Thrilled but pissed....

Four months ago, I was so thrilled when I was informed by Northridge Publishing that my vintage card was selected to be published in the CREATE magazine.  After waiting for 6 months, I still have no news of my published card and still waiting in vain for my copy of magazine.  After some correspondence, it turned out that it was their mistake that I was not informed and on top of that they have gone digital!!! Should I be happy or sad???  I was really looking forward to receive the hard copy on my lap and flipping it but aiya... digi is also fine!

The stamps which I used for the card are from Waltzing Mouse, Hero Arts and Paper Smooches. Guess what? I wrote to HA but was told that they do not give incentive to digital publication!  If I was not honest, I would have just scanned it and not informing them that it was digital!  Sometimes, honesty does not pay off! If someone could enlightened my frustration, please tell me what's the difference between being printed in hardcopy of digital when their company name's are clearly printed on it?

I was frustrated as this is the second time that I am using HA products that my cards were published but somehow not awarded!!!  Grrrr....!

Now, I am waiting patiently from the other two companies and hopefully I have better news from them.  I just heard from PS that they are considering offering digital incentive?  What does that mean?

Maybe I should be contented with it and stop complaining....afterall it's my hobby and I should be enjoying with what I am doing.  Yes, positive thinking!  I think I am happier right now.

Here is the card which was submitted......

I am going to make myself happy by stamping.... thank you for listening!

Publication

Hi Peeps,  I am so happy to share with you that one of my card was published in the UK's magazine, Craft Stamper.

 

I used their free stamps and HA Manuscript Background to create this card.  Since I was using HA stamp, I thought I would be able to receive some incentive but to my dissappointment it was rejected because the magazine did not publish their brand name!!

 

Thank you all for always dropping by with your sweet comments!  Have a nice day!

 

Published - CardMaking & Papercraft UK

Woohoo!  I was so happy when I received news that my project has been elected to be the editor's favourite and published in the Cardmaking & Papercraft UK magazine.  This is the second time that my project is published and they have generously given me 3 stamp sets from Sheena Douglas.

You could take a look at the project here.