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Only 1 day left! TOMORROW IS THE BIG DAY! Thanks to all our participants!! Can't wait for tomorrow!!!
The Contest Ends April 3rd at 12:00 PM EST
We will be announcing the winners and giving a SPECIAL announcement so be sure to be here April 3rd!! ^_^


Tiny Top Hats is happy to host our very first original design contest with TWO grand prizes of Two Free Tiny Top Hats!!! Anyone is eligible to enter, and the best part is it's absolutely free!
The Contest Begins March 9th and will end April 3rd There is no deadline to submit your entry, but the sooner you do, the more time you'll have to tell everyone about your design!!
Remember, there are TWO FREE TINY TOP HATS up for grabs!
Read on to learn how you can win either one!!!


Here's how it works. We want you to design your very own Tiny Top Hat. You can draw it, sketch it, sculpt it, photo-manipulate it, describe it, whatever you want. You have creative control! Each winner will receive a Free Tiny Top Hat!
If we like any design enough, we might even make your hat, who knows!

Here's how you enter to win:

  • Create your beautiful design and upload it to your Deviantart.
    In your description, you will need to copy and paste this standard paragraph first before any other text:

    "This is my entry for :icon(REMOVE)tinytophats: 'Win a FREE Tiny Top Hat' Design Contest. Anyone is allowed to enter, even you!! It's totally free and they're giving away TWO Tiny Top Hats!
    Go check them out to see their awesome hats and to find out more about the contest: (REMOVE)www.tinytophats.devian…
    And don't just favorite my design and leave, check out all the great designs on their front page and pick your favorites. You can vote for as many people as you want!"

    Note: Please remove ALL (REMOVE)'s you see in the above description in order for the links to work. This is very important.
    Then feel free to add any other description to your entry after you have entered the above text.
  • Once your design is uploaded, send me a note saying:

    "Here is my Entry for the 'Win A Free Tiny Top Hat Contest': (Insert link to your Design Deviation Here). By submitting this entry to you, I realize that I am surrendering all rights I have to this design to Tiny Top Hats and they can use it as they see fit. I also agree to comply with all of their contest rules if I wish to be considered to win."
  • Now let everyone know about your hat design! Every favorite that your design gets, will count as one point.



  • How we will determine the winners:

    One Free hat will be awarded to the person with the most Favorites Points on their design! It's as simple as that!! If you aren't the person with the most faved design, don't worry, you have another chance.

    We have decided to give away an additional hat to make this contest fairer for people who are worried that they aren't well known enough to stand a chance. So here's what we're gonna do:
    There are 4 of us here at Tiny Top Hats. We will each pick our favorite design out of all the entries (We will base our choices on design and originality alone. (The winner of the first Tiny Top Hat can NOT be picked for this hat))
    Once we have chosen our 4 favorites, the design out of those 4 that has the most Favorite Points will be the winner of the second Tiny Top Hat.
    This gives everyone the chance to make an awesome design and be noticed, no matter how popular they are.
    However, this will also ensure that you advertise your design as much as possible so that if your design IS one of the 4 chosen by the Judges, you will be the winner!


    Rules
    Please Read Them Carefully!

  • Absolutely no stolen designs or artwork. We will not accept fanart hats, hats with trademarked logos on them, hats based on characters (unless it is your own original character), or any copyrighted material. This hat needs to be your original design. Period.
  • No Bashing of other peoples entries. Keep this a friendly contest.
  • We retain the right to disqualify anyone at any time that we see breaking the rules.
  • You can only submit one design so make sure it's your best idea.
  • When you submit your design to us, you must have the standard description copy and pasted in to be eligible for the prize. It MUST remain there throughout the whole contest. If you remove it, you will be disqualified.
  • Both winners will be able to select one hat from Our Etsy Shop (www.etsy.com/shop/littlecasaro… ) Worth $30 or less and receive it for free, with free shipping.



  • Tips
    Here's a few tips to help you spread the word about your design! You don't have to do them, but it might help your design stand out
      • If you're doing a drawing or sketch, try to make sure your lines are very bold and easy to see from a small thumbnail. We will be posting all the entries as thumbnails on our Deviantart front page, so make sure the lines are clean and easy to see even small. You might even want to ink your sketches!

      • It might help to put a link to your design in your signature. Make it bold and make it eye catching so people will click it to check it out!

      • Tell everyone you know to Fave! People on your Social Networking sites, blogs, anything! Starting a Deviantart account is easy and you might even get some of your friends who don't know about DA hooked on it

      • Try joining and submitting your design to some groups! There's hundreds of groups out there, and I'm sure many would be happy to accept your design! It'll help spread the word and more people will see your beautiful design!

      • Put something in your description saying you need people to fave in order to win!! People might not realize, so make sure you tell them





    That's it, if you have any other questions, please ask us here!
    Thank you and I hope we have a really great amount of entries for this contest!!!!!

    Make sure to view our front page here tinytophats.deviantart.com/ to see all the entries and vote for your favorites!!

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    Comments: 333

    AllHailWeegee [2012-04-03 00:59:23 +0000 UTC]

    Darn it, deadline's tommorow! D: I'm sorry, but I don't think I can enter. ;^;

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    TinyTopHats In reply to AllHailWeegee [2012-04-03 03:40:01 +0000 UTC]

    Awww that's ok! Maybe if we have another contest

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    AllHailWeegee In reply to TinyTopHats [2012-04-04 00:27:31 +0000 UTC]

    That would be awesome, and I'm sorry that I didn't make it! D:

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    TinyTopHats In reply to AllHailWeegee [2012-04-04 01:51:19 +0000 UTC]

    Oh that's ok, I understand everyone is busy!! ^___^ Thanks for even considering entering

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    StephyGtz [2012-04-02 21:24:53 +0000 UTC]

    how many hours are left from now to submit my entry?

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    TinyTopHats In reply to StephyGtz [2012-04-02 21:40:26 +0000 UTC]

    There are 18 hours left!

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    ATFangirl [2012-04-02 00:16:24 +0000 UTC]

    That's a cool contest, sadly I didnt stumble upon it sooner. What I like about it though, is that you received many good entires, so it's seems like you have a hard decision on your hands

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    TinyTopHats In reply to ATFangirl [2012-04-02 01:50:20 +0000 UTC]

    Yeah I'm sorry you didn't know about it there sooner!!
    Yeah it's been a super good turn out, more than I ever expected! ^____^ Maybe if we do another contest some time, you'll be able to enter I hope so at least

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    ATFangirl In reply to TinyTopHats [2012-04-03 00:26:52 +0000 UTC]

    Woooh I'll try, if I can get off my lazy butt...

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    TinyTopHats In reply to ATFangirl [2012-04-03 03:59:47 +0000 UTC]

    Yayyy for lazy butts, I have one of those too

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    ATFangirl In reply to TinyTopHats [2012-04-03 21:26:27 +0000 UTC]

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    SkeleLock [2012-04-01 22:44:35 +0000 UTC]

    Just wondering....how can you see how many faves our entries recieve without us tellng you?

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    TinyTopHats In reply to SkeleLock [2012-04-01 23:14:09 +0000 UTC]

    It shows how many faves something has when you view the deviation

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    SkeleLock In reply to TinyTopHats [2012-04-02 22:22:39 +0000 UTC]

    ah ok. thanks~

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    TinyTopHats In reply to SkeleLock [2012-04-02 22:36:06 +0000 UTC]

    No problem ^_^

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    Randomninjagirl [2012-04-01 17:26:38 +0000 UTC]

    Well I definitely will not win and here is why: this is based on popularity...
    Yes I read this and I still think its not very fair even if you do narrow it down to 4 hats you like, you are still basing your judgement on popularity. I do not have very many watchers and there is no chance that my hat will be seen because often times good art can be overlooked for silly reasons. This probably includes other people who have entered the contest and may have had awesome concepts. You are judging based on how many favorites a piece has. More people view the art rather than fav it. (I guess faving is just too much of a commitment for some people). If you wanted to involve your watchers and have a vote then it's just a suggestion, but a pole would be more fair. This is just some food for thought I don't really want to get into a big debate over the fairness of this contest but I thank you for telling me about it and if I ever figure out how to make a proper hat I will use my design and make it myself.

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    TinyTopHats In reply to Randomninjagirl [2012-04-01 18:17:38 +0000 UTC]

    Hey there,
    I'm sorry you've decided the contest isn't very fair, but I will explain the reasoning behind what we've done.
    Tiny Top Hats is a business, and we make our hats to sell them. We've decided to host a contest to help spread the word about our hats. We're essentially giving away up to $82 for absolutely free in order for everyone to only post our name on their deviation and tell their friends about it.
    Other than that, we ask nothing of the entries

    We didn't have to give away 2 hats, or heck even give away 1 hat. But we wanted to ^_^
    So to make it as even as possible we wanted to reward the person who did the most ADVERTISING of our business. Not the person with the most watchers...
    Let me give you an example...The person who entered this hat design has over 600 watchers and has only 82 faves: [link]
    The person who entered this hat has around 50 watchers (much like yourself) and has 95 faves: [link]
    And this person here has only 7 watchers and yet they have 14 faves: [link]

    This isn't a watcher competition, it's an advertising and design contest. However, we will pick our favorites despite the number of faves they have. And in order to ensure that the top 4 would KEEP advertising for us, we made it still have to do with faves and advertising.
    This is why we did what we did. I understand your concern, but that was the best way we saw fit to host it.


    And I wanna also take this opportunity to say a huge thank you to all the entries that have continued to advertise, have fun, and be good sports about this contest. This contest has been a BLAST to host and I applaud all your efforts!! ^_____^ LOVE YOU GUYS!!

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    SkeleLock In reply to TinyTopHats [2012-04-01 22:43:51 +0000 UTC]

    WHAT!? SOMEONE HAS 95 FAVES!? NOOOOOoooooo!!!! T^T

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    TinyTopHats In reply to SkeleLock [2012-04-02 00:08:12 +0000 UTC]

    Yeah someone does! And I think there's someone with even more than that

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    SkeleLock In reply to TinyTopHats [2012-04-02 22:22:31 +0000 UTC]

    OMG!!!! D8

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    ViieBhindi [2012-04-01 12:44:19 +0000 UTC]

    my entry yay
    [link]

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    TinyTopHats In reply to ViieBhindi [2012-04-01 17:55:40 +0000 UTC]

    Hey there! Thank you so much for entering, can you send me your entry in the form of the required Note please

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    LitteRozy [2012-04-01 09:30:42 +0000 UTC]

    Ah! I said that I will join, but lately I haven't got any time, sorry! ^^ So I will join now (only 2 days left, lol) and I will try to design one!

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    TinyTopHats In reply to LitteRozy [2012-04-01 17:57:08 +0000 UTC]

    Oh ok!! yeah you cut it pretty close, with this ^__^ I can't wait to see what you come up with!! ^__^

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    LitteRozy In reply to TinyTopHats [2012-04-02 18:34:04 +0000 UTC]

    Here is it! [link] I posted you note, but I am afraid that I made something wrong and it didn't sent, so just to be shore ^_^

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    TinyTopHats In reply to LitteRozy [2012-04-03 03:41:32 +0000 UTC]

    Yeah I received it, thank you so much! I put it up and everything

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    LitteRozy In reply to TinyTopHats [2012-04-03 16:50:48 +0000 UTC]

    You are welcome and thank you too!

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    catflavored [2012-03-31 16:58:23 +0000 UTC]

    Hello, I have a question.I will be traveling on April 3rd, with no internet, but I will be back April 5th. Will it still be okay if I see the announcement then? Do you choose new winners if the ones you pick fail to reply on the deadline date, or anything like that?

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    TinyTopHats In reply to catflavored [2012-03-31 17:06:54 +0000 UTC]

    Let me send you a note real quick

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    catflavored In reply to TinyTopHats [2012-03-31 17:48:31 +0000 UTC]

    Thanks :3

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    epic-otaku8 [2012-03-31 16:20:11 +0000 UTC]

    Hey everyone!!!! Plz fav my hat design!!!
    Click TEH
    link in meh signature!! Plz
    ^_^ thanks

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    ICrushedIt [2012-03-30 23:58:59 +0000 UTC]

    oh man
    SO pumped i love stuff like this

    so I will enter as well

    I have a question do you have to color it or is it just recommended?

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    TinyTopHats In reply to ICrushedIt [2012-03-31 00:00:54 +0000 UTC]

    Ooooh I'm pumped that you're pumped

    You don't have to color it, it's just recommended so that people can understand your design better and it'll be more eye-catching that way

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    ICrushedIt In reply to TinyTopHats [2012-03-31 00:06:17 +0000 UTC]

    KK THANKS

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    NamieDanielle [2012-03-30 22:17:24 +0000 UTC]

    Good luck to anyone who enters!!

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    TinyTopHats In reply to NamieDanielle [2012-03-31 00:01:05 +0000 UTC]

    Yesssss

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    NamieDanielle In reply to TinyTopHats [2012-04-05 20:27:24 +0000 UTC]

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    RushBreaker [2012-03-30 17:56:43 +0000 UTC]

    I've got to do this!

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    TinyTopHats In reply to RushBreaker [2012-03-31 00:01:10 +0000 UTC]

    MUST DO!

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    GiNgErPaNdErZ [2012-03-30 17:42:27 +0000 UTC]

    [link]
    Link to my entry. Hope you like.

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    TinyTopHats In reply to GiNgErPaNdErZ [2012-03-31 00:01:54 +0000 UTC]

    Ok awesome! Can you send the link in the form of a note giving us the rights to use your design if we want (The required paragraph is in the info ) Thank you!! ^__^

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    GiNgErPaNdErZ In reply to TinyTopHats [2012-03-31 00:11:49 +0000 UTC]

    Just throw the link into a note? I can do that.

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    TinyTopHats In reply to GiNgErPaNdErZ [2012-03-31 00:15:28 +0000 UTC]

    Yeah, but you need to copy and paste this:


    "Here is my Entry for the 'Win A Free Tiny Top Hat Contest': (Insert link to your Design Deviation Here). By submitting this entry to you, I realize that I am surrendering all rights I have to this design to Tiny Top Hats and they can use it as they see fit. I also agree to comply with all of their contest rules if I wish to be considered to win."

    And send that in a note to me please ^_^ With your journal link in it ^_^
    I hope I didn't confuse you

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    GiNgErPaNdErZ In reply to TinyTopHats [2012-03-31 00:18:19 +0000 UTC]

    Oop. I sent it before you sent this. I have the paragraph from the contest thing on your page in it though. I can add this and re-send it.

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    TinyTopHats In reply to GiNgErPaNdErZ [2012-03-31 00:30:27 +0000 UTC]

    Yeah everything looks good!! You're now entered YAYYYYY!

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    GiNgErPaNdErZ In reply to TinyTopHats [2012-03-31 01:52:32 +0000 UTC]





    YAY!!!!!

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    Ghirox [2012-03-30 06:41:12 +0000 UTC]

    I'm mexican, is there any problem with that? I mean, will it make a significant differenceto get the hats if Iwin?

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    TinyTopHats In reply to Ghirox [2012-03-30 18:33:41 +0000 UTC]

    No, it doesn't matter where you're from ^__^ Anyone can win!

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    Ghirox In reply to TinyTopHats [2012-03-30 20:46:50 +0000 UTC]

    great!!

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    GiNgErPaNdErZ [2012-03-30 04:02:15 +0000 UTC]

    I have an idea but I have no idea how to draw it out. If I type it up what should I do? Put it in a comment, a note, a journal?

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