Challenges for Week 144

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CONTESTANTS: 20
Actor Submissions: 13
Capt Submissions: 17
Hunt Submissions: 13
Text Submissions: 12

Please remember to read the rules carefully for each challenge, because they vary depending on what they call for... If you have any questions, please leave a comment separate from your entry post and I will get back to you asap!

Also, we nominate all winning icons to hp_awards. If you do not want your icons to be nominated, you need to say so in your entry post!



Actor Challenge: Robbie Coltrane
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Rules of the Actor Challenge:
* You may use the pictures provided above OR your own.
* Your actor photos must be OUT OF CHARACTER!
* Blending, Text, and Animation are allowed.

Capture Challenge: Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone
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Rules of the Capture Challenge:
* You may use only the pictures provided above.
* No blending with outside pictures.
* Text and Animation are allowed.

Hunt Challenge: Black & White with a hint of color.

Your icons must me completely desaturated, except for a hint of color. The color can be achieved by painted sections, or color textures.

Rules of the Hunt Challenge:
* You may use any picture you find, but it must be a scene/character from the Harry Potter movies.
* Please do NOT use images provided on this post for your hunt icons. Go find YOUR OWN images!
* Blending, Text, and Animation are allowed.

Text Challenge: Blue October - A Quiet Mind

A slow strangle with feet on the floor
I've got 14 angels and we're sleeping alone
In the back of a cave, where the rest of us go
To feel normal

I call baby up. Leave me alone.
I'm in pain but I won't let you band-aid the wound
I'm mad at a stage where I can't even handle my own

Give me a quiet mind and I...
I love you
You give me a quiet mind and I...
I love you
Until the end

Give me strength to be kind... To combine
All the good things in life that were so hard to find
But I have and I won't let them go like I do with my friends

Still bearing voices... From front... From behind
They're the reasons I choose... When to live... How to die
When to cast... When to reel
When to buy... When to steal
When to fiend for the friends that taught me
Being inappropriate will

Give me a quiet mind and I...
I love you
You give me a quiet mind and I...
I love you
Till the end

Rules of the Text Challenge:
* You must use at least three (3) consecutive words from the lyrics provided above.
* No words, other than the text we provide, will be acceptable in your icon(s).
* The text/font you use in your icon must be clearly legible... see examples here.
* You may use any picture you find, but it must be a scene/character from the Harry Potter movies.
* Please do NOT use images provided on this post for your hunt icons. Go find YOUR OWN images!
* Blending, Text, and Animation are allowed.

Rules of the House:
* You may submit only one (1) icon per challenge.
* All icons must be 100x100 and under 40k in gif, jpg or png format.
* Remember to include the URL and the SRC when posting (see the example below).
* Try to keep all your challenge icons under ONE post, labeling which ones go to each contest.
* DEADLINE: Monday, February 25th @ 8pm central time zone.
* Unsure of the time difference? Compare time zones here.

Example of Submitting Icons:

Actor Challenge:


http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e251/wizard__icontest/winners/w142--act--parelasi.png

Cap Challenge:


http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e251/wizard__icontest/winners/w142--cap--the_jedi_ninja.jpg

Hunt Challenge:


http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e251/wizard__icontest/winners/w142--hunt--parelasi.png

Text Challenge:


http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e251/wizard__icontest/winners/w142--text--stillxmyxheart.png

Format for Submitting Icons:

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