Etsy on Twitter: 13 Creative Handmade Backgrounds [PICS]

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About one year ago, it occurred to Etsy social media specialist Dave Brown that the company's black-and-white Twitter background wasn't quite making the handmade cut. Instead of a standard snapshot, why not use the opportunity to share a new artist each month with its 1.5 million Twitter followers?

In the beginning, Brown sought out artists himself to put on the site. Since then, Brown and other Etsy staff members have pulled from a Flickr account they set up for submissions. Some of the artists are Etsy sellers. Others, like James Victore, are well-known artists who set up Etsy stores after being asked to participate. Artists volunteer their work without pay, and the only requirement is that the design somehow incorporate the Etsy logo.

Here's what the first year of contributors came up with: