IconBuffet "Earn my Tokens" Photoshop Contest

This contest is setup for Iconbuffet, a free icon exchange website. Members can earn the right to deliver sets to me by photoshopping some icons into an image! If you’re not a member of Iconbuffet you can sign up here.

Contest Description

I will receive 10 tokens on the 5th of May.
I have already planned out that I want to spend my tokens on these 6 sets:

Tower Grove Elementalist – Silver delivery
Slideshow Pro – Silver delivery
Alexandria Election – Bronze delivery
Shanghai Psych-out – Bronze delivery
Taipei Tiny – Bronze delivery
Shanghai Tech – Bronze delivery

Contest Rules & Guidelines

Choose any 3 or more icons from the icon sets listed above. You may combine various sets or stick to one.
Open up your favorite image editor (Photoshop / Illustrator / MS Paint, whatever!) and work your creative magic.
You may include a background image, landscape or photograph.
You may include text, captions or numbers.
You may not include other icons or object graphics.
Width of your final product should not exceed 500 pixels and your file format should be GIF, JPG or PNG.
Do NOT send me these icon sets unless you are announced a winner!!!

Entry and Winner Selection

To enter the contest, upload your completed Iconbuffet Photoshopped Contest image (your own server or free hosting service) and post a link to it within the comment section of this blog post. You may include a title and caption if you desire. DEADLINE is Thursday, May 10th!

Your images will receive brownie points for the following qualities:

Beauty
Humor
Originality
Creativity

Whatever you think people would enjoy and get a smile out of… I don’t expect them to be 100% professional. I also don’t expect you to spend hours on this contest, it’s just for FUN!

The overall winner will get their choice of which icon set to deliver to me. They will also get an added bonus for boosting their points — I will replace my referral link on ALL my websites and social networking sites, including the popular Iconbuffet VIRB group with YOUR referral link for the entire month of May!

The next 5 winners will be chosen to send me the rest of the Icon deliveries listed above, earning them points for the delivery! I know it’s sort of a lame prize but the contest is simple! If anyone would like to donate additional benefits / prizes for the winners let me know.

Current Contestant Entries

These will be updated as submissions come in. Post a link and title of your submission to enter.

Wotan: Contest Entry – Icon Mania 2.0
Tamashii: Contest Entry – Taipei Invaders
Kitt Hodsden: Contest Entry – Photo + Iconbuffet icons
gswd: Contest Entries – Global Warming & Little Bunny Foo Foo
Jsun: Contest Entry – The Adventures of Tim & Jim
webmonkey: Contest Entry – IB Sillyness
Luckybeitia: Contest Entry – Fresh Icons
Dustybunny: Contest Entry – Feed your icon Hunger!
Xerxes: Contest Entries – Transelementals & Food Pyramid
marcelofigueroa: Contest Entry – Shanghai Tech Family Portrait
Artistan: Contest Entry – The Buffet isn’t in Kansas Anymore

Amazing work so far contestants! Very impressed.

Robert May 4, 2007 at 5:30 am
Funny idea epidemix 🙂 If I have time I’ll send you my design. Take care…
tamashii May 4, 2007 at 10:13 am
This is a great idea, Mark!
So glad it got stickied. Looking forward to submitting my entry.
Robert May 4, 2007 at 2:39 pm
Hi Mark, as discussed in Iconbuffet here my link: LINK
tamashii May 4, 2007 at 2:57 pm
My submission: Taipei Invaders
Bri May 4, 2007 at 3:53 pm
what is considered an “object graphic”?
Mark May 4, 2007 at 4:10 pm
Some examples of an “Object graphic” in my book would be an image of a person, place or thing that is pulled from Google Images, clip art, avatars, etc.
You are however allowed to use 1 single photo, landscape or original background drawing in your entry which you place the Iconbuffet icons on top of.
So for the most part — the only thing you should be copying & pasting or importing should be Iconbuffet icons.
Robert May 4, 2007 at 6:34 pm
Same Link – 2nd picture…
Kitt Hodsden May 4, 2007 at 9:40 pm
My submission.
SteveO May 4, 2007 at 11:58 pm
Here is my submission, I hope that you like it. If Flickr is no good for this, let me know.
Global Warming
SteveO May 6, 2007 at 11:59 pm
Here is another submission for consideration.
Little Bunny Foo Foo
JSun May 7, 2007 at 4:37 am
My submission 🙂
The Adventures of Jim & Tim
webmonkey May 8, 2007 at 9:57 am
http://75.56.190.46/ibsillyness.jpg
Here’s something I just slapped together.
dustybunny May 8, 2007 at 9:59 pm
I may have more coming but for now – Feed your icon hunger!
Dink May 9, 2007 at 6:48 am
My entry:
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/5756/iconset01as7.jpg
Luckybeitia May 9, 2007 at 1:06 pm
My entry:
"Fresh Icons".
Aristan May 10, 2007 at 9:09 pm
Not sure if the image I based it on violates the ‘object graphic’ rule, but I had fun creating it:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aristan/493144301/
Marcelo Figueroa May 10, 2007 at 11:05 pm
Here’s mine!
Family Portrait
SteveO May 11, 2007 at 8:10 pm
Just wanted to pass along that my IB handle is “gswd” not SteveO. Otherwise you will be giving the prize to someone that did not enter, This is evidenced by my entries in the IB Blog Forum responses under my IB id. I apologize for any confusion this has caused you Mark.
gswd May 18, 2007 at 9:52 pm
Like dude, when are you planning on requesting your set?

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