POD Contests and Giveaways

POD Marketplace Giveaways
Giveaways for a gift certificate or item with your choice of design  from a POD marketplace.  You can use you're winnings to buy  your own stuff sold through these PODS.   The "at" places listed on the giveaways below are the blogs hosting the giveaway (just keeps them separate so you can tell where you've entered already)

(6/23) $100 Zazzle Giftcard


POD Artist Giveaways
Giveaways for something specific, or from a specific Shop

(5/26) Father's Day Package (Including Best Dad Ever Zazzle MUG) (UK ONLY)


Design Contests
Art/design contests you can enter.  Talent required.

(5/24) Spoonflower Bucketfeed Challenge
Submit ocean themed designs you think would look good on shoes.


Other Giveaways POD Sellers May Like
More giveaways for items that might be especially useful to POD designers.

(6/30) Automated Quilting Machine
(Weekly) Rush Order Tees

How To Design for Cups

Zazzle put out a great little  video on how to design thier new paper cups.  This is the first product with a conical backgroup image, so it's important to know how designing for that is different than designing for other full bleed images.

Learn how to design our new custom paper cups.
You'll be ready to party in no time!

HTML Removed from Zazzle Product Descriptions Today

Sad to see the ability to put HTML in product descriptions go.  Here's what Zazzle announced Tueday  (click here for full announcement)...

Starting approximately Friday, March 4, HTML will not be accepted in the description field for any new products being published going forward. Beginning approximately Wednesday, March 23, existing HTML in product descriptions will be removed from the site. Rest assured that any initial text-only paragraph will remain in your product descriptions, with only HTML removed.

If you have products which currently use HTML in their descriptions, we suggest that you review these products to save any information you may wish to keep related to the HTML used for your own reference, and/or remove this HTML yourself to ensure that your product descriptions will display exactly how you would like them after this update.