Spook-tacular Halloween Challenge 👻
Spook-tacular Halloween Challenge 👻
The winners have been chosen! Thank you for participating and making this challenge a howling success.
Read MoreHere's a quick recap of the rules:
- Share before and after photos (and photos along the way are great too!)
- Use at least one Rust-Oleum product
- Submit your finished project by October 31st!
Goblins and ghouls and ghosts... oh my! This challenge is for those of you who are passionate about All Hallows' Eve... and are planning on going all out in decorating for it! 🎃
Create something boo-tiful or spook-tacular to welcome the trick-or-treaters to your home. Your finished project can be anything you like - a yard full of decorations, a fa-boo-lous front porch or a decor piece that delights.
So much fun to be had...
Inspiration
Need a little inspiration to get you started? Check out the Rust-Oleum website for some fabulous DIY ideas, and our "History of Halloween" blog for some fun facts and member projects from the past.
Overview
To participate in the challenge, you’ll need to use your DIY skills and at least one Rust-Oleum product to create some impressive Halloween-themed decor. Be sure to take before photos of the items you're using to make your ghostly masterpieces and share the steps of your transformation. Having trouble coming up with ideas? Feel free to drop a note in our Discussion Forums to ask other Creators for their help.
Voting will be a little different with this challenge... instead of the crowd choosing the winners, our esteemed panel of Rust-Oleum experts will be crowning the victors. But don't fret - you will still have the chance to be involved in narrowing down the top submissions! Once the submission phase closes, the community will be in charge of casting votes to decide on who gets to move on to the final expert review! Our team of Rust-Oleum experts will then review the finalists to choose our overall winners! Our experts will judge projects on meeting all criteria, overall creativity, use of Rust-Oleum products, and most impressive finished product.
Categories
We'll be choosing winners in each of the following categories:
- Spookiest Scares: Halloween DIY for those who ain't afraid of no ghosts 👻
- Kid-Friendly Cuteness: Festive boo!s that charm
- Originality Overload: The creepy creativity category
- Experts' Exclusive: A wildcard for our expert panel to award 🂡
Prizes
Winners of each category above will receive a $150 gift card to Amazon.
Plus, anyone who casts a vote during our voting phase will be entered to win a $25 Amazon gift card.
Rules:
- Your project must be completed between September 30th and October 31st, 2022. Projects completed before this date are not eligible.
- You must use at least one Rust-Oleum product in the completion of your project.
- Complete the Challenge submission form before 5:00 PM CST on October 31st, which requires you to:
- Include ‘before’ and ‘after’ photos of your project
- List the Rust-Oleum products you used
- Only one submission allowed per member
- This Challenge operates under the overarching terms and conditions that apply to all Creator's Studio Challenges.
Voting
Once all of the submissions are collected, our Expert Reviewers will evaluate the projects to ensure all rules have been followed and Creator's Studio members will then be given the opportunity to vote for their favorite projects in order to narrow down the submissions to a list of finalists. We'll then pass it over to our Rust-Oleum judging panel to crown the ultimate champions.
FAQs
Here are the answers to some common questions that seem to be common during our Challenges. If you have a question that is not on this list, please send Lisa L a PM or send an email to CreatorsStudioSupport@Chaordix.com
What's the deadline again? There’s nothing like a deadline for motivation, and we recommend that you pay close attention to the deadline of October 31st at 5:00 pm CST to get your project submitted. If you click the 'submit' button even a minute after this, you will be unable to submit, no matter what you do. In the interest of fairness to everyone who submits on time, we can’t extend the deadline for submissions to this challenge beyond this date/time. So we recommend that you leave yourself plenty of time to submit your project in case you need any technical support from our team.
I'm having trouble submitting my project. Please, help! Please don't hesitate to contact our moderator, Lisa L via PM or via our support email address if you need any help. You might also consider working on your submission text in a document until it’s just the way you want it and then copy and paste it into the submission form in Creator’s Studio. (We’ve had a few people whose wifi has cut out or their device crashed mid-submission and they’ve lost all their work and unfortunately, we can’t help with anything that’s not saved as a draft.)
How can I make sure that my project advances to the Crowd Vote phase of the challenge? When our panel of Expert Reviewers creates a shortlist of submissions, we are looking for things like:
- How well you executed your project
- Did you meet all of the criteria / follow the rules?
- Your use of Rust-Oleum products (for example, a project that uses a lot of clear spray paint in a finishing coat is an awesome and totally valid use for our products, but it often doesn’t show as well as other products)
- How much time and effort went into your project
- How unique and creative your project is
- Since we rely heavily on your photos and video to show us what you actually did, the quality of submitted visuals is very important to us. So we recommend that you showcase your project in optimal lighting, with a background that makes the piece pop. Need help with this? Check out this 'How to' blog for tips & tricks!
Sometimes good projects don't get shortlisted for the voting phase because we just can't pick them all! But often projects don't get selected because the provided information wasn't as detailed as it could have been, there weren't very many good visuals of the project, because the amount of Rust-Oleum products used was minimal, or sometimes we just have to narrow it down and we don't want to have 10 different versions of the same type of project in the final shortlist. We know we say it all the time, but it really is difficult to eliminate projects before the voting phase!
Who can vote for my project during the Crowd Vote phase? Anyone who is a Creator's Studio member can vote for your project. It is ok to encourage your friends and family online or in person to vote for you. However, it is not okay to spend an evening at your computer creating multiple fake accounts to vote for yourself (trust us, we know when this is happening and you will be disqualified when you are caught). We also prefer that you don't solicit other Creator's Studio members for votes.