Creativity Contest Entries...

June 22, 2007

UPDATE ON CONTEST: THE JAPANLA TOKIDOKI CREATIVITY CONTEST HAS BEEN EXTENDED...PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR ENTRIES BY FRIDAY, JUNE 29TH....Email your submission to: info@japanla.com *Also, there is going to be more prizes: 1st Place: The new Adios and Ciao Ciao toy, signed by Simone. 2nd Place: Mozzarella vinyl toy signed by Simone. 3rd Place: Bastardino vinyl toy signed by Simone. Here's the details: JapanLA presents the tokidoki Ultimate Creativity Competition!*¡Mind Explosion Extravaganza!* featuring Adios & Ciao Ciao! Whoever sends me the best picture of the most creative tokidoki creation…fanart…amazingness, will win both Adios and Ciao Ciao vinyl toys signed by Simone himself. This may sound kind of vague, but this is your chance to create something spectacular to show your love for tokidoki…so do your best to make something that will win you an awesome prize…It can be anything that represents your admiration for tokidoki…you can send a picture of what you make or a video…whatever you’d like…it just has to be mind exploding. This is not a popularity contest or a “who has the most tokidoki stuff” contest. This is a contest to make something or do something that will make us say “that is definately the winner.” So explode our minds with what you can come up with… Email the pics to: info@japanla.com I will post the mind melting ones on the blog…and you guys can post comments. If you’d like to talk about the contest, there is a discussion on the purseblog forum…www.purseblog.com; search: “JapanLA’s Ultimate tokidoki Creativity Competition” Good luck! Here are the entries so far. I'll keep adding more as they come in! Leave comments for the ones you like!

#1 Adios and Ciao Ciao Corpse Bride, by Denise Lynch

#2 James Clark

#3 Bridget Rhee

#4 Talal Rashid

#5 Danny Pham's tokidokified Nike's

#6 Nicole Nocentino's custom Converse and tokidoki mural she painted.

#7 Rachel's painting of her name on a 15x22" canvas

#8 Kayla Lim

#9 Painted Night Sky

#10 Kim Nguyen's Munny

#11 Mitone Molenkamp's tattoos

#12 Cada's Helmet

#13 Chaya as Cactus Girl

#14 Kellie Wilson's tokidoki music video

#15 Juliani's tokidoki multipurpose felt decorations.

#16 Julia Rudolph's Tattoos

#17 Stephanie Henderson's tokidoki Blythe doll, (hand knitted by her).

#18 Erika's tattoo

#19 Kimberly Ly

#20 Gretchen's Adios & Ciao Ciao Felt Guys

#21 Lillith's Anime style tokidoki

#22 Ariceli Espinoza's tattoo and hanging out with tokidoki characters...and Adios and Ciao Ciao Cakes.

#23 Jennifer Palisoc's tokidoki/JapanLA diner and display...

#24 Phi Lam's Picture using: construction papers, magazines, ribbons, beads, tissue papers, clays and her drawings.

#25 Debra's Dokimation

#26 Ada's Adios & Ciao Ciao figures, hand made from polymer clay, (inspired by Whiskers from the Purse Forum.)

#27 Jesus's tokidoki inspired tattoos

#28 Dana Lei's Munny and Nail Art

#29 Emily Laricchia's linoleum block, carved and printed on Japanese washi paper.

#30 Jorge, (from Columbia), tokidoki spa picture

#31 Ogeyi's tokidoki dream

#32 Aileen's tokidoki etch a sketch pic (the small one that's 2 x 3").

#33 Linni's Chalk Drawing

#34 Christine Dior's Door

#35 Alexandra Villemaire's White Tiger Design, Garden, and Dragon Picture

#36 Tanda Rausch's Milk Lamp

#37 Blacksmaru's tokidoki cars, from the game Forza Motorsport for Xbox360, designs made all from shapes & there is no copying images from the computer

#38 Cherly Gushiken-Zell's tokidoki room made with foam cut-outs inspired by the Foresta and Original Print designs.

#39 Stephanie (Whiskers) Adios & Ciao Ciao Barbeque picture.

#40 Adios Costume

#41 Kathryn Maristany American Reaper Picture

#42 Cheryl Chua's tokidoki love acrylic painting (final)

#43 Keely Freeman's Doll

#44 Kristal Chou's drawings with sharpies and colored pencils

#45 Melissa Palacios's Sticker Charm Clothesline, Shadowboxes, and tokidoki tattoo.

#46 Mickey Clarke's tokidoki travel cup

#47 Thuy's pic

#48 tokidoki family

#49 Liza Saguto's geisha drawing..."Kotama is a maiko (apprentice geisha) dressed in a charming Tokidoki kimono on her way to her next appointment. She will definitely be the hit of the party in this ensemble."