Smart Canucks Cute Kids Contest 2010

[Boo Radley]

AMBERLAB'S UPDATE ON JAN 3:
I know everyone is excited to get the show on the road and vote! Unfortunately, due to the work in setting all the contests up, we need to delay the voting process for a week. Notice of where/when to vote will be cookie crumbed at the end of this thread, so please check back next weekend.

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Welcome to the Smart Canucks Cute Kids Contest 2010

In previous years when the Cute Baby Contest was held members with kids who aren't babies anymore were disappointed that they couldn't enter. This is why for the second year in a row we're having a Cute Kids contest too. Your kids must have been born before 2009. If they are born in 2009 or 2010 please enter them into the Cute Baby Contest and not here.

A very special thank you to ilovemykids for providing the following information

Please read ALL the instructions below before entering your kids into the contest.

Schedule

• Submissions open from now until Wednesday December 29th, 2010.
• Voting Starts January 3rd, 2011 and ends January 7th, 2011. -PLEASE NOTE THIS HAS CHANGED, UPDATE ABOVE
  
• Winner announced a couple of days after voting ends.

What is the Smart Canucks Cute Kids Contest?

Get your cameras ready! Our first Cute Kids Contest is here for parents with kids who aren't babies anymore. ALL pics need to be current and taken by YOU. Pictures taken by a photographer are not allowed.

All members of SmartCanucks will then vote for the cute kids and the top 20 winners will all win gift cards!

We can't wait to see what you all come up with!!
HAVE FUN!

Be sure to read the full contest information located below, BEFORE POSTING YOUR PIC.

The Prizes

There will be 20 prizes in total The gift cards will be from a well known retailer like Loblaws, Shoppers Drug Mart, Metro, etc. We will allow the winners to list their top 5 gift card preferences.
1st: $50 Gift Card (Loblaws or Shoppers Drug Mart, etc.)
2nd: $40 Gift Card(Loblaws or Shoppers Drug Mart, etc.)
3rd: $30 Gift Card(Loblaws or Shoppers Drug Mart, etc.)
4th: $20 Gift Card (Loblaws or Shoppers Drug Mart, etc.)
5th - 10th: $10 Gift Card each (Loblaws or Shoppers Drug Mart, etc.)
10th - 20th: $5 Gift Card each(Loblaws or Shoppers Drug Mart, etc.)

How to join the contest

** PLEASE THOROUGHLY READ THIS POST BEFORE ENTERING YOUR IMAGE - IF THESE STEPS LISTED BELOW ARE NOT MET YOUR PHOTO MAY BE REMOVED WITHOUT WARNING**

First of all you need to take your cute kids picture. You have a lot of time to come up with a good picture so don't rush it. No professional (photographer) pictures will be accepted and will be deleted without notice.

Be creative! The picture can be funny or cute or in a certain interesting setting.

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Once you have that special picture it's time to enter it here. Please follow the instructions below
carefully
carefully...........!!

**NOTE: You must use Smart Canucks image uploading. It automatically resizes the image to fit into your post. Enormous or outside image hosted pictures will be deleted without notice.**

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You need to sign into the forum.
If you are not yet a member you can register here.

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If you already know how to upload skip to step 6 but keep step 4 in mind:

1. First select your username in the top right corner of any page.


2. After you choose that it'll take you to your user profile. In there choose "Show All Albums".


3. Next choose, "Add Album".


4. You will be taken to an album set up screen like the one below. Be advised that when you create this album it'll have to be made "PUBLIC" otherwise those NOT on your friends lists will not see your pic. Therefore it'll ruin your chances at some good votes.


5. Once you have them uploaded. They'll be stored in your album. To post it, use the BB Code. Copy that long code and paste it into the post you'd like the image to be visible.


Be advised as well that the BB Code will look like the following when you post it:


6. You also need to provide the following information with your picture:

• Name your picture! Be creative.
• Your relationship to the things or place involved in the image.
  
• A cute short story about the picture – no story, no entry. Peroid.

COPY AND PASTE THIS TEMPLATE.
Place it ABOVE your image in your entry post:

• Name or Nickname of Child
• Age
• Name of the image: ??
• Relationship to image: ??
• Story: Tell us something interesting or funny about your daughter or son

7. One picture per person. You are MORE then welcome to upload more then one photo and link to your album. If you'd like to learn how to insert a link into words you can do so HERE Only post the picture you are entering. All others will be removed in order to keep the thread clean.

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Please feel free to ask any questions here or discuss the great pictures.

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Contest helpers:

If you're having trouble submitting a pic or have any questions you can contact the following people for help:

Boo Radley
If anyone wants to volunteer as helper too please let me know

[Boo Radley]

Important:

Please remember that the results of this contest mean NOTHING. All the Kids are cute and all the results here will mean is that a parent managed to take an interesting picture of their child but it does not mean any child is cuter than another child

[Boo Radley]

Reserved

[Boo Radley]

Reserved 2

[couponmummy]

Is there an age limit? DS is 15.

[FreebieChick]

Good luck everyone!

[ex0ticb3lla]

Name or Nickname of Child: Bryson- The Ham Bone
Age: 3
Name of the image: I see everything in 3D mom!!!
Relationship to image: His mother
Story:
MY son is a ham, he's got a crazy cowlick at the front of his head and we swear it makes him wild as his hair! He's got a personality like no other and as one can tell from the picture, he's definitely not shy!

[Boo Radley]

Is there an age limit? DS is 15.

I'm thinking of making it 12 years old. Sorry guys with older kids!

[amycrows]

Name IsHaq
Age 3
Name of the image: Don't mess with me !!!
Relationship to image: My wonderful son
Story: As you can tell he loves to be the centre of attention and loves the camera. We always tell him to express himself and alot of times that also means 'roar'ing at us which is what he was doing when we captured this picture

[IRefuseToPayFullPrice]

• Name or Nickname of Child: Enrico (nickname: Rico)
  
• Age: 4
  
• Name of the image: If I let you take my picture, will you let me open my presents?
• Relationship to image: My first born, the sweetest child a mother can ever ask for.
• Story: The date on the image is wrong (didn't set the date/time feature on my camera ). This was actually taken Christmas Eve 2008 right before we went to church. I wanted to take a photo of him and he kept running away from me, but I said that if I can get one good photo of him, he can open one of his presents .

[monkeymommy]

Name or Nickname of Child: Logan (Little Log, Monkey,Loggie)
Age: 2.5yrs
Name of the image: The day he made it up the circle steps!
Relationship to image: I'm his MA-MMY!
Story: The picture was taken the day he got brave and walked up the circle steps at the playground.....he yelled "MA-MMMY I climbed the sunshine steps"

[scbpooh]

Ive been trying to contemplate a pic to use but today I think I may have got it! Im going to wait a bit before posting just in case I get a better one!

[gameprogirl]

Does it have to be our kids or do neices and nephews count?

[Jelliebean]

Name: Quinten (QT)
Age: 2
Relationship: He's my crazy kid.

My little lucky duck got to ride with Santa in a helicopter to drop him off at the local Canadian Tire! It was super cool! This is him in the chopper with his head set on!!!

[dandyprat]

Name or Nickname of Child: Leland
Age 5
Name of the image: Leland's riding a horse
Relationship to image: My son
Story: This is Lelands first time riding a horse. It was a miniature named cookie and he had a blast!