And one more freebie (for a little while)

This time it's a quickpage made with PMarie's kit, Spring A Ling Ding Dong, for the QP contest at Coolscraps Digital. The kit is beautiful with lots of spring colors.

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Getting Challenged

That's right, as in forum challenges. I love color challenges, or any challenge that lets me do a little designing. I'm also picking up some scrapping challenges as well. Today, I have a mini kit for you made for the Coolscraps Digital challenge, CU for a Freebie sponsored this month by KaKleiDesigns. It's kinda fun, take a cu pack and make a mini out of it. Download link are below the preview. T'aint much, but someone might find a use for it.

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Wouldn't You Know It?

Trouble with 4shared again. Arghhhhh! I have no idea what is going on at 4shared. I've been able to download just fine, but for reasons I can't find an answer for, my files cannot be downloaded by anyone who is not logged in to a 4shared account. I've been checking folder and file properties, FAQ, but for whatever reason, when someone tries to download, it asks you to log in. Someone left a nasty comment, which I did not publish, that they got a login screen. (Whoever you are, you didn't have to be nasty, but just leave me a comment saying you were unable to download and why. Being rude and crude won't win you any kudos from me or any other designer. After all it is free; you aren't being asked to pay for it.) There shouldn't be any request to login, however, I will shortly be uploading the files to a different site. I thought 4shared had finally gotten their act together. Silly me. They claim you can share files with anyone, but obviously that isn't so.

I'm listing them again, but this time with downloads from two different sites that are not 4shared! I've checked all the links, after logging out of both Mediashare and Divshare, and the links work.

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Color Challenge at DSS

Now that I'm not working on kits to sell (that don't sell) I'm up to doing the color challenges at a Moo Two and at DSS aka theStudio. Here is the mini I've made for the latter's color challenge this month.



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Color Challenge Freebie Time

I did this mini kit for the Paint the Barn Challenge at Moo Two Designs. Click on preview to download.

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Going Out of Business

That's right, I'm closing down my shop at the end of March. The time has come for me to focus on other things that do not require advertising. That has actually been my biggest challenge. To be in business and stay in business you have to advertise, and that is something I don't enjoy doing. I tried hiring advertisers, but that didn't work out very well. I've already talked about CT. In the last few months, other things have come into my life that are calling for more attention than they have been getting. Since I need to focus on them, it is time to close up shop. So, this is your opportunity to save big!



Just a reminder that my store is always closed from Friday sunset to Saturday (CST) sunset as I am a Sabbath keeper.

I'm not bowing out completely. I will be contributing to the Moo Two Forum challenges and their collabs. I'll still be handing out freebies from time to time. I just won't have a store to worry about any more. I'll continue to keep the blog, but will probably close the FB fanpage. FB keeps changing so much, I can't keep up anyway. I've never learned how to offer freebies on FB, and finally decided I didn't want to learn. In fact, I really don't like the FB freebie thing anyway. I've found out that by "liking" someone to get a freebie, then show up in my personal page. I really don't care for that. So I found that I could "unlike" them and did so for most of them. Ha! That taught me something new. Like the page long enough to get the freebie, then unlike it. Now, what good does it do to have a fanpage, if everyone starts doing that because they are getting too many fanpages on their personal page? I guess some don't care, but I like to keep my circle small. So like and unlike. I just don't do it very much. Most of the time, I bypass the FB freebies and don't bother with them.

You know, I've been in this business long enough to see its underbelly as well as it's good side. There are good people in the business, and there are some who aren't so good. A few are thieves who take and then share what isn't theirs to others. I realized very quickly that I could spend time trying to track down pirates (as if my stuff was being pirated anyway!) or just go on about my business. In the designer's only portion of DST, there is usually one active topic where someone has found a forum that is sharing kits that have been pirated. Then comes all the posts requesting a pm with the url so they can check to see if their stuff is on there. Why bother? It's well known, that the pirates will do one of two things: they'll either move to a different site, of they password protect the site so outsiders can't see what's there. Some designers don't bother to chase the rabbits. They would rather spend the time working their business. Good for them.

Back to my Going_Out_of_Business Sale. Here are some of the products you can pick up in my store for just $1.00 each. Or get everything for just $30.00.