Team Challenge - Father's Day

courtesy of CreativeHandsLLC

Last month's team challenge was devoted to mothers, so it's only fitting that this month's challenge is devoted to all those fathers out there!

Fathers Day is on June 21, 2009.

Here are some facts:

Mrs. Sonora Smart Dodd of Washington thought independently of the holiday one Sunday in 1909 while listening to a Mother's Day sermon...she arranged a tribute for her father in June 19, 1910.  She was the first to solicit the idea of having an offical Father's Day observance.

...a National Father's Day Committee was formed in New York City in the 1930's, which was renamed in 1938 National Council for the Promotion of Father's Day.  This council had the goals of legitimizing the holiday in the mind of the people and managing the holiday as a commercial event, in order to boost sales over the holiday.  The council always had the support of Dodd, who had no problem with the commercialization of the holiday and endorsed several promotions to increase the amount of gifts.  In this aspect she was considered the opposite of Anna Jarvis, who actively opposed all commercialization of Mother's Day... Excert from Wikipedia

Team Members:

All entries will be posted on the blog on May 26th and open up to the public for voting!

The guidelines for those who wish to enter are as follows

1. Please ensure that your entry is tagged in your shop with the tag "challengefather"

2. You must be prepared to send the winning card to the winning reader FREE OF CHARGE

3. Either reserve your creation in your shop, or ensure that you can produce another one in case you sell it before the challenge is over (this is always nice)

4. Greeting cards, tags, and/or stickers are welcome 

5. One entry per person

I will select your card from your shop and upload it to our blog.

Readers:

Once the voting is open on May 26th, you are encouraged to vote and leave a comment for your favorite card.  You may only vote once.

Prize:

As always the wonderful prize will be the winning card.  I will select a random readers comment and they will be the winner of the winning card.

Have fun!

January Team Challenge - Please Vote!

We have a winner!
Jennifer (#10) is the reader who wins our winning card (#2) from ErinNims. Jennifer, please contact Erin through Etsy (using the 'contact' link) or leave a comment here with more information about how we can get in touch with you. Congratulations to you both!!

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Below are the entries to our January Team Challenge! The overall theme was LOVE and the color theme was RED. Each photo below links directly to the shop where the item is listed for sale. By clicking on the photo, you can also see a larger image of the card. Please vote for your favorite card using the voting poll on the right side of our blog. Everyone (team members and non-members) are welcome to vote!

READERS (non-members) – You are eligible to win the winning card! After you vote, please leave a comment at the end of this post. We will randomly select a winning reader on Friday at 12 noon (EST) and you will receive the card that gets the most votes! Be sure to leave enough information for us to be able to contact you if you win!

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Inspirational Spark

Inspirational Spark will be a fortnightly inspiration challenge open to anyone, EtsyGreetings members and readers, crafters, artists, hobbyist alike working in any creative media, be it greetings or knitting, ceramics or painting, photography, even poetry. Every couple of weeks on Sunday a little idea will be posted for you to draw inspiration from for your creative work. You participate when you want, once or every time we introduce a twice monthly muse. Once you create your work come back to the post, leave a comment with a hyperlink to a photo of your work either on a photo site like Flickr or your blog, or even online marketplace, however linking back to a social networking media is better so people can get introduced to more of your work and they can leave feedback. This is a great way to connect to all kinds of artists and draw inspirations from all types of media. You never know where your next great idea may come from.

Our kick-off Inspirational Spark is... Rain. It rained here this morning after a bit of a drought. Everything looks greener. What do you think of when you hear the word rain? How would you illustrate rain in your medium? What emotion does it evoke? What colors do you see?

When you have completed your work please post a link to it in the comments below. Look for another challenge in 2 weeks. We look forward to seeing your creations.


Do you have a theme idea for a future challenge? Please pass it along to Karin.