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This week's shop for the Etsy Inspired Challenge is Becky Kazana. I chose her wonderful Lulu the Lighthearted Pipette to inspire my card.
Our Challenge Sponsor is Bugaboo Stamps. Jodie designs lots of wonderful images including lots of wonderful characters.
I chose her beautiful Flower Girl Violet for my image (love all of those great flower girls ... I see she has 50% off through July 31st, so head on over & snap up some of her fabulous designs).
I used PhotoShop Elements to create digital paper piecing for my image using Clipping Masks. Kristina Werner has a great video explaining how to use clipping masks to combine different digital papers into a single digital card design. I used my digital image like a template to paper piece her outfit.
I used the magic lasso tool to select all of the sections in the image that I wanted to be yellow, right clicked my mouse to create a copy. Next I overlayed the yellow paper onto my image (positioning it directly above my copied sections), and then created a clipping mask (CTRL-G) in PhotoShop Elements to fill in the sections with the digital paper design.
I used three digital papers to create my design {Jessica Sprague – Echoes of Asia – Red Solid, Meredith Fenwick – Hello Mini Kit – Paper 1 (yellow), Mary Ann Wise – Grungy Solid Papers 3 (green)}.
I resized my image smaller and printed it again, so I could cut out one of the flowers from her hair for an accept piece for my stamped Paper Artsy sentiment from Inkadinkado. I added adhesive pearls to the center of the flowers and a bit of sparkle chalk "blush" on her cheeks to finish my design. I think this bright little flower gal also works for the Sweet Sweet Summertime Challenge at the Catch the Bug Challenge Blog.
I think she also works for the Card Style Week ~ Let's do Fun & Cute Challenge.
Here's a close-up, so you can see the variation of colors and patterns in the digital paper designs.
One winner will get a set of three beautiful cards from Becky Kazana (Waiting on You, Birthday Pachyderm, and Under the Sea) & another will win 7 Digi-Stamps from Bugaboo Stamps.
Next week, the Etsy Inspired Challenge will be having a very special celebration for our 100th Challenge. Each designer will be giving away a prize from sponsors that include Unity, Lawn Fawn, Limelight Papercrafts and Charleston Scrapbook Company. The grand prize winner will get a prize package of 100 items to celebrate our 100th challenge. Make sure you join us on August 7th for all of the fun.
And don't forget to check out the rest of the Design Team creations for even more inspiration:
Wow! I love your color take from the inspiration. Simply gorgeous and cheery! Thanks for explaining the digital paper application! FABULOUS idea!!
Posted by: Virginia L. | July 31, 2010 at 12:55 AM
Super cute, Steph! :)
Posted by: Emily Niehaus | July 31, 2010 at 05:00 AM
Stef this is amazing! I love the piece you chose to be inspired by and that Bugaboo image is perfect! Love your coloring and your extra little touches!
Posted by: de | July 31, 2010 at 06:47 AM
This is one fun and adorable card. I just love this image and your coloring is awesome. Thanks for the inspiration.
Posted by: StampinCathy | July 31, 2010 at 08:02 AM
Stef! I just want you to know that if I could only follow 1 blog out of the zillions out there, I think yours would be the one! I love the great fun variety of things you share with us! Thank you so much! Big Hugs, Val
Posted by: Valarie Florer | July 31, 2010 at 08:16 AM
This is AMAZING! I can't believe you used all those digital elements, I have a hard time with that. You are always so on point, Stephanie! That's what I love about your work, super on point all the time!
Posted by: Ashley Nguyen Newell | July 31, 2010 at 11:11 AM
Your cards POPS something awesome!! I like how you used ps and clipping masks to make this card!! I never could quite the handle of the whole cm thing!! Love the colors and strong image!
Posted by: Emily B | July 31, 2010 at 03:21 PM
OH MY!! I just love your image!! And how you made it look like the inspiration photo:) GREAT job! Love the coloring and the flower center accents:) BEAUTIFULLY done:) LOVE IT!
Posted by: Sav O'Gwynn | August 01, 2010 at 04:27 PM
Hey Stef! Thanks for entering the Let's Do Fun & Cute Card Style Week challenge in the Moxie Fab World! I'm so glad you joined in on all the fun! :)
Posted by: Cath | August 03, 2010 at 03:24 PM
I never thought of using clipping masks that way. That is so cool!
Posted by: Carole (FibreJunky) | August 03, 2010 at 07:49 PM
This is super I love it thanks so much for sharing!
Posted by: tammy miller | March 23, 2011 at 10:47 PM
Wonderful, fun job. Like the way you incorporated the designs in dress with PSE. Isn't that fun?
Posted by: Cely Smith | March 24, 2011 at 07:04 AM