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Be The Next GelaSkins Artist :: Design Contest

Be The Next GelaSkins Artist :: Design Contest

By Allison Silber // May 22, 2012
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Be the next GelaSkins artist! Gelaskins works with some of the world's finest talent to bring stunning art to any device. You could be the next artist to be featured on GelaSkins and have your pattern available worldwide!

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GelaSkins is passionate about great design which is why you'll find some of world's most creative minds gracing their pages. A portion of each skin, case or print sold goes directly to the creator, helping to support and promote independent artists everywhere. Pretty neat, right?

The HardCase is the newest addition to the product family. It is a tough polycarbonate case made to protect iPhones and impact damage and everyday wear-and-tear. Simple to install and remove, the one-piece snap-on construction holds tight for maximum protection. The HardCase allows for easy access to buttons and is compatible with charging cables and screen protectors.

So let's get down to business! Here are the details to enter our contest and possibly win the fabulous prices below.

How to enter:

Submit one of your patterns here. Just select a pattern template that you designed and colored and apply it to the hardcase... Easy as that! Give it a try.

Prizes:

1st place prize: Winner will become the next GelaSkins artist, and will collect royalties on the sale of their design to our customers.

Runners Up: The 2nd-5th runners up will receive $100 gift card towards custom GelaSkins featuring your pattern.

The 1st place winner will be chosen by GelaSkins but the 2nd-5th place winners will be chosen via voting by your community. Once you create your submission, make sure to check out the other submissions and vote for your favorites.

Submissions will close June 4th and we will be announcing the winner on June 5! Good luck!

View all the entries here: Gelaskins Hardcase Entries.

Contest Rules:
All designs entered stay owned by the creators. The grand prize winner agrees to share their design rights with Geleskins, and participate as one of their designers. They will earn a part of all sales of their design.

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Written by Allison Silber

www.engagedandinspired.comAllison is the blog editor and gal behind the Twitter, Facebook & Pinterest at COLOURlovers. When she is not spreading color love around the web, she writes and manages Engaged & Inspired, a wedding blog and vendor resource for brides.

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sweetmissladyd

Posted May 25, 2012
Thanks for the tip; I put it to use!

GoGo
GoGo by sweetmissladyd
www.COLOURlovers.com



praxicalidocious wrote:
...I just wanted to express how grateful I am for this contest. :) It is amazing to see so many lovers trying their hands at template creation for the first time, to see others learning to adapt their work to seamless, and seeing some brand new works from some of my old favourites. :)

This contest is artist's catnip, and it really showcases everything I love about this community. :)

To those on the fence about creating templates:
Do it! Make one! The feeling of bringing the colours of your choice alive with a pattern you created is indescribable, and I'd rather you not deprive yourself of the opportunity. Besides - this way you can enter your colours in the contest, too!

If you're feeling a little overwhelmed, try a parallel stripe template. It is simple, classic, and the variety is nearly endless. (I can never get enough stripes!) You can incorporate perpendicular stripes too - but those can be a little harder to get 'right' on the first try.

Stripe Tips for Beginners:

- Use the square shape! (The regular line tool sometimes fractures between creation and publishing, so don't use it for this - in fact, in Seamless Lite, I never use the line tool unless I'm curving it - since curved lines never break. All my straight lines were stretched out squares, once I realized this particular trick.)

- Holding the shift key while you draw the square onto the canvas will guarantee that the square is locked at a clean angle - either a 90 degree square or a 45 degree diamond. There are other angles you can make the lines tile at, but these are the easiest to do in the beginning without clipping errors - it really ups the professional crispness of your design to have a perfectly seamless tile! ...Never be afraid to begin by doing basic well - you can ramp up the difficulty later, but right now we just want you to see that yeah, you can make an awesome template too. :)

- Drag a corner of the shape until it creates a seamless line. With a square, pull the line straight up or to the side until it is a seamless tile, and then in a perpendicular direction until you achieve the width you want. With the diamond, just grab and drag it over to the other end of your line. :)

- With your layer selected, click the clone button in your layers menu. (Hover over the buttons for captions)

- Drag your new layer, resize as you like. Your lines can be all the same weight/width, or you can mix and match.

- Rinse and repeat. :)

- Each layer has a little grey square on the right side of it - if you click that, you will get a pop-up box with five different greyscale squares. If you want your template to be able to show five colours when it is finished, make sure that each of these greys gets used at least once. :)

I'm writing this because making templates on CL is personally one of my favourite things to do here (other than hanging out with you lovely folks and your colours!). I used to tell myself that I'd never be able to make templates. ...I'm really glad I proved myself wrong. :)

Now go play! :) I can't wait to see what you make!
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huege

Posted May 25, 2012
Great advice Prax!

Hey, GelaSkins dudes, I was just thinking that Prax would be the perfect designer for you to hire. Oh, wait a minute....she's ALL the way out in Alberta. You probably should get someone local....like huege. I hear he's awesome :)
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eighteyed

Posted May 25, 2012
See. here I didn't think you could bend lines. I've been really stuck for curved lines, had to use script parentheses. Must experiment.
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eighteyed

Posted May 25, 2012
Say, huege, you've heard of that internet thing, right? Alberta is close enough for horseshoes ^_^
Even though it's not Texas.
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huege

Posted May 25, 2012
eighteyed, a local employee would be able to bring donuts to the meetings :)

The outer rim of these circles are curved dotted lines set to maximum width. You need 4 lines to make a circle.

Socrates Says So
Socrates Says So by huege
www.COLOURlovers.com

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susanrosefive

Posted May 25, 2012
Riantgorkette wrote:
eighteyed wrote:
susanrosefive wrote:

Love your dark shades!


Thanks so much, susan! I wanted some more masculine/cool ones too, because my stuff tends towards the dramatically girly.


I tried to create so manly ones as well...

American Dino!American Dino! by Riantgorkettewww.COLOURlovers.com



Volcanic DinoVolcanic Dino by Riantgorkettewww.COLOURlovers.com



Deer Burning Love V2Deer Burning Love V2 by Riantgorkettewww.COLOURlovers.com



The HuntedThe Hunted by Riantgorkettewww.COLOURlovers.com



I hope those will appeal to both guys and tom-girls :)


Or even kids! I think they will definitely appeal to all of the above!
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eighteyed

Posted May 25, 2012
Best of luck to you, Susan ^_^

huege, not that I think this is on topic or anything, my problem with the dotted lines is they're not wysiwyg. They always turn out WAY different than in the program, and generally not favorably. When I want dots, I usually use colons. But, must experiment! Thanks for the example.
Oh, and Santa, what I want for Christmas are some right triangles. And the ability to draw from the corner and not just from the center!
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OldeAuntieRae

Posted May 25, 2012
Nothing looks the same once we upload our designs especially things with very thin lines. Of course those are cool because they become airy looking. But you never know till you post the design.

eighteyed wrote:
Best of luck to you, Susan ^_^

huege, not that I think this is on topic or anything, my problem with the dotted lines is they're not wysiwyg. They always turn out WAY different than in the program, and generally not favorably. When I want dots, I usually use colons. But, must experiment! Thanks for the example.
Oh, and Santa, what I want for Christmas are some right triangles. And the ability to draw from the corner and not just from the center!
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sweetmissladyd

Posted May 25, 2012
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pet

Posted May 25, 2012
SORRY mine are horrific but i'm haveing fun (:

her's
her's by coastmouse
www.COLOURlovers.com

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pet

Posted May 25, 2012
Oh yes i did and i feel like a retard!

his
his by coastmouse
www.COLOURlovers.com

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pet

Posted May 25, 2012
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Riantgorkette

Posted May 25, 2012
Thanks!
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ivy21

Posted May 25, 2012
Thank you for your comment susanrosefive. I love my style also =) I just do what I like and hope someone else likes it.
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pandcdesigns

Posted May 25, 2012
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pandcdesigns

Posted May 25, 2012
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pandcdesigns

Posted May 25, 2012
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Iloveallcolours

Posted May 25, 2012
I couldn't resist to make one more.. they look so neat:

Inka case
Inka case by Iloveallcolours
www.COLOURlovers.com

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davidgav

Posted May 25, 2012
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eeexuan

Posted May 25, 2012
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eighteyed

Posted May 25, 2012
ivy21 wrote:
Thank you for your comment susanrosefive. I love my style also =) I just do what I like and hope someone else likes it.

Me too ^_^
I like to think of my style as: If William Morris had only had Lego
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davidgav

Posted May 25, 2012
timanttimaarit wrote:
How to change gelaskins code: [...]

actually it's enough to just change the height in the images
height:auto;
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sweetmissladyd

Posted May 25, 2012
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o2bqueen

Posted May 25, 2012
If anyone's still looking for a way to make their skins show up normally (versus scrunched), you can replace the preformatted size measurements with these:

style="width:220px;height:350px;border:0 none;"

Hope that helps!!!!
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Riantgorkette

Posted May 25, 2012
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a merciless moon

Posted May 25, 2012
You know what? Thanks to this contest I'm starting to enjoy making templates, which is something I never really attempted to do before :)
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earlgrey

Posted May 25, 2012
We enjoy your designs, too! :D

a merciless moon wrote:
You know what? Thanks to this contest I'm starting to enjoy making templates, which is something I never really attempted to do before :)
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jan4insight

Posted May 25, 2012
I've made several, and here are my personal favorites:

Juxtaposed 3wavefans
Juxtaposed 3wavefans by jan4insight
www.COLOURlovers.com



GloGlo sakura
GloGlo sakura by jan4insight
www.COLOURlovers.com

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American Women

Posted May 25, 2012
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eli@

Posted May 25, 2012
Don't stop! I love them. Titles are the icing!

huege wrote:
I'm sure I've done more than 50 entries, thoroughly littered the playing field.....help me, I can't stop.....arrrrrgggh!!!!
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