The Big News?

Hi Everyone,

I have been getting a LOT of emails lately about my design services. So I thought I would address it where everyone can read it :) Makes it easier on my brain too so I know if I have emailed this person or that person :)

As most of you have heard, I am not a Stampin' Up! demonstrator any longer. I am actually working for another company now.

Because of this I WILL continue to offer free buttons to Stampin' Up! demonstrators but I WILL NOT be continuing the blog maintenance program for Stampin' Up! Demonstrators.

This DOES NOT effect my ability or services as far as designs for new blogs or for redesigns for those that already have a blog. My design services will still remain the same. The services I provide have nothing to do with being a demonstrator or not -- it just depends on my creative ability to design something that you will LOVE  and you all know that is always my goal when I am designing for anyone.

Thank you so much for everything and your continued support :) I look forward to doing more of your designs!

Inky Hugs,

Cristena

Relief At Last!

My poor computer passing away .... and me feeling like I was going to DIE without my computer and my email!!! I thought for sure I was going to end up in a padded room some place! Oh yeah.. that is my office :)

I know I have been out of reach because of this for the last week. My deepest apologies but this was a job in a half getting everything transferred to the new computer.

There was only one thing that went wrong..... My emails and my contacts are LOST! I did manage to save my contacts and SOME of the emails... however... they don't work with the new email program that I have to use (by the way if you get a computer with Windows 8 don't use the email they give you... I finally ended up with Mozilla Thunderbird) Not even outlook will work on this properly.

So -- I am asking a HUGE favor!!!!!

If you have sent me an email in the last week (since April 29 to yesterday) can you please please resend the email... it is not that I was ignoring you... it was that I had no computer or email :(  I was able to answer a few that came through on my phone (sorta)

But this will also help me to get my contacts back.

But I am up and running again -- I am a bit backed up and behind so please have patience I am working as fast as I can.

Thanks!

Inky Hugs,

Cristena

Now we offer financing!


Yes you read correctly! On any purchases over $99 you may qualify for financing through PayPal.

If you have been wanting that blog for a while -- contact me and we will see what we can do! -- granted please know you have to qualify through PayPal I have nothing to do with the qualifying decisions for the financing.

Freedom to Create

This was a great honor to me to do Michelle Zindorf's blog. However I feel horrible that we couldn't change her to a normal wordpress blog because she couldn't get the lovely themes on the service she is using. But I still think everything looks lovely and as long as she likes it that is all that matters to me :) Please go check out her beautiful creations! http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com

Her banner actually came from one of her own creations :)

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Her buttons

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Her signature

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Her Watermark

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WordPress blogs being attacked

There has been several updates to WordPress being attacked.  There are solutions to your WordPress site not being attacked.

The first thing I would suggest is having a very strong password! Many people pick things that are easy for them to remember -- which is good... but sometimes that is bad because the password can be weak and your site can be hacked into.

I have seen many posting and I have been reading about these attacks in the news sites as well. I think the guys over at iTheme said it best! You can see their post  HERE

Mind you there are a lot of big tech words that you might not understand... but it still a good read and there are some good solutions to not getting your site attacked.

Hugs,

Cristena