SCRAPLIFTING. When I first started scrapping and I heard this term I immediately thought it was a negative thing. How is it OK for someone to steal your ideas? Of course I was educated that it is not only OK, but often encouraged. Immitation is the best form of flattery. Why not "lift" my card or layout? If others think my work is so amazing that they want to duplicate it, I find that great....I even blush at the thought. Crafters everywhere often lift ideas from others that it is often hard to determine where the original idea came from. The main rule of scraplifting is that you do not take credit for the idea. As long as you are not publishing your work as your own, its OK. So I decided to scraplift. Oh, I have done it many times in the past but I wanted to make a few cards that show different levels of lifting. I used the latest issue of Cards Magazine to do my crime.
When I saw this card I really liked the tag with the sentiment. It inspired me to make my card. As you can see my card and the lifted card are not similiar at all. The only thing I took from this card is the tag.
ORIGINAL CARD
LIFTED VERSION
Now this card I lifted completly. I had some foam thickers laying around and when I saw this card I had to try to follow it as much as possible. I would have even rounded my corners had I not stuck the thickers on first.
ORIGINAL CARD
LIFTED VERSION
**Both cards were lifted from Cards Magazine January 2011 issue. Designers: Karolyn Lancon and Carina Lindholm.
I love the letter card. That is an idea I might need to scraplift. (Yes, it is meant in the most flattering of ways.)
ReplyDeletemy mojo disappeared in December so about 4 of my Jan layouts have been scraplifted from nov/dec issue of Creating Keepsakes LOL! You guys can always come scraplift with our challenges at http://www.truexoxogirls.blogspot.com/ It'd be nice to see some new faces!!
ReplyDeleteVery nice! I love to scraplift! Sometimes it is just the inspiration we need to get us going. I rarely follow it to a T anyway...
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