Summer Lovin' Design Challenge Reveal - Coming soon!

 

 Took a little bit for everyone to get their goodies, so for those of you not in the know, the blog hop reveal has been postponed until this upcoming Saturday, 8 August, 2015.  You can check on the designers and see what they've been up to by clicking their names or following the links to their blogs below.  Can't wait!!!  Can you!?

Linda A. - http://fromthebeadboard.blogspot.com/
Kelly P. - http://travelingsideshow.blogspot.com/
Wendy S. - http://dragonflydreamers.blogspot.ca/
Lori S. - http://beadaddicted.blogspot.com
Shaiha W.  - http://www.shaihasramblings.com
Carolyn - http://Carolynscreationswa.blogspot.com

Debbie E. - https://www.facebook.com/designsbydebbi

 

Summer Lovin' Design Challenge Winners

Good morning one and all!  Following are the winners of the blog hop/design challenge.  I will be emailing you all momentarily to get your mailing address so I can send you the sets.  Each set is different, so I can't wait to see what y'all come up with!!


Linda A.
Kelly P.
Wendy S.
Lori S.
Debbie E.
Shaiha W.
Beda H.
Carolyn

I will post/email the template with everyone's links once we get closer to the August reveal.  :-D

Summer Lovin' Design Challenge - LAST CHANCE!!

 This is a friendly reminder that the time to enter this give away/blog hop/design challenge is coming to an end!  You can find entry information in the original call for entries, HERE.  11:59 PM on Saturday, 4 JULY 2015 is the absolute last minute to enter.  At this time, there are 7 participants, with a max number of 10.  If there ends up being more than 10 folks who enter, then I will be drawing names randomly.  For those wondering if you've made the cut thus far, here are the names for who's entered:



Linda
Kelly P.
Wendy S.
Lori S.
Debbie E.
Shaiha W.
Beda H.

Jewelry Design Challenge - Summer Lovin'

WELCOME to my first ever design challenge!  And THANK YOU for being my guinea pigs! hehehe

 Before we get too far into what this entails, I'd like to invite you all to sign up to receive my newsletter pertaining to ceramic jewelry.  You can do that HERE.

Now on to the details!

I will be creating a very limited edition set of components (may even make them into a kit...GASP!...stay tuned to see what I decide...) at only TEN to giveaway for this design challenge - a very exclusive opportunity for sure!  Since this is a giveaway there are a couple of requirements to be met in order to be entered for a chance to win. Nothing to difficult but very important…so please read carefully and be sure you can meet the requirements before entering to win.

• You MUST create something with the kit you receive. You can add items from you own bead stash, or create more than one design but you must use the components in the kit in your design(s).

• You MUST have a blog. This design challenge will have a reveal date and blog hop so we can share what everyone created. As part of your reveal post we will also ask you to share links to other participant blogs, a link to the ACM blog (where you can check out some other amazing component artists) and to each artist shop who contributed components for this kit. I will provide the list of links prior to the reveal date.
• You agree to pay a small fee of $2.50 to cover shipping the components to your doorstep.

So now you’re asking…how do I enter to win? Super easy! Comment on this post with your blog AND email address…it’s that simple! Want an extra chance to win? Of course you do, what was I thinking to even ask? For a second entry, share this post via social media and comment a second time on this post with a link to where you shared it…easy peasy!  Who will be the first brave souls to enter to win??  No one will know exactly what is being won until you're notified...but I WILL be posting teasers here, at least one more in my Jewelry Designer Interest list newsletter (which I would like to encourage you all to sign up for), AND on my Facebook page. 

Now after you’ve commented, shared, commented…it’s time to wait…I know, no one likes to wait…but we must! Winners will be chosen at random on Saturday, July 4, 2015. All winners will be notified via the email address provided in their comments (if you are hesitant to leave your email in the comments, you can email it to me as well by clicking HERE.). I will also post a list of winners on here AND on the ACM blog. Kits will be mailed Monday, July 6, 2015, as long as all winners addresses for mailing have been received. Reveal and blog hop will be held on Saturday, August 1, 2015.

That's all there is to it....I think... If you have any comments, suggestions, or questions, leave 'm below in the comments!  I can't wait to get this ball a-rolling!

TTFN!

Time to Revitalize this Blog!!!

Ummm...WOW!  I cannot believe that I've neglected my blog for six months!!!!!  As many of you know, winter is notoriously hard for me health wise, so I could say that was partly to blame...but the reality of the situation is that I had no motivation to write.  I had all kinds of ideas for various posts that inevitably occurred while I was getting ready for bed.  By the time I woke up, I'd forgotten what I wanted to write about.  If I'm being honest with myself...just a bunch of excuses.

Well, last month I had a swift kick in the pants in the form of the Art Business Academy hosted by Jason Horejs of Xanadu Gallery.  A lot of what we've been discussing has been quality and consistency in your  artwork.  This also plays into every other aspect of running an art business.  One of the tools mentioned is ToDoist.  OMG.  Talk about a life changer!!!  It's a great to do list to help stay on track and I have found already that it is helping me greatly with staying on top of the administrative tasks.  As part of this revitalizing my digital imprint, I started two separate newsletters.  One newsletter is just for my sculpting and one is for my ceramic jewelry side of things.  You can sign up for the newsletters by going HERE for the sculpting one, and/or HERE for the ceramic jewelry one.  If you opt to receive the newsletter for ceramic jewelry, you will notice that I'm running my first ever Jewelry Design Challenge!!!  I'll write more on that later.  This post was more of a re-acquaintance with writing.  An item I can now check off my list on ToDoist. ;)

TTFN!!!

A New Line...

The last several months have been a rough transition period to say the least.  In my decision to pare down what I make in an effort to be able to focus on honing and building my sculpture skills, to say that  my sales have been hit would be an understatement.  ha  But in this transition, not only have I decided to focus on my sculpting, but I've also chosen to work on and build on my ceramic jewelry offerings.