2020 TLCDesigns.shop DT Call

 Hello Fellow Artists!

TLC Designs, (To Live Creatively) is a newer Brand of Bright, Bold and Beautiful Inspired Crafting Products!  My name is Tammy Louise, as founder, my vision is for TLC Designs to be a brand that sells innovative and fun interactive products that keep up with changing trends as well as creating its own!  We are devoted to bringing affordable, quality products to crafters so EVERYONE can create with great products that bring JOY into their lives!  Please feel free to research the products in the store at TLCDesigns.shop.  The proof is in the pudding! lol

 

Our Brand is new, but we are a truly dedicated Paper Crafting Supply Company with almost a decade of experience in this industry.  This is our VERY FIRST DT CALL and we are looking for those special few crafters to join our journey for a long and fun filled future!  There is JOY to be found in crafting with our products and we're looking for a few people that find it!   
This call is open WORLDWIDE

DT Applications open October 26 and will be accepted until November 5, 2020.  Applicants will be notified by November 10, 2020.

FB Group TLC Designs Creative Sharing

This is where you will find our FB Group and the original DT Call, if you are interested in this call, please join the group and review the original DT Call

We are excited to invite you if:

You are curious and adventurous, enjoy being part of a supportive community to inspire, educate, and uplift others!  Also, enthusiastic, committed and creative stampers who are both talented and dependable for a 6-month DT term from December 1, 2020 to May 31, 2021.  We want you if you think outside the box and show what incredible and fun things our products can do with interesting techniques!  Whether you color with Watercolor, Alcohol inks, Distress Inks or any other medium to create with, we would love for you to apply!  

Applicant requirements:

• Love to work with both rubber/digital stamps is preferred but we are willing to teach you how to work with digital stamps if need be. One of the three projects per month must be with a digital illustration. 

 

• It is necessary to create using dies of some kind either non interactive or interactive dies on EVERY PROJECT.

 

• Also please use digital designer paper with a few projects per month. When our range of products increases to includes stencils, embossing folders or any other industry products, it is expected the TLC Designs products will be used in ½ of the required projects. 

 

• Commit to a 6-month term with a minimum of 3 projects per month. You may create more if desired.

 ONE WITH (current free) DIGITAL IMAGE, DIGITAL SENTIMENT AND A DIE.  

 ONE WITH (current free) POLYMER IMAGE, POLYMER SENTIMENT AND DIE.

 ONE WITH IMAGE OR SENTIMENT OF YOUR CHOOSING

 (One of these three is accompanied by a tutorial or you may create a 4^th project for the tutorial)

•  Desire and ability to post on assigned day of the week, sharing and posting your projects with little supervision. Proficient in interacting on social media (FB, Blog, Instagram, YouTube etc.) using hyperlinks!  Possible DT Coordinator position available (interested applicants can discuss this once you are accepted to the team. 

•  You need an established blog, FB, IG or You Tube presence and to enjoy working with others on hops or collaborations. FB, Instagram and YouTube channel experience preferred.  If you have experience posting on Blogspot, Shopify blogs or using Canva for IG please let me know.  TLCDesigns is currently interested in dedicating our marketing efforts to Instagram, FB and You Tube.   

 

• Promote products with at least one tutorial per month. Customers and followers love to learn!  Trying something new keeps our mojo’s flowing and our interests peeked!  This tutorial is preferred in video format on YouTube or Instagram but blog tutorials with step by step pics are acceptable.  If you love doing FB Lives, please inform me and we can set up a time to share to the FB Group!  This will qualify as the required one tutorial per month. 

 

• Willingness to post EACH AND EVERY PROJECT to 5 addition groups on FB other than your sites and the TLCDesigns Group and anywhere else you would normally post. (the 5 group names and their requirements will be provided to you). TLC Designs sponsors a few select groups and tracks groups that are craving information on products, sales, releases and more!

 

• It is ALL about the pictures! You must take quality pictures of your projects that are pleasing to the eye and provoke interest in the products used.  One in a flat position (for TLCDesigns), with good lighting on a white background that includes some of the products used in the project.  More photos can be posted on sites but for advertising, emails, research and marketing purposes, please provide one photo of each project in this fashion.

DT Benefits:

You will receive: 

 Two free digital character stamps (all inclusive) per month

One free Polymer Character stamp per month

One free interactive die per 6-month term

50% off one additional die (of your choice) per month

25% off personal orders of all products in store during your term

Plus! If the project you have created is irresistible and shows off the TLCDesigns in the best way possible, there is additional compensation to be had! Your project (if requested) could earn you $4.00 per project.  Which is then ours to use for additional advertising and Marketing purposes!  So, if your project stands out, it can make you some extra cash!

TLCDesigns will promote your projects and blogs on the Inspirations blog, FB group and on Instagram. We will supply watermark badges for you to apply to all pictures.

So, are you the right designer for us?  Are we the right Company and products for you?  There are cards to be made, crafty time to be shared and techniques to be learned!  Do you want to use TLC Designs product in your projects and create a buzz of interest in your followers while growing your Tribe?  This team could be for you! 

By now you’re wondering, what would we like to know about you?

Name:

Address:

Blog address:

All other Social Media Links you currently are active on:

Email Photos of 5 of your favorite projects recently created (Any images are acceptable). 

A list of your current DT obligations and a short list of your past teams (not mandatory).  If this is your first application for a team and your passion is in cardmaking, coloring and crafting, please do not let your inexperience stop you from applying!  We all have our strengths and our weaknesses, things we must work on to improve and things that we can learn!  We all start somewhere!

A little information about yourself including your areas of experience (e.g. watercolor, Copic, Derwent, Distress etc.), and why you think you would be a good fit for the TLC team.

I am excited to hear from you and wish you ALL THE BEST OF LUCK!  If you have any questions before applying, please email me or PM me in FB messenger.  We are going to be an easy going and fun team!  We appreciate a good sense of humor and enjoy getting to know each other better!     

Email me Tammy Louise Cunliffe or (TLC) at tlccunliffe@yahoo.com

Join me on FB Live “To Live Creatively” hour every Thursday night at 8pm EST!

Stay Crafty,

Ink Me In Pink Freebie

Join in on all the fun tonight at 8pm EST!

October is Breast Cancer awareness month and every year is another opportunity to support research, inspire men and women struggling from this disease and to come together in a united way!   

Check out the Live Video on FB or visit my Youtube Channel

Here's my make from Thursday night with products from TLCDesigns.shop!  The project came together quickly and the papers really coordinated with all the embellishments!  I used the Freebie Stamp Set called Ink Me In Pink, the digital Ink Me In Pink paper pack (100% profit is donated to the Breast Cancer Awareness cause).  

Butterfly Rectangle Frame die

Land and Sea Dies

Loving Petals Square die

It's time again for the ANNUAL Ink Pink Instagram hop!  This is an opportunity for this industry to reach out and spread the word!  Many companies are coming together again this year and TLCDesigns.shop is doing it's part!

This is a digital stamp set with two illustrations and four meaningful sentiments.  Olive is holding out her hands to give you hope!  Fill them with any image from your stash for any occasion like flowers or a gift of some sort, or color up the included butterfly and send hope to someone fighting for their lives!  

There is an additional opportunity for you to help the cause!  I've designed a coordinating paper pack that will help you along with your project and all of the proceeds will be forwarded to Breast Cancer research.  So pop over to the digital papers section and give Hope!

 Join TLCDesigns.shop and other generous companies from our industry for the cause this weekend and win prizes and make friends!  

Stay Crafty,

This Little Light of Mine!

Happy Friday Friends! 

Watch me create todays project on Youtube or FB!  

Here's a short video with the Lite up interaction 

Guess what's new in the TLCDesigns.shop?  It's Happy!!!  The most adorable pudgy little dragon Polymer Stamp set called Happy!  He's simply the happiest!  The 3" x 4" set comes with two extremely generic sentiments (the Hi fits inside the balloon even!!!), three or four small accessory stamps and Happy! 

A girl dragon or a boy!  It really is diverse with the little party hat or bow tie!!  Make an entire bundle of balloons because they are separate stamps!!  Use one string with three balloons while you mask them off, it's entirely up to you! 

On last nights FB LIVE, I combined and assembled the easy to use Pear Blossom Press EZ-lite mechanism (complete set of three with batteries) with the Happy stamp and a die cut candle from the Celebrate Frame Die Set!  

The card frame is one of the exquisite new store starter dies called Butterfly Rectangle Frame Die.  It comes with a frame die that has a cut-less edge to place on the score line of a card and it creates the entire card.  Then the second frame size down has beautiful slots on the edge, a beautiful faux stitch line and valiant looking marquis on each corner too! 

The Push button for the mechanism was covered with one of the petal free flowers from the Oval Lily Frame die set also available at TLCDesigns.shop

I hope you enjoyed the project and stop in to say hi on my weekly FB Live Crafty hour! 

Stay Crafty,

Autumn Colored with Gilding Flakes

 

Find my Assembly video for this project on my Youtube Channel here

On Thursday's at 8pm EST I roll out the inks, papers, stamps and dies and sit in the studio to prepare my weekly hour of sharing.  A few weeks ago, I decided to get out some oldies but goodies which included the Gilding flakes and stencils.

The Apple A Day Die set has a very nice sized ornate frame die that creates a beautifully sized background for any smaller frame or shaped die to layer with. 

The design paper is centered with a red card stock and an additional frame is cut in black to be placed just to the left off center.   This process enables all of the contrasting colors to appear but also gives an elegant style to the project as well.

The focus image will be the embossed "THANKS" from the EZ Salutations stamp set centered onto the second largest frame in the Tiny Vine Die set after using a stencil and some Stazon inks on the white card stock.  

After the focus point of the project is done, I cut two of the larger dies in the Tiny Vine Oval Die set once in red and once in black and again put the red centered behind the white oval then offset the black in the opposite direction than before.   The project is now symmetrical in color and in style.

 

The final process in this project is to put a piece of double sided sheet onto some white card stock and die cut the Star Spangeled Confetti die.  Once the die is cut, take off the protective cover revealing the adhesive.  Time to get out your gilding flakes!  I placed gold on one of these stars and some mixed flakes on the other star.  Rub and burnish them into the adhesive and the star is placed between the two layers of contrasting frames.  A bit of Autumn peaking out from the Thanks project and it is completed with a bit of ribbon on both layers!  

I hope you enjoyed the project, wanna give it a try, feel free to check it all out on the You tube channel above and I hope you visit next Thursday! 

Stay Crafty,

Jack O' Gnome for the WIN!

 

It's time to play along and WIN!

Grab your freebie digital illustration set called Jack O' Gnome from the TLCDesigns.shop and get to creating!  Post a pic on FB or IG with the hashtag #TLCpumpkingnome and we will draw the winner of a $10.00 store gift certificate!

The file has papers, sentiments and some super cute silhouette images too along with Jack of course!

This project was designed on last Thursday night's FB Live on TLC Designs FB page.

I used the design paper in the kit along with the image.  Combined with the following die sets also available in the store:  Celebrate Ribbon Die, flowers from the Oval Lily Frame (distressed a bit) and the stunning Aztec Sunshine circle die! 

I added a few little sparkly stars and a flower die cut in his hand.  A bit of gel pen dots in highlighted places and he's complete!  The project was fun, quick and inspiring to design with all my wonderful friends on FB Live!

Stay Crafty,