Chronicle books has donated 5 copies of Julie Jackson’s new book ‘subversive cross stitch‘, 33 designs for your surly side, to be given away. - So the theme for this weeks whiplash is ‘your surly side’, interpret this how you will - have fun.

The competition begins midnight tonight US time, or 7am thursday GMT time or 4pm thurs Aus time, and closes monday same time frames. please see the clock on the whiplash page - when that hits midnight monday the comp will be finished.

To Enter:

1. Read the weekly challenge theme - posted on Thursday
2. Make something over the weekend - using your medium of choice but in the spirit of the theme
3. Take a couple of good photos of your work - one close up photo, and one broader view photo and maybe a photo of it in use. Some hints to take good images - use natural light not flash, put your item near the window in filtered light not in harsh sunlight which create dark patches of shadow. Take a couple of images and make sure it is in focus. - You don’t need to be a good photographer but you do need to use images that show off your item to its best.
4. Post your entry on your own blog - or to flickr, or to your friends site - it must be online somewhere with a stable link.
5. Grab the code for one of the whiplash buttons on the whiplash page (kindly designed by Jan at poppy) and paste into your post with your whiplash entry
6. Are you signed into whipup? if not login or sign up and get a password then login. - You will not be able to upload your link if you are not logged in.
7. Once you are signed up and logged in to whipup - you can upload your link - you must have the permanent link to your post - to get to the permanent link of your post you may need to click on the date or the header or the #, or the permalink button and it should be in this format http://yourwebsitename.com/pagetitle/date/orsomething
8. Where do you upload your link? - go to the whiplash page - see button on sidebar, and look at the sidebar of the whiplash page.



9. You can only enter once per week.
10. Entries will be judges by a panel of judges on three criteria - skill, humour and originality.