Tim holtz the ink road (Lara) drama

I just checked their stamps out off the back of your comment and you're totally right about them filling a niche - ha!

If she has a stamp about getting tipsy/drunk - I'm buying it. I haven't found any stamps about wine/beer/cocktails and getting tipsy anywhere and me and my husband love a little vacay drink!

HAHAHAHAHA I just checked out Ink Road Stamps.  Wow they definitely fill a niche.  Some I'd buy some aren't my thing but I guess I don't have a stick up my ass or wear pearls either.

I think you meant Margie Romney Aslett, not Maggie Holmes.  

I have nothing constructive to add to the topic at hand, and although I have zero love for Maggie Holmes that was not her in the rAuthentique debacle.  

Here is the artist/card maker posting on Lara’s 2nd video.




So, it appears that she may not have asked Lara to say anything at all

And I would guess she was not the one who was offered the BIG box of goodies supposedly by Tim, as that email was forwarded to Lara, and this lady does not seem complicit or supportive of what Lara has done.  Doubt she would be forwarding any emails to her.

So here’s my take on this whole thing. Is TH racist? Yes, we all have inherent biases/prejudices that we need to work through, we all have racism in us. Is he virtue signaling and doing performative allyship? Yes. Is he an asshole? HUGE yes. I have witnessed this twice, once at a CHA and once after a class I took many years ago. He made fun of the way some of the ladies looked (their weight and what they were wearing). So gross.

As to Lara, she is very confrontational and is not afraid to back down from a fight when she thinks there has been an injustice done. She does have a criminal past, she has revealed all in her TikTok over the past week or so. She also was brought into a cult when she was a kid so that has serious repercussions on someone’s mental health. So, when people call her “nutters” and “unhinged” it’s insensitive. Before you make comments on someone’s mental health status, do some research.
Do I agree with the way she has handled this and other issues she’s had in the past? Nope, not at all. These things could have been handled much differently but it is what it is. Is it easy to manipulate/forge emails? Also yes.

So, like I posted in Ranger’s post, there are always 2 sides to every story and we may never know the whole truth. Will I buy Tim holtz products anymore? Nope. Will I buy IRS products? If one appeals to me, yes but they’re not my style (except for the Star Wars and Disney ones, those were super cute, and I do like some of the pop culture ones).
Anyway, if you’ve read all the way to here, you’re the true MVP. 😂😂😂

Again, I was just bringing it up - I was not necessarily judging. The mugshots I saw were from 2016 and 2017 with fraud charges, but I could not find any convictions. Someone else says she was in jail for shoplifting, so I don't know if that was related to the fraud charges or not. I also saw someone post that she has been accused of stalking - but I don't know if that's true either. But that's literally what she is doing - accusing someone else of something without having any proof. So I guess that's my point - just showing the hypocrisy? 

Except she showed messages which Tim claims are "doctored" (no explicit denial of having ever written them). 

Ultimately, this turned into Lara vs Tim Holtz but originally, *I* (granted, that doesn't mean everyone else) was wondering about those freakin' messages and the handling of the crisis which was an utter shit show with blocking followers who reached out to ask about it. That's not on Lara. Again, I really don't care about her as I don't own anything by her nor do I think she's a major industry player. 

You can re-read this very thread to find that evidence from fellow 2PRefugees. 

There are different storylines from what I gather. Different people with different experiences through end May-June-early July. People are focusing on the artist behind the OG George Floyd card but it looks like Lara's (alleged) source(s) are not said artist. Beyond that, I can't figure out what's going on and we'll likely never know.