Newsletter Video

We have been working hard on our newsletter over the last couple of weeks. Firstly we have made it an "online" newsletter this gives us much more scope for showing off all the free papers and linking directly to the downloads. Crafters are on the whole, very "visual people" and we wanted to give more images without clogging up peoples email.

It has also enabled us to do our first Video Newsletter. Again we think a lot of people will prefer to get the information this way. It will also enable us to show people how to do different things on the site. We will include some other information in these videos including info on craft shows and other craft related news.



There is no doubt that the Internet is more and more becoming the place to see information presented in this manor and the quality has increased greatly over the last two years. Try this with the video above. When it starts playing you will see a number (normally 360) on the bottom bar. If you have a fairly fast connection click on this number and change it to HD quality. Then use the botton on the bottom right of the video to view it full page, the quality is really good (if you have a slower connection then you can do the same but after you have changed it to full screen then pause it for a while to give the video a chance to buffer).

I hope you like this video, it includes information on 3 sets of free papers (Cheer Leading, Football and some Easter Decoupage featuring Brewster) as well as giving you glimpses of www.craftcalendar.co.uk and www.freecraftstuff.co.uk

Brewster Cricket Papers and More

As those who have signed up to our paper crafts newsletter will know (and readers of out Facebook Page) this week  Brewster has taken up Cricket, luckily just in time for the Cricket world cup. This time there is a score board which allows you to personalise the papers to meet your exact requirements, we have even thrown in some numbers and the words "Not Out" and "Retired" to help with those special greetings cards.

Each time we do a set of Brewster Papers we try and give you some way of adding a "Personal Touch" to the papers. When he was a teacher there was a blackboard, when he was a newspapers vendor we added an "Aboard", the Sheriff had a wanted poster by him and at Christmas he was carrying a huge Christmas Card.

If you have any ideas what you would like to see Brewster doing next, or in the near future please do let us know either by adding a comment here or by emailing us, we would love to hear your ideas. Remember it would be good if there was something about the design which could be personalised. Obviously we can promise to make every suggestion but those which would appeal to lots of people will stand a good chance. We may even see if we can reward those whose suggestions we use :-)

BREWSTER SETS

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.