Well, now ain't this just embarassing!! Now that the challenge is finally over I would like to apologize to everyone for this, I should've looked more carefully at the challenge description! You shouldn't have had to waste your time commenting and scoring this shot! Thanks all for your comments.
A cute idea but as I'm sure you've heard so far, it does not meet the challenge and therefore is losing points for that.
As for the shot, I like the idea but a couple of things bother me about this shot. The border to start, to heavy on the black outside, the inner borders are very well done but the outside is too much. The drawing on the bill is to messy overall. A finer marker with more time would really make this work I think. Using the other bills for borders is a good idea but you only have three sides covered, one across the bottom would have completed the picture and made it look more finished to me. I started with a 2 because of not meeting the challenge and the shot just didn't really appeal to me but upon further inspection I am going to a 5
Special rules:
Here's the catch: you can't include any real currency (or the likeness of real currency) in your shot.
I think you may have missed this in the special rules for this challenge. A great shot otherwise.
I like this shot. I like composition and execution, but since challenge is "Money whitout Money" i most score you lower. In other challenge this could be a ribbon winner.
i am sorry, but i do see the "the real currency" in your picture, and they specifically asked us not to include it... i am not going to rate this photograph.
If you are going to be sending pictures in challenges here, you are going to have to read all about the challenge, as in this one you could not take pictures of money, anyway good picture