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I have a paid lifetime membership with a paid tube license that allows me to use Chalkboard Outlines work for myself once I have coloured them.  I bought the Miss Hattie and Mizuki tube outlines separately.  Many of the Miss Hattie designs have been created by me and the colours I use are what I have chosen.  I have seen many others that have used the outlines but all of our work is different.  That said ... I do prefer to use my own creations more but cannot ignore the fact that I have done what I consider a good job on my finished creations.  I have rarely used any of Chalkboard's outlines in my creations and now that I am changing careers I won't be using Mizuki outlines in my graphic work but do have plans to expand the Miss Hattie line even further.  I won't be using any other collected graphics from paid memberships.
TCGibbs (Christina Gibbs) had a free online tutorial (tuts) website for graphics that anyone could use.  She freely gave permission for everyone to use her tuts in her Terms of Use (TOU).  To direct quote Christina when making our own graphics following her tuts:

"You may use the tubes to create new graphics for yourself and others, this includes linkware sets, globes, cards, adoptions or anything else you might make, no link back is required. Anything you create by following any of my selection / vector tutorials belongs to you and you are free to do whatever you want with that. There is no need to write and ask permission to use something you created.  I spend many hours making these tubes and tutorials and love to see people use them :-)"

I only used a few of her tuts and went a step further in using them as I also redrew or reshaped some, changed the size, added things, etc. thereby making the graphics even more original and my own.  I never followed Christina's instructions on how to colour as she used PSP (Photoshop) and I prefer to colour pixel by pixel in Microsoft Paint where I have more control. That said, I prefer to use my own unique work instead of someone else's ideas but cannot ignore the fact that some of her outlines have become great finished graphics and I will use them if I deem it necessary.
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