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Entering the monthly Etsy for Animals Challenge is a fun way to participate in the EFA street team ! Every month there is an opportunity for EFA members to submit one of their product listings to be featured on the blog. Each month has a specific theme which the listing must reflect in some way. (see the Themes-at-a-glance list here) EFA has a blog that is solely dedicated to our Monthly Challenges. The Monthly Challenge blog provides a lovely display of goods presented by our artists & suppliers. Its a wonderful marketing opportunity for our sellers and also shows us how they contribute to aiding our animal friends. If you are an EFA member & would like to submit an entry, please convo our Challenge Volunteer, Jess of jessicalynneart, with the following information: 1. PROViDE the link to an item in your shop that fits the theme or has been created for the theme. 2. EXPLAiN how you think the item fits the monthly Challenge theme 3. TELL US a bit about your work/donations/volunteer work with animals or animal charities 4. TiTLE your convo with the name of the MONTH and the word CHALLENGE, for example: JANUARY CHALLENGE. One more important step: 5. TAG your Etsy listing with the monthly Challenge theme tag (see the Themes-at-a-glance list here) and be sure to ALSO keep your regular team tag in place, either 'team efa' or 'team efa cotm'. Entries that are accepted into the Monthly Challenge will be displayed at the beginning of the month- approximately one a day - until all the challenges have been posted. The first 16 challenge entries received will be used to create an Etsy Treasury... and for every 16 received after that, a new treasury will be created. These are made on a first come basis. Members are encouraged to come visit and leave a comment... our participants love to hear the good things members have to say about their work !!! A big Thank you to our Challenge team of Volunteers: Heather of thebluewindmill for promoting the entries on Yahoo Groups & on Etsy and to Jess of jessicalynneart for promoting them on Blogger for us. Comments ? Suggestions ? Please feel free to contact Nicole of brizel4TheAnimals who serves as EFA's Secretary & Blog Mistress !
Monday, December 27, 2010
HOW TO enter EFA's Monthly Challenges
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Monthly Challenge Update
Monthly Challenge Update
written by LolaLynn
November's Theme
November is proving to be a pivital month for the EFA Challenge. A lot of things are going on. As usual, the November entries are due the first of the month and the first 16 entries will become the basis for the November Challenge Treasury. November's theme is "Bountiful Harvest", tag: teamefaharvest.
Click HERE to see How to Enter the Monthly Challenge.
Where to send your entries
The big change is in where to send your entry. All entries should now be convoed to etsyforanimals. This is the EFA Team shop which is closed but we still have use of the message system. This is being done so that the responsibility for posting the entries can be rotated and not fall on one person. We thank Micky of AldanaMica for receiving and posting the entries for several months and hope the new system will work to everyone's benefit.
2011 Themes
The other "Challenge event" is choosing our themes for 2011. I have received several lists but more are welcomed. November 15th is the deadline for submiting theme suggestions. The official list will then be posted by the end of November so that everyone can be ready for the January Challenge.
Even if you don't have full year's worth of suggestions contact me at LolaLynn with your ideas. Take a look at "Themes-at-a-glance" on the Challenge blog to see the current list. Thanks to everyone for paticapting in the challenges. Its always intriguing to see the similarities and the differences in how a theme is interpreted.
Thanks !
HOW TO ENTER The Monthly Challenge
Every month there is an opportunity for EFA members to submit one of their listings to be featured on the blog. Each month has a specific theme which the listing must reflect in some way.
EFA has a blog that is solely dedicated to our Monthly Challenges. The Monthly Challenge blog provides a lovely display of goods presented by our artists & suppliers. Its a wonderful marketing opportunity for our sellers and also shows us how they contribute to aiding our animal friends.
To submit an entry, contact EtsyForAnimals with the following information:
1. SHOW a link to an item in your shop that fits the theme or has been created for the theme.
2. TELL how the item fits the theme
3. TELL a bit about your work/donations/volunteer work with animal charities
Two more steps:
4. In your shop, tag the item with the theme tag (see Challenge Blog for themes-at-a-glance) Be sure to also keep your regular team tag in place, either 'team efa' or 'team efa cotm'.
5. Please make sure that your convo is specifically titled with the name of the MONTH and the word CHALLENGE, for example OCTOBER CHALLENGE.
Entries that are accepted will be displayed at the beginning of the month- approximately one each day- until all the challenges have been shown off. Members are encouraged to come visit and leave a comment.. our participants love to hear the good things members have to say about their work !!!
The first 16 challenge entries that are received will be used to create an Etsy Treasury. For every 16 received after that, a new treasury will be created. This will be done on a first come basis.
Suggestions and comments are always welcomed. Contact LolaLynn who serves as EFA's Challenge Administrator.
Monday, August 30, 2010
EFA TEAM treasury: Aim for the Stars...
Sunday, May 18, 2008
How to Become an Author of this Blog
To become an author of this blog, please convo elephantdance or LolaLynn on etsy.com. Once your request is processed, you will receive an author invite from blogger.
Why would you want to be an author?
- To enter the monthly challenges!
- To post relevant information about etsy and animals.
Saturday, February 02, 2008
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
January: New Craft Challenge
Several EFA members took the January New Craft Challenge. Take a look at their new art below or by doing a tag search on etsy.com for "newcraft".
Saturday, December 01, 2007
Friday, November 02, 2007
Monday, October 01, 2007
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
September Challenge: Back to School
This post has been moved to: http://efaartistshelpinganimals.org/index.php/monthly-challenge/60-september-2007
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Submitting Your Entry
This post has been moved to: http://efaartistshelpinganimals.org/index.php/monthly-challenge/how-to-enter-the-monthly-challenge
