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Winners and Banners - Challenge 123 - Book Cover Art

2012-09-12T23:02:42Z

I thought the voting was pretty tough for this challenge. Such a great set of icons. However, we have some winners so let's see who they are. I've also made banners which you can find at the end of the entry.

Winners and Banners - Challenge 123 - Book Cover Art

1st Place

Icon by fire_sister

2nd Place Tie

Icon by seleneheart

2nd Place Tie

Icon by fire_sister

3rd Place

Icon by seleneheart

Best Coloring

Icon by seleneheart

Best Cropping

Icon by justlook3

Mod's Choice

Icon by michira_70

Voting Results
Place Votes Votes = points
Icon: 19 - Votes: 10
Icon: 8 - Votes: 7
Icon: 1 - Votes: 7
Icon: 4 - Votes: 6
Icon: 2 - Votes: 5
Icon: 13 - Votes: 4
Icon: 16 - Votes: 4
Icon: 18 - Votes: 4
Icon: 7 - Votes: 4
Icon: 15 - Votes: 3
Icon: 12 - Votes: 3
Icon: 10 - Votes: 3
Icon: 14 - Votes: 3
Icon: 11 - Votes: 2
Icon: 6 - Votes: 1

Best Coloring Votes
Icon: 4 - Votes: 4
Icon: 7 - Votes: 2
Icon: 11 - Votes: 2
Icon: 2 - Votes: 1
Icon: 12 - Votes: 1
Icon: 17 - Votes: 1

Best Cropping Votes
Icon: 12 - Votes: 3
Icon: 1 - Votes: 2
Icon: 16 - Votes: 2
Icon: 2 - Votes: 1
Icon: 15 - Votes: 1
Icon: 11 - Votes: 1
Icon: 17 - Votes: 1

Please let me know if you see any errors.

Congratulations everyone! Beautiful icons!

Hiatus officially starts now. I am however going to be going back through the entries and checking for any unfinished business. Like banners that I haven't made yet. So keep an eye out for those belated banner entries.

Thanks everyone for your participation in the challenges here.

Voting - Challenge 123 - Book Cover Art and Hiatus

2012-08-30T22:55:41Z

Before we get to voting I want to let everyone know I'm putting the community on hiatus for a while. I'm not sure exactly how long.

I also want to say how very sorry I am for not getting voting posted sooner. This is one of the reasons for the hiatus. It seems like I'm always apologizing for being late or forgetting to do something and that is not fair to you members. I know I'll get inspired to come back to this community at some point and start posting challenges again, but right now is not the time. I'm not going to say interest has died off in this community because I still think we have nice turn outs for challenges. But it's not fair to you guys when challenges and voting, etc. are posted late. I think if we all need a break and to come back fresh and inspired at some point in the future.

Now on to voting. I really love these icons. They are wonderful! I hope it fun for you all to share your favorite books. That was part of the objective for this challenge I think. Let's vote! :)

VOTING RULES
+ Anyone may vote. You do not need to be a member of the community to vote.
+ Vote for 3 Best Quality icons in order of preference. (1st, 2nd and 3rd Place)
+ Vote for 1 icon in each of the special categories Best Cropping and Best Color
+ DO NOT vote for yourself.
+ If you submitted an icon to the challenge, please vote. This won't work very well if the icon makers don't vote.

Voting – Challenge 123 - Book Cover Art

Please use the poll below to vote. Follow the voting instructions for each section.

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Created with angelamaria's Icon Table Generator @ Bauble

Please vote for Best Quality icons in order of preference. Example: 4,16,9

View Poll: Voting - Challenge

Here are the names of the books:
01 Where the Sidewalk Ends
02 Alice Hartley's Happiness by Phillipa Gregory
03 The name of this book is secret by Pseudonymous Bosch
04 Music for Chameleons
05 Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
06 Where The Wild Things Are
07 Fallen by Lauren Kate
08 From dead to worse by Charlaine Harris
09 Answered Prayers
10 Hickory Dickory Death by Agatha Christie
11 Liquor
12 For the King by Catherine Delors
13 Tintenherz (Inkheart) by Cornelia Funke
14 Inherent Vice
15 Unknown Romance novel cover
16 The sense of an ending by Julian Barnes
17 Life of Pi
18 A Town like Alice by Nevil Shute
19 Cognitive Desire

Thanks so much everyone!

Reminder - Challenge 123 - Book Cover Art

2012-08-06T02:02:47Z

Hi everyone! There is still plenty of time, but I wanted to remind you about Challenge 123, the Book Cover Art challenge.

I hope you all think this is a fun challenge. It's pretty wide open as far the images you can use to icon. So you can be extra creative.

Thanks. :)

Challenge 123 - Book Cover Art

2012-07-30T02:21:14Z

Welcome to Challenge 123 – Book Cover Art.

For this challenge we are going to be iconing book cover art. It can be the cover of your favorite books, your favorite book cover illustration or illustrator's work, vintage book covers, the skies the limit really. Just please no stock image generic book covers like the kind people use for textures.

I'm not providing any images this time, but there are some links under the cut to help you find what you are looking for and give you some inspiration. If you have any questions ask them in a comment.

Happy Iconing. :)

CHALLENGE RULES
+You may enter up to 4 icons
+Please find your own images. I've provided links.
+You may mix images
+You may use any brushes, textures, text, etc. you like.
+Your icons should meet LJ standards. Not more than 100x100 pixels and no more than 40k.
+Your icons should be new for this challenge. Please DO NOT use old icons.
+Please do not post your icon anywhere until voting is over and the winners have been announced.
+No animation

***Please note the name of the book near each icon, if it applies.

Links
Vintage Book Covers Google search
Book Cover Archive
Good Reads
Pinterest found this in somene's Pinterest account and thought it was pretty hilarious.

Illustrators
Chris McGrath
Chris Cocozza
Mary GrandPre
Lisa Desimini
So with most of these artists you can find the actual book cover on Amazon and icon that, since a lot of them prefer that you don't take their artwork from their site. Just use your discretion in this. And always credit.

And Amazon

There are many wonderful book cover illustrators/artists out there. I'm sure some of you have favorites. And if not there is always favorite books and you can icon the covers of them.

Please post your icons in a comment like this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v162/phennec/Icons/redumb_2chairs.png

Entries are due Thursday evening, August 16th at 9:00 PM CST or until I get voting posted.
The World Clock

Comments are screened.

Thanks everyone! :)

Winners - Challenge 122 - Salt Cellars

2012-07-30T00:53:20Z

I have the winners for Challenge 122 ready. There were quite a few ties and everyone was a winner. So it's all good.

Love these icons. Great job everyone!

Winners Challenge 122 – Salt Cellars

1st Place

Icon by untaptreasure

2nd Place Tie

Icon by cifan70

2nd Place Tie

Icon by furriboots

3rd Place Tie

Icon by furriboots

3rd Place Tie

Icon by seleneheart

Best Coloring

Icon by cifan70

Best Cropping Tie

Icon by untaptreasure

Best Cropping Tie

Icon by seleneheart

Mod's Choice

Icon by untaptreasure

Voting Results
Place Votes Votes = points
Icon: 13 - Votes: 12
Icon: 2 - Votes: 10
Icon: 14 - Votes: 10 - 2nd Place Tie
Icon: 7 - Votes: 9
Icon: 15 - Votes: 9 - 3rd Place Tie
Icon: 12 - Votes: 8
Icon: 11 - Votes: 3
Icon: 5 - Votes: 2
Icon: 6 - Votes: 2
Icon: 3 - Votes: 1

Best Coloring Votes
Icon: 2 - Votes: 5
Icon: 7 - Votes: 3
Icon: 6 - Votes: 1
Icon: 11 - Votes: 1
Icon: 14 - Votes: 1

Best Cropping Votes
Icon: 13 - Votes: 3
Icon: 15 - Votes: 3 - Tie
Icon: 2 - Votes: 2
Icon: 3 - Votes: 1
Icon: 14 - Votes: 1

Congratulations everyone! Beautiful icons!

Challenge 123 should be up soon.

Thanks everyone! :)

Voting - Challenge 122 - Salt Cellars

2012-07-28T04:51:56Z

Thanks very much to everyone who entered the challenge. I really love these icons! You all did a fantastic. But there has to be some winners of course. Let's get to voting. :)

VOTING RULES
+ Anyone may vote. You do not need to be a member of the community to vote.
+ Vote for 3 Best Quality icons in order of preference. (1st, 2nd and 3rd Place)
+ Vote for 1 icon in each of the special categories Best Cropping and Best Color
+ DO NOT vote for yourself.
+ If you submitted an icon to the challenge, please vote. This won't work very well if the icon makers don't vote.

Voting – Challenge 122 – Salt Cellars
Please use the poll below to vote. Follow the voting instructions for each section.

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Created with angelamaria's Icon Table Generator @ Bauble

Please vote for Best Quality icons in order of preference. Separate each vote with a comma. Example: #, #, #

View Poll: Voting - Challenge

Thanks everyone!

Reminder - Challenge 122 - Salt Cellars

2012-07-25T00:28:30Z

Hi everyone, I wanted to let you know that Challenge 122 is extended till this Thursday, July 26th. That's just a couple more days.

Another person entered which is great. But that still leaves us with only four people who have entered icons. I hope some more of you will be inspired to enter the challenge.

click the image

Thanks. :)

Reminder - Challenge 122 - Salt Celllars

2012-07-18T06:43:37Z

Hey everyone! Sorry I have not posted any reminders. Gah! Life has been busy.
But here's a reminder now.

Don't forget about Challenge 122 - Salt Cellars.

Three people have entereted so far and I'd love to see some more entries to this challenge.

Thanks. :)

Challenge #121 - Camp Out! - WINNERS

2012-07-01T04:41:38Z

First Place - justlook3

BANNER (I've combined the banner for this placing and Most Unique & Best Texture)

Second Place - furriboots

BANNER

Third Place - michira_70

BANNER

Most Unique - justlook3

Best Texture - justlook3

Mod's Choice - cifan70

BANNER

(x) i rode the fail boat of fail. its lj-cutted now.

Challenge 122 - Salt Cellars

2012-06-30T22:00:21Z

Welcome to Challenge 122 - Salt Cellars

Can't believe I didn't think of iconing these earlier. They are the perfect size for icons. I used to get these for my Mother whenever I ran across one at a garage sale or antique store. They are varied and beautiful and most of the salt cellars I got my Mom are made of glass. In the past salt cellars were used at individual place settings on the table. Such a great idea. No passing the salt.

I've supplied quite a few images, but if you have your own salt cellar images you are free to use them.

Also, this challenge is going to last a few days longer than usual because I have company this week and then I'm going to Comic Con and won't be back till the 18th.

Happy iconing!

CHALLENGE RULES
+ You may enter up to 4 icons
+ Use these images or your own.
+ You may mix the images
+ You may use any brushes, textures, text, etc. you like.
+ Your icons should meet LJ standards. Not more than 100x100 pixels and no more than 40k.
+ Your icons should be new for this challenge. Please DO NOT use old icons.
+ Please do not post your icon anywhere until voting is over and the winners have been announced.
+ No animation

IMAGES

Please post your icons in a comment like this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v162/phennec/Icons/redumb_2chairs.png

Entries are due Thursday evening, July ~~19th~~ 26th at 9:00 PM CST or until I get voting posted.
The World Clock

Comments are screened.

Thanks everyone! :)

Challenge #121 - Camp Out! - TIE BREAKER VOTING

2012-06-30T14:22:44Z

we got a tie for Most Unique. So I need your help. Please choose your favorite out of the following three.

10. 12. 15.

View Poll: object_icontest challenge 121 TIE BREAKER

Challenge #121 - Camp Out! - VOTING

2012-06-24T16:55:28Z

I'm so very sorry for lack of reminders. I'm a bad, bad mod. Also, I'm pretty sure there were another set of icons as I had the post set with 19 entries by 5 members but when I went to save the icons today there were only 15 by 4 members. I know I haven't deleted any submissions, so if you were supposed to have icons in this poll, let me know and resubmit them HERE and I will gladly redo this poll. Thank you!

Rules:
--do not vote for yourself or ask others to vote for you
--vote for three in order of preference, voting is WEIGHTED
--incorrect/incomplete votes will not be counted

Best categories of Most Unique and Best Texture

1	2	3	4	5

6	7	8	9	10

11	12	13	14	15

View Poll: object_icontest challenge 121

***voting lasts three days. not sure who will be putting up challenge #122. It might possibly be me again. I have feelers out to my other three co-mods. but the challenge will be up before the night is over.***

Challenge #121 - Camp Out!

2012-06-05T18:44:53Z

Welcome to Challenge #121 - CAMP OUT!

So sorry for the long delay in posting of challenges. But we're back and ready to roll. This challenge is going to be a bit different than any of the ones I've ever done. This one is a themed challenge. You can icon any object that symbolizes camping out! so tents, sleeping bags, campfires, smores, roasting hot dogs on a stick/skewer, anything goes. Ya dig?

CHALLENGE RULES
+ You may enter up to 4 icons
+ Please use the images provided or find your own
+ You may use any brushes, textures, text, etc. you like.
+ Your icons should meet LJ standards. Not more than 100x100 pixels and no more than 40k.
+ Your icons should be new for this challenge. Please DO NOT use old icons.
+ Please do not post your icon anywhere until voting is over and the winners have been announced.
+ No animation

The Special Categories for this challenge are Most Unique & Best Texture. Please keep those in mind when making your icons.

IMAGES

Please post your icons in a comment like this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v162/phennec/Icons/redumb_2chairs.png

Entries are due Thursday evening, June 21st at 9:00 PM CST or until I get voting posted.
The World Clock

Comments are screened.

Thanks everyone! :)

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Winners/Banners Challenge 120

2012-05-31T02:10:55Z

Congrats everyone! Such pretties entries!

I don't know who was supposed to post the next challenge, but hopefully it will be up soon. Thanks for your patience.

120 Vote

2012-05-26T04:49:16Z

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! You guys are awesome. I went from 10 icons to 29. Thank you!

Rules:
--do not vote for yourself or ask others to vote for you
--vote for three in order of preference, voting is WEIGHTED
--incorrect/incomplete votes will not be counted

Best categories of Best Color and Best Crop

1	2	3	4	5

6	7	8	9	10

11	12	13	14	15

16	17	18	19	20

21	22	23	24	25

26	27	28	29

View Poll: 120

Reminder Challenge 120

2012-05-23T01:30:49Z

Hey guys! We need more entries for challenge 120: socks! Icons are due THURSDAY, so there isn't much time left. Please enter if you can. Thanks!

ENTER HERE

Winners Challenge 119 - Crystal Ball

2012-05-20T14:17:44Z

Here we are, a great vote! Thank you everyone!

Winners Challenge 119 - Crystal Ball

First Place	Second Place	Third Place
by pfodge	by justlook3	by michira_70
Best Minimalism	Mod's Choice
by pfodge	by cifan70

ORIGINAL VOTING POST || TIE BREAKER VOTING POST

BANNERS
Let me know if there are any issues with the banners.

Tie Breaker Voting - Challenge 119 - Crystal Ball

2012-05-19T17:55:39Z

We had quite a few ties that need to be broken. Please follow the poll instructions and vote now. :)

View Poll: TIES - Voting - Challenge 119 - Crystal Ball

Challenge 120: Socks

2012-05-15T04:22:19Z

Sorry for the lateness. For this challenge, I have picked several pictures of socks for you to icon. I am quite fascinated with brightly colored striped socks. They remind me of fairy tights for some reason.

Please use only the pictures provided.

CHALLENGE RULES
+ You may enter up to 4 icons
+ Please use only the images provided.
+ You may mix the images.
+ Text of your own making and/or tiny unreadable text brushes or textures are fine.
+ You may use any other brushes, textures, text, etc. you like.
+ Your icons should meet LJ standards. Not more than 100x100 pixels and no more than 40k.
+ Your icons should be new for this challenge. Please DO NOT use old icons.
+ Please do not post your icon anywhere until voting is over and the winners have been announced.
+ No animation

Icons are due Thursday May 24th

Voting - Challenge 119 - Crystal Ball

2012-05-12T02:41:36Z

Hey guys! These entries were amazing! willow_lives is up next, so look forward to that. :)

VOTING RULES
Anyone may vote. You do not need to be a member of the comm to vote.
Vote for 3 Best Quality icons in order of preference. (1st, 2nd, 3rd, & 4th Place)
Vote for 1 icon in the special category Best Minimalist
DO NOT vote for yourself. (Please feel free to invite your friends over to vote, but DO NOT ask them to vote for you or anyone else. This will get you disqualified.)
If you submitted an icon to the challenge, please vote. This won't work very well if the icon makers don't vote.

Please use the poll below to vote. Follow the voting instructions for each section.

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6	7	8	9	10

11	12	13	14	15

16	17	18	19	20

21	22	23	24	25

26	27	28	29	30

View Poll: Voting - Challenge 119 - Crystal Ball

Let me know if there are any problems with the poll, voting, etc.

2.5 Hours left!

2012-05-10T23:30:36Z

Don't forget to get your entries in!

Challenge #118 - Clawfoot Bathtubs - RESULTS

2012-05-04T15:39:09Z

Thank you so much for all the participation (entering and voting) for this challenge! You guys rock!

First - pfodge

♥ banner ♥

Second - havers

♥ banner ♥

Third - havers

♥ banner ♥

Best Crop - pfodge

♥ banner ♥

Best Color - havers

♥ banner ♥

Mod's Choice - michira_70

♥ banner ♥

(x) don't forget Challenge #119: Crystal Balls

Challenge #118 - Clawfoot Bathtubs - VOTING

2012-04-30T20:13:33Z

VOTING RULES
+ Anyone may vote. You do not need to be a member of the comm to vote.
+ Vote for 3 Best Quality icons.
+ Vote for 1 icon in each of the special categories Best Cropping and Best Color. An icon can be voted on in the special category and as a favorite if you want.
+ DO NOT vote for yourself. (Please feel free to invite your friends over to vote, but DO NOT ask them to vote for you or anyone else. This will get you disqualified.)
+ If you submitted an icon to the challenge, please vote. This won't work very well if the icon makers don't vote.

1	2	3	4	5

6	7	8	9	10

11	12	13	14	15

16	17	18	19	20

21	22	23	24	25

26	27	28	29

View Poll: object_icontest challenge 118

(x) don't forget to enter Challenge #119 - Crystal Ball

Challenge 119 - Crystal Ball

2012-04-28T05:07:29Z

Welcome to Challenge 119 - Crystal Ball

This challenge was inspired by my recent trip to the Museum of Natural History in LA. Hopefully you all find its mystical powers inspiring of a bunch of icons. ;)

CHALLENGE RULES
+ You may enter up to 3 icons
+ You may only use the provided images.
+ You can mix images.
+ You may use any brushes, textures, text, etc. you like.
+ Your icons should meet LJ standards. Not more than 100x100 pixels and no more than 40k.
+ Your icons should be new for this challenge. Please DO NOT use old icons.
+ Please do not post your icon anywhere until voting is over and the winners have been announced.
+ No animation

The Special Category for this challenge is Most Minimalist. Go for something simple and beautiful. :) Not all your icons need to match this, nor do any of them really, but if you can, try to do at least one. :) Simple can be so very beautiful.

IMAGES
(click thumbnail for full size image- links open in new window.)

Please post your icons in a comment like this:

http://i.imgur.com/tQOqY.png
http://i.imgur.com/gVgdR.png
http://i.imgur.com/dCrnD.png

Entries are due Thursday evening, May 10th at 10:00 PM PST.
The World Clock

Comments are screened.

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Challenge #118 - Clawfoot Bathtubs - FINAL REMINDER

2012-04-26T00:38:25Z

This is your final reminder to get in those clawfoot bathtub icons to this POST! We have 29 gorgeous icons so far, but the more the merrier, right? So do your thang! Submit those pixels!

ENTER HERE