Hey Danyel, while we did like your entry and just about everything you submit each week ;-) we wanted to put an emphasis on art that was created mostly from scratch over ones that use modified stock photos and clip art as the base for the design as we have been seeing too much of that lately.

We are trying to push people's creativity - there is a bigger long-term objective at play beyond just challenges for tokens.

We did make a note of that at the top of this post, and have that first guideline in the challenge post as a "should be" versus the usual "MUST be". It's not the first time we have chosen entries that fall just outside the main guidelines.