Arts & Crafts Tutorials - Terms Of Use

By using a tutorial from The Dabbling Mum® network of sites, you agree to abide by the following terms of use. If you cannot agree to the following terms of use, do not use the arts and crafts tutorials.

How To Share Tutorials | How To Use The Tutorials
Copyrights | Respecting The Creator

You agree to using The Dabbling Mum's tutorials on an "as is" and "without warranty" basis. Furthermore, you acknowledge that you are using the tutorials at your own risk.

What is your tutorial copyright policy?

You may use the tutorials for personal use only.

These are NOT copyright-free projects.

All copyrights remain with the creator of the tutorial. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

By using our tutorials, you are receiving non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the tutorials based upon the terms outlined herein.

What is your tutorial sharing policy?

No part of the tutorial may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in any form, or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without the expressed written permission of the tutorial's creator.

We ask that you DO NOT copy the tutorial and:

send it in the body of an email.
repost it to your own blog,
repost it to another network,
upload it to free sharing sites,
print it out, then distribute to others,
alter it and claim it as your own,
sell projects using the tutorials.

If you would like to share one of our tutorials with your friends, co-workers, and colleagues, please do so by:

Writing a brief description about why you like the tutorial, and sharing a photo of a project you made using the tutorial, then mention the website and creator of the tutorial by name and link directly to the tutorial page.
Sending an email stating that you found a cool project that may be fun to create, then include a link directly to the tutorial page.

What is your tutorial usage policy?

The arts and crafts tutorials shared on The Dabbling Mum®'s network of sites are for NON-COMMERCIAL use only.

You may use the tutorials an unlimited number of times, in limitless PERSONAL PROJECTS, including tangible gift projects or holiday swaps where NO MONEY exchanges hands.

Prohibited Use

You can NOT use the arts and crafts tutorials, or images within...

as a resale project;
to create and sell your own tutorials; including but not limited to CD collections, digital compilations, print compilations, or craft kits;
to create modified works and claim the "derivative" works as your own;
to create derivative works, then sublicense those works;
for obscene, defamatory, libelous, or immoral works;
for any purpose which is prohibited by law.

Commercial Use Licenses

If you are interested in selling projects made from our tutorials, a commercial-use license is required for all projects created by Alyice Edrich.

A commercial use license may be required by other creators, but that's determined on a case-by-case basis, per tutorial designer.

Publication Use

Prior written consent from the tutorial's creator and a reprint fee is needed before you can re-publish a tutorial on or in blogs, websites, books, magazines, or other publications.

When using the tutorials for publication, you MUST include proper attribution and credit.

Proper attribution would be:

Why are you so strict about usage rights?

Aside from the fact that our creators spend years honing their crafts, there's still a lot of hours that go into creating a tutorial–and it's only fair that we respect that time and their creativity.

When putting together a craft tutorial, our creators must:

Come up with an idea
Sketch out the idea
Break the idea down
Shop for supplies
Create the idea to make sure everything works
If something doesn't work, tweak the idea again
Research techniques to improve upon the idea
Create the idea a second time
If it works, they create the idea again while taking photos of each step
Edit and resize the photos
Write the tutorial
Edit the tutorial to make sure it's easy to understand
Put everything together
Write a query letter
Hunt down paying publications
Submit tutorial to various paying arts and crafts publications
Wait for a "yes"
Get published
Wait for a nominal payment
Wait for contract term to end
Start the publication process all over again

As you can see from the breakdown above, a lot of time, money, and talent–not to mention the creator's "heart and soul"–goes into every tutorial they create.

Here's another way to think of it...

Let's say you put in a full day's work and your boss informs you that not only are you not going to get paid, but that he's passed your work onto other business entities to reap the benefits of all your hard work... how would you feel?

Ripped off? Shafted? Cheated?

When you take the hard work of someone else and either not pay for commercial use or reprint priveledges, or pass it off as your own, or not give credit where its due, that's exactly what you're doing to the tutorial designer.

In the end it all boils down to this... Treat others as you would like to be treated. It's just good kharma!