September Upcyclers Creativity Challenge!!!

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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.

If you need help with creating a photo link, please contact myself, or the monthly Creative Challenge Judge.

Monthly Challenges will be posted the first day of each month, and final entries should be submitted by the 24th of each month!

Entries will be included in the creativity challenge’s monthly blog post (published the first week of the month) 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 24th of each month
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 for the month of September ONE WINNER AND RUNNER-UP will have a mini ad on the FRONT PAGE OF THE TEAM'S BLOG!

Show your creativeness in this team challenge!

Monthly Judges:


SEPTEMBER
Luci from IdleHandsYarnSupply

OCTOBER
Endure Upcycled Designs

NOVEMBER
Nicole from brizel4theanimals

DECEMBER
Stephanie from Our Childrens Earth

Good Luck! And look for Luci's medium selection soon!!!

~Bee

[Former_Member]

I made a quick a dirty cat toy from T-shirt yarn. Gremlin models use of this eco-friendly toy on my blog http://upcycledstuff.blogspot.com/2012/06/cat-toy-made-of-t-shirt-yarn.html

There's even a link to a YouTube video tutorial and two of the cutest cats in the world playing with the finished project.

[Former_Member]

I've been thinking about how to incorporate T-shirt into my jewelries but couldn't come up with anything. I love the T-shirt yarns and I have a few jewelry ideas about that already but unfortunately I don't have the budget to buy them right now and I'm not exactly how to make T-shirt yarns myself either.

I really want to participate, so I made a box in the end:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/110292499/upcycled-makeup-organizer

P.S. Can we make October medium bike inner tubes? ;-)

[Former_Member]

This was a great month for entires. @Luci, you've got your work cut out for you. ;)

@Michelle you can sign up for a month and select bike inner tubes as your challenge medium! We have sign ups in January again. :)

@Melani, glad you made it!

All entries have been added to the Challenge's Pinterest Board:
http://pinterest.com/upcyclers/upcyclers-creative-challenge/
Gremlin looks cute on there @Tricia. ;)

Today, Monday the 24th, is the last day. Any last minute entires?

Thanks to everyone that participated! While we're waiting for Endure Designs to get things started on the first, hop on over to the blog, we're having a little voting fun this week (starting Monday morning).
www.love2upcycle.blogpost.com
~Bee

[Former_Member]

It is amazing what you can do with a simple t shirt! when I saw this challenge I decided to wing it!I usually make a project plan before I begin but, out of the box I was and I could not be more pleased with the result!
It went form my boyfriends old t-shirt to a totally glam,chic, sexy work of art! I'm proud andlooking through this thread at what you all have done has been an inspiration! Awesome work everyone!
Xo, stay creative
-Kendra

https://www.etsy.com/listing/110269900/sexy-crystal-embilished-braided-open?ref=v1_other_2

[Former_Member]

Alright one more entry on the last day! Thanks Kendra. Very pretty color blue. I added it to the pinterest board as well.

Can't wait to read Luci's results on the blog!!

[SweetSomeday]

Ahh, everything looks so great! Such a wide variety of ideas!! Luci, you have your work cut out for you!

[Former_Member]

Wow!! The box and the tank top are awesome!!

I really do have my work cut out for me. This is going to be difficult. :)

I am still not quite done with mine, it is the rug that just won't end. lol I am hoping to have it done to put up a picture soon! Or, I will post a picture of what it looks like so far. lol

Thank you everyone for your submissions! I have really enjoyed seeing all the creative ways a t shirt can be upcycled! :)

[Former_Member]

I´ve been meening to make and elastic headband for a while, and this challenge was de perfect ocasion. Hope you like it!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/110680853/upcycled-elastic-headband-from-t-shirt

[Former_Member]

The September Creativity Challenge Results
will be published on the blog tomorrow 10/2

Thanks and be sure to check out the October Challenge...
http://www.etsy.com/teams/6610/upcyclers/discuss/11005053/page/1/