EKTT Weekly Treasury Challenge: Gardening or The Butcher

The winner of our latest weekly treasury challenge, SquishyBee on Etsy, wants to take us out into the garden!  While we're on the topic of food--let's head to the butcher's shop too! 

Gardening and Food

Focus Items:  garden tools, plant markers, composting solutions, gloves, scrubs, seeds, plantable papers, organic methods, farmers markets, organic meats and dairy, dairy farm, cheese artisans, seasonality, planting calendars, tips, recipes, vintage industrial farming references, glass domes, terrariums, air plants, window herbs, succulents, planters

OR 

The Butcher

Focus items:  the butcher, organic meats, cuts of meat, diagrams, butcher paper and knives, bacon, aprons, vintage industrial farming references, the outdoor kitchen, grilling options, unisex, men-centric

3-D Fabric Flower by Leila's Flower Garden on Etsy

1.  Submit as many treasuries fitting these themes in as many variations as you wish through Saturday, April 9, 12:00 Noon EST. 

NOTE:  You MUST be a member of the EKTT to participate in Weekly Treasury Challenges! 

2.  Required Challenge Tags: 

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(Copy and paste the challenge tags to ensure your treasury will be included in judging!)   Please also use applicable key words to tag--listed under Focus Items (above) and taken from Etsy's April Merchandising Report.  

Please do not use EKTT tags unless you are a member of the EtsyKids Treasury Team.  All EtsyKids are welcome to join.  See information on joining the EKTT:  Guidelines

3.  Treasuries must include 4 active and verified EtsyKids Team members. Please take this opportunity to feature either your partner or our April Featured EKTT Member, PRINCESS DESIGNS on Etsy, or both in a challenge submission.    

Please see the updated EKTT Check List to curate according to guidelines.  Only one feature of your partner is required this month.   New guidelines for 2 of your treasuries:  Feature any 2 EKTT Curators (see blog sidebar for active curator links) plus any 2 (non-EKTT) EtsyKids Team members. 

4.  The winning treasury will be chosen by Random.org.  The treasuries will receive a number from first submission to last and Random.org will pick a number from these. 

*All EKTT Curators are eligible to enter and win.

Prizes!

Your winning treasury, links to your Etsy shop, and a shop listing you choose will be featured in an EKTT blog post announcing you as our Weekly Treasury Challenge winner.  Your Etsy shop and winning blog entry will be permanently displayed on the EKTT Winners page.  Your Etsy shop will be featured in a Crafcult Slideshow Mini on the top of our blog sidebar.  You will have the honor of choosing the next Weekly Treasury Challenge theme based on a focused idea from our current Etsy Merchandising Report.   

EKTT Weekly Treasury Challenge: Spring Holidays or Red Riding Hood

The winner of our latest weekly treasury challenge, SquishyBee on Etsy, wants to celebrate Spring Holidays with the EtsyKids Treasury Team!  To add a new dimension to this week's challenge let's head to the movies:  HOP opens April 1st and Red Riding Hood is already a trending topic for April's Merchandising Report.  We've already had one EKTT treasury make the front page of Etsy for the movie theme Red Riding Hood--let's curate more for Etsy's home page!

April Fools' Day, Easter, or Mother's Day

Focus Items:  April Fools treasuries will focus on practical jokes, gag gifts, and silly handmade and vintage items...tickle our funny bones!  Easter and Mother's Day treasuries will be tagged with these dates:  Mothering Sunday, April 3; Easter, April 24; and Mother's Day, May 8.  Mother's Day or Mothering Sunday:  personalization options, pampering, jewelry, creative framing and photo displays, gadget accessories, flower and bud vases, planters, home decor, and cards for Mother's Day, spring gardening, flowers, spring fashion basics in lighter materials, open-toe shoes, sunglasses, and hair accessories.   Easter:  HOP the movie (click to see trailer),  bright and pastel colors, bunnies, rabbits, eggs, baskets, candy, toys, children's spring formal attire, and religious mementos.

OR

Little Red Riding Hood

Focus Items:  Red Riding Hood (click for more information on the movie and to see the trailer), forestry, red capes, wolves, werewolves, the moon (blood moon), young love, legends and dark fairytales.

Personalized Easter Bunny Tutu Outfit by AddieKat Boutique on Etsy

1.  Submit as many treasuries fitting these themes in as many variations as you wish through Saturday, April 2, 7:00 p.m. EST. NOTE:  You MUST be a member of the EKTT to participate in Weekly Treasury Challenges! 

2.  Required Challenge Tags: 

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(Copy and paste the challenge tags to ensure your treasury will be included in judging!)   Please also use applicable key words to tag--listed under Focus Items (above) and taken from Etsy's March Merchandising Report or Etsy's April Merchandising Report.  

Please do not use EKTT tags unless you are a member of the EtsyKids Treasury Team.  All EtsyKids are welcome to join.  See information on joining the EKTT:  Guidelines

3.  Treasuries must include 4 active and verified EtsyKids Team members. Please take this opportunity to feature either your partner or our March Featured EKTT Member, felted kitten on Etsy, or both in a challenge submission.  (April's Partner List will be posted April 1st on Ning.)  

Please see the updated EKTT Check List to curate according to guidelines.  Only one feature of your partner is required this month.   New guidelines for 2 of your treasuries:  Feature any 2 EKTT Curators (see blog sidebar for active curator links) plus any 2 (non-EKTT) EtsyKids Team members. 

4.  The winning treasury will be chosen based on MOST COMMENTS on Etsy.

5.  EKTT rules and guidelines (including where to post completed treasuries) along with illustrations to help you curate to EKTT guidelines can be found in the EKTT Check List, Curators!

6.  All EKTT Curators are eligible to enter and win, including current and past weekly challenge winners.

7.  Please do not include any treasury team tags other than the EtsyKids Treasury Team tag and related challenge tags on EKTT challenge treasuries.  Any challenge submission containing treasury team tags other than "etsykids tteam" will automatically be disqualified from winning.  Thank you, EKTT Curators!

Prizes!

Your winning treasury, links to your Etsy shop, and a shop listing you choose will be featured in an EKTT blog post announcing you as our Weekly Treasury Challenge winner.  Your Etsy shop and winning blog entry will be permanently displayed on the EKTT Winners page.  Your Etsy shop will be featured in a Crafcult Slideshow Mini on the top of our blog sidebar.  You will have the honor of choosing the next Weekly Treasury Challenge theme based on a focused idea from our current Etsy Merchandising Report.  

"Etsy's Euro Week" Treasury Challenge Winner: SquishyBee

Congratulations to Cortney of SquishyBee on Etsy on her win of the Euro Week treasury challenge!  Cortney's treasury, "A Paris Wedding" received the most views of any of our treasury submissions on Etsy!





Thank you, EtsyKids Treasury Team, for the beautiful treasuries curated for both Etsy's Euro Week and Spring Holidays!  EKTT, be sure to maintain your Spring Holiday treasuries (fill in the blank spots and replace sold items) since these are themes that Etsy Admin will be focusing on for Etsy's home page throughout April.  For all of you EKTT fans, please click HERE to see the rest of our Euro Week and Spring Holiday treasuries curated for your shopping and viewing pleasure.  


Cortney of SquishyBee on Etsy has mom, baby, and kids covered in her boutique offerings which range from baby blankets, bibs, appliqued children's clothing and plush stuffed buddies to makeup bags, hair accessories and brooches.  If you have a great sense of humor you're going to love the bearded bodysuits by SquishyBee!  Click on the picture below to get more information on Cortney's bearded bodysuits, and be sure to look through her shop for colored bodysuits with beards.

Bearded Man Bodysuit by SquishyBee on Etsy

EKTT Curators, our next Weekly Treasury Challenge theme chosen by SquishyBee on Etsy will be posted here tomorrow.  Congratulations again, Cortney, on your Weekly Treasury Challenge win!

EKTT Weekly Treasury Challenge: Etsy's Euro Week & Spring Holidays

The winner of our latest weekly treasury challenge, felted kitten on Etsy, wants to honor Etsy's Euro Week 2011 and Spring Holidays!  I am positive you creative EKTT curators will come up with inventive ways to combine April Fools' Day or Easter or Mother's Day with Etsy's Euro Week celebration. 

Etsy's Euro Week 2011

March 21 through March 27 Etsy celebrates European art and artists of Etsy with

home pages full of products from Europe!  Read all about it HERE!

Focus Items:  Check out featured shops HERE and from the blog post highlighted above or use geographic search to find your own European shops to feature.  Tag treasuries "EtsyEuro."  Think stripey French shirts, European maps and objects made of them, London, Scotland, Italy, France, Germany, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland...focus on one particular region or combine all of Europe!  (Note:  EtsyKids Team items do not have to originate in Europe but may honor European flavor in either style or perhaps a European flag.)

OR   

April Fools' Day, Easter, or Mother's Day

Focus Items:  April Fools treasuries will focus on practical jokes, gag gifts, and silly handmade and vintage items...tickle our funny bones!  Easter and Mother's Day treasuries will be tagged with these dates:  Mothering Sunday, April 3; Easter, April 24; and Mother's Day, May 8.  Think spring gardening, flowers, and spring fashion basics in lighter materials, open-toe shoes, sunglasses, hair accessories and jewelry, and home decor.  Natural history and bright pops of spring color are very appropriate for these treasuries.

London Calling (Union Jack Skirt) by The Trendy Tot on Etsy

1.  Submit as many treasuries fitting these themes in as many variations as you wish through Saturday, March 26, 7:00 p.m. EST.  

2.  Required Challenge Tags: 

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(Copy and paste the challenge tags to ensure your treasury will be included in judging!)   Please also use applicable key words to tag--listed under Focus Items (above) and taken from Etsy's March Merchandising Report.  

3.  Treasuries must include 4 active and verified EtsyKids Team members. Please take this opportunity to feature either your partner or our March Featured EKTT Member, felted kitten on Etsy, or both in a challenge submission.  

Please see the updated EKTT Check List with new rules in effect March 1 to curate according to guidelines.  Only one feature of your partner is required this month.   New guidelines for 2 of your treasuries:  Feature any 2 EKTT Curators (see blog sidebar for active curator links) plus any 2 (non-EKTT) EtsyKids Team members. 

4.  The winning treasury will be chosen based on MOST VIEWS on Etsy.

5.  EKTT rules and guidelines (including where to post completed treasuries) along with illustrations to help you curate to March 1st guidelines can be found in the EKTT Check List, Curators!

6.  All EKTT Curators are eligible to enter and win, including current and past weekly challenge winners.

7.  Please do not include any treasury team tags other than the EtsyKids Treasury Team tag and related challenge tags on EKTT challenge treasuries.  Any challenge submission containing treasury team tags other than "etsykids tteam" will automatically be disqualified from winning.  Thank you, EKTT Curators!

Prizes!

Your winning treasury, links to your Etsy shop, and a shop listing you choose will be featured in an EKTT blog post announcing you as our Weekly Treasury Challenge winner.  Your Etsy shop and winning blog entry will be permanently displayed on the EKTT Winners page.  Your Etsy shop will be featured in a Crafcult Slideshow Mini on the top of our blog sidebar.  You will have the honor of choosing the next Weekly Treasury Challenge theme based on a focused idea from our current Etsy Merchandising Report.  

EKTT Weekly Treasury Challenge: St. Patty's & Spring

The winner of our latest weekly treasury challenge, Bison Girl on Etsy, wants to celebrate St. Patty's Day and SPRING!  Keep in mind that St. Patrick's Day is Thursday, March 17th, and Spring treasuries will be in use all month long on Etsy's home page.  Mix it up, EKTT, why not make a treasury fitting both themes?    

Saint Patrick's Day PAR-TAY!

Focus Items:  parties, celebrations, March 17, parades, touches of green, shamrocks, feasting, kitchen decor and accessories, hostess gifts, beer drinking,  and a nod to the Irish!

OR

Spring Fling!

Focus Items:  SPRING BREAK week, spring equinox, spring cleaning, spring fashion, spring planting, rejuvenation, fresh outlook, and light, bright color.  March birthstone:  Aquamarine.  Colors:  bright pops of color in pinks, turquoise, yellows, avocado, peach, orange.  Earth tones and neutrals coupled with rusts, deep greens, brown.  

St. Patrick's Day Tutu Outfit by The Trendy Tot Shop on Etsy

1.  Submit as many treasuries fitting these themes in as many variations as you wish through FRIDAY, March 18, 5:00 p.m. CST.  (The winning treasury will be blogged on Saturday this week, followed by a Sunday blog of the Weekly Treasury Challenge as we are preparing for the 2nd installment of the EtsyKids Photo Makeover Series to be posted on Monday, March 21.)  

2.  Required Challenge Tags: 

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(Copy and paste the challenge tags to ensure your treasury will be included in judging!)   Please also use applicable key words to tag--listed under Focus Items (above) and taken from Etsy's March Merchandising Report.  

3.  Treasuries must include 4 active and verified EtsyKids Team members. Please take this opportunity to feature either your partner or our March Featured EKTT Member, felted kitten on Etsy, or both in a challenge submission.  

Please see the updated EKTT Check List with new rules in effect March 1 to curate according to guidelines.  Only one feature of your partner is required this month.   New guidelines for 2 of your treasuries:  Feature any 2 EKTT Curators (see blog sidebar for active curator links) plus any 2 (non-EKTT) EtsyKids Team members. 

4.  The winning treasury will be chosen from Random.org.  This week I will number your treasuries from 1 (first submission) to the number of the last treasury submitted.  Random.org will select a treasury from those submitted, and the winner will be announced as usual.

5.  EKTT rules and guidelines (including where to post completed treasuries) along with illustrations to help you curate to March 1st guidelines can be found in the EKTT Check List, Curators!

6.  All EKTT Curators are eligible to enter and win, including current and past weekly challenge winners.

7.  Please do not include any treasury team tags other than the EtsyKids Treasury Team tag and related challenge tags on EKTT challenge treasuries.  Any challenge submission containing treasury team tags other than "etsykids tteam" will automatically be disqualified from winning.  Thank you, EKTT Curators!

Prizes!

Your winning treasury, links to your Etsy shop, and a shop listing you choose will be featured in an EKTT blog post announcing you as our Weekly Treasury Challenge winner.  Your Etsy shop and winning blog entry will be permanently displayed on the EKTT Winners page.  Your Etsy shop will be featured in a Crafcult Slideshow Mini on the top of our blog sidebar.  You will have the honor of choosing the next Weekly Treasury Challenge theme based on a focused idea from our current Etsy Merchandising Report.