Terms of Use

   Please read our terms of use as they are as important to you as well as to us.  

1: Free Art work may be used for any personal project.

2:  Art work may be used for the following commercial projects, web sets, templates, scrap kits (on a flattened  plane), stationary, for Cafe Press and other similar companies, tags, blends and collages.  For E-book covers, please contact us for special terms and licensing.

3:  Art work may NOT be used to make wallpaper for sale, you may however use it on your own desk top.

4:  At no time and under no circumstances may any of our art work be compiled on a CD for sale, offered on Ebay or any other commercial site, printed and sold at art shows or fairs, used as is, sold from your web site as is, tubed, made into brushes or used in tutorials.  If you wish to use our art work in any commercial endeavor that we do not have listed, just contact one of us and ask.  We are pretty liberal with terms and asking never hurts.

5:  It is mandatory that this site be listed on a resource page when using any work commercially.  Web designers MUST link to this site on each page where our art work is used.   A text link is fine.

6:  You may NEVER place your copyright on our art work.  If you make a derivative piece of work such as a collage or blend, for sale or show, you must place our copyright notice along with yours on it or state that you are making a derivative work using our art work.

7:  Art work may be resized, feathered, slightly animated, cropped to fit, etc...  However, please do not recolor and distort our work.  Remember that when you use our art work, you are representing this site and the art to all who browse your site. 

Vintage Image Terms

  Vintage Images may be used for personal projects and commercial projects with the following conditions:

You MAY use our vintage images to make websets and templates for sale or linkware.

You MAY use them for scrap booking projects but NO collage sheets are allowed and no images may be offered as is in scrap kits.  All images must be placed on a flattened or merged plane where they can not be extracted as is.

You MAY NOT use them to make wallpaper but you MAY use them to make email stationary for sale or other stationary for hand written letters for sale.  You may also use them to make recipe cards.

You MAY NOT use any of our images to make tubes or brushes or use them in tutorials.

Our vintage images MAY NOT be used to make CD's for sale or offered on Ebay or on any other auction site.

You MAY NOT place your copyright on any of our vintage images.

You MAY NOT use our vintage images to make email tags unless it is for personal use.

You MUST Link back to our site when using our vintage images.  A text link is fine.

 

If you need clarification on any of our terms or have questions, please feel free to contact us.  We take copyright violations and violations of our terms seriously but we are always fair to those who use our art work , preferring to instruct and teach as opposed to lawsuits