EIC #100 {Cathy Walters} and blog hop!!!

Hello, friends:}

It is a FABULOUS day in EtsyInspired-land!! We are celebrating our 100th challenge! HOOOORAY! And to celebrate we are having a blog hop with a prize on each DT blog! 


Our featured Etsy shop this week is:: Cathy Walters! WOW--so much inspiration! She makes beautiful pendants and many other pieces as well! Cathy is an avid photographer and loves to "make stuff"!  It's easy to see how photography could inspire these gorgeous pieces of jewelry!  Just look at some of these pendants she's made!

Because this is our 100th challenge...we have some AWESOME sponsors lined up for you! We have two prizes for our players, which include:: one free pendant [winner's choice] from Cathy Walters and a Grand Prize box filled with goodies [pictured on the right]. Some of the goodies in this Grand Prize include: 

• 12x12 cardstock stacks
• Papercraft Magazine and Pin
• Scrapbook in a bag
• Ribbon
• Sequins
• Chipboard mini album and elements
• Metal tags
• Buttons
• Embossing squares
• Glitter
• Tickets
• Rubber stamps
• Felt embellies
• Brads
• Flowers
• AND MUCH MUCH MORE!!!

And for all of our friends, you can be entered to win a prize from one of these FABULOUS sponsors:: Unity Stamp Co., Lawn Fawn, May Arts, Charleston Scrapbooking, Soft Pencil Designs, and Limelight Papercrafts! WOW!! All you have to do to win one of these prizes is hop through each of the EIC DT blogs and leave some love! 

Today I'm sharing three cards that I made--I couldn't help myself! Cathy Walters has super cute pendants!! This first creation is actually a tag. It was created using my Artistic Outpost stamps. I stamped the background with the text/eggs and then distressed it. I wanted it to look as close to the inspiration photo as possible. Then I stamped the nest and cut it smaller--then using my brown burlap string {available at Limelight}, I made the nest 3D! LOVE it! Then I made the eggs blue--it makes them pop more. The sentiment is from Ippity's What Matters Most set. LOVE LOVE LOVE this tag!! 

This next card was inspired by the owl pendant and created using woodgrain paper from DCWV. The owl and sentiment is from Unity's What A Hoot set. LOVE it! I wanted that owl to look like the photo--but with more color and dimension! 

My last card was created based on the butterfly pendant. I really liked how it looked with words and a butterfly--so I created a muted red and brown card. I love how the metal frame holds the sentiment {Ippity's Regal Greetings} and butterfly {Unity's Naturally You}. I wanted the butterfly to be with more shine--so I added glossy accents. LOVE LOVE LOVE it!

That's it for me--but there are prizes waiting for you! I will be giving one lucky person the Unity set How Far Can One Go. ACK--LOVE LOVE LOVE Unity!! And don't worry--there are prizes on each of our DTs' blogs!! So stop by there to win a prize:

Ashley

De

Emily B.

Emily N.

Joy

Julie Ranae {August Guest DT}

Kerry

Savannah

Stephanie

Virginia

Don't forget to head over to the EIC blog for more details! This challenge ends on Friday, August 13 at noon Pacific Time. 


Thanks so much for stopping by! LOVE LOVE LOVE sharing these challenges with you! Happy 100th challenge, EIC!! Here's to 100 more!! Be blessed;}

ps...just wanted to remind you about the prizes::: There will be two winners picked from players of EIC100. One will win a free pendant of their choice from Cathy Walters, the other will win the Grand Prize box. Winners from the EIC DT blogs will be randomly picked and announced sometime after Noon on Friday, August 13.