November "Picture Postcard Palette" Winners

Congratulations to Kinga for winning the November blog vote with 55 votes for her Angler Fish Bead Embroidered Bracelet! Here are the results of the rest of the voting:

2nd place - BenitaStyleBG, Late Sun Set, 50 votes
3rd place - svetush, Exotic Flower Necklace, 41 votes
4th place - BeautyGlamourLuba, Blue Rivoli and Black Tila Beading Cuff, 33 votes
5th place - FrancescasFancy, North Dakota Hills Necklace Green Choker, 23 votes
6th place - CrownRoseGems, Full Circle Beaded Statement Necklace, 22 votes
7th pace - KrisDesignFSP, BATTY Necklace, 21 votes
8th place - RattleTattleAround, ALIVE - A Nature Slice Beadwoven Bracelet, 18 votes
9th place - OfYourLove, Phi Phi Islands Bead Embroidered Collar, 16 votes
10th place - Maewa, Minneapolis Bead Embroidered Statement Necklace, 15 votes

And congratulations to Kinga (crimsonfrog) & Ann (francescasfancy)for winning the Team Vote in our November Challenge, Picture Postcard Pallette, with 14 votes each! Kinga's piece is Angler Fish Bead Embroidered Necklace, and Ann's piece is North Dakota Hills Necklace Green Choker. Congratulations, you two!!! Here are the results of the rest of the voting:

2nd place - Maewa, Minneapolis Bead Embroidered Statement Necklace, 10 votes
3rd place - Beadditz, Mesa Verde Necklace, 9 votes
4th place - Svetush, Exotic Flower Necklace, 7 votes
5th place - OfYourLove, Phi Phi Islands Bead Embroidered Collar, 6 votes
6th place - RattleTattleAround, Alive - a Nature Slice Beadwoven Bracelet, 5 votes
7th place (4-way tie) - CrownRoseGems, Full Corcle Beaded Statement Necklace; KrisDesignFSP, BATTY Necklace; BenitaStyleBG, Late Sun Set; gr8jewellery, St. Elmo's Colours Beadwork Necklace.

Tropical Holiday Challenge Winner

With 47 entries from the members of the Etsy Beadweavers team, this challenge had more participants than ever before! Maybe it's the cold weather, but our members really seemed to enjoy the Tropical Holiday challenge theme, pulling out their brightest beads and creating some of the most elaborate pieces seen to date.

Although choosing among the 47 beautiful entries was difficult, almost 700 people took on the task and chose the Tropical Treasures necklace created by Mariya of BeadCatcher.


Of her piece, Mariya says:

Ocean, weaves, shells on the beach... Yes, the necklace will remind you your Tropical Paradise! The center piece of the necklace is beaded deep blue glass cabochon with a diver! Was it you searching for the lost treasures on the ocean bottom? Curious tropical fish, open shell with real pearls, seaweed, anemones, beadwoven starfish and even beadwoven jellyfish (no worry, just glass beads!). Jellyfish fringe-like tentacles are hiding two small teal and blue glass fish.

The runners up in the Tropical Holiday challenge are:

Second: Tropical Garden by: SpringColors

Third: Tropical Holiday by: veroque

Fourth: Tropical Paradise Necklace by: CieloDesign

Fifth: Tropical Nights by: SmadarsTreasure

Sixth: Pink Flamingo Fantasy Necklace by: gypsyeyesjewelry

Seventh: Island Treasure Chest by: BeadazzledofOregon

Eighth: Tropical Rainforest Getaway by: Bead4you

Ninth: What if I'm a Mermaid by: ThesePreciousThings

Tenth: Blue lagoon necklace N961 by: FleurDeIrk

The Etsy Beadweavers are already busy working on their entries for the next theme, Temptation. Read more about the March challenge here.