First, I’d like to thank all who entered, and thank our Judges: Chica & Jo, Samae, Erin, and Colleen.
These ladies had a hard time judging all the great stuff! We had 38 wonderful entries… And it was REALLY close between a lot of these..

But judge they must, and here are our winners (click through to see the images larger):

1st place to the Woggegong Shark Costume by Jen Straw! She explains how she did it here… and here!

2nd place to Dave Gugel and his fabulous house transformation! Check out his site for more, and the behind the scenes look at how he changes his typical house into a scary victorian. (Dabbled interview HERE)

3rd Place to this adorable Day of the Dead Doll by Anya Kase! Love the great embroidery!

4th Place was a tie between:

These fabulous creepy cherubs from Vanessa at Gerbera Designs. She has a tutorial on how to make them, so check it out!

And…

This great Pin the Teeth On The Vampire game from Heather Sitarzewski… click over for instructions to make and play!

You should check out all the entries in the original post, but here’s some other “Honorable Mentions” our judges really liked, that didn’t quite make the top cut:

Halloween “Advent” Calendar by West 38th
Halloween Cuff by Tamdoll
The Halloween Wreath from CorgiPants
The Lantern How-to and Bat & Spider Pom Poms from PomPom Emporium
Witchy Pumpkin from Living Locurto
Crafting With Cat Hair’s Poison Lollypops

Get your nifty “I’m a Winner” buttons for the winners and the honorable mentions HERE, and will dole out the prizes asap. Winners, please email me @ dot-at-dabbled-dot-org.

Here’s the official rules for the Halloween Extravaganza Contest:

The Rules: Your entry can be art, craft, or food. For Halloween, this includes Costume and Decoration ideas as well.

Post a link to your entry preferably IN THIS THREAD (or you can email it to me). Entry should include a link to the item. You can link to a blog, website or etsy, or flickr pictures. Post pictures, and extra credit for instructions or recipes

Judges are still in the works, i’ll update this post with the info. If you’re a past winner, and are not participating this time, you’re eligible to be a Judge – email me. Also Sponsors are eligible.

Deadline: WED OCT 29!

Prizes: Fame! Fortune! Well, a tad of fame, anyway! There will be prizes, including a link over to your blog for the coolest submissions. Prizes will include several donated prizes by our Sponsors, plus custom artwork. Also you’ll receive a nifty “I Won” button for your site!

Other details:
– you can enter as many items as you want, but you can only win with one entry.
– post each entry in a different comment, please.
– If you’re featured during the Halloween Features, you’ll still need to enter on this post with whichever items you are entering.
– I’ll update this more later with the Sponsor info.
– If you use flickr, please add your item to the Dabbled flickr pool too! (The pool is http://www.flickr.com/groups/dabbled/ , but still link it here if you want it counted.)

Happy Halloweening!

PS: Check out here for all the other ways to participate in the Halloween Extravaganza.
– Be a Sponsor by donating a prize! Thanks to our sponsors: Some Art Fabric, Erin K Creations, & Chica and Jo. Read all about them here!
– Link over to the contest on your blog and if the winner found us through your site, you’ll win a prize too!
– Be a Halloween Featured guest! Like these Dabblers!

Get your Halloween button here!

Related:
Prizes and Sponsors, check ’em out!

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Time to start planning for the bestest holiday of the year! HALLOWEEN! The little Halloween Bot* is here to announce that over the next few weeks we’ll be featuring halloween crafts, costumes, decorations, art, food.. all the good stuff you’ll need to get in the spirit! Leading up to the Halloween contest to cap it off of course.

And I know you’re desparately wondering “How can I get involved in this fabulous extravaganza!?” Well…

1) Enter the Contest! – Full Rules here (they are easy!), but per the usual, any type of arts/crafts/food, halloween related is eligible — extra credit for tutorials. There will be prizes of course, but the best part is of course sharing your creations with the world!

2) Sponsor the Contest! – Contact me if you’d like to provide a prize for the contest, and possibly be eligible to be a judge. You’ll receive a nifty little halloween bot for your site and link back over with kudos for spreading the halloween love. Some Art Fabric has already provided us with some nifty halloween fabric swatches!

3) Submit your cool halloween posts to be included in the halloween series! You’ll get a nifty ‘I was featured’ button, and of course, internet fame and glory :) Thanks to those of you who’ve emailed me links to your stuff thus far… We’ll have at least 2 Halloween Features from the readers this week!

4) Spread the word! “Spread the word – tell a friend..Tell them the tale..Get a pic – do a blog”** New this contest: Nifty little spread the word buttons are available, and if the winning entry finds us via you/your blog, you’ll win a special little prize! (Great for you non-creative types out there with creative friends!***)

*Isn’t he cute? He needs a name – any ideas?
**OK, I couldn’t resist a Dr Horrible reference..
***Could Dot use any more exclamation points in a single post?, I don’t think so…

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Here’s one of the buttons, but you can get more here…