Edit: The contest is alive and well. Check out the website we’ve set up for the contest here: http://www.threadcakes.com/

So here’s the deal:

I like cake. You like cake. Cake cake cake. Bake us a cake of your best interpretation of your absolute favoritest Threadless design. Be crazy creative, if you’re good with cake. Make a straight up decorated design or whatever your take is on certain design elements. Send us a pic (or several, preferred) of your finished creation. Take a few of the process, too. Hell, even if you suck at baking, the absolute worst thing that happens is you eat cake. And that’s probably the best absolute worst thing *ever*.

Ze prizes:

Threadless has graciously offered to sponsor the first place prize: A 12-Club Membership and a pile of crazy fun from the Threadless Junk Drawer®­. (Dude, that’s like $200.50 worth of awesome prizes and rare shirts!
Second prize: A $50 Threadless Gift Certificate
Third prize: A $25 Gift Certificate
And, if we can convince Bree, a random/fun Threadless shirt-pillow or shirt-tote.

Inspiration:

Engadget ran a similar contest a few months ago for their second birthday,which is partially where I got the idea from. Check out their results here. (And kindly ignore the fact that they have a much larger prize. ) Fun shapes, cool designs, etc.

The Rules:

EDIT: Hey kids. Please let me know if you’d like to have your pics included in the Threadcakes gallery BEFORE the competition ends. (All subs will appear after the winners are picked.) It’s completely up to you, and if you’re ultra-paranoid about having your design stolen/improved upon, just don’t say anything or say no. If you want to share your creation with the world, let me know in the email!

I’m making this pretty simple. Follow these simple instructions and you’re on your way to winning fun prizes:

1. Bake a kick-ass, tasty cake. Decorate.
2. Send me an email to cakes [at] lovesthreadless [dot] com (You gotta type those out, kids.)
3. Tell me what design you’re caking (I’d prefer printed designs only, but if you absolutely LOVE a certain sub, cake away!)
4. Attach your cake pics, preferably in jpeg format and name them after your Threadless account (or your name, if you want)
5. Include your real name somewhere
6. Submit them to me before Sunday, April 20th April 29th, 11:59pm MST. (Per Vindiemiatrix’s request, I’ve bumped it to three weeks. This means no last-minute extensions, though!)
7. No photoshops! (Not that it’d be particularly easy or subtle.) Feel free to post comments here, but don’t put your designs up here. I’ll be publishing all the submitted designs to a gallery when the competition is over!
8. Take lots of pics! Pics are free! Pics of the process, several of the finished product, you eating cake, etc. The more pics, the better!
9. Send as many as you want! Uncompressed or what have you!
10. Indicate if you want to have your entry appear in the Threadcakes gallery, before the competition ends.
11. Cake cake cake cake cake

Don’t forget to take pics of the process. Hell, blog about it. Cake is fun!

I’m really not sure what to expect with people + cakes + a contest, so I’m not limiting the number of cakes you can enter. Do me a favor and keep multiple entries in separate emails, for my sake.

Bree, myself and whomever else I think to ask will judge and select the winners shortly after the 20th. It’s true–it’s the biggest contest we’ve had yet. We’ll be judging on just how creative you guys can be. Sheer accuracy and fastidious execution may take it, or a completely abstract, new take on an old favorite might instead. Have fun with it! And eat cake!

Again, many, many thanks to team Threadless for offering a very cool prize!

(I’d love to have a pic in this entry, but my hard drive toasted and my replacement isn’t here yet, so I’m running sans Photoshop at the moment. Maybe Bree will toss together a cool cake logo for this entry? Edit: Yep, done and done! -Bree)

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