Alma Wad's Awards at Zazzle

Ranked #4,963 in Arts & Design, #74,481 overall

My Designs happened to win awards

I joined Zazzle.com in 2007 . I just wanted to try my luck there . I had been trying to sell my designs by cafepress.com and art.com before and I wished to see how my design looked on different Zazzle products .
This is a POD site - which means that they print on t-shirts , mugs , posters etc whatever you want . You will see how the product looks like with the design of your selection though it does not exist yet only virtually at that moment. They will create the product only after your order . It is eco -friendly solution . Thanks to the digital programs there is no need to create products that can not be sold .
When I joined Zazzle I already had a lots of designs ready as digital art is my number one hobby . I found that Zazzle was very encouraging place . Soon after I started my online designer's shop there - I got a lots of positive feedback from fellow shopkeepers ,designers .
And soon I got some awards !
There are two types of awards I got so far .
TBA = Today Best Award - it is given daily . The newly created products can win . There is a jury who decides on it. No need to apply for it . If you create a product then automatically it will be considered .

Top Ten Views Award - it is the public who decides . Nothing else matters just how many clicks you got .It can be something very simple like a plain tie or some words on a mug . It can be the world ugliest design - but it still will get this award if it got enough clicks for that .

Today I got more awards than I ever dared to dream !
I would like to show you here those designs ! Please leave your comments !

A clever Zazzle artist shares her secrets

Pamela Gobiel ( aka Fun T-shirts ) was introduced to internet marketing through her at-home business. Until 2002, Pam was a senior executive assistant for one of the largest investment firms in the country. Due to health reasons, she became homebound. Given her inclination as a high-performer and her desire to be part of a professional community, Pam began designing and developing products for one of the most successful online drop-ship vendors(aka Zazzle). Doing this allowed her to run an international business, yet never have to leave her home or computer.Pam has evolved from having a fun online hobby to having a successful business. As a result, her husband made the decision to close his construction company and work with her from home.
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"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."

Lao Tzu

The first award winning T-shirt

super daddy shirt



I was very much surprised . Why ? I did not know that my art will be considered without application . Telling the truth I would not have applied if that was the way to get it . I have tried at cafepress to apply for different designer competitions but I was not allowed as I was not US citizen .I was not operating out of US . They excluded every designer who was not living there !
Zazzle is wise not to do so ! A design is valuable or not - it has nothing to do with residence of the designer !

self-discovery

"Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is."

Jackson Pollock

my nippon sunrise abstract poster was awarded by the public

the second surprise


nippon sunrise print
nippon sunrise by almawad
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A beautiful collage ,geometrical shapes with impressionist background ,reminding one to the far eastern cultures and sunrise . Alma Wad's original artwork . It is an award winning design ! Top 10 Poster Views August 29, 2007 -at US site

I was very happy with this award . I like this image so much . I created it when I had no idea at all that it can be sold . It reminds me that happy era when I made images just for pure fun ...

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

flying swallow bag awarded by the US public

swallow bag



Top 10 Bags Views January 26, 2008

This bag used to look different . When this award was given to that design there used to be different bag styles at zazzle .

creating every day

"I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning . . . Every day I find something creative to do with my life."

Miles Davis

friends mug Today Best May 17, 2008

friends mug
friends by almawad
Create coffee mugs with pictures on zazzle.com

Exciting and unique design of two zebras . It was based on a photo made by me .Today Best May 17, 2008 it was awarded by the jury ..

revolution and art

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

My romantic Love postage was my first award winning postage

multitude of awards won !

Romantic and urban ,retro style love design .Ideal for invitations and love letters . This design is three times awarded . The first award came by the zazzle jury Today's Best July 25, 2008 - US site . It was made by me when I noticed that zazzle postage is selling well ! There was a bug on my computer at that time and I could not upload new images for a week or two .Feeling frustrated I played with my already uploaded images and zazzle fonts .I created a handful of love postages ! Then this one was appreciated most ! later it won Top 10 Postage Views 08 March, 2009- UK site ! Top 10 Postage Views 30 May, 2009 -Australian site . Yes - zazzle opened new sites - and my art was appreciated by the UK and Australian public as well !

purple stripes no7 with LOVE stamp

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

My first award winning shoe design

blue checks Keds shoe

Today Best August 29, 2008

blue checks kedsshoe



It was in August 2008 that zazzle launched shoes as new products . I kept designing shoes all the time ! It gave me some kind of unexplainable ,great joy ! I was awarded by today best soon after that ...

Zazzle suddenly stopped this item .But they promised that new improved models are coming soon .Hopefully my design can be seen again .

Horizontal flowers apron awarded by the UK public

Top 10 Aprons Views 01 January, 2009

horizontal flowers apron


South Hungarian folk art motifs radiating joy of life and passion . the original tempera painting on paper was the creation of
a village artist ... then it was edited and applied by me on various items .. thank you Aunti Teri for the painting !Top 10 Aprons Views 01 January, 2009 - it is the award that I got by the UK public !

Art and action

"To combine action and art is to combine the flower that wilts and the flower that lasts forever". Y. Mishima

horizontal flowers my second award winning mousepad

Today Best January 07, 2009

horizontal flowers1 mousepad


the same design -I wrote about it at the apron

My swan lake tee was my second award winning t-shirt

Today Best January 15, 2009

Swan lake shirt
Swan lake by a festive night .Digital painting inspired by childhood memories . Ideal for children , ,romantic souls and so on .You can add your own text . Today Best January 15, 2009 at zazzle US site

Top Ten Photo Sculpture View

Unexpected succes at Zazzle new sites

The number of photo sculpture design is not as big as the number of tie design at Zazzle . There are over 22 thousand different design on the their marketplace .It is still great to get Top Ten Photo Sculpture View award at the Uk , Canadian ,Australian sites
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Top 10 Ties Views

Unexpected succes at Zazzle new sites

It was at the end of 2008 that Zazzle opened zazzle.co.uk a site for UK customers .My necktie designs seemed to be very popular as many of them got top ten views award . There were around 400 thousand neckties at that time at Zazzle .My ties were among the top ten . I was very much surprised . I kept asking myself how it happened . Google ranks high some of those designs . We always hear that adding tags ,keywords is very important . I was more confused . These designs were poorly tagged . So - it might be something about the referring sites or the title ...
Some month later zazzle .ca a Canadian Zazzle site and an Australian site was opened where my items kept ranking high .
It was nice feeling , however I felt at times that not the best ones were picked by the public ...
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Awesome Zazzler Award

city life no2 mousepad



I have just realised that there are awards established by fellow artists . I found this message on my comment wall ! It was a great surprise ! Cheryl Daniels is an artist I like a lot .

Gorgeous! And I love your sentiments behind the creation of this piece!
Congratulations, you're an Awesome Zazzler! Your artwork has been awarded for Excellence in Artistic Design and is being featured on the front page of the Awesome Zazzlers Gallery.

Thank you Cheryl for your recognition !

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Leo Tolstoy

My Abstract Floral Postage

Today Best August 20, 2009

abstract flowers yellow orange green stamp

Top 10 Postage Views August 06, 2009

its a girl

its a girl stamp

Award winning cards

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Top 10 Bags Views September 12, 2009 at zazzle. com ( US site)

Top 10 Bags Views September 12, 2009 at zazzle. com ( US site)

ladybug family bag

Today's Best November 17, 2009

Star shaped flowers

Star shaped flowers all over the tie .Tiny patterns in cream color against brown background . Wearable fashion by Alma Wad . Great gift for Dad . Award winning design : Today's Best November 17, 2009 in zazzle.com( US site)

star flowers tie

Xmas Party ! Custom Invites

Top 10 Invitations Views November 21, 2009

Top 10 Invitations Views November 21, 2009

Xmas Party ! invitation



It was a kind of new product at zazzle when I created this vintage invites card by blending two Xmas images - a vintage one and my original photo ...

Top 10 Postcards Views November 22, 2009

Pretty Vintage Miss Post Card

Pretty Vintage Miss postcard

Top 10 Calendars on Zazzle New Zealand site

Vintage Kids Wall Calendar

Vintage photo calendar for 2010 ! Full of cute babies and children from the generations of our grandparents ,great grandparents . Edited by Alma Wad .Thanks Vintage Pixels for the photos ! Top 10 Calendars Views 27 September, 2009 at zazzle.co.nz New Zealander site .

Vintage Kids calendar

Double award January 11, 2010

Today's Best +Top 10 Stationeries

Playful floral pattern with some retro feel . Decorative gift by Alma Wad . Customize it with your own words ,initials .

Thank you Zazzle for the double award !



Today's Best January 11, 2010

Top 10 Stationeries January 11, 2010

retro floral pattern stationery

Top 10 Apparel Views 10 February, 2010

hungary t-shirt

Top 10 Apparel Views 10 February, 2010

Award winning design in Zazzle Uk site( www.zazzle.co.uk) Top 10 Apparel Views 10 February, 2010 )

hungary shirt

Today's Best June 12, 2010

Evening stripes neck wear


Evening stripes tie

Today's Best August 22, 2010

Vintage caroussel card


Vintage caroussel card

Japanese award

top ten bumper stciker view on the Japanese site July 2 , 2010

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Top 10 Business Cards Views October 09, 2010

swallow by night business card

swallow by night profilecard

Merry Xmas ! Envelope

Today's Best October 17, 2010

Merry Xmas ! envelope
Merry Xmas ! by almawad



Envelopes were something new at that time at Zazzle store . I was just experiencing with the creation of these items when I discovered that zazzle fonts also contains clip arts .So I combined two new things and that brought me a today best award .

Joyeux Noel Carte Postale

Top 10 Postcards Views December 18, 2010 at zazzle.ca

Awarded by the Canadian public

Joyeux Noel postcard

Portuguese Top ten Award for my floral tie

As 10 Gravatas Mais Vistas 30-6, 2010 - Zazzle.pt

Ungarisches Weihnachten 1902 Ankündigungskarte

Top 10 Einladungen 12 Dezember, 2010

This vintage card with Hungarian words was a great success in Germany .It got top ten views in December 2010 .Top Ten out of 1.652.000 cards ! :)

Ungarisches Weihnachten 1902 invitation

Zazzle sent me these e-mails

Thursday, February 17, 2011 1:28 PM

Congratulations, almawad!

Your product, friends, has been hand-picked as an example of creativity at its finest. Out of the billions of designs on Zazzle, yours was chosen as one of the best. friends shirt
friends by almawad
Browse more For kids T-Shirts

As a reward, your product will appear at the top of the page listed below in the "Featured Designs" section for approximately 2 weeks. This means you, your product, and your store will be center stage!

Congratulations, almawad!

Your product, raspberry stripes in vanilla, has been hand-picked as an example of creativity at its finest. Out of the billions of designs on Zazzle, yours was chosen as one of the best.

As a reward, your product will appear at the top of the page listed below in the "Featured Designs" section for approximately 2 weeks. This means you, your product, and your store will be center stage! raspberry stripes in vanilla tie
raspberry stripes in vanilla by almawad
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Le top 10 des cravates à voir 17 octobre, 2010

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rayures joyeuses tierayures joyeuses tie

Le top 10 des double cartes à voir 19 avril, 2011

chez www.zazzle.be

Plage de La de sur de jolie de Femme rackcard

This card got a top ten view award at the Belgian site of Zazzle . Merci .

Le top 10 des cravates à voir 27 janvier, 2012

chez zazzle.be

rétros points d'oeil tie
This retro patterned necktie got a top ten views award at Zazzle Belgian site .

Indian Elephant Poster

Today's Best June 14, 2011

Le top 10 des cravates à voir 27 janvier, 2012

chez zazzle.be

rayures de refroidisseur de fraise tierayures de refroidisseur de fraise tie

Top Ten View Award in 2012 at the Belgian site of Zazzle

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Learn about the traps you wish to avoid when selling your art at Zazzle .

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

Paul Cezanne

HOW TO WIN AN AWARD

sites that are looking for designs

zazzle online store
you register , you create and wait for the awards
no need to submit anything to be awarded -just your stuff should be on their marketplace
no cash - just the honour !
threadless online store
here you can win cash weekly: $2000
if your design is selected for print
they are expecting only outstanding designs
Design By Humans
Your design could win $8,500!
At DBH, you can participate in 2 types of contests:
1) The DBH Daily Contest
2) Special Contests
La Fraise
The designer of the chosen design receives 1,000 euro once he has signed the contract.

Recently awarded designs

by fellow designers

These products got various awards ...Some of them Today Best Award -others Zazzle Artist Award and other Top Ten View Awards . There are billions of designs at Zazzle.com nowadays .It is not easy to be noticed and awarded .The artists of these designs managed to do so .At the same time still there are a lots of artists with various designs and without awards .It is worth browsing Zazzle.com if you enjoy watching original visual ideas .
Fifth Birthday Party Invitation invitation New Home Rising Sun Photo Template Announcement sticker Halloween Spider Wedding Invitation invitation Stylish elegant business sticker sticker Luv You! zebra photo greetingcard card Happy Birthday cute monkey greetingcard card AB- Leaping Dolphins Congratulations Card card AA- Red and White Dahlia postage stamp AC- Cool Cats Bumper Sticker bumpersticker Butterfly in Lilac and Purple sticker Budding Romance in Blue Wedding Invitation invitation Grey and Blue Butterfly Meadow Save the Date invitation Weed Flower - Bittercress print Party Time - Cake and Presents! stationery
Cute Bunny Close Up iPhone 4 Case-Mate Tough casematecase Vintage Helsinki Harbor Finland Print iPhone 4 speckcase Radiation Geiger Counter Effect on iPad Case speckcase Behind the Eyes Goth Modern Art speckcase Sakura black white & tiffany blue iPhone case skin speckcase Red good luck elephants pattern print speckcase Golden Posies speckcase Snowflakes - Chocolate Mint speckcase Golden Swirls speckcase Circles and squares doodle

Award Winning 2011Calendars

by fellow designers

Harvest 2011 Calendar calendar Garden Creatures 2011 Calendar calendar Rural New York Calendar 2011 calendar Cute Cartoon Dogs Calendar calendar Beach calendar 2011 calendar A Mother's Love 2011 Calendar calendar

Some examples of award winning business cards

awarded at zazzle in 2011

wedding planner profile businesscard template V2 profilecard delicate blue flower profile businesscard template profilecard Colourful crocus art profile card template profilecard

award winning apparel and accessories

at zazzle in 2011

Curious Ladybug shirt Monkee Monkey shirt Bring him back shirt AA- Funny Cartoon Cats Baby Outfit shirt Kawaii cute butterfly graphic print bag Patriotic Wales St Davids Day Dragon on Yellow Tie tie Coneflower Twins necklace

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