March 6, 2011

Black and White Exclusive Facebook Freebie


Memorex your life- in Black & White.
This is a new basic kit that can be used so many ways.

 It includes:
 11 papers
12 various elements
3 photo masks
2 sets of alpha (.png)

This kit is free exclusive to our Facebook Fans. Why do we make them exclusive to facebook? These kits take our designers close to 20 hours to create. That's a lot of time. Rather than charging you for these digital downloads, you can pay with a "like", a "share" or a "tweet"... or not.







Download has temporarily EXPIRED.

For Creative Memories Storybook Creator Plus users: here is a great tutorial on how to use our .png photo masks in your software. Thanks Kelly!
simply kelly designs

March 5, 2011

Bag Toppers

In my church, we don't have paid clergy, we all volunteer.

 Tomorrow I am teaching the little 5 year olds in Sunday School.
I love being with the kids, and they usually love me- that is, when I bring them treats!

My little 5 year old, Ryder, helped me put these together. It is so quick and easy. 

  • 3x4.75" cello bags (cake/craft stores would carry them)
  • One 14 oz. bag of Starbursts 
  • A Stapler
  • 3x5.5 Photogaphic Prints 

Cello bags and your own custom topper can be used for so many things!

Last year for Valentines, we filled bags with the big 1" bubble gum balls (all red & pink) and topped them with a bright matching photo paper topper.

The bonus to using photographic paper for this type of hybrid project is that when you crease the photo- you aren't having ink rub off on the fold--- because there is no ink!


The 3.5x5 image I created in photoshop
(and made really really fast- 5 year olds don't care about the details:)

(pieces from Crystal Wilkerson)
-Chari

March 4, 2011

Social Networking

Just finished writing an article on Social Networking and Facebook for LeeLou Blogs which will be posted on her site next week.
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How many social networks are you actively involved in? 
 You may find these statistics interesting.


Via: OnlineSchools.org

March 3, 2011

Persnickety Prints Complaints

We get emails all day long from companies, designers, customers, spammers you name it. We try to answer each email as thoroughly as possibly, and in a timely manner.
At Persnickety Prints, we will literally "bend over backwards" for our customers. We want everyone to be happy with their prints, we understand the time that goes into creating your digital layouts.  We also don't skimp on quality.  Many hours goes into fine tuning our machines so that they produce the most flawless, exemplary images on the market. We also want to offer the lowest prices.

Every once in a while, we get complaints:
"you say that your 12x12 prints are $1.99,  but you didn't include that they are $5 to ship"
"why can't I use multiple coupon codes?"
Here is the deal. If customers would like Free Shipping, or to use multiple coupon codes, we can do that. Cost will just be covered in other ways.

We did some ground work.

 Pricing and information for other popular photo printing retailers:

*this information was acquired online directly from each retailers website and is subject to change


To answer your questions:
 Yes we can offer free shipping! That is, if our customer would like to pay around $4 a 12x12 and be required to make a minimum purchase. Our packaging alone is a large cost to us. Not to mention that every order is well over $5 to ship, we just cover the difference.
 Yes we can allow multiple discounts! That is, if our prints weren't already discounted! We are willing to raise the prices if multiple discounts are an issue.

Having said this, we want our customers to email us anytime. You are our friends, not an order number. We recognize repeat customers, and have become well acquainted with so many of you. Just thought we would cover these issues for anyone else wondering why we charge for shipping and why we won't "give away" prints.

thanks! :)
The PP Team