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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.

Team

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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eli@

Posted May 25, 2012

Ur so awesome!

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!

ShiversTheNinja

Posted May 25, 2012

coffee cakes by ShiversTheNinja
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loveburst4 by ShiversTheNinja
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loveburst6 by ShiversTheNinja
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loveburst5 by ShiversTheNinja
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loveburst2 by ShiversTheNinja
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loveburst by ShiversTheNinja
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Thank you for your loves, they're very appreciated! ( ˘ ³˘)♥

ShiversTheNinja

Posted May 25, 2012

I'm excited, but I have a question: how is this contest being judged? Is it by the number of loves? I think that would be unfair because the loves that the template already had show up on the entry's page... so I'm assuming some judges are going to be looking at all the entries and narrowing it down to their favorites. The blog doesn't say so I'm curious.

Team

COLOURlover

Posted May 25, 2012

The information should be up in the post. Gelaskins will select the grand winner... it's up to them to decide exactly how / why. But for 2nd -5th place will be selected by votes.

And when you create an entry we create a new pattern for you. So any loves you had don't get transferred over. But the new loves will also show on that pattern page.

Love,
+B

Iloveallcolours

Posted May 25, 2012

I guess I'm obsessed:

stripey mcstriperson by Iloveallcolours
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agirl575

Posted May 25, 2012

i love gelaskins actually refused to give up my phone when i broke it because i'd miss my nanami cowdroy fish!! had to have a go at this competion, some of the entries are stunning as always!! good luck all :)

guiding nature by agirl575
www.COLOURlovers.com

American Women

Posted May 25, 2012

Candid Camera by American Women
www.COLOURlovers.com

Buphey

Posted May 25, 2012

Call Me! by Buphey
www.COLOURlovers.com

Springy Fleurs by Buphey
www.COLOURlovers.com

Midnight Fleurs by Buphey
www.COLOURlovers.com

American Women

Posted May 26, 2012

For Her

Simple by American Women
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For Him

Tall by American Women
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American Women

Posted May 26, 2012

For Them

Young and Sexy by American Women
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bizee1

Posted May 26, 2012

Awareness by bizee1
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bizee1

Posted May 26, 2012

Happy Memorial Weekend everyone!!

Flying Proud by bizee1
www.COLOURlovers.com

freeflight

Posted May 26, 2012

Ditto!!!

As someone who has just created my very first templates, I will take all the tips I can get!! Thanks for taking the time to share!!

eli@ wrote:

Ur so awesome!

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!

eighteyed

Posted May 26, 2012

Freeflight, I have two tips for you. First, work a little zoomed in, if your software permits. Design tends to look better reduced. Second, explore the use of the arrow keys on your keyboard, when you have a shape selected. That often lets you be much more precise with placement than when you are drawing or dragging with your cursor.

freeflight

Posted May 26, 2012

I really appreciate the info!! I've already tried prax's tip about using squares for lines, and I'm sure these will help me, too. Thanks so much!! :D

eighteyed wrote:

Freeflight, I have two tips for you. First, work a little zoomed in, if your software permits. Design tends to look better reduced. Second, explore the use of the arrow keys on your keyboard, when you have a shape selected. That often lets you be much more precise with placement than when you are drawing or dragging with your cursor.

eighteyed

Posted May 26, 2012

You're welcome! Also, if a shape isn't quite right, don't spend too long trying to fix it by stretching it out, or moving it. If it's simple and it bugs you, delete that element and draw in another. Sometimes I delete a few in a row. They should be strongly placed, and near the right size, needing only minor ooching.

mooberri

Posted May 26, 2012

Nomad by mooberri
www.COLOURlovers.com

definitely enjoying this contest.

helsic

Posted May 26, 2012

square rain! by helsic
www.COLOURlovers.com

Disturbed cute mind by helsic
www.COLOURlovers.com

bizee1

Posted May 27, 2012

good morning

1st sew job by bizee1
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No Blackberry by bizee1
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Evening activity by bizee1
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Dropping Stars by bizee1
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Flower play by bizee1
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zafeyry

Posted May 27, 2012

This isn't my pattern, but I think it needs more love and I think it's a great case idea.

J e s t e r by albenaj
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vlnivec

Posted May 27, 2012

under the sea by vlnivec
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spin by vlnivec
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winniew2

Posted May 27, 2012

joker by winniew2
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sherrydee846

Posted May 27, 2012

Red Roses by sherrydee846
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sherrydee846

Posted May 27, 2012

singing love by sherrydee846
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sherrydee846

Posted May 27, 2012

Tropical CLAD by sherrydee846
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sherrydee846

Posted May 27, 2012

Pollen Falling by sherrydee846
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sherrydee846

Posted May 27, 2012

Hawaiin leis by sherrydee846
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eighteyed

Posted May 27, 2012

What to do if there are several on a page you want to vote for, but you don't want to click away for another random 9, because who knows if you'll ever see them again.... open each choice in a new tab to vote, that way you can get to back all of them from the first tab.

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