September 2016 Challenge: “Our Wonderful World”

A great theme for September chosen by Svetoslava Todorova from LuckyDesignCrafts:

"Our wonderful world" - all that surround us, inspires us and make us feel the unique beauty of the Planet. I wish to all members of the Team, inspiration and creativity."

 

This is a very vast Challenge that will surely inspire many of our members in different ways. Your inspiration could be a place, a season (or all four!), scenery, life on land or sea, etc. Please include details in your listing.

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Remember to have your entry listed in your Etsy shop by September 5, 2016 23:59 EST and include EBWC in the title and tags of your entry.
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Kindly refer to the Challenge Rules for details on what is allowed in Challenge entries to ensure that your entry is compliant. 

Image by Buddy_Nath via Pixabay, published under CC0.

Etsy Beadweavers March 2016 Challenge: "Masquerade"

Anna Cohen of AnnaCohen Beadwork Jewelry, our January "Rising Star" winner, has chosen the Challenge for March 2016:


 
"Masquerade" - wearing a costume with a mask.  There are many holidays all over the world that involve changing appearance - Halloween scary garbs, Jewish Purim costumes, Venice Carnival famous masks, Rio de Janeiro's amazing Carnival costumes ... It brings joy and fun, no matter what historical event lead to it.

Let's create something festive.  It doesn't have to be a mask, but a feeling of carnival. Maybe you will choose something scary for Halloween, or colorful for the Chinese New Year Lion Dance.  So many varieties of masks and reasons for joy.

Let the party begin! 

Note to team members:

Please be sure to have your entry listed in your Etsy shop by March 5, 2016 23:59 EST and remember to include EBWC in the title and tags of your entry.

Kindly refer to the Challenge rules for details on what is allowed in Challenge entries to ensure that your entry is compliant.

*Picture above is for inspiration only and does not in any way limit your interpretation of the theme!

Published with CC0 Public Domain Free for commercial use-No attribution required
However, we are nice! See Anke Schofeld's images at https://pixabay.com/en/users/diekurze70-1483245/

Etsy Beadweavers February 2016 Challenge: "The Solar System"

Sarah Cryer of  SarahCryerBeadwork has chosen "The Solar System" as the theme for February 2016:

In our house at the moment we are completely obsessed with our Solar System. My husband has a new telescope which we've been using to look at the moon and planets, so he's constantly coming up with new activities (last week we all watched the International Space Station whizz over us). Recently we saw a wonderful harvest moon, followed the same night by the lunar eclipse (so much better than last year's cloud covered solar eclipse), and last week I opened my newspaper to see some extraordinary new images of Jupiter's storms from the Hubble Space Telescope, so when it came to choosing a theme it seemed like the whole universe was shouting at me!

Anyway, our Solar System seems like wonderful inspiration for beaders - how about beaded beads making a necklace of planets, a scatter of rough natural crystals captured in freeform beadwork forming the Asteroid belt, or some bead embroidery inspired by the twisting stripes of Jupiter's storms? And if you get stuck you can always watch our favourite song for inspiration, or if you are feeling more sensible have a look at the Hubble website's gallery (don't get distracted by the far off nebulae though, please stick to our own Solar System).

Thomas (5) & Oscar's (2) favourite song:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2prtmPEjOc


The Hubble Gallery:hubblesite.org/gallery/

Note to team members: 

Entries must be listed on Etsy by February 5, 2016 23:59 EST. Please refer to the Challenge Rules to ensure that your entry has all the requirements and don't forget to include EBWC in the title and tags of your entry.

EBW November 2015 Challenge "Landscape"

Our challenge theme for November was chosen by the winner of the September team vote Lisa Savoy from SavoyStudio, well done and thank you Lisa! 

"Landscape"

Mountains, skyscrapers, seas, trees......take inspiration from the view out of your window or wherever your favorite landscape is for your challenge entry.
Please include a photo of your chosen view and explain how it relates to your work.

Note to team members: 

Work on this Challenge must be started no earlier than 24th September 2015 and listed by 5th November 2015, EST.  Please make sure to include EBWC in the title and tags of your entry and refer to the challenge rules to ensure that your entry has all the requirements.

Happy beading!