That’s right. I’ve been so obsessed with cameras and photography lately I’ve decided to hold a photography contest!

Theme: Cake! My birthday is coming up so I want to see your best photos of cake! Cupcakes, wedding cakes, show me the sweet stuff!

Equipment: *Any camera*: digital, film, camera phone, polaroid–if it snaps a photo you can enter that photo in the contest!

Entry Fee: $5 USD per entrant, one photo per entrant

Rules:

• One photo per entrant
• No goofy photoshop photos (Only use photoshop for light editing, cropping or watermarks please!)
• No copyright infringement, please only submit photos you own the rights to and have taken yourself
• Photo must have the cake theme to qualify
• Entrant must have paid entry fee to qualify

Directions: 

• Send your $5 USD entry fee via paypal to gothcupcake@gmail.com, include your name and mailing address in the comments/notes Example: “Photo Contest Entry Fee, Jack Skellington, 1313 Spooky Lane, Halloween Town, AZ 00000,” etc.
• Send your photo to gothcupcake@gmail.com, files should be jpeg format low res. Include “Photo Contest Entry” in the subject and in the body include your name and mailing address and let me know you’ve sent the entry fee.
• Photos will be posted on the Mary Cakes Facebook page in a specialPhoto Contest album!
• Entries must be received by July 30th, votes will be measured by the number of “likes” on the entries, so the sooner you enter the more time you’ll have to accrue votes!
• Winner and runner up will be chosen from all qualified entries and announced on July 31st!
• Grand Prize winner is the photo with the most votes, runner up is photo chosen by the judges based on theme, creativity, quality and composition.

Grand Prize

One Grand Prize winner will be awarded the Holgawood Oscar gold 120 camera.

Runner Up

One runner up winner will be awarded a mystery prize! To be determined by number of entries.

So, get snappy!

Welcome My Little Sprinkles of Doom

I finally decided to start an official Gothcupcake blog. Bigger and better than ever! It's coming upon the one year celebration of the birth of my gothcupcake shop and there is much to celebrate. When I started out I didn't even have business cards. I used markers, stickers, a photocopy machine and imagination to create makeshift business cards that I handed out to friends and family. Now I have shiny jewelry boxes, the third design of my business cards, fancy new jewelry tags for my latest collection, and a slew of awesome friends. I don't want to sound like a commercial, but truly I wouldn't have gotten this far with my shop, had it not been for all of the amazing people I've met on DIYscene. The men and women on the forum have given me advice, shown me love, helped promote me, and even have purchased from or traded with me. I am very grateful for the friendships I have built there along the way, and I hope they continue to flourish as my mini empire continues to grow.

So, welcome! I have some exciting updates, projects, ideas, vegan recipes, and products that I want to share with you. I look forward to hearing from you!

dark wishes,
gothcupcake