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Voting for Challenge #115 ends tomorrow morning, so if you haven't cast your votes already, now's the time.

Meanwhile, Challenge #116 awaits your entries (due before I get up this Sunday). When I started working on this one I cursed myself for setting such a difficult task, and then I made half a dozen icons and had to stop before it became impossible to choose which ones to enter. So I know it can be done!

Four entries so far.

Challenge #115 is still awaiting your entries. Challenge will be open until I get to my computer on Sunday morning.

So far, just two entrants.

Congratulations to this week's winners:

First place: stripped
Runner up: pensnest

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Challenge #115 is a bit lacking in entries at the moment, so I think it will stay open for another week, to give you all time to find some bicycle images and get your imaginations in gear.

A quick reminder that the voting on Challenge #114 closes tomorrow morning when I get to my computer! If you haven't voted yet, please do.

The subject of this challenge is the humble bicycle. You may obtain your bicycle images from wherever you like—I'm including three under the cut to get you started—and this week, you may enter up to FOUR icons.

Comment to this post with your icon(s) and their url(s). Please don't use these icons before the voting is completed. All submissions should, of course, fit the 100 x 100, 40K guidelines for LJ/DW icons. And don't forget that if you are the winner, you'll need to post a tutorial on how you created the icon, so keep notes!

I will close entries and post the voting next Sunday (14th August). Please consider that Saturday 13th, midnight your time, is the deadline for entries (though you can get away with later as long as your comment is here when I get to my computer on Sunday).

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Meanwhile you still have today to get your entries in for Challenge #114.

Hi, everyone! After a suitable hiatus I'm hoping you'll be interested in picking up this challenge again. For anyone who's new here - welcome!

Probably the hardest thing about running an icon challenge is finding suitable images for the challenges. I'm going to be asking you guys for some help with that, when I figure out what it is I want to ask for - also, I'm thinking it could be interesting to do a post-challenge comments post to find out what you liked/didn't like/found difficult about each one.

Meanwhile, here's Challenge #114:

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There'll be a bit of a change to the voting, in that I shall post the voting eight days from today, and the results will go up the following weekend—you will have until Thursday to vote, then we can perhaps have a conversation about the challenge before the winners are announced. Let's see how that goes.

For the moment, I will post a fresh challenge next Saturday, but if weekly challenges are too much I will cut back to fortnightly. Have fun!

Okay, everyone, as you've probably realised, time's up on this challenge comunity. It's had its day, so I'm not going to struggle on begging for entries, etc.

Thank you, everyone who participated, whether as contestant or voter. I hope you enjoyed it and that you learned something, too.

Have fun!


ETA: if you really don't want to see this comm disappear, tell me. There may also be useful discussion in the LJ community, here.

Hi all - no entries for Challenge 112, so no voting this week. I think we're better off just cancelling challenges that don't work rather than hanging on for another week, so I'm going to hope for a bumper crop of entries for Challenge #113 instead.

Hi all, and thank you for voting for this icon. It was made in Photoshop CS5 on a Mac, and uses Gradient Map, Levels and Colour Fill, so all quite translatable, I'm sure.
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