To everyone on this post:

I want to apologize to all of you for me getting crappy on what was supposed to be a fun post.
I apologize to all of you and to Milissasmom.

I am having a really bad morning and I took it out on Milissasmom. I took it all wrong.

Please forgive me.

Thank you
Lu

awww...We love a good ending!..

I have considered CC a place for inspiration. I get ideas from a number of different cakes and pull something together from that. I don't necessarily remember whose cake gave me the idea orginally.

At the same time, I don't expect anyone to ask if they can copy a design of mine - trust me, I am not there yet either as far as skill level goes, but even if I was ... I would have posted it on the internet for all to see. I don't feel anyone has to ask my "permission" to copy it. If I felt that protective about my design, I wouldn't post it.

I don't think anyone needs to ask my permission at all.

However, it is certainly a nice gesture to let someone know you copied their work and show them and/or thank them (as I did with my Suzy Skull-la-licious cake here - http://marah_johnson.typepad.com/random/2007/09/suzy-skull-la-l.html ).

All of learning is based on......

copying
imitating

"copy these sentence diagrams...." (FUN!!!)

"copy these math problems...." (drudgery!)

"copy what I do to shoot a free throw....) (all of learning sports works by imitation)

learn to paint/draw...etc by copying the masters (long established technique)

"do as I do...."

so----

copy on! --- it's called learning.

(and boy do I wish i could visit lots of all ya all to do my coping live and in person!)

and yes...

thank you /tip o' the hat is always the polite thing to do.

Oh they locked the "Loophole" Thread, that started out kind of...interesting I think Brandi'sBaked has something in her Renaissance Wedding cake she was working on in the picture that i will copy-THE big bottle of vodka LOL! My husband wonders why/how we go through so much, I blame it on the cakes!

I agree. THere is no higher compliment on here when you not only get it as a favorite but you get asked over and over for directions on a design. I just love that. THat's when I really know I did a good cake!

I'm just a hobbyist too so IF someone likes my cakes enough to "copy" I would get "tickled" about it! LOL (I get "inspired" by others cakes so I guess I'm a "copier")

HOWEVER if I were more than a hobbyist and were actually selling my cakes then I may not be so "tickledâ to have my cakes copied BUT then again if I were a CONFIDENT cake seller I shouldn't really be too concerned, right? I mean no two people can make a cake the exact same I don't think so if I'm selling my designs then I should be confident that no one could compare to me...does that make sense? LOL

I am so glad that you all agree that it is a compliment. I really have problems thinking of designs. I don't have a good imagination LOL. I have only copied one cake from CC and I felt guilty about it. I did post it but I made sure I gave credit to the one that inspired me. There are so many beautiful cakes on this site. It would be hard not to try and copy some of them.

I only wish I could be so good someone would want to copy my cakes, I hope I get there some day. Over the last 3 weeks I've been posting questions and pm to people regarding Gerbera Daisies I've seen on cakes on this site and I've either received some wonderful, detailed advise or others don't respond at all. Those who share they're knowledge are greatly appreciated and admired by beginners like me and I intend to 'pay it forward' some day, those that don't . . . . well thank God for those that do.

When I do my Gerbera Cake in June and post the pic here, I do plan to thank and give credit to those who help me because if they had not, there would be no picture to post to begin with.

B2B

born2bake, we will look forward to seeing it.

I have had to do one exact replica cake and I hope I never have to do one again!! It was so hard. Her cake was perfect! (If you want to know which one I had to "copy" it is the gorgeous tiffany color bow cake in the tutorial!!! but I made it in pink!) I was so afraid of letting my client down!

I won't even copy one of my own cakes exactly because I want each cake to be unique.... I get better each time (I hope)..... and I CAN'T DO IT!! I just finished a cake for a favorite client who wanted my pinks and brown but with pinks and lime. I swapped the layers and changed the board style. I knew if I didn't change it up then I would get stale!

That being said I copy a lot of ideas to incorporate in my cakes.... I will save a cake like this.... client's name_CC member name (or website)_original file name. so Superstars chick cake would look like this.... Beth_Superstar_normal_000_0321.jpg

This way when I upload a photo I can quickly find all the cakes I looked to for inspiration and jot down the ones i used! (bonus is that it makes it easy to keep photos organized for a particular client!)

PHEW-- Long post sorry!

I think it would be a compliment.

marthajo & misha, you two are so organized, can you come & organize me too? I have never been able to exactly duplicate anything, each one has a little mind of it's own & takes me down a new road every time. LOL

And... stellastarchild ... are those the baby converses you're talking about? If so, those are so completely adorable I can hardly stand it. You have a template?? You're willing to share?? If so, I'd love to have it. Then all I have to do is wait around for someone to have a boy!! He He

Yes, the template, pictures and a written instruction can be found in my gallery! If something is unclear, don´t hesitate to ask for help.
(I made them for a girl... )

You all are fantastic! I love coming to CC and looking for advice and ideas. Their are so many talented folks here and their all willing to share which is what makes CC.

I am not very artistic and have little too no imagination. I love art but am just not good at it (I still draw stick people LOL). THe reason my id says xstitcher is that is what I started doing about 10 years ago so that I felt that I was creating something even though it was a copy from a chart.

I'm so happy to know that you all are so willing to help.

I still remember just signing up for CC and checking out some of the pics in the gallery. I remember commenting on some of the cakes and in one of them (I think it was Melvira's cake) I made a comment and she PM'd me on how she did the cake. You would not believe how happy I was to receive her email (I'm getting warm fuzzies again thinking about it). I never asked her to email me but it was just great that she took the initiative and emailed me letting me know how she had done her cake.

I can't wait until the day that I am good enough to even attempt to copy anyone of your designs. They all rock!!!!!

You guys are great! I love you all!

Thanks again everyone!


Parm

P.S. It's getting really late so if this post doesn't make sense I apologize right now for it.

P.S.S. I love all of your senses of humour. You guys are constantly cracking me up!

I just checked my PM's and it was Trixyinaz that had PM'ed me after I had left a comment for one her cakes! That was just about a week after finding & signing up for CC. I just wanted to give her her due (not that Melvira has not been extremely helpful on CC - I'm going out to buy the foam roller to try out her method!!)

Thanks again to all!

The only thing thing I think all of would ask and hope for is for someone to put it on their website claiming it is theirs.


my sentiment exactly!

I have no problem with anybody copying designs that I post on CC or on my website. However, that said... I have had people come into my store and ask to take pictures of pictures in my portfolio or pictures of cakes on display to the point I have a sign now requesting no photography in the store, including camera phones. If I put something in the public domain, go for it, but to come in and do that to shop the cake around to someone else, no thanks!
Just my opinion, there are no truely original ideas anymore anyway!!
Lori