Source:http://www.etsy.com/contest/kids2.php
Vote for your favorite items from the Handmade Kids Challenge and win one of fourteen $350 Etsy Shopping Sprees!
From August 25 through September 8, 2008, your vote is your chance to win! Check out the Challenge finalists and choose your top pick in each category.
There are two separate contests;
One is for the crafts themselves:
Rules for the craft entries
Only US residents were eligible to enter the craft contest
There are 7 categories.
Furniture
Toys
Home Decor
Eco-Friendly
Clothing
Accessories
Art
The Prizes are:
Seven Best in category winners (one in each category) will receive a $200.00 Etsy shopping spree- this is judged by The Expert Panel Judges
The other prizes are judged by user votes:
Seven first place winners (one in each category) will receive a $150.00 Etsy shopping spree
Seven second place winners (one in each category) will receive a $100.00 Etsy shopping spree
Seven third place winners (one in each category) will receive a $50.00 Etsy shopping spree
One artist may win more than one prize, if they have entered multiple categories.
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The second contest is the sweepstakes.
The sweepstakes winners are chosen at random from the users who vote. There will be 14 winners of $350 shopping sprees.
The Etsy Handmade Kids Sweepstakes is open to US residents only.
Official rules here
Limit one entry per category per username. There are seven categories so each username has seven chances to win. Limit one Prize per person. (for the sweepstakes)
A list of the winners will be posted on or around September 25, 2008 on the Storque and the Handmade Kids Challenge page.
August 28th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
To compensate for international sellers not being able to enter the contest, Etsy has made a new gift guide.
http://www.etsy.com/gift-guides/handmade-kids-international/74
I think this will only be there for the length of the contest.
Also see this Storque article
http://www.etsy.com/storque/section/etsyNews/article/handmade-kids-spanning-the-globe/2259/
To see even more great global finds for kids, just search the tag “intlkids”.
August 29th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
I really don’t get some of the entries…did they jury the entries and categories? Did they even glance at them?!
August 30th, 2008 at 4:33 am
Yes they were juried- these are the finalists, which I guess mean more people entered than what we see in the voting pages. I didn’t read all the details but I assume admins chose the finalists from out of all items with the contest tag.
The categories are a bit loose though, for example a light switch plate is under “furniture” when I would have though that goes in “Home Decor”.
September 1st, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Oh how nice! Let’s shun our friends across the pond again. No wonder the world hates Americans. Thanks Etsy!
Ah….diplomacy……
September 1st, 2008 at 9:04 pm
it is indeed an embarrassment and i did comment on it in the storque when the article came out.
i wish wish wish the international gift guide was more heavily promoted for the duration of the competition. i wouldn’t be that impressed with winning gift stuff from etsy (seeing as mine took bloody ages to arrive last time) but getting GG exposure is a valuable commodity