Here is the blog train list:

1. Panda Bear Designs - http://www.pandabeardesigns.blogspot.com/
2. Sherrys Scraps - http://sherrysscraps.blogspot.com/
3. Throwing Some Scraps Around - http://www.jodisscrapping.blogspot.com
4. Karen’s Scraps and Graphics - http://karensscrapsandgraphics.blogspot.com.au/
5. Cecilia Swatton - http://www.ceciliaswatton.blogspot.com
6. Gail Cook - http://gails-space2.blogspot.com
7. DCCreations - http://dccreationsdesigns.blogspot.com/
8. The Brown Owl - http://brownowlscrapping.blogspot.com/
9. Kathy’s Scraps - http://kathysscraps.blogspot.com
10. ScrappyCats - http://scrappycats.com/blog/
11. Osten Wilkins Designs - http://digiscrapstation.com/blog/ You are Here!
12. Cynthia Powell - http://cynthiapowell.blogspot.com

Here is the freebie from Osten Wilkins

DOWNLOAD LINK

Karen who is one of our designers here is an amazing woman and she has provided the freebie for today! Make sure you check out her store and take a look at some amazing awesome stuff!

Click here to go get it!

Mark your calendars! Saturday we have a speed scrap that you dont want to miss! We also have month long challenges that you can play and earn some great prizes!

Check them all out here!

Here is a look at some amazing items we have in the all of them brand new!

]]> http://digiscrapstation.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=358 http://digiscrapstation.com/blog/?p=357 http://digiscrapstation.com/blog/?p=357#comments Mon, 04 Oct 2010 19:38:33 +0000 jordan http://digiscrapstation.com/blog/?p=357 One of our new designers shared some info with us about herself so i’m passing it onto all of you.

Karen Jones is a new designer here at DigiScrapStation and goes by the designer name Karen’s Scraps and Graphics. She is from Australia and has been married 27 years. Her and her husband have two adult children. Their son has autism and she started out making autism awareness graphics/tags to spread autism awareness. Karen then went on to make full sized scrap items. Karen loves designing and found it is where she belongs. She hopes to continue learning and designing for many years to come.

Here is a new kit Karen has in the store called Fall Harvest, for only $2.

We have some new items in store for you, check them out!

Please join us this friday for our friday express where items that are normally $4 or more are marked down for one day only for $2!

For those that live in other time zones

1pm PST, 2pm Mountain, 3pm Central and 4pm EST

For more info on the rest of our challenges please visit our forum here.

Hurry because the special prices on these will end at midnight EST!!

There are Many many more items that you can find in our store on sale for the Friday Express! Go check it out!

Did you know that we are having a CT call at the moment? Want all the info? Wait no longer:

Want free kits? Yes, FREE! All you have to do is use it making two layouts and post to three galleries!

We have 39 designers right now in our store, ten of which are brand new, just joined our team! Woo Hoooo!!! We are seeking some Creative Team members at DigiScrapStation! We do require you use three kits per month but you can also do more if you wish. We are a fun-loving team and are willing to work with YOU! We have lots of tips and tricks as well as some instruction available in our forum.

The Run down:

• ONE kit
• TWO layouts
• THREE postings to galleries

If you would like to apply for this great team just send an email containing;

• Name:
• Email address:
• Experience (not required):
• Gallery Link or samples (required):

Email the above to our CT Coordinator, Kathy, at CT Call by September 30, 2010.

Ever want some great inspiration or something to get you started to creating that great layout you knew you had in you? Check out our challenges and get creatin’! Here are some of out awesome challenges for you to check out;

Saturday Speed Scrap- Every Saturday starting at 1pm (PST) with one hour of instructions and chatting starting at 2 you have an hour on your own to finish the layout and upload it them placing a link in the speed scrap thread so everyone can go check it out!

Template challenge- Get a great Template to use to create a layout of your own. For completing this challenge you get a wonderful participation gift.. go check it out!

Quote challenge- Use a quote in a layout and get a wonderful gift!!! doesn’t that sound great?

Keeping on track with Scrapping- This is a fun mix of possible challenges.. check it out here to see what it’s all about!

Stay tuned for lots more info and goodies. I’ll be back in the morning to let you all in on some of the deals you can grab for Friday Express.. if you dont know about this, it’s a once a week event where items $4 or more get marked down (yes one day only!) to $2!!! that’s a minimum of 50% off!!!

Head on over to the store and go see what goodies we have available!

Till morning,

Jordan

I opened myself up to a can of worms the other day. There was this post at DST about how the stores take care of customer invoices and there was concern over privacy issues. At DSS every invoice is copied to all designers so they can see how the sales are doing, what is being sold and how their products are selling. They use this information to help determine what to work on next and how to set their sales and prices. Well, these invoices only had the name of the customer on them as the rest of the information was taken out several months ago.

The store’s privacy statement at the time did not say anything about this. All it promised was customer information was not going to be sold or used to harass customers—well here is what it said exactly:

Your information is safe with us. We will never use information collected here to harass you, nor will we ever sell this information. If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter, you will be able to unsubscribe very easily.

But, it seems some people were unhappy with the sharing of what was being sold to whom. They felt that what they purchased was nobody’s business and the least amount of people to see it the better. It looked like it was some designers who were the ones most upset since they were the ones to purchase commercial use products and did not want it spread around just exactly what they purchased. I could understand that. Digi-scrap designers have to be very competitive and figure out unique and interesting things to produce in order to sell anything anymore.

So, I stripped the name of the customer out of the invoices that are copied to the designers. The only thing now on those invoices is the order number and the products sold. I also changed the privacy statement and added the following:

Store designers receive a copy of all Order Confirmation emails strictly for the purposes of tracking their own personal sales and the effectiveness of marketing campaigns. These order confirmation emails only contain the list of products purchased, and do NOT have the customer’s name, email or any other personal information on them.

Of course, that is not good enough for some, but that is as far as I am willing to go. The designers at DSS find this information that is shared with them in a timely manner to be most helpful. They do not have to guess how that coupon sale went, or how that discount sale went. They can see immediately. Then, if their sales are lagging towards the end of the month, they will know in time perhaps to have a sale or work a little harder to send out ads and postings on blogs.

Customers do need to know that no financial information is on the store web site. Customers are taken off the site to PayPal to pay for their purchases and nothing is brought back to the store web site but the fact that the purchase was paid for.

I am working on getting a SSL for the site. Well actually I already have one, but on some browsers it brings up a warning that the website is certified by an unknown authority. I have talked to the hosts about this and asked that they fix that, but it has not been fixed yet. They have really taken up a lot of my time trying to get that all worked out.

Please feel free to contact me using the store contact link if you have any questions regarding your privacy and the information

Today’s Freebie comes from Gail Cook–she is giving you all two Quick pages from two of her kits that are in the store. The Quick Pages are made by Shannon Webb (Shannon’s blog is at http://www.simply-digiscrap.blogspot.com/)

So I thought today we would look at some things said about taxes.

Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.
F. J. Raymond

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep. ~Will Rogers

I’m proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money. ~Arthur Godfrey

Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income. ~Alfred E. Neuman

So I am going to post a layout that I did after spending all Saturday figuring the taxes for the business, I used my kit, Double Entry to make it.