Oh Canada Team Fall 2012 Treasury Blitz

Have you heard? The OhCanadaTeam is having a treasury blitz! Today through Friday, get your creative juices flowing and join us here for 3 days of creating Canada-centric treasuries. If you don't have time to create a treasury, don't worry. You can help propel the team to the Etsy front page by clicking and commenting on the treasuries, our Facebook page, and in the comments section of this blog post. Here's a sample of some of the gorgeous treasuries created by teammies so far...

 

 Autumn Leaves, by Castillejacotton, Autumn Spice, by EcoCraftSupply, Pumpkin & Spice, by FlowerPot, and September Shines, by Collectique.

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Oh Canada! Treasury Challenge

 The polls are open, Canada, for what will be our last challenge for the summer.  In honour of this finale, we have five entries this week.  They are, in no particular order, I Love Canada from j2studiocraft, My Own 'Fringe Festival' from grassrootssaskatoon, Brighten Your Day from bstudio, Boho Spin from stonewillowjewellery,  and Dark Ride from laughterandsand.  The polls will remain open until midnight in Ottawa, Sunday, July 1st.

From Treasury Headquarters, we wish you all a great Canada Day and a summer to match!

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Oh Canada! Treasury Challenge

 Oh, Canada!  We have a winner, and I'm pleased as punch to announce that it's me!  I liked this collection of beach-y stuff, and I'm glad you did too!  I'm looking forward to seeing the entries for our next challenge.  They'll all include an item from DarkRide in the top row.

 * all entries must use an item from DarkRide in the top row of their collection

* post the link to your treasury in the comment section of this post by midnight (Ottawa time) Sunday, June 24.   If your treasury link isn’t here, your treasury isn’t entered in the challenge.

* use 5 more Oh, Canada team members in the top three rows. Incorporate as many team members as you like, but there must be at least 6 team members in the top three rows to qualify for the challenge.

* tag your treasury with octchallenge and ohcanadateam. This requirement is essential for providing the judges with one stop browsing.

* invite others to play and provide a link to the blog challenge. Just because it’d be cool to have guest players ;-)

Judging
How about you? Not into the treasury making thang, or just want to sit back for a bit? Please, be a narrow down judge, to help whittle the list of entries down to manageable size for voting. Be one of the first three folks to volunteer in the comment section of this post to take on this important role.
Since treasuries should not include an item from your own shop(s), challenge winners are cordially invited, but never expected, to help narrow down entries.  That's me!  And for sure I'm going to help judge!

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Oh Canada! Team Treasury Challenge

Oh, Canada! The polls are open! Thanks to our featured shop, KarensRopeWork, and our volunteer judge, AngelqueCreations, our entries for this challenge have been narrowed down to four finalists. Our four collections are from treasuresbyteala with Grow Baby Grow!, bstudio's Father, Dad, Daddy, Pop, Pa, Dada, Papa: Old Man, Patriarch, Paterfamilias, clonehardware's On the Lake, and DarkRide's Cottage Comforts.

The polls will remain open until midnight in Ottawa, Saturday, June 9th.

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Oh, Canada! Team Treasury Challenge

 Oh, Canada!  We have a winner!

Congratulations to Karen, at KarensRopeWork.  Her vintage inspired collection, Retro Is In, scored in overtime and will see her shop featured in the next challenge.

* all entries must use an item from KarensRopeWork in the top row of their collection

* post the link to your treasury in the comment section of this post by midnight (Ottawa time) Saturday, June 2.   If your treasury link isn’t here, your treasury isn’t entered in the challenge.

* use 5 more Oh, Canada team members in the top three rows. Incorporate as many team members as you like, but there must be at least 6 team members in the top three rows to qualify for the challenge.

* tag your treasury with octchallenge and ohcanadateam. This requirement is essential for providing the judges with one stop browsing.

* invite others to play and provide a link to the blog challenge. Just because it’d be cool to have guest players ;-)

Judging
How about you? Not into the treasury making thang, or just want to sit back for a bit? Please, be a narrow down judge, to help whittle the list of entries down to manageable size for voting. Be one of the first three folks to volunteer in the comment section of this post to take on this important role.
Since treasuries should not include an item from your own shop(s), challenge winners are cordially invited, but never expected, to help narrow down entries. If that's you, please let me know in the comment section of this post.

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Oh Canada! Team Treasury Challenge

The polls are open Canada!

This week's collections were inspired by the vintage shop, MyVictorianCottage.  Our four finalists are Retro in In from KarensRopeWorks, Tuesday's Daydream from Wintergarden, Greenery from bstudio, and Spring Clean from treasuresbyteala.

The polls will remain open until midnight in Ottawa, Friday, May 11.

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Oh Canada! Team Treasury Challenge

Oh Canada! We have a winner!

Congratulations go out to myvictoriancottage.  Her bright and beautiful Orange Crush took the polls with a landslide 64% of the votes.  An item from her shop will be featured in all of this challenge's entries.

 To enter this week's challenge, you must:
use an item from myvictoriancottage in the top row of your collection

* post the link to your treasury in the comment section of this post by midnight (Ottawa time) Saturday, May 5. If your treasury link isn’t here, your treasury isn’t entered in the challenge.

* use 5 more Oh, Canada team members in the top three rows. Incorporate as many team members as you like, but there must be at least 6 team members in the top three rows to qualify for the challenge.

* tag your treasury with octchallenge and ohcanadateam. This requirement is essential for providing the judges with one stop browsing.

* invite others to play and provide a link to the blog challenge. Just because it’d be cool to have guest players ;-)

Judging
How about you? Not into the treasury making thang, or just want to sit back for a bit? Please, be a narrow down judge, to help whittle the list of entries down to manageable size for voting. Be one of the first three folks to volunteer in the comment section of this post to take on this important role.
Since treasuries should not include an item from your own shop(s), challenge winners are cordially invited, but never expected, to help narrow down entries. If that's you, please let me know in the comment section of this post.

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Oh Canada! Treasury Challenge

The polls are open, Canada!

Clonehardware's shop inspired some beautiful and diverse collections! Our four finalists are junquete with Drama, myvictoriancottage with Orange Crush, Green from KarensRopeWork, and It's a Strange World by rjcharms.




The polls will remain open until high noon, Ottawa time, Saturday, April 21, 2012.

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Pinterest Board- Earth Day

Thank you all for contributing your lovely items to this week's board! We have our first Pinboard ready for repinning. Someone on the team mentioned that she got an enquiry as a result of the pin/repin activity! Way to go team.

pinterest.com/ohcanadateam/earth-day/

Please follow the board above and repin ALL the items to your own boards, and maybe even use some of the 20 items in an Etsy treasury.

Happy Pinning!     

             

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Oh Canada! Treasury Challenge

A big Oh Cananda congratulations to Alisa, of clonehardware, the winner of our last treasury challenge with her juicy Juicy Pear c0llection!

To enter this week's challenge, you must:
use an item from clonehardware in the top row of your collection

* post the link to your treasury in the comment section of this post by midnight (Ottawa time) Monday, April 15. If your treasury link isn’t here, your treasury isn’t entered in the challenge.

* use 5 more Oh, Canada team members in the top three rows. Incorporate as many team members as you like, but there must be at least 6 team members in the top three rows to qualify for the challenge.

* tag your treasury with octchallenge and ohcanadateam. This requirement is essential for providing the judges with one stop browsing.

* invite others to play and provide a link to the blog challenge. Just because it’d be cool to have guest players ;-)

Judging
How about you? Not into the treasury making thang, or just want to sit back for a bit? Please, be a narrow down judge, to help whittle the list of entries down to manageable size for voting. Be one of the first three folks to volunteer in the comment section of this post to take on this important role.
Since treasuries should not include an item from your own shop(s), challenge winners are cordially invited, but never expected, to help narrow down entries. If that's you, please let me know in the comment section of this post.

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New Team Promo: Pinterest Theme Boards

I’ve come up with a new promotion idea for the team using Pinterest which will replace the Friday Finds feature. I know that most of us are concerned that people don’t know about Etsy, and if they don’t know about it, we should be promoting our stuff elsewhere. We’ve decided to take advantage of the Pinterest button (now on every Etsy item page) and do a collective team promo that will benefit us all.

This is what the OCT Pinterest Promo will involve.

Teamies who’d like to participate must have a Pinterest account and follow the OCTPinterest account:
pinterest.com/ohcanadateam/
Every week, I’ll post a theme on the Etsy forum, and you will post ONE item from your shop that meets the criteria. I will then create a Pinterest board using your items. You will then follow the board and repin all the pins. Repinning from one item each results in greater views and therefore the likelihood of having a sale is higher based on the number of people following both the OCT boards and your own boards. We are aiming for a snowball effect: higher amount of repins= more exposure = more traffic to your etsy shop = more sales.
The theme will be based on Etsy Merchandising Desk dates. This will include holidays, seasonal trends, colors, etc.

The weekly promo schedule will be something like this:
Monday – Wednesday: post your one item for the theme board on the Etsy forum thread that I will set up
Thursday- Pinterest theme board is created on Pinterest
Thursday – Sunday- participants repin all items to their boards and promote using FB, Twitter, etc

I'd love to see how many people we can sign up for this weekly team event, so please leave a comment below if you're interested :)

Thanks,
Candice



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Oh Canada Team Treasury Challenge

Oh, Canada! The polls are open.

Thanks to Norma, of junquete, our treasury challenge entries have been narrowed down to four collections for voting.

Congratulations to our four finalists. This week they are Flowerpot with Mellow Yellow, treasuresbyteala's Spring Fling in Pastel, Take Me to Your Leader from theCottageWorkroom, and clonehardware's Juicy Pear

The polls will remain open until Friday, March 23, midnight in Ottawa.



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Oh, Canada Team Treasury Challenge

Oh, Canada! Get curating!

A big Oh, Canada team congratulations goes out to the winner of our last treasury challenge, Andrea of artisaninthewoods. Her collection, Dreaming of Spring Flowers, cleaned up at the polls and will see its curator featured in our first challenge of March.

To enter this week's challenge, you must:
use an item from artisaninthewoods in the top row of your collection

* post the link to your treasury in the comment section of this post by midnight (Ottawa time) Sunday, March 18. If your treasury link isn’t here, your treasury isn’t entered in the challenge.

* use 5 more Oh, Canada team members in the top three rows. Incorporate as many team members as you like, but there must be at least 6 team members in the top three rows to qualify for the challenge.

* tag your treasury with octchallenge and ohcanadateam. This requirement is essential for providing the judges with one stop browsing.

* invite others to play and provide a link to the blog challenge. Just because it’d be cool to have guest players ;-)

Judging
How about you? Not into the treasury making thang, or just want to sit back for a bit? Please, be a narrow down judge, to help whittle the list of entries down to manageable size for voting. Be one of the first three folks to volunteer in the comment section of this post to take on this important role.
Since treasuries should not include an item from your own shop(s), challenge winners are cordially invited, but never expected, to help narrow down entries. If that's you, please let me know in the comment section of this post.

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OhCanadaTeam Treasury Challenge Finalists

The polls are open, Canada!

Thanks to our esteemed judges, at OceanPearlJewellery and bstudio, our challenge entries have been narrowed down to four finalists. Thank you very much, gals!!

Our challenge entries this week come to us from treasuresbyteala with Hot Stuff! What Women Want, JDArtStudio with Navy Blue is the New Black, artisaninthewoods with Dreaming of Spring Flowers, and DarkRide with Prairie Chic.

The polls will remain open until Monday, March 5, high noon in Ottawa.




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Oh Canada Team Treasury Challenge Winner

Oh, Canada! Get curating!

This week we'll be featuring the winner of our last treasury challenge, OceanPearlJewellery. Congratulations, Leigh-Anne! Your winning collection is a perfect way to chase away winter blahs.


To enter this week's challenge, you must:

* use an item from OceanPearlJewellery in the top row of your collection

* post the link to your treasury in the comment section of this blog by midnight (Ottawa time) on the last day of February (!!), Wednesday the 29th. If your treasury link isn’t here, your treasury isn’t entered in the challenge.

* use 5 more Oh, Canada team members in the top three rows. Incorporate as many team members as you like, but there must be at least 6 team members in the top three rows to qualify for the challenge.

* tag your treasury with octchallenge and ohcanadateam. This requirement is essential for providing the judges with one stop browsing.

* invite others to play and provide a link to the blog challenge. Just because it’d be cool to have guest players ;-)

Judging -- how about you? Not into the treasury making thang, or just want to sit back for a bit? Please, be a narrow down judge, to help whittle the list of entries down to manageable size for voting. Be one of the first three folks to volunteer in the comment section of this blog and take on this important role. Since treasuries should not include an item from your own shop(s), challenge winners are cordially invited, but never expected, to help narrow down entries.

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The polls are open!

Our j2studioscraft challenge is now over, and the entries have been narrowed down these four finalists. The winner of this treasury challenge will be featured in our next challenge.

This week's beautiful curations come to us from clonehardware with Softly - Softly, aosta with For the Love of Lavender, OceanPearlJewellery with Big Turquoise, Splash of Electric Lime, and bstudio's Colorful Delights.




The polls will close on Saturday, February 18, midnight in Ottawa.



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Friday Finds: Flower Thank-You Flat Note Cards by j2studioscraft

Today's find are these handmade mini thank you notecards by Christina at j2studioscraft. Christina is actually a violin and piano teacher, and when not teaching you can find her at her craft desk handcrafting cute notecards and the most adorable handmade flower pins for little girls. Check out her cute shop here.

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Oh Canada Team Treasury Challenge.

Congratulations to Christina, our new treasury challenge winner. Her entry, So Bright, But It Makes Me Happy, made 48% of our voters happy too! Our next challenge will feature her shop, j2studioscraft.
Get curating, Canada!


To enter this week's challenge, you must:

* use an item from j2studioscraft in the top row of your collection

* post the link to your treasury in the comment section of this blog by midnight (Ottawa time) Monday, February 13, 2012. If your treasury link isn’t here, your treasury isn’t entered in the challenge.

* use 5 more Oh, Canada team members in the top three rows. Incorporate as many team members as you like, but there must be at least 6 team members in the top three rows to qualify for the challenge.

* tag your treasury with octchallenge and ohcanadateam. This requirement is essential for providing the judges with one stop browsing.

* invite others to play and provide a link to the blog challenge. Just because it’d be cool to have guest players ;-)

Judging -- how about you? Not into the treasury making thang, or just want to sit back for a bit? Please, be a narrow down judge, to help whittle the list of entries down to manageable size for voting. Be one of the first three folks to volunteer in the comment section of this blog and take on this important role. Since treasuries should not include an item from your own shop(s), challenge winners are cordially invited, but never expected, to help narrow down entries.
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Oh, Canada Team Treasury Challenge

The polls are open Canada!

This week's featured artist, lenokeidesigns, and our volunteer judge, whimsypie, have narrowed down our entries. Our four challenge curations are clonehardware's Mustard Custard, j2studios's So Bright, But it Makes Me Happy, IGBijoux's Gifts For a Happy Girl, and DarkRide's Grey Skies.





The poll will remain open until Thursday, February 2, 2012, midnight in Ottawa.

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Friday Finds: Canoe Charm necklace by RJCharms

When I first saw this Canoe charm necklace I immediately thought what a lovely gift it would be for a Canadian friend who's far away from home. To me, canoes are as much a symbol of Canada as beavers or Maple leaves! This pewter charm is included on a rhodium plated chain. Visit RJCharms lovely Etsy shop for more adorable and collectable charms!

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Oh Canada! Treasury Challenge

Oh, Canada! We have a winner. Congratulations to Lenore, at lenokeidesigns, with her beautifully curated, Magic is Afoot. An item from Lenore's shop will be featured in every entry to our next challenge.


To enter this week's challenge, you must:

* use an item from lenokeidesgins in the top row of your collection

* post the link to your treasury in the comment section of this blog by midnight (Ottawa time) Friday, January 27, 2012. If your treasury link isn’t here, your treasury isn’t entered in the challenge.

* use 5 more Oh, Canada team members in the top three rows. Incorporate as many team members as you like, but there must be at least 6 team members in the top three rows to qualify for the challenge.

* tag your treasury with octchallenge and ohcanadateam. This is essential for providing the judges with one stop browsing.

* invite others to play and provide a link to the blog challenge. Just because it’d be cool to have guest players ;-)

Judging -- how about you? Not into the treasury making thang, or just want to sit back for a bit? Please, be a narrow down judge, to help whittle the list of entries down to manageable size for voting. Be one of the first three folks to volunteer in the comment section of this blog and take on this important role. Since treasuries should not include an item from your own shop(s), challenge winners are cordially invited, but never expected, to help narrow down entries.




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Friday Finds: Evie 100% Wool Felt Plush Heirloom Doll by claraclips

Introducing "Evie," a plush heirloom doll that your little girl will want to carry in her  pocket all the time, and probably want to be tucked with in bed. This sweetheart is hand cut and hand-stitched by Claraclips and made of 100% wool. She even has a removable dress (oh my goodness, this could be Barbie's replacement!!)  Check out claraclips shop for more handmade creations.

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Oh Canada Team Treasury Challenge

Our first poll of the new year is now open!

This challenge's featured artist, RJCharms, and our lovely volunteer, jensdreamdecor, have narrowed down our entries. Our four challenge finalists are bstudio's In Hibernation, Montreal Valentine from IGBijoux, lenokeidesigns' Magic is afoot, and DarkRide's Cupid, Draw Back Your Bow.




The polls will remain open until Thursday, January 19, midnight in Ottawa.

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