"Love Birds...Put a Bird on it for Valentine's Day" Wins the January Week 2 Treasury Challenge!

Love Birds...Put a Bird on it for Valentine's Day by MollysMuses

Last week's Treasury Tree Challenge winner is a beautiful bird-filled collection titled "Love Birds...Put a Bird on it for Valentine's Day" by Molly of MollysMuses, picked by our previous winner Tera from CreativityisMessy. 

Stay tuned for more Treasury Tree goodness this month! 

Treasury Tree Challenge! (November Week 3)

NOTE: Comments are now closed, and due to a very busy week on your blog admin's calendar, we will be announcing the winner on Monday, November 26th!  Our next challenge may be a week or two away, as I am very busy with an impending birth!  Stay tuned for more great things from The Treasury Tree! ;)

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Welcome to another installment of the Treasury Tree Challenge- a fun competition to inspire us all to create awesome treasuries and discover great new shops! 

Anyone with an Etsy account and the desire to curate can enter! 

This week's featured item is from Melanie and Valerie of ClassicByNature: 

Wooden Hoop Christmas Tree Ornaments(set of two) by ClassicByNature

Here are the rules: 

1) Use this item in your treasury. You treasury can have any theme you like as long as it includes this item. 

2) This item MUST be placed within the first three rows of your treasury. 

3) In addition to the featured item you must include at least four Tree Team members within your treasury, placed within the top three rows. Here's a list of current members. 

Tip: All of the Treasury Tree members' items can be found by clicking here and searching the team's items by key word. 

4) Tag your treasury with "treeteamchallenge". For your remaining tags, try to come up with relevant and diverse key words. Try to pay attention to what's trending on Etsy and around the web! 

5) Use the phrase "Tree Challenge" in your title (you can just stick it at the end in parentheses if you want). 

6) In the description section of your treasury you MUST include the url for this blog post. 

7) IMPORTANT: Return here and post a link to your treasury as a comment to this blog post. Entries will only count if they've been posted on the blog! 

Note: 
-You can make as many Tree Challenge treasuries as you want. 
-You are not required to be a Tree Team member in order to participate in (or win!) these challenges. 
-Participants are allowed to win more than once, but are not eligible if they have just won a challenge or are currently the featured item. 
-If any of the guidelines above are forgotten your treasury could be disqualified from the challenge. (boo!) 

You have until 12 noon (EST) on Tuesday, November 20th to create your treasury or treasuries. The winner will be announced within 24 hours after the challenge ends. The winner will be selected by the featured item seller. Some guidelines for selection include the number of views and favorites they receive, but overall discretion is up to that week's judge. If your treasury is the winner you will be notified as soon as possible, and we'll give you the chance to select one of the items from your shop to be featured in the next challenge. If you do not have an Etsy shop we'll ask you to nominate an item from the winning treasury to begin the next challenge. 

Good luck and have fun!

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We Have an October Giveaway #2 Winner!

Congrats to Miss Wendy (comment number 11) on winning October's second giveaway! Yahoo!

She won the beautiful headband from Jill of BeSomethingNew, and has been notified by email. Stay tuned for another great giveaway coming up next week!

Thanks so much to all who entered!

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We have an October Giveaway #1 Winner!

Congrats to Leslie R. (comment number 15) on winning October's first giveaway! Yay!

She won the beautiful Autumn photography prints from Molly of MollysMuses, and has been notified by email.

Stay tuned for another great giveaway next week!

Thanks so much to all who entered!

<3

September Giveaway: Lavender Fields Polka Dot Earrings

Polka Dot Earrings-Lavender Fields by BobbiLewin

Welcome to the September Treasury Tree giveaway! Each month we give away some Etsy treasure to one lucky blog reader. 

 This month we're giving away a lovely pair of crochet earrings made by Bobbi Lewin. These pastel lavender polka dot earrings were crocheted in the woods using fine cotton thread and a tiny steel hook. Each 1 inch circle dangles from a surgical steel ear wire. 

 Bobbi is a mixed media and fiber artist who comes from a long line of needleworkers. Her pieces are beautifully intricate, lovingly crafted, and inspired by her daily life. 

 If you want to win these earrings all you need to do is visit BobbiLewin's Etsy shop, then come back to the blog and leave a comment saying which item from the shop you like best. If you tweet, Facebook, blog or post on any other social media about the giveaway, you can leave additional comments saying you have done so. Every comment on this blog entry counts as one entry into the draw. 

 So get over to BobbiLewin and find some treasure! 

 Good Luck! 

 The Rules:

 - Anyone can enter, from anywhere in the world, except for Treasury Tree team leaders and captains. 
- Every comment on this blog entry counts as an entry into the draw. However, any comment which is not an entry as described above will be removed. 
- The giveaway ends at noon PST on Sunday September 23rd. 
- One winner will be picked using a random number generator and announced on Monday September 24th. 
 - Please make sure that we can contact you in some way from your comment. 
- The prize is the Lavender Polka Dot Crochet Earrings made by BobbiLewin shown in the photo above, it will be shipped to the winner by USPS.

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Treasury Tree Challenge! (September Week 1)

Welcome to another installment of the Treasury Tree Challenge-a fun competition to inspire us all to create awesome treasuries and discover great new shops!

Anyone with an Etsy account and the desire to curate can enter!

This week's featured item is from Hope Von Stengel of Blackbird & Peacock:

8 Bit Ghost Journal in Red Moleskine by Blackbird & Peacock

Here are the rules:

1) Use this item in your treasury. You treasury can have any theme you like as long as it includes this item. 

2) This item MUST be placed within the first three rows of your treasury.

3) In addition to the featured item you must include at least four Tree Team members within your treasury, placed within the top three rows.  Here's a list of current members. 

Tip:  All of the Treasury Tree members' items can be found by clicking here and searching the team's items by key word. 

4) Tag your treasury with "treeteamchallenge".  For your remaining tags, try to come up with relevant and diverse key words.  Try to pay attention to what's trending on Etsy and around the web!

5) Use the phrase "Tree Challenge" in your title (you can just stick it at the end in parentheses if you want).

6) In the description section of your treasury you MUST include the url for this blog post.

7) IMPORTANT:  Return here and post a link to your treasury as a comment to this blog post.  Entries will only count if they've been posted on the blog!

Note:  

-You can make as many Tree Challenge treasuries as you want.

-You are not required to be a Tree Team member in order to participate in (or win!) these challenges. 

-Participants are allowed to win more than once, but are not eligible if they have just won a challenge or are currently the featured item.

-If any of the guidelines above are forgotten your treasury could be disqualified from the challenge. (boo!)

You have until 12 noon (EST) on Tuesday, September 11 to create your treasury or treasuries. The winner will be announced that day! The winner will be selected by the featured item seller. Some guidelines for selection include the number of views and favorites they receive, but overall discretion is up to that week's judge.

If your treasury is the winner you will be notified as soon as possible, and we'll give you the chance to select one of the items from your shop to be featured in the next challenge. If you do not have an Etsy shop we'll ask you to nominate an item from the winning treasury to begin the next challenge. 

Good luck and have fun!

<3

My House is So Retro Wins the August Week 4 Treasury Challenge!

My House is So Retro... by Hope of BlackbirdandPeacock

This week's Treasury Tree Challenge winner is a fabulously retro vintage-themed treasury titled "My House is So Retro..." by Hope Von Stengel of the fabulous shop Blackbird and Peacock.

Melanie and Valerie of ClassicbyNature chose this treasury because of its great views and vintage feel.  

Keep your eyes open for the next Treasury Tree Challenge to be posted asap!

Hope your Labor Day weekend rocked!

-Kerri <3

Treasury Tree Challenge (August Week 4)

Welcome to the Treasury Tree Challenge-a fun competition to inspire us all to make fabulous curations!  

Anyone with an Etsy account and the desire to make a treasury can enter!

The item from this week's challenge is from Melanie and Valerie of ClassicByNature:

Camera Photo Pillow Case- Red Vintage Camera by ClassicByNature

Here are the rules:

1) Use this item in your treasury. Your treasury can have any theme you like as long as it includes this item.

2) This item MUST be placed within the first three rows of your treasury. 

3) In addition to the featured item you must include at least four Tree Team members within your treasury, placed within the top three rows.  Here's a list of members.

Tip:  All of the Treasury Tree members' items can be found by clicking here and searching the team's items by key word. 

4) Tag your treasury with "treeteamchallenge". For your remaining tags, try to come up with relevant and diverse key words.  Using Etsy's current monthly merchandising guide as a reference can help!

5) Use the phrase "Tree Challenge" in your title (you can just stick it at the end in parentheses if you want).

6) In the description section of your treasury you MUST include the url for this blog post.

7) IMPORTANT: Return here and post a link to your treasury as a comment to this blog post.  Entries will only count if they've been posted on the blog!

Note: 

-You can make as many Tree Challenge treasuries as you want.

-You are not required to be a Tree Team member in order to participate in (or win!) these challenges.

-Participants are allowed to win more than once.

-If any of the seven guidelines above are forgotten your treasury could be disqualified from this challenge. (boo!)

You have until 12 noon (EST) on Tuesday, September 2nd to create your treasury or treasuries.  The winner will be announced that day! The winner will be selected by the featured item seller. Some guidelines for selection include the number of views and favorites they receive, but overall discretion is up to that week's judge.

If your treasury is the winner you will be notified as soon as possible, and we'll give you the chance to select one of the items from your shop to be featured in our next challenge. If you do not have an Etsy shop we'll ask you to nominate an item from the winning treasury to begin the next challenge.  

Good luck and have fun!

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