Sunday, August 8, 2010

Etsy Inspired Challenge #100 & Embellish Magazine

Quick Announcement! I am doing my first Blog Giveaway, you can enter HERE. The prize is a card package from my Etsy shop. Not many have entered yet so you have a good chance to win!


Now on to the Challenge!
Congrats to Etsy inspired blog for their 100th challenge! Participating in these challenges has helped me so much in "unblocking" a clogged creative pipe in my head. Thank you for providing these great challenges and introducing me to such great Etsy Shops!
I wanted to do a combined challenge. I wanted to be true to both challenges (which is a challenge in itself). So this week I combined with a great challenge from Embellish Magazine. See their great blog HERE.

My Card:

For the Etsy Inspired challenge the shop is Cathy Walters. She makes super cute pendants. All the items were so beautiful I actually picked more than one for inspiration.










Embellish Magazine's challenge was this gorgeous color pallet and birds.

I am especially proud of this card because I actually scanned in a bird image from a bird field guide I bought at half price books for $2. I combined it with a beautiful font I have and printed it on watercolor paper. I am really happy with how it turned out.



Thanks for taking a look. Be sure to check out my Etsy Shop!

10 comments:

  1. This is AWESOME!!! I love the bird image on top of that beautiful script!! BEAUTIFUL layout and papers! Thanks for playing EIC!

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  2. I scanned this week too ... I usually just rip it out and use it directly on my card ... now you'll have that image to use again and again ... it's so lovely with the text ... wonderful inspired design.

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  3. Thanks for showing how you did that...brilliant idea! And the results? Gorgeous!! :)
    I'm so glad you played along with the Embellish color challenge...I've been thrilled to be their sponsor this week and I have one more chance to win on my personal blog!

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  4. FABULOUS take on the colors and design!!I love the bird image in this! So sweet! Thanks for playing with us at Etsy Inspired Challenge #100! GOOD luck :)

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  5. Such a clever idea to scan! I definitely haven't crossed over to digital yet but love the ideas! Great job with the challenge!

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  6. What a wonderful digital combination! Love the bird with the text and to know that you would be able to use it again and again is fantastic! Great layout of the card and such a pretty design.

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  7. This is lovely! I really like how you layered the images! Thanks so much for taking the time to play along with the EtsyInspired challenge this week! It means a lot to me!

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  8. Beautiful card, love the bird with the script behind it.

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  9. This is just amazing... SO perfect! I love your idea! So glad you played along with us for the Embellish Color Challenge!

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  10. I love this beautiful card! And I love the idea of combining images to create your focal point! Thanks for playing along with us!

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