For our May Community Challenge it was a battle between steamy and geeky, and I can now reveal that this time geeky was the mood of the bar *grins* and our new banner is from laughtersmelody! Banner Two with its steamy goodness was by endeni :)

Are you all ready for the June Challenge?

Here’s how the banner challenge works: we set you a theme on the first of each month. People then make banners and comment with them to that month’s post – all comments will be screened; comments without banners in them will then be unscreened. (I can’t reply to the comments with banners in them without unscreening them, so anything you want a response to needs to be in a separate comment.) Banners will then all be saved to the community’s photobucket, so don’t worry about hotlinking or broken links. There will be a limit for sending banners in, something like two to three weeks. Then we’ll post all of the banners anonymously and everyone in the community can vote for their favourite (including the makers, but you do only get one vote each). That new banner is then our banner for the following month. Hopefully we’ll keep enough interest to be able to this monthly!

The Rules:
1) Everyone is invited to play, seriously, everyone, the more the merrier!
2) Banners must be safe for work.
3) Banners must have a width of 800 and a height of 350 and preferably be a png or jpg file.
4) We will make your banners anonymous, so please don’t tell or show anyone what you’ve made. Once the winner has been chosen though you’re free to share your banner wherever you like. (So, for example, if you make a banner for April’s challenge you’ll be free to do whatever you like with it from April 1st.)
5) When new films come out (Iron Man 3, Thor 2) please don’t use images from those until we say it’s safe so no one gets spoiled!
6) You can submit no more than 3 banners (for now).

June’s Challenge: We have the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and the shortest day in the Southern Hemisphere on June 21st – we will have made it halfway through the year, go us :D And so this month’s challenge is around use of space: you can either fill the entire banner space with an image/images, using all of the available space, or you can do a negative space effect, with a tiny amount of the banner being image and the rest blank/a stylistic background/text/what have you. (Or, since you can make up to three banners you could take a shot at both!)

June Deadline: You have until Sunday 26th May to comment to this post with your banners or links to your banners.

As stated, all comments to this post will be screened. Comments that don’t contain banners will be unscreened. So feel free to post banners, ask questions, give us feedback, and all that jazz :)