This week's Etsy Inspired Challenge comes from the wonderful store Global Child Connection.
Artist and designer, Rebecca Peragine, has combined her passion for global design with her desire to teach children to create. Each eco art image is lovingly created with recycled papers, scraps and earth-friendly inks. She firmly believes that if we teach the importance of global responsibility at a young age, carrying that responsibility into the future will be second nature for our children … I couldn't agree more. She's also doing an art giveaway on her blog, so check it out.
I chose this adorable Forest Friends Turtle Eco Friendly Print to inspire my card. I loved the texty turtle shells, the wonderful combination of colors, and the cute turtle stack.
This week's Sponsor for the Etsy Inspired Challenge is the Digi Doodle Shop. I chose their adorable Mr. T-Diddle to use on my card. They have some adorable Halloween images at 15% off with a free gift … very fun.
Each time I play with a digital image, I love it more. They are so versatile to create different sizes, colors, positions. I'll never leave my beloved rubber stamps, but making hybrid cards is so much fun.
The papers are a set of free Grungy Solid digital papers by MaryAnn Wise for Design House Digital. I started by selecting the shell of my turtle using the Magic Lasso tool and right clicking to create another layer. Then I did the same thing for the body & a third layer for the eyelids.
In PhotoShop Elements, I then dragged the digital paper I wanted on top of each copied layer, and did CTRL-G to create a clipping mask for my design. For the shell, I used the Joy page from the dictionary that I scanned two weeks ago and created a second clipping mask to add the text to his shell. When I was all finished, I saved it as a JPG file & then started to create my card.
My card base began with a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" blank canvas layered with one of the digital papers. Next, I started layering on the turtles, resizing each one smaller and stacking them up. After I printed out my card & matted it to teal cardstock, I finished with a Tim Holtz stamped sentiment. This card also works for the Digi-Day Challenge at the Stamp Something Blog.
One winner of this week's challenge will get an 8×10" print of their choice from Global Child Connection; the second winner will get a $10 gift voucher to spend at the Digi Doodle Shop (usable for anything other than custom blog design).
Make sure you stop by the other Design Team Member blogs to check out their inspired creations:
Aw.. how adorable, Stephanie! This makes me smile 🙂
This is just to cute. I just love those turtles and sentiment. Great colors too. Thanks for the inspiration.
This is amazing! I love those stacked turtles and the DP is amazing!!!!
Wow! You are a digital genius! 🙂 I love how you stacked the turtles like the inspiration piece. Very cute!
Love the stacked turtles! Love the paper you used for their shells!
How cute is this card? Love it, Steph! 🙂
You rocked this challenge with this card! I am so computer challenged so reading how you dragged and layered papers has me confused but it sure turned out great!
how can you always make such amazing things out of the inspiration pics!? you are just brilliant!
OH MY! I wanted to make something with those turtles—but I didn’t have anything….you ROCKED this challenge! LOVE the turtle shells–so cute!! Great job! You are so creative and talented:) LOVE IT!
You are sooo creative with digital cardmaking! I absolutely love your design! The turtles are perfect and the paper-piecing looks awesome! Fabulous work on this week’s challenge.
What a fun card, love it!
Thanks for sharing with us this week over at Stamp Something Challenge blog!
Jo x