So here is the
short story. this design, my singing birds / reinbirds, is probably my most
copied design. and it has happened again recently, and it upsets me every time. I don't want to write who did it and show their stuff. I just wanted to
put it out there, that this is my design, the first design I ever listed and
sold in my Etsy shop in 2007. I just felt the need, to put it out there. these are
not good copies, and I hate the idea that people might think they are my work.
blah.
I thought another european based artist Stephanie from Petit Plat put it really well, why copying
is wrong, in her blog. if you are unsure about the whole idea of copying you
should have a read here.
and as a final
message to the person(s) who put up a tutorial on their blog on how to make my
exact design, hence letting everyone who comes across it believe they are
allowed to make and sell my design: thank you so much. you've given me a great
idea of my own, I'm thinking I'll make a tutorial for my blog called How to be
a Crafting Jackass.
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the top photo, shows my first ever sold item on etsy, I called my birds the four chickens back then, september 2007. heavens above what an awful photo, it's a miracle this card sold. on the right, in 2009, when I added antlers for a christmas theme. I also did horns for a halloween theme. that was an epic fail, looked like a bird with three beaks. lets not talk about that design again.
below, these are my singing birds / reinbirds in their current form, gift tags and note cards. I don't make a lot of these designs anymore, they're very time consuming for such a simple thing, but they're my very first commercial design, from the earliest days of my business, so I am very attached to them.
