AfriDigiDiva Designs

Spring Madness

Spring has arrived and all the wonderful colors have blended to bring us out of the winter doldrums to play in the sun. Polka dots and stripes mix with wonderfully textured solids to bring the perfect play kit for Spring and all joyous occasions. 

The full kit includes:   20 papers  (12X12)      Three 8X10 Matte borders

Three 12X12 Matte borders   1 archway    1 string of beads

4 benches   1 button    2 fence posts    2 heart flowers    4 ribbons

You can also purchase the kit in separates. There is a paper pack, an elements pack and blog templates.

                     

SLIDE SHOW PRODUCTION

Have you ever wanted to have your designs and scrap pages as a screensaver, a DVD video or file that you can send out to others? Now is your chance to have it!

Prices are reasonable. Up to 40 (forty) photos, scrappages and your choice of music.

Here are two examples:

New Items in the Store!

I just uploaded my latest set of overlays callled Mixn’Match.
Six wonderfully patterned overlays, for professional or private use. Each overlay was created in 300 DPI and measures 12X12. There are florals and geometry. These are a fun mix with many uses.

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The New Site

Welcome to the unveiled 2009 edition of AfriDigiDiva Designs.
Over the next few months, it is my hope to bring to you new and innovative designs that I’ve learned from my mentors over the past months. The one lesson that has been pounded in my head is that this is for me and I am trying to please myself and my customers. Other designers are rarely so open or free with advice. Again I feel blessed.

Tonight, I’ll be doing alot of designing, packaging. Tomorrow, it will be more of the same!

PEACE!
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UPDATE ONE

I have been designing like you wouldn’t believe. So much so that I have hardly had time to do much else. I’ve been working on new schemes, new themes, preparing for the new year.
I’m also fighting depression because my birthday is coming up. I’m still not quite sure I feel about being so close to 50.

I’ve also recognized that I can’t just use this particular blog for design ideas. Designing, as the new year starts, will become more and more of my life. I’ll try to post more personal issues –my recipes, my hopes, dreams and all that fun stuff that helps you get to know me better.

Amanda Rockwell has a wonderful class at at ScrapArtist . She has some really great tutorials and the price to join considering all that is available is very affordable.

I’m fortunate that Amanda, Cindy Ritter, and Stacey Crossley have taken me under their wings. I feel like I’m being mentored by the best, most original, most creative confident designers there are in this industry. What I love about all of them is that this is really a business for them, not a hobby, not something to do to kill time. They are setting great examples and for me they have raised the stakes. I think I’m up to the challenge.

PEACE!
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A Class Act

There is a designer whose email tonight nearly brought me to tears. Let me go back.
I know I’m not even close to the best designer out there. I try really hard to produce a quality product, but even so, sometimes, it just doesn’t cut the grade that others would like to see.

In this industry, we spend too much time being unnecessarily nice. We need to accept and face the fact that sometimes the truth hurts. And that sometimes it is necessary that we be the bearer of that truth.

I had applied several times to a store that I really liked, a store that I aspired to –my Neiman’s if you will. The owner never responded to my queries. So fast forward a a year and I find myself added to her friends list on a mutual group, uninitiated by me. Well of course, it begged the question from me of how she could add me as a friend, but not respond to an inquiry about a position at her store. I thought it was a mistake and that as soon as she realized it was me she would remove me and that would be the end of it. Instead, I received this:

“I apologize for not responding to your letters. Sometimes it’s very difficult to tell someone you are not interested in their work. I have visited your store several times and even your blog (which i believe i left you a message there, perhaps you never got it). I did wish i could offer you a spot at*********but your style just does not fit. While you seem perfectly suited for the stores you are at in order to get into some of the other stores you would need to push your designs and packaging in a new direction. I’m not sure if you are willing to do that. In this industry i find we all have our own style of working. So depending on your goals you kind of have to decide how much you are willing to change. Or if in fact you even want to.
If you’d like some suggestions i’d be more than willing to help you out.”

How cool is that! How classy is that? All this time, I thought she was being a stuck up, arrogant… well you get the idea. She was sparing MY feelings. You know, I’ve been hurt by so many people intentionally, that it never occured to me that someone would actually try to spare me pain. I am blown away. I want to thank her. I want to apologize. I want to give her my phone number, pick her brain, find out everything, sit at the side of the mistress and learn.

This wonderful designer woman is a class act. This is rare that she would not only try to spare my feelings (most of the designers don’t even think I have feelings), but she offered to help me become better at what I want to do.

Thank you to you, Miss Anonymous Designer. You know who you are!

PEACE!
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