Congratulations to the Winners of the March " Faberge Egg" Challenge

Congratulations to ArtfulAr for winning both the popular blog vote and internal team vote for the March "Faberge Egg" challenge with her stunning bracelet, Czarina Bracelet.

The blog vote runner ups are as follows:

2nd place - #12 Faberge Inspired beaded bracelet with decorative box by EsmereldasStudio with 24 votes
3rd place - #2 Blue Beaded Faberge Style Egg by suegoodebeads with 21 votes (7%)
4th place (tie) - #1 Easter Egg Jewelry by enchantedbeads, and #23 Faberge Easter Necklace by AngelqueCreations with 20 votes (6%) each
5th place - #15 Bead Embroidery Bracelet by Vicus with 19 votes (6%)
6th place (3-way tie) -#4 Hermitage Collection by Lirigal, , #18 Blue Faberge by AnnaCohen , and #22 Romanova by TrinketsBeadwork with 18  (6%)votes each
7th place -  #19 Icosahedron Paperweight - SallyGoRoundTheMoon with 17 votes (5%)
8th place - (tied) #16 Free Like An Egg - Maewa  and #21 Emeralda Faberge - daxdesigns 15 votes(5%) each
9th place - 3. Aqua and Olivine Netting Beaded Bead Necklace - SallyJeansBeadedGems with 14 (4%)
10th place #11 Lily of the Valley a la Faberge - BeadCatcher with 10 votes (3%)

Team vote runner ups are as follows: 2nd place - #12 Faberge Inspired beaded bracelet with decorative box by EsmereldasStudio with 13 votes
3rd place - Romanova by TrinketsBeadwork with 12 votes
4th place - Blue Beaded Faberge Style Egg by suegoodebeads with 11 votes
5th place - Bead Embroidery Bracelet by Vicus with 8 votes
6th place (tie) - Aqua and Olivine Netting Beaded Bead Necklace by SallyJeansBeadedGems, and Emeralda Faberge by daxdesigns with 7 votes each
8th place (tie) - Hermitage Collection by Lirigal, and Icosahedron Paperweight by SallyGoRoundTheMoon with 5 votes each.
9th place  Easter Egg Jewelry by enchantedbeads with 4 votes

Vote for FABERGE EGG March Challenge Entry

The EtsyBeadweavers Team took on the challenge of drawing inspiration from Faberge eggs’ fine, meticulous elaboration and amazingly detailed lacy patterns for their March theme.

Vote for your favorite entry as shown in the mosica below, and view each one in greater detail by clicking on the images within the mosic, or the links below.

Voting for for this challenge is on March 9th - 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. Easter Egg Jewelry - enchantedbeads 

2. Blue Beaded Faberge Style Egg - suegoodebeads

3. Aqua and Olivine Netting Beaded Bead Necklace - SallyJeansBeadedGems 

4. Hermitage Collection - Lirigal 

5. Rose Trellis Beadwoven Cuff Bracelet - MaryTDesigns 

6. Pink Green Beadwoven Necklace - SpringColors 

7. Czarina Bracelet - ArtfulAr 

8. Vintage Caramel Candy Shooter Marble Dressed Up - ArtMasquerading 

9. Beadweave Creamy Eggshell - Jewelrybyjane29 

10. Brooched Egg - beadn4fun 

11. Lily of the Valley a la Faberge - BeadCatcher 

12. Faberge inspired beaded bracelet with decorative box - EsmerldasStudio 

13. Emerald Gold Cuff - BeadworkAndCoe 

14. Beaded pendant - alterdeco 

15. Bead Embroidery Bracelet - Vicus 

16. Free Like An Egg - Maewa 

17. Bay Tree Brooch - KraftKonfessions 

18. Blue Faberge - AnnaCohen 

19. Icosahedron Paperweight - SallyGoRoundTheMoon 

20. Egg Drop - SilverDragon 

21. Emeralda Faberge - daxdesigns 

22. Romanova - TrinketsBeadwork 

23. Faberge Easter Necklace  - AngelqueCreations 

24. Beaded Easter Egg Ornament - BiddefordBeadLab 

“Shades of Scheherazade” April 2013 Challenge

Luba, winner of our "Japan" challenge has chosen her theme for our April 2013 challenge!

“Shades of Scheherazade”

Find your inspiration in mysterious, undulating arms, swaying hips, and the beautiful, smooth curves of bodies in Middle Eastern Dance. Modern Oriental dance is a mixture of many styles, from places like Egypt, Lebanon and Turkey. Veiled faces can add to the mystique, and lavishly decorated costumes fascinate the viewer. Your beadwork should capture for the wearer the feeling of Eastern beauty. You might be designing for the heroine of the fairy tale "One Thousand and One Nights."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Eastern_dance

Any member of Etsy Beadweavers may start their challenge today February 21, 2013 and list in your shop by midnight Etsy Time April 5, 2013.  Not a member of Etsy Beadweavers and would like to join in on the fun, please apply using the button on the right "Join Etsy Beadweavers".  If you meet the team requirements and are accepted in time to entry then you may submit an entry.

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. Please also post your entry in the Monthly Challenge section on our Free Forum, in the thread designated for entries of the challenge you are entering.

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 February "Japan" Challenge

Congratulations to Isabella of Bead4me,  winner of February's "Japan" challenge popular vote, Isabella's Dragpms Eye Necklace received an outstanding 123 votes (21%)

The runners up are as follows:
2nd place - 14. Sakura Flowers Pendant - BeautyGlamourLuba 14% (82 votes)
3rd place - 13. Autumn Garden Necklace - Svetush 12% (68 votes)
Tied for 4th place - 9. Zen Garden Necklace - KrisDesignFSP and 23. Japan Tradition Bracelet - Sobby 6% (35 vtoes) ea
5th place - 6. Samurai Warrior Princess Cuff - annamei 5% (31 votes)
6th place - 17. Wrinkled Pearl Bracelet - ellimei 5% (28 votes)
7th place - 2. Beaded Necklace with Japanese Twist - Beadditz 3% (20 votes)
Tied for 8th place - 25. Red Sakura Necklace - AnnaCohen and 24. Spring in Japan - BeadCatcher 3% (19 votes) ea
9th place - 19. Ceremonial Japanese Kimono Necklace - Janiesgems 3% (15)
10th place - 11. Secret Japanese Garden Necklace - Maewa 2% (13)  

Congratulations also go to our team winner, Luba of BeautyGlamourLuba for her Sakura Flowers Pendant.  Luba will have the honors of selecting the theme for April.  Here are the results from our internal vote.

 

1st - Sakura Flowers Pendant - BeautyGlamourLuba

2nd - Goldfish Tapestry Banner - Francesca'sFancy

3rd - Buddha's Temple Necklace - HauteIceBeadwork

4th - Beaded Necklace with Japanese Twist - Beadditz

5th (TIE) Zen Garden Necklace - KrisDesignFSP, and Ceremonial Japanese Kimono Necklace - Janiesgems

7th (TIE) Autumn Garden Necklace - Svetush, and Japanese Dragon Purse - ArtMasquerading

9th (TIE) Dragon's Eye Necklace - bead4me, and Japanese Tradition Bracelet - Sobby

Vote for "Japan" February Challenge Entry

Kris from KrisDesignsFSP, internal vote winner of our "November Circles & Squares" challenge chose the theme for our February 2013 challenge.

JAPAN

The theme guidelines were as follows:

Japan has a most exciting culture.

There is a distinct division between past and future: ancient traditional values with their strong rituals, art forms and language on one side, versus the crazy dazzling fashion modernity, neon colors, and plastic kitsch on the other side.

Pick ONE of these two styles to create a piece of jewelry that shows the important criteria needed to convey either the traditional or the modern Japan.

OR: combine both styles into one piece accentuating the contrasts! 

 

Voting for for this challenge  is on February 9th - 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. Goldfish Tapestry Banner - FrancescasFancy

2. Beaded Necklace with Japanese Twist - Beadditz

3. Garden of Meditation Barette - 4uidzne

4. Japanese Dragon Purse - ArtMasquerading

5. Karesansui Zen Garden Cuff - beadn4fun

6. Samurai Warrior Princess Cuff - annamei

7. Buddha's Temple Necklace - HauteIceBeadwork

8. Japanese Sashiko Bracelet - EsmerldasStudio

9. Zen Garden Necklace - KrisDesignFSP

10. Wisteria Necklace - HannahRachel

11. Secret Japanese Garden Necklace - Maewa

12. Cherry Blossom Cuff - AngelqueCreations

13. Autumn Garden Necklace - Svetush

14. Sakura Flowers Pendant - BeautyGlamourLuba

15. Spring in Japan Pendant and Earrings - enchantedbeads

16. Maneki Neko (Lucky Cat) Prosperity Cat Earrings - scarboro

17. Wrinkled Pearl Bracelet - ellimei

18. Dragon's Eye Necklace - bead4me

19. Ceremonial Japanese Kimono Necklace - Janiesgems

20. Japanese Spring Collar - Vicus

21. Peacock Feather Brooch - BlueStarArts

22. Crochet Necklace - alterdeco

23. Japan Tradition Bracelet - Sobby

24. Spring in Japan - BeadCatcher

25. Red Sakura Necklace - AnnaCohen

26. Geisha Cuff - barbaraellis

27. Sakura Necklace - SpringColors

28. Cherry Blossom Gold and Pearl Earrings - ArtiZenBeads

29. Mori Girl - jess2bead

Congratulations to the Winner of the January 2013 "Rising Star" Challenge

Congratulations to the winner of our January "Rising Star" Challenge HannahRachel for her beautiful Mermaid's Abalone Beaded Collar! HannahRachel won our member poll with 24 votes, as well as our Blog poll with 78 votes!

The runner ups are as follow:
2nd place - Tiger Pendant by jewelrybyjane29 with 73 votes
3rd place - Life's Little Things by CherCMeyer with 25 votes
4th place - Beaded Ribbons and Bows by TerahClassyCreations with 24 votes
5th place - Coral Sparkles Set by AnnaCohen with 23 votes
6th place - Pink Golden Necklace by SpringColors with 21 votes
7th and 8th places, with 15 votes each: Pea-Clock Steampunk Necklace by beadn4fun and Golden God of the HAPPINESS by Maewa
9th place - Cotton Candy by terran with 14 votes
10th place - Golden Turquoise Mask Bracelet by savoystudio with 13 votes

Voting for January "Rising Star" Challenge

Sorry everyone but when the polling was launched yesterday #24 was missing from the list. We have to start a new voting session, so if you had cast a vote on January 9th you may need to re-vote. The new poll will be open until Jan 16th. New for 2013, the moderator team has opted for a challenge to be participated by previous non-winners of the EtsyBeadweavers team for a chance to show off their talents and compete for prizes in the process.

Rising Star

This special challenge's guidelines were as follows


• 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)

Voting for for this challenge  is on January 9th - 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. Life's Little Things - CheriCMeyer

2. Victorian Romance - DowntheCopperLine

3. Cotton Candy - terran

4. Party Time - beadifuljewelry

5. Beaded Ribbons & Bows Necklace - TerahClassyCreations

6. Emerald Green Headband - MegansBeadedDesigns

7. Universe - ABeadedWorld

8. Cosmic Splendor - EsmerldasStudio

9. New Year Fireworks Cuff - Starwaves

10. Pea-Clock Steampunk Necklace - beadn4fun

11. Golden God of the HAPPINESS - Maewa

12. Beadwork iPhone Bag - ArtMasquerading

13. Golden Turquoise Mask Bracelet - savoystudio

14. Mermaid's Abalone Beaded Collar  - HannahRachel

15. Coral sparkles set - AnnaCohen

16. Dreams Amulet Bag - BeadEnCounter

17. Sacred Scarabs - barbaraellis

18. Pink Golden Necklace - SpringColors

19. Be My Valantine - MaryTDesigns

20. a tiny piece of springtime - ajBead

21. Pink Freeform Slide Necklace - playnwithbeads

22. Beadwoven necklace, beaded beads - alterdeco

23. Verde Noir - flagrantdesigns

24.  Tiger Pendant - Jewelrybyjane29