Hi Reader,
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I hope you're enjoying the warmer weather now that we're officially into summer.
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Can you believe the days are now getting shorter and we're somehow more than halfway through the year? 😳

As many of you know, I participated in BC Stack earlier this month and contributed my Illustrative AI Selfie Lookbook​.

If you already own this item, good news! There's a brand new, updated version waiting for you inside your members area.
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But apparently…it’s not for everyone. 😊
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I don’t get many emails from bundle subscribers commenting on my products, but every now and then one lands in my inbox that's worth sharing.

Hello,
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I didn't sign up.

I looked at it and thought it's for people who are more attractive than me.

No thanks.

Doesn't fit my branding anyway.

Please reverse any charges, because I'm not interested.
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First of all...reverse what charges? It didn't cost anything. 😂
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Second, I’m not sure what possesses people to email small business owners with opinions about something they were under absolutely no obligation to download.
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Like...you could have simply kept scrolling?

In reality, you do not need to be a supermodel to use this. You don’t even need to use your own face.
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It's one of the biggest mistakes people make with AI and creativity.
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They disqualify themselves before they even begin. They assume they’re not photogenic, polished, or stylish enough. Or that it doesn't fit their brand. But that’s missing the point entirely.

The Lookbook has never really been about selfies. It's about possibility.

Sure, you can use your own face. But you can just as easily create fictional characters, story personas, branding, client visuals, fantasy alter egos, or even images for friends.

(And yes, it's also the perfect gift for narcissists. I guarantee they’ll spend hours admiring their AI portraits and think you’re the most thoughtful gift-giver alive. 🤣)

The point was never about looks. It’s about what becomes possible once we stop making ourselves the barrier. This person ruled herself out before she could even get in the ring.
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At any rate, if you’ve been curious about the Lookbook, or skipped it the first time around, thanks to this strange little inbox detour, I’m opening it back up at at its original launch price as a thank you for sticking with me through today's shaggy dog story.
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You can grab it here for $12 only in this email before it returns to its regular price of $37.
Use code 12-LOOK if the coupon doesn't auto apply.
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If you want to experiment with illustrated portraits, fictional characters, creative branding, or simply make ridiculous gifts for the narcissists in your life, now’s your chance. 😁

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And if you want to take it a step further, I'm opening up my brand new Main Character Generator GPT in pre-launch.
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I originally created this as an exclusive offer for BC Stack members, but since you’re already on my list, it felt wrong not to open it up to you too.
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It’s the companion GPT I built to help turn portraits into fully formed characters.
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Not just faces, but cinematic identities. Illustrated alter egos. Aesthetic worlds. Artistic personas that go far beyond any one portrait style.
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Think:

- a mysterious Parisian botanist
- a candlelit gothic heroine
- a surrealist storybook character
- a glamorous spy hiding dangerous secrets
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Instead of wondering who to create next, this GPT builds the person behind the portrait:

- backstory
- personality
- desires
- contradictions
- story hooks
- symbolism
- emotional wounds
- hidden secrets
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​The Lookbook gives you 40 visual starting points.
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The Main Character Generator takes those starting points and expands them into endless characters, stories, and creative directions.

Right now, you can grab it here for $9. That's the lowest it will ever be before the official release in early July. If the coupon didn't auto-apply, use code MCG-PRELAUNCH.
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After that, the price goes up.

If you picked up BC Stack through my link, keep an eye on your inbox. I’ll be sending out access details then. (And if you haven’t emailed me yet, drop me a line so I can make sure you get access at your preferred address.)
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Now, onto a few things actually worth oversharing. 😉

One of my fave biz coaches, Naima Sheikh, is back with yet another brilliant tool to help bring sanity to your business: Portable AI Studio.
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This is a simple system that gives your AI a real home base, so you stop the cycle of starting from a blank chat, and having to re-explain yourself ad nauseum. It works with whatever AI tool you already use.
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Specifically, it:

• gives you an organized home base for your context, voice, messy notes, and your current work so your important assets are never lost or forgotten.
• works with Claude, ChatGPT, and most AI models so you're never locked into one tool
• comes with a starter kit and quick start guide to move you from a heap of downloaded files that you need to deal with to a bonafide fully working studio...fast.

If you have a zillion half-finished projects and can never remember where you left off, this is for you.
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Portable AI Studio gives you a simple dashboard that shows what is active, what is waiting, and what is ready to pick back up.
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This is a dedicated, custom workspace where your docs, your work, your tools and your fave AI helpers, come together, so you'll never have to waste time hunting stuff down, explaining, or starting from scratch.
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Bonus! This also includes a five-day live build round where you get direct support with Naima herself who will help you set up the kit and caboodle.
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You'll also get these additional bonuses:
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PageText, GPT Factory, and Voice Vixen. (All are super useful in and of themselves!)
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If you're someone who has trouble keeping all your AI chats, notes, unfinished projects and zillion open tabs organized, make sure to pick this up at the launch price of $97. The sale ends on June 30th, at 11:59 pm.

✨BONUS - If you pick up Naima's super useful software, receive a $40 in Lara Loot to spend in my shop with no expiry. New additions (including trainings and courses) coming soon.

UNLEASH A MONTH OF CONTENT IN A DAY​
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If you're a fan of the lovely Leonie Dawson, she's back with Content Blast, a brand new live workshop which teaches you how to max out your content creation for an entire month in a single day.

The cost? $99, but not only do you get access to her brand new course/workshop.

You'll also receive every single course that Leonie has inside her Brilliant Biz + Life Academy membership for an entire year. (That's over 137 courses, guest expert workshops, templates, trackers, DFY resources, and books. Yes you heard correctly!)

Not only do you get the chance to jump in and get stuff done during the live workshop, you'll have an army of resources to last you an entire year.
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Still not sure? Check out her style before committing by visiting her freebie page.

✨BONUS: If you purchase Leonie's workshop (which gives you access to her membership for a year), receive $49 worth of Lara Loot.

NEW: LIFETIME ACCESS OFFER!​
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Mary Jo at Cool Bean has just announced that for the next few days, you can get Lifetime Access to the Template Supply Club​ for $149.
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Each month, a new collection of Canva templates gets released. You'll receive 3 premium templates with commercial use rights and a set of marketing mockups. There’s also a walkthrough video, selling suggestions for how to use them, how to switch the content up for different niches, keywords, and more.
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That's one payment.
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No monthly fees.
No renewals.
No subscriptions.​
Every future monthly drop of done-for-you Canva templates with commercial rights, yours forever.
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As of July 1st, the monthly price is going up from $12 to $17. Anyone who joins before then locks in the $12 (or less) price forever. This is a rate that Mary Jo promises will never change.

• Monthly: $12 goes to $17
• Quarterly: $30 goes to $40
• Annual: $96 goes to $149

That means right now you can get lifetime access for the exact same price as a single year at the new annual rate.

Except you never pay again after that.
​Not next month.
Not next year.
​Not ever.
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​Join today and you'll land on the June collection, the Clear Head Kit. Three premium Canva templates built around mental clarity, stress management, and rest. All with commercial use rights so you can brand them and sell them as your own. Plus, a set of promotional mockups to use in your marketing and listings.

And in just a few days, a brand new collection drops for July. You'll get that one too, and every single one after it... without ever paying again.

This is the best deal Mary Jo will ever offer on the Template Supply Club membership and when this flash sale ends June 30, it's gone.
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If you prefer not to go lifetime, you can you can lock in your rate at the lowest price you'll ever be able to grab it. As a bonus, anyone who joins TSC in June will get extra bonus templates delivered instantly.
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Depending on what tier you join, you'll receive:

Monthly ($12): Walk for Your Mind Template Set ($91 value)
Quarterly ($30): Walk for Your Mind + Life Admin Template Set ($199 value)
Annual ($96): All 2026 TSC templates to date! ($540 value)
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The last day to take advantage of locking in your membership forever at the lowest rate, or securing lifetime access, ends June 30th. If you wait until July 1st, you'll be too late.
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Smart hack: If you're not sure you'll love TSC, sign up for a month to see if you like it and upgrade to lifetime membership before the deadline.

✨ BONUS: Choose any membership option and get a one-time bonus of 50% of your purchase back in Lara Loot.

CELEBRATE WITH HUGE BUNDLE SPECIALS
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My friend Nadia at Miss Fancyplans is holding a second biz anniversary celebration this week. 🎉
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Right now, to commemorate this milestone, she's offering four very special bundles:
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​Half-Year All-Access Pass ​
This bundle gives you access to every type of product that she creates (PLR, MRR, trainings, courses, and anything else she comes out with) between July and December 2026. Last December, she sold the full-year pass and customers who picked that up have already gotten over $1K worth of products from her. Join them for the other half of the year and pick it up for $297 (a projected value of at least $750+.)
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​Half-Year PLR Pass​
​This bundle is comprised of all the PLR Nadia will be creating from July to December 2026. This doesn't include MRR, trainings, or courses but you'll get at least two PLR products per month, or more. This is a projected value of $397+, for $147.
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​The Puzzler's Package​​​
This contains seven items with a puzzle focus. A value of $191 for $47 (that's 75% off)
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⭐️ PLR Detective Deanna: The Case of the Missing Change Box (value $27)
⭐️ PLR Blizzard at Frost Peak: A Math Mystery (value $27)
⭐️ PLR The Case of the Stolen Sapphire (value $27)
⭐️ PLR Winter Sports Trivia Board Game (value $17)
⭐️ PLR Seasonal Word Search Mega Bundle (value $47)
⭐️ How to Customize Your Word Searches (value $9)
⭐️ How to Make Drop-Down Word Grid Puzzles (value $37)
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​Affinity Collection​
Nadia's Affinity courses show you how to use selected tools to create specific projects. That means you're not overwhelmed by too much all at once, you get to practice skills on repeat, AND you'll actually be making products that you can sell.
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Maybe you didn't know Affinity was available for free. Or maybe it seems a little intimidating. Or you said to yourself that you'd save looking at it for later, when you had a little more time. That time could be now.
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You'll receive:
⭐️ First Steps in Affinity: Create Repeating Patterns with Hand-Drawn Graphics (value $67)
⭐️ Font Foundry: Create Playful Alphabets in Affinity (value $127)
⭐️ Mix-and-Match Magic: Create a Library of Cut Character Features in Affinity (value $127)
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These three courses have a combined value of $321 - but they're just $97 as a package this week. That's 70% off.​
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These limited-time offers are available only until Sunday June 28th at 11:59 pm EST.
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✨ BONUS: Pick up any bundle from Nadia and receive a one-time bonus of 40% of your purchase back in Lara Loot.

AMAZING GPT BUNDLE DEAL ​
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Faith from Faith’s Biz Academy has come out with the Sales Driver GPT Bundle, a bundle with three custom GPTs designed to help with pricing, sales page clarity, and sales page checkups.
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This bundle includes Pricing Power Studio GPT, Sales Page Clarity Studio GPT, and Sales Page Checkup GPT. These have all been updated as platform-agnostic custom AI assistants.
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Grab it for $49 (regularly $69) with coupon SALESDRIVER until June 28th.

✨ BONUS: Pick up this bundle and receive a one-time bonus of 40% of your purchase back in Lara Loot.

GET ANIMATED!​
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Jan Small over at Simple Happiness Biz has just launched Animate Your Marketing. It's a short course to help you quickly create content that strengthens your visibility and reach.

Static content, no matter how well designed, mostly reaches people who already follow you.

But moving content gets pushed by the platforms into the feeds of people who've never heard of you.

Using animation versus static posts is one of the most underused advantages available to small creators right now. And most people either don't know about it or assume animation means complicated video that is too much effort.

But simple animation is not the same as complex video production.

Animate Your Marketing shows you exactly how to create animated content step by step using any one of these three tools: Canva, Midjourney, and Google Flow. (And how to do this for free with both Canva and Google Flow.)

The training comes with 12 easy-to-follow videos with transcripts and five Canva animation templates so you can get started straight away.

Animation can be working for your business in an hour or so, multiplying the effect of your marketing without multiplying the effort.

Grab it for $17 during launch. (After launch, the price will increase to $37.)

This offer ends Wednesday, July 1st at 11:59 PST.

✨BONUS - If you purchase Jan's course, I'll give you 40% of your purchase back in Lara Loot which you can use in my shop with no expiry.

SEASIDE SERENITY
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​Katherine is back with the newest kit in her Limitless Design Kits Monthly Membership.
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Step into the joy of Seaside Charm in June. 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.
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All of her personal hand-drawn or painted illustrations and high-resolution elements can be used to create PLR, digital products, physical products, and TEMPLATES (to name a few) which is MUCH MORE than any typical commercial use license.

Along with the individual elements, she's also included a few different types of graphics to help you create scenes.
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These design kits are only available for one month inside the membership so you have until the 14th to pick these up. Katherine will then be offering them for sale at the current regular price of $97.
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You'll automatically receive $482 worth of bonuses that come with MRR rights, meaning you can turn these kits around and not only sell them commercially, but as PLR without restrictions!
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MRR or master resell rights means you can sell these items commercially to others who can also sell them commercially. Normally, with PLR, you can sell them to others for personal use only.
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This means you can use these products to create your very own PLR. It's also perfect if you've been wanting to get into a bundle but don't have a creative bone in your body and aren't sure what you would be able to offer with PLR rights - now you'll be able to thanks to Katherine's gorgeous resources.
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Best of all, you can use these elements without fear of infringing on someone's license, which is much more generous than a standard commercial use license, and use them to create PLR digital products, physical products, and templates (to name a few) - and yes, even stickers!

Check out everything you get on the sales page. This kit will be available at the discounted price of $27 until June 14th.

✨BONUS - If you purchase Katherine's kit, I'll give you 50% of your purchase back in Lara Loot which you can use in my shop with no expiry.

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, nature, and my ever-expanding collection of antique typewriters. I'm inspired by nature on a daily basis and draw inspiration from my surroundings which trickles down to my creations.
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