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Hello traveller, and welcome to my second private contest: the Business Card Design Contest!


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General Rules


1. NO STEALING ART
The cards must be created by Elftowners and posted here by the original artist. Which means, no matter how much you might like a particular image on somebody's house, you are not allowed to use it on your card and submit it as an entry. This includes random images from the net too. MAKE YOUR OWN DARN IMAGES, DON'T STEAL THEM AND TRY TO CLAIM THEM AS YOUR OWN! That makes me angry, very angry indeed.


2. QUALITY-ISSUES
Please put forth your best effort and the best quality, i.e.
- if your design contains a drawing, it should have clean lines
- if your design contains a picture, it should be high resolution and thus clearly visible (not pixelated)


3. EACH MEMBER MAY SUBMIT UNLIMITED ENTRIES


4. ALL IMAGES MUST BE UPLOADED TO ELFTOWN
Ask me ([Sunrose]) for wiki-privs if you don't have them already; members who follow the uploading art rules, and thus are not troublemakers, will be granted these privs. See advanced help for more information about privs.


5. SUBJECT MATTER
Since the winning entry will be considered for actual usage, it may not depict graphic violence, pornography or other disturbing actions. Only images that fit the business will be allowed.

All mediums, except animated GIF's, will be accepted.
Photomanipulations are also allowed, provided that you also took the photograph that you are manipulating.


6. IMAGE USAGE
By entering into this contest, you agree to the fact that your image might be used for a business card.
You of course remain the owner of your design.

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Special Rules


This contest is about a business card, these are the requirements for the card:

SIZE-RATIO
3.5 inch by 2 inch (88 mm by 50 mm)
It can be any size as long as you use this ratio.
Bigger sizes are preferred, as to be able to see details clearly and make good prints possible.


CONTENT
The card should have a basic background, with a design on it.
The design may be anything, including a drawing/photograph.
Animated GIF's are of course not allowed, they can't be printed as such on a businesscard ;)


COLOUR
- It should not be solely black and white
- It should not contain more than three (3) colours, unless the card contains a drawing/photograph


IMAGE
The drawing/photograph should match the business, described below.


INFORMATION
- The card has to leave room for contact information (name and phonenumber). This information will not be provided here, it will only be added by me to the winning entry.
- The card has to leave room for business information (described below)


BUSINESS
Here comes the most important part! ;)
The business I would like a card for is energetic therapy. It includes Californian Flower Remedies and massage.
For information on the flower remedies: http://www.fesflowers.com/
The massages she gives are oriented on chakras, for information on chakras: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakra


FOR WHOM
The business card is not for me, but for my mother. She gives this type of therapy and I would like to surprise her with a nice business card. Considering I am artistically declined, I'm asking my fellow Elftowners for help :)
Of course she has personal preferences that you can use:
- Her favourite colour is red, she also likes cyclamen and earthcolours (terra, brown etc)
- Her favourite flower is Lilly of the Valley
- She also likes butterflies, candlelight, books, beads, incense, patchouli oil, buddha, detectives, the seasons and colourful/cheery details.
- The card should give a wholesome feeling to it (this is hard to explain, so don't ask for an explanation :P). Usually the colour white is associated with light, goodness, innocence, purity, and virginity.


FILE-TYPE
Your entry should be submitted to the entry-page as a webimage (.jpg or .gif or so).
You should however have a .psd file or other workformat of the card, so that contactinformation can be added to it later on :)

Any entry that does not follow all the above will be removed.

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Deadline


January 31st 2008
OR a minimum of 15 entrants (may lead to extension of the deadline)


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Prize


The winning entry will be selected by my mother, she will get to see the entries once the contest has been closed.
This does not mean she is obligated to use it, but that she feels your entry is the most to her liking ^_^

The prize will be:
- A donation to Elftown, which will grant you to use colour in your description.
- If you already have the above, the donation will grant you an unlimited description: the 10 image limit will be lifted.
- If you already have both of these features, I will send you an Elftownbutton like this:
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But without a username.
If you object to this, because you don't like the button (Wwhoa?! :O!) or don't want to give your address, I could make a donation to Elftown for a member of your choosing :)

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2006-10-30 [Sunrose]: There might be some typo's, but it's 4 am :P
If you see any, please let me know :)

2006-10-30 [irulan]: Did you mean "Considering I am not artistically inclined"? Which you are though. 

2006-10-30 [Sunrose]: I think I meant 'declined' :P
And I'm not artistic enough to create a card, so =P

2006-10-30 [~Lady Morgana~]: Wow the idea is all cute! *^.^*
So basicly it is just the design of the card without anything written on it? (Sorry I just read it all but I always have to make sure :P)

2006-10-30 [Ocean Soul]: Ohh, yes, a really cute idea =3

2006-10-30 [Janouk]: O wow, where did you get such a button! :o Such a good way to advertise!
(And nice contest/idea btw, I think it is really inspiring to make a contest for something like this)

2006-10-30 [Linderel]: 'visable' <- should be 'visible'
And since I think you were going for the plural, you'd want to remove the apostrophe from 'chakras'. :)
Now that's out of the way, nice idea! :D

2006-10-30 [Sunrose]: Mailin: Indeed without anything written on it, you could of course add a temporary-text ;)
[Janouk]: [Hedda] ordered them for me through cafepress.com, with permission from [Saffron] ^_^'
Thanks Lami! :D

2006-10-30 [~Lady Morgana~]: Okay awesome :D

2006-10-30 [Nita]: I think you meant 50, not 5 mm ;)

2006-10-30 [Sunrose]: LOL, thanks ^^;

2006-10-31 [Kyrinn]: Ooooo... Now THIS I can do...

2006-10-31 [Dark Wizard]: sounds nice!

2006-11-02 [Paz]: Sunny, by "inscent" do you mean "incense"? :P

2006-11-02 [Sunrose]: Yea, I knew I did something wrong when I wrote that :P

2006-11-02 [Zab]: hmmm..I could try this..someday:P

Suggestion for a prize to those who don't want a button (:O): the donation sent in someone elses name ;)
hmm..massage eih? hmm...

What was it with the 3 colors rule? O_o

2006-11-27 [Just.Kate]: The more colours you add, the more expensive, and harder, it becomes to print. :)

2006-11-27 [Sunrose]: Good suggestion [Zab]! (sorry didn't see your comment before :/)
No, I made the 3 colours rule after reading tips on how to make good business cards :)

2006-11-27 [Zab]: :P Thankie:P

oh, ok. ^^

2006-11-27 [Mortified Penguin]: I collect business cards! ...I gots a big stack...

2007-01-30 [Sherya]: *sigh* Sadly I didn't have the time for this :/ The deadline's tomorrow, but I don't have time to do anything. Blaeh. Oh well, next time ;3

2007-01-30 [Sunrose]: Actually the deadline won't close until we have reached at least 15 entrants, we're on 8 now :)

2007-01-30 [Sherya]: Ah, I should be reading this wiki more often ^^; I blame school! :3

2007-01-30 [Sunrose]: LOL :P

2007-01-30 [Sherya]: I didn't realise it was that funny :>

2007-01-30 [Sunrose]: Well okay, I take it back then :P

2007-02-04 [Kaimee]: If we could submit more than three entries I could help you get to that 15 entry deadline >:P Or maybe I should submit only one of the current designs, but add links to variants, and then submit 2 new different designs :)

2007-02-04 [Kyrinn]: I still need to do mine. The irony is, I make business card graphics designs at work, but Im kept too BUSY to do the one for this contest. :S

2007-02-04 [Sunrose]: When I wrote the wiki I meant to write that there should be 15 entrants, I assumed one per person and wrote 15 entries instead :P
But I will surely applaud more and more entries =)
Ahwz :(

2007-02-04 [Kyrinn]: I think that I might print out the rules and take them to work and hope for a slow moment. Which has been happening more and more. I realllly want to enter this. ^^

2007-02-04 [Sunrose]: It would be an honour to have you ^^'

2007-02-04 [Kyrinn]: really? Awww you flatter me. *blush* I will do my best to get something done ASAP! *is happy*

2007-02-04 [Sunrose]: Yes! *hugs* :D

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2007-09-02 [pixish]: Is this contest still open?

2007-09-02 [Teufelsweib]: I guess the "januari 31st" is 2008... but this is an old contest so I don't know ^^;

2007-09-02 [Sunrose]: It was 2007, now 2008 :P
But that only applies when the contest surpasses 15 entrants.

2007-09-02 [pixish]: yay :)

2007-09-03 [Kaimee]: hiiii, I want to make more entries. Things I didn't ask about last time:
-What quality printing will you be getting (if any of these actually get made up :P), and are suggestions for printing types open? Ie., matte vs gloss vs lustre, gsm weight, coating? Will it be professionally printed or are you going to attempt to do this job from home?
-it says no more than 3 colours, are you including tints? Ie, two different types of orange would actually be one (eg, pantone 021) and a 75% tint of that, etc.
-Does the business itself have a logo or logotype previously used?
-If a logotype we use on this is liked, will it be used as a logo in future?
etc :P

2007-09-03 [Sunrose]: What kind of qualities are there? :P
Open to suggestions yes :)
The 3 colours is a one of the criteria for a more professional looking card, but an extra tint of the same colour could be very ok :)
No logo, but the remedies have this logo: http://mijnspirituelenatuur.nl/bl/fes.gif

It could be that a logo submitted here will be used in the future as well, it depends on my mother too :P

2007-09-04 [Kaimee]: Hahaha, my dad would never lemme do this for him! He's a homeopath, so vaguely same field. Sorta. Kinda :P

Qualities? Cheap is one sided, coated regular stock. That's any sort of vaguely shiney card.
Slightly better is double sided, same stock.
Better is a nice coated matte stock (That really smooth non-glossy stuff)
And Expensive is a nice coated matte stock, with added extras:
Die-cut to a non-regular shape (round corners, or a little shape cut out, or a strange shaped edge.. whatever) 
Uv printing (shiney clear non-colour gloss printed in shapes/patterns/words over the normal printing. It can either make certain words glossy, or just another layer of depth with images/patterns)

Expensive but TACKY should be transparent business cards, metallic business cards, or any other strange sort of stock like that.

2007-09-04 [Sunrose]: Why not? :P

Amg :P

2007-09-04 [Kaimee]: Because he doesn't believe in business cards :P

2007-09-04 [Sunrose]: Oh :P

2008-02-17 [Kyrinn]: Ive not forgotten this contest, Ive just not had the time.. O.o Im gathering references now. Even if this is not chosen, would I be able to use it in a portfolio or something like that?

2008-02-17 [Sunrose]: Of course, the art remains yours :)

2008-02-17 [Kyrinn]: Okee dokee! Good to know. Ill start working on it this week. ^_^

2008-02-17 [Sunrose]: :D

2009-07-10 [Kaimee]: No idea if you still intend to get cards printed, but you should check out http://www.print100.com :O
Just had a client who didn't want to pay much for printing get some done through there ($40AU for 300 cards, free shipping to Aus, round corner die cut, and spot UV gloss, which is amazingly cheap :O) and they were very nice quality :D

2009-07-10 [pixish]: ohhh :o
I might make some up for the shop if they're that cheap :p

2009-07-10 [Sunrose]: There's a company here where you can order free cards, with predesigns. Since this was all taking too long, I did that instead :P

2009-07-10 [Kaimee]: Geez, you never selected a winner :O Evil girl :P

2009-07-11 [Sunrose]: There weren't 15 entrants :P

2009-07-11 [pixish]: Maybe there will be soon! :P

2009-07-11 [Sunrose]: Yush, I still have the prize :P

2009-07-11 [Kaimee]: I don't even want the prize :O I just want to call you evil :3

2009-07-12 [Sunrose]: Ewaat? :O

2009-07-12 [pixish]: x)

2011-11-07 [Sunrose]: Maybe I'll just finally let her pick one.. :P

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