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Community Day: CreateMixedMedia Contest & COLOURlovers Survey

By Molly Bermea // March 2, 2012

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Happy Friday COLOURlovers! Today we are going to do something a little different for Community Day. First up, we have an awesome template challenge we've organized with one of our wonderful craft authors, Tonia Davenport, who comes over from CreateMixedMedia.com.

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Secondly, each week I am going to feature the first of many community surveys. They are only going to be between 3-5 questions to help us understand what you lovers would like to see on the blog, on community posts, contests, you name it. Let's just call it a quick raise of hands on some topics. I'll promise to keep them short. In turn, we'll give one participant at random selection, a COLOURlovers T-Shirt each week.

This week's survey topic: What do you want Community Day to be about?

I can guess all day long what you guys would appreciate being featured on Community Day, but why not ask you? So let's show a raise of hands...and remember, one person will win a t-shirt!

CreateMixedMedia Template Contest

This is a template contest. That means you will need to use either Seamless Studio or Seamless Lite to make your initial submission.

The challenge is for you to design some numbered templates - a pattern design. These will be showcased for the first week of April, days 1 through 7.

We will need a template for numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 - That's SEVEN WINNERS!
You may include graphics within the template as long as the number you chose is legible (see how it will preview on createmixedmedia.com below).
The theme to base your design on is "April Fools Day" and "April Showers" - combined or singly.
Seven different winners will get a $25 gift code at the NorthLightShop (applied at checkout).
Winners will be chosen by CreateMixedMedia.

CreateMixedMedia.com does an artistic feature on their homepage showcasing the days of the month, coordinated one week at a time - see below.

Days of the week shown on createmixedmedia.com

You will have from today (March 2nd) until Wednesday, March 21st to submit designs in the comments of this post.

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Written by Molly Bermea

mollybean.comMolly is the COLOURlovers Community Curator & Blog Editor. Her ultimate passion is fine art, which mainly pertains to painting wild surrealist scenes on canvases too large to hang in her own home. Aside from designing and painting, She loves to create serendipitous projects with sewing and crafting, figuring out how to DIY everything and anything.

Molly comes from a family with five imaginative kids. Her mom instilled creativity to the max and you can usually find them scheming together, figuring out new ways to sew, craft or build DIY projects.

She is a house-work-wife, has an amazingly supportive husband, two genius kids and works in a button factory

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sundancer

Posted Mar 2, 2012

I tried to write my whole comment but I was limited so here is all of what I wanted to write:
I like the idea of highlighting COLOURlover members. I'm sure liddle_r is an awesome COLOURlover, but she has been featured COLOURlover for like over a year now or maybe even more over on the community page.
http://www.colourlovers.com/community
Don't you think the featured lover should be changed up every once in a while instead of always being the same person? What about COLOURlover of the week or COLOURlover of the day maybe? It shouldn't be chosen randomly either because someone who hasn't come on in over a year who only made one palette shouldn't be colourlover of the day.

I always enjoy adding new people to my list of followers. I'm especially more willing to add people who are very prolific and have a good eye for color and arrangement. If we featured template of the day or template MAKER of the day (or week) I could meet new people to add to my followers.

Thanks for listing!!!

Penina

Posted Mar 2, 2012

I did manage to complete the survey, but just thought of something else:

I would like to know more about the people in the CL community -- not just with a single person being highlighted, but also cool statistical things like, countries represented, occupations, how they found colourlovers, etc.

Another community-ish thing would be to facilitate meetups. I know not everyone wants that, but those who do (like me) would love to build on the friendships we've made here online.

Oh, and also: I bet there are some really interesting ways people are using Colourlovers, besides us designers, crafters, artists, etc. Are there therapeutic uses? Scientific uses? … or …??

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mollybermea

Posted Mar 2, 2012

Thanks for the feedback so far everyone! Great on voicing your notes. Maybe I should make the comment section on the survey 500 words or no cap.... I will think on this.

@sundancer, you bring up a great point. I think in general, that page has been sorely neglected and it's good to know that it was noticed! I will see what I can do with the . :)

@Penina I love the way you think outside the box. I will see what I can do. My brain is ticking away. :)

I will add to the post, but I realize I forgot to add:

The survey will close for winning a t-shirt, each Thursday at 12PM PST (noon). The survey will stay open indefinitely for collection though (at this point). I will contact the COLOURlover and announce the t-shirt winner each Friday in the Community Day post.

akvbroek

Posted Mar 2, 2012

Here is mine for #6 :)

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mollybermea

Posted Mar 3, 2012

Excellent job!!! I love how you designed the #6 in to the large raindrop! AWESOME color choice too.

You may submit up to 3 numbered templates BTW (adding that now to the post, I had completely forgotten to mention that!)

akvbroek wrote:

Here is mine for #6 :)

akvbroek

Posted 2 months ago

Ooo... I may have to procrastinate on my work a bit more to design a couple more! :)
mollybermea wrote:

Excellent job!!! I love how you designed the #6 in to the large raindrop! AWESOME color choice too.

You may submit up to 3 numbered templates BTW (adding that now to the post, I had completely forgotten to mention that!)

akvbroek wrote:

Here is mine for #6 :)

Buphey

Posted 2 months ago

Just to clarify, we pick one number, between 1-7, and make a Rain Day themed template. We can submit up to 3 templates. F. ex. if I wanted to I can submit 3 variations of the number 5 and then I am done; or 1 each of numbers 2, 5 and 7 and then I am done. Or am I confused?

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mollybermea

Posted 2 months ago

Sorry, this was kind of hard to explain very clearly.

We would really like to say 3 DIFFERENT numbers submitted from each contributor so that we make sure we get all of the numbers designed.

Feel free to submit whatever number templates you would like in any variation. I wasn't sure what would make this too limited or too overwhelming to understand and didn't want everyone to think they HAD to make numbers 1-7. Not everyone has that kind of time.

I can see that this is going to morph a little over the course of the weekend and next week and maybe we'll get to do another one of these and have more clear rules on how YOU guys would like it to go. :)

I am hoping we can get the word out on this and get some more acknowledgment on it - I think the survey kind of took precedence on this post. :)

Can't wait to see what you come up with! (remember the theme is both APRIL FOOLS & APRIL SHOWERS)

Buphey wrote:

Just to clarify, we pick one number, between 1-7, and make a Rain Day themed template. We can submit up to 3 templates. F. ex. if I wanted to I can submit 3 variations of the number 5 and then I am done; or 1 each of numbers 2, 5 and 7 and then I am done. Or am I confused?

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mollybermea

Posted 2 months ago

Numbered Pattern Inspiration!

I decided to go dig up some inspirational numbered pattern designs from Spoonflower.com to get some creative juices flowing.

sources: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

And some inspiration from COLOURlovers Templates with numbers:

....and last but not least, I discovered some people creating their own type of fonts using Seamless Lite via Shapes. I thought this could boost some ideas so that you don't feel stuck using the font selections within Seamless - you can build your own!

sundancer

Posted 2 months ago

Penina wrote:

I did manage to complete the survey, but just thought of something else:

I would like to know more about the people in the CL community -- not just with a single person being highlighted, but also cool statistical things like, countries represented, occupations, how they found colourlovers, etc.

Penina, that's SUCH a great idea!!! I second this! Let's see visual pie charts and stuff showing male to female CL users, occupations, country, state, age, etc. We could also do surveys once a week about yourself like why do you like colourlovers, what's your favorite thing about colourlovers, and we could make graphs showing the results the next week with a new question! :-)