Contest Archive
January 2009 Contest Theme: Inspiration
Theme description: Find something that inspires you- a person, a place, a song, a piece of art, or whatever or whomever might produce that creative spark- and translate it into something crafty!
Winner: aNGrYGiRL Gear
Second Place: TIE!! WickedBadNaughty & gothcupcake
Third Place: deplete
See other entries here!
November 2008 Contest Theme: Embellishment
Theme description: Take something boring, something old, something tiresome, monotonous, and lifeless, and give it some sparkle! You don’t have to literally use sparkles, of course.
Winner: HeadlessTessDIY
Second Place: peach_assassin
Third Place: Indiscretion
See other entries here!
October 2008 Contest Theme: Handcrafted Halloween Costumes
Theme description: DiY Halloween costumes, reconstructed or from scratch!
Winner: Self_Inflicted
Second Place: jessiebear
Third Place: CultureRevolution
See other entries here!
June 2008 Contest Theme: Crafting to Music
Theme description: Pick a song and craft it: you can be as literal or figurative as you want to be. Stencil the lyrics, craft an image from the song (strawberry fields?)… however you want to interpret your song into craft form, do it.
Winner: Stila
Second Place: creaturefeature
Third Place: Danicarose
See other entries here!
January 2008 Contest Theme: In With the New!
Theme description: Try something new! If there’s a craft that you’ve always wanted to learn or a technique you’ve been dying to try, do it now!
Do something you’ve never done before, or something you’re new at. Just learned how to knit? Enter your first scarf! Always wanted to try stenciling? Show us your new skill!
Winner: hmfullen
Second Place: OxyMorbid and Stila
See other entries here!
October 2007 Contest Theme: DiY Halloween Costumes
Theme description: You may post costumes that are reconstructed from other items or made from scratch, but no store bought costumes!!
Winner: purple5262
See other entries here!
September 2007 Contest Theme: Retro Fashion
Theme description: The theme for September’s contest is Retro Fashion. It’s gonna be swell, bitchin’, and possibly tubular. Groovy. Make something inspired by a particular fashion era- reconstruct a vintage dress, use a vintage pattern, etc. You can make clothing or accessories, and use any time period as inspiration that you want.
Winner: Danicarose
2nd Place: fionalecruz
See the other entries here.
July 2007 Contest Theme: anything goes
Theme description: This time around, the only rule is that there are no rules. And that rulez!! The 4th of July is Independence Day (in the US, at least), so in the spirit of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Craftiness, President Smarmy has issued a decree allowing you to exercise your crafty freedom. In other words, any handmade item is eligible.
Winner: Alternative Boutique
2nd Place: icebyrd67
3rd place: Classica
see the other entires here!
June 2007 Contest Theme: animals
Theme description: Any craft relating to animals is allowed- a leopard print dress, a pair of shoes that you’ve stencilled elephants onto, a dog bed, etc.
Winner: sekhmet
2nd Place: icebyrd67
see the other entires here!
May 2007 Contest Theme: movies
Theme description: Any craft that’s movie related is acceptable, whether it’s a reconstructed t-shirt printed with a movie poster, or a decoupaged notebook with your favorite movie quotes, etc.
Winner: AlyssaInWonderland
2nd Place: Fionalecruz & Danicarose
see the other entries here!
April 2007 Contest Theme: bottoms
Theme description: skirts, pants, shorts, bloomers, etc.
Winner: Danicarose
2nd Place: Becca Kae
3rd Place: Imy
see the other entries here!
February 2007 Contest Theme: tutorials
Theme description: Create a tutorial of your own for some sort of craft. You can post drawings or step-by-step photographs, or both.
Winner: pisicandru
see the tutorial for pisicandru’s bookcase here!
2nd Place: OxyMorbid & Nedra
see the other entries here!
To see the winning entries from 2006, click here!
The winner of the January 2009 WhatTheCraft Contest
and the new owner of a shiny new Huskylock 905 Serger/Overlocker machine from Husqvarna Viking is…
Congratulations to WickedBadNaughty and gothcupcake, who tied for second place, and our third place winner, deplete! And one more round of applause for all of the awesome entries this month! You can see more here.
