Mother's Day Treasury Blitz 2013!

It's time to get back into the swing-o-spring, get up, get going, and make some treasuries! Oh Canada Team is having a Blitz and WE NEED YOU! Team members, we need some fantastic treasuries featuring your team mates and fellow canadians!

Our ever so relevant theme will be.... (drum roll).... MOTHERS! in honor of MOTHER'S DAY! Hurray!

Who doesn't love a good mom themed collection? Make one about gifts you would like to give your mom, items that remind you of your mom, items that would make your mom laugh, anything you can think of that makes you think of mom, mothers, nanas, grannys, bubbies, and all the maternal women we love!

The idea is to get our team's items seen by many many people in a focused rush of treasuries! by collecting all of our curative energy into these three days of concerted treasury making we can have a real impact! Please make as MANY as you want (save them as private before thursday, then post them as public on the 25th, 26th or 27th).

Use at least 5 Team members in EACH treasury, with the ENTIRE FIRST ROW of each collection being teamies. Find members at the left of our team page on etsy under the "members" link, by searching through OhCanadaTeams favs here (all member items) www.etsy.com/people/ohcanadateamaccount/favorites?ref=pr_faveitems_... or using the search tag ohcanadateam in the search bar on etsy.

All-team treasuries are a great idea - but including others can bring in outside eyes. Both are good for us! Do both, or either one. Make these as fun and attractive and vibrant and front-page-able as we can! The whole game is to get eyes on us and each other! The more eyes, the more faves, the more sales!

Tags - Please use these in EVERY treasury for this blitz
   ---     ohcanadateam   octmother    ---
Use any other relevant tags you can to get your treasury circulating. mothers day, mom, spring, shopping, canadian, etc.

Sending messages about being featured in a treasury is encouraged! If you use Schmetsy this can be quite easy. If not, it's a simple matter of copying and pasting one easy message into 16 "contact" buttons. Yes, it's a little more work, but the amount of difference it makes is quite big.

If you can't make a treasury (please, please try!) then come and look, comment, click and fave! Then come back later again and comment, click and fave again! Some teams do this on a daily or weekly basis, but we've just been saving all of our awesomeness for this surge of Canadian-Power!

SO HERE WE GO! Lets make some MOM treasuries! Post your finished works of art in the special thread -- https://www.etsy.com/teams/5036/oh-canada/discuss/12187372/


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The Votes are in, the winners are....

 Hurray hurray OhCanada Team! We've got our winners! We put in some fantastic entries for this blitz, and I'm so proud of us all.

So, without further ado, your top three winners are ..... Drum roll.....

1) Well Red  by Caroline at DarkRide

2) Pure, white, Simple by Leigh-Anne of OceanPearlJewellery

3) Sunshine in Canada by Norma at Junquete

Caroline will be receiving a fantastic little something-or-other from Brazen!
Leigh-Anne will receive some awesome do-hicky from Cari!
Norma will receive a super-dooper what-cha-meh-callit from Laura!

I'm SO happy with the amazing turn out we had for this blitz, in the treasuries and in the voting! I hope everyone had fun,  and come on out for the next one!


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Here they are - Now Go VOTE!

Hey OhCanada Team! Wow, I'm totally blown away and seriously pleased with the response we got from this month's Blitz! especially when we consider this the "bluest" time of the year! Congratulations all around!

Below are the 29 treasuries we received! Please look through them, consider each one for it's various merits and awesomeness. Choose your three VERY FAVORITE ones, in no particular order. Considering the difficulty we've had with posting here, please vote in the new voting thread on Etsy.

Voting closes 10pm Sunday (toronto time), tabluating will commence and the winners will be announced.... monday some time! (maybe tuesday, if life gets in the way...)

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February 2013 Treasury BLITZ!

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Welcome Back Team! Happy New Year, and here's hoping the first month of 2013 has been good to all of us.

Let's start the year off with a brand new Treasury Blitz focusing on a theme to get us back in the swing of things. This blitz the theme will be "Fresh and New" inspired by our hopes for the new year. Please take this theme in any direction you want, meaning spring, clean, green, original, colour, whatever!

We thought we might try something a little different for this Blitz - Prizes! This is something I've done with another team to fun results. We have two prizes donated so far, one from myself and from Brazen so far. We are looking for one more from any member of the team (preferably something small and letter-mail-able for ease of postage).

EDIT - The Treasury Challenge rule of SIX teamies in the top three rows will apply to this Blitz as well, just for continuity's sake. Sorry for any confusion my earlier post may have caused.
 The idea of the blitz is to promote each other, and the team, get as many views on our items, and get them looking fantastic in a group of complimentary items. Make as many as you want, make them beautiful, bold, interesting, and heck, maybe even front-pageable!

 Once you've made your treasury (or treasuries) post the link to your treasury in the comment section of this blog by midnight (Toronto time) Friday, February 8, 2013. If your treasury link isn’t here, your treasury isn’t entered for voting!

If you can't make a treasury, for whatever reason, please check out the others, fave, click, comment, heart as much as  possible to get our teamies out there! The purpose of a blitz is to have FUN and to get our teamies SEEN. And of course, PLEASE come back and VOTE.

WHEN: Our three day Blitz will run from Feb 6, 7, 8th. That's wednesday, thursday, friday. (perfect to get those bored-at-the-office browsers).

VOTE: Feb 9, 10 - saturday and sunday! Come back to this blog, cast your vote for your fav three (3) treasuries. Votes should be tabulated by midnight monday (toronto time).

PLEASE - contact me via etsy with any questions or confusion, or if you would like to donate a prize! I hope the little small changes add some variety to the Blitz, but there is bound to be some mix ups! (I'm still a little new at this blogging thing, we'll figure out the details eventually!)


One more thing - Here at the OhCanada Blog, we'd like to start up some of the features we've had in the past, as well as some new ideas. Some things like features and interviews we can conduct mostly through Etsy and email, but other things Like friday finds and wordless wednesdays would be greatly aided if we started posting items to flickr again! That way, I know I'm allowed to pluck you out of the pool and put you on display.... er, your items at least. Go here, join the team (I just did!) do this ---

OhCanadaTeam on Flickr

Can't wait!
Cari and OhCanadaTeam Leadership!





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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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