A few months ago I entered the Dell Make it Yours competition where you had to design a laptop cover. The prize was a Design Studio laptop with your own design as well as a cash prize, and I won! Needless to say it was all rather exciting!
Anyway, my new laptop arrived yesterday and I have had a lot of people ask me to take photos, so here they are. I am very happy with my new baby, it is sooo pretty!!!
The Vintage Cinnamon Sunday Digital Scrapbook Kit clipart features beautiful warm and neutral colours reminiscent of coffee shops and warm cosy Sunday’s. The Cinnamon Sunday Digital Scrapbook clip art is perfect for a wide variety of digital scrapbook layouts from everyday to heritage and vintage. The versatility of this digital scrapbooking kit will have you coming back to it again and again. The Cinnamon Sunday Digital Scrapbook Kit is available in my Etsy store. Scroll on for the freebie!
The layout below and above also includes Stamp Cluster Frames, available separately to the Cinnamon Sunday Digital Scrapbook Kit
As a special treat so you can try before you buy I have made a special quick page card with the Cinnamon Sunday Digital Scrapbook Kit just for you. Just plop your images under the frames, add a title and you are done! Perfect for a last minute card, or a card just to say hello! Enjoy! Just click here to download.
These Drippity Drop Photoshop Brushes are perfect for adding a touch of whimsy and artistry to your layouts, whether it be childish paint splatters or arty drops, the choice is yours. The stamp set includes both the original .png image files and Photoshop Brushes (.abr). Experiment with a variety of color and blend modes to maximize the versatility of this set. Drippity Drop Brushes are available in my Etsy Store, Design Bundles and Creative Market store.
For those of you who haven’t already heard, I recently won a competition held by Dell to design a laptop cover. They had 4000 entries and the top 25 most voted entries were judged by a panel of judges and mine was chosen as the winning entry. I won a Design Studio 15 laptop with my own winning design on the cover as well as a $5000 cash prize. I will be the only person in Australia with a custom made Dell laptop cover! Very cool!
Yesterday I flew to Sydney for the Dell Make It Yours Design Studio competition winner announcement event. It was a whirlwind trip from Queensland but lots of fun! It was wonderful to meet the Dell team and press at the event and I managed to have lots of photos taken! EEEK! I asked the photographer to make me beautiful so fingers crossed he complies! LOL
They held a competition for the journalists to design a laptop cover and the winning entry would win a brand new Studio 15 laptop. Unfortunately I did not get to see how that went as I had a plane to catch back to Queensland.
The Good Gear guide posted an article on their website about the top 25 entries and a bit of a spiel about my entry and the rest of the top 25.
Do you Love Masks? What about Arty ones? Check out my Arty Love Clipping Masks now available in my Etsy Store! Perfect for arty effects on your favourite photos and papers.
These large versatile Arty Love Clipping Masks are a fabulous and easy way to give your photos an arty freestyle look. Simply use them as a clipping mask to clip them to your photo. The clipping masks are a quick and easy way to add some art to your layouts and are ideal for a wide variety of photos from landscape to portrait.
Check out the Arty Love Clipping Masks in the following stores.
These five gorgeous Ornate Damask Grunge Overlays are so versatile you will wonder what you did without them. You can use them to add drama to photos, to make beautiful digital scrapbook layouts that encompass a photo that takes up the whole page, and use blend modes to extend the use of these ornate overlays even further.
The Ornate Damask Grunge overlays are available in the following stores.
Thank you to EVERYONE who voted on my designs in the Dell Make It Yours Competition. I am sooo excited to announce that thanks to your votes, all three of my designs made it to the top 25 most voted designs in the competition which meant all three were eligible for judging.
Not only did ‘Not Your Ordinary Coaster’ have the most votes, but it was judged as the most creative entry in the top 25. This means that I won the main prize and the person with the second most votes would have won the voting prize. There was also a runner up prize. I have not heard who won the other two prizes as yet, but I will be sure to post it once I find out.
What did I win? I am so totally excited that I have won such a cool prize!!!
I won a Dell Studio Laptop with my winning Design on it! How cool does it look, especially in the arms of this hunk! I also won a cash prize, some of which I will be using to upgrade my desktop to a new DELL!
There have been some comments as to why some designs were removed from the competition gallery, several of which were on the first couple of pages. It is my understanding that there were voting restrictions and some entries were disqualified due to vote rigging. I was assured by Dell over the phone that not only was my design legitimately the one with the most votes, but voted the most creative independantly of the votes by judging panel who did not know how many votes each entry had.
The judging panel chose my design because it ‘was a great reflection of today’s offices environments’. (I am paraphrasing because I forgot the exact words) The design is VERY me, because I am ALWAYS spilling my coffee and have ruined a number of keyboards doing so! LOL Never on my Dell laptop tho!
For those of you who have wondered or were speculating… I created the design using my own hand created brushes. Those coffee stains were hand created by me. The texture of the background was created by me in photoshop with the help of my own collection of hand made photoshop brushes, blend modes and the creative process. It is a shame some people saw fit to insult my design and Dell’s handling of the competition. From my perspective they have been entirely professional throughout even disqualifying entries that received votes in an unfair manner.
All of my votes were made by friends and family and members of the digital scrapbooking community. I did a lot of promoting of the competition and all of my votes were genuine.
Thanks again to everyone who voted to me. Despite the negative comments I have managed to receive, I have also had a lot of support and that and such a fantastic prize has made this a fantastic experience!
Most of all, I need to thank Dell, for holding the competition and for your generous prizes!
I entered the Dell Make It Yours Competition and had three designs accepted into the competition. I am a tad excited!
To get anywhere however, I need your vote! Here are my three designs, just click on them to go to them on the dell website to vote.
Please vote, not sure if you can vote more than once, but if you can, feel free to!!
These large versatile Dramatically Different Clipping Masks (12″ wide) are a fabulous and easy way to give your photos stylish look. Simply use them as a clipping mask to clip them to your photo. The masks are a quick and easy way to add some art to your layouts and are ideal for a wide variety of photos from landscape to portrait.
The Dramatically Different Clipping Masks are available on Etsy
Wishing you and yours a fantastic Christmas and an amazing new year!
Subscribe To Our Newsletter
Subscribe to receive the latest news and updates from Clikchic Designs. Get a FREEBIE just for subscribing!
You have Successfully Subscribed!