I have put together two freebie quick pages. They are in 12×12 ” and A4 formats, all in the one file. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and are firing to scrap all those yuletide pics!
Commiserations to Nicole of NBK scrap. Nicole is a talented and generous designer. She designs a massive amount of gorgeous freebies then gives them away. Some nasty people decided to download her material stored on 4shared and upload it again to new links as their own work. Not only that, they took private unrealeased material as well!
Folks, just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should. Theft is theft. Creating a separate download site of Nicole’ s scraps was not necessary, and taking the credit is well, just pathetic.
So I was inspired to put together:
THE BEST WAY TO DOWNLOAD FREEBIES
Always, always take the time to say thank you. You have got something for nothing, it doesn’t mean you can take it for granted! Just a simple TY in the comments section is all it takes -although more is much appreciated :) . Have you ever noticed the proportion of downloads to comments!
Leave the image file names intact- (if they have enough detail). That way you know whose stuff you are using, so you can give due credit when posting layouts in galleries.
Never, ever upload a freebie created by someone else for others to download, or post a direct link to the download address. Direct them to the designer’s site.
If you rename the preview image to ‘folder’ it becomes the folder thumbnail image making it easy to see what is in each folder. Helpful as your stash of freebies explodes in size!!!
If its a freebie, don’t go back to the designer and criticise if you decide you didn’t like the download. IT’S FREE, so you haven’t lost anything by downloading it and no one is forcing you to use it! ( Yes, this apparently does happen.) Constructive comments are helpful but there is a right way to go about this.
Although you know deep down that the people who are going to thieve will do it any way, 
I still had to get that off my chest.
Look out for some new freebie kits coming this way very soon!
Happy New Year.
Nikki
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January 5, 2008 at 6:12 am
chantal
sorry my my comment was meant to be under this one
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January 5, 2008 at 10:39 am
Mysty
Hey thanks for the tip on renaming the preview to folder!! oh and thanks for the freebie too
xoxo
January 6, 2008 at 7:06 pm
witchypoo
Hey Nikki
Glad to read that someone else is up in arms about Nicole. Although I really don’t understand everything that was going on I was livid for Nicole !
I wrote to 4Shared and gave them a piece of my mind, but it appears that they have reinstated her account, gee there are some creeps in the world !
Luckily there are more nice folk than creeps otherwise you would want to just end it wouldn’t you.
Anyway thanks for supporting here in her time of need, and thank you for the lovely downloads !!! (freebies)