Category: Contests

Welcome back for another Customized Girl Design Contest! Simply create, save, and tag your design “Contest 3” for the chance to win $200 and the honor of viewing your design in the pages of US Weekly.

Check out the winners of Contest 1 and Contest 2:

This is an ongoing contest, so after we choose a winner for Contest 3, Contest 4 will launch immediately. We’ll choose the winner right around April 22nd and announce it in this blog. We’ll also alert the winner by email.

The design we choose will be used to advertise Customized Girl, so keep that in mind when creating your designs. We’re looking for something that is obviously personalized, and hopefully smart, funny, and cute too! We know that’s a lot to ask for, but the bar has been set pretty high by the previous entries.

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If you’ve never saved a design before, here’s a quick lesson:

Choose any piece of apparel from one of our many categories (we recommend Her Tops and Undies). In the Design Center you can add text, clipart, and your own images. Everything is adjustable, so feel free to experiment with the text styles, colors, sizes, etc.

(If you’re not already logged in, you’ll have to log in or create an account at this point. Don’t worry it’s super easy and takes 5 seconds.)

On the next page name your design, choose the first tag from the drop down menu, and add “Contest 3” as an additional tag.

Be sure to leave your Share Option as “share”. Then click “Save” and you’re done!

*You must be 18 years old to claim your prize.

*Enter as many times as you want. You do not have to purchase your design to be entered into the contest. Thanks so much for participating and good luck!

Way to go, valerie.hampsey, your design was chosen as the winner of Contest 2. It was clever, funny, and personalized. Your design will be appearing in the April 4th issue of US Weekly!

We are very sorry that we couldn’t pick a hundred winners, because there were some really great designs.

There was one design in particular that was a very close runner-up. We’d like to send a second-place prize of a $50 Customized Girl Gift Card and a free shirt to comedygrl2004. We’ll be in contact shortly, comedygrl2004.

With that, Contest 3 is officially underway. To enter, simply create an awesome design, save it, and tag it “Contest 3”.

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If you’ve never saved a design before, here’s a quick lesson:

Choose any piece of apparel from one of our many categories (we recommend Her Tops and Undies). In the Design Center you can add text, clipart, and your own images. Everything is adjustable, so feel free to experiment with the text styles, colors, sizes, etc.

Most importantly, be sure to save your design once you’re finished. Just click the save button in the Design Center, which looks like this:

On the next page name your design, choose the first tag from the drop down menu, and add “Contest 3” as an additional tag.

Be sure to leave your Share Option as “share”. Then click “Save” and you’re done!

We are not sure which issue of US Weekly we will be featuring the winner of Contest 3. The contest is open until we update this blog post with an ending date (probably in a few weeks).

*You must be 18 years old to claim your prize.

*Enter as many times as you want. You do not have to purchase your design to be entered into the contest. Thanks so much for participating and good luck!

Congratulations to Elwenah, whose design titled “BFWB” is the winner of our very first Customized Girl Design Contest. She will receive a check for $200 and her design will be featured in the March 14^th issue of US Weekly.

We had a lot of fantastic entries, and we wish we could have given out more prizes. The good news is that another contest starts now, so there are still plenty of opportunities to be the next winner!

Simply create an awesome design that you think would look great in US Weekly, save it to the gallery, and tag it “Contest 2”.

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If you’ve never saved a design before, here’s a quick lesson:

Choose any piece of apparel from one of our many categories (we recommend Her Tops and Undies). In the Design Center you can add text, clipart, and your own images. Everything is adjustable, so feel free to experiment with the text styles, colors, sizes, etc.

Most importantly, be sure to save your design once you’re finished. Just click the save button in the Design Center.

On the next page name your design, choose the first tag from the drop down menu, and add “Contest 2” as an additional tag.

Be sure to leave your Share Option as “share”. Then click “Save” and you’re done!

You probably noticed that Elwenah’s design does not exactly the same as the one in the ad. One of the reasons we liked it so much is because we thought it would be perfect for the Spring Break audience, and we wanted to put it on a more Spring Break-friendly tank top. In the future, we might ask to adjust your design a bit if we choose it as the winner.

If you created a super cool design for Contest 1, feel free to add Contest 2 to the tags. Some of the designs were so good, we might consider them for Contest 2 as well.

Updated: The final date for entries is March 24th at noon ET. We’ll try to get the winner of this contest into the April 4th issue of US Weekly. After that, feel free to tag your new designs Contest 3!

*You must be 18 years old to claim your prize.

*Enter as many times as you want. You do not have to purchase your design to be entered into the contest.

Greetings!

We want to give you $200 and feature your design in US Weekly. We hope you accept.

Here is the story:

Every week, we try to come up with witty, funny, and interesting t-shirt sayings for our weekly magazine ads.

This can be a daunting task. So we were wondering if you wanted to help out.

All you have to do is create a design and save it to the Community Gallery. Tag it “Contest 1”, and we’ll let you know if you win!

Tips for a successful design:

This design will be featured in an advertisement in US Weekly, so it has to fill several requirements. Most importantly, it needs to inspire people. It should be a design that people see and think “Oh my gosh, I want to create my own shirt too!”

One way this can be achieved is through personalization. It would be nice if the design was immediately recognizable as customizable (i.e. “Jon’s Tight End” on a pair of hot shorts). The ideal design would be an inside joke that could apply to a broad audience (i.e. “I won an argument with Jon, December 2008”).

Another type of design is the clever or funny saying that doesn’t require any personalization and can be purchased as it is (i.e. “Free Paris”).

You can choose any piece of apparel to make your design, but the Women’s Tops and Undies sections are probably your best bet.

If you’ve never saved a design before, here’s a quick lesson:

Click on the piece of apparel with which you want to start. In the Design Center, you can add text, clipart, and your own images. Everything is adjustable, so feel free to experiment with the text styles, colors, sizes, etc.

Most importantly, be sure to save your design once you’re finished. Just click the save button in the Design Center.

On the next page name your design, choose the first tag from the drop-down menu, and add “Contest 1” as an additional tag.

Be sure to leave your Share Option as “share”. Then click “Save” and you’re done!

This is our first week running this contest, so we’re not exactly sure what to expect. Only a really great design will get chosen. If it’s successful we’d like to do it every week with the same prize.

Once a design is chosen, it will go into the next possible US Weekly ad, which might not appear for a couple of weeks, depending on the deadlines.

Sound good? We really want you guys to have a great time interacting with our site, and if we can put a little extra cash in some cunning person’s pocket, we’d like to do that as well. Thanks and good luck!

If you’d like to see who you’re competing against, just click here. If you see something you like, add a comment to that design. The designer would probably appreciate it!

*You must be 18 years old to claim your prize.

*Enter as many times as you want. You do not have to purchase your design to be entered into the contest.