Cindy Doerksen CU Grab Bag 27

Cindy Doerksen's CU Grab Bag 27 has been uploaded and has been requested several times for a critique, so to those who requested, here it is. This grab bag is $5.50 and is available until July 27th at Candy Tree. There are 5 different items included in this grab bag: watercolor overlays, vintage goodies, stamps, ribbons and journal boxes. This grab bag unfortunately does not include any previews of the products included in the grab bag. As we have told these commercial use designers several times, it is near impossible to organize our hard drives without these images. The journaling boxes are very large, almost full page size. Thank you Cindy for another unique bag full of goodies! Cindy did inform me that she leaves these layered journal boxes page size so designers could use them for frames as well. Wonderful dual purpose use.Very unique. Saved in individual layers for easy customization. Few areas where it is not extracted close to the thread but it does not show when printed.

LBCreations CU Grab Bag 15

I have just received this grab bag from Designs by Babette AKA LBCreations. This jammed packed bag can be purchased for only $5.00 at Divine Digitals until July 27th. I am simply amazed at this woman's ability to turn out not only the amount of product in a week, but the quality. If you are a designer in need of quick kit turn around CU products, then these are the grab bags for you.

Veronica Spriggs: She's Gotta Have It!..Commercial Use

Veronica Spriggs has released her newest Commercial Use Grab Bag for $6.00 at DigiScrap Boutique. In this bag you get 3 new items and a bonus CU Texture pack with purchase. I have to say I was a little skeptical on the price. Six dollars is a lot for a 3 product grab bag, but the items are usable and with a few corrections, well worth the money.Lace is meant to have flaws, see if you can find a piece of lace, hand or machine made, and find a perfect one. I am not pointing out "flaws" in the lace as you will see them, I find that the designer did a wonderful job in making them very realistic in this aspect. What I am pointing out is design errors, what you would not find on lace in real life.

Cindy Ritter Commercial Use Grab Bag

Cindy has sent in her new Commercial Use Grab Bag to be critiqued. This grab bag is $5.00. One thing that I noticed immediately was the size of this bag. It is almost 200megs. Sounds huge for $5, right? Well, the previews are saved as .PNG files at 300 DPI 1815x1815 each taking up a large amount of room on your hard drive. So, the first thing I did was resize these images shaving 16 megs off the size of this grab bag.
Each of the 10 overlays in this overlay pack come as both a .JPEG and .PNG file. This is not necessary and again adds a tremendous amount of weight to your hard drive.
Each of these "Bits & Baubles" are simple shapes that have an Atomic Cupcake action run on them. Designers do not require premade elements for commercial use, this would be more of a personal use or scrap 4 hire element pack in my opinion. (As a side note, I have included 4 different of the Bits & Baubles on the image and was just labeling the frayed fabric.)
This glitter makes a really nice colored glitter "glue" when the right blend mode is applied.