Art Impressions stamp contest

[stampaholic17]

Has anyone here entered the Art Impressions monthly stamp contest? I just learned about it and uploaded a card this afternoon but it is now showing up on the site. Does anyone know if the upload should appear automatically or if it takes the company time to put it on the site? If it's automatic then I must have done something wrong. Anyone have experience with this?
Thanks!

[stampaholic17]

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[denidill]

I have not heard out this contest. I recently just learned about the company and ordered tons of stamps from them. They have some great stamps! Hope you get your answer from someone. Keep bumping!

[parknslide]

I entered the contest last year & won first place thanks to shamelessly asking for votes here on SCS & from all my e-mail contacts. I submitted mine via snail mail so I can't help with your Question. Post a plea for votes here on SCS & I'll vote for you. Good luck.

[parknslide]

Looks like they've changed the contest---no more voting. Their staff does the judging. Sorry I can't vote but good luck with the judges.

[LouiseG]

They get their submissions up relatively quickly, so if it didn't make it in at the end of this business day it will surely show up tomorrow would be my guess.
I entered some last week and they showed up the same day.
I like that they changed the rules of the contest and will now be selecting winners on their own rather than voting. The prizes are pretty substantial IMHO, so definitely worth a try. You must use only their stamps though.

[tdodd00]

I don't know the answer to your question, but I am a little confused. Each month is supposed to have a "theme" yet some of the cards don't really apply (New Year's Resolution), are they pretty liberal about it? I have skipped months in the past because I didn't have stamps that I thought worked. (Sorry, didn't mean to hijack your thread, just curious if anyone knew.)

[LouiseG]

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Originally Posted by tdodd00

I don't know the answer to your question, but I am a little confused. Each month is supposed to have a "theme" yet some of the cards don't really apply (New Year's Resolution), are they pretty liberal about it? I have skipped months in the past because I didn't have stamps that I thought worked. (Sorry, didn't mean to hijack your thread, just curious if anyone knew.)

You know, the first time I looked at some of those cards I wondered how they fit into the New Years Resolutions theme, but on second glance I kind of got it. Some might stretch further than others, but I think they all follow the theme.
And yes, the rules do say one of the factors considered in determining a winner will be adherence to the theme.
All the themes are listed on their site under contest.

[stampaholic17]

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Originally Posted by LouiseG

They get their submissions up relatively quickly, so if it didn't make it in at the end of this business day it will surely show up tomorrow would be my guess.
I entered some last week and they showed up the same day.
I like that they changed the rules of the contest and will now be selecting winners on their own rather than voting. The prizes are pretty substantial IMHO, so definitely worth a try. You must use only their stamps though.

I hope it shows up today. It wasn't there this morning and I haven't received a response to my e-mail question to Pauline. I used only their stamps and I think I did a good job following the theme. This month's theme is "New Year's Resolutions". My resolution is to spend more time in my garden. I sent 2 photos of the front of my card since the way the front is folded you can't really see the whole card in one shot. Maybe that's what's holding things up. I'm going to upload it to my gallery here at SCS today.