Category: Notices

Original Post Date- 7/28/14, 8:40 PM Central Standard Time

And this time I’m not talking about Jenny.
As much as I wish I was, sadly I’m not. =/
I’d rather be making this post about Jenny-
not someone I thought was a friend.

The newest person I’ve discovered to
be violating my TOU & ripping my kits
is Anna Collaco of Anna’s Attic.

Anna was once on my Creative Team until she
was let go a couple months ago for not advertising
like she was supposed to be doing.
Other members have been advertising & we
all found out she wasn’t, so she was let go.
And now I discovered she was ripping kits
she got from me while on my CT.
And even now, I’m not sure if she did it out
of spite or what?

She was someone I had trusted &
as of Friday, I have found that she betrayed
any trust I had in her.

So once again, I have to make a post like this,
to inform all of you to be wary of her kits,
to make sure she isn’t ripping from you.

To keep this post from being too lengthy,
I’m going to present the proof here.
Other kits, etc. will go on a ‘Part Two’ post.;)

And at the end of this post, I will have a freebie for you-
a special one-of-a-kind kit I’d made
just for Anna that I’m giving to everyone
for FREE!

Now, keep in mind, Anna was on my CT at the time
of Jenny’s ripping of my Pink’d kit the first & second time
and all times since & she knew ripping kits was wrong.

Last Friday I saw on my Facebook home page some
Commercial Use frames were newly avail. in
a store Anna & I both sell in.
These are frames that were made using my
CU Circle Frames.

I knew these were my frames because of the
glass effect on them- Exhibit A- Anna’s CU Frames:

Exhibit B- My Templates:

You can see that the glass effect is the exact same
on her frames & on my preview.
Also note that my preview says Commercial Use.
It does NOT say CU4CU which is how Anna
was using them. And my TOU in the zipfile say
they’re for CU for kits ONLY.

For her frames she also used my CU glitter sheets.
Those I’m not too anal about how they’re used,
as long as no one resells them or claims them as theirs.

How did I know Anna had these frames?
Here’s a screen shot from my CT group & Anna’s
first set of frames she’d made with my templates &
glitter sheets/ styles:

The discussion itself:

And more of that discussion on her frames
in my group:

At the time, she’d made this set free
for Personal Use only-
the way they were supposed
to be used (or add them to PU kits).
…And if you were to click on the link to the frames
on my blog above, she even commented on the post. 😉

*On my blogger blog is where she’d commented.
-Magik 11/06/2019

Since I saw those frames, my curiosity was piqued.
So I went to the store & was looking through
her items in the store to see if she was selling
more of my CU freebies.
I did not expect to come across a kit
where she ripped an element from my kit.

This is the kit I saw- never mind she also
used my colour palette:
Exhibit C- Anna’s kit: Love Meow:

Look at the milk bottle on the right.
Look closely at the details of it-
the glass effect, the text,
even the placement of that text.

Now, last year, I made this kit:

Now, the bottle doesn’t show in my preview,
but it IS in my kit:

I’m going to trust this not to be stolen,
since this is posted for comparisons ONLY.
Here’s the bottle- Exhibit D:

At one time I was a subscriber to Sugarbutt’s old blog.
She regularly had limited-time freebies on her blog.
A Carnival-themed set was posted & I downloaded it.
At the time, her items were CU/CU4CU/PU, etc.

This set had a ‘cluster’ of these bottles in it,
as I’ll show you in one of folders I have of her items
(they’re the red ones btw):

When I made my Kurious Kitty kit, I extracted one
of those bottles from the rest. I then desaturated it
& made it white. Then I added a glass effect on it.
Last, I added my text to make it look like a milk bottle
before saving it in the kit. In other words, I modified it.
And if you see in the above pic, I made the extracted
bottle into a image file for my own future use,
since I’m not a fan of tubing anything. LOL

So how did Anna get the same exact bottle
with the same exact glass effect & text?
She’d made a tutorial with my kit last Dec.,
so she had the kit. Her tutorial is here.

And on a side note, when I brought this up
to the store owner, I gave her my bottle file.
She tried to ‘replicate’ it the best she could
& it wasn’t exact like Anna’s is.
Proof that Anna clearly stole the bottle from my kit.

Also, you can also see these CT tags
by one of Anna’s CT girls that tagged her kit.
This gives you a better view of that bottle:

Now, I have more stuff to post concerning
Anna, but I don’t want this post to be so long.
Keep an eye on my blog because another post
will be coming soon.

But for now, as promised, here’s the freebie kit
for you. The kit was made for Anna as a gift.
It was based on a document my CT members
filled out, describing themselves or their likes.
I hope you all can at least enjoy it.
I was going to change the name of the kit,
but decided not to. I’d rather people be able to
associate this kit with a thief & remember not to trust her.

You can grab this kit here:
Anna

Thank you for reading.
Enjoy the kit & please come back for
part two about this thief.

*hugz*

Original Post Date- 3/15/14, 11:52 PM Central Standard Time

Unless you’ve been living under a rock the past year,
you are probably aware of 2 past issues I’ve had
with Jenny’s Designz (aka Jenny Pierce)
ripping from my FTU Pink’d kit to make kits of her own.

The other night I found yet another (gasp!)
kit of hers where she ripped from my kit again.
Again? you ask. Yes, again. *sigh*

Now at first I thought maybe she just
made the one kit FTU & posted on her blog.
Nope. That isn’t the case. >.<

The name of the first kit from Jenny was Burlesque Gurl.
The second kit I found my items in was named
Linda’s Emo Music- a kit I had to BUY to see
if my items were in it like I’d seen on a CT tag.
Mind, I was never reimbursed for that blastin’ kit.

No, this third kit has a different name- Emo Bad Gurl,
which you can find in a list of links, here.
(UPDATE- Jenny has removed the post &
her C-box from her blog).
I encourage you download the kit, open my Pink’d kit
& compare the items. Then, click on the properties of
the similar items & look at the creation dates.
The creation date is June 18, 2012 on both.

When I made the Pink’d kit originally, it was on that date.
It WAS a PTU kit & had gone into the ART store on
20, June 2012, as you can see on this post.
*I have since unpublished posts on that blog due to pirating. -Magik

I made the kit FTU in Apr. of last year. See here.
*Since my blog is closed, that FTU post
has been reposted here. -Magik 11/06/2019

Now, on a side note, the creation date of her preview
for this kit is ‎Thursday, ‎May ‎02, ‎2013…
so how in the HELL can she have items
dating back older than that creation date?

You know what, while you’re looking at the
properties of her elements, are you noticing
that other items have an older creation date?
This is because she is RIPPING everyone’s kits!!!

At this point I can’t even say if I’m mad,
frustrated, or what. I really don’t know.
BUT! I am considering making a tally on my blog
of just how many kits she’s made with items
from my Pink’d kit in it.
I swear she LOVES using that kit. =/

And I also know this- if she has downloaded
ANY of my Commercial Use items from my blog,
her license to use them is REVOKED.
Yes, Jenny that means you need to delete ANYTHING
you have gotten from my blog.
You do NOT have permission to use anything from me.
AT. ALL.

Once a thief, always a thief.
As for those of you who wish to
continue supporting her- just… why?

And one last thing…
Yes, I’m going to continue to watch her.
Yes, I’ll keep calling her out on her ripping kits.
Maybe one day we can all hope she’ll actually stop.

Original Post Date- 5/4/13, 1:28 PM Central Standard Time

I’ve decided to add these posts over here,
since they tend to get referenced a LOT.
And I strongly feel that other designers & taggers
should be allowed to have this information. -Magik 11/05/2019

I’m not sure how to even begin this post.
I’m not one to post anything ‘drama’-related
or to post random ‘bitchiness’ or complain on my blog.
I try to stay ‘professional’ at all times,
regardless what it may pertain to.
It’s how I am- how I’ve always been with anything I’ve done.

However, I can say I’m a bit disappointed
that someone had to take advantage of my kindness.
Likewise, I’m equally upset to see other designers
taken advantage of as well.

I was kind enough to make some of my PTU kits FTU
for many of you to enjoy-
knowing that there are some people in the tagging community
that simply cannot afford to buy new kits.
I also do what I can to try to make FTU sampler kits
at times for the same reason.
I honestly don’t mind doing this.
I love doing it if & when I can.

BUT! It does piss me off when someone has to take
things out of my kit to make their own kit-
either for a free kit or PTU kit.

An example-
Someone emailed me to download this person’s kit.
Jenny’s Designz is the designer of this kit.
The email I got said I’d be surprised when I unzipped it.
The ‘designer’ who made the kit decided to rip apart
my Pink’d kit for her ‘Burlesque Gurl’ kit.

Eight items from my kit are in her kit.
In my screen shots of the kits side-by-side,
you can see they’re the same- same size, same colour
& the creation date is the same.
Here’s the examples.

In the examples above, My Pink’d kit is on
the right, her Burlesque Gurl kit is on the left.
The original date that I created my kit was back
in mid- June of 2012, which was posted on my old
blogger blog.
*I did not repost the initial kit release on this site blog.
-Magik 11/05/2019

And the date I made this FTU was 4/19/2019 @ 3:04 PM.
I had updated the preview in late March, but the
elements were made a year ago, when I originally created it.
Her kit was ‘made’ on Apr. 25 of this year,
by looking at the date of the preview.
*The reposting can be found here. -Magik 11/05/2019

On a side note, my kit was only updated to remove
10 elements that were not allowed for free kits.
It is otherwise original. And like on the original preview
& on the updated one, it clearly states that the kit
is for Personal Use only.
This is also stated clearly in my TOU which is
included in the zipfile of the kit.

What bothers me most, is I paid for many of the
Commercial Use items I used in my kit-be it scripts,
element packs, templates, etc… she did not-
at least not for the elements she stole from my kit.

I know other designers go through this as well.
It bothers me people have to be dishonest like this. =/
It simply proves that the thieves who steal from others’
kits to make their own have no consideration for the money
we paid for the items we put in our kits.
Nor do they have consideration for the time we take
to create the kits we sell or offer free.

Now I can only suggest that any designers,
Creative Team members for other designers, etc.
to pass this info on for others to download her kits
& see if she’s ripped others’ kits to make her own.
I’ve seen elements in another FTU kit of hers I decided
to download as well & the elements that are in that kit
were originally created over 3 years ago.
… And my guess is she’s just transferring elements from
kits into her kits that she’s making.

With that being said, I have another former PTU kit
I was going to post here as FTU as well as 2 FTU
sampler kits I was planning on posting soon as well…
BUT! I’m considering not doing this for a while.
I might just offer the downloads off my Facebook
page to my friends. I don’t want to do this-
as it seems unfair to ‘punish’ honest people
because of the wrong-doings of someone else.
However, I must admit I’m feeling a bit ‘sour’ on this whole deal.