Upcycling Contest

Contest Judges

•Heidi Borchers, EcoArtist/Author/TV Host
•Blerona Kaja, M&J Trimming Blogger
•Marisa Lynch, Refashioner/Blogger
•Judy Coates Perez, Mixed Media Textile Artist
•Kelly Rand, Editor of “Crafting A Green World” blog
•Kristen Turner, DIY Fashion Blogger

Freedom in Selection Gives Freedom in Design

With imported ribbons from France, laces from Switzerland, buttons from Italy and Austrian Swarovski crystals, available online or in our 5,000-sq.-ft. showroom in New York, no wonder our favorite customers call us the Candyland of Trims. With such a huge selection, your design possibilities are endless.

1. Share Your Creativity
The first Rit Creative Challenge is themed around UPCYCLING, which we define as:

Laying hands on potential throwaways and
breathing new life, quality and value into the result.

All you need to do is upload a do-it-yourself upcycling project to the community — a project that showcases some creative way you transformed a potential disposable to make it cool and new and useful, with at least the partial help of Rit Dye. Share “before” and “after” pictures of the project, the steps you took along the way, and the Rit Dye colors you used.

Indicate that you want your project to be entered in the contest, confirm that you’re at least 18 years of age, and you’re entered. Simple.

Share as many examples as you wish with the community: your fabulous fashions, your brilliant crafts, your crafty brilliance. If our panel of judges finds a project of yours is truly inspired — based on originality, creativity, and color sensibility — you could win $250 worth of DIY supplies. Not to mention some well-deserved exposure within the community and on our site.

(A tip: take inspiration from the Color Stories section of our blog, where Team Rit points you to online dye ideas from creative colorists across the globe.)

Ready to roll up your sleeves?

2. Join The Community
The Rit Color Community is open to anyone interested in joining. We make colorful things with our hands, and we often share those things online at RitDye.com — in hopes of inspiring other folks to do the same.


3. Win Some Booty
There will be 3 winners of 3 equal prize packages, each worth a total of $250:

• a $100 gift certificate from our friends at M+J Trimming
• a one-year subscription to Martha Stewart Living magazine
• a one-year subscription to Create and Decorate magazine
• the entire range of liquid Rit Dyes (one bottle of each color)
• two white cotton scarves, ready to be dyed to your whims

So, what’s to stop our judges from giving you the kudos you deserve? Only a senseless reluctance to join and enter.

NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A purchase will not increase your chances of winning. Open to individual, legal residents of the 50 US/DC excluding residents of the states of AZ, MD, TN VT & NJ, 18 & older. Contest begins 12:00:01 AM (EDT) on 12/6/10 and ends 11:59:59 PM (EST) on 1/28/11. For Official Rules, click here. Void where prohibited. Sponsored by: Phoenix Brands, One Landmark Square, Stamford, CT 06901.