Happy Friday!

It’s another chilly day here in Central Ontario and supposedly we are in for some major snow over this weekend! Shaun’s heading down to his girlfriend’s for the weekend I think, since she’s been coming up here for the past few weeks, and so as soon as he leaves, Ruthie’s going shopping! I was going to go today but decided I’d wait until tomorrow until the crowds settle down a bit.

For today, I’m all rested up after my acupuncture treatment this morning. My back and shoulders are all ready now for another few weeks of work.

There are so many deals today that I’m going to do this “roundup style” for you, so that you can pick and choose what you need for your business, if anything. I know that if you’re anything like me, you’ve probably bought a lot more stuff this year than you’ve used so I’m going to share my standard note on buying more stuff. Don’t do it if you don’t need it!

My new philosophy is that if it’s not something I’m going to use in the current quarter, I don’t need to spend the money on it at this time. So for stuff that’s on sale this weekend, if I’m not going to use it either in December or Q1 of the new year, then it can wait until I’m ready for it. And I’d love to see you get in that mindset too.

Will it hurt my bottom line where affiliate commissions are concerned? Probably. But, I’d rather you only buy what you need than to stockpile all kinds of stuff that ends up being a waste of money and forgo the commissions than tell you to buy everything in sight just so I can pad my bank account. That’s not the way I roll and I couldn’t live with myself if I ever got desperate enough to do that.

So, with that in mind, here’s your Black Friday Roundup and my top picks of all the deals.

Ruthie’s Top Black Friday Picks

Pick #1 – No Spend Black Friday from Lynette and Friends – I’m involved in this awesome giveaway that’s more like a bundle sale for the third year in a row. There are 29 full products available all at 100% discount from now through November 30. My new product is a set of Floral Coloring Calendars, and Lynette has created a brand new Mandala Maker for us that I can’t wait to play with! Plus there are goodies from most of your favorite content providers and some courses and tools as well.

Pick #2 – Piggy Makes Bank’s Crazy Black Friday Sale!  If you’ve been around for any length of time here, you’ll know that I absolutely love the content that Tracy and Susanne put out every month. I have subscriptions to all 3 of their membership sites and use the content in a variety of ways every month.

Their crazy Black Friday sale is a deal like I’ve never seen before! From today through Monday, November 29, you can get ALL THREE MEMBERSHIPS for only $47/month.

Pick #3 – Tools for Motivation Black Friday Retirement Sale – I love Tools for Motivation content because you can do so much with it when it comes to creating low content products. For Black Friday they’ve decided to have a 90% off sale on a bundle 10 of their products that will be retired and removed from the site after this weekend. There are 5 full products and 5 content bundles included:

• The Art of Allowing (full product)
• Tenacity: How to Persis & Persevere (full product)
• Simplicity: Simple Steps to Simplify Your Life (full product)
• I Believe – Eliminating Self Doubt (full product)
• Flawsome: Embracing Imperfection (full product)
• Eliminate Negativity (content bundle)
• Finding Inspiration (content bundle)
• Positive Self-Image (content bundle)
• Brain Training (content bundle)
• Self Help Life Hacks (content bundle)

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Low Content Deals

Sitewide Black Friday Sales

Content Accelerators – 50% off sitewide with coupon code BFCM50

Thrive Anywhere – New Updated 3-Column Planner #1 – save 50% with coupon code 3COLUMN1 through November 30

Ekit Hub – 50% off sitewide with coupon code BF2021

PLR Beach – 50% off sitewide with coupon code BF50 through November 29

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A Cup of Zen – Planner and Journal Templates Bundle (130+ pages)

Gabby has put together a huge bundle of planner and journal templates for you to jumpstart your printables business. The bundle includes:

• Dog Planner (20 pages)
• Christmas Planner (20 pages)
• Journal Entry Pages with Cover (25 pages)
• Emergency Contact Pages (8 pages)
• My Life Planner (27 pages)
• Master Your Mindset Journal and Cover (31 Pages)
• Sizes include 8.5×11, 8×10, 6×9, A4 in color in Canva
• Planner and Journal Page Templates in Canva
• PLR / Commercial Use Rights

She’s also got a coupon for you to take 35% off sitewide on everything else in her shop. (Great for stocking up if you missed out on some of her earlier launches.) Use coupon code bf2021 to collect your discount through November 30.

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New Graphics Pack: Graphics Emporium – Spring

Sue and Di have released a new graphics tool that will make it easier to create your own graphics for your projects. With the Graphics Emporium they’ve taken commercial use graphics and combined them into new elements and designs that you can use for your own journals and planners. Plus you can easily add in your own elements to create unique items for your books.

There are 6 PSD files available. Here’s a look at what’s included:

• Corner Borders
• Floral Borders
• Frames
• Page Borders
• Wreaths
• Word Art

The files have been created for use in both Photoshop and Affinity (Designer/Publisher). You simply open up the PSD file and start creating your new images.

Check it out here and pick it up on the Black Friday Special for only $47. No coupon required.

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New Coloring Pages: Christmas Home

Jenn has new coloring pages out today. The Christmas Home pack features 15 coloring pages of home interiors and exteriors decorated for Christmas. Use coupon code RDEER to save $5 through December 1.

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Christmas Coloring Pages Still On Sale

People are always telling me I need to push my own stuff more, so here are my brand new, hand-drawn Christmas coloring pages! There are three different sets of 20 pages each and you can buy them all separately, or in one bundle for only $37 (reg. $77) through November 30. No coupons necessary to pick these up dirt cheap this week. Here’s a sneak peek at the three packages…

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New Printables: Christmas Baking Planner

Michelle has just released a new Christmas Baking Planner and you can pick it up for only $13.50 with coupon code BAKE through November 30. The planner includes 21 pages in two sizes, along with 2 different sized gift tag templates.

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New Coloring Pages: Grand & Groovy Coloring Pages

Rayven has launched her Black Friday sale this morning. This year’s mega sale is for 100 “Grand & Groovy” Coloring Pages for only $27 – no coupon required through November 29.

There’s also an addition offer for 178 more pages for only $37.

That’s enough coloring pages to keep you creating for a whole year!

Bonus Offer: This product qualifies for a bonus (and add a second choice if you grab the upsell too!) Details are in the Bonus Links section on Rayven’s site after purchase.

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Black Friday Sale from Coach Glue

Melissa and Nicole are having a Black Friday sale that includes all of their journals in one bundle. You can pick up the bundle of 6 DFY packs for only $97 between now and Sunday, November 28. The six journals are:

• My Dream Business Journal
• My Dream Life Journal
• The Abundance Journal for Wildly Creative Women
• The Self Love Journal for Wildly Creative Women
• The Ritual Journal for Wildly Creative Women
• The Dream Journal for Wildly Creative Women

Check out the sale here

Bonus Offer: This product qualifies for a 2 bonus choices. Email your receipt to me at ritchiemedia@gmail.com with BONUS CLAIM in the subject and I’ll send you the claim info.

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PLR Deals

Sitewide Black Friday Sales:

Niche Starter Packs – 56% off all products through November 30.

Use PLR – 50% off sitewide with coupon code BLACKFRIDAY50 through November 30

Publish for Prosperity – 50% off sitewide with coupon code BF2021 through November 30

Health and Wellness PLR – 65% off regularly priced items with coupon code blackfriday2021 through November 30.

Coach Glue – Save $30 on DFY Blog Posts with coupon code 30 through Sunday, November 28

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Tools and Training

Black Friday at Book Publisher Tools

Hans is having a Black Friday sale that’s on now until Cyber Monday. He’s put two bundles of Puzzle Maker Pro products together to make getting started with publishing puzzle books easier. Or, if you’ve already got some modules and just want to fill the holes in your collection, you can use the coupon code CYBERMONDAY to save 25% on everything in the store.

Ruthie’s Tip: If you were on my Digital Papers Workshop a couple of weeks ago, I talked about using Hans’ Graphics Software to create digital papers. Use the CYBERMONDAY code to pick them up with the 25% discount.

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Repper’s Black Friday Sale

Unless this is your first issue of my newsletter, you already know how much I love using Repper to create digital papers and coloring patterns. For this week only (through November 28) you can save 50% on your first year of their PRO membership when you use coupon code BLACKFRIDAY

If you missed the video I shared yesterday about how I use both of these tools together to create digital papers and patterns, you can watch that here:

https://www.loom.com/share/8ebf17d6757a4bff9db064f2a12ddbc6

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Black Friday Sale at Fruitful Freelancing

One of my favorite tools to use for research is Amy Smereck’s Low Content Intel reports. Each month you get a 40-50 page report of up to date market research on top search results in Amazon. Amy compiles and analyzes the data on Titles, Sub-titles, Covers, Categories, Keywords, Descriptions, formats, marketing… and presents it in easy-to access charts and stats.

Save $7 (reg. $19.95) per month with coupon code LCIBFCM

Save $70 (reg. $195) per year on an annual subscription with coupon code LCIBFCMYR

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Affinity Training at Printables Academy

Catherine has bundled up four of her Affinity training courses for this weekend (through Monday, November 29) to take you from Affinity beginner to intermediate rock star. Use coupon BFCMSAVINGS to claim an additional $30 off the already discounted price.

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Createful Journals Black Friday Sale

Sue’s Black Friday sale starts today. She’s bundled up 4 of her Best Selling Etsy Products and Courses for a 50% discount through November 30 – no coupon required. The bundle includes:

• Etsy Mockup Toolkit + Training Course – Regularly $47.00
• Etsy Bookmark Mockup Kit – Regularly $12.00
• Bookmark Templates in PowerPoint – Regularly  $24.00
• Desk Calendar Templates – Regularly $24.95

Get your bundle here

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Graphics Deals

Design Cuts Bundle Re-Runs Sale on Now! From now until Cyber Monday, they’re re-running 12 of their most popular bundles. If you missed them, now’s a great time to stock up!

Inky Deals – Sitewide Black Friday Sale – save 50% with coupon code FRIDAY50 through November 28.

The Hungry Jpeg – Sitewide Black Friday Sale – save 20% with coupon code BlackFriday2021 through November 30.

New! The Fabulous Mandala and Zentangle SVG Collection – 237 SVG files for only $7

On Now! – Design Bundles Ultimate $1 Event

Creative Fabrica’s Weekly Discount Deals​

The Hungry Jpeg’s Dollar Deals Page

Freebies

New! Free 2022 Calendar from Ekit Hub

New! Free 2022 Pastel Calendar from Christina at CJD Laptop Lifestyle

Pastel Glow Digital Planner (and other freebies) from The Happy Journals Club

Free 5 Pack of Dealing with Negative Thoughts Articles from Publish for Prosperity

Free Taste Test pack of recipes and photos from Kitchen Bloggers. You get 3 recipes with 22 original food photos.

Christmas Printables Mini Kit from Ekit Hub

7 Days to Establish a Better Bedtime Routine from Piggy Makes Bank includes 7 articles and 7 emails

Free Adorable Elephant Template & Cover from Shawn Hansen (Tip: Check out the Subscriber Special Offer after you log in!)

17 Free New Client Getting Forms from Coach Glue

Free Guide to Participating in Bundles and Giveaways from Jenn Brockman

Free Action Word Stickers from Di

Muddy Lilac Seamless Pattern Template (Affinity Designer) from Lynette

• Free Craft Bundle from The Hungry Jpeg
• Watercolor Polar Bear Christmas Clipart from Creative Fabrica
• New! Wonderful Christmas Font from Creative Fabrica
• New! Christmas Pajamas Family Clipart from Creative Fabrica
• Design Cuts Freebie – Free: Procreate Brushes & Worksheets Sample
• New! Design Cuts Weekly Freebie – Gardenia Flowers Modern Floral Line Art Set
• Design Bundles Freebie – Scandinavian Christmas set
• Design Bundles Freebies – Watercolor Flowers and Birds Set​
• Design Bundles Free Design of the Week
• Font Bundles Free Font of the Week 
• Font Bundles Freebie – Lovebird​
• Font Bundles Freebie – Candy Christmas Font
• New! The Hungry Jpeg Freebie – 28 Christmas Elves

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And that’s it for me this afternoon. I’m off to grab a drink and then get some work done!

Have an amazing day! Create what makes your heart happy!