Alluminare Custom Wallpaper Giveaway
What would you do with 20 square feet of custom, design-it-yourself wallpaper? Would you cover the back of a bookcase to add some zip to a room? Create one-of-a-kind picture frames, storage boxes or planters?
Here’s your chance to put your creativity to the test and turn your idea into reality. The prize? A gift certificate from Alluminare good towards that 20 square feet of custom wallpaper. Plus a Design Hole T-shirt. Yay!
Only three simple steps to enter!
1. Come up with your best idea for a handmade item or crafty application using a 4 foot x 5 foot piece of wallpaper. You can cut it, tear it, soak it – whatever. Just be creative.
2. Scoot over to Alluminare, and design your favorite wallpaper. They’ve got lots of patterns, up to 4 colors on one design, and 4 sizes to choose from. Copy the URL with your design.
3. Hop back here and leave your idea under “comments”, along with the URL link showing your design.
The winning idea will be announced on Tuesday morning, September 29th.
The contest is open to everyone living in the contiguous United States, plus Hawaii, as long as you haven’t won a prize in the last 6 months. Even Martha Stewart can enter.
8 Responses to “Alluminare Custom Wallpaper Giveaway”
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Posted by Heidi on September 23rd, 2009 at 5:17 pm
I would make little carry cases for all my art equipment and cover it with this wallpaper and use offcuts as images to frame.
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Posted by Libby Unwin on September 24th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
I would:
1. Buy a bunch of 2×2.
2. Cut a bunch of 1′ pieces and miter (45d) the ends.
3. Create 9 – 1′ frames and spray paint them black.
4. Carefully cut out 1′x1′ squares of wallpaper/fabric, ideally not needing to trim and break the pattern.
5. Tack them to the fronts of the frames (and only the fronts, no wrap-around).
6. Arrange the 9 frames into a 3×3 grid and secure them together (temporarily, carefully).
7. Find a simple, graphic design and paint it in white across all the pieces.
8. Separate the pieces, affix to the wall in the same grid order, but about 1-2″ apart on all sides.
* You could do this in any arrangement. A cool option would be to have several squares in a row, vertically or horizontally, and a long, skinny graphic across them. Perhaps use the same pattern in border form…at an angle, maybe…endless possibilities. Even vector family portraits, Lichtenstein-style, if you’re particularly artistic (that would be rad).I would use a tone-on-tone, dark, small-ish pattern, so the white would pop off the squares:
http://www.alluminare.com/wallpaper.asp?src=fave1&sku=R124-239;P;c84;6;29;93;124;800-9700-9700-14-nonex0-nonex0-0000-0-0Regards,
Libby Unwin
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Posted by rikrak on September 25th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
oh my HEAVENS this is so much fun!
great contest!
i’m actually in canada… but wanted to participate, even if i can’t win (darn!) :)that is the funnest site ever!
with my wallpaper i’d
frame some for lovely art.
we have a collection of special fabrics & papers framed in our home.
is there anything more divine than gorgeous geometric wallpaper?thanks so much!
k.
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Posted by Candied Fabrics on September 25th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
Ooh! So much fun! I’d love to cover some storage boxes with this, to make my storage look like art!
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Posted by Amy T on September 27th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
I always love custom design sites!! So much fun :)
I just got a new furniture piece for my living room and I have been searching for some wallpaper to line the back of it with – I wanted to paint it a smokey blue color, and I think this pattern would be the perfect surprise accent when you open the doors!
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Posted by Jennifer on September 27th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Really great idea. I like this idea a lot. It would work in kitchen cabinets, or any glass front cabinet door.
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Posted by Last day to enter the Wallpaper Crafty Contest! | Design Hole Online on September 28th, 2009 at 7:31 am
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