Trash to Treasure Challenge
Trash to Treasure Challenge
The winner has been chosen! Thank you to all who participated in making this challenge a success 🌟
Read MoreWelcome to the Trash to Treasure Challenge!
Overview
This challenge is focused on transforming an item that some may see as trash into your very own treasure. 🌟
Wondering where to find an item for your project? Yard sales are a great place to start! Rust-Oleum is proud to be the official spray paint of yard sales and summer! With five different spray patterns in one can, our Custom Spray 5-in-1 is the perfect product for yard sale goers, empowering users to tackle both large surfaces and detailed areas with ease.
This year, we're sponsoring the 127 Yard Sale , the World’s Longest Yard Sale , an annual event that's happening August 1st - 4th. Spanning nearly 700 miles across six states (Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama), this unique event draws hundreds of thousands of shoppers and vendors from all over the country.... check it out if you happen to be nearby any of the locations! Otherwise, check out local sales in your area.
To participate, your original "trash" item can be:
- A purchased item from a yard sale/garage sale/thrift store/flea market etc. OR
- An item that has been hiding in a storage unit/shed/garage etc. that hasn't been touched in a while
Regardless of how you source your item, it must be valued at about $50 or less.
To participate in the challenge, you’ll need to use your DIY skills to refresh and renew your item... the bigger the transformation, the better! Let's roll up our sleeves, unleash our creativity, and breathe new life into these dusty old items!
Multiple photos of your project are required for your submission:
- A 'before' photo showing your piece prior to any work being done
- 'In progress' photos as you're working on your project
- An 'after' photo showing the final product
- We recommend placing this photo first so that it's the one highlighted in the thumbnail of your submission
Once the submission phase closes, we'll put all the qualified entries out for a community vote to narrow down our finalists. Our team of Rust-Oleum experts will then review the finalists to choose a winner! Our experts will judge projects on overall creativity, use of Rust-Oleum products, and most impressive transformation.
Prizing
One winner will be chosen to receive a $50 gift card + Rust-Oleum product + some swag!
Rules:
- Find one item valued at $50 or less (either something you currently have that can be upcycled or an item purchased at a yard sale, garage sale, thrift store, flea market etc.). See the above "Overview" section for more details.
- Your item must be purchased and/or refreshed/renewed between July 17th – August 19th, 2024. Projects completed prior to this date are not eligible.
- You must use at least one Rust-Oleum product in your project... Custom Spray 5-in-1 is a great choice!
- Complete the Trash to Treasure submission form before 5:00 PM CST on August 19th, which requires you to:
- Include ‘before’, 'in-progress' and ‘after’ photos of your project
- List the Rust-Oleum products used
- Only one submission per person is permitted . Members submitting more than one project will be contacted to choose which submission remains in the challenge. If no response is received, the first entry is the one that will remain in the Challenge.
- This Challenge operates under the overarching terms and conditions that apply to all Rusto Garage Challenges.
Voting
Once all of the submissions are collected, our Expert Reviewers will evaluate the projects to ensure all rules have been followed and Rusto Garage 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 panel of judges to crown the winner.
Rust-Oleum Inspiration
Looking for inspiration? Check out this blog that highlights impressive Trash to Treasure submissions from years past in our Creator's Studio community!
FAQs
Here are the answers to some common questions that you may have. If you have a question that is not on this list, please send Lisa L a PM or send an email to rustogaragesupport@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 August 19th 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 Rusto Garage. (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 and followed the rules that have been outlined
- 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 - think truly transforming an item into something that will really 'wow'
- 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!
Who can vote for my project during the Crowd Vote phase? Anyone who is a Rusto Garage 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 Rusto Garage members for votes.