To begin, I just want to say thank you, thank you, thank you to all of the people who took the time to participate in one or more of these weekly contests. Your participation now and in the past has been what makes this community -- your creativity, your thoughts, and your expressions are, and always have been, amazing ( Read more... )

This week's contest inspired some touching, beautiful entries. I'd like to share some of the ones that really stood out, if I may:

phuck_may's entry here
phantascene's entry here
nnaylime's entry here

And if you really want anoter really good (but long!) read, try cooling1018s entry hereBut none of these entries is this week's winner, you see. That's because this week's winner is ( ( Read more... )

Before doing anything else I'd like to apologize deeply that this entry is so overdue for the week 3 winner. The Powers That Be took their time with that one.

I'd like to heartily thank the three people who took the time to create and submit their themes. I'd like to encourage EVERYONE to check out fightnilinichic's entry here and l_e_phanty's entry hereAnd I'd like to ( Read more... )

I am pleased to announce that we have sifted through the entries from week 2, and we have narrowed it down to three finalists and a winner!

I would like everyone to congratulate the following users for their outstanding entries (click on their names to view their entries):

makiafish
fightnilinichic
plaidoe77You three made it really, really hard ( Read more... )

Well, before I post today's contest I'd just like to announce that we have come to a consensus about a winner for week one!

Before I name the winner, I'd like to direct everyone's attention to the three entries that were considered "finalists" this week:

* pruportjoie's portrait here
* cooling1018's portrait here
* ladylemondrop's portrait hereThank you to all three finalists, as ( Read more... )

Well, I have a number of announcements to make on this, our last day of hpcreateThe first announcement is that a decision has been reached in light of some of the antics from the Week 8 finalists poll. Long story short, we discovered that not one, but three of the finalists participated in some ballot stuffing -- tampering with the vote. So we need to ( Read more... )

Today is Friday, and you know what that means: time for this week's competition post.

This week, I want you guys to tell me or show me about how you know it's winter.This week, the competition is for a flight voucher--an awesome prize! You have until around 10:00pm PST on Sunday to get your entry in, so take your time if you want to enter ( Read more... )

First, we have a winner from our small businesses theme! For the second week in a row, our winner is gemmi_joo! Everyone click here and download the tasty picture she uploaded!

The big news is... hpcreate has been renewed for another three months! That's three more months of weekly themes and daily prompts -- and it's hopefully going to be even better, with more ( Read more... )

Also! We have the winner for Week 7! I would like you all to congratulate one of our newest members, gemmi_joo, who posted this gorgeous picture.

We finally have a winner for week 6! Let's all congratulate luminairex for his gorgeous picture of New Zealand.

Thank you very much to everyone who participated! The entries from last week were all fantastic!