[img align=left]http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b174/theatticbox/Persnickety_1.png[/img]Good evening, students and staff members alike! I apologize for not coming to greet you all sooner, but I have been rather busy getting settled into my new position here at Hogwarts. I am your new Headmistress, Professor Appoline Persnickety. I hope you have all been enjoying your time here so far as much as I have. It's lovely to be back behind these walls!

Ahem, onto the reason why I am speaking to you all today... The Board of Governors and I feel that we would like to open our doors to even more students and find that we would like to launch an advertisement campaign.

To give you all a chance to earn some extra House Points, we are opening the floor to students to create ad banners to display around the forums! Each student is allowed to submit 2 ad banners to the contest for 20 House Points each for a total of a possible 40 House Points.

At the end of the window for submissions, the next step really depends on how many entries we receive. If there are 10 or less banners submitted, students will be allowed to vote from those banners. If there are more than 10 banners submitted, the staff and I will choose 10 from among the submissions to go to a vote.

The 4 banners with the most votes will be declared the winners and will be displayed among the site to hopefully bring in more members! The users who created the banners will also receive an additional prize that will be determined once voting has begun, however it will not be additional House Points.

Here are a few rules for the contest: 1.) The ad banners must adhere to Subeta's rules. That means that the banner size should be 480 by 90 pixels and should be saved as either a jpg, gif, or png. We prefer png, if possible! 2.) Please keep the ad banner clean (PG-13)! This includes any explicit language. 3.) The banner should include the cult name "Wizarding" and our tagline "A Harry Potter Cult" - anything else is up to you! 4.) Please post your submissions on this topic along with your name and House.

All House Points will be awarded at the end of the submission window.

Submissions will no longer be accepted after Saturday, September 5 at 8:00PM. Soon after that, the voting will begin.

Good luck to you all and happy graphic making!

It's your calling bby. ;D

Wow! Everyone's banners look amazing.

I know what I'm doing for this contest. c:

Emma McMonigle - Hufflepuff House

[IMG]http://i60.tinypic.com/14bozlk.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i59.tinypic.com/10xhy1l.jpg[/IMG]

Literature/Amanda Ravenclaw

Not gonna lie, I used MS Paint to create these. bahaha

these are great, guys! will try to enter something if i can get photoshop working ;n;

Check it!

Rox - Gryffindor

yours is SO GORGEOUS

i'm working on mine right now but i don't think it'll compare

Aw thank you! c:

reminder ping to put something together when I get home!!

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Sorry they are stretched out, it was the best I could do on a tablet with no flash player(even photobucket wouldn't work for me) Ravenna/Hunger(Hufflepuff)

Ethel Cwen Ravenclaw

Here are my entries! The first one is an animated gif, but I can also provide an unanimated version if necessary!

sentinel/britt -- slytherin house