inspired duo

http://www.inspiration-lane.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4816


What you need to do: - Pick a designer to collab with and post here to sign-up. - If you do not have a collab provider already set up with the designer you are collabing with, please email me at inspirationlanecs@gmail.com with your name and the other designer's name and the email address that you want that provider account to be set up with.

After you receive your provider login, you will upload to that FTP and login to the provider area of X-cart with the login info I give you. - Your collab will debut on the Wednesday the newsletter goes out, so please have your collab in the store, set to Hidden but Available, and posted in the appropriate CT chatter release thread by the previous Wednesday.

- Create a small freebie to give out in the newsletter - 2 papers and 4 or 5 elements from your collab kit.

- If you want to include a coupon, please email the coupon code and details to me atinspirationlanecs@gmail.com. Prior to setting up your coupon, please contact me to find out how many newsletter subscribers we have. If you are having a special sale, please email the details to me.

- Each designer can pick up to 2 products to have featured in the newsletter. Please email me the links to those products.

April 21, 2010 - shelleyrae & Chris Greiser

Fabulous! Thanks Chris - how many papers/eles each? I was thinking maybe 10 papers and 25 eles each?

So, what about this swatch (totally lifted from that first card and the background is off white):


We have birthday theme with funky, fun acrylic ellies? Woo!

...I usually wind up with wrinkly bumpy papers... Not to grungy, though, lol! The paper pack I just posted in club click is pretty typical.

For elements, definitely graphic, maybe acrylic or paper?

Funky works for me. What sort of textures are you thinking? paper type textures?

I'm stoked for this. Birthday is a great theme... I have to be honest, though... Theme kits haven't been my strong suit, lol!

What about these for inspiration:

Is funky okay? I'd love to play with the green, teal, and cream that are on the cake - what other colors do you think?

Rachel and hi had picked a theme - birthdays - but that was about all and I am willing to change if you have any other ideas. I know its not til April but it creeps up quick so I'd love to have some plans in place soon. Let me know your ideas - suggest swatches etc

Look forward to working with you

shelleyrae

March blog train

March's Blog Train Is Now Boarding!!

Name: Shine On
Theme: bright colors, positivity, moving forward, looking at the bright side of things... Lets see some bling, shiny metals, shiny plastics etc...cheerful stuff

Requirements: 3 Papers & 3-4 unique elements (not recolored) per participant

ONLY the first 100 Designers to sign up will be allowed to participate. So please sign up and get your contributions done early!

EVERYONE PLEASE PUT THIS SOMEWHERE ON YOUR PREVIEW!:
We are using the swatch this time instead of a tag.

(just right click and "save as")


PLEASE NOTE >>> You are NOT allowed to associate this blog train with DST. Please DO NOT put DST anywhere on your previews or in your blog posts.
We appreciate DST providing us with a safe place to host our previews and and organize this train so it is not out in the open, they are helping us protect our designs this way.

Post your previews in this thread!.

PLEASE POST YOUR BLOG LINK (starting with http://.........) IN YOUR SIGN UP POST so I don't have to go through blogs or signatures to grab it!!

Here is the Blog Train Blog: http://www.blogtrainblog.blogspot.com
This blog will have a complete list of ALL participating designers posted ON the day the train goes live!

Schedule is currently as follows:

Blog Train sign ups - will close FEB 20th

Saturday FEB 30th: Check your links to your downloads (have someone else check them for you)
Monday March 1st: no set time..just make sure its posted sometime on this day!! (if you can schedule your posts ahead of time on your blogs please do so!)..I know blogger has this option!

*IF YOU SIGN UP PLEASE MAKE SURE TO FOLLOW THROUGH*


Basic rules of a blog train:
Post the preview to the kit they will be getting when all downloads are picked up... (in this case it will be the slideshow)
Post the preview of YOUR contribution
link to the next person on the train
link to the blog train blog for a list of all participating designers somewhere in your post.
The Starting Place will be the first person to sign up.
-A thread will be posted here at DST with the first person's links.

SUN March 2010 Collab - Twighlight

http://www.sunshinestudioscraps.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6650

March is up so we can get ahead 



**PLEASE READ**
File naming: 
Name your files designername_twilight_element.jpg etc.. 
This way it is much easier to rename and zip up for us.

And please just make ONE folder inside your zip with everything in that ONE folder. All zips get unzipped, renamed and rezipped and the extra folders make extra work lol. Just put everything in ONE folder. Put alphas in ONE folder together. Thanks guys.

Kit name: Twilight

Theme: Night, stars, dreams, etc... not Twilight as in Edward Cullen. Twilight as in night time, stars, moon etc...











All previews & zips are to be finished by Feb 20th 2009

*If by last day of the month you haven't either finished your share or said you want an extension, we'll assume you're opting out of this one.

Each designer should do 2-3 patterned papers, in addition to what is signed up for below. Please sign up for at least one of the following categories. Feel free to make whatever you like in addition to the list.

Solid papers - Ivonne
Frames & Photo corners - Bobbie
Journaling Blocks - katherine
Tags & Labels-
Ribbons/Bows -
Brads/ Buttons - Lita
Fasteners -
Alpha - Jennilyn, Ivonne
Word Art -
Doodles-
Stitching -
Other Miscellaneous Elements (Theme Related) -
Borders -
Template(s) - Jaimie
Crazy - Flergy Flerg Flergs
Mish-mash - Michelle

Photo Action - Jennilyn(?)

I-L Mini Kit Challenge

Feb mini kit challenge (1-15) in the forums... Mine; my swatch, my everything... Keep it to 3-4 papers and 5 or so elements; a unique element (flower, doodle, stamp), string or ribbon, frame. Players have to use everything in the kit to get credit.

Upload zip to 4shared
Put link in the gallery, along with preview.
Post challenge thread and link to the gallery, not the file.

Disable links at the end of 2 weeks!

Due 3/15.

SUN blog train

**Feb 6th is the date**

Theme is Spring, bright happy sunshine park play umbrella spring rain rainbows....etc...



We'll all post at Midnight Feb 6th EST and link to the person below you. The last person can link back to the SUN blog where hopefully someone will post an announcement.

People keep asking and I am up for it. Doesn't have to be a special occasion even, just a good chance to pimp SUN.

Lets decide a date. Get a swatch & theme. And get onto it huh? Brainstorm some ideas.

Link list is here: http://www.sunshinestudioscraps.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6789

Post my link and add yours underneath as we go so we get a list together.

Look at this for a hosting service option...

http://ellielash.com/blog/

Oooh! And pick up the dinos - too cute!

Order tracking for accounting.

in Xcart, export - 

     Orders (without images) in one file {orders}

     Order items (without images) in one file {orderlineitems}

     Coupons & products in one file

     Combine orders in single worksheet with column A being store tag (SUN, ESS, etc.), column B being month, C being day, D being year

     This formula will generate the truncated date (calc in separate sheet, copy and paste over original) for original date in column B with target location being column C: 

                     {Column C} =MID(LEFT(B2,(LEN(B2)-12)),(FIND("y ",LEFT(B2,(LEN(B2)-12)))+2),20)

     Pull month, day, and year with these formulas for truncated date generated in column C: 

                     {Column F} =MID(C2,4,LEN(C2)-8)

                     {Column G} =LEFT(C2,2)

                     {Column H} =RIGHT(C2,4)

     Create a pivot table for: (tbd)

income by month

product sales

coupon usage

(sending this spreadsheet home separately)

in Paypal, export reciepts.

     tag purchases by hand (commercial or personal use items)

     commercial use is deductible. 

IL - ADSR

IL is participating in ADSR again this year! For those of you who don't know, ADSR is the Amazing Digi Scrapping Race, based on the popular tv show, the Amazing Race. you can see last year's festivities on the NDSIB ADSR4 blog here: http://ndisb-adsr.blogspot.com/
I participated last year as a scrapper and not only had a lot of fun with it, but was also introduced to sites and designers I had never seen or visited before ----- Inspiration-Lane included.
Last year IL's ADSR challenge participants received a copy of "Snowbuddies" ... a mega kit put together by the designers that were here in the store at the time. We'd like to do the same this year. SO, DC is putting together a challenge, we're going to do some giveaways (info on this will be in another thread) and we've (finally) settled on a swatch for the site redesign and thought it awesome to use that for the mega.

Participation in this kit is NOT required, however.... this is an AWESOME opportunity to put a sample of your designs in people's hands. There will be LOADS of scrappers participating - if you look at the ADSR blog down the left side of the page, there are race participant blinkies and each blinkie represents 2 scrappers... so we're talking in the 450+ range of scrappers.





Kit Name: So Inspired!
Due Date: Feb 6, 2010

Theme: cheerful, but not TOO rainbow-y, if that makes any sense?, artsy, inspirational, every day life --- our new site design is going to be black & white with splashes of color if you want to base it on that, but we don't want everything black and white, kwim?

Metal to use: Silver

We need 5 patterned papers and 10 UNIQUE elements. Please refrain from making more that 1 string or ribbon for your contribution and do not include any dots or stripes in your papers (you can make a paper that has stripes and dots in it or dots filled with shapes or dots in addition to another pattern on the paper. What we don't want is 5 basic swiss dot papers and 5 basic striped papers)


some images for inspiration...

Feb CAC at ESS

Swatch:


http://enchantedstudioscraps.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7348

Name: Flutterbies and Pollilops
Theme: spring type theme, a little more whimsical and fun with imaginative insectss (pollilops ) and flowers etc....

Color ideas for some kits

Here are some color ideas for kits to come. Several are samples of the same palette. 

This is a test

I want to see how ideas will post from my email. I think I'll add a link to go to http://www.inspiration-lane.com/

and a picture as an attachment. Ha! 

Illustrator resources

lots of tutorials - http://websitetips.com/graphics/illustrator/#trace-vectorize
convert doodle to vector - http://vectips.com/tutorials/create-sketchy-style-vectors/