Etsy Inspired #102--8.21.10

Hello everyone! Happy Saturday morning, welcome to another Etsy challenge. I am really excited to share with you this week's shop Art and Philanthropy.   This shop creates funky and colorful recycled collage art and prints geared for children. I especially liked the prints featuring Russian nesting dolls, owls, birds and trees. Here are my favorites from this week's shop.

Nesting Doll Family Eco-friendly Wall Print

Eco-friendly Recycled Tree Prints

Vintage French Animal Wall Cards

  What I was inspired by the most were the shop's funky designs, with bright colors and use of recycled material. So, for this week's challenge I decided to incorporate two criteria into my designs. My first criteria was the use of cardboard (my recycled material) and the second criteria was to only use paper and materials that I had on hand. So, here are the three cards that I designed for the challenge; the first card was my inspiration and the card following is my design.

Birds on a Wire Recycled Print

Birds on a Wire Inspiration card

 

A close up of my "recycled" cardboard embellie. Love the transparency paper!

Forest Trees Collection recycled print

Forest Trees Inspiration Card

Close up of the details.

Forest Friends Print

Forest Friends Inspiration card

Close up of the detail

  So, now it's your turn to play. Visit our shop for the week,  Art and Philanthropy  and choose a work to create your inspiration piece on. Make sure to post your creation to Etsy Inspired Challenge Blog by Friday! One lucky winner can win an 8"x10" print of their choice from the shop, and another winner will win a $10 gift voucher from this week's sponsor Digi Doodle Shop to use on anything in her shop.

  Make sure to take a look at the beautiful and amazing work of the Etsy Design Team to help inspire you! Ashley is moving this week, so she won't be able to make a post, but do check out our other designs and have fun! Looking forward to see what y'all come up with!

Ashley

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Emily N

Joy

Kerry

Savannah

Stephanie

Virginia

Julia Ranae

MATERIALS:

"Birds 'hi'" Card

Cardstock: (Kraft) Papertrey Ink. (Turquoise) Bazzill Basics

Specialty Paper: (Silk screen transparency sheet) Hambly Screen Prints. 

Fibers: (Green satin ribbon) Michael's. 

Accents: (Birds on a Wire rub-on from Out on a Limb set) Hambly Screen Prints. (Letter stickers) American Crafts

Other: (Circle die) Spellbinders. (Corrugated cardboard).

"Simply the Best" Card

Cardstock: (Kraft) Papertrey Ink. (Orange) Amercican Crafts.

Specialty Paper: (Silk screen transparency sheet) Hambly Screen Prints. 

Fibers: (Jute twine) May Arts. 

Accents: (Buttons) Papertrey Ink. (Cardstock Kraft Tree stickers) Hambly Screen Prints. (Sentiment rub-on from Dear Lizzy collection) American Crafts.

Other: (Circle die) Spellbinders. (Corrugated cardboard).

"Embrace Happiness" Card

Cardstock: (Lemon) Bazzill Paper. 

Patterned Paper: (Happy Tree's and Get the Camera from Imagine a Forest collection) My Little Shoebox. (Down the Street from Sky's the Limit collection) My Little Shoebox

Pigment Ink: (White) Tsukineko.

Clear Stamp: (sentiment form Mixed Messages set) Papertrey Ink.

Fibers: (Green satin ribbon) Michael's. 

Other: (Label die) Spellbinders. (Corrugated cardboard).