Craig Stillness

And the winners are

2008-07-17T03:57:43Z

1st place zehlyah
2nd place autumn_witch78
3rd place claudee 5.

Congrats to the winners! Thank you so much for entering!

There will not be a July contest. Still unsure about August at this point unless we get more participation here. The voting was very clear cut or I'd have had to ask people to vote because we had very few actual votes.

June Voting.

2008-07-07T17:04:38Z

Vote for your 3 favorites in the order of preference. If you like 1, 3, 8, for example but you like 8 best and 1 second best then your vote would look like this: 8, 1, 3.

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Thanks to our participants for giving us entries this time around! :) I am still trying to decide if there will be a July contest or not.

Poke for entries

2008-06-26T22:58:00Z

The end of the month is almost upon us and we've had only 1 entry folks. Is it the photo? Is it too perfect to iconize? Is it the summer heat keeping everyone....hmmm...you'd think would be keeping them inside on their computers but...maybe not?

Do I need to shut down the community for a few months? If so let us know and we'll put it on hiatus for a while or something...coz folks just don't seem interested in doing icons anymore. Maybe if/when this Underworld movie comes out if Craig's role is at least somewhat big then maybe we can have fresh photos of him and a character to work with? Do I need to come up with different challenges? We stopped offering prizes...do we need to come up with something else?

Please let us know and please enter the challenge:

http://community.livejournal.com/craig_stillness/35883.html

Starting to worry since this is the second time I've used that picture and gotten little/no response maybe it's the photo. :(

June Challenge

2008-06-02T17:42:16Z

The new challenge is simple. Just make an icon, any sort of icon you want using the image provided. You can enter up to 3.

Yes, you've seen this challenge before, this is the Feb. challenge no one entered. We've not posted a new challenge since the March one ended in April. That has mostly been my own fault for not being on the ball and having some issues to deal with that took my mind away from things. But the unfortunate part of that is participation here has been so lax no one seemed to notice but I do hope someone does at least enter this time around. I think its a lovely picture of Craig and deserves to be made into icons better than I can make. :D

Also keep in mind Craig has a role in the upcoming Underworld 3: Rise of the Lycans film, hopefully photos will start to be released from that and we can maybe issue a wolf/Craig challenge at that time. :D:D:D:D I'm actually *really* looking forward to that role for him, can't you tell? Anyway folks, please try and enter and I'll try and do better issuing challenges....give me ideas too if you like. Anything to keep this community rolling.

March winners

2008-04-04T17:21:40Z

March winners

1st claudee --

2nd smirrethefox --

Mod's Choice claudee --

Congratulations to our winners!

I'll try to post banners soon, but life has been hectic lately so I'm not sure exactly when I'll get to them. Cash prizes such as gift certificates or paid LJ time will no longer be awarded. They did nothing to drive up participation in the community and we aren't made of money so we are no longer offering them. Thank you to everyone who participated this time, if you feel cheated because you expected a prize (this was a recent decision of the mod's) then please contact me at sairalinde at hornofgondor.com and I will be glad to arrange something.

March Voting

2008-04-02T16:43:28Z

Please vote for the three icons you like best in order of preference. First choice for example gets 3 points, second choice 2 points, third choice 1 point.

Please respond by April 4th when a new challenge for April will be posted.

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March Challenge

2008-03-01T19:21:19Z

Since there were no entries for February there are no winners to announce nor any voting. *dramatic sigh* and it was a purty picture too....hopefully this one will garner more inspiration from the members here *pokes you all and tickles a little to get your attention*

Its a nice 'springy/summery' type image maybe that'll help with the end of winter doldrums?

Post up to 3 icons, anything you want. Any way you want. :)

Feb. CHallenge

2008-02-11T18:02:55Z

The new challenge is simple. Just make an icon, any sort of icon you want using the image provided. You can enter up to 3.

Jan. Winner

2008-02-05T17:09:29Z

Congratulations to our winner and thank you to all entrants!

Our winner is smirrethefox for his entry:

January 2008 Voting

2008-02-02T06:18:23Z

Please vote for your three favorites in order of preference. Such as I like #4 best then it should be 1 on your choices.

Thanks so much for the entries and hopefully the February contest will have even more entries this time around. :)

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January contest

2008-01-07T17:45:49Z

I'm a little late getting this contest going...but based on the last few months participation I guess I didn't figure anyone was in any hurry for it.

Hopefully we'll get more than one entrant this time around...maybe it was too limiting last time? I've tried very loose 'do whatever you want' ideas, I've tried to offer the bases already ready to be worked with....and of course anorienbean offered *real* prizes and not even that really drummed up many entries so I'm starting to really worry that people are maybe too busy or no longer interested and that's just a shame. If folks have suggestions that'd be great.

I'll offer a couple pictures here but make this an open challenge...if you don't like the pictures selected then please choose whatever images of Craig you'd like and use those for icons...ANY entries are better than NO entries right?

You can do anything you want except animation of course. You can enter up to 5 icons.

Photos are under the cut:

December Winner

2008-01-01T17:25:49Z

By default nixxie_ is our December winner. She was the only one to enter. If you'd like to pick your favorite of her entries from below just pick them like you do in normal voting and that icon will be put on her winning banner.

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Okay....so moving on with December challenge

2007-12-03T17:27:11Z

Not one person entered in the month of November. The challenge will not be extended any further. It is now closed with no winner for the first time ever which is pretty depressing. I'm not sure what will keep folks interested here in craig_stillness we are even giving real tangible prizes and get no entries so I don't know what to do to entice people.

December challenge is one single photo. It must be sepia toned, you know that aged look, like antique photographs? You cannot use color unless it is as a 'spot' color for emphasis like blue eyes. You can make as many icons as you want from this photo. As always no animation.

here is an example of a sepia toned image:

Photo to use under the cut:

Nov. last call

2007-11-30T08:38:14Z

No one has entered the November challenge. If anyone is interested here is the link to enter: http://community.livejournal.com/craig_stillness/32505.html

Would love to see some entries!

Happy Birthday, Craig!

2007-11-12T17:16:54Z

Here are just a small number of my favorite Craig icons:

by raptoe

by raptoe

by sheetulainsaveha

A post to honor the birthday boy. :)

2007-11-12T08:16:32Z

Since I haven't been really productive lately, I will merely post the iconses (yesss, my precioussss, iconsesss) that I have made for the challenges. So feel free to use them if you like. :)

But enough about that. Now I only want to say that:

Happy Birthday Craig Parker! May you overwhelm our senses for many years more!

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Just a few icons...more at dream_on_icons

2007-11-09T02:44:18Z

Haldir, Craig Parker
*Please credit dream_on_icons.
*Please comment if taking.
*Do NOT hotlink.
*Feel free to add text to any bases you find here.

Teasers:

Haldir 1	Haldir 2	Haldir 3	Haldir 4	Haldir 5

Haldir 6	Haldir 7	Craig 1	Craig 2	Craig 3

Craig 4	Craig 5	Craig 6	Craig 7 /td>	Craig 8

Nov. Challenge and birthday reminder

2007-11-08T06:52:17Z

The Nov. challenge is pretty simple this time. I'm just going to post a bunch of images/bases and you can do whatever you want with them and post up to 5 icons per entry.

Also don't forget that Craig's birthday is Nov. 12 and we are asking all members to post their favorite Craig icons here in the community this month in honor of that. Here is the link to the original post on the subject: http://community.livejournal.com/craig_stillness/32226.html

Now for the pretties:

Craig's Birthday

2007-11-05T17:54:04Z

Craig's birthday is on November 12th and anorienbean and myself thought it would be fun if everyone throughout the month of November posted their favorite Craig icons here in the community. Make sure you list who made them, but if you have a fav in your user pictures then please post them, respond to this message if you like or make a direct post in the community...tell us WHY its your favorite too. :D I.E. his eyes look gorgeous in that particular picture, or what a great smile he has in that icon...whatever strikes you most. :)

This is not the November challenge we just thought this would be a fun thing to do for Craig's birthday. Sharing what we love about the man this community was created for. :)

Sept. and Oct. banners

2007-11-05T17:47:59Z

Please pick your winners banners up undr the cut:

Oct. winners

2007-11-05T17:22:05Z

1st place goes to nixxie_

2nd place goes to claudee

3rd places goes to jack4will

Congratulations to all our entrants! Thank you for the lovely icon entries. Banner awards will be posted soon, and our 1st place winner needs to email anorien.bean @ gmail.com to let us know what you'd like as your prize.
Choices are:
*Paid LJ time
*Extra LJ pictures
*$10 Amazon Gift Card
*$10 Walmart Gift Card
*$10 Barnes and Noble Gift Card
*Craft Mouse (http://www.craftmouse.com) coupon good for any in stock non jewlery item marked $20 or less for free.

Last Call

2007-11-04T05:34:49Z

Last call for votes...please vote for your favorite Halloween themed icons. I will post the results by midnight November 5th. Then I will post the new November challenge as well as a special birthday request since November 12th is our boy Craig's birthday! :D

vote here: http://community.livejournal.com:80/craig_stillness/31049.html

Oct. Voting

2007-11-02T07:11:45Z

Please vote for your 3 favorites in order of preference:

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One final day...

2007-10-31T06:54:08Z

You have until midnight tonight to get in your entries for the Halloween challenge. :D Would love to see a few more entries before we post the voting tomorrow.

http://community.livejournal.com/craig_stillness/29751.html#cutid1

October challenge reminder

2007-10-29T19:57:21Z

Please don't forget to enter the October challenge, we only have 1 icon in the challenge at the moment: http://community.livejournal.com/craig_stillness/29751.html#cutid1