Tutorial and crafting along vs. copying?

I would probably share and say “I made this card along with Kelley during her live class” or “I followed along with Kelley’s tutorial” or something like that. Honey Bee usually call their livestreams classes in some of their communications and seem to assume people will be making the same card along with them at home. If your card is mostly the same I’d phrase it that way. If it’s using different products or has some major differences I’d say it was “inspired by” or that you were crafting along with her.

No harm in sharing on IG as long as you’re not pretending you came up with the design all on your own I’m sure they’d love you to promote their products and Fbk group! And you should definitely show us too.

Ditto.

When I send cards, I will mention if the design isn’t mine. I don’t name the designers because the people I send to aren’t involved in the crafting community and so wouldn’t recognize the names anyway. Plus I don’t post my cards online or sell them, so I don’t think I’m taking undue credit. 

I also use "inspired by", "design by", or "from a class by" if I am sharing online. I don't tell my card recipients one way or the other.

That's what I do.  The most exact duplicates of the class project would be if it was part of a class kit, but usually there are at least a few tweaks I add.  If not, that's okay.  If you see my card on line and say, "Hey I would like to do that", then you will prob look up the artist I cite, so they will get the extra traffic.  Win-win.

I’m wondering if these points of view are mostly related to sharing online or copying cards in general? I ask because while I love to create, I am not that creative and that part isn’t as fun for me. So I copy a lot of cards that have tutorials online, I thought that was generally expected. I wouldn’t use them for say, participating in a card swap here and definitely wouldn’t post them online without giving credit and likely a link. I’m just now really looking into and considering making cards to donate, and I wouldn’t do a copy for those but before this thread might have considered doing one fairly heavily inspired by a video. Now I’m not so sure. I have definitely done pretty close copies and given them to friends and family. Are y’all saying this is not considered okay? Because I appreciate the content so much and definitely don’t want to do anything that would be considered disrespectful of the creators. 

I understand giving credit when you're sharing online or entering in a contest or something. I don't see the need when I'm making cards for family or to give to teachers at a local school.

Just for the sake of continuing the conversation, I'll say that I think you can push this giving credit idea too far. For example, what about if you're making a card with a set of stencils? I'm thinking of something like TE's Create-In-Quads. There's only so many ways you can line up those stencils. Other than the color choice your card is going to look pretty much like every one else's. How far do you have to go giving credit? To the maker of the card you saw? To the person who made the online example when you bought the stencils? To the company who made the stencil? To the person who designed the stencil?

Granted, that may be taking it too far, but do you see what I mean?

Tools - I would never credit these. One of the reasons I think SU!'s policy is delulu; you're selling stamps & sentiments that are obviously purpose-made for cards. People are going to make cards with them. Don't go shocked pikachu face when that happens. I don't credit my markers or scissors when I craft either!

Product samples - again, I would not credit those. I'm also not going to copy them, but eh, nothing against those that do. That's what they're there for (and presumably paid to be created).

Tutorials - nope, they're intending for people to draw inspiration and/or follow along. If you're displaying it publicly, "based on tutorial by x" is a kind thing to do since it'll give the original person a little boost in traffic, maybe.

Random person's design - yes, I'd mention it, if it's being posted publicly, which I'd strongly consider not sharing. Privately sure; not everyone is equally good at designing vs. the making, and if you don't want anyone to "borrow" your design the only way is to never share your work. Personally this is not something I would be comfortable doing myself, because it makes me a bit sad when I'm the person being copied exactly. For the same reason I rarely share anything I've finished and I stick to low-res pictures when I do.

Once you put something on the internet, you have to accept that you lose control of that work at least in part. It can be scraped by AI, downloaded, copied, altered, reproduced, etc. The internet never forgets.

I don't actually post my creations anywhere but here. Even when I'm doing an online event and they have FB galleries, I post here, not there. Probably makes me a bad participant as far as the companies are concerned, but oh, well. I want my quarterly team sharing point, darnitall! I think I'm pretty transparent about what I'm posting, but it's also not some Insta where I'm showing the intertubes at large my creations and claiming to be some sort of artiste, right?

That is an interesting perspective, I say, thinking about the Spellbinders cocktail theme in their new retreat and my Pinkfresh holiday sprits set....

Are the same ones that Spellbinders then copied?

When I'm doing card swaps and drives or sending cards to friends/family I don't ever credit the person I was inspired by (even if I outright copied their design). Most of the people I send cards to wouldn't know who Yana or Jennifer McGuire, etc is. I've taken several virtual events and sometimes send those cards in the 2Peas swaps. I don't mention those are from a class either.

I don't post my cards online anywhere except here and those are usually only during a virtual event. If I was posting on Instagram, etc I would credit the original designer but for my normal day to day recipients I don't.

This topic came up years ago re: Kristina Werner. She'd so damned sanctimonious and I find her and her clique of thin skinned biddies so off putting I stopped following all of them. So KW made some comment about giving credit for her designs, so for the pea Christmas Card exchange I copied KW's design exactly and made 10 cards to send to peas. The credit I gave did not include her name.

If you are providing inspiration online (and it's your job and you're getting product as part of your job) get over yourself. Nobody needs to give you credit on the back of the card we sent grandma. And nobody is making a killing in the card making business stealing your designs.