BE ORIGINAL, please ...

In the world of scrapbooking, it is completely okay to scraplift (i.e. use other people's ideas of layouts).

In most instances, we will usually have the basic courtesy to give proper credits to those original "creators" should we scraplift in whole/part of their layout ideas/designs ... this is so-called "Scraplifting Etiquette". Many a times, the original artist will be thrilled that you decided to use her ideas.

On the contrary, how would one feel if his/her original business ideas have been copied (again & again) under broad daylight ?? Do we regard such acts as competition? or plainly just lack of originality? or copycats?

Don't be a blueprint.
Be an original.

~ Roy Acuff