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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
I have been so busy I have neglected my blog. Not that I will have any freebies for you until after Christmas! With the warm but very humid wet weather we are having our place has become infested with fleas!!!!!!!! So after evicting the dog to MO-L’s and valiantly battling alone for two weeks with do it your self flea bombs we finally called in the experts. Apparently despite product advertisements, nothing actually kills the larvae, only the adult eggs. So in three weeks we maybe faced with another outbreak! Ughhhh
Hubby just can’t seem to get a week off anytime soon- being self employed piano tuner he takes the work as it comes- and i am busting for some time away- its been a year since we last got away… And to top off a hectic week I have to play violin at our carol service tomorrow morning ( I’m our only sad and sorry source of music at church-I picked up violin a few years ago for fun, never imagined I’d be doing the music at church) and do morning tea. It doesn’t rain unless it pours!!!
A Freebie….. well check back after Christmas and remember the TEAR Christmas kit will be taken down at the end of December. But you can purchase a ‘gift’ from the really useful gift catalogue or make a donation to TEAR Australia anytime of the year, from anywhere in the world! 
I also have a layout one of my readers has put together with the ‘big moments’ kit. Its very sweet and kinda true to the theme - a big moment- getting new clothes!
Remember designers love to see your layouts!
Merry Christmas
For those that like to be organised in style, I have put up a blank template (png form) of a Christmas gift list as well as the Christmas card list posted yesterday. These templates are without the cute pictures by Little Dreamer Designs, so you can trawl through your stash and decorate them how you like.
Template
Template
Download blank templates here. Leave some feedback when you download.
Have fun….
I decided to try and be more organised with my christmas card list. It has been a floating scrap of paper in my address book. The address book has a Xmas card list but I got sick of flipping back and forwards to the addresses. So I made an all in one (A4 size) before my luck runs out and I lose my list. I have used the gorgeous freebie Candy Canes by Heidi Larsen for the header.
To all those people who have so far donated to TEAR Australia, THANK YOU!!!!!
Your gift will change someone’s life for the better. If you haven’t already and you would like a really huge Xmas scrap kit, click here and follow the instructions and links!
Ughhh… 4shared has a new filter that decided my Sateen brad pack must have illegal content because it had the letters ‘teen’ in it. So they blocked downloads. They asked me to rename it, so that is done and you should be able to access it now. Sorry ’bout that.
Just thought I post some links to blogs with excellent freebies!
These are available from Monika’s blog.
And I just love these from Gille’s scrap and photoblog.
And this is just stunning! It is made by Bridget:
Tootles…
Here is brad pack number 5. These are a sateen finish in a variety of colours. It is the last of the scraps I have made. I will have to find some more time (& inspiration) to create some more scraps. Please let me know if there is a theme or colour scheme or element pack you would really like to see and I’ll see what I can come up with.
Download here. Enjoy LINK IS REPAIRED.
Okay, this is going to work on an honour system. I have neither the money nor resources to set up a shop, so I am trusting in your good will. I have put together a christmas kit, BUT IT IS NOT FOR FREE. The cost…. a donation to TEAR Australia. They help people in developing countries that are living in unimaginable poverty. They also help break the cycle of poverty through various education programs and small business loans etc. You can find out about their work in this post or the TEAR site here.
There is over 80 pieces in the kit. The downloads are divided into 5 parts.
You don’t have to live in Australia to donate, it can be completed online. You can simply give them a donation or purchase a ‘gift’ from their Really Useful Gift Catalogue- they can send you an e-card if you are enviromentally minded. Exchange rates will be in your favour, the Australia dollar is worth less than the US dollar, so $5 AUD is less than $4.50 US, and about 3 Euros.Your donation will change someone’s life for the better.
Make your donation to TEAR here. If you download without making a donation, THAT IS STEALING.
LINK EXPIRED Download: Papers1, Papers2, Papers3, Elements1, Elements2. Password is at the bottom of this previous post, if you have made your donation. Please don’t steal from someone far less fortunate than yourself. If you can afford access to a computer, you can spare a little money to help someone out. The link will be open until the end of December.
This is the sole initiative of Just Passin’ Thru. The kit is offered exclusively here, you are expected to make a donation to TEAR Australia in exchange for downloading. This offer is not promoted or organised by TEAR Australia, it is an act of good will which the creator hopes you will be a part of.
Merry Christmas..
I love summer rain- usually because it means it’s not stifling hot! I know that the majority of visitors here are from the northern hemisphere, so while you are rugging up against the cold and preparing for a white christmas, I am thinking about how to prepare christmas food with the minimal amount of oven cooking! That, and whether I should pop the air con on! We have actually had a bit of a spring weather this year with a cooler, but more humid start to summer. A bit tropical.
I am just typing up this post to show you some finds I made this morning. I’m not usually into quickpages but these really caught my eye. Particularly as they are not square (I’m an A4 scrapper). They are available from Nadya’s Scraps If you do download them, you may find you have to rename the unzipped folders with english letters as I couldn’t open the files inside until I did this.
I found them when I went chasing these:
They are just gorgeous!
Thats all I really wanted to share for now. Remember look out for my huge Christmas kit on the way!
Tootles…
I intended to post these sooner, but during one of the summer thunderstorms we are having (a bit early this season, they usually come in February), I stupidly had the computer on. We do have a power surge protector but we still managed to lose the ether net card, it blew in the blackout we had. So we were without online access.
It has been a very very busy week that is just getting busier. We have birthday parties, end of year parties and christmas parties to attend.
My Mums-with-little-ones bible study group is taking our children to the local pool for our christmas party, it is the same day as our daughter’s first birthday, and that evening we have an end of year party for the Kids Club hubby and I run at church. And tomorrow is our 9th wedding anniversary. And there is more, but I wont bore you with the details! 
Here is a little brad pack for you. There is a brad pack No.5 for those keeping count, but I just felt like releasing this one into the wild first.
These silver brads have a variety of different, funky edges.
Look out for my HUGE christmas kit, coming soon!
tootles…
Hi there,
For the lead up to Christmas this year we decided to make a Jesse Tree with our son. This advent tree traces the whole Christmas story from the very beginning…. God’s creation of the world, through to the birth of Jesus. Each day you have a symbol or picture to make as an ornament and a bible passage to read. The idea behind it is to see that God has from the beginning, a wise and loving plan in place, that will result in our being brought into a relationship with God and receiving eternal life!
The tree and its decorations can be as simple or as elaborate as you like. This year I have hand drawn the pictures for my son and he will decorate them by sticking things on or colouring in etc. We are following the intructions in Kent & Barbara Hughes’ Disciplines of a Godly Family, Crossway Books. You can find other instructions on the web;
http://www.cresourcei.org/jesse.html
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/7202/advent.html
http://www.jesse-tree.com/jesse_tree.html
http://www.shalfleet.net/advent/makeajessetree.htm
http://www.kingofpeace.org/resources/
The first symbol is a “rising sun on horizon with rays of light”, the scripture reading to accompany it Genesis 1:1 & John 1:1-5. As our son is only three the concepts in the John passage will be beyond him, as it talks of Jesus as the ‘Word’.
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” Genesis 1:1
