What's wrong with my work?! Options

[wildkitty]

I play a horse/dog rpg game (as well as using create blog) where each player has a page where they can put whatever html they want. I do graphics and pages for people on the game and am pretty established as a 'layout' maker there. I also have done websites for people and have my own humble corner of the web. However all my work for Create blog is refused! The standard on here may be higher, but it doesn't appear to be. I'm not saying my work is better than the work here, but it is pretty similar standard, if I may say so myself. What am I doing wrong?
Kitty
P.S. If you wanna see an example of an image from a refused layout go to: http://www.geodata.soton.ac.uk/~csms/createblog_horses.png. You have to imagine it in the top left corner with the complete navigation box with links and expanding text box to the right of the navigation box.

[fr0stbite]

From what I can see, the horse layout needs to be tweaked a bit, to make it more fancy... Why? Because it looks like you didn't put too much time into it.
Here are the steps I think you may have taken to create the image:
1) google up the pic you want
2) open it in photoshop/paint shop pro
3) add the squares on top of the horses (may i add that brushes get this done in a matter of seconds?)
4) gradient overlay
5) brush the borders onto the picture
6) lines + type
All that couldn't have taken more than 20 minutes, am I right? Anyway... in this case, I think it would be a good idea to make it more extravagant (or... neat-o).