Free Craft Downloads:- Paid Membership

We've put off having paid membership for a long time, after all, it's pointless having a site called "Free Craft Downloads" if you are going to charge people! The other thing is we actually enjoy doing it and somehow it seems wrong to charge for something you are doing because you enjoy it.

Unfortunately the costs of running the site are going up and up and every few months we go through a situation where things get remarkably "tight" and stressful just trying to get the money to pay for the server etc.

So here is what we've decided.

Everything which is in place at the moment will stay the same, all the papers will still be free to download and we will continue to produce the free papers on a weekly basis.

The Paid Membership of the site will be something completely new and everything in it will be "in addition" to the content we already have.

Paid Membership will include the following benefits:

• The ability to download each weeks sets of papers as a zipped file rather than individual papers.
• Access to zipped files of past sets which includes 10,000s of papers (we will eventually make ALL past sets available as zipped files)
• Unique Premium sets which will only be made available to paid members.
• If that all isn't enough there will be a very special sign up bonus which will be worth more than the sign up cost in its own right!

We will be working very hard to ensure that paid member receive the best value for money possible whilst  not decreasing what is on offer for the normal web site visitor. By doing this we hope that everyone will be happy.

If you have any comments or further suggestions we'd be very happy to hear them.

Card Making Days

On Free Craft Downloads we are eager to build up a list of Card Making Days to compliment our Free Craft making downloads. We tend to remember the days we celebrate but sometimes forget the days which others celebrate but we don't.

With many crafters taking part in international forums we now often have friends who celebrate "days" which aren't part of our own customers.... July 4th in the USA,  Australia Day, Chinese New Years to just name a few.

Even some of the common days have different dates, Mother Day may not be celebrated on the same date in the UK as it is in Canada (wouldn't know without looking it up). Add to these some days which haven't quite "made it" into our calendars... Grandparents Day for example, how many people could say when that falls this year even in their own country!

So if you have any dates which you think we ought to add and may have forgotten please either leave a comment with this post, in the Free Craft Downloads forum or even email us. We will be asking on several of our forums, our Facebook page etc and then in a few weeks time we will be putting all this information together to hopefully make the definitive Card Makers Dates list.

We will try our best to make this available as a download so you will be able to save it and keep it for continual reference.

Craft Shopping Television

I know I've talked about Shopping Telly before on several websites. At least three of the Channels, QVC, Ideal Word Shopping and Create and Craft (another part of Ideal World) are of interest to crafters as they sell large amounts of craft goods, particulaly paper crafts like card making and scrap booking.

Last time I mentioned the "problems" with the shopping channels mainly

• High prices and postage
• Narrow Range of Crafts 
• Demonstrations and demonstrators continually interrupted
• Continual Hard Selling
• Low quality goods