Good News and Cinder's Dream Charm Freebie

Cinders Dream Parts 1 and 2 had more than 900 downloads in two days when I terminated the download link. I was ecstatic with all your lovely comments and as I told you in my previous post I was inspired to make Cinder's Dream in pastel colors. In that two days as well, there were people who bought the Baby Book QPs at magicmaker-scraps . I was elated to the brim. What a great blessing and answered prayer for me.

Now, just this morning before we went to church, I opened my mail and guess what I've got? It's a very lovely charm made by a special friend, Lynette. When I saw that charm, I quickly fell in love with it. I was thinking, why didn't I thought of that? It's so beautiful and dainty. Anyway, Lynette told me I can give it as freebie add-on to Cinder's Dream. So that's good news number 1.

For good news number 2, I'm re-opening Cinder's Dream links again and that will stay that way until there's someone who's interested to grab it, LOL. Good news number 3, I will not sell it anymore, with 900+ who got it as a freebie, I've lost perpective buyers...hehehe, joke only.
Actually there are three real reasons why I made that decison. First, I have received a great blessing by having some people buy my stuffs at magicmaker-scraps . I'm not a designer, I just make digital scrapbooking stuffs but there are those who believe in my work and have shed out some bucks to buy my items...what can you say to that? So, don't thank me for that good news, thank those who bought my stuffs (they know who they are).

The second reason is that most people who downloaded Cinder's Dream and generously left comments were "grannies" and they were thinking how happy their grandkids would be with this kit. As a little girl I was often called "ugly duckling" by other children but I'm surrounded with a lot of lola--that's how we call grannies or nana in the Philippines. These lolas were my own grandmothers, neighbors, relatives and my parents' friends who would always say I'm beautiful. In fact, most of them call me "Miss Universe" (though I was fully aware that it was only an act of reverse psychology to encouraged me (LOL). Their words would always sound music to my ears.

Anyway, both my grandmothers (my father and mother's side) were gone now. I still have another living grandma who is actually my grandfather's sister--Lola Viring--who is very dear to me. In fact, I can ascribe to her why I grew up into a beautiful swan, ROFL. She helped me built up my self-confidence. She would always say, I have brains, and that's more important because "if you have brains you can develop inner beauty which will give you a glow of real visual beauty" and then she would have me memorized a quote in a poster..."beauty passes with the changing season except the heart where true beauty remains." She explained that, "having a beautiful heart" or good character is more lasting--it will never fade away. Hahaha, when I got older, I got to think what my lola really meant with those words which she was able to deliver without hurting my feelings. In other words, these are simply what she meant "Okay, here's the truth...you're not really beautiful my dear one, so just concentrate on your brains and character so that there will be something good that will come out of you."

Another thing that lola Viring would always remind me was to walk with poise, talk with charm, and act with grace...but I'm clumsy, I talk so fast and most of the time I stammer but when I'm with her, you might think I've just graduated from the National Institute for Princessess, LOL.

Anyway, I can write the whole day about me and my lola Viring. But I'll reserve that to my next posts. Let's just go back to my second and third good news. Grandma, granny, nana, lola or amma--whatever way they are called in different languages--they are so dear to my heart. My Mom is a already a grandma now and her grandkids love her so much and she always takes care of them a lot. Grandmas can leave a great impact to young girls' lives just like those lolas have done to me. I will let that Cinder's Dream Kit available if only for all the grannies who want to make their little grandchildren happy.

The third reason why I'm making the link available is for the Stay-at-Home-Moms/Wives (SAHM/W) like me. And there are a lot of you you leave comments to my blogs on how much you appreciate them--whenever, you leave a message here, I go to your profile and visit your blog. I wish I can do that to those who also leave their comments at 4shared. Anyway, I understand that we may want to spend some bucks for kits that we want but there our times that our budget is tight. That's also the reason why I make my kits S4H/O friendly so that you can use it for your small businesses and when you have earned some money from it, one day, you might want to have a PTU (pay to use) kit--and you might consider browsing my stuffs for sale, LOL. So, I'll just give them as freebies so that you can make your little girl and at the same time you can use it for your S4H projects to earn some money.

You can make stuffs too from Cinder's Dream.

Lynette's charm from Cinder's kit was also another factor why I have reconsider opening the link. You see she was sick the past few days and had missed part 1. When I saw what she did this morning, it made me think, why would I restrict other people to make wonderful element add-on like this. So, if you made QPs, bragbooks and derivative element add-ons like this charm out of Cinder's Dream, you can post it in your blog and let other download them--just inform me and give me the link so that I can also post the link here and other scrapper who already have Cinder's Dream can get what you've made. As much as possible, I would want it to be S4H/O friendly as well, so that others will benefit more from it. We live in a symbiotic community, aren't we?

Wow! whenever I'm inspired to write, you really need to brace yourself as my post become so long and I can tire you eyes as you read my long post. I'm sorry about that.

Since Cinder's Dream will no longer be for sale, I hope you can visit magicmaker-scraps and can link it to you blog, so that others who might be interested with my QPs can somehow know about it. Thank you in advance if you'll do such a favor.

Here's now is your freebie as you download them, Lynette’s Photo Art site. I’m sure, you’ll love what you’ll see there.

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Overwhelmed by Your Comments

I have to go to sleep now while the rest of you are wide awake to get Cinder's Dream Kit. Wow! I'm overwhelmed by your comments that I was inspired to make Cinder's Dream in pastel colors. Since many of you said that it's for your daughter. I don't know if your girls will love blue as most are into pink. Anyway, because you care to brighten up my day by leaving me some love, I started this one tonight. It's a little teaser for what's next on this blog. Give me two weeks to complete this set.

Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart!

What's New at Magicmaker-Scraps and some QP Freebies

"QPs with a Twist" that's what you can find at MagicMaker-Scraps. I guess, you've never seen anything like this before. QPs that as they are grouped together can be a complete storybook/bragbook with a theme. They can be used as a single page or used side by side for a spread. These first three sets have a "Baby Diary/Book" theme. I hope you'll have extra time to read the long details of each set at MagicMaker-Scraps. Go over there and also dig out the freebie QPs hiding in my long post. Here are the previews:

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Of course, dont forget the two QPs for your freebie which you can grab at MagicMaker-Scraps.

Download the QPs here

Cinder's Dream Kit, Freebie

Some of you are waiting for this kit. I was trying to upload this at 4shared but there seemed to be a problem. I washed the dishes knowing that part one will be uploaded after I'm done but 20 minutes later I came back and nothing happened. No error or anything, it just didn't upload. I tried again and took a bath, after another 20 minutes or so, the same thing happened. I tried to log in using firefox browser and finally part one has been uploaded. If I did that the first and second time, I would have been done right away.

Anyway, I didn't expect this one to become large in size and number. I was just about to do a carriage and a shoe for my LO, then I thought of adding a castle...finally, it became a complete kit at 100+ MB. I would want to make it smaller by reducing the size of the elements but then, I was thinking if any of you is printing at 12"x12", then the quality will not be as good. Anyway, just bear with the size. I didn't expected it to have 4 parts and I guess those who are using dial-up will find it difficult to download everything in one day. The freebie is supposedly good for 24 hours only (as I've mentioned in my previous post--scroll down a little--Preview of Cinder's Dream kit post. But, hey there are many of you who have been visiting this blog regularly and have been leaving sweet comments so for you (you know who you are), I'll be leaving the download links up until Friday. I hope that will be fine with you. After that it will be available for sale at magicmaker-scraps.

By the way, I love reading your comments, they are my inspiration so pour them out.

Thank you for your interest but the download links are no longer available.

"My A-Z Bragbook Album" Freebie, Part 9 (last)

Now, here's the last part for "My A-Z Bragbook Album" and this one is the one with a lot of personal touch because I personally made the xylophone, yoyo, and zipper. The xylophone and yoyo (except the image inside the circle which is from Jannidee) were both digitally made from scrath by me. I also made several rainbow images supposedly for letter "R" but it did not go well with the other elements that's why I have to settle for the ring. The zipper is extracted from another photo (just like the vase yesterday) and I just put some bevel and other effects to make it look metallic. As I've mentioned yesterday, Parts 1-4 links expire today. I hope I have already given you enough time to download everything. Next week, together with the entire alpha (sold separately), the complete set will go to magicmaker-scraps. So, those who miss the set can already buy them. If you don't want to buy the entire Alpha set, you can send me a link to your gallery or blog using any of my kit/element/bragbook/QPs in your layout. If you don't have a blog or gallery, just email me the image, I just want to see what you've made out of these stuffs. Don't worry I won't post them here unless you give me the permission to do so.

By the way, thank you so much for all your comments both here and at 4shared as well as for you emails. They mean so much to me. They keep me inspired and yes...I read them more than once a day, LOL.

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"My A-Z Bragbook Album" Freebie, Part 8

Wow! We're almost done. This set is the second to the last part. Just to remind you as I've said yesterday that I will have the previous one active until I post the last part--so that means to tomorrow. As I give you Part 8, I'll be removing Parts 1 to 5 as well. I guess, everyone has already completed downloading them. If not, download them first since Parts 6 to 9 will be active until Sunday.

Now, enjoy this one, I actually photographed and extracted my tiny vase to have an element for "V" page.

Sorry, freebie is no longer available but you can still buy them at Magicmaker-Scraps later.

Cinder's Dream Preview

I just made the preview of the kit that I'm telling you about. Oh! My EQ (Emotional Quotient). I really delayed making this preview for I'm sure I will not be able to sleep until I have it posted here, LOL. I haven't uploaded them yet at 4shared, I still have to make some quality check, naks!

Last week a dream came true for me as I was able to watch Lea Salonga performed in a musical play via Cinderella. DH made sure that I got the best seat (Oh! I'm such a spoiled wife) unfortunately, it was already taken (fourth row at the middle seat is the best). But I'm just two seats away from that, I'm glad there were still two available seats at the 4th row. Anyway, I have a picture of myself at the CCP (Cultural Center of the Philippines) lobby and of course I wanted to scrap it.

I have seen several Cinderella, Fairytale, Princess themed kits in different shops but they are mostly in pastel colors--predominatly pink. This latest Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella mostly have dark blue costumes, props and lighting. I want to say it's royal blue but I can't differentiate that from navy blue, LOL. Because I don't want to buy a kit just for this LO, I just made one for myself (besides, I want something taht is glittery). The color that I used were royal blue (or navy blue...kindly tell me if it's really royal blue), gold (or is it bronze?) and silver (grey?)--I'm not color blind but I can't differentiate one from the other, LOL. And yes, I will give it as a freebie next week but only for a limited time since I will put it for sale at magicmaker-scraps. This will not be given in parts like the bragbook so I guess, no one will feel sad when they miss it. Meanwhile, here's the preview of my "Cinder's Dream".

"My A-Z Bragbook Album" Freebie, Part 7

Aren't you wondering why the previous parts of "My A-Z Bragbook Album" are still active? I removed the links before but I saw that there were more downloads for parts 3 and 4 than that of parts 1 and 2. That means some of you weren't able to get the first two parts. I feel sad for those who have come in late and have only gotten the latter parts because they will never be able to complete the set unless they purchased them--so, I decided to open the links again.

I know the feeling when you wanted something only to find out that the link has expired and you've got some parts of it and you regret not being able to have everything just because your duties in real world came in. This is the first time that I made something that I give out in parts and I thought it will be exciting for all of us to see what's next for the following day as the previous link bids goodbye. Well, I guess if I continued my plan to remove the link the following day as another one comes in, many will get disappointed than excited. I understand that there are a lot of things happening in our daily lives other than downloading a freebie. There are times that we have to go on vacation; visit someone who is sick; help the kids as they go back to school and a lot more. With all the stress that the hustle and bustle of life brings...then you go to a blog and wanted something but the link has already expired...Oh! I know the feeling. So I guess, I'll just let the links active until the last part (which is two more days to go. Anyway, I have a lot of great kits, QPs and bragbooks that I have downloaded as freebies and this is just my simple way of paying forward.

I have a great kit for next week: my first exquisite kit, LOL. DH said I have a very low EQ and yes I do. I wanted to give it away the moment I finished it. I just can't wait for next week for the rest of the world to see it. But then, I have to practice my EQ and just finish "My A-Z Bragbook Album" this week, LOL. Part 7 of this set is one of my favorites. I don't know why but I just love how R-S-T bragbook pages turned out--you see I love them so much that I have to display all the pages I made with it, hehehe.

My kuya Gerald's wedding with her lovely wife, ate Mian during their first dance as husband and wife.

wordart by Valarie Ostrom

My friends, Marrick and Lenneth's kids: Jedaeal, Jannah & Jappeth (my godchild) when they went to our place last summer.

wordart by Kathryn Estry

It's my Dad's last New Year with us. Mom was carrying baby Leigh and Dad has Lolo's little darling, Latrize.

wordart by Valarie Ostrom

Here now is your freebie. You may not want the wedding ring for your "R" page, sun and spaceship for the "S" page or the tulip for your "T' page, so just a reminder: there are extra pages without my "chosen" elements on them so you can freely put your own.

Sorry, freebie is no longer available but you can still buy them at Magicmaker-Scraps later.

"My A-Z Bragbook Album" Freebie, Part 6

Sorry, freebie is no longer available but you can still buy them at Magicmaker-Scraps later.

"My A-Z Bragbook Album" Freebie, Part 5

I'm back. Just dropping by to give you the 5th part. Four more to go and we're done with this set. For my letter "L", I used to have a lion but then Jannidee and Lydia have some nice Ladybug CU Kits and I guess this one is cute. The " M" element was supposedly a monkey, good thing I found some mushroom and again I think it looks better. Anyway, you have your extra bragbooks without the elements in them

Sorry, freebie is no longer available but you can still buy them at Magicmaker-Scraps later.

Updating

Many of you might be waiting for the next part of the "A-Z Bragbook Album". I'll still be packaging them, I have some important things to attend to these days and will post as soon as I'm done later this week. Anyway I have decided to open all the "A-Z Bragbook links" including the expired links so that those who have downloaded the latter parts can complete the album. Please continue praying for my MOL speedy recovery from her operation.

This is the Day...Hooray!

08.08.08 is here. Fireworks! Fireworks! for the Beijing Olympics... Ooopppsss... Finally, the time has come to release the 88 Commercial Use items for only $8.88 (actually, they are more than 88 but I counted some items per set not as individual elements). You can use these items to create your own digital art products such as website designs, digital scrapbook papers, shapes, elements, templates, bookmarks, greeting cards, or other paper based products for sale. Of course, they are also Scraps for Hire/Others (S4H/O) okay. Can you make tubes and brushes out of them? I'll give the first 88 customers the license certificate which will be sent to you together with the download link and password. Thanks for the early bird who greeted me with a purchase this morning (it's August 8, already here) who I guess has the same timezone as me.

Please proceed to my other blog at http://magicmaker-scraps.blogspot.com/ for more information on how to get this once-in-a-lifetime deal.

"My A-Z Bragbook Album" Freebie, Part 4

Look at my letter "I" page. I took the picture of my cousin and her husband on New Year's Eve 2007. I hope she won't kill me once she sees this picture in this blog, LOL. I have no other choice for my "I love you" bragbook page--the photo and Kimscrapping's wordart are perfect for each other, right? I love this photo, during that time, all of us were laughing when we viewed it at the LCD screen...she looks like "kilig-na-kilig"--Oh! sorry, I don't know the English translation for that but I think you can guess what it means. Isn't this picture cute?

Now, for the freebie, were now in Part 4, five more parts to go and you'll have your complete album. That will be next week already. I won't be posting this weekend.

Sorry, freebie is no longer available but you can still buy them at Magicmaker-Scraps

And the Winner for the 88 Items for $8.88 on 08.08.08 is...

Early this week, I have this contest wherein anyone who would post the 88 Items for $8.88 on 08.08.08 can have the chance to win the entire "Commercial Use Bundle". So, before DH went to the office, I asked him to make a draw lot (I wrote the names on small pieces of paper, folded them and have him picked one). And so the winner is Lisa from http://ealdesigns2.blogspot.com/.

Congratualtions, Lisa. Please email me at fairydustprincess dot magicmaker at gmail dot com to claim your price. I will send you the download links (20 folders in all) and the password.

Tomorrow is the big day for this 88 Items for $8.88 on 08.08.08, so check out my other blog at http://magicmaker-scraps.blogspot.com/ for details on how you can get these wonderful items and to have a larger view of each set.

The day after August 8 which is August 9, all the download links fo the commercial use items on that blog will expire but they will be available for purchase later (as individual sets).

Now, as my appreciation for those who joined the contest, here's a special gift for you. It contains:
1 crumpled paper (colored & grayscale)
1 handmade paper (colored & grayscale)
1 handmade paper border (colored & grayscale)
2 flower clusters (colored & grayscale)
1 notebook pad
1 artificial flower cluster)
1 gift box

Yes, there are also 8 items on this set. Thanks you very much, ladies. Kindly email me so that I can send you the link. I went to your blogs but can't find your email addresses.

"My A-Z Bragbook Album" Freebie, Part 3

Part 3 of "My A-Z Bragbook album is here. My "F" page has a fairy (like me), It's best for family, friends and flowers pages too. Oh! so many wonderful things begin with letter "F". For this BB page, I have my friends who has been with me for more than a decade (14 years) already. Actually, we're four but the other one "cannot be reach" for sometime now. This one was taken during Jack's (center) wedding seven years ago.

Here now is your freebie. Please take note that this will be available to for 24 hours only.

Sorry, freebie is no longer available but you can still buy them at Magicmaker-Scraps

"My A-Z Bragbook Album" Freebie, Part 2

Look, what I have made from letter "C". Again if you have another element aside from the clown, there's a separate png file without that element. Enjoy! BTW, the wordart is from Valarie Ostrom.

I have a lot to do today and so I better post this early.

Now for the second part of "My A-Z Bragbook" Album. Please take note that the first part will expire in 24 hours, I realized that most of us are from different timezones so, I think I will let it stay for another 24 hours.

Sorry, freebie is no longer available but you can still buy them at Magicmaker-Scraps

"My A-Z Bragbook Album" Freebie, Part 1

I've been longing to have an A-Z Bragbook for sometime now. I haven't look if there's an available one from different scrapbooking blogs/stores since I intend to give it to my sisters and nieces so that they can make their own A-Z bragbook album too. For me to do that I need kits that can be used commercially, I think only Jannidee, sugarshack and Nana's attic allow that for their kits. That's why I make sure I'm always a member of their digiclub (though Nana is inactive and Ruthie is already gone now). Kristi Westling has some great commercial use items that are ready to use. That's why I really love her store at thescrappindivazdesignz.

I have started making this A-Z Bragbook since I joined Jannidee, Nana and sugarshack's club membership early this year but somehow, I can't complete it because I inted to put some elements that starts with the letter the bragbook page represents. Example, A-Angel, Apple or Airplane; B-Balloons, Banana, Baby. I really want an Angel for my letter "A" and I only got a CU Angel only recently from Kristi Westling. I photographed and extracted two angels before to go with this but they didn't go well with the other elements for my bragbook. So, I have just made them available in this blog for CU freebie last June, in time for "Small Miracles" release).

I'll make "2007 from A-Z". As for you, you can make "My Family from A-Z", or put different adjectives that describe your daily life from A-Z. If you have other "A-Z" in mind, can you share it in the comments here so that others will have an idea too. This A-Z bragbook album is complete with cover so you can have your title on top. It's included in the first download.

I'm making 2-in-1 bragbook for each letter. For example, Letter A bragbook has another page without the angel. Just in case, you want to put an airplane or apple element instead. That goes with all the letters too. I came to realize that I have to make a generic one when I made the bragbook page for letter "D". I will not tell you what element that starts with letter "D" that I put in it since you'll see that anyway tomorrow. But it's a girly stuff and I thought what if you wanted to have "Dad" for letter "D". So, I made all the bragbooks to have an extra one where my chosen element is eliminated. The Letters A-Z and the another elements are still there.

The letters by the way were made from different elements from those commercial use kits (from Jannidee, Sugarshack and Nana's Attic) that I combined together to form an alphabet letter. The entire alpha set (A-Z)--not the bragbook as I will give it as a freebie--can be yours in png format, if you can send me a link to your gallery or blog where you used my QPs, Bragbooks, or any of my kits. If you don't have a blog or gallery just email me (fairydustprincess dot magicmaker at gmail dot com). I will also post them here if you allow me to, if not, just seeing other faces from the QPs or Bragbooks that I made is already a great treat.

By the way, the bragbook download will be available for 24 hours only. But you can buy them later on, LOL.

Sorry, freebie is no longer available but you can still buy them at Magicmaker-Scraps

88 items for $8.88 available on 08-08-08 Countdown Freebie #2

Here's another CU Freebie for our countdown for the 88 items for $8.88 available on 08-08-08.

Today is our 6th Wedding Anniversary that's why your freebie for today are three wedding papers. They were products of our wedding photography for friends and relatives. DH is quite good in it but in one of these photos, I'm personally behind the shutter, LOL. You can add your own signature in them by simply adding overlay, blending, style, texture, etc. They go well with satin as you can see in the preview and yes they go well with my wedding bliss elements too which is included in the bundle. Of course, I can't give the ones with overlays as they are CU item that I purchased. But you can add texture to them in whatever program you are doing. Only your imagination is your limitation. Enjoy!

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88 items for $8.88 available on 08-08-08 Countdown Freebie

It's the first countdown freebie for the 88 items for $8.88 available on 08-08-08.

Scroll down for more info on how to get this entire kit for free!

Now, for the freebie:

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Freebie: Diva's Summer Days

Another month, another DSO Color challenge. Here's what I made from KimB's latest color pallette. It's a Diva's Summer Days Kit. It has a dress, bag, hat, sandals and yes an ipod--my "Kikay" kit, LOL

Thank you for your interest but the download links are no longer available.

88 items for $8.88 available on 08-08-08 You can get them all as a Freebie

Do you want this 88 Commercial Use items for free? Grab this promotional image and post it in your blog. Leave a comment here to link your post. You can also leave your blog addy or email address in my other blog (magicmaker-scraps.blogspot.com).

I will write your blog addy in a piece of paper and will ask DH to have a draw lot on August 7. The winner will be announced on August 7 just right after the lot has been drawn. Thanks.

Visit http://magicmaker-scraps.blogspot.com/ to see the larger previews of each item.

Grab Bag Blast Freebie

I'm glad I was able to post the whole day. I wasn't feeling well since Sunday and now, I'm feeling OK. Post where? I have another blog the magicmaker-scraps were you can find some great items.

And to kick-off that other blog, I made several commercial use freebies there.

get the grab bag, visit

magicmaker-scrap.blogspot.com

here

Everyday until August 7, I'm going to post truly delectable commercial use freebies there.