Writer, TV Producer/Director, Digital Creator. (Discovery Channel, HGTV, The CBC, Elle Canada, The Toronto Star, and US Weekly.) Although I'm an award-winning journalist who has shot stories around the world, nothing gives me more joy than taking photos in my local stomping ground, “The Rouge” and turning them into illustrative art. I love sharing stories and images with my community along with free and paid resources to help others break the chains of the 9-to-5 hamster wheel to achieve a life they love. Check out my previous posts but keep in mind that only subscribers get access to my occasional gifts which aren't posted below - so sign up to receive my daily newsletter!
Hi Reader, I was excited to go downtown to eat some yummy dumplings but wasn't looking to the blustery weather - especially getting caught in a wind tunnels in the downtown core so now I'll get my whole day back.
ENDS TODAY AT 6 PM EST My contribution is my brand new paper pack, the "Modern Hearts" Illustrative Paper Pack which I created exclusively for this bundle. This bundle is only open until 6 pm EST today. After that, you'll have until March 18th to download whatever you like for free, but you have to be signed up.
✨BONUS - If you purchase The Canva Template Kit through my link (make sure laramai is shown at the very bottom of the checkout page) choose a deluxe bonus from my bonus page. You can also save your bonuses for upcoming collections. My bonuses do not have an expiry date.
ENDS TOMORROW: VALENTINE'S SALE! This couldn't come at a more perfect time considering today's topic, but Thrivecart has just kicked off a Valentine's promotion over the next couple of days where they're discounting ThriveCart Pro and Learn+ upgrades by $50 each. Thrivecart seldom offers sales so it's definitely a great time to upgrade. I have the Pro which is a no brainer since it gives you the option to run an affiliate program, among other fantastic features like automatic tax calculations which are huge time savers.
✨ BONUS - If you purchase Thrivecart using my link, book a 40 minutePick My Brain Session to brainstorm your next big business idea. If you purchase both Thrivecart Pro and Learn+, you can add a second session. This session can either be held over Skype, a half day on Voxer, or via email/video messages. You pick!
NEW/ENDS TONIGHT: HAPPY BIRTHDAY GABBY Use coupon: bdayme to save off any one item in the shop.
NEW: BADGET SPIRIT ANIMAL PACK Here’s a peek at the magic waiting for you: 📝 1 Epic Blog Post (1000+ Words) - Ready to captivate! 🎨 3 Styles for Spirit Animal Oracle Cards + 1 Back Style - Crafted in Canva & PowerPoint, perfect for insights and guidance. 🌟 AI-Generated Graphics Packs (300 DPI) - Dive into backgrounds, coloring pages, and mystical stickers that sparkle. 📚 7 Journal Page Templates + Cover - Create a sanctuary for thoughts and dreams with your spirit animal guiding the way. 🖌️ Exclusive Hand-Painted Badger & Habitat in Watercolor - Add a touch of nature's beauty to your offerings. 🔖 Commercial Use / PLR Rights - All yours to enchant and sell, spreading the magic far and wide. And here's the best part: this treasure trove of creativity and connection is valued at $150, but it's yours for just $47! Plus, because you're awesome, use the coupon code "badger" to unlock an extra special discount, bringing this entire pack down to $17!
✨BONUS 1 - If you grab Gabby's pack for $17, choose a regular bonus from my bonus page. ✨BONUS 2 - If you opt for Gabby's yearly membership, choose six deluxe bonuses. ENDS TONIGHT: PASSIVE POWER EMAILS This program is designed to help you systematically write your email series and strategically craft out an extended automated email sequence that will increase your subscriber engagement and boost product sales passively. She not only reveals her secrets but will guide her students step-by-step through creating an extended automated email sequence to help increase engagement and boost sales. This also includes a bonus opportunity to be featured in Faith’s email newsletter to promote your freebie in front of 11,000+ subscribers so that you can have new people entering your brand new, high-converting automated email sequence. You can also join for $70 with Faith's payment plan option. This sale ends tonight.
✨BONUS - If you sign up for Faith's program through my link, and pay in full (make sure you see my name laramai at the bottom of the checkout page under affiliate) you'll receive six deluxe bonuses from my bonus page. If you choose the payment plan, grab two (one-time) deluxe bonuss from my bonus page. ENDS TOMORROW: HALF OFF EVERYTHING! MaryJo from Cool Bean Design is having a long weekend February Flash Sale on everything in her shop. Use coupon code FEBFLASH50 to take 50% OFF until Monday, February 19th.
✨ BONUS - For every $25 you spend after coupons are applied and before taxes, choose a regular bonus from my bonus page. If you spend over $49, you can change that to a deluxe bonus and grab a second deluxe bonus for every $49 after that. GROUNDING KIT This package includes:
Customize and tailor the content to align with your unique journey. The user-friendly Canva template makes it easy to edit and adapt the kit to resonate with your personal style and voice.
✨ BONUS - If you buy Jenn's new kit, choose a regular bonus from my bonus page. If you opt for her Creator's Library instead, choose a one-time deluxe bonus.
The workbook comes with commercial rights to brand and sell as your own. All the content is done for you and wrapped up in an inviting, polished workbook. Get it for $19 (save $20) through February 19th.
✨ BONUS - If you purchase Lynette's workbook, choose a regular bonus from my bonus page.
TIME TO TRAVEL This month's theme is an adorable Welcome Baby Design Kit! This kit is a treasure trove of charming elements designed to capture the pure innocence and joy (I left out the challenging parts) of life with a new baby. With all the latest concerns over copyright, usage rights, and outsourcing art from questionable sources, a few members have asked if she makes the graphics in her kits. The answer is YES, she personally illustrates/draws/paints the graphics. Along with the individual elements, she's also included a few different types of graphics to help you create scenes. Check out everything you get on the sales page. This kit will be available at the discounted price of $27 until March 14th.
✨BONUS - If you purchase Katherine's kit choose a one-time regular bonus from my bonus page. TRAVEL SMART Jan Small is back with the Quirky Smartphone Travel Planner which is perfect for anyone planning a trip, whether that's a short break or a worldwide adventure. All sections are quickly accessible through tabs and indexes and customers can add extra pages to any section whenever they like. The Quirky Smartphone Travel Planner comes with PLR commercial rights and is ready to sell on Etsy and in your store but you can easily add your own design ideas to make your product unique or make a special version for different customers as instructions for how to alter the planner are included (45 page PDF). The quirky text design itself can easily be made unique by switching out the background to give a whole new effect or the design can be replaced with your own. As this is an evergreen product in a popular niche it can be sold all year round and for years to come. There's a bump offer on the checkout page with a seller's pack for $7 to help sellers get the product to market quickly. It includes an instruction booklet (in editable Canva template format) to create a PDF for customers, 10 product mockups in each of two formats (square and rectangular) with travel elements (editable with a Canva free account), 100+ relevant keywords, and a sample product description specifically written to sell this product. An upsell ($9) will be offered after purchase with 5 extra covers and an additional 25 Quirky text phrases in both header and background/cover format. This gives sellers the option to use matching quirky text for unique versions of their planner for example a cruise planner or a planner for a school exchange visit.
✨ BONUS - If you purchase Jan's planner, choose a regular bonus from my bonus page. If you purchase the bump and the upsell, you can choose a deluxe bonus instead. D'vorah is back with another one of her ever popular design camps, this time, a brand new, hands-on training program called Creative Cards Design Camp. This isn't about designing greeting cards. From Gratitude and Affirmation Cards, to Goals Cards, to Educational Cards, to Reminder & Routine Cards... and more, the opportunities are endless. Card-based products can be sold in your shop and you can use them as tools and resources for your students and clients. Card-based products are great companions to journals and workbooks and can even be used to walk participants, step-by-step, through a challenge experience program. Creative Cards Design Camp is an interactive, online training program, which will equip you in developing a library of templates that you can use for a wide-variety of products. And... when you register now, you can save big with the early bird special.
✨ BONUS 1- If you sign up for D'vorah's Canva course, choose three deluxe bonuses from my bonus page. MY LUCKY LUNAR BUNDLE "Chinese Lace - Paper Cutting" collection - 25 pieces: 12" x 12" PNG format. Both of these paper packs come with commercial usage and are perfect for websites, blog banners, headers, newsletters, planners, invitations, cards, and so much more. These are evergreen pieces which can be used for any project that could benefit from a pop of color, not to mention other celebrations such as Valentine's Day and Christmas.
SECURE YOUR FOUNDERS SPOT Right now, you can join to receive access to amazing trainings and templates at the founding rate price of $7 a month. So far there's business training, templates, a hub for creation ideas, marketing help and lots of new items to be added. There'll be video training on how to create printables, videos, training on Woo commerce and more and you can make requests. This is an ongoing membership which will continue to grow so you can help shape the course of the material. Plus you'll have access to all of her content for as long as you're a member.
✨ BONUS - If you join Sue's monthly membership, choose a one-time regular bonus from my bonus page. SAVE THE DATE! Stock your shop with this gorgeous DFY Wedding Planner for Google Sheets! 10 Tabs make this easy to use without being overwhelmed! FULL Unrestricted Commercial Use/PLR - easy to customize and make your own! This comes with fully customized Google Sheets based spreadsheet in two beautiful color themes. This also comes with full commercial use rights. You can edit as you please, sell as your own, give away to build your list, or pass on as PLR to your customers. • 10 tabs to organize everything from menus to budgets • Editable delivery guide & license • All 20 Tab Banners Used In The Wedding Planner • Budget Planner • Checklist • Venue Comparison • Vendor Comparison • Seating Chart • Itinerary • Packing List Bonus #1: Bonus #2:
✨ BONUS - If you buy Mel's new planner, (make sure you see my name "laramai" at the bottom of the checkout page where it says powered by Warrior Plus when you hover over the little person icon), choose a regular bonus from my bonus page. LIVE WITH PURPOSE If you're ready to move into your business in a way that serves you, Jenn Brockman is back with some brand new monthly goodies in her cool new membership, the Purposeful Path PLR Club. What You Get Every Month: 💖 Self-Help Content: Dive into a new theme every month from Mindfulness and Presence to Nature Connection, Travel, and Eco-Conscious Living, perfect for blog topics, workshop themes, or coaching sessions. 🔮 Mystic Content: Explore the mystical side of life with a new theme every month from Prosperity and Abundance Protection and Psychic Defense, perfect for blog topics, online content and more. All the content is planned and researched and ready for the rest of the year. Yep. She's already planned 12 months of new planners, prompts, trackers and more!
The club includes journal prompts, guided meditations, templates, card spreads, and affirmations. February's Files are now available in the club. They include:
Spiritual Growth and Enlightenment
The cost of the membership is $15 per month.
✨ EXCLUSIVE BONUS: If you sign up for Jenn's monthly membership (make sure you see my name laramai at the bottom of the checkout page under affiliate), choose a regular bonus from my bonus page. CREATE A NEW NICHE If all your blog, social media and newsletter posts are making you feel like banging your head against a wall, perhaps looking into an income stream which doesn't require any of that jazz might be worth exploring? 😆
✨ BONUS - If you sign up for Ken's course, (make sure you see my name "laramai" at the bottom of the checkout page where it says powered by Warrior Plus when you hover over the little person icon) choose a deluxe bonus from my bonus page located here. You can also save your bonus for a later date. My bonuses do not expire. 💝 As an added bonus, I've created an assortment of 8 x 10" art images using Ken's prompts that he reveals in the course. These prompts worked AMAZINGLY well but of course I had to add my own spin, so you'll be receiving these as a great starter to use for your own printable creations. This will be waiting for you in your W+ dashboard area after Feb 18th - but it could be sooner. I'm just adding the finishing touches! (Also, if you purchased Math Puzzles Mastery, your bonus will be in your W+ dashboard by the end of this week. Apologies for the delay for both!) CREATE UNIQUE PROMPTS! 💭 discover 10+ easy ways to craft impactful prompts 💭 learn to spark client action & boost success 💭 easily write unique, mindset-shifting affirmations 💭 upgrade your workbooks to ignite action, not just thought 💭 set your courses & coaching apart from the rest Plus these prompts & questions can even be packaged as standalone offers. 1300+ people have Ruth's prompt offers 😲
DITCH CANVA PRO 💘 Unlock All Access for only $47, a massive saving of 86%! Smart AI Tools - Free PNG Generator: Looking for a design you cannot find? Studio's intuitive & free-to-use AI tools allow you to create transparent PNGs within Studio effortlessly! Just input a prompt, and watch your ideas come to life - Your imagination is the limit! Upload Designs: Effortlessly create with your favorite assets from Creative Fabrica, or upload your own designs into Studio. Your Designs, Your Rules: Everything you create in Studio is yours to use, personally or commercially.
NEW: FEBRUARY DROPS AT CLUB PIN! For February, you'll receive:
Join now and you'll also receive January's goodies as well which include:
All this for just $10 and comes with commercial usage! We're talking super great value!
✨ BONUS - If you grab Mel's membership, choose a regular bonus from my bonus page. BONUS UPDATE: For Warrior+ purchases: Make sure you see my name "laramai" at the bottom of the checkout page where it says powered by Warrior Plus
If you're interested in learning how I use totally free and/or cheap tools to create AI generated images like the ones you see in the book above as well as my the bonuses you've seen lately as well as my newsletter banner photos, click here or the photo above. (Note: clicking this link won't take you anywhere. It just records your interest so I can make sure to notify you if and when this course becomes available - and offer it to you at the lowest price.)
Fantastic Monthly Memberships to Grow Your Biz: Faith (Faith's Biz Academy) Canva Templates Vault - $9/month ($197 one-time fee) (BZ40) Gabby (Cup of Zen) Spirit Animals Monthly Membership - $15/month Melanie (Bittyspire) Club Pin $10/month (See above for deets!) (B) Michelle Rohr (Secret Owl Society) - Say Yes to Desire (formerly) Planner Girl Insider's Membership : $300 lifetime fee or $50 x 6 months. (BZ30 for one-time payment) Mim Jenkinson's Create + Co-Work Club - $19/month (B) Ruth Poundwhite - The Soulful Sales Society - $29/month (B) *BONUS KEY: B - A regular bonus from my bonus page. Thanks so much for being part of my list. I'll be back soon with more great offers, stories and special gifts just for you. Happy Tales! Lara xo My name is Lara and I'm the owner of Tales From the Rouge - inspired by a magical enclave in the Rouge Valley in the east end of Toronto, Canada. I'm a writer/television producer and a wife and mom who loves photography, crystals, and my ever-expanding collection of typewriters. I'm inspired by nature on a daily basis and draw inspiration from my surroundings which trickles down to my creations. ✨ My Favorite Biz Tools ✨
*TC Bonus: If you purchase Thrivecart using my link, I'm offering TWO 40 minute Biz Coaching sessions. If you upgrade to Pro, I'll add in a third session! Currently, I am not accepting coaching clients so this is your chance to work with me directly. 😻 ✨ Tales From the Rouge Freebies & Deals ✨
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Tales From the Rouge
Writer, TV Producer/Director, Digital Creator. (Discovery Channel, HGTV, The CBC, Elle Canada, The Toronto Star, and US Weekly.) Although I'm an award-winning journalist who has shot stories around the world, nothing gives me more joy than taking photos in my local stomping ground, “The Rouge” and turning them into illustrative art. I love sharing stories and images with my community along with free and paid resources to help others break the chains of the 9-to-5 hamster wheel to achieve a life they love. Check out my previous posts but keep in mind that only subscribers get access to my occasional gifts which aren't posted below - so sign up to receive my daily newsletter!
Hi Reader,I'm still recovering from our trip to Niagara Falls. We had an amazing time and it was pretty low key, but for some reason, I haven't been able to get my groove back yet. It's taken more time to recover than the amount of time we were actually away. 🤣We did pack a lot into four days - and some of those days we walked almost 20k steps! That might be close to a record.As I mentioned last time, halfway through our stay, my son said he didn't want to go to the waterpark. A part of me...
Hi Reader,I am back from my break. We took a few days off to celebrate my son's birthday which was a real treat for all of us. Besides checking once a day for any emergencies, I enjoyed time away from the computer and didn't write any emails which was new territory for me. We went for an extended trip to Great Wolf Lodge in Niagara Falls which is my son's favorite place in the world. I upgraded our reservation and booked a suite which is situated on two floors. Why? So he can throw his...
Me in my happy place Hi Reader,A few nights ago, I ventured down to the lake to check out the full moon. However, the second anniversary of my newsletter swept in and took over so I'm including pics today. My friend who usually accompanies me every month couldn't attend so my hubby begrudgingly came along. He was missing the baseball game but since it was well after 9 pm and it's so dark down by the water (and the path isn't lit) he didn't want me going alone.The two previous nights were...