"Thank You" Commercial Use Items Freebie

I want to say "thank you" to all of you who have leave comments here in my blog and in 4shared. Your comments are very precious to me. To Sharon aka Scrapcat4914, pattycakes, and to make others who have been leaving their lovely comments since the day I gave my first freebie, thank you. To Mags of Mags graphics, Faith N Hope, Sharon Kay, sassysipes, EMtunit31, lwlittlebit, irishkathyKat, TragedySrappinAnne, and to all the anonymous people who said "thank you" I also say the same. I know miss out a lot of names but you know who you are...I want to express my heartfelt appreciation.

I want to say "thank you" to all of you who are following my blog (there are 26 of you), I have also visited and read a few entries from your blogs as well.

I want to say "thank you" to all who have given me awards which so far, I wasn't able to pass on--I will, one of these days. To
Kyra (http://smiekeltje.blogspot.com);
Michelle of (http://michelles-angels.blogspot.com);
Lisa (http://aleahsmommy.blogspot.com);
Lynnette (http://lynettesphotoart.blogspot.com) and
Pinkupixie (http://ppbits.blogspot.com), thank you so much.

I want to say "thank you" to all previous magicmaker-scraps members who have renewed their membership. I'll try my best again to give you quality digi-scrapping kits.

I really would like to make a mega kit to express how much I am thankful to all of you but with so many things to attend to I don't know when will I be able to start doing that. Anyway, I'm starting to make an all-commercial use kit for magicmaker-scraps members (both digital and extracted elements and papers) which will be given in the next few months. Today I made a wagon and, I've been making this wagon since 10:00 a.m. I finished it at 3:00 p.m. LOL. Then, I tried to put some of my commercial use Teddy Bears and I think they are really cute. So I told myself that with all the labor I put into this element today, it is just right to give this as a loving gift to all of you whom I have mentioned above.

When I made the preview for this freebie, the wagon with the teddy bears looked so lonely with all the space around it, so I also put in here the rainbow that I made for the "All that Glitters" kit. I also put a cloud. But I still think, there's still something missing in this scene. So I also put another experimental grass. I took the picture of this grass and made it like a painting. Finally, I guess, there should be a plant in it, so I put a tulip plant which I photographed during our last visit in the US. It was spring and it was my first time to see so many tulips in all colors. Tulips are very expensive here in the Philippines and I was so amazed to see those flowers everywhere in the U.S., so I took so many pictures of it. I think I have more than a hundred photos of those tulips, LOL.

Look, it's me with my lovely gift for all of you. Anyway, here's today's freebie and I hope you all like them.

Download here

password: thankyou

Now, proceed to michelles-angels.com to get the other part of the freebie.

Oppsss, since June is my Mom and DH's birthday month, I'm also having a 50% sale at michelles-angels.com. You can also get the Mommy Dear kit for free if you buy $5 of fairydustprincess products.

Christmas Around the World is Finally Here!

Here's my part for Christmas Around the World. Special credit and thanks goes to Kimberly Bartlett of Fishinmom Designs for organizing this Collaboration effort with over 100 designers joining this year's CATW. Well, I'm Kimberly's CT and I'm so proud of her.

Now, get my part for commercial use. I hope you will be able to use them.

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

Those of you who want to make poinsettia and ribbons in other colors, there are png grayscale files in my other blog at magicmaker-scraps. They are for commercial use also.

Download the Freebie at magicmaker-scraps

To see all the wonderful contributions from other designers, go to Christmas Around the World Blog or click the CATW banner above.

You'll love these stuffs--a QP, a kit, a sampler and a Commercial Use Freebie Template

I should have posted these items a century ago, LOL. There have been a lot of things that happened in my life since my last post and I guess, I'll be spending the whole day posting.

My Little Prince QP

First, Michelle at michelles-angels made an awesome LO using "My Little Prince" kit. That kit was really made for her son, Andrew--it's Michelle's special request. When I saw the layout, my jaw dropped in disbelief: I emailed her that I can't believe the kit and the picture do look good together. Michelle's wording was quite good: the kit is perfect for the picture. Okay, see for yourself, here's the picture. Don't you agree?

I really love the out-of-bound effect that Michelle did with the photos. And yes, she made a QP out of it so, you can jump to her blog afterwards and download the QP freebie in her blog and leave her your lovely comments. She usually make 8x10 QPs, the size that I actually prefer since I print most of my layouts.

Anyway, my post is actually very late already since Michelle had posted this QP about two weeks ago (October 7) so you need to scroll a little bit and go to her older posts. But while, you are there and scrolling you'll surely love what you'll see as she started making some wonderful kits. One of which I am going to use tonight (I just dowloaded it). She also have some more QPs made from other designer's kit.

Download at michelles-angels blog

Braelyn's Castle Kit

Lindsay at spinkydinkscraps made a princess kit which she said was inspired by my glittered castle. You can go to her blog to download it and give her some love as well. You have to scroll a little again since she posted it last week and she had other post already including a tagger size Braelyn's Castle Kit. This other elements in this kit goes well with Cinder's Wish kit, so grab it now.

Download the kit at spinkydinkscraps’ blog

Castle Template Freebie

Lindsay said that she saw a layout with my castle in it and she fell in love with it that's why she made her own glittered castle pattered over it. So, I thought maybe some of you are interested to use this castle as well. So I made it in layered form (PSD) and separate png files for each element set so you can make your own version of your castle.

I made it available for download at magicmaker-scraps . Since it's a commercial use item and I will put there all the CU freebies that I will be making starting today.

Download the freebie at magicmaker-scraps

New Commercial Use TOU and CU Freebie

I don't know how to start this post...Hmmm...maybe I'll just begin with the gist: I'm changing my Commercial Use (CU) Terms of Use (TOU). Some of you may have been here last August 1 when I started giving away CU freebies. The first one that I gave was this grab bag and here are the contents of the bag.

As I go on with giving freebies and selling some items, there are some realization and I guess, it's time for me to change my TOU for your protection and mine. When I made my TOU, I stated mine as follows:

These digital art files may be used for personal and commercial use (CU) as well as for your Scraps-for-Hire/Others (S4H/O) projects as outlined below:

They MAY be

~used by hobbyists and professional digital-art designers to create their own digital art products such as website designs, digital scrapbook papers, shapes, templates, and elements.

~ altered with respect to color, size or by adding to or removing from them or use them in their original form.

~used by hobbyists and professional crafters to create their own handmade crafts such as scrapbooks, bookmarks, greeting cards, or other paper based products for sale, provided it will not be for mass production of more than 300 pieces for one product (ex. one bookmark design can be distrubuted for 300 pieces or less--no more than that).

~used for your digital scrapbook kits (for sale and for freebies) and any related digital scrapbooking projects where you can earn profit (S4H/O). Your digiscrap kits when sold to customers can also be S4H/O friendly.

I only have two restrictions:

They MAY NOT be

~ uploaded “as is” in any clipart gallery for others to download nor to be uploaded in 4shared, mediafire, etc. for the purpose of distribution--either for personal or commercial use. I sold them to you as CU products and they cannot be sold in it’s original form as CU items. They must be used in creating digiscrap kits as well as those stated above. If they will be used for S4H/O projects, they must be given to customers flattened--jpeg/png.

~used for any layout/project promoting any form of blasphemy, pornography, obscenity, discrimination, or any immoral or illegal activity.

In addition I also stated there that "credit will not be required but very much appreciated."

As I was reading Jean Hertz (aka scrapdoctor) TOU, I read there a very interesting portion--she required credit so that others may not think they have pirated the stuff from her or vice versa. That made me think deeply. I realized that's the right thing to do. My stuffs had been pirated before and I just kept quiet about it (I just wrote to 4shared to remove the items.)

Now, as I would want to use the items that I have given as commercial use freebies for my new kit, I saw that somebody is giving it already as a freebie. I downloaded the stuff to see if I got credited for it. I'm not. Well, what do I expect, I did not include that in my TOU. Anyway, maybe some people just forget, as I also do sometimes. That's why there were times, I have to pull-out some items that I uploaded at 4shared and re-upload them as I have forgotten to thank some people in my TOU.

Maybe I just became too assuming as Kimberly Bartlett (fishinmomdesigns) told us (her Creative Team members) before that if we are going to make a kit, always give credit whom credit is due even if it is not required, it's just common courtesy. That's why I make sure to give credit to whom credit is due even to those commercial use items that I bought and some membership clubs that I joined.

I don't mind not being given credit. In the first place, if I wanted to I could have included that in my TOU. However, I'm in a very difficult situation right now. The person giving the freebie has this on her TOU: "My elements are either scanned or extracted from photos that I took with my digital camera..." That statement bothered me a lot. If it were not for that sentence, I will not be affected, who cares? As I said I don't mind not being given credit but this is another issue--it gives the impression that she's the one who photographed/scanned and extracted the element. Most of you knows how much time it takes to extract objects from photographs. Now, here's my proof, I took that photo of that cupcake from my niece's 7th birthday last July.

Maybe that's unintentional. Maybe the person just forgot to remove that line from her TOU. Maybe the person have just forgotten to include me in her credit as she included some other designers there. But that sentence did not only hurt me but also those who downloaded my commercial use items and are about to use them as well, especially ADSD members where I'm a part of. Will they be branded as pirate because somebody said she photographed/scanned them and is giving it as a freebie for Personal Use and S4H/O only? If you see that first in her blog, then, you'll see that in other people's kit, what would you think? That we are using her stuff in our kit when it is not given as commercial use item? In the first place, it is originally a commercial use product. That's unfair for all of us.

So, now you know my dilemma. Maybe I have been so lenient with my TOU. So, to protect those who also downloaded all other CU freebies and would want to use them in their projects as well as to protect myself--for I am about to use one of my items for my next kit--and some of you might acuse me of pirating someone else work when in the first place, it's mine. Hence, to avoid the confusion, a revision to the TOU is necessary as follows:

Credit required so that if you use the items or someboby else’s who also bought them do, people will not think that I pirated them from you or you pirated them from me.

This supercedes my old TOU so if you have downloaded the following last August including my Grab Bag, kindly replace your TOU to a new one.

You can click my new TOU and "save as" (it will become bigger) to replace the old TOU.

or you can get this freebie with the new TOU and replace the old one. God bless.

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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!

Download here

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:

Download here

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.

Small Miracles Collaboration Kit and a Commercial Use Freebie

I'm not actually a designer but I can make a few kits from some commercial use items that I bought and got as freebies. Here's one precious kit that I made for Kim's daughter who lost everything they own through a fire. When I downloaded Kim's Kit for DSO's Color Challenge, I read about this tragedy and the Small Miracles' Collaboration kit to somehow extend help to the family. Here's a preview of my part for the Small Miracles Mega Kit.

Now, here's a preview of the entire kit.

There are 22 files in the folder to download them, and the contents include . . .106 papers, 185 elements, 1 alpha, 2 wordart, 1 12x12 quickpage, 6 4x6 bragbook.

All of the proceeds from the sell of this kit will go to Kim's daughter and her family.
For a $9.95 donation, you will receive this HUGE kit.

Visit small miracle's blog and get this lovely mega kit.

Now, here's a small add-on for the Small Miracles kit. They are two angel elements which you can use to embellish your LOs. Okay, the preview does not give them justice as I included the TOU in it since some people who download my stuffs also re-upload them for others to download. These items are 5 inches in height at 300 dpi. They both are of high quality. These items can also be used in your commercial (making a scrap kit) and Scraps for Hire/Others projects.

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P.S. Another commercial use element awaits you at the small miracle's blog . So go and get that one too.