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Upcyclers Monthly CREATIVITY Challenge:

Each month a selected shop (Judge) will choose a common upcycled medium, like a tin can, an old magazine, etc), and participants respond with photographed ideas of what they upcycled that medium into!

How to Enter:

On this discussion thread please leave a link of your upcycled entry.
Entries must come with a photo of your idea. A description or your thoughts are welcome, but your idea and shop will be share by the PHOTO LINK that you submit as an entry.

To post the photo a link onto Etsy’s discussion boards, you can do this a number of ways:
Upload the photo to a social media network... twitter, facebook, flickr, an Etsy listing, etc. Then paste the link into your entry comment.

You can also upload your photo entry on your own blog or website, and then paste the link into your entry comment on the thread.

Entries will be included in the creativity challenge’s monthly blog post (published on http://love2upcycle.blogspot.com/) and on our team’s social networks. This is a great way to share the upcycled love and promote your shop.


Challenge Checklist for Participants:
1. use the monthly medium to create something new
2. photograph the created idea
2. post a link to your photo on the monthly thread for an entry by the deadline
3. ALL submitted entries will be posted to our pinterest boards, and other in SM: pinterest.com/upcyclers/
4. ALL entry links will be featured in our monthly blog post, with some highlighted entry photos included as well.


Who’s the Challenge Winner?

We are all winners in this challenge! If you submit an upcycled idea entry for the month, then you are a winner, because all shops and their entries will be featured on our Social Networks and in our blog.

****BUT ONE WINNER AND RUNNER-UP will have a mini ad on the FRONT PAGE OF THE TEAM'S BLOG for one month following the challenge!

Show your creativeness in this team challenge!

I am the judge this month!!!

I am starting this challenge late because we have been out of town. It will run until February 24th!

The medium is.... WINE CORKS! :) I bet many of you are not surprised. I am a HUGE wine cork upcycler. Champagne corks, synthetic corks, or any cork material will be expected!!!

You can use my blog
www.thewoodenbee.com for ideas or
my wine cork pinterest board
http://pinterest.com/thewoodenbee/wine-corks/

Ask your local wine bar or restaurant to save them for you one weekend, ask your friends and co-workers. Is amazing how quickly you can get a hold of some. I process over 500 corks a month and I don't even drink wine. hehe

Good Luck! Let me know if you have any questions!

Thanks, Bee
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Very nice!

Keep those cork creations coming...

Here's some ideas from my wine cork pinterest board:
http://pinterest.com/thewoodenbee/wine-corks/
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Wow...some great ideas out there....love all the jewelry ideas. I have a few ideas brewing. Now I just need cork.
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Lovin the wine cork jewelry!

Cool ideas on Bee's Pinterest board, too! Who knew how many things you can do with them!!
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I upcycled one wine cork into two pink dolly bows. Hope you like them <3 https://www.etsy.com/listing/122585784/the-dolly-bows

Ada
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Re: January / February Team CREATIVITY Challenge

Very cool Ada! I pinned on team's Pinterest. Thanks for giving the team a shout in your item description as well. :)
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Re: January / February Team CREATIVITY Challenge

Ok, I think I got everyone pinned now.
http://pinterest.com/upcyclers/upcyclers-creative-challenge/

@Desiree I right clicked on the image, selected properties, then copied the photo url into another window and pinned it to FB. It won't link back to your album though, so I added your FB address to the pin.

Hope to see some more entries and let's save the corks! ;)
Thanks, Bee
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Thanks Bee! Where there is a will, there is a way! :0)
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Re: January / February Team CREATIVITY Challenge

So many cool ideas and creative people on this team!!
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Re: January / February Team CREATIVITY Challenge

Marcy, I just love that serving tray! I've admired it before...

Love all the fun jewelry everyone! :) So creative!

I'm in the middle of writing up a blog post for my entry right now! I will share soon!
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GREAT post Sarah! Love the ink pad idea. Shared on my g+ and twitter.
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Re: January / February Team CREATIVITY Challenge

Sarah...thank you! What a great post....and your heart turned out awesome!!

Ewan....adorable and so creative!!! : )
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Ewan, I love your little boats!!
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Thanks for the compliments - they are very much appreciated :-)
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such cute boats!!
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Aww, love the boats! :)
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I finally finished mine! It was said that any cork would be accepted, so I used a thrifted cork placemat for this book:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/124356575/cork-tree-recycled-journal-or-sketchbook
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Laura, your journal is awesome - great idea!
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Re: January / February Team CREATIVITY Challenge

LOVE the journal too!!! Pinned it to Pinterest & tweeted.

You guys are going to make this hard for me.

Two more days! Anyone else? I should start getting the blog post together. I am going to blog about it on my own blog as well.

Thanks, Bee
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LOVE that journal....just beautiful!
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Thanks for your kind words! You guys made my day!
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I'm working on something . . . not sure if I'll get it done in time, but I'll try :)
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