Thursday, May 6, 2010

Freebie Update

**To download our newest freebie scroll down below post**

We are so excited to start the release of this next kit. It's an idea we've had for a while and I must say it turned out every bit as good as we had hoped it would.

With this kit we are also changing up the way we do our freebies a bit. After a year of designing everything for free we are now preparing to open a store. It will be our own store and we are pretty sure you will find we charge less for our kits than anyone else around. We put an incredible amount of time into designing and we have spent a decent amount purchasing items, so we felt like maybe it was time to start covering our costs.

But, we really love giving freebies away on our blog and we don't want to give that up. So we have come up with a bit of a compromise. Anyone who has downloaded any of our kits knows that we tend to create kits that are very large. With two of us designing and wanting to provide plenty of options we intentionally make big kits. So we have decided that we will continue to offer a portion of our kits for free. The free part will be as large as many regular kits (for instance, the free part of He's My Brother has 10 papers and 50 elements, as well as wordart and quick layouts) and will still be released over a two week period. But now, beginning the first day we release a new kit we will offer the entire kit for sale right here on the blog. It will include all of the papers and elements that you will see used in our layouts and on the previews, usually about twice as much as what is available for free. So those of you who don't want to wait two weeks can pick the whole kit up on the first day it releases. The entire kit will be $2.50 for the first two weeks while it is available on our blog. It will only be available in our store after that and will cost a bit more. When we release a new kit our previous kit will no longer be available for free.

Thank you for your support and all of your kind comments. We hope you will continue to visit us often, whether it is to purchase our kits or download our freebies. Thanks!!

11 Comments:

Christy said...

Congratulations on your new store! I do think you've hit on a "happy medium". I hope all goes well.

Karen said...

I always think it is so generous of designers to offer kits for free; after all, a lot of hard work goes into creating them. It is very kind of you to continue offering freebies as well as starting up a business. I wish you the very best success.
Karen from Moscow

KatherineWoodin said...

Thank you so much for all your time. I have appreciated the kits. Good luck with your store.

Anonymous said...

I just love all the kits you make and for sure will be supporting your store!! I just bought He's My Brother and it is perfect for my two boys! Good luck! :)

CraftCrave said...

Just a quick note to let you know that a link to this post will be placed on CraftCrave in the DigiFree category today [28 Apr 02:00pm GMT]. Thanks, Maria

Annette said...

Thank you for sharing your talents! You make wonderful stuff!

Bridgette said...

Thanks for giving us so many freebies, but charging some money for all your hard work is totally understandable. I love your work and best of luck making it profitable.

anitab said...

I would like to buy your Serendipity kit, but when I click on 'buy now', it takes me to a page that doesn't seems to be totally secure - the 'lock' symbol has an exclamation mark, and when I hover over that, it says something about unauthenticated material...makes me nervous about typing in my PayPal password...

anitab said...

Okay - I took a deep breath, and went on through the process, in spite of it saying it was 'unauthenticated' and so far all that has happened is that I now have this WONDERFUL kit!!
:)

CraftCrave said...

Just a quick note to let you know that a link to this post will be placed on CraftCrave in the DigiFree category today [09 May 02:00pm GMT]. Thanks, Maria

BCRocks said...

Fair enough. I just found your website but I think this is a wonderful compromise for us (the lookers/buyers) and you (the designers). My thanks for the freebies I have taken today & my promise that I will be back - because I really like what I see here.
All the best in your (paying LOL) business venture.
BC Rocks