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The Dabbled Black Heart Anti-Valentines Contest

by Dot 19 January 2008 2,628 views No Comment

HEY! This is the 2008 Contest – the 2009 Contest is going on now HERE

edited to clarify some rules — thanks to all that have entered thus far!
Everyone’s doing valentines contests right now (or will be soon), but wouldn’t an anti-valentines contest be cooler?

The Rules:
Quite Simple: The theme is anti-valentines. Something a bit darker/creepier than you average valentine project–or however you interpret “Anti-Valentine”. Illustrations or any sort of craft project welcome. Simply create your offering, and either post the link to it as a comment in this thread (if you don’t mind others seeing it), or email it to me at Dot[at]Dabbled[dot]org (if you prefer secrecy!)- please put “Contest” in the header of your email.
You can enter more than once, but only 1 of your entries can win (i.e. the same person can’t win 1st and 2nd place)

The Time Frame:
Entries must be received by 11:oo PM Eastern US time on Feb 12.

The Prizes:
The coolest stuff will be featured on Dabbled.org, linking back to all your equally cool stuff if you provide a website. And the *top* winners will receive either a stuffed cashmere black heart, or an original sketch of a suitably black hearted nature.

Cool idea??

Image credit: bebop717 CC licensed via flickr

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Ulf Borgenstam said:

Interesting idea. I’m going to keep this in the back of my mind for a while and see what will happen

# 21 January 2008 at 2:36 pm

Missy said:

Here is a link to the Black Heart Felt Patch that I make. Enjoy!

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=9075939

# 22 January 2008 at 3:25 am

Dot said:

Missy, very cute! I like it!

# 22 January 2008 at 3:59 am

Shmemily said:

Oh my! I am soo excited now. Im going to work on this and post something later!

# 22 January 2008 at 1:09 pm

crafty carolinagirl said:

This sounds really great. I have two ideas, but we’ll see what I can come up with.

# 22 January 2008 at 2:23 pm

littlerobot said:

Ooo – I’m not sure if this one counts but I think it’s slightly different, a cut card.
http://bp0.blogger.com/_SLYVSjAo2Nc/R5M2hD-jj2I/AAAAAAAAAS0/nMokYVFQcP8/s1600-h/heart_full.jpg

# 22 January 2008 at 3:44 pm

Mary Stebbins Taitt said:

heh he h heh, I love it.

Don’t get me wrong, I love valentine’s day!

But how fun to enrich ourselves by seeing the other side of it.

Cen we enter more than once?

I want to know if I should wait until Feb 12 to enter the one and only or enter various ideas and attempts as I go along. LOL!

# 22 January 2008 at 5:01 pm

carrieme said:

Here is my entry, a Love Bites Cookie…poor little thing

http://www.flickr.com/photos/carriemepics/380745113/

# 22 January 2008 at 6:05 pm

Dot said:

great entries everyone! Keep it up!

Yes, you can enter more than 1 item, but you can only win with 1 of them.

# 23 January 2008 at 1:32 am

Forever Young said:

blooming brilliant, i am gonna start on mine today, valentine’s bah humbug!!!

# 23 January 2008 at 11:49 am

Capivara said:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23116220@N03/2216481920/

uh…I decapitated the cupid.

# 24 January 2008 at 10:21 am

Capivara said:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23116220@N03/2216481920/

Uh… I decapitated the cupid.

# 24 January 2008 at 10:22 am

Mary Stebbins Taitt said:

OK, I did my first anti-valentine, it’s kind of ugly though. Even though it was intentional, I still don’t like its ugliness.

Soon Forgotten

# 24 January 2008 at 4:41 pm

Mary Stebbins Taitt said:

I did three more anti valentines–I’m thinking of it as a theme or challenge rather than a contest, because everyone else is a better artist, so I’m just having fun with it. I did yesterday’s on my upstairs computer which is really old and I haven’t been able to post it yet.

Today, I did two, which I posted to Monday artday and also here:

men for breakfast
antianole

I don’t know why this is resonating for me, maybe because I was upset with with BB when I started.

# 25 January 2008 at 6:29 pm

Jennifer said:

http://fullmoon.typepad.com/crafts/2008/01/anti-valentine.html

I don’t know what to call it, really, but I’m fond of it.

# 27 January 2008 at 3:07 am

Jennifer said:

Goddammit. Okay, tiny url’d it:
http://tinyurl.com/3xgnsd

# 27 January 2008 at 3:09 am

BReid said:

Very fun idea!

1) http://bonnireid.com/ExhibitB/?p=187

2) http://bonnireid.com/ExhibitB/?p=106

# 28 January 2008 at 7:46 pm

moxie said:

here’s what i came up with:

http://www.weareallangry.com/?p=161

this was a fun constraint for fostering creativity. thanks so much!

# 30 January 2008 at 10:44 pm

Shmemily said:

OK!
are you tired of wearing your broken heart on your sleeve?

try wearing it around your neck. lol

this is a necklace i made out of and old watch.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/SaeftyPinsKill/HEARTNECK.jpg

sorry it doesn’t look like much, but in the background it says “id rather be a bitch than be an ordinary broken heart”
lyrics from my favorite band The Dresden Doll’s, that i think fit very well. lol
and the little heart is loose inside and can move around. hope you like it. ill try to get a better picture if you want

# 2 February 2008 at 5:16 pm

Samantha said:

Here are my dark valentine, or rather anti- valentine submissions!! All three are on flickr and my blog: http://www.samanthahahn.com/blog in my free valentine’s day card section.

http://flickr.com/photos/samanthahahn/2223796051/

http://flickr.com/photos/samanthahahn/2224586420/

http://flickr.com/photos/samanthahahn/2223795619/

# 3 February 2008 at 1:24 am

Susan Sager Brown said:

Visit my blog and scroll down to my anti-valentine: To Have a Heart! Love this idea!
http://www.broknheartart.blogspot.com

# 5 February 2008 at 2:59 am

Peggradyart said:

Here’s what Mae West said…couldn’t resist putting it on one of my towels.

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=9152295

# 7 February 2008 at 3:25 pm

Jennifer said:

Made a little black hearted knitted ring, reversible too for those a little more fickle.
http://www.pieknits.com/blog/2008/02/valentine_heart_rings_fre.html

# 7 February 2008 at 4:32 pm

Kakariki said:

here’s my entry It’s the patriarchy gots ta go cross stitch kit

# 8 February 2008 at 1:56 am

craftyminx said:

oooh I love this! Here are mine:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2120/2245568626_97a6c5c5e3_o.jpg

same idea but in magnet form
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2175/2245569714_88e2444cdc_b.jpg

there are full directions on my blog if anyone is interested.

# 8 February 2008 at 4:39 pm

Piroska said:

Great idea. Here is a Anti-Valentine’s style card on my blog
http://piroskawolf.blogspot.com/
Cheers!

# 10 February 2008 at 9:53 am

lampes lumps said:

Poo on Valentine’s give me Flowers just because not because Hallmark told you too! Here’s my Anti Valentine that hangs in my house!
http://lampeslumps.typepad.com/my_weblog/

# 10 February 2008 at 3:46 pm

aurora said:

Cool idea !I will send you an e-mail with my anti-valentines idea.

# 11 February 2008 at 3:47 pm

craftycarolinagirl said:

Here is my entry, “Darling, how about a cup of tea?”

I will be posting to to my blog on Valentine’s Day.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/craftycarolinagirl/2259991445/

# 12 February 2008 at 3:37 pm

Bitterbetty said:

Here is an assemblage I made from a cadaver illustration in full swoon.

thanks for the contest. It was so fun.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/11878641@N00/sets/72157603900117477/

# 12 February 2008 at 10:31 pm

eloise said:

This is such a cool idea.

Here’s my entry. (Think I could come any closer to the deadline?) It’s a little more of an illustration than the other entries, but I hope you guys like it!

-Eloise

# 13 February 2008 at 3:21 am

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