Entry 9 : NSD Purchases

May 5th  - (inter)National Scrapbooking Day. Just about all the stores have sales, or at least many designers. My afternoon of purchases is summarised below.

Before the Day -

Scrapbook Graphics (well - I am in a contest there) £12.56

Digital Artisan Guild - lots of altered kits there this month - a whopping $29

NSD 5th May - 

Sophia Sarducci has a 50% off sale, and also two grab bags. I bought from there a day or so ago, but today is the last day to get those bags. Total spend - $10.50 

The Lilypad - absolute disaster initially - but sorted out within 15 minutes by Amy. Now that’s service!. Lilypad has a new store, and for NSD was offering 20% off. And with a big collobaration kit available too - except my $14 of purchases did not go through sucessfully into the store account - paypal did it fine. I ended up with two paid for orders as a duplicate and no actual downloads. Amy sorted the teething issues out within 15 minutes of my cry for help. Total paid - $14.63.

KB and Friends - Kathryn Balint  for one day only, offered three of her older kits, for $1 each. I bought two of these, good ones for boys - and a few other altered stuff from the store. Total spent - $8

Digital Artist Magazine - the downloadable monthly ezine, had 25% off, taking the latest edition for May down to $4.50. I was going to purchase this one anyway - normally via one of the digital stores. Instead, I went directly to the site for this purchase, plus the chance to win a subscription.  

Sweet Shoppe Designs - 30% off for NSD, plus a new megakit - which I got for free because I spent over $10 at the store. Total spend - $10.12.  

Scrapbook Graphics - actually, this was something personal - my first contest layout is up today, and I had to go and vote for myself (and grab the grab bag which comes with the vote. I also bought a new kit, non-discounted, in an attempt to come up with an idea for my next layout. Total spend - $7.99

Divine Digital has another grab bag weekend, and I selected 4 of these, for a total spend of $8 

Blue Flombingo Designs was offering discounts, so I not only bought an element pack, but finally treated myself to have my own handwriting created as an exclusive font for me. Total spend - $22.89

And Finally, DesignerDigitals had an ebook I wanted - plus many other things, and despite having a coupon for 25% off, I still managed to spend $29.

Four hours later (download, download, download) and I’ve spent enough for May, basically.