I couldn't believe it, i checked and double checked and I thought I checked again BUT tonight someone pointed out that I had a misspelled word in my LO in the SS digital issue. I was so happy and proud and now I am just flat embarressed. How could I have missed it. I have always been terrible at spelling BUT now I tell you what, I will FOREVER be triple checking everything I do...I need a personal editor. I didn't really want to point out my ignorance but maybe it will help someone. I just can't believe i missed it.

*hugs* don't feel bad!! I'm sure everyone understands. I got the magazine today, congratulations!! Don't let this get you down, just think of how awesome it is to have something of your very own in a magazine!

I work at a printshop where I do typesetting and that. It is unreal the amount of times things get mispelled and printed like that. Even with all the spell checking, proof reading, things like that just happen. Its even harder trying to proof something yourself. Your mind kind of plays tricks on you since you know what it is supposed to say, alot of times you don't see mistakes until its too late.

Anways, don't feel bad about it!! Congrats again!

bummer tammy!! sorry, but you are being printed for the layout, not your spelling of course! and fyi, there is another scrapper here, i won't name names though, with a mistake in one of those layouts. not a spelling one, but a word issue let's just say. so you're not alone.

Thank you for your responses. I guess it's things like these that force you to get serious about things. I don't mean to sound like I'm making a big deal about this....but, as they say "it's those little foxes that spoil the vine" I have just enough perfectionist in me for this to bother me. Thanks again
Tammy

That is how you spell perfectionist?

I work for a daily newspaper. You should see some of the mistakes professional copy-editors miss - especially when the typo is an actual word, just not the word you meant. Its so hard for the eyes/brain to pick up on that type of mistake.

We have a rule at the paper about NEVER using the word "Public" in a headline or a drop head in the paper - because it is SO EASY to type "Pubic" instead, and maybe no one else will catch it, and then how embarr***ing will *that* be in print???

Don't beat yourself up - it's OK! Typos are a part of life!

Just got my issue from a store today. My pre-order has still not arrived, nor my free copy from SS.

I take a look at my ALL ABOUT THE HAT layout and just about fell off my chair. There is an entire line of text that doesn't belong, just floating on my layout!!! So I went to my out box to see what file I had sent them and this is what I determined happened.

They asked me for my layouts and being the good person that I am, I opened the document to check out all of the fonts and elements (which by the way April, I did source your hemp fibre and they never mentioned it) to give proper credit. I opened a previously made .jpg of the layout and took one look at the font and thought I recognized the font but to double check I typed out the top sentence in my journaling to match the font. Now here is the part I don't understand entirely.......but I am guessing I mistakenly saved the file, which was not even a jpg by that point but a PSD, with the flattened layout as one layer and the text as a second layer. The error continues when I go to attach a file in email and didn't notice that there were two files with the same name the folder I was browsing. I usually keep all my PSD's in a separate folder. I just grabbed the first one I saw that said All About the Hat and attached it. So I guess I sent them the PSD instead of the jpg and I never even realized.

However, the part that bugs me is that they obviously don't even look twice at the stuff they are putting in their magazine. Makes me think that next time I will make a point of plugging my CD by adding www.scrapbookgraphics.com into the layout somewhere
I mean, it should have been obvious to them, especially when they received a PSD instead of the jpg. However, I am guessing that they just send this stuff to print without really checking and no one in the print company is going to second guess even if they did notice.

I was a little bummed when I first saw this but you know.....I don't really care that much about it. I was actually surprised by my reactions to some of my other layouts. I am never usually that critical of myself, but I didn't really dig the way my two pager
"Sunset Swim" turned out. The pages themselves show pretty good, but I have never seen them pushed side by side as if it were one page before and I didn't like that at all. See, I have never been a paper scrapper and it never really dawned on me that 2 page layouts were meant to look like one big page. For me, I have always considered the center of the book as a divider and never worried about lining things up so that they looked like one page. I do two pagers with the same theme, look and feel but they are meant to be two separate pages the second being a continuation of the story from the first. I think Sunset Swim looks crappy pushed together like that. I never would have designed things that way had I have seen the two as one large page. It just doesn't flow well that way.

Alternately, the five minute layout I did of A Father Is turned out way better than I expected. Same thing with the Womb Song layout which I really didn't like at all when I first sent it to them. Those two were done by request when they asked for a wallet sized layout and an ultrasound layout. The only thing that surprised me was they didn't put the Father Is layout in a wallet. I understood that they wanted an actual wallet size print and that "they would provide the wallet" to put it in. I actually cropped the shape and dimension of that layout to fit a wallet size image, which was tough to work with considering it is thinner.

All in all though it was is a fun experience. Everyone's stuff looks marvelous!!! Congrats to all!

- maya

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too funny maya, well not funny, but no it wasn't you. someone else still. LOVE your fahter is page. yeah, didn't get the wallet deal. on your floating text, i just thought it was a memory. like you said it and drifted off to remember, then told the story. (go with that!!)
yeah, they certainly don't check things and it was a crazy issue adn there will certainly be many © issues, but seeing my dad's face when he saw his pics in there was so fun! Ü

how to find a way to make errors look intentional. It is in fact the secret to my creativity I've always been more of a problem solver than an artist

Glad your dad was perked by his layout. Hope he is feeling better.

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