Nov 15 2008
Announcing The Dog of Christmas 2008 Contest
It is time to announce the next contest here at The Doggie Park. Our next contest is The Dog of Christmas 2008. Below you will find the official rules for this contest, how to enter, prizes and how the winner will be chosen.
What we are looking for: Photos of your dog that says Christmas. Be creative with your pictures. Just let your imagination go and try to capture your idea of Christmas.
How to Enter: email your pictures along with some information about your dog to thedoggiepark@yahoo.com.
How winners will be chosen: Just like our last contest 5 entrants will be chosen out of all the entrants and then these 5 entrants will be placed on the site and up for public vote poll style. Since we have 5 boys we are going to let each child pick one entrant to place on the site for the voting. Another words our children will be the ones deciding who get to make it to the public voting part of the contest.
However if we have 5 entrants or less enter this contest like we did the Halloween contest, then those entrants will all be placed on the site for voting. Example: We only had 2 entrants for the Halloween contest and both of them were placed up for voting. But we are hoping this will not be the case this time.
Once we have the entrants placed on the site for voting the winner will then be the one with the most public votes by the deadline.
Contest Deadlines: The deadline for entering the contest is December 6th at 11:59 pm Central Time. Voting will end December 31st at 11:59 pm Central Time and the winner will be announced January 1st.
Prizes: We have some great prizes for our winner for this contest.
1. A leather collar and leash set is being donated by Karen Friesecke from Doggie Stylish .
Doggie Stylish creates some of the greatest collars around. Unique beaded collars all the way to creative fabric collars. I want to thank them for donating a leather collar and leash set to our up coming contest winner.
2. A custom t-shirt is being donated by Shawna at ZoZo Tees
Sample T-shirt:
The winner will get to choose from one of their pre-existing fun slogans or create pne of their own. These durable quality doggy tees come in various colors and sizes to fit your big or small dog, or even your daschund! See www.zozotees.com for more information.
3. An Award Certificate. Along with a blog post dedicated to the winning dog.
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Please make sure to use a valid email address is this is how I will contact the top 5 contestants who move on to the voting phase. I do not need your mailing address at this time, I will only need your mailing address if you are announced the winner.
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This sounds interesting… You say the public will be doing the final voting… will that be on this site or on some other site. Is there a picture size that is recommended… resolution size, etc.? We have Pembroke Welsh Corgis… I have a blog about them– Grammys Corgi Country- on Today.com.
Do the pics need to be photos or can they be artwork as I do pastel and graphite drawings of my babies a lot, a few of which can be seen by clicking the Lulu.com link on my blogsite.
I will be interested to get your responses… I’ve only been blogging a little over a week, and I am trying to check out some other sites to get a handle on how things work.
You posed some great questions and I am going to try to answer them. First off the voting will be done here on my blog.
Secondly as to the size of the picture/image all I can say is visit link that I am going to be posting below and click on the pictures of both dogs as this will take you to the full size image. I would say just go based on those two and you will see what is a decent size. Just use them as an example. I usually scale the pics down to a thumbnail for the blog post and have that linked to the full size image.
Thirdly I had not thought of artwork but as long as it is artwork that you create using your own dog I will accept that as a valid entry. Just make sure that you capture your idea of Christmas.
In addition a little hint for all that read the comment section. As I stated in the blog post, I am letting each of my boys select one entrant to add into the top 5 that will move on to voting. So for the hint I will give the ages of my boys 10, 9, 8, 7, and 3. I will have NO part what so ever in helping them decide. So therefore it is children that will decide so please feel free to capture your idea of Christmas as there is no right or wrong way to do this. My only requirement is that YOUR dog is present in the picture/image.
http://thedoggiepark.today.com/2008/10/01/it-is-time-to-vote-on-your-favorite-halloween-dog/