A big congratulations to our three winners @smith521, @wildcat24, and @bellavaz. All three winners received a one year subscription for Picnik Premium!

We also had two more favorites: @welstechtrainer received three months of Premium for posting an amazing collage that won her the award for the most amazing time capsule image, and @sandra6dee won three months of Picnik Premium for the most joyful jumping picture.

Want to share you favorite pictures on Twitter? We’ve made it really easy! When you get to the Save & Share tab select Twitter and connect to your account. Congrats to all the winners and have a great summer to all!

Directions: Make a Twitter account, if you don’t have one! Announce yourself by following @picnik on Twitter! Take your picture, then upload it and edit it! Then find the Twitter page under the Save & Share tab to Tweet your summery masterpiece!

The contest runs from Monday at 12.01 am through Thursday at 2 pm PDT. So why are we telling you this early? Because it’s a beautiful weekend in June! So get outside and get those photos!

Note to our Southern Hemisphere Picnikers: You are entirely welcome to include your photos of the grumpy weather you’re having right now.

Update: The contest is now open! Feel free to start Tweeting your submissions!

Update #2: The contest is now closed! Thank you to everyone who participated! We will announce the winners tomorrow, June 19 at 2pm PDT. In the meantime, check out the submissions on Twitter by searching for “#SummerPicnik”.

Just about everything on Picnik can be used towards digital scrapbooking greatness. The internet is full of handy free patterns and textures to use as new papers to layer with, and why limit yourself to your box full of die-cut shapes when there’s our huge collection of Stickers? We’ve got tons of fonts to put your memories into words, and for an extra head start there are all our collections of Fancy Collages, organized by theme. There are oodles of things on Picnik that even we haven’t tried yet, and National Scrapbooking Day is a great time for trying something new! And with our easy integrations on Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and all sorts of other photo sharing and social networking sites, it can be like attending a scrapbooking party on National Scrapbooking Day, as well!

For inspiration, our own Brenda Anderson, Community Liaison in Charge of Flickr Operations, in had a Scrapbooking contest on the Flickr Picnikers group for the month of March, and to help celebrate all the possibilities of this craftiest of holidays, our friends at Blisstree are having a National Scrapbooking Day Giveaway: two free year-long Picnik Premium subscriptions, just for suggesting to her (and us) some clever feature ideas.

Using any of Picnik’s tools and features, perhaps starting with collage and then adding stickers and text, or starting with a photo, adding a frame, and layering on top of it, and then adding stickers and text, you can enter up to 3 scrapbooked creations, and the winner wins a full year of Picnik Premium!

Also, congratulations to last month’s winners of the theme “Be Mine <3"! And a special congratulations to Wendy * Darling for tying herself for first place! She therefore wins not one but two years of Picnik Premium! I’m sure she’s very popular this week…

Runners-up [[TiGER.} and brownie.bacon both win free 3-month subscriptions for their submissions as well! A slideshow of all last month’s entries can be seen here.

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Animamos a los usuarios a hacer este concurso para saber dónde están todos los usuarios. Crea una cuenta de Flickr, te une al grupo de Picnikeros de Flickr y toma parte en el concurso. ¡Disfruta!

Plus, follow the instructions, and your photo will be featured on the map Brenda put together, and on the one below! As always, the winner will receive a whole free year Picnik Premium, and the two runners up free 3-month subscriptions of Picnik Premium.

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We want to encourage all our users to take part in this contest to really get a sense of where everyone is. So we’d like to encourage all our users who haven’t yet to create a Flickr account, join the Flickr Picnikers group, and take part in the contest!

Also, we’d like to congratulate the winners of last month’s contest, “Picnik Yourself”, with a two way tie for first place:

Goldscale’s “i live for that look”	konabluee’s “Watch the World Go By”

And in 2nd and 3rd place:

nahomie123’s “Day 23″	jennwyers’ “DSC05397″

Looking for a good place to start? Our friends at Flickr have announced a new group to raise money for Breast Cancer awareness and research. For every pink pic added to the group, their parent company Yahoo! will donate one Euro to Breast Cancer charities across Europe! So send your pink pic to Pink 2008!

And this month’s Flickr Picniker Award Theme is Go Pink, so don’t forget to enter your Pink productions to win a whole year of Picnik Premium (now with added Pinkness)!

Since her ascendency to the administrative chair in April, Trish Isenor, the group admin, has managed a 459% increase in membership and 19 contest topics ranging from subjects as varied as “Best Party Pictures,” “Best Shopping Pictures,” “In Memory Of…” and “Camping”. Ahh, the joys of youth.

So attention all Facebooking Picnikers! Join this group! But as of this week’s theme “Sunsets and Nice Scenery Summer Photos”, all the first prize winners get free three-month Picnik Premium subscriptions!

Small print: it’s just for fun (and prizes!) and Trish and her friends are doing this on their own so any technical questions should be directed towards Team Picnik Members via the Feedback Button inside Picnik.