[FINISHED] Craft Challenge #43 - Drinking Straw Makeover - Due Oct 1 - Oct 5 09

[sweets4ever]

Craft Challenge #43 - Drinking Straw Makeover - Due Oct 1 - Oct 5 2009

10/13/09 - Winner chosen!

Congrats to ohiodiygirl for her entry titled, Rainbow Brite in Straws!
Read all about her project here:  http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=323238.0



Check out the blog featuring a few of the other entries as well!  http://www.craftster.org/blog/?p=4961

10/06/09 - Time to vote!  Scroll up for the poll...
Browse all the challenge entries here:
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?board=431.0

10/01/09 - The entry board is open!  http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?board=431.0

Do you have a bundle of drinking straws tucked away in the back of a kitchen drawer?  Maybe you have just one lonesome straw leftover from a fast food adventure or juice box.  Whatever the case, your challenge this month is to craft one or more drinking straws into a fabulous and perhaps unexpected project.

A quick glance through the drinking straw tag might yield a little inspiration for you!  Oh, and look at these gems found via Google:  pendant lamp, flower stems, flexible lamp, lapel pin, jewelry, bird carving and mobiles.

Feel free to use traditional craft supplies glue, thread, etc. and even additional components in the project, but be sure to somehow feature the drinking straw(s).

Rules:

• Post your craft during the period of Oct 1 - Oct 5 2009. No sooner.  No later.  On Oct 1 there will be a special folder created for entries.
• Voting will happen from Oct 6 - Oct 12 2009.
• Each participant can enter ONE project (Although your entry can have multiple components to it).

Originality:

It's probably impossible to know whether your project is 100% original and has never been posted on Craftster or made by anyone else in the past.  But if your project was definitely inspired by something you've seen before, then just give credit to that project.

Prizes:

At the end, I'll set up a poll right here and the first place winner will get...

(1) their project in the Featured Projects area
(2) their project in the Craftster Blog

And this prize (winner can receive prize in U.S. or non-U.S.):

Any one item from one of Craftster's online shops!


http://www.shop.craftster.org


http://www.spreadshirt.com/shop.php?sid=70592


http://www.cafepress.com/craftster

[Im Sew Silly]

humm, this sounds Interesting! lol.
So, do they have to  be the standard plastic with the stripe drinking straws, or can they be the crazy loopy swirly ones too? lol

[sweets4ever]

humm, this sounds Interesting! lol.
So, do they have to  be the standard plastic with the stripe drinking straws, or can they be the crazy loopy swirly ones too? lol

!  Any size, any design.  We couldn't deny the crazy loopy swirly ones!  They are too fun.

[Redux Fashions]

This one is gonna take some thinkin'.

[Im Sew Silly]

humm, this sounds Interesting! lol.
So, do they have to  be the standard plastic with the stripe drinking straws, or can they be the crazy loopy swirly ones too? lol

!  Any size, any design.  We couldn't deny the crazy loopy swirly ones!  They are too fun.

oh yay! I just love the crazy straws...they leave so much room for fun no matter what..hehe, we were using one this morning actually and that is why i thought to ask!...it was purple

[jojo_modjo]

Yay!! I've got an awesome idea... it just depends on whether I can find the right coloured straws for the right price!!

[atsuko]

Yay!  I might give this one a go.  I have a bunch of straws that I used to make paper leis for Lana's 1st Bday and since then they've been sitting there.  Time to think.  I just love these challenges!!!

[sugarglass]

i am partially done mine..!
it'll turn out nice..

i'm so giddy, my photography posts got more than 100 views. each!

[sugarglass]

i've gone through 7 ideas and all failed, me sad..

[Chel02]

can we use as many as we want to use? cause i have the best idea