Posts Tagged ‘call’

… how’s that for a title? Even that is the shortened version, so much has happened since I last blogged (bad blogger! bad, bad blogger! or is that bad wordpresser?) that it would take a whole post just to write the title!
Anyway, where to start? With the earliest things, I guess, which means Bring On The Music. If anyone was curious, we did it. The kit raised enough money that I could buy my friend the special gift I had in mind, and I couldn’t have been giddier that we pulled it off. Thank you to everyone who contributed and to everyone who purchased it, you guys seriously rock.

Next… some of you might have noticed that I closed my studio at SBG. It wasn’t an easy decision — it was a terribly hard decision, actually —, but I had to follow the biggest slice of my heart. I say the biggest slice because SBG will always hold a piece of my heart; I had wanted to sell there for quite a bit before I found the nerve to apply, and it was everything I had hoped for and more. I had an incredible work environment, good sales, supportive people all around, it was truly very special. I’ll always be thankfull to Maya for having given me the opportunity to sell there, to her husband Mick who always had the tech side of the store running smoothly, to the designers who chatted and put up with my craziness in the designer list, and to the crew who did such awesome things to help my designs shine. Part of me still can’t believe I gave it up.

Why did I give it up, I hear you asking? Well, that would go back to that “bigger slice of my heart” bit I just mentioned: I moved back to Sunshine Studio Scraps. Sun is a store that is part mine – I am one of the few remaining founding owners –, and I can still remember every bit of the thrill we felt when we first came together for our freebie collab, Whimsical Wonderland, the butterflies in our stomachs when we decided we’d like to open a store together, the race to the finish line that was our first collab, Walking On Sunshine, and how we used the money we got from it to buy XCart with a few mods and pay to get it installed; I can remember all the dreaming, and the imagining, and the giddiness (and the petty squabbling over trivial things like what font to use and what background would look better because we all wanted the absolute best from our individual points of view, but even that was done lovingly, in retrospect) that went into opening it, the nervous excitement over opening it (and I distinctly remember having to have all my kits ready and xcarted a day earlier than everyone, because I had a Bon Jovi concert to go to the day before our grand opening, and I was damned if I was going to be there late or leave early!), the fun that we all had together. In the two intervening years, the actual running of Sun has passed from co-owner to co-owner as some of us had more or less time to devote to it. Some decided they really hadn’t been cut out to be store owners and would rather just design instead; some got tired of all the chaos that was us deciding things as a group and left to start their own store their own way; some had to go back to working outside the house and gave up owning the store; whatever the reasons, in the end it’s just 3 of us now: myself, my husband and Amanda Kay. And it came to a point where I had to decide between keeping my SBG studio open despite the fact that I knew Amanda didn’t have the time to run the store these days, or take the plunge and give Sun my all. Basically it meant choosing between two very good things knowing that there really wasn’t a wrong and a right choice, just two different ones.

So I left SBG, with a heart that was both heavy and light, for all the friends that staid behind and the friends I’m walking towards, and I’m going to make sure than Sun shines on with the same spirit that we created it, which was a spirit of happiness and love. It’s been a journey filled with friends, and it’s heartwarming to see all the support I’ve been getting from everyone. Even though it was a hard choice, even though I wished for a cloning machine so I could clone myself and keep doing both things, and even though part of me is still feeling sad at having left SBG only a month before my second anniversary there, I can feel it in the air again: the anticipation, the excitement, the giddiness, all back. I’m going to try and make Sunshine Studio Scraps the best store it can possibly be and nothing – not even myself – is going to stop me from giving it my best shot. I hope you’ll stop by to visit me in my old-new home every once in a while, and that you wish me the best of luck in this.

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Deciding to devote myself to running Sun means starting with a Designer Call and a Sweetie Call, and there’s still 11 more days to get those apps in if you’re interested. Here are the ads:

Designer Call:

(And here’s the text, in case the image doesn’t show up for some reason:)

We offer:
• XCart store for full control
• No Paypal Fees
• No Setup Fees
• Site CT and Advertising Team
• 80/20% Commission Exclusive
• 75/25% Commission Non-Exclusive
• Access to personal use products
• FUN Work Environment!

We require:
• No more than one additional store (plus a personal store if you have one)
• Exclusive Products
• Minimum 2 new products a month
• Contribution to the monthly mega collab

We are also looking for Guest Designers!

To apply send us an email to sunshinestudioscraps@gmail.com stating:
• A little about yourself including your name and design name
• A link to your current store(s) (if applicable)
• A link to your design/personal blog (if applicable)
• Whether you’re applying for a permanent or guest position

Deadline August 15th for the permanent call • ongoing guest call

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Sweetie Call:

(Again, here is the text:)

The Details:

• Kits and Designers are not assigned
• Choose 3 different designers per month
• Create at least one layout with our monthly collab before it hits the shop
• No comments required
• Guests spots are available

To Apply: Send an email to sunshineCTcall@gmail.com with:

• A little about yourself, including your name and forum name.
• A link to your most current gallery
• What other CTs you are currently on.

Deadline is August 15th!

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My Sun store is still very understocked – all it has for the moment is my Dreams in Colour 2.0 Collection because I have been swamped with other store related things – but it’s 50% off through Friday, August 6th, AND, if you purchase Dreams in Colour 2.0 {the Complete Collection} you will automatically receive Dreams in Colour 2.0 {the album} for free! Only until Friday, so hurry if you’d like to take advantage of these offers!

I’ll slowly be adding the rest of my kits to my Sun store as time permits it, so if you’d like to see me add any kit in particular, feel free to leave me a comment saying which one.

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On other, related news, Nicole Seitler, designer of the Sugarplum Paperie and Girl Friday Studio lines, Digichick owner, original Sunshine Girl and, even more important than all of that, awesome friend, has allowed me to bully her into celebrating my coming back to Sun with doing a guest month in the Sunshine. We could think of no better way to start off both my return and her guest spot than with a collab between us and so when, while I was showing her the potential colours for our collab, she said “That’s like everything under the sun!”, I just knew it would be even more perfect if we named it that. Thus, Everything Under The Sun was born. Here’s some inspiration from both mine and Nicole’s creative teams (Photobucket is hiccuping like mad for me right now, so I hope these show):

And I guess that’s it for today. Thank you for bearing with me while I poured my heart out, and for walking beside me on this journey.

Love & Spanks,

Sunshine Studio Scraps is having a designer call!

What you’ll get:

• XCart for full store control
• Fun work environment
• Site CT
• Site Advertising Team
• 20% commission exclusive
• 25% commission non-exclusive
• No paypal fees
• No setup fees

What we’re looking for:

• Send us a link to your stores (if any)
• Previews of your products
• A little about yourself to jesters (dot) tear (at) yahoo (dot) co (dot) uk
• Title your emails Designer Call to make my life easier!

We are looking for quality designs. If you aren’t selling anywhere yet but feel your designs are good, we are also looking for YOU! Just send us a link to some of your freebies to apply!

All submissions must be in by June 30th!

If you are pre-selected you will be asked to create a small freebie that will be downloaded and voted on by our site members.

Later than I’d planned it (as usual, I’m hopeless with deadlines unless I have someone breathing down my neck) here is my Creative Team Competition!

The text reads:

Would you like to be a part of my CT? Or maybe just a guest spot?
Here’s what you have to do:
- Download Somewhere Else: the mini kit @ http://mglscraps.blogspot.com
- Links will only be available until Monday, March 10th, so hurry!
- Create a layout using primarily Somewhere Else: the mini kit
- E-mail your layout (or a link to it) to me at jesters (dot) tear (at) yahoo (dot) co (dot) uk no later than March 15th, tell me a little about yourself, what other CTs (if any) you are on and send me a link to your most complete gallery. Let me know if you’re applying for a permanent or a guest position.

I’ll be announcing the winners on the blog, @ DST and @ Scraphead on March 20th.
All candidates will receive a response!

Requirements:
- 2 Layouts per kit
- Post your LOs to the galleries at DST, Scraphead and two others
- Wear my CT blinkie
- Join our CT forum
- Help promote my products when appropriate

Indispensable:
- A healthy dose of insanity!

This is Somewhere Else, the mini kit you’ll be using for the competition: