inspiring this month.
I do love that Dawn used the berry basket like the ones on Etsy!!! HA! But - what she put in it looks stupid. Too much, too tall for the basket. It's like the basket was just an afterthought. Kind of weird because it isn't even a 'berry' theme anyway.
I think the splatter look IS an effort to cover a mistake. At least that's how it began. People started using the spray mists left and right, and the darn things never spray a perfect fine even mist all the time. They splatter randomly at the most inopportune times. So the people decided to go with it and say, "uh yeah, I meant to do that." And then they DID start splattering it on purpose just to keep up with the trend.
I don't like the asymmetrical look of the new garden variety frame. I think that it would have looked better if it wasn't so top heavy. It looks too modern.
Michelle posted that she is busy with tournaments and a hurricane (sorry, too lazy to go back and read for sure) and that she would have strawberry projects splattered throughout the month.
Have trouble coping with all those splatters that Dawn uses on her cards. Not just Dawn; have seen other designers use it and it just looks messy.
Maybe it's just me; I'm not really into the splatter look. Looks like an effort to cover a mistake or something. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Yes! Exactly. When it's on a DT blog and I'm raising an eyebrow it's one thing. If an "average" person gave me this card I'd be thinking, "WTH did you spill on this? Gross."
I know we're beating that poor shittin' bird to death but I just can't help it. It's so bad, and so obvious. Yet PTI can look right through any elephant in the room, can't they?
tournaments and a hurricane ============== I'm even lazier because I am really curious now and still don't care to go look. What kind of tournaments can one play in a hurricane?? I think I'd be stamping. If I were inspired, that is.
This week we have 3 track meets + I'm one of only 3 parents that volunteered to make cookies and work the concession at one of the track meets. I have cookies in the oven as I type this. Plus we have tornado watches already issued for Friday/Saturday...my anxiety is already creeping in. So forgive me if I'm absent for the PTI countdown week but you can be sure that I'll have more fun Strawberry Patch goodies for you all month long.
She really seems checked out, doesn't she? And she's using the PTI release to promote her own stuff: instead of using the PTI tag dies, she uses the tags that she sells on etsy. I don't know if it's so much a falling out with NH or just simply wanting to make a buck. (for herself, not PTI)
I don't go to Maile's blog anymore because her photos bother me. They are sharpened or overexposed or something, but they get those jaggedy edges and I don't like it.
Dawn's spatters look awful. And those bags are tall and falling out of the basket. She's so dumb. Sunshine this.
I do like the new color though. And I like the trees but not enough to order them. Another thing like the basket, I like it, but it'll get used once if that. Probably forgotten about. Did you see where Erin said they didn't get the new color in their boxes?
For cripes sake, a tornado watch means conditions are favorable for the development of severe weather. She lives in Kansas...I live in the middle also, a watch means pay attention folks. Trust me, life goes on. Now, if the sirens start blaring get thy self to the basement. Just saying, we don't sit around in a dither because there is a potential for bad weather.
http://forum.papertreyink.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=34708 Ted said: "I can see telling the teacher that on one day to eat a lighter breakfast. Then surprise him/her with a homemade breakfast (wrapped to keep the heat). You bring in a toaster and toast some bread for them and they put on strawberry preserves."
So. Who wants to come with me and bring their toaster and make some hot toast and jam for Ted in his classroom before school one morning? I'll fight you for who gets to feed it to him, even.
Ted has a great idea. Teachers are so poorly paid and treated badly by some of the public. Where my kids went to school, the parents came down to the school and washed all the teachers' cars on Friday afternoons and also left each a treat for the weekend. It was wonderful and also taught the children something really important.
I agree, it's a nice thing to do for a teacher. But the way Ted wrote about bringing in a toaster and toasting the bread for the teacher, combined with the idea of doing that for HIM, kind of skeeved me out. :-P
I don't mean to pick on the guy but he has a way with words that just creeps me out.
We love to do some kind of lunch or something for the teachers. Walking tacos are popular - just set it up in the teacher's lounge. And I like to bring in a special breakfast treat.
So why is it that when Rick posted a comment and then locked a thread that I wasn't the least bit bothered and even found it helpful but when Nichole does the same thing, it just rubs me the wrong way?
Maybe it's the passive/aggressive tone in which she has handled things in the past? I wonder if I will be able to get over that?
It also got me looking at the post about the missing sentiment.
The last update she posted there was 4/3 and said they had to do the labels and should be able to ship them out that Friday. That was a week ago. I wonder if they went out.
The site improvements must be some deep fix shit because it still looks like a hot mess.
Can they pullleeeezzze fix the friggin multiple entries for items? And the crap ass thumbnails, lack of category links, and too-specific search function should have been addressed 2 releases ago!
Having to dig through all of the dies one by one is bad enough but I don't know why there are impression plates mixed in there. Especially when there is already a separate category for impression plates.
I'm kinda liking seeing all these people being pissy with PTI. I was pretty sure that I was some sort of pariah for doing it before, but now that they are, it validates me, makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Ah well, whatever helps me sleep at night. And Nichole locking the thread. Damn, they are making sure no shitfire gets stirred up in their house.
i just have to share this excellent shopping experience i just had a shoppumpkinspice.com.
i placed my order and the total was like $1 and change over the free shipping limit. well a few of the sheets of paper i ordered happened to be out of stock even though it didn't reflect that when i placed the order. so i got an email saying they've refunded the cost of the 4 sheets of paper.
i noticed that this refund would make my order not high enough to result in free shipping, so I asked what they would do about the shipping.
she emailed me back saying "Thank you for the question. Shipping is still absolutely FREE for your order."
Do you know the nightmare this same scenario would have been had the players been different???
I looked at the tag from 11:00's post. Melissa calls it lavender moon in her description. Is it the new color? It looks just like another purple. Not that exciting imo.
I don't think Mish quit or stepped back, and then started project life. I thought she was already doing project life and then was asked to be on the Pl team. I don't know, it doesn't matter to me one way or another... It's her life, her blog.
^^^ It's as simple as that to earn respect from your customers. On the other hand, pretending there is *nothing* wrong and continuing to lock threads and ban customers seems to take so much more effort. Go figure.
WTH? KW's blog now shows pictures rather than the hot-linking message. Oh well, doesn't matter. I unsubbed from her anyway. Last nerve.
Love the new PTI color. A lavender that is actually LAVENDER and not PINK. Rename that frigging Lavender Moon - because it's not purple, dammit! Name it Orchid Moon. Orchid is pinker than lavender, IMO. Trell, you're the color man - what do you think?
And Mishie, Mishie, Mishie. You obviously didn't grow up in tornado alley. Those of us who did know to keep an eye on the skies but not to sit around wringing our hands and getting our knickers in a twist over an advisory from NOAA. Until they say "tornado WARNING" for your neck of the woods there's no need to get all panicky. Something is obviously up. It was like she was flipping NH the bird with that post, wasn't it?
I like the strawberry set. I like that you can just stamp solid images over it, on days you don't feel like copic-ing for a half hour just to get a tag done. ;) That's the reason I like the PTI set over the flourishes one. The basket is cute too, and yes it would take a bit of work to get one done, but I think for the occasional teacher gift/hostess gift, it's doable.
I like Maile's tree dies ($8 too, not bad). I don't think one needs the stamps necessarily, so that's cool.
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....My Heart Will Go On......*in my sarcastic best singing voice*. nearly wet my pants
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That song totally put me off seeing the movie. Finally saw it when it was shown on TV, and I could hit the 'mute' button.
Speaking of Kristina Werner, does anyone else see messages on her blog that she's hot-linking photos? Oooooh!
Maybe she is like me. I have no idea what hot linking is. Looked it up and makes no sense since all the sites and blog hosts I use are free anyway.
When did junky-looking become so popular? A card with 18 things stuck to it in layers and bits and pieces is not likely to be easily mailable and looks like a hoarder's desk to me.
I agree with 19:14..
If Mish wants out - say it out straight to NH and don't bother posting for PTI.
Her blog post was lame.
Unless it's all about the $$$??
I don't get it...
Saying "spend more time with family" is standard. Don't think it's a big deal. Seems some of the smackers are desperate for there to be more trouble in PTI than there is.
I certainly don't know if there's anything going on between Mishie and Nichole. But just what we saw, one day she's spending more time with family and the next day she's doing the Project Life thing which IMO appears to be a lot of work. So it looks fishy. And then she's not on the forum at all like once in the last 3-4 months. And then her complete lackluster project yesterday. Can you even call that a project? I can see her being done with PTI soon. Just depends on how many more sets she collaborated with Nichole on.
Oh no, Kristina Werner knows exactly what hot linking is. When I first found her blog I remember reading a huge dissertation about how she didn't want people hot linking back to her site because of band width and what not and that if they wanted to post one of her photos they should copy it to their own computer and upload it that way, making sure to give her full and proper credit ONLY after they've asked her permission and that if she found out someone was hot linking she would send them a nasty gram.
Put a very bad taste in my mouth for that pretentious beyotch.
Not that protecting your bandwidth is pretentious, just her tone and the attitude she conveys is very "peasant, i'm better than you".
OK anyone else having problems with the forum?
seems to be working again
Nice to see KW using colors other than kraft all of a sudden. Or maybe she has been....I'm just so grossed out by her attitude that I don't visit very often anymore.
Dang that Dawn and her blasted Kelly green and turquoise! I am not going to her blog again.
That Trendy Tree whatever set is tempting. But my will is strong!
MIsh'a strawberry post with just a tag was a bit under-whelming - wonder if she got the dies in her pre-release package. Maybe she only qualifies for the 'stamps' since that is what she helped design.
I liked the purple card on Nichole's blog but why the hell does she need 6 photos of it?
The last one, brown, looks awful.
This is the pretention that I just can't stand and it's rampant on PTI blogs. From Heather:
"The multi colored background was created by using an ink blending tool to apply color to white cardstock."
It's called SPONGING. Asses.
The PTI forum is really, really quiet. Looks like the DT have been told to come up with ideas to get it going; like 'what's your favorite stamp', inspiration to get you going' etc.
Guess even PTI know that haven't been very inspiring this month.
I do love that Dawn used the berry basket like the ones on Etsy!!! HA! But - what she put in it looks stupid. Too much, too tall for the basket. It's like the basket was just an afterthought. Kind of weird because it isn't even a 'berry' theme anyway.
I think that the same person posted the last 10 or so comments. They all sound the same.
Have trouble coping with all those splatters that Dawn uses on her cards. Not just Dawn; have seen other designers use it and it just looks messy.
Maybe it's just me; I'm not really into the splatter look.
Looks like an effort to cover a mistake or something.
heh. maybe he/she is lonely cuz nobody else is posting.
Yep - Melissa Bickford went there with the bird. A get well card.
If I got a pooping/farting bird get well card I would laugh and assume it is a joke.
I'm not into splatters either.
I think the splatter look IS an effort to cover a mistake. At least that's how it began. People started using the spray mists left and right, and the darn things never spray a perfect fine even mist all the time. They splatter randomly at the most inopportune times. So the people decided to go with it and say, "uh yeah, I meant to do that." And then they DID start splattering it on purpose just to keep up with the trend.
So, is the strawberry tag it for Mish this release? She had the whole concept for this set but thats all she can make out of it? Really?
I don't like the asymmetrical look of the new garden variety frame. I think that it would have looked better if it wasn't so top heavy. It looks too modern.
Michelle posted that she is busy with tournaments and a hurricane (sorry, too lazy to go back and read for sure) and that she would have strawberry projects splattered throughout the month.
I agree. It is rather top heavy. The other one looks like an upside-down vase, too.
Have trouble coping with all those splatters that Dawn uses on her cards. Not just Dawn; have seen other designers use it and it just looks messy.
Maybe it's just me; I'm not really into the splatter look.
Looks like an effort to cover a mistake or something.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Yes! Exactly. When it's on a DT blog and I'm raising an eyebrow it's one thing. If an "average" person gave me this card I'd be thinking, "WTH did you spill on this? Gross."
"splattered throughout the month", LOL
Someone needs to combine the pooping birds with the ink splatters. Maybe.
she would have strawberry projects SPLATTERED throughout the month.
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(Emphasis mine) LOL.
^^Great minds think alike.
I know we're beating that poor shittin' bird to death but I just can't help it. It's so bad, and so obvious. Yet PTI can look right through any elephant in the room, can't they?
Well, PTI is not the only company who has released a pooping bird. Someone posted a link on the previous thread to another one with a longer tail.
tournaments and a hurricane
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I'm even lazier because I am really curious now and still don't care to go look. What kind of tournaments can one play in a hurricane?? I think I'd be stamping. If I were inspired, that is.
@ 6:20 True, so true. And they are all equally bad, IMO.
Whoops, I mean the previous page of this thread.
From Mish's blog -
This week we have 3 track meets + I'm one of only 3 parents that volunteered to make cookies and work the concession at one of the track meets. I have cookies in the oven as I type this. Plus we have tornado watches already issued for Friday/Saturday...my anxiety is already creeping in. So forgive me if I'm absent for the PTI countdown week but you can be sure that I'll have more fun Strawberry Patch goodies for you all month long.
She really seems checked out, doesn't she? And she's using the PTI release to promote her own stuff: instead of using the PTI tag dies, she uses the tags that she sells on etsy. I don't know if it's so much a falling out with NH or just simply wanting to make a buck. (for herself, not PTI)
To me, the splatters look like the evidence at a homicide crime scene.
I don't go to Maile's blog anymore because her photos bother me. They are sharpened or overexposed or something, but they get those jaggedy edges and I don't like it.
Dawn's spatters look awful. And those bags are tall and falling out of the basket. She's so dumb. Sunshine this.
I do like the new color though. And I like the trees but not enough to order them. Another thing like the basket, I like it, but it'll get used once if that. Probably forgotten about. Did you see where Erin said they didn't get the new color in their boxes?
I like the new color too, but can do without it.
For cripes sake, a tornado watch means conditions are favorable for the development of severe weather. She lives in Kansas...I live in the middle also, a watch means pay attention folks. Trust me, life goes on. Now, if the sirens start blaring get thy self to the basement. Just saying, we don't sit around in a dither because there is a potential for bad weather.
http://forum.papertreyink.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=34708
Ted said: "I can see telling the teacher that on one day to eat a lighter breakfast. Then surprise him/her with a homemade breakfast (wrapped to keep the heat). You bring in a toaster and toast some bread for them and they put on strawberry preserves."
So. Who wants to come with me and bring their toaster and make some hot toast and jam for Ted in his classroom before school one morning? I'll fight you for who gets to feed it to him, even.
Posts like that are good for my diet because I just lost my appetite.
Ted has a great idea. Teachers are so poorly paid and treated badly by some of the public. Where my kids went to school, the parents came down to the school and washed all the teachers' cars on Friday afternoons and also left each a treat for the weekend. It was wonderful and also taught the children something really important.
I agree, it's a nice thing to do for a teacher. But the way Ted wrote about bringing in a toaster and toasting the bread for the teacher, combined with the idea of doing that for HIM, kind of skeeved me out. :-P
I don't mean to pick on the guy but he has a way with words that just creeps me out.
We love to do some kind of lunch or something for the teachers. Walking tacos are popular - just set it up in the teacher's lounge. And I like to bring in a special breakfast treat.
I think the car wash is a great idea!
So why is it that when Rick posted a comment and then locked a thread that I wasn't the least bit bothered and even found it helpful but when Nichole does the same thing, it just rubs me the wrong way?
Maybe it's the passive/aggressive tone in which she has handled things in the past? I wonder if I will be able to get over that?
^^^^
I know just what you mean.
It also got me looking at the post about the missing sentiment.
The last update she posted there was 4/3 and said they had to do the labels and should be able to ship them out that Friday. That was a week ago. I wonder if they went out.
What does she mean "daily improvements" being made to the store? Has anyone see daily improvement?
I can't believe NH locked that thread. How flipping rude!
Rick, maybe you should take over the locking of the threads.
The site improvements must be some deep fix shit because it still looks like a hot mess.
Can they pullleeeezzze fix the friggin multiple entries for items? And the crap ass thumbnails, lack of category links, and too-specific search function should have been addressed 2 releases ago!
Having to dig through all of the dies one by one is bad enough but I don't know why there are impression plates mixed in there. Especially when there is already a separate category for impression plates.
I'm kinda liking seeing all these people being pissy with PTI. I was pretty sure that I was some sort of pariah for doing it before, but now that they are, it validates me, makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Ah well, whatever helps me sleep at night.
And Nichole locking the thread. Damn, they are making sure no shitfire gets stirred up in their house.
Nichole is a twatwaffle who has not business being a business owner. What a passive agressive bitch!
Paranoid much, NH?
Where are you seeing the new garden variety frame?
Well darn. That new color is absolutely going to push me over to buy. Can I still post here if I JUST buy the color collection?
Well darn. That new color is absolutely going to push me over to buy. Can I still post here if I JUST buy the color collection?
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You can post as long as it's not to complain about how long it takes, how your order was fucked up, or how it was defective.
crs16, i'm with you. that is a very nice shade of purple.
btw, how on earth do they get away with calling that pink ass color lavender moon????
Truth is Hostage said...
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btw, how on earth do they get away with calling that pink ass color lavender moon????
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Beats the heck outta me. Soooo not lavender.
I may have to get the new color though.
If you look at Melissa P's post here -
http://lilybeanpaperie.typepad.com/lilybeans_paperie/2012/04/strawberry-patch.html
near the bottom one of her tags uses it.
i just have to share this excellent shopping experience i just had a shoppumpkinspice.com.
i placed my order and the total was like $1 and change over the free shipping limit. well a few of the sheets of paper i ordered happened to be out of stock even though it didn't reflect that when i placed the order. so i got an email saying they've refunded the cost of the 4 sheets of paper.
i noticed that this refund would make my order not high enough to result in free shipping, so I asked what they would do about the shipping.
she emailed me back saying "Thank you for the question. Shipping is still absolutely FREE for your order."
Do you know the nightmare this same scenario would have been had the players been different???
Those of you who use amuse and/or impress inks, how do they compare to versa magic chalk inks???
Thanks for the link, 11:00. yes, that looks much better than NH's posts showing how Wisteria compares to lavender and plum.
you gals can smack me all you want, but some of that wisteria is going to make it's way to my house. Some day. Not on release night, but eventually.
Well I'll be. I had already scrolled down to that seed packet frame and didn't even notice it. Not impressed.
I can't believe you guys are folding over a color of all things!
I think A Muse is a lot like Versmagic.
I looked at the tag from 11:00's post. Melissa calls it lavender moon in her description. Is it the new color? It looks just like another purple. Not that exciting imo.
Lavender Moon is old.
uh-oh. Wisteria hysteria.
No!
I don't think Mish quit or stepped back, and then started project life. I thought she was already doing project life and then was asked to be on the Pl team. I don't know, it doesn't matter to me one way or another... It's her life, her blog.
Mish was already doing project life but probably didn't step back from PTI until after she was asked to be on the PL team.
Like you said, it's her life.
It would be lovely if you would use punctuation once in a while craftycindy.
Did you notice this?
http://www.wplus9.com/stock-and-website-updates/
I am really impressed with the communication that Dawn provides. She is definitely taking away what not to do from PTI.
^^^ It's as simple as that to earn respect from your customers. On the other hand, pretending there is *nothing* wrong and continuing to lock threads and ban customers seems to take so much more effort. Go figure.
I just saw this at the bottom of the page!
"PTI smack: ink refunds, shipping problems served with a side of cold customer service. "
WTH? KW's blog now shows pictures rather than the hot-linking message. Oh well, doesn't matter. I unsubbed from her anyway. Last nerve.
Love the new PTI color. A lavender that is actually LAVENDER and not PINK. Rename that frigging Lavender Moon - because it's not purple, dammit! Name it Orchid Moon. Orchid is pinker than lavender, IMO. Trell, you're the color man - what do you think?
And Mishie, Mishie, Mishie. You obviously didn't grow up in tornado alley. Those of us who did know to keep an eye on the skies but not to sit around wringing our hands and getting our knickers in a twist over an advisory from NOAA. Until they say "tornado WARNING" for your neck of the woods there's no need to get all panicky. Something is obviously up. It was like she was flipping NH the bird with that post, wasn't it?
I felt that Mish was just saying that she is too busy for PTI. She maybe isn't really all that concerned about the weather.Who knows?
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When you apply for a new job and they ask you why you left that last job, telling them that you hated your previous boss won't cut it.
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Does Ted still have is own forum?
Can someone link the seed packet die you are talking about, please?
I like the strawberry set. I like that you can just stamp solid images over it, on days you don't feel like copic-ing for a half hour just to get a tag done. ;) That's the reason I like the PTI set over the flourishes one. The basket is cute too, and yes it would take a bit of work to get one done, but I think for the occasional teacher gift/hostess gift, it's doable.
I like Maile's tree dies ($8 too, not bad). I don't think one needs the stamps necessarily, so that's cool.
Everything else - barf.
It's starting to become the AudreyNicole show on the forum. I wonder when NH will give her a DT position?
I think she is looking for a DT position
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