- Note: All winners are kindly asked to send me your snail mail and e-mail addresses to my email available at the bottom of this page. Your prizes will be dispatched to your addresses this week.
- All submissions can be seen on our Facebook Fan Page
Guys,
Before I announce the winners of the competition, I want to make one thing clear: ALL OF THE WORKS WERE AWESOME!!!!
You guys gave me such a hard time with your submissions … I will never forgive you for that ;)
Had to go through all of 116 banner submissions, one by one, shortlist, then the shortlist was too big, cannot have 50 shortlisted works, then I had to go through that again …
Anyways, thank you all for submitting your work, thank you for your effort – I appreciate it very much!
I hope you had fun creating and to all of you who voted and commented on Facebook, thank you too – it helped me a lot during the selection.
So, the competition was so strong, that I just could not select only seven submissions and leave it there. Therefore, I decided to introduce one more category for those works that did not make it to the top 7 but were very very close and if I had more sponsors those would certainly be rewarded with prizes. So, there are 14 more works with HONORABLE MENTION!
One more thing, some of the winners who submitted more than one work probably deserved more than one prize with your works, but, I had only 7 prizes to give away and hope you will agree with me, I had to give only one prize per author.
OK. Enough talking now.
Ladies and gentleman, it is a special privilege for me tonight and a great honor, to introduce you to
The Winners of the first Graphics-Illustrations Graphic Design Competition – GI 2009
We will start from the 7th place and move on to the 1st place:
7th Place
Header submission:
Name of the author: Jill
Prize: NATURE’S SONG, BARE RUBBER (Rubber stamp)
6th Place
Header submission:
Name of the author: Iyan Ardian
Prize: PANDA HUGS – BARE RUBBER (Rubber stamp)
5th Place
Header submission:
Name of the author: Jessica Weible
Prize: SWIRLIE BUDS – BARE RUBBER (Rubber stamp)
4th Place
Header submission:
Name of the author: Rikke Løvring Hillestrøm
Prize: SWIRLIE TREE – BARE RUBBER (Rubber stamp)
3rd Place
Header submission:
Name of the author: Vivayne – vivayne.com
Prize: Graphics-Illustrations.Com Mug + Surprise gift from Graphics-Illustrations.Com
2nd Place
Header submission:
Name of the author: Sama Taqi
Prize: Graphics-Illustrations.Com Grocery Tote Bag + One PREMIUM Background Pack (any – up to $3.99)
1st Place
Header submission:
Name of the author: Norma Kennedy
Prize: Graphics-Illustrations.Com T-Shirt + One PREMIUM Photoshop Brushes set (any – up to $9.99)
Honorable mention:
Header submission:
Name of the author: Sama Taqi
Header submission:
Name of the author: Jennifer
Header submission:
Name of the author: Ashley Murray
Header submission:
Name of the author: Lynn
Header submission:
Name of the author: Shane Shoemaker
Header submission:
Name of the author: Jami Mullett Bova
Header submission:
Name of the author: Tangie Pounds Evans
Header submission:
Name of the author: Rikke Løvring Hillestrøm
Header submission:
Name of the author: Rikke Løvring Hillestrøm
Header submission:
Name of the author: Rikke Løvring Hillestrøm
Header submission:
Name of the author: Rachel L.
Header submission:
Name of the author: Chantelle Venter
Header submission:
Name of the author: Chantelle Venter
Header submission:
Name of the author: Chantelle Venter
All winners are kindly asked to send me your snail mail and e-mail addresses to my email available at the bottom of this page. Your prizes will be dispatched to your addresses this week. Also, if you have a web site, send your web address too. I am sure that our visitors would love to see more of your work.
Thank you all, once again, it was a great pleasure to organize this competition! I hope I will be able to organize one more competition soon and would like to use this opportunity to invite potential sponsors to help me out with the prizes. Once again, BIG THANKS goes to our sponsor Katie Cotton (Katie Cotton blog). Katie creates paper makup stamps and here is the link to her Paper Makup Stamps Blog ->
What can I say? It was fun! It was a great experience! There was a total of 116 submissions which were seen by thousands of graphic design enthusiasts, professionals and amateurs alike and I think it is a great success for all of us!
Love you all and never forget: Have fun creating!
Silvia
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Guys,
I am so grateful for today! Received so many good news (business wise and life wise), sales are going well (more and more people see how they can benefit from my products), there are more enrollments for the competition than I ever hoped for, the weather is perfect, after two years of writing and creating content for this blog I made a lot of new friends who I love and respect. Last but not the least, we have a new cat arrival (Peacco, 7 weeks old) and everything is just so perfect that I had to share it with you.
I hope you are having a great one too. If not, I suggest you start creating something (do some designs in Photoshop, could be something for the Competition). It might be a little difficult in the beginning, but if you are persistant, in the end, your effort will be rewarded and you will feel good :) Guaranteed!
Oh, before I forget, some of you asked me about the prizes for the Graphics-Illustrations 2009 Competition.
So, there are 7 prizes all together for 7 best designers.
1st Place:
Graphics-Illustrations.Com T-Shirt + One PREMIUM Photoshop Brushes set (up to $9.99)
2nd Place:
Graphics-Illustrations.Com Grocery Tote Bag + One PREMIUM Background Pack (up to $3.99)
3rd Place:
Graphics-Illustrations.Com Mug + Surprise gift from Graphics-Illustrations.Com
4th Place:
SWIRLIE TREE – BARE RUBBER (Rubber stamp)
5th Place:
SWIRLIE BUDS – BARE RUBBER (Rubber stamp)
6th Place:
PANDA HUGS – BARE RUBBER (Rubber stamp)
7th Place:
NATURE’S SONG, BARE RUBBER (Rubber stamp)
So, these are the prizes and a reminder: to enroll the Competition download these blog headers:
Give them you special “touch” and finish them up.
Then send your work to my email or submit to Graphics-Illustrations.Com Fan Page.
Wait until 12th July when the winners will be announced.
That’s it for today!
Love ya all, have fun creating!
P.S.
Of course, if you are serious about graphic design or scrapbooking I just cannot recommend my products page enough :)
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Gang,
Believe it or not, we just got our first Graphics-Illustrations.Com Competition Sponsor!
Her name is Katie Cotton (Katie Cotton blog) and she creates paper makup stamps and here is the Paper Makup Stamps Blog ->
So, I recommend you visit her site and find out more about Katie and her business (I must say I was impressed.)
Katie kindly offered to give away four Stamp Sets from her shop:
1. SWIRLIE TREE – BARE RUBBER
2. SWIRLIE BUDS – BARE RUBBER
3. PANDA HUGS – BARE RUBBER
4. NATURE’S SONG, BARE RUBBER
I think these prizes are great examples of creative Photoshop Brushes usage. You will see that some of them are made with a little help of my Photoshop brushes and I’m really really, happy about it (blink-blink :)).
So, thank you Katie, once again for your contribution. You are really kind and I am so happy to have you as a sponsor in our competition.
Now we have a total of 7 prizes to give away, which means that at least 7 of participants will be the winners in our competition.
For the rest of you, there is still enough time.
Competition ends on 12th of July, so you have plenty of time to create a blog header using these templates and send them over to my email (find it here) or post it to Graphics-Illustrations.Com Facebook Page.
Here are the headers (please make sure not to resize them):
Find out more about Graphics-Illustrations.Com 2009 Competition PRIZES ->
So, that’s, more or less, it for today’s post. I just love bringing good news and this one was good news. You guys keep on having fun, create and create more and I wish you best of luck in the Competition!
Hugs,
Silvia
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