Happy Easter! (freebie)

I hope you all had a great Easter, Passover, or whatever wonderful holiday you might celebrate!  It was storming outside, so we had an indoor Easter Egg Hunt for the kids.  It was the first for our two youngest (first that they can remember), and there was much squealing and laughing.  SO CUTE!

Freebie QP (download links at the very end)

I have a quickpage freebie for those who might be interested.  It's one quickpage, but I have it with the "Happy Easter" writing on it, as well as without.  So, there's two quickpages, but they're basically the same.  I figure not everyone celebrates Easter, so there's the option of it without.

Here's a sample layout of it with my baby girl!  I personally love this kit.  I feel like I'm finally getting kits to come out the way I want them to.  :)  Illustrator is awesome.  If you're a designer and don't use it, I highly recommend learning.

Freebie Download Link:

I'm hoping the planets will align properly for the download links to work for everyone!  :)  If not, let me know.  If you're new here, you can subscribe to my blog (look for link on the right) and you'll be able to be kept up-to-date to enter new drawings in the future.

New download link:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/ofd_freebies/ofd_easterchick_freebieQP.zip

Enjoy!

Teresa

BLAST FROM THE PAST for only $10

I finally decided to try out Crafthub.me to see how it will work for me to sell my kits via Etsy.  It works pretty nice!!  It makes it so that when you buy a kit from me through Etsy, crafthub.me will automatically send you the links within just a minute...no waiting on me to email them to you.  So nice!

So, I uploaded all my old kits, from over two years ago, and have them for sale as one giant bundle for only $10.  If you bought this last time, this is the same thing.  I just wanted to offer it for all the new folk around.

Details below.  You can buy it HERE.

"Blast from the Past" includes all my previous products from over two years ago when I worked as a designer, under the name of "teresabelle designs". I took a loooooong break (had too many little ones that needed my full focus!) and am just now getting back to designing.

PLEASE NOTE: 
This bundle does NOT include any of my current work. This was my closing BUY MY STORE sale, as teresabelle designs, so you may have already purchased it.

Instead of retiring many of these products, I decided to sell them in a hugely discounted bundle again. You'll get a wide variety of designs, and skill level, as I went from newbie to a more experienced designer. This is over a $100 worth of products that you can now get for a crazy low price of just $10. 

Part of the reason they are so discounted is that I would otherwise retire many of them, as I don't feel like they reflect my current skill level or design work. That being said, it's still a ton of good stuff and a fantastic deal!  You get it all for less than $1 per product.  Okay, now I have to figure it out...it's a little less than $0.28 per product, which is a HUGE steal!!

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SUMMARY OF BUNDLE:
- 36 separate products 
- More than 210 papers
- Over 530 elements
- More than 20 quickpages
- Templates
- Two CU products
- Plus more!

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DETAILED LIST:
Advent of Summer Kit (17 papers, 40 elements)
Advent of Summer Quickpages (2 QP)
A Little Fall Kit (22 papers, 48 elements)
A Little Fall Quickpage (1 QP)
As Autumn Falls Kit (13 papers, 39 elements)
As Autumn Falls Quickpages (4 QP)
Baby Feet Template (1 template, 1 QP)
Bday Mini Kit (10 papers, 15 elements)
Chasing Butterflies Kit (16 papers, 44 elements)
CU Doodle Pack (7 doodles)
CU ribbons Pack (4 ribbons)
Cutie Patootie Kit (21 papers, 25 elements)
Cutie Patootie Quickpage (1 QP)
Emma Kit (17 papers, 37 elements)
Emma Quickpages (2 QP)
Everybody Kit (19 papers, 60 elements)
Everybody Mini Kit (4 papers, 4 elements)
Everybody Quickpages (4 QP)
Everybody Template (4 templates)
Everybody Glitter Style (5 glitters)
Everybody Stickers (27 stickers)
Everybody Alpha (numbers and alphabet)
Feel the Grunge (6 paper masks)
Green with Envy Kit (9 papers, 35 elements)
Green with Envy Quickpages (2 QP)
Just LION Around Kit (17 papers, 44 elements)
Just LION Around Quickpage (1QP)
Miracle Mini Kit (3 papers, 4 elements)
Shape Shifters (9 shape shifters)
Summertime Mini Kit (13 pages, 38 elements, 1 alpha)
Summertime Quickpage (1 QP)
Sweet Pea Kit (19 papers, 52 elements)
Sweet Pea Quickpages (4 QP)
Whisperings Kit (11 papers, 32 elements)
Whisperings Quickpages (4 QP)
Year of Memories Mini Kit (3 papers, 4 elements)

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Papers are all 12x12 jpg, 300 dpi
Elements are all 300 dpi, png, various sizes

All products are PERSONAL USE, except two that may also be used as CU. 

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PERSONAL USE TERMS OF USE:
I love for people to feel like they can use my products for what they need, so you'll find that you can likely do that with these. You can pretty much use it for whatever you want for PERSONAL use - whatever you need for YOU (not getting paid). Whether that's your blog, cards, personal books, etc. 

Freebies that you make are fine too, flattened product only. No giving away individual files, please.

If you want to do some things and want to get paid, you may use my products to create FLATTENED images for others, charging them for your time and talent in creating the product, but do not charge them for my products (as that would be a commercial use of the products). This can include layouts or cards, etc, and done on small scale. Please do not include pds files or individual files that allow someone else access to non-altered pieces of my work.

Credit not required, but I do appreciate it.

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COMMERCIAL USE:
This TOU applies to small businesses (large business peeps, please contact me for a business license). There are two commercial use products in this bundle. 

You may use my CU products in any of your products that you are reselling. You may also use them to create freebies, but please do not give away as freebies as stand alone products (as in, don't take my CU product and give it away as-is. You must alter it and give it away in your kit or product). Credit is not required but is appreciated. 

some changes

Okay, so it's been kind of like five million years since I've updated my blog here.  Anyone remember me?  I almost don't remember me.  These little kidlets of mine have been keeping me busy.  But maybe one day soon I'll have time to finish some of these kits I've started (there's actually several of them that I need to spend a little time on to finish).

Today, I was looking through my blog, something I knew I needed to do for a while.  I realized how unorganized it has become, how confusing it must be for newcomers (where are you all coming from anyhow?), and how badly it needs some cleaning and organizing.  So, I decided to do that - to clean it up.

I went through and deleted a TON of old posts that are not relevant anymore - all my posts from the stores I worked at in the past that have dead links that don't work anymore.  I think it's just confusing to have all of that still up.  So, now I hardly have any posts on my blog, but at least it's not too confusing anymore.  I'm going to slowly be working my way through the free kit posts and will organize them a little bit better and repost them.

Apparently the theme of this blog entry is my desire to avoid confusion, but that doesn't apply to this next part, since I'm pretty sure this will cause a lot more confusion in the long run.  But I'm doing it anyway.

I don't like my design name.  It's just boring and...boring.  I chose it because I hadn't come up with anything else by the time I started selling at a couple stores and had to have something quick.  Then I was kind of stuck with it, but I never liked it very much (though I did like the little button and papers...).

I've gotten into photography lately and finally thought up a name.  Apparently it only takes me about 3.5 years to finally think up something.  Here's my new name and logo:

I'm sure half of you are wondering why I would choose that over my previous name, and I have no answer for you, except that I love it and it makes me smile.  I don't know why, but it does!  Kind of like how I love making homemade potato chips...actually I don't like making them, but I LOVE eating them.  It's the same happy feeling.

So, I'm going to be switching things around to say "owls and fireflies design" instead of "teresabelle designs".  I realize this may cause confusion with file names.  Since I have hundreds of files under my previous name, I don't have time to go in and change all of them (for when I put them up for sale again).  So, rest assured, if you see a file begin with "tbd" or "ofd" - they are both me.

On to other news...

https://www.facebook.com/ourlittletasteofheaven

For those of you who have followed along with us regarding our daughter Emma (sorry, removed those posts too!), she's moving along in her illness.  She was hospitalized this January, and her immune system (all cells lines) are in critical bone marrow failure ranges.  It looks like we've stretched our time out almost as far as we can, and we need to start looking into a bone marrow transplant.  I've started a Facebook page for her, it's public and anyone can join.  Or you can follow on our blog HERE.

I'm considering putting up some of my other kits for sale again in hopes of helping us prepare as well as we can financially for Emma's transplant.  She has Fanconi Anemia, and there's only three hospitals in the nation that specialize in her type of tranpslant.  So, I'll need to take her and be gone from home for several months.

I've had some people ask to buy my other kits, but I've never been sure how to do it without a store.  If you have any ideas, let me know!  I did look at Etsy and saw that crafthub.me has an automated service for digital products.  It looks kind of new!  I might try that.  I would sell through a store again (would be easiest!), but I really don't have the time to meet the requirements they need (can't make a kit a month or participate in their store collabs).

Anyway, I promise I'll get more kits up some day and will hopefully have some of my other kits, that haven't been available for a while, up for sale again.

I hope you are all doing well!  Thank you all for sticking around while I've been busy surviving every day with my five little ones and haven't been able to give this blog as much attention as I would have liked.  hehe.

Thanks everyone!
Teresa