Sunday, August 29, 2010

EtsyInspired Challenge #2

How about another EtsyInspired Challenge? This week Your Next Stamp is sponsoring the EtsyInspired Challenge. The Etsy shop that is being featured is The Caged Fairy. The Caged Fairy sells jewelry, vintage pieces, and hats.

The jewelry piece I chose for inspiration was a crystal studded safari elephant ring.


The card I created features Your Next Stamp's Riley the Elephant, a rubber stamp. I stamped him on Papertrey Ink white cardstock using Memento tuxedo black ink. I colored him with Copics markers.




The card is a 6"x6" easel card. You can find the instructions to make an easel card here at Splitcoast Stampers.
I used white cardstock as the base and matted with red cardstock. The designer paper is 2-sided American Craft. I made the flags by trimming party hats cut with a Quickutz die. The fence was cut with a Martha Stewart border punch. The circles were cut with Nestabilities. I added a baseball button, and the 'play ball' is an old sticker from Two Busy Moms.

This will be a busy week for me. Your Next Stamp will have the September releases, and I have the Whimsie Doodles challenge on Wed. Also the September Whimsie Doodles 'sneaky snippets' will appear this week, and the Whimsie Doodles September release will be soon after. Plenty to do, lots of blogging.
Be sure to check back to see the new releases! Have a great week! Linda C

13 comments:

Karen (Your Next Stamp) said...

LOVE IT! This is such a fun card and I love your coloring!!! You are so talented!
Hugs
Karen

Heather said...

Uber funness! LOVE the use of that image! Colored to perfection! Hugs!

Joy said...

this is such a fun card!

Sheri Gilson said...

Super adorable!!

SemSee said...

Oh Linda, this is FABULOUS! Love that baseball button - what a wonderful, detailed touch! Hugs, Simonne x

Anonymous said...

what a "ton" of fun Linda!!! love your elephant coloring! awesome shading to all the details.. cool button and love the banners! I gotta do that one of these days... I won a set that has banner options in it! cool... but I love multiple uses for dies and stuff! so creative! TFS!
Pam Going Postal

Kerri said...

Linda, this is ADORABLE!!! Oh I just love your coloring and your whole layout and design is just fabulous! Love it!!!

Virginia L. said...

How FUN and creative, Linda! Love your design and all that banners are super cute in this!Thanks so much for playing with us at Etsy Inspired Challenge!

de said...

Ca-ute! Thanks for playing EtsyInspired this week!

SmilynStef said...

What an adorable image ... wonderful inspired design.

Sylvia Blum said...

ohhhh Linda, this is super adorable! Totally love that cute little elephant! Love the way you have been inspired.. GREAT card!!
{hugs} Sylvia

Wendy Ramlakhan said...

Love the pendants. What a Fabulous design. I LOVE it!!

Hugs,
Wendy

de said...

Yea! You won EtsyInspired! Shoot me ane-me at stampindeva{at}bellsouth{dot}net with your snail mail addy so I can get Karen to send you your stamp set! YEA!