It's been a busy week for a lot of us, myself, included, and it kinda showed in our lack of entries. >.> Don't worry, I understand completely - but I will need to extend the challenge, to next Friday, December 4 at 10:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. We only have 4 icons submitted by one person as I type this, which is obviously not enough to hold voting with, so here's hoping real life will be a little less rough for everyone next week and we can get some more! :D

Entries can be submitted in a comment to THIS POST when ready. Thanks! :)

Happy Wednesday, everyone! And an early happy Thanksgiving to all our members in the U.S.! Hope you'll be having an awesome one. :) Before I let you go stuff yourselves with turkey, though, I have to remind you that icons for Challenge #76 are due this Friday, November 27 at 10:00 p.m. EST. We have zero icons submitted at the moment, which kind of makes me a sad panda, but hopefully things will pick up soon? I'd really love to see some pretties if at all possible. ;)

You can enter icons to THIS POST when ready. Thank you so much in advance! :D

I want to stress upfront that this challenge has very little to do with the release of the new Twilight movie - it's total coincidence that I picked this particular theme a couple days after the movie came out. Heh. Anyway, I hope you'll all take the theme for the artistic challenge it is, rather than as an intentional nod to Twilight. ;)

The original idea actually comes from a 2007 padanistillness challenge, and I thought it sounded really cool. :D Basically, you make an icon that somehow conveys the theme of "shine, shimmer and/or sparkle." The theme could be communicated through text, brushes, textures, or whatever means you so choose, as long as the sparkles are a) easily visible and b) not animated. Beyond that, go absolutely nuts, and if you have any questions, don't be afraid to ask! :)

RULES
+ You may submit up to four icons only.
+ Obi-Wan and Padmé must appear in the icon.
+ Your icon(s) must convey the theme of "shine, shimmer and/or sparkle." It is up to you how you choose to do this, whether through textures, brushes or text, but the theme must be evident.
+ Comment with both the icon and its URL.
+ The due date is Friday, November 27 at 10:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

( 30 screencaps and additional resources under! )

ENTRIES: 04

Got an idea for a future challenge? Awesome! Submit it to the suggestion post and it will be used in the weeks ahead.

All icons submitted to Challenge #75 are under the cut, along with the artists' names. Simply write a comment with the number(s) of the icon(s) you're snagging. Be sure to right-click and save, because hotlinking is evil, steals bandwidth and may lead you to the Dark Side. ;) Artists, feel free to check this post every so often if you'd like to know who's snagging your icons. :)

( CHALLENGE #75 SNAG AND CREDIT )

Finally, hey? ;) My schedule has been all over the map this past week, and unfortunately it didn't coincide very well with the one this comm has been keeping. I'm going to rectify that with the next theme, which should post immediately after the snag and credit entry goes up. Otherwise I can only offer my apologies (again, ugh) for being such a horrible mod. November has not been a great month, to say the very least. >.>

Here at last are the winners of Challenge #75. Banners to be posted this week by ilovedrwilson. :)

( THE ENVELOPE, PLEASE )

Congratulations to all our winners, and thanks to everyone who entered and voted! Thanks also, as ever, for your eternal patience with me. I most certainly don't deserve it. >.> Snag and credit post and the next challenge will be up in a few moments, as I mentioned.

Banners for darth_vice, lealynnkenobi and phantomberkanna. Congrats to you all!


( Challenge #70 - BANNERS )

Thanks so much for the late rally, guys!! I wasn't sure whether I should extend on Sunday, and was even kind of wondering afterwards whether I'd made the wrong decision, but since we now have 18 great icons to pick from I think I can emphatically say that I did the right thing. :D Thank you again, and let's get right to it! :)

RULES
+ Choose only six icons (for first, second and third place, plus the special categories).
+ Fill out the entire voting form.
+ If you entered icon(s), you must vote. Failure to vote may result in the entry or entries being disqualified.
+ Do not vote for one icon more than three times.
+ Do NOT vote for yourself.
+ Deadline to vote is Thursday, November 19 at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
+ Please copy the following in a comment and vote accordingly:

FIRST PLACE:
SECOND PLACE:
THIRD PLACE:
BEST COLOURS:
BEST CROPPING:
MOST CREATIVE:
BEST THEME:

( ICONS AND VOTING )

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!

Only a little tiny one this time, I promise. ;) We have 12 icons submitted as I type this, and while I'd normally consider that to be enough to hold voting with, the problem I kind of see is that those 12 are by just 3 people, and I'm not sure that represents enough of a competition for a voting round. So, your new deadline is this Tuesday, November 17th at 10:00 p.m. EST. Like I said, just a little bit of extra time, during which we will hopefully get at least one or two additional participants. And I don't believe we need the whole week, just a few extra days. :D

Icons can be entered to THIS POST when ready. Thanks muchly for any submissions you can offer! :)

Friday means reminder time on our current schedule, so here we go. :D Your icons for Challenge #75 are due this Sunday, November 15 at 10:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Currently we have 8 lovely submissions by two folks, which is pretty awesome! As always, I'm happy to accept more as well if people have the time and inclination. It's a busy period for a lot of you at the moment, I'm sure, with school and so forth - I've already had to extend at one of my icon comms in anoter fandom, heh. Anyway, I'll check back on Sunday and see what the score is here, and we'll go from there. :D

Icons can be entered to THIS POST when ready. Thanks in advance! :)

All icons submitted to Challenge #74 are under the cut, along with the artists' names. Simply write a comment with the number(s) of the icon(s) you're snagging. Be sure to right-click and save, because hotlinking is evil, steals bandwidth and may lead you to the Dark Side. ;) Artists, feel free to check this post every so often if you'd like to know who's snagging your icons. :)

( CHALLENGE #74 SNAG AND CREDIT )

Okay, let's finally wrap up Challenge #74, shall we? There were some very pretty submissions entered, and great photomanips in all of those. I particularly love how each icon was different in some way, even though all used the exact same pictures. Great work, folks! :D

Here are the winners of Challenge #74. Banners will be made and posted this week by ellen_grieves. :)

( THE ENVELOPE, PLEASE )

Congratulations to all our winners, and thank you so much to all who entered and voted! I'll put the snag and credit post up in a moment, and our next challenge is already up and running HERE - please do check it out, and enter if you have a few extra moments! :)

Okay. New theme goes up tonight, because I would hate to deprive you lovely folks of that for even one more day, and I will then post winners for our last theme tomorrow. Had an unaccountably busy day today, which is why I couldn't do it all in one. >.> Heh.

Anyway! Our last bases challenge was all the way back in August, so I figured it was high time for another one. :D Essentially the idea is that I will provide you folks with a set of icon bases (icons that have been cropped from their original screencap, but to which no other modifications have been made) and set you free to do whatever you wish with them. You can photomanipulate two bases together, you can crop them creatively, you can introduce additional colour or filter effects, whatever you wish! The only real rule is that you must use only the provided icon bases.

There are 12 bases under the cut, all made by the very talented comm member so_out_of_ideas, who is an awesome graphic maker and who very generously allows her bases to be used for such purposes. :) Most of them feature either Obi-Wan or Padmé, but there are also some of them together in case you'd rather not make a photomanip. ;) Go nuts, and remember, any questions - just ask! :)

RULES
+ You may submit up to four icons only.
+ Obi-Wan and Padmé must appear in the icon.
+ You may use only the bases provided below. All other images are prohibited for this challenge.
+ Comment with both the icon and its URL.
+ The due date is Sunday, November 15 at 10:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

( 12 lovely bases right this way! )

ENTRIES: 18

Got an idea for a future challenge? Awesome! Submit it to the suggestion post and it will be used in the weeks ahead.

No extension needed this week, yay! :D We don't have quite as many icons entered as we did last week, but it's still more than enough to hold voting, so I'm going ahead with it. Thanks so much to everyone who submitted to Challenge #74! I anticipate posting the next theme likely tomorrow - I unfortunately don't have enough time at the moment due to stuff I need to do at another stillness community, but I'll get to Challenge #75 here on Monday. :)

Now! Let's pick. :D

RULES
+ Choose only six icons (for first, second and third place, plus the special categories).
+ Fill out the entire voting form.
+ If you entered icon(s), you must vote. Failure to vote may result in the entry or entries being disqualified.
+ Do not vote for one icon more than three times.
+ Do NOT vote for yourself.
+ Deadline to vote is Tuesday, November 10 at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
+ Please copy the following in a comment and vote accordingly:

FIRST PLACE:
SECOND PLACE:
THIRD PLACE:
BEST COLOURS:
BEST CROPPING:
MOST CREATIVE:
BEST THEME:

( ICONS AND VOTING )

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!

The reminder gets shifted to Friday - actually Saturday, technically, but only four minutes past! - because of our slightly wonky schedule this week, so here we go. Your icons for Challenge #74 are due this Sunday, November 8th at 10:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. We've got 4 beautiful entries so far, and I'd really love to see some more if you guys can spare them! It's been a bit of a slow week for stillness communities all around, as folks are most likely busy with assignments and essays and midterms (well do I remember those days!), but if you do find yourself with a few free moments, why not open up those image-editing programs and start messing around to create some pretties? :D

Icons can be submitted to THIS POST when ready. Thanks a bunch! :)

Congrats to you all! Banners for noobianrose , lealynnkenobi , darth_vice , phantomberkanna , and obiwanamidala.

( Challenge #73 - BANNERS )

Title is not as good as I would like, but there it will stay, because I'm a geek who insists all of her challenges absolutely must have titles. ;) In any case! Our last single screencap challenge was way way waaaaay back on July 5th, so I decided it was high time we have another! This is going to be slightly different, as you'll be provided with two caps instead of one - but there's a reason for that. Unfortunately, there really aren't a whole lot of caps throughout the Prequel trilogy which feature both Obi-Wan and Padmé together, and I didn't want to burn through my entire collection in just a few challenges. Therefore, we will, by necessity, need to do some challenges where I give you two screencaps, and you meld them together into an icon.

This week's selection comes from Attack of the Clones, and has always been one of my favourite Obidala moments. Obi-Wan is giving his report about what he's found on Geonosis, when suddenly he's attacked by droidekas and taken into custody. Anakin and Padmé have been watching along with the Jedi Council, and Padmé decides that she's going to leave Tatooine for Geonosis to help her ... uh, friend. One might argue something more, seeing the expression on her face. ;) It's an important moment for her character because it shows yet again that she does not shrink back when immediate action is needed. Instead, she plunges right in - even over and above Anakin, who's having doubts about his abilities after the death of his mother and who would really rather stay behind in accordance with Mace Windu's orders. Not Padmé, though!

The overall idea with this theme, as per usual, is to take these picture and make as many different icons out of it as possible. You'll be allowed to submit up to the usual 4 icons, and you may do whatever you want with the provided screencaps. Use filters, colours, black and white, text, whatever strikes your fancy! Just make sure that you use ONLY the provided pictures, and that both Obi-Wan and Padmé appear in your icon. As I said, the idea is to get as many different icons as possible out of one or two pictures, so go as crazy as you want with cropping, effects, etc. Looking very forward to seeing what everyone comes up with!

RULES
+ You may submit up to four icons only.
+ Obi-Wan and Padmé must appear in the icon.
+ You may use only the screencaps provided above. All other images are prohibited for this challenge.
+ Comment with both the icon and its URL.
+ The due date is Sunday, November 8 at 10:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.



ENTRIES: 15

Got an idea for a future challenge? Awesome! Submit it to the suggestion post and it will be used in the weeks ahead.

All icons submitted to Challenge #73 are under the cut, along with the artists' names. Simply write a comment with the number(s) of the icon(s) you're snagging. Be sure to right-click and save, because hotlinking is evil, steals bandwidth and may lead you to the Dark Side. ;) Artists, feel free to check this post every so often if you'd like to know who's snagging your icons. :)

( CHALLENGE #73 SNAG AND CREDIT )

Excellent couple weeks here on the comm, folks! Apart and aside from the fact that we had to extend, which is completely understandable given the time of year, this challenge was actually more successful than a lot of ours have been lately. I'm not particularly concerned about the low entry totals of the other themes, since our membership continues to grow by leaps and bounds - over 50 members and watchers last time I checked! - and we usually get enough to scrape by. Reminds me, I should redo the community's profile. There's some wonky formatting there that I don't really like. o.O

Here are the winners of Challenge #73. Banners to be posted this week by shadadukal. Also, ellen_grieves, I don't mean to be a nag (especially given how much I myself have sucked as a mod over the past month or so!), but we do still happen to be waiting for Challenge #70's banners. If you do need a backup, please don't hesitate to let me know! Real life happens, and I'll be happy to arrange one for you. :)

( THE ENVELOPE, PLEASE )

Congratulations to all our winners, and thanks so much to everyone who entered and voted! I'll put the snag and credit post and the next challenge up in a moment. :)

All righty, here we go with voting - finally, huh? ;) You guys came through in a BIG way, and we have 19 terrific icons to choose from this week! Thank you so much, everyone! :)

Just a note regarding scheduling - voting will end on Tuesday, and I'll post the next theme either tomorrow or on Tuesday. Not so sure about tomorrow, as I anticipate it being a ... rough day, but I'll give it my best shot. If not, Tuesday for sure. :D

RULES
+ Choose only six icons (for first, second and third place, plus the special categories).
+ Fill out the entire voting form.
+ If you entered icon(s), you must vote. Failure to vote may result in the entry or entries being disqualified.
+ Do not vote for one icon more than three times.
+ Do NOT vote for yourself.
+ Deadline to vote is Tuesday, October 18 at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
+ Please copy the following in a comment and vote accordingly:

FIRST PLACE:
SECOND PLACE:
THIRD PLACE:
BEST COLOURS:
BEST CROPPING:
MOST CREATIVE:
BEST THEME:

( ICONS AND VOTING )

Happy Halloween, everyone! Hope it's been a happy and safe one for you guys. :) As you've probably noticed, there was no voting last night - partially because I ended up being too busy to post anything, and partly because I'd intended to give y'all a wee little extension anyway. Just until tomorrow, Sunday, November 1 at 10:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. We still have 12 icons entered, and, well, I guess maybe I was hoping some folks might have a little bit of time tomorrow to mess around with Photoshop? Possibly? Perhaps? In any case, a mod can dream. ;) I'm not keen to extend beyond Sunday, though, because it has been a couple weeks and I'm sort of anxious to get to the next theme (plus, two/three weeks is a long time to run a particular challenge.)

Icons can be entered to THIS POST. Thanks in advance for any and all contributions! :)