The Creative Team Deal

Being in a Creative Team (also called CT in digiworld) is fantastic because you get the opportunity to have awesome kits for free, not to mention the prestige that it gives you just by being a member of a team. More so, you get to meet and be “intimate” with your co-CT members as you share ideas and lift up each others’ spirits from time to time. So what does it take to be in a CT?

Actually it depends upon the designer to decide whether you get in the cut or not. It also depends upon your style. As far as I know, you should not apply to any CT just for the sake of snagging free kits; you have to make sure that you will be USING the kits that you download with fair dealing. If you think that the designer’s style isn’t you at all, then go ahead and look for the one that suits you and your style.

Applying for CT membership is, I think, a trial and error thing. I was lucky that I got accepted in my first CT application, and on my second and third too. That’s three lucky strikes in a row! But after that, the rest all turned me down, which is not a bad thing at all because they give discount coupons or freebies for those who have applied. It’s always a win-win thing.

If you’re a beginner, I suggest that you should hone your craft first and participate in forums in various digiscrapping sites to learn a thing or two from the “masters”. You should know how to define your style and be open in trying other colors or kits. By the time you do these, you could very well send your applications away!

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Scrapping Mondaze Resurrection

It's been a long time since I have posted my entry at Scrapping Mondaze and that explains my post title for today. Anyhoo, here's my entry for today.

Credits:
Kit: Sisters by Sir Scrapalot
Date Rubons: Funky Time Designs by Amber
Template: Tempting Templates 11 by Suzanne Villanueva

I contemplated in my twitter account yesterday that I'm scouting for templates for my DD's flower girl album. Lo and behold, my cousin Suzanne has awesome templates for free in her Digiscraptology site so I snagged almost all of them and used everything for my own pleasure. Thanks a lot Ate! The flower girl pages are done in a flash.

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Polka Dot Plum's Grand Opening!

Sir Scrapalot's gonna be there too! They have amazing kits in store for you so watch out for the big opening. Also, they will kick the opening week with a chat with two of their fab designers so watch out for it! They'll be having games and prizes, not to mention lots of fun too!

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Where Was I?

Aloha! Look! Someone's slacking with her blog posts that she almost leave August without a single entry.

I mentioned about doing hybrid on my last post and since then I had been hoarding for hybrid freebies in various digiscrap sites. I wasn't that successful with the hoarding thing because there aren't many freebies out there. But anyway, I am going to start with card making because that's the easiest thing to do. By September, I will be sending cards to some friends and I will definitely show some photos about this hybrid project. Besides, I miss sending letters to friends and I meant the personalized ones not the email type, I know that you know what I mean.

Moving on, being in a Creative Team (CT) really broadened my horizons in the digiworld. A couple of years ago (okay make it two at the most, I'm only exaggerating) I was only hoarding freebies and did not care whether to give credits to the designers or not. You can see that on my previous layouts posted on my other blog. I only scrapped for my own pleasure not even considering the feelings of the people who designed the kits that I used. So anyway, not long ago, I learned how to give credits to the designers. It was kind of a struggle for me because I use different kits from different designers but I learned to manage everything by opening a notepad while creating a layout. And once I am satisfied with the positioning or choice of embellishment (or frame, paper, the works!), I click on the TOU and draft away the credit/s to mention. I am still learning about giving credits to the people though as I believe that everything is a whole lot of learning process.

Moving on again, I also seldom create a layout using other photos than that of my kids' but thanks to the challenges from MLAS, I was able to learn, or let's say given the inspiration, to create a layout using photos of other people. Here's one example.


You can click on the image to see the full credits of the layout. The people sleeping in the photo are my friends back in college and one is our college professor. We were attending a seminar when this photo was taken and as you can see, we're all sleeping. It was fun recalling this moment, and I really miss these guys. And just this afternoon, while I am planning to post this layout, I looked for the designer of the kit that I used because I had this kit for more or less 5 months already just to tell her that hey, I'm still using her little freebie. Only to find out that she has a store at MLAS! I was happy and dumbfounded at the same time, but it felt so good to know that we're at least rubbing elbows in the forum. Thanks so much Lisa Aldrich (Digital Designs by Lisa) for this really stunning 100% Boy mini kit freebie.

Okay so that's all for now. I will try to post more often.

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