Voting for the October Challenge "Misty Winter's Dawn"

Tracey, the winner of our August "HOT HOT HOT" internal vote chose  the theme for October

Misty Winter's Dawn

What are your favorite "Misty Winter’s Dawn" shades?

Set a Mood with this chance to explore a subdued and muted dawn-in-winter colour palette using tones such as: grey/white, blues/lilacs, pale oranges/yellows, deep greens/foggy greys. Try to achieve a pale, pastel, soft, foggy, muted, subtle and subdued look in your piece.

Feel free to google images to see how some muted and softer colours vary and shade together. My favorite photographs are grey/white tones. 

Voting starts October 9th - October 15th, 

Click on the images within or the links below the mosaic to see additional views and read about each piece in detail.

PLEASE VOTE ONLY ONCE FOR YOUR FAVORITE ENTRY

1. Wintr - beadshead 

2. Opalite Misty Winter's Dawn - ArtMasquerading 
3. Misty Mountain Morning - beadn4fun 
4. Misty Winter's Dawn - SashaSi 
5. Dawn of Time - crownrosegems 
6. Misty Shades of Teal - Jewelrybyjane29 
7. Misty Winter Dawn - annamei 
8. Misty Winter's Dawn - ellimei 
9. Winter's Promise - barbaraellis 
10. Winter Mist Beaded Earrings - MegansBeadedDesigns 
11. Winters Misty Dawn - Lirigal 
12. Green Moss - ConniqueJewellery 
13. Misty Winter Dawn collar - suegoodebeads 
14. Sunrise Over the Mountains - TheBumbleBeader 
15. October Morning - alterdeco 
16. Dawn's Early Light - HauteIceBeadwork 
17. Mistic - Kankou 
18. Beaded Cuff Bracelet - randomcreative 
19. Silvery Blush of Day - njdesigns1 
20. Winter in the Fens - SallyGoRoundTheMoon 
21. Misty Bead-woven Cuff - Crystalstargems 
22. Misty Morning Walk - AngelqueCreations 
23. Misty Winter's Dawn - jess2bead
24. Misty Winter's Dawn - SoulshineCorningNY 
25. Misty Winter's Dawn - nellienits
26. Winter Sunrise - HannahRachel 
27. Rivoli Beadwoven Pink Grey Lace - SpringColors 
28. Elegant winter necklace - AnnaCohen
29. Wintertide - BlissWorksStudio 
30. Misty Dawn In Santa Lucia - Sobby 
31. Inconnue - AnnetaValious
32. Hazy Sunrise - MaryTDesigns 
33. A Misty Winter Wedding - backstagecrafts
34. Ribbons of Fog - FrancescasFancy 
35. Misty Winter's Dawn - elsielight
36. Black snowflakes in the lights of streetlights - BeadCatcher
37. Snow in the Copse - KraftKonfessions 

About Promoting the Public Voting Poll

The purpose of the public poll is to bring as many viewers to our team blog as possible, increasing awareness of Etsy Beadweavers and our art form. The winner of the public poll should be the work that the most viewers liked the best. PLEASE DO NOT request that your friends vote for your work, or that of another member. Please let them make up their own minds about which entry they like the best. Promote the challenge by inviting as many friends, acquaintances, co-workers and family members as you like to vote for their favorite entry. Please use your blog, Facebook, Twitter and any other resources you have to drive traffic to our blog during the challenge. Feel free to say which entry is yours. Many friends will choose to support you with a vote. Let’s play fair with each other, and keep our challenges fun for all.

January 2012 "Rising Star" Challenge

The moderator team has been bouncing around the idea of adding a January challenge that will be open only to those members who have not won a challenge in the past 3 years. This new challenge will have no theme and is open to any new work that is created from September 29, 2012 to January 5th, 2013*. This irregular challenge is proposed to be an addition to our regular monthly challenges but only open to those members that have not won one of the regular monthly challenges in the past three years.

Notes:
• Deadline for submission is Jan 5, 2013, midnight Etsy Time.
• Winner will be getting a donated goodie bag of beads & related items.

Rule Exception for the January Challenge Only:
• Only entries from members who have NOT won a challenge (public and internal polls) in the last 3 years (since Dec 2009)
• Item is ANY new beadwoven item made from Sept 29 until January 2013 and must be listed in members shop by January 5th 2013 midnight Etsy time.
• Entry must be new and has not been previously entered in a challenge.
• Entry must tagged with EBWC only after the December Challenge has finished (Dec 16th)

Challenge rules remain the same except as detailed above. (see below for the regular challenge rules)

THE CHALLENGE RULES

Any EBW member may create one new beadweaving of your own design (not from a tutorial, kit, book, magazine, or class) in response to the challenge theme. Your work should be entirely beadwoven, or have a substantially woven component, to feature and promote our art form. You may not renew an existing piece, or list a tutorial or made-to-order item as an entry.

Members are expected to participate in challenges when possible, and required to do so once each year. Start the weaving anytime after the theme is announced. Complete and list the work for sale on Etsy by the 5th of the month of the challenge, before midnight Etsy (Eastern Standard) time. Your listing date is proof you entered by the deadline, and also determines your placement in the mosaic, so DO NOT RENEW your work until after the voting poll opens on the 9th.

Your listing must be for sale for the duration of the challenge (not made to order), unless it sells from your shop. If that happens, please alert the moderators to your sale, and you can still participate. If you must reserve your listing for purchase, please follow Etsy's recommendations and edit both your title and your description to begin with: "RESERVED FOR (buyer's Etsy username, or designation of buyer's choice) ONLY." Etsy does not allow the listing of items not for sale, so reserving your entry to sell elsewhere or keep for yourself is not permitted. Please do not put your shop on vacation mode when you have an item entered in the challenge, or deactivate your entry from the time you list, until the close of the challenge. If you must be away from your shop, please leave your challenge entry active, with a message explaining the date the item will shipped if purchased."

WHAT INFORMATION MUST BE IN MY LISTING?

Your listing must include the following four (4) things:
1. The theme of the challenge. For example, “This (describe your work) was created for the Etsy Beadweavers Team (insert the month) challenge on the theme (insert the title of the theme).”
2. An explanation of how your work relates to the theme.
3. The address of our team blog where the voting will take place and the voting dates. For example, “Please visit our team blog, http://www.etsy-beadweavers.blogspot.com between the 9th and 15th and vote for your favorite entry.”
4.Tag your entry EBWC. This is how we find your entry. Please test this tag by searching "handmade" and "EBWC" on Etsy. If your entry does not appear in this search within an hour after listing and tagging it, please contact a moderator for assistance. Please do not apply this tag until after the previous challenge poll closes on the 15th, and remove the tag after the voting poll closes, so entries for the next month’s challenge can be featured.

About Promoting the Public Voting Poll

The purpose of the public poll is to bring as many viewers to our team blog as possible, increasing awareness of Etsy Beadweavers and our art form. The winner of the public poll should be the work that the most viewers liked the best. PLEASE DO NOT request that your friends vote for your work, or that of another member. Please let them make up their own minds about which entry they like the best. Promote the challenge by inviting as many friends, acquaintances, co-workers and family members as you like to vote for their favorite entry. Please use your blog, Facebook, Twitter and any other resources you have to drive traffic to our blog during the challenge. Feel free to say which entry is yours. Many friends will choose to support you with a vote. Let’s play fair with each other, and keep our challenges fun for all.

November 2012 Theme Announced "Circles and Squares"

Kris, internal and popular vote winner of our September 2012 "Lunar Obsession" challenge has chosen the theme for our November 2012 challenge.

CIRCLES & SQUARES

Let´s play geometrically! Compose circles and squares into new shapes, emphasize the contrast between round and angular, soft and hard. There are no color restrictions but try to underline the contrast via your color choices. Shapes are not intended to be achieved by the shape of a particular bead only, but by the shapes and patterns in your weaving/embroidery.

THE CHALLENGE RULES

Any EBW member may create one new beadweaving of your own design (not from a tutorial, kit, book, magazine, or class) in response to the challenge theme. Your work should be entirely beadwoven, or have a substantially woven component, to feature and promote our art form. You may not renew an existing piece, or list a tutorial or made-to-order item as an entry.

Members are expected to participate in challenges when possible, and required to do so once each year. Start the weaving anytime after the theme is announced. Complete and list the work for sale on Etsy by the 5th of the month of the challenge, before midnight Etsy (Eastern Standard) time. Your listing date is proof you entered by the deadline, and also determines your placement in the mosaic, so DO NOT RENEW your work until after the voting poll opens on the 9th.

Your listing must be for sale for the duration of the challenge (not made to order), unless it sells from your shop. If that happens, please alert the moderators to your sale, and you can still participate. If you must reserve your listing for purchase, please follow Etsy's recommendations and edit both your title and your description to begin with: "RESERVED FOR (buyer's Etsy username, or designation of buyer's choice) ONLY." Etsy does not allow the listing of items not for sale, so reserving your entry to sell elsewhere or keep for yourself is not permitted. Please do not put your shop on vacation mode when you have an item entered in the challenge, or deactivate your entry from the time you list, until the close of the challenge. If you must be away from your shop, please leave your challenge entry active, with a message explaining the date the item will shipped if purchased."

WHAT INFORMATION MUST BE IN MY LISTING?

Your listing must include the following four (4) things:
1. The theme of the challenge. For example, “This (describe your work) was created for the Etsy Beadweavers Team (insert the month) challenge on the theme (insert the title of the theme).”
2. An explanation of how your work relates to the theme.
3. The address of our team blog where the voting will take place and the voting dates. For example, “Please visit our team blog, http://www.etsy-beadweavers.blogspot.com between the 9th and 15th and vote for your favorite entry.”
4.Tag your entry EBWC. This is how we find your entry. Please test this tag by searching "handmade" and "EBWC" on Etsy. If your entry does not appear in this search within an hour after listing and tagging it, please contact a moderator for assistance. Please do not apply this tag until after the previous challenge poll closes on the 15th, and remove the tag after the voting poll closes, so entries for the next month’s challenge can be featured.

About Promoting the Public Voting Poll

The purpose of the public poll is to bring as many viewers to our team blog as possible, increasing awareness of Etsy Beadweavers and our art form. The winner of the public poll should be the work that the most viewers liked the best. PLEASE DO NOT request that your friends vote for your work, or that of another member. Please let them make up their own minds about which entry they like the best. Promote the challenge by inviting as many friends, acquaintances, co-workers and family members as you like to vote for their favorite entry. Please use your blog, Facebook, Twitter and any other resources you have to drive traffic to our blog during the challenge. Feel free to say which entry is yours. Many friends will choose to support you with a vote. Let’s play fair with each other, and keep our challenges fun for all.

Congratulations to the "Lunar Obsession" Challenge Winner

Congratulations to Kris of KrisDesignFSP for accruing the most popular AND internal team votes for her fantastic entry "WEREWOLF." The beadwoven pendant won with a total of 80 blog votes.

The runner ups are as follows:

2) Southern Night Necklace - Svetush - 72 votes.
3) Eclipse Bracelet and Ring - DebgerDesigns - 64 votes.
4) Bella Luna Lyric Cuff - thistledew4u - 55 votes.
5) Do wolves really howl at the moon - Lirigal - 38 votes.
6) Metallic Moonscape - Barbaraellis - 31 votes.
7) Moon in Lattice - AnnaCohen - 26 votes
8) TIE - By the Light of the Silvery Moon - JewelrybyJane29 and Silver Moonbeam Necklace - MaryTDesigns - 20 votes each.
9) Moon-inspired beaded bag - Suegoodebeads - 19 votes.
10) Celtic Knot Crescent Moon Hair Comb - AngelqueCreations - 18 votes.

Voting for September Challenge "A Lunar Obsession"

Kinga, winner of the July "Tangerine Tango" challenge, selected our September challenge theme. Because the farmer's almanac calls the full moon of September the Harvest Moon, she selected that this month's challenge creations be inspired by the moon.

While the entries do not have to depict the moon to qualify, they did need to draw inspiration from it.

Ocotber 2012 Theme Announced "Misty Winter's Dawn"

Tracey, the winner of our August "HOT HOT HOT" internal vote has chosen our theme for our October 2012 Monthly Challenge!

Misty Winter's Dawn

What are your favorite "Misty Winter’s Dawn" shades? Set a Mood with this chance to explore a subdued and muted dawn-in-winter colour palette using tones such as: grey/white, blues/lilacs, pale oranges/yellows, deep greens/foggy greys. Try to achieve a pale, pastel, soft, foggy, muted, subtle and subdued look in your piece. Feel free to google images to see how some muted and softer colours vary and shade together. My favorite photographs are grey/white tones.

You can also include a photo of your inspiration in your listing as well, as long as it is public domain and/or you have permission from the photographer. Here are a couple of samples to get your creative juices flowing:

Photograph by AleksandarMomirovic

Photograph by Robert Herst

THE CHALLENGE RULES

Any EBW member may create one new beadweaving of your own design (not from a tutorial, kit, book, magazine, or class) in response to the challenge theme. Your work should be entirely beadwoven, or have a substantially woven component, to feature and promote our art form. You may not renew an existing piece, or list a tutorial or made-to-order item as an entry.

Members are expected to participate in challenges when possible, and required to do so once each year. Start the weaving anytime after the theme is announced. Complete and list the work for sale on Etsy by the 5th of the month of the challenge, before midnight Etsy (Eastern Standard) time. Your listing date is proof you entered by the deadline, and also determines your placement in the mosaic, so DO NOT RENEW your work until after the voting poll opens on the 9th.

Your listing must be for sale for the duration of the challenge (not made to order), unless it sells from your shop. If that happens, please alert the moderators to your sale, and you can still participate. If you must reserve your listing for purchase, please follow Etsy's recommendations and edit both your title and your description to begin with: "RESERVED FOR (buyer's Etsy username, or designation of buyer's choice) ONLY." Etsy does not allow the listing of items not for sale, so reserving your entry to sell elsewhere or keep for yourself is not permitted. Please do not put your shop on vacation mode when you have an item entered in the challenge, or deactivate your entry from the time you list, until the close of the challenge. If you must be away from your shop, please leave your challenge entry active, with a message explaining the date the item will shipped if purchased."

WHAT INFORMATION MUST BE IN MY LISTING?

Your listing must include the following four (4) things:
1. The theme of the challenge. For example, “This (describe your work) was created for the Etsy Beadweavers Team (insert the month) challenge on the theme (insert the title of the theme).”
2. An explanation of how your work relates to the theme.
3. The address of our team blog where the voting will take place and the voting dates. For example, “Please visit our team blog, http://www.etsy-beadweavers.blogspot.com between the 9th and 15th and vote for your favorite entry.”
4.Tag your entry EBWC. This is how we find your entry. Please test this tag by searching "handmade" and "EBWC" on Etsy. If your entry does not appear in this search within an hour after listing and tagging it, please contact a moderator for assistance. Please do not apply this tag until after the previous challenge poll closes on the 15th, and remove the tag after the voting poll closes, so entries for the next month’s challenge can be featured.

About Promoting the Public Voting Poll

The purpose of the public poll is to bring as many viewers to our team blog as possible, increasing awareness of Etsy Beadweavers and our art form. The winner of the public poll should be the work that the most viewers liked the best. PLEASE DO NOT request that your friends vote for your work, or that of another member. Please let them make up their own minds about which entry they like the best. Promote the challenge by inviting as many friends, acquaintances, co-workers and family members as you like to vote for their favorite entry. Please use your blog, Facebook, Twitter and any other resources you have to drive traffic to our blog during the challenge. Feel free to say which entry is yours. Many friends will choose to support you with a vote. Let’s play fair with each other, and keep our challenges fun for all.

Congratulations to the Winners of the August Challenge "HOT HOT HOT"

Congratulations to zviagil, for winning the popular vote for the piece "Hot Hot Hot," with 71 votes (14%) of the 519 votes. The runners up are as follows:

2nd place - Hot Herringbone Necklace Transformer by Svetush with 69 votes (13%)
Tied for 3rd place - FIRE Salamander Necklace by KrisDesignFSP and Sparkling Summer Sun by PreciousHeartBeads with 52 votes each (10%)
4th place - Flame Necklace by Crystalstargems with 51 votes (10%)
5th place - Bead Embroidered Sahara Set by Vicus with 30 votes (6%)
6th place - Heat Wave Bead Embroidered Necklace by AngelqueCreations with 25 votes (5%)
7th place - Hell Bracelet - Flames of Fire by FrancescasFancy with 20 votes (4%)
8th place - Glowing Embers Fringed Necklace by Medic5415 with 16 votes (3%)
9th place - Global Warming by CraftyWeaves with 15 votes (3%)
Tied for 10th place - Baby You’re a Firework Necklace by beadn4fun and Rivoli Crystal August Sun Necklace by SpringColors with 14 votes each (3%)

Congratulations to Tracey of Crystalstargems, winner of the August "HOT HOT HOT" internal team vote with her "Flame Necklace!" As winner of the Team Favorite vote, Tracey will have the honor of selecting the theme for our October challenge.