Gill's SuperLucky Story

A few weeks ago I put out a request for my blog readers to tell me their 'Superlucky Stories' - any comping tales that have been inspired by my blog or comps that I've posted on the SuperLucky Facebook page! Anyone who emails me a story will be entered into a draw to win some tasty Bicsuiteers biscuits. If you're interested in taking part check out my post here.


Today's guest post is from Gill, who this month has won a fabulous £2500 of holiday vouchers in the Wonderful Pistachios competition! To enter, you had to upload a photo showing how you crack a nut in an original way. This was originally a voting competition but with a bit of persuasion we managed to change the promoters' minds. Unbelievably, for such a huge prize this competition had JUST 27 ENTRIES. It's a prime example of how easy it is to win creative competitions if you can come up with an entry to catch the judge's eye!  Here's Gill's winning photo:

And now, over to Gill...

Hi Di, as you know I love your blog and the creative type comps that you feature so brilliantly. I also love seeing what other people have been up to with their entries and this in turn inspires me to even greater creativity in my comping challenges. I’ve been lucky enough to win everything from a car to holidays, but its always been those comps with an effort factor which have resulted in the best prizes.  

Here is an email I sent to Compers News last month:

"I'm delighted to report that thanks to Di's invaluable advice in her Comping Online column and her SuperLucky creative comps blog, my wins have never been so frequent! Facebook is certainly becoming a popular way for companies to promote their products. I love entering the creative and sometimes quirky competitions promoters are using to attract fans to their pages. It's also lovely to see the entries made by other compers and receive and send appreciation for well-earned wins. Di is doing a fab job at dissuading promoters from using, often unfair, vote counts in favour of judged entries.

Here is a picture of my daughter who helped me with an entry to the recent Ecover competition where two winners were chosen, one by vote count and the other by a panel of judges. I am pleased to say, my picture was chosen as the judges' favourite and I am now the very proud owner of an iPad 2! (Although, I think I will have to share it with my daughter!) 

It's certainly true that a litle bit of effort goes a long way. Other Facebook wins have included a Boo Box from Total Greek yoghurt (a creative recipe competition), a Halloween box from Heinz (a creative competition to decorate a can of beans!) and a goody bag of hair products from Charles Worthington (another creative photo comp), and who knows what's around the corner!”

..... oh, and round the corner then came the veg box and tuck box from the Anorak pimp your pumpkin comp (from your blog, thank you!), Harris Taskmaster paintbrushes (Facebook Halloween photo comp, your blog again!), Nivea goodies (photo comp), and not to forget the Campbell’s soup mug (!!!), and just this morning a lovely handbag from the Marks and Speccer pass the parcel comp .... and these are just the Facebook wins. 

I really can’t thank you enough for flagging up all those comps which I love to get my teeth into!! Keep up the fab work.
Gill 

Carrot meringues: a recipe for the Love the Garden competition

I'm a big fan of the Love The Garden blog, particularly as they promote a regular competition to get creative with veggies. I love cooking with home grown veg, but unfortunately we have more of a patio than a garden and all we have room to grow is herbs, chillis and tomatoes... I hope to rectify this when we move to our next home!

For the October competition I made gazpacho and this month it's the turn of the humble carrot. Typically, I've left it to the very last minute to enter, as to take part you need to post your blog before midnight on 21st December - read all about the competition here.

I particularly wanted to have a go at this month's challenge because one of the most fabulous dishes I've ever eaten involved carrots – it was this amazing dessert at Noma, a meringue snowman with carrot sorbet and passionfruit mousse. So fabulous I had to sneak a photo with my phone! 

Inspired by my happy memories of the little snowman, I set to work on my own take on a carrot pud...

First of all, I made little meringues
Ingredients (makes 24 small meringues)
4 egg whites (at room temperature)
115g caster sugar
115g icing sugar

1. Preheat the oven to 110ºC, and line 2 baking trays with non-stick baking paper
2. Whisk the egg whites in a bowl until they stand in stiff peaks
3. Increase the speed and gradually add the caster sugar. 
4. Sift a third of the icing sugar into the mixture, and fold in with a rubber spatula. Sift in another third and fold in again, and finally the remainder.
5. Use two dessertspoons to lift blobs of the mixture onto the baking tray.
6. Cook for 80-90 minutes, then leave to cool on a wire rack.

And then I made carrot filling
Ingredients
300g carrots, chopped
Juice of 2 clementines
100ml whipping cream
1/2 teaspoon cumin

1. Boil the carrots for 8 minutes, drain and blend with the cumin and clementine juice until smooth
2. Whip the cream until thick, then fold in the carrot mixture
3. Sandwich the mixture between the meringues and serve with a dusting of cumin

...not quite up to the high standard of Rene Redzepi's handiwork, but they certainly tasted great!

Christmas Comps for Kids

There's lots of excitement in our house at the moment - not only is it Christmas next week but it's Ryland's second birthday on Boxing Day, so we have much planning to do! As always though, there's still time to squeeze in the silly comps, and I've rounded up a few here that should entertain the little ones! 

Ry and I had fun last week with the Ella's Kitchen 'Big Brussels Challenge' - they want your ideas for how children can play with Brussels sprouts! Email them to funstuff@ellaskitchen.co.uk before 22 December, and five winners will get £50 ELC vouchers plus Ella's goodies. Read more info at www.ellaskitchen.co.uk - here's Ry playing 'Spot the Sprout' (and not doing very well....)

Gardening with Children have a great Christmas Quiz that you can do with the kids, you could win these Kids standing raised beds. Find the questions here - get your entries in by 31 December 2011.

There are several colouring and drawing comps about but you'll need to be quick with a few of them!

If you live in Lancashire your 5-10 year old could win a trip to the gritting depot, and see their chosen name on the side of the gritting truck! To enter, name the gritter - entries in before 20 December please! There's also a colouring sheet to download, and favourite entries will appear on the website.

Brother Max are giving away a goody bag in their colouring competition - print off the picture of Rudolf or the Snowman  from their Facebook page, colour in and email back to marketing@brothermax.com before 22 December 2011. If you send your entry to Mummy Mummy Mum too you could win a set of bath toys - again, closes at midnight on the 22nd!

Colour in the Nutella Christmas stocking and upload to their website before 23 December 2011 and you could win a stocking full of art goodies.

Design a Christmas scene featuring your favourite POP characters and you could win lots of toys and Wii goodies. Upload your picture here by 25 December 2011.

The Wildfowl and Wetland Trust are giving away a family sleepover at a Holiday Inn, plus a Timmy DVD and book. Print off the colouring sheet and post in the box at your local WWT centre before 30 December 2011. A winner at each centre will get a DVD and book, so it's worth going out of your way to drop your entry off if it's not too far away!

Scootrix want you to design a new wheel whizzer - download the PDF and submit your design before 31 December 2011, and you could get 20 sets of whizzers made up for you and all your friends (five runners up get a Scootrix starter kit). Entrants must be 3 or over.

Oxfam are giving away arts and crafts kits and Roald Dahl prizes in their Farmyard colouring competition - download the colouring sheet and post to Oxfam by 24 February 2012. There are 3 age categories, 0-6, 6-12 and 12-16.

And here are some photo competitions that you can involve the kids in:

Itsy Bitsy Bargains want to see your photos of Christmas kids or Holiday Homes - prizes are a pirate or fairy stool and a Cooking with Kids Pizza/Cupcake Set! Enter on Facebook before Boxing Day.

Photobox are giving £500 John Lewis vouchers to the funniest family photo - there are also prizes in each of three 'Wimpy Kid' categories - Bad Christmas Presents, Embarrassing Families and Christmas Dress-up. Upload your photos at wimpy kid.photobox.co.uk before 31 December 2011. I'll be getting my old dears drunk on sherry for my Christmas Day photoshoot!

Finally, don't forget to check out last week's recipe comp round up because you can always get the kids involved in your cooking and photos too - as you know, Ryland loves to 'help' in the kitchen... at least now he know how to use his dustpan and brush to help clear up afterwards!


STOP PRESS!
Halfords are giving away a £150 voucher - upload a photo of your child's drawing of their dream bike on Facebook before 3 January 2012! 

Katie's SuperLucky Story

A few weeks ago I put out a request for my blog readers to tell me their 'Superlucky Stories' - any comping tales that have been inspired by my blog or comps that I've posted on the SuperLucky Facebook page! Anyone who emails me a story will be entered into a draw to win some tasty Bicsuiteers biscuits. If you're interested in taking part check out my post here!

Today's guest post is from Katie, who I first encountered online when she pipped me to the post in the FairTrade voting competition earlier this year and bagged herself a luxury London break! I was most disappointed she didn't invite me along, but we kissed and made up and now I am in awe of her AMAZING competition entries - particularly the incredible food structures that have won her £1000 with Birdseye and a trip to New York with the NY Bagel Company!

And now, over to Katie...

A Gucci Handbag, an iPad2, afternoon tea at Claridge's, a widescreen TV, a trip to New York...just a few of the things I've been lucky enough to win in 2011 thanks to Super Lucky! 

It was this time last year that my foray into the murky work of comping began. I started noticing all the Christmas giveaways on Twitter and joined in with a few until, one fateful day, I won a £25 spa voucher. That was the day I was bitten!

I carried on comping (Haha 'Carry on Comping'...I digress), occasionally winning the odd thing; I kept noticing the same familiar names popping up on 'the circuit', Di Coke in particular. So....I stalked her. It turned out she ran an amazing blog all about competitions. From that day, Di has been my comping Mister Myagi. I have learned her ways. I know that the best way to photograph food for a recipe competition is on a large, plain white plate. I know that competitions requiring a little extra effort are the ones I'm more likely to win and I know that voting competitions are the Devil's work! 

Perhaps one of the most valuable things I've learned from Di is to stand up for yourself in the comping world and if you think a promoter has breached their terms and conditions, say so. I've won two iPads and, randomly, an apple tree through mistakes on the part of the promoter. 

I love the SuperLucky Blog and Facebook page as I know if there's a competition worth entering, Di will tell us about it. I no longer wake up during the night having cold sweats that somewhere there's a competition to win a tea cosy I haven't entered (ok I haven't actually done that but I COULD have done). 

I get sad when I read people hating on 'compers' and sites like Super Lucky, The PrizeFinder and Loquax etc. I think there's a misconception out there that compers are 'prize pigs' who'll enter any competition for whatever they can get, regardless of whether they're even a fan of the company promoting it or whether they'll actually get any use out of the prize or not. Well to those people I'd just say that competitions are run as promotional exercises. Most of the competitions I enter are with companies I feel an affinity with as they wouldn't really get my attention otherwise but some competitions that I've entered have actually brought certain brands and companies to my attention and I've become a fan in the process. I won £1000 with Birdseye earlier on this year (as seen on SuperLucky!). I'd never really eaten that much of their products before but you'd better believe I'm 'Birdseye till I die' now! If that's not a positive outcome for Birdseye I don't know what is!? 

I enter competitions to give my day a little magic, to experience things I'd NEVER be able to afford/arrange/imagine myself and to give my friends and family a little bit of that goodness too! 

So thank you Super Lucky and may we all continue to be lucky in 2012!
Katie

Recipe Comp Round-up: December 2011

Christmas is definitely the time for eating, so what better way to celebrate than by rustling up loads of delicious recipes for cookery competitions. Here's the latest ones that I've found - remember that most people will be super busy preparing for Christmas and won't have the time to concoct amazing entries so if you can spare an hour or two you'll have a great chance of winning. 

With recipe comps that require a photo, try and bend down close to the plate rather than take an overhead shot. Think of those lovely photos you see in magazines! Where possible - even if it's not required - include the promoter's product in the shot. That will get you Brownie points and prove you cooked the dish especially for the competition!

First up, Delamare Dairy want you to upload recipes and photos of your Christmas dishes created using any of their products to their Facebook wall. Five winners will get a stocking of Delamere goodies! Be quick though - deadline is Friday 16 December 2011.

This isn't strictly a recipe comp, but Asda want to know your top tip for Christmas dinner. You could win a hamper of Extra Special goodies. You have the opportunity to add a photo - it's judged, so yours should stand out from the crowd if you do! Enter here - again, entries need to be in by 11am on Friday 16 December 2011.

The Co-op are giving a prize of an Internet television to the best gingerbread man. To enter, upload your photo to their Facebook App and get enough votes to be in the top 20 by 20 December 2011. The top 20 are then judged and the most original will win the TV. I don't mind the voting element here because you need to make the effort to do a good entry, so there are fewer people entering and really you shouldn't need more than about 25 or 30 votes to make the top 20. Also, every voter gets entered in a prize draw and three will win £100 Co-op vouchers. My entry is the Olympic diving team and if you'd like to vote for me it would be much appreciated. As you can tell, I haven't used writing icing before - I think I need a bit more practice....

The regular Love the Garden competition for bloggers is asking for carrot recipes this month and will be judged by the lovely Niamh at Eat Like A Girl - to enter, you must post a carrot recipe on your blog. The winner gets £200 to spend at a restaurant of their choice - read more details at www.lovethegarden.com and get your blog post up by 21 December 2011.

Fish is the Dish (I love their logo, it's the same typeface as mine!) are giving away three £30 Delish Fish hampers to the three best photos of your fish dishes - enter at www.fishisthedish.co.uk by 31 December 2011.

Fancy a trip to Korea? Submit your best Korean inspired recipe (photos welcomed, and you can enter more than once) and you could be one of five winners chosen to go to Korea and go on a food date with Super Junior (now I just LOVE that name!). Check out all the details at sharehansikrecipe.hansik.org - is it wrong that I really fancy all those handsome young Korean chaps on the website?! Enter by 31 December 2011.

George Wilkinson Bakeware have launched a pesky voting competition - upload a photo and recipe to their Facebook App and the one with the most votes wins £400 of bakeware. I've asked them to reconsider; they have stated that voting will be monitored which is a start! The App is currently down so I can't check the Terms and Conditions - but don't make the mistake I did and paste in a really long recipe - it needs to be less than 500 characters! Enter by 31 December 2011.

For the mummies out there, Plum are offering a £50 Plum Baby hamper for your Christmas baby recipes - two runners up will win £25 hampers. Email your recipes to yummyyummy@plum-baby.co.uk with ‘Christmas Baby Recipe Competition’ in the subject heading and read more at www.plum-baby.co.uk. Enter by 31 December 2011.

A great unusual competition is to design a beer inspired by Divine chocolate - you need to send a recipe idea along with a name and a reason why you want to brew beer to ninkasi@school-of-booze.com. The winner will get to brew their beer at Brewster's Brewery in Grantham, Lincolnshire (and receive two cases of the bottled beer!) and the winner and four runners up win five bars of the Divine Chocolate that inspired their recipe. Read more information at www.school-of-booze.com and enter before 31 December 2011.

Win a Siemens oven by submitting your recipe using Heinz canned soup to Delia Online - four entrants will be shortlisted and win a digital camera, which you must them use to film your recipe. These clips will go to a public vote to decide the winner - there are only 15 entries so far and I'm not surprised! Enter by 31 December 2011.

Win a family overnight stay at Alton Towers Resort (on a fixed date of 12th February 2012) by creating a recipe with Crusha Mixa or Crusha desserts. Upload your recipe with a photo (I bet if you take a great fun photo it might sway the judges' decision!) at www.crusha.co.uk before 2 January 2012.

Again, not strictly a recipe competition but the opportunity to cook with Levi Roots at a Sizzling Pub! You need to complete the sentence 'I should cook with Levi because...' on the Sizzling Pubs Facebook App - closes 4 January 2012 and the prize must be taken on 30 and 31st January 2012.

Sudocrem want to see your 'Christmas Creations' and Aggie MacKenzie will judge the winner. The winner gets a 3 day cookery course in France plus £200 towards travel costs. Two runners up receive a £150 Selfridges hamper and £75 Marks and Spencer vouchers. Upload your recipes and photos to their Facebook App before 4 January 2012.

The Bramley Campaign is looking for a special recipe to celebrate The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. The winner will receive £500 and their dish will be sold exclusively in Sainsbury’s. To enter, upload your Bramley apple recipe at www.facebook.com/BramleyApple. There will be a shortlist of seven regional winners, which will be put to a public vote during Bramley Apple week in February to decide the overall winner. All seven finalists will receive a limited edition Bramley Diamond Dish. Closing date for entries is 16 January 2012.

Total Greek Yogurt are putting together a charity eBook of recipes - to enter, submit your recipe using Total Greek Yogurt on their Facebook App before 20 January 2012. Recipes will be shortlisted and then put to public vote - the winner will get an iPad2 and iPhone 4S, the runner up gets an iPad2 and ten other runners up will get Total Yogurt goody boxes.

Amy's Kitchen have launched a competition and would like to see your vegetarian, vegan and Free From recipes. The winning recipe gets an iPod Nano and a selection of merchandise, and the 3 runners up also win Amy's Kitchen merchandise. There are some great detailed Terms and Conditions describing the judging criteria here. Upload your recipes to their Facebook App before 31 January 2012.

Win a tagine filled with £50 of Al'Fez goodies - enter your favourite Moroccan themed recipe that uses Al'Fez products at www.alfez.com by 2 February 2012.

Win £1200 of top-of-the-range Hoover products by uploading the recipe for your 'best dish' to their Facebook App. Videos and photos are welcome! The winner will receive a stainless steel built-in oven, 5 burner gas hob and black freestanding dishwasher and three runners up will receive a dishwasher. Entries are judged, you can enter up to three times and the closing date is 29 February 2012.

Good luck - and as always, please let me know here or on Facebook if you win any of these comps!

Merry Christmas from the O2 Santa!

I couldn't resist tweeting the O2 Santa this morning when I saw his fab YouTube video asking for your Christmas wishes!

And this is what I got in return - a Christmas greeting for you lovely lot... hope you all have a gorgeous Christmas! 

To get your own special video message from Mr Claus, just tweet @o2 with the hashtag #o2santa!

Hair we go! Win a Fiat 500 in ASP's creative photo competition

I'm currently knee deep in competitions for the January issue of Compers News that's on deadline this week, but I thought I'd take a break to let you know about this amazing competition that Steve the Editor found in one of his (ahem!) hair magazines.

New haircare brand ASP are giving away a Fiat 500 car and two iPads. And guess what? It's the ultimate creative competition - you need to buy a product, take a photo of it AND write a tiebreaker! And not a SNIFF of a public vote - how good is that?

To take part, take a photo of a Kitoko Advanced Hair Therapy product (including yourself if you wish!) in an interesting, unique, glamorous, or unusual location. Submit your photo to competition@ASPhair.com with a short sentence (20 words max) about why you love Kitoko. All photos will be uploaded to Facebook.

For full details check out the ASP Facebook App - you can enter up to four times and it closes on 30 March 2012. The photos will be judged on their 'individuality and creativity' -the winner gets the Fiat 500, and two runners up get iPads.

I've investigated the product, which is only stocked at hair salons, and to find your nearest stockist you need to contact a local distributor - you can find details at www.affinage.com/uk/distributors.html

OK, you've got almost 4 months so I expect to see some AMAZING entries, ladies! (oh, and gents too!) ...good luck!

"Congratulations, you've won an iPad!"

It seems many compers received this email in their inbox last night from Gardening Express...

Dear Di

Congratulations, you've win (sic) our iPad competition..... 

that is if your name appears at the bottom of this email.

Hmmmm, not exactly the kind of email most of us would like to receive! I regularly get emails with 'Congratulations' in the subject, but they're usually from the same source so I always open them expecting the worst. But when a company actually puts text in the body of a personalised email suggesting that you've won a prize... well, for that split second your heart jumps and you feel that rush of excitement ...and then you realise it's just a joke. Well, that sucks.

Gardening Express have felt the wrath of the public after this faux pas - just check out their Facebook wall! There are a lot of very upset people, and who can blame them?

But what should you do if you feel let down by a promoter? Your first port of call should be the ASA (Advertising Standards Authority) where you can register your complaint online. Promotions in the UK are regulated by the CAP Code, and Rule 8.2 states "Promoters must avoid causing unnecessary disappointment". 

If you have a problem with a promotion you can also contact the IPM (Institute of Promotional Marketing) at complaints@theipm.org.uk - although they will often pass your complaint on to the ASA for investigation.

And of course, if a company has upset you, show your disapproval by 'Unliking' their Facebook page too! I was actually lucky enough to win £22 to spend at Gardening Express last year. The postage was £7.95 and all the plants I bought died within a month. Needless to say, I don't bother with their promotions any more...

Blog Comp Linky: January 2012

Welcome to my blog comp linky for competitions that are closing in JANUARY 2012. If you're hosting a giveaway please add it to the list, including the prize and the closing date - and your blog name if you can fit it in! You can access this post and the FEBRUARY linky via the links on the right hand side bar.

Please note, competitions MUST be hosted on a blog and they should be open to UK entries. For advice on running blog comps and more info about Rafflecopter check out this blog post.
If you want to enter these competitions but aren't sure how, check out my post on How to Enter a Blog Competition for advice!

Don't forget to add your blog giveaway to www.theprizefinder.com too!

IPM to help revise Facebook Promotion Rules

If you're a comper then you've probably heard about the IPM - Institute of Promotional Marketing (previously the ISP, Institute of Sales Promotion), the trade association that represents promoters, agencies and service partners engaged in promotional marketing. Their mission is to 'protect, promote and progress effective promotional marketing across all media channels'. If you have a complaint about a promotion then you can contact them at complaints@theipm.org.uk and they will look into it. 

The IPM published a news article yesterday announcing they'll be working with Facebook UK to redraft their promotion rules, after receiving a rise in enquiries about what the rules actually mean. Since the last revision of the rules in May, many promoters, bloggers and compers have been confused about what can and can't be done on Facebook. The rules aren't easy to find and many companies aren't even aware they exist! Few people know that ANY competition run on a Facebook wall is breaking the rules - a separate 'App' (tab) must be used. 

I blogged in July about how you can run a Facebook promotion without breaking the rules. The main problem with running a wall promotion (for example, comment/like/share to win) is that a promoter isn't getting a contact email address from entrants, so they have to announce the winner in a wall post (against the rules) or send a Facebook message (also against the rules). Many entrants won't be lucky enough to spot a wall post announcement in their Newsfeed (it's impossible to guarantee fans will see every status update) and others will have activated Privacy settings to prevent receiving messages from non-friends. If a message is sent from the promoter it goes into the 'Other' inbox, which members don't receive notifications about and is hard to find (see screenshot below). If you're not a regular competition entrant, you're not likely to know about this Inbox and can miss out on prizes as a result; this isn't fair as it's the promoter who's actually at fault.

Facebook promotional policies state that all competitions must be run using an 'App' (ie. accessed via a separate tab on the Facebook page) yet strangely Facebook have not developed a simple sweepstakes or competition App to enable promoters to do this easily. The only Apps that are available - from NorthSocial, Wildfire, Binkd etc - all cost money; money which many small companies don't have. So it's no wonder they run the comps on their wall!

Hopefully the IPM will be able to work with Facebook on producing a new set of rules that will be clear, easy to understand and not too restrictive. If Facebook could be encouraged to develop a free App to run prize draws and competitions then I think a lot of promoters would change their ways. If this isn't done, my fear is that promoters will stop their Facebook competitions altogether and that would be a shame because many of the wall promotions are quirky and fun. Sadly, for all those that are fun there are plenty of 'Share to win' and 'Tag us in your status' comps which require Public sharing, where essentially the promoter is recruiting fans to spam on their behalf!  

I'll be interested to hear what suggestions the IPM make to Facebook - my employer Accolade is an IPM member, and when I hear more on the revised Facebook rules I'll be sure to let you know!

Eek... it's time for Advent Comps!

Ho! Ho! Ho! It's December people, and you know what that means... it's Advent comp time! Now some cheeky blighters like Quidco and Cotswold Outdoor launched their daily comps ages ago, but most promoters like to stick with tradition and give away either 12 or 24 prizes, one each day starting on 1st December.

Last year I hosted a list here at Super Lucky but as I now work for ThePrizeFinder, I'm organising the list of comps over there instead. To find a list of the comps - currently over 200! - pop over to www.theprizefinder.com/advent-competitions

As well as the simple daily prize draws, there are also some nice creative and fun twists on Advent comps on Facebook.

Low Cost Holidays are running Smiley's 12 Days of Christmas competition from 12th-24th December, and each day at noon a festive photo challenge will be announced. You have 24 hours to submit your photo (it MUST be real-time, no cheating!) and if yours is judged the best you could win prizes like a £100 English Cheesecake Company voucher, a “Spa in a Box”, a camera, travel accessories from Stanfords and possibly even a holiday! To make sure you get the latest info, join their Event on Facebook.

I'm also in charge of this year's Compers News Advent competition, and each day from today until 12th December you can win a Christmas Millionaire National Lottery scratch card - so we could make you a millionaire by Christmas! To enter, you need to pop over to Facebook and take a look at the daily clue on the Compers News profile photo - identify the product and complete your answer and details on the Competition Tab! 

Finally, a warning - there are an absolute TON of Advent comps around. Don't try to do them all, just pick a few favourites with the prizes that you'd really love to win...otherwise you'll be too busy to do all your creative comps!