July's contest celebrates the creative nutjob in all of us, the liberating thrill of embracing your maladaptive tendencies and metaphorically letting it all hang out.
The objective of July's contest is to create the most laugh-inducing listing on Etsy. Your photos, props, item/s, description, tags, title, price, shipping, materials, and whatever else you can tamper with in a listing are all viable means of increasing the laugh factor. You will be judged on the entire listing, not just the item itself.
The Rules:
1. Create an item you think is worthy for this contest.2. As you are creating the item, take a picture some time between the beginning steps and the finished product of the item with some part of your body visible in the picture and a hand-written version of the "WTF!?" logo on something near the item (a Post-it, a piece of toilet paper, your hand, a baseball, your shirt, a chop stick, etc.)
3. List the item on Etsy in your shop. Add "craftghanistan" as one of your item tags.
4. Email me at wtfetsy@gmail.com or convo me on Etsy with your item link. Attach the photo you took of your partially-completed item. DO NOT post your entry in the comments box below this post (however, feel free to leave non-entry comments liberally).
5. I will post the new listings to this site several times per day as entries pour in. You may enter once per day until the close of the contest, Monday July 26th.
6. There will be two prizes and two forms of judging. I will assemble a panel of judges and observe their laugh reactions to determine whose overall listing was the most laugh-inducing. These judges will vary in age, gender, education level, etc. and will have very little in common other than the fact that they are not Etsy sellers. The second prize will be judged in the traditional WTF fashion via poll, in which participants and fans are free to stack the vote. The same entry can win twice.
Forbidden items:
1. Do not use anything unsanitary or unethically disgusting in your item, including anything from a dead animal (or a live one), bodily fluids, images of Bill O'Reilly, etc.2. Do not use anything that may be culturally or racially offensive. If you can't think of anything funny which doesn't fall under one of those categories, then you have already lost at the contest of life and your entry is not necessary.
3. Do not use officially licensed, trademarked, or copywritten images or logos. I hereby grant permission to use the official WTF!? logo should you desire.
The Prizes:
1. The first winner will receive one month of free ad space on WTF Etsy.2. The second winner will be featured on WTF's featured seller hall of fame.
Questions and Answers:
1. What if I sell my item?A: Congratulations, you have just discovered that you are not the only crazy person in the world. The listing will still be visible even if the item has sold. You may want to list the price in the description if it is relevant to the comedic value of your listing. I will issue you an official WTF award certificate for your accomplishment.
2. WhereTF is Craftghanistan? WhyTF is this contest named after it?
A: Honestly, when I titled this post it made sense to me. Now, I can't figure it out.
Leave any additional questions in the comment box below.
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Entry 1 from HennesseyHandbags
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Entry 2 from KelliGBarnettDesigns
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Entry 3 from Jinglebat
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Entry 4 from FreshUrbanVintage
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Entry 5 from RogueMagnolia
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