Etsy Inspired Challenge ~ Paper Seeds

This week's Etsy Inspired Challenge comes from a fun store called Paper Seeds.  Stacey loves creating and has made lots of wonderful items to inspire you (you can check out her blog here).

I chose several items to inspire me this week.  I loved the wonderful shades of blue found in this Blue and Green Paper Design called Grooves of Change.

I was also inspired by the hints of text showing through in this Upcycled Red Bottle Vase.

This week's Challenge is Sponsored by Digis With Attitude and the design team got to create with this wintry version of Grumpy Gretchen called Santa's Helper.  My sketch is for the current PageMaps Sketch Contest.  I expanded it to an 8"x4" design to accommodate my digital image.

Gretchen was printed on Basic Grey Basic's Manila Paper and colored with Prismacolor Pencils.  I layered her with some texty Basic Grey Blizzard paper from the Jovial collection (the snowflake row across the top is the reverse side of the same paper) and  rows of layered paper tape using turquoise and Tim Holtz Tidings Tissue Tape on top (for a bit more contrast than I was getting by applying the snowflake tape directly to the paper.

I finished with some metallic silver cord, a vellum punched snowflake embellished with a turquoise pearl, and a sentiment from CatsLife Press that seemed perfect for the look on Gretchen's face.

Digi's with Attitude is also hosting a very fun Blog Hop with the designers from Drunken Stampers Challenge Blog to make a card with Office Party as the theme or make a card for someone at your office (I can think of a few people at work who will appreciate a little Fa La La La La La ... and they have a fun Free Image you can use too.  This card is also for the Stamp Something Challenge to use a favorite holiday color combo ... love turquoise and silver.

If you join the Etsy Inspired Challenge fun this week, you'll have a chance to win an Upcycled Brown & Orange Butterfly Bud Vase with Wish Flowers from Paper Seeds or a $10 Gift Voucher to add some of the fun Digis With Attitude to your stamp collection.

Make sure you stop by the other Design Team Member blogs to check out their inspired creations & use keyword EIC117 if you upload to a gallery:

De

Emily B

Emily N

Joy

Kerry

Savannah

Virginia

Laurel (December Guest Designer)

Comments

[joy]

what a fun card! love the deets on it!

[de]

Love love love your color choices and love how you colored Grumpy Gretchen! The inspiration from the color and newsprint is genius! Love it!

[StampinCathy]

WOW! This is one awesome and inspiring card. I just love the colors and your take on this inspirational piece.

[Kerry A]

Love what you did with this fun digital image! Great colors and accents!

[Emily B]

TOTALLY awesome design based on the inspiration pieces!!! Love how you used the BG paper and the sentiments works SUPER fabby with the sponsor's image!!!

[Ashley Nguyen Newell]

Stephanie, you are fantastic! I love all the papers and layering! That sentiment is just perfect too! Great way to use an image that might not be your style! You rock!!

[Virginia L.]

Oh--la--la! Love your creative take with this image!

[Sav O'G]

OHHHH! That image is super sexy! I Love that you made the colors tealish--LOVE it! I tried to find this image that was sent to me--jealous that I couldn't find it! You def. rocked this image;) LOVE your entire card! Beautifully done--YOU ROCK, Stephanie!

[Tammylee]

Super cute! Thanks for playing along with us this week at Digi's With Attitude! I also wanted to let you know that I have some yummy blog candy on my blog!

http://tammyleestampcorner.blogspot.com/2010/11/blog-candy-now.html

Tammylee

[*Vicki*]

Oh wow!! This is just so cute! I love your projects and your sweet digi!! :) Fun colors! Thanks for joining with us at Stamp Something!!HUGS

[erin]

Lovely colors and fun to see the print background. Thanks for your comment on my card.