Etsy Texas Crafters October Design Challenge - War of the Worlds!

What would you do if you scored an awesome vintage record of the story of The War of the Worlds -- one that comes with a book/magazine with lots of incredible images, as well as a pretty amazing album cover? Frame it? Sell it on eBay? Put it on a shelf with your other vintage treasures?

Not if you are Christine of PinupPixie! What did she decide to do with this awesome find? Offer it up to the ETC team for our October Design Challenge!!!

Christine scanned the pages of the book/magazine and posted them to one of our team sites, and members were challenged to create something using these images or their own interpretation of The War of the Worlds.

In Christine's generosity, she also made the record and album cover available to ETC members to create the prizes for this Challenge. Beth of ByBethStudio, Cindylee of FattyCornersQuilts, and Cathie of SweetWolf were the first three to correctly respond with the original radio air date of The War of the Worlds (Oct 30, 1938) and were thus selected to create the prizes for this Challenge.

Entries for The War of the Worlds Design Challenge include:

War of the World Bot - Sterling Silver Pendant
Created by ApacheMoon

Sterling Silver Bird from Outer Space Pin (Take Me to Your Feeder!)
Created by BeachcombersCove

War of the Worlds Mixed Media Canvas Book
Created by ByBethStudio
NOTE: This item is available as one of the prizes for this Challenge!

War of the Worlds Digital Art Print
Created by Carapace

Black & White Print Bracelet
Created by FabFrills

War of the Worlds Mixed Media Quilt
Created by FattyCornersQuilts
NOTE: This item is available as one of the prizes for this Challenge!

Crochet (& Glow-in-the-Dark) Spaceship & Aliens
Created by LavenderLizard

War of the Worlds Halloween Earrings
Created by MotsDots

The War of the Worlds Wallet/Card Holder
Created by ReFabulous

War of the Worlds Upcycled Lamp #1
Created by SweetWolf

War of the Worlds Upcycled Lamp #2
Created by SweetWolf

War of the Worlds Record Bowl
Created by SweetWolf
NOTE: This item is available as one of the prizes for this Challenge!

War of the Worlds Charm Necklace and Bracelet Set
Created by Thistlecraft

*** Click HERE to vote! ***

For more information on each of the above items, as well as more pictures, be sure to click on the title of each entry to transfer to its Etsy or Flickr listing.


Two additional prizes (for the 4th and 5th place finishers) have been provided by Christine of PinupPixie -- she was unable to get them ready by the deadline to be included in the Challenge poll, as she was "caring for two cootiefied kids" this past weekend. Here are Christine's prize offerings:

War of the Worlds Wallet

Sparkling UFO Pendant/Cell Phone Charm

NOTE: Voting deadline has been extended to midnight, Thursday, Oct 30th, the 70th anniversary of the original radio broadcast of the The War of the Worlds! So, please VOTE!