Amy Butler & decor8 *Contest* Create a Mood Board!

I’m excited to announce the first ever Amy Butler contest here on decor8. Thank you, Amy! Since you all love design, I decided to make this contest more of a fun challenge where you can show off your creativity. Best part, five (5) brand new Amy Butler patterns will be given to 4 winners, valued at $65 USD (exact patterns are shown). And for the men, I’ll award any of our manly winners with a $65 gift certificate from Amazon because I’m sure Amy Butler patterns are NOT on your list of must have items! With that being said, let’s get down to the details!

Using a foam core board, poster board, or other surface that is at least 11″ x 14″ or larger, pull together a mood board. If you want to use a cork board, that’s fine, too. You can work with any materials, fabric, paint, magazine clippings, trim, wallpaper samples, anything. Just get creative and have fun. You are “building” a room you’d love to live in.

Next, pick a mood, a theme, for your board. Here are some ideas: Mid Century, Flea Market Finds, Retro, Paris Apartment, Eco-friendly, Contemporary, Hollywood Regency, Ethnic, etc. Or you can design a board around a color; hot pink, purple, yellow & pink, blue & white, black & white, etc. It can be anything really (including a favorite movie or outfit as your inspiration), as long as it relates to interiors. Show us a room that you’d love to have in your own home. The sky is the limit, there’s no budget, have fun!

The contest is open to both domestic and international readers. I’ll select the finalists and will group them into 2 categories, pros and others. This will keep judging fair. Those that are working in creative fields will be separated from those that aren’t. (I think it would be discouraging to enter if you were not working in a creative field and up against stylists, designers, artists, etc.) So fair is fair. I’ll select my personal favorites and start posting them on decor8 next week. After June 4th {update 5/31: Deadline extended to Monday, June 11th, Midnight EST.}, I’ll post a link to an online survey where you can vote for your favorites. Winners will be announced on Friday, June 8th. {update 5/31: Winners will be announced on Friday, June 15th.}

When you finish your board, please photograph it and send A LINK of that image to me. You can upload it to a Flickr account, Shutterfly, Photobucket, just send me the link to the location so I can find it. Take as many pictures as you’d like of your board, but please, No email attachments. If you send an email attachment, I will not open it and your entry will not be considered, so please send only a link to where your image sits on the web. Along with the link, please include the following information, in this exact order:

Your name:
Your occupation:
Your blog/website:
State/Country:
Theme:
What inspired your board?
Any additional comments you’d like to include:
Image link:

Email to decor8blog {at} yahoo {dot} com

Deadline: Monday, June 4th, Midnight EST. {update 5/31: Deadline extended to Monday, June 11th, Midnight EST.}

(board created by SFGirlByBay)

A few quick “rules”: No nudity. No personal photos of yourself, kids, friends, etc. No inappropriate language if you decide to incorporate text into your board. Boards need to be created solely by you, by hand, in other words, you can’t pull it together using only your computer. One board per person, per entry. This is a hands-on project. I can’t wait to see what you come up with! And to be fair, I’ll even create one of my own and post it just for fun.

Tips: Victoria showed us a few of her boards on Apartment Therapy here and here. You can also view hundreds online here.

Have fun! And thank you Amy for sponsoring this contest!

(images from sfgirlbybay, amy butler, and me)

17 Responses to “Amy Butler & decor8 Contest Create a Mood Board!”

1 Another Shade of Grey commented:
May 24th, 2007 at 4:12 pm

Oh! I hope I have time to play. :)
2 lorenzstudio commented:
May 24th, 2007 at 4:26 pm

Oh, I have a million ideas running around in my head already! I can’t wait to get started!!
3 Christine commented:
May 24th, 2007 at 6:00 pm

What a fantastic contest- I definitely want to have a go!
4 Eve commented:
May 24th, 2007 at 11:16 pm

Do we have to create an entire room on the poster board or just the things we love or would like to see in that room? In short does it have to look like a room with perfect placement or just the objects that interest us??

Eve
5 decor8 commented:
May 25th, 2007 at 12:16 am

Eve – There are no rules when it comes to your design or how far you want to take it. Have fun, stretch your creative wings, and go for what’s in your gut.

One room
One theme
One board
Hands on
Have fun!
6 Aimee commented:
May 25th, 2007 at 12:20 am

Oh how cool! I am doing an Amy Butler contest on my blog too, only it’s for the In Stitches book.

The patterns look amazing. And what a fun way to give them away too.
7 sfgirlbybay commented:
May 25th, 2007 at 3:05 am

cool contest holly! and i love amy butler, so cudos on an excellent sponsor, with excellent prizes!

i can’t wait to see the submissions…and thanks for using my AT boards as food for thought. :)
8 Annie commented:
May 25th, 2007 at 5:51 pm

Now this is a homework assignment I can enjoy. I can’t wait to see what everyone else comes up with.
9 Melanie commented:
May 26th, 2007 at 5:09 am

Wow! What a great idea. I so need to do this anyway for some room projects in my near future. I have posted about on one of my blogs cuz I know lots of people that go there wouldn’t want to miss out on the fun.
10 monica commented:
May 29th, 2007 at 4:23 pm

very cool, very fun contest!
on a side note i love reading your blog and thought you might dig this photo set on flickr (i am in no way affiliated with the poster of it- just thought it was cool and i’d share it with you since you share all of your cool images with us)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/67723735@N00/sets/72157600230692230/
11 corinna commented:
May 31st, 2007 at 11:10 am

does one only have to create the board, or must it be filled with papers etc.???
thanks!!!
corinna (germany – my english isn’t that good…)
12 kimberly sherrod commented:
June 1st, 2007 at 1:39 am

oh- I am in! I just finished painting a board that I am going to use!!! Yippee! Thank you for the awesome fun challenge!
13 laissezfaire commented:
June 1st, 2007 at 5:48 pm

What a wonderful contest!! Can’t wait to see the entries!
14 Zabrina commented:
June 9th, 2007 at 1:23 am

Oh my Gosh! This is so cool. I love the idea, it makes me remember the school time when I used to decorate the boards!!! But…I am always late and June 11 is too close! I don’t know if I will have time. I will try to participate on this too!!!
15 Anonymous commented:
June 14th, 2007 at 5:56 pm

how do i make mood board on this website
thank you
audrey maloney
audrey_maloney51@hotmail.com
but i have no Google Account but i have a Blogger.
16 bathroom interior designs commented:
January 16th, 2008 at 2:18 pm

great inspiration, this contest sure brings a lot of new ideas.
17 Vegetable Gardening commented:
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:21 am

Very lovely photos. I really enjoyed your post

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