-:¦:- Winter's Wonders -:¦:- Etsy Tx Crafters Design Challenge
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Howdy from Texas & Texans around the world!
As part of our team's Spend Your Mondays with ETC program, we would like you to join in our monthly Design Challenge.
The theme of month's Design Challenge is Winter's Wonders, and we've been working on our entries for this Challenge for the past two months.
We have 40 absolutely AMAZING entries this month, and we are asking you to take a look and let us know which ONE is your favorite -- that's right, you can only vote for one entry, and only one vote can be cast per IP Address.
You can find all the information on our entries and the link to vote at etsytx.ning.com/page/december-january-design
~*~**PRIZES,PRIZES,PRIZES**~*~
YES, that's right.....there will be prizes!!! At least 6 prizes will be given away this month, possibly more. Prize donors include the following:
MoltenGecko.etsy.com
SerendipityRose.etsy.com
SurfBunny.etsy.com
TheIdConnection.etsy.com
TheSilverAcorn.etsy.com
Thistlecraft.etsy.com
~*~**VOTE**~*~
Entry Descriptions, Photos, & Voting Link:
etsytx.ning.com/page/december-january-design
Voting will open at 12:01am Monday Central time (1:01am Etsy time) and will close at midnight Wednesday Central time (1am Thursday, Etsy time).
Remember, only one vote allowed per IP address, but you are more than welcome to let all your friends know about our Challenge and ask them to vote as well! Feel free to tweet, blog, and post about us!
Thanks so much for helping us with this month's Challenge!!!
Happy Monday!
Milly / Thistlecraft
ETC Leadership Team Member
Posted at 11:17pm Jan 24, 2010 EST
Responses
~*~** WINNERS **~*~
1st Place = FavorCakes.etsy.com, A Winter Wonderland FavorCake
Prize = Lanyard, earrings, & bracelet from TheIDConnection.etsy.com
2nd Place = Carapace.etsy.com, Winter Vintage Grape Vines Ornament
Prize = Earrings from TheSilverAcorn.etsy.com
3rd Place = WildMoon.etsy.com, Frost
Prize = Clutch from GabsBags.etsy.com
4th Place (*TIE*) = NatureInPastels.etsy.com, Winter Stream & Yarnabees.etsy.com, FrostyTheSnowman
Prizes = Scarf from Thistlecraft.etsy.com
5th Place = StitchesByJulie.etsy.com, Winter White Child's Hoodie Sweater
Prize = Badge Holder from TheIDConnection.etsy.com
6th Place = TheIDConnection.etsy.com, Oh Christmas Tree
Prize = Earrings from SerendipityRose.etsy.com
7th Place = EDCCollective.etsy.com, Sparkles Holiday Card
Prize = Fused Glass Pendant from MoltenGecko.etsy.com
8th Place (*TIE*) = ElephantDreams.etsy.com, Colorado White & Thistlecraft.etsy.com,Tickled Pink Scarf
Prizes = Journal from SurfBunny.etsy.com (aka, MoltenGecko)
Congratulations to all of our winners!!!
This is the first month that a person has had 2 entries win a prize -- NatureInPastels & StitchesByJulie is the same person! Extra Congratulations, Julie!!!
This is also the first month that we had so many folks donating multiple prizes -- thanks bunches!!!! We had so many entries this month, it is incredibly wonderful to be able to reward so many of them -- 40 entries, 10 winners!
Total value of this month's prizes = $290!!!
Thanks so very much to our prize donors for their generous support of this project!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A note has been sent to the team announcing the winners and their prizes and ribbons have been awarded on the Design Challenge page on our website ( etsytx.ning.com/page/december-january-design ). I will posting this information to our blog and our facebook group shortly.
CONGRATULATIONS AND THANKS BUNCHES AGAIN TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED AND SUPPORTED THIS PROJECT!!!!
♥ Milly / Thistlecraft
ETC Leadership Team Member
Posted at 1:04pm Jan 28, 2010 EST
CORRECTION:
3rd Place = WildMoonDesign.etsy.com, Frost
Prize = Clutch from GabsBags.etsy.com
(sorry!!!)
Posted at 2:34pm Jan 28, 2010 EST
Congratulations to all the winners! Gorgeous entries and your talents singularly and collectively are awesome!
A special Thank You to Milly/Thistlecraft for taking such good care of us during this challenge! Hey Milly if you figure a way to bottle your energy could I be the first to buy some for myself? You go girl!
I offer my salute to all the Winter's Wonders Etsy Tx Crafters Challenge participants! This was a fun experience and a great way to see other's talents!
Hooray Etsy Tx Crafters!
Sandy
Posted at 2:50pm Jan 28, 2010 EST
YAHOO!
And Yeehaw! And various other noises of stunned excitement!
Thank you so much, everyone who donated prizes! And especially Silver Acorn. I'll convo you speedy-like!
I love the challenges!
Posted at 4:43pm Jan 28, 2010 EST