November 2011 - My Crafting Den

Free Photobooks Coupon From Artscow

November 26, 2011 By PurpleKiss Leave a Comment

Well, this is perfect and just in time for Christmas. If you’re looking for personalized gifts or if you want to compile a year end photobook this is one chance you don’t wanna miss. Artscow is really generous so go ahead and grab these codes.

You’ll be getting five regular 8″ x 8″ and two regular 9″ x 7″ (20 pages) photo books. The coupon can be validated until November 30. And once you validate it you can use the free credits within 30 days from date of validation. Use coupon code FREEPHOBKS to get your fabulous free stuff.

Register at Artscow now for free if you don’t have an account yet. You can also use my photobook templates for free if you don’t fancy designing them yourself. Here’s some preview of my photobook templates. Just click on the template thumbnail and you’ll be redirected to the template page.

Filed Under: Artscow, Artscow Coupons, Personalized Goodies Templates

Brewing Something New

November 17, 2011 By PurpleKiss Leave a Comment

The post title sure is a nice way of saying, I’m doing a major blog dress-up overhaul, lobotomy or simply implementing changes. Lol. What brought this about? Nope, not some collision estimation, but more like I’ve been planning to do this for awhile but it just keeps getting pushed to the background.

First things first, I’m sure the first thing you’ll notice is the site’s new look. For awhile, this blog site has been wearing Elegant Themes My Cuisine Premium Theme. I love that theme to bits, but I really wanted to have a bigger header with the site name displayed more prominently. After searching awhile I settled on Brightpage a free wordpress theme. I customized the background for a bit of vintage-grunge feel and I also added some of my favorite arts and crafts quotes. I also did some tweaking under the hood to get the cursive font ‘Satisfy’ for my site title.

Second, I’ve got a lot of new badges. Yay! I had some downtime yesterday and I made a new blog badge {you can add it to your websites and I’ll be open to adding your badge too on my sidebar}, I also made a badge to link to my Artscow templates page.

And lastly, I’ll be trimming down my blog categories. I know I initially wanted this blog to showcase my all crafting whatnots, but I realized that I simply don’t have the time now to do everything. I manage multiple blogs so I tend to always be running out of time. So I decided to pick just one crafting interest and build on that. I love to crochet and make jewelries but I rarely get the time to do that. So I chose my graphic design and digiscrapping craft interest to be the only highlight of this blog. At least I can focus now on that. And another reason for choosing this is that I know I still have a lot more to learn in this area and blogging about it motivates me more to learn.

So I’ll be condensing my categories and if I blurb about other crafts it’ll all be just under ‘Other Crafting Interests’ instead of it having each separate category.

Also, I’ll be regularly featuring now Discount Codes, Sales Events mainly at Artscow and also some events digi scrappers might be interested in.

Filed Under: Just Me Blurbing

25 % OFF Coupon Code Plus Free Shipping at Artscow

November 16, 2011 By PurpleKiss Leave a Comment

Here’s something a lot of you would enjoy – Big Discounts and Big Savings! Especially since Christmas is drawing near. I’m sure some of you are starting out this early and preparing gifts already. Buy gifts early means you get to pick out the gifts that would truly match the person you wanna give it to. And one of the best gifts for me would be personalized goodies. It’s just heartwarming to receive something made just for you.

Sometimes though getting personalized gifts can be pricey. And this is where I love Artscow a lot. They have huge discounts and ordering personalized gifts is just easy. And if you’re not really much into designing then they also have lots of free templates you can use to come up with a unique gift. You can check out some of my Artscow personalized gifts templates – PurpleKiss Artscow Templates.

And here’s the best thing – Artscow has an ongoing promotion of 25% OFF everything (except for 4″ x 6″ prints and 8.5″ x 11″ calendar (12 months)). Yes, everything! So you get a wide range of items to choose from. And the coupon also comes with FREE INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING! I reckon this is one of the best deals from Artscow yet.

Sign up for a free account HERE. And take note of this coupon code: 25PCOFF. And remember the coupon is expiring on 11 / 21 / 2011. Hurry, Hurry, Hurry!

Filed Under: Artscow, Artscow Coupons, Digital Scrapbooking

Scrapping Freebie: Coffee Stickies

November 7, 2011 By PurpleKiss Leave a Comment

At least this freebie made it on a Tuesday! Hahaha. I’m just awfully busy most of the time and I tend to miss my freebie postings. Right now I’m on vacation and tomorrow I’m traveling back to Phnom Penh. I know I should not feel obligated to come up with freebies weekly, and no it doesn’t make me feel like I’m being hounded by collection agencies whenever I miss posting, but still I wanna strive to post at least one freebie per week. Even if its not on Tuesday. But the ‘tuesday freebie’ title would stay coz I’m just too lazy to think up another title hehe..

Anyhow, I got some vacation lowdown a few days ago, and my mother’s cup collection inspired me to come up with some sticker like wordart for scrappers. I’m sure coffee lovers and digital scrapbookers would love this..