I'm a thirty-something dad living in Canada with my wife, my boy, and my pup. I am a graphic designer, educated in England, and I welcome you to my new blog! The plan for this blog is to offer free graphic designs for you to use for personal projects. After spending time searching the internet for ways to make money with my graphic design skills, I stumbled upon a saturated market on Etsy for graphic elements. These sell from around $2 to $20 depending upon the amount of files and work needed to create them. I thought to myself, "why fight for a piece of this market? Why not offer the designs for free and instead make money through things like advertising and donation links on the blog? Using social media sites like Pinterest and Facebook, I can promote the designs for free and generate hits and gather a following. I also plan to offer my design skills for custom jobs at a price.
Thank-you for reading, and please follow to keep up with the free designs on offer!
Now for the boring details...
TERMS OF USE FOR FILES:
PERSONAL USE: Feel free to use my items for personal use!
COMMERCIAL USE:
Anything downloaded is authorized for "small commercial use". No credit needs to be given. Small commercial use is considered anything made in small quantities by a small business, and NOT for mass production.
UNAUTHORIZED USES:
1.Selling patterns/designs as is.
2.Using the patterns on "print on demand" services such as zazzle and cafepress
3. Printing them on phone cases, accessories, etc
4. Giving files away as freebies
5. Bundling the files, in any way, as part of another scrapbooking or digital paper bundles online. Even if the patterns are altered.
6. Printing them and selling them as wall art, unaltered.
AUTHORIZED USES:
Card making, scrapbooking, design elements on blogs or websites, or most things where something is added to them.
For example: Printing them and selling the patterns as wall art is not permitted. However, if you use them as a design element, such as a border or text fill-in, that is permitted. You have to use them as part of another project.
