The Elite Sixteen

On Trend || It's Wedding Season!

Are you planning a wedding? If you are you probably already know that Etsy is an amazing resource for creating a one of a kind celebration. From dresses to wedding party gifts, from reception goodies to sashes, you can do all your shopping in one location. The fun part is that you can work with a team of artisans from all around the world to make your wedding day truly unique and one of a kind. If you haven't all ready you should sign up for Etsy's wedding registry. Whether you are planning a wedding or looking for that perfect gift for your favorite couple, Etsy has you covered!

On Trend || It's Wedding Season
1. wedding favor soap ✦ Little Flower Soap Co.
2. lace bridal sash ✦ branchbound
3. rustic candle holders ✦ Luke Lamp Co.
4. ceramic ring bearer dish ✦ Orly Design
5. bridesmaid clutch set ✦ Mama Bleu Designs
6. wedding hair pins ✦ be something new
7. I do stamp ✦ creatiate

Are you ready for Summer? A Style Guide Challenge

yellow clutch ▴ mama bleu designs
set of 10 paper sculptures ▴ the vintage vogue
summer lake photography ▴ pure nature photos
ceramic plate with stars ▴ karo art

Summertime. It's right around the corner. Are you ready? That is our theme this month for our Style Guide Challenge. Whether getting prepared to lounge by the pool or take a long road trip, we are sharing with you our favorite ways to celebrate the long hot summer days ahead.

Get your Summer Style ideas here!

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Style Guide Details:

On the 16th of each month, you can count on us to bring you Inside Etsy. We work with a team of talented gift guide curators who also happen to be shop owners on Etsy. Why is that important? Well, you can trust us when we say that we all spend way more time than we may be willing to admit not only managing our shops, fulfilling orders, and answering questions, but also on creating what Etsy calls a treasury. It's a tool that you can use to put together a showcase of 16 items together in a group, which then means we spend even more time finding those items by scouting around for favorites! We know how to navigate around and through our own internal networking, we know where to look for those quality items. Through our gift guides, we do the hard work for you! Sound good? Excellent.

Over the course of the next 3 days, we'll be sharing our Style Guide Collections with you. These are theme based collections. Want to see them? Click here or on the button over on the side that says "Style Guide". Presto. Your personal Etsy shoppers at your service!!

bohemian summer dress ▴ broken ghost clothing
set of 4 colorful vases ▴ romy and clare

Our May Elite16 Etsy Giveaway Winner IS...

One lucky winner is going to have a lot of fun looking through over 260 items listed in Jill's Etsy shop Be Something New to pick out which item they'd like to use their prize toward! How fun! Well, let us delay no longer... Using the Rafflecopter widget, we have selected a random winner out of our 611 entries. Congratulations to Sladana S. #369 - you're about to have some fun getting gorgeous for the summer! Thank you so much to Jill who has offered up this generous prize and we hope Sladana S. that you'll share with us on our Facebook page which item you ended up selecting!

Our next Elite16 Etsy Giveaway will be next month on June 7th. Just remember - Lucky 7! On the 7th of each month, we bring you this fun event and opportunity to win a handmade item from some of the best shops on Etsy! As always, we look forward to seeing you then!