Am I stealing?

[mcx10]

Hello everyone, I need some guidelines.
Searching through the word art for sale at the Oscraps store I found the perfect words for a LO I'm working on. The style however, was not what I was looking for. So, I made my own word art using the same words but changed the style and font.

Is this an OK thing to do? If it is, and I decide to post the LO in the gallery, should I give credit for the words to the original artist?

 

[clarabear]

Thta is a good question and I have wondered the same thing myself.

 

[Kim DS]

I wouldn't think so. I have a couple of quotes in the store that I doodled, and I found most of them online so they're not mine either. I do think it's important you mention the name of the original author of the quote (in my products it is always mentioned underneath the quotes in small letters, unless I really couldn't find whose quote it was).
But I can only speak for myself here... If you want to be absolutely certain, you could always pm the designer in question.

 

[lialotito]

I don't think it's cheating, but I think it's nice to give credits to the original wordart as "your inspiration source".

 

[VickiStegall]

I agree with Kim and lialotito.

 

[scrappingmel]

Me too.

It doesn't sound like stealing but nice to give credit

 

[clarabear]

I would think it would be the same as scrap lifting.

 

[Jodie McNally Designs]

i agree...not stealing or cheating, but it couldn't hurt to say "inspired by..." or whatever.

 

[mcx10]

Thanks everyone!
I'll make sure I give credit to my source of inspiration.