I know things have been very quiet around here, but I hope to change that soon. Fancy Designs is now offering new products and I’m running another blog, The Weekly Bakery, not to mention my boyfriend wants to expand some of his leather working and start a t-shirt line, so my plate is always full at the moment. I hope you are all doing well! I’ll leave you with a little sneak peak of some of the new products!
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Having a new baby and need invitations for a baby shower? Getting married and need invitations for your bridal shower or rehearsal dinner? Want invitations for a birthday party, housewarming party or just because? Here’s your chance! Comment here or on Fancy Designs wall to be entered to win 20 free invitations!

Apparently I was never informed but I moved up to Silver Pro Seller, which excites me!

For the next downloadable content post, would you guys prefer textures or frame brushes?

Hello Fancy Design followers! How have you all been? I hope everyone is well. I’ve been slacking here badly, but the good news is, where I’ve slacked, I’ve been giving a lot more time to other areas. Woo for a little something, right? I have a spotlight in mind for this coming week, I just need to contact her and make sure she is okay with it! Lets hope so! I hope to have that up soon and also some new textures for download! It looks like a lot of the older links are down, which means I deleted them Sorry about that. So, for now, I’ll leave you with my new products (I can’t wait to get a little time to work on more of it!)

I had a winner picked out, but by the time I got around to posting, there were a lot more comments so I felt like it was completely unfair to use the previous winner because it was omitting a lot of people. So with an accurate account of the commenters, our winner is: Emma! You can find Tonia’s contact information under “contact” at Luvkins.

Business Card Giveaway
Want to win 100 Free Business Cards from Fancy Designs? Then comment here or leave us a little something on our page about your business! Don’t own a business but would like some calling cards to pass out to friends, co-workers, children’s teachers? That’s fine too, just drop us a line! One lucky winner will be announced next week! Let your friends know about the giveaway!

I like getting emails like this!

Congrats to everyone who won Artist Awards!
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Q&A
Q: 1. What was your initial interest in designing?
A: 8 or 9 years ago I made a journal on deadjournal and saw people making blinkies so I wanted to learn how to make them. I taught myself how to make them using box brushes until I figured out how to make the boxes on my own. Then I just started playing around in Photoshop making different things for myself (Myspace layouts, banners, icons, etc). I enjoy making blinkies more than anything else though.

Q: 2. Who would you say inspires you the most?
A: I’d have to say the people that request graphics from me and my online friends. Also, seeing all of the awesome stuff other makers put together.

Q: 3. I know you are a mother to a wonderful and perfect baby boy, what advice can you give to designers who want to have children?
A: Aw, thank you Ash! My advice graphics-wise would be to not take on a lot of online responsibilities if you do get pregnant until you know for sure you can handle it. I had morning sickness my entire pregnancy so I barely ever felt like being on the computer, but I felt like I had to because of everything I had committed to do online. Don’t think that after birth you’ll be able to go back to everything either haha! I didn’t have the time to start making again until about two or three months after my son was born. The mommy thing was very overwhelming to me at first because I’m a first-time mom and my husband was in Iraq when he was born so I was doing everything alone. Many, many kudos to single mothers!

Q: 4. What programs do you love and what programs do you love to hate?
A: Photoshop! I use Adobe PS CS3 and lalalove it! I’ve never used PaintShop other than using it to convert psp files. I tried once but couldn’t really get the hang of it like I did with Photoshop.

Q:5. If you were given an assignment, to pick one celebrity and use them for inspiration for your work for an entire month, who would you, why would you pick them?
A: Honestly, I’ve never been ga-ga over any celebrities so using anyone famous for inspiration for a whole month would be hard for me! That would probably only last a few days lol. If I had to pick someone right now I’d say Megan Fox because she’s nice to look at.

Examples of her work:

One lucky commenter will win 15 gallery blinkies from Tonia!

Yvonne is the lucky winner of the 5 icons and 5 blinkies from Jodee. Please contact her when you can to claim your prizes

I changed my shop layout today and added some new stationery and birth announcements!

Q: 1. How long have you been making?
A: I started making websites & graphics around 13 or 14. I started making icons & things after I joined livejournal in late 2004, early 2005.

Q: 2. What got you started in making?
A: My main inspiration was always Britney Spears. I started with stock like celeb icons & then started making the “fancy” style not to long after.

Q: 3. Where would you say most of your resources come from?
A: Gosh, all over! I really enjoy the textures made by Nia: http://luvkins.webs.com/

Q: 4. If you could give one tip to makers, what would it be?
A: Practice, practice, practice!

Q: 5. Who would you say is your all time favorite maker?
A: All time? Hmmm. Probably heartful or charmbracelet.

One lucky commenter will win 5 blinkies and 5 blinkies from Jodee

I’ve been working on a lot of new designs! How super cute are some of them?

I also did a little updating in the shop section of the website. That will have to do for now.

and, last but not least, it’s time for me to announce the winner of the free stationery….Cassondra Castro, who said her favorite was the red high heel design!