Wednesday, May 4, 2011

May Monthly Challenge Prizes

Our wonderful sponsors for the May Monthly Challenge. 
We will have 2 winners this month.

Anne Lichtenstein of Gardanne Beads creates beautiful lampworked beads. Along with her lampworked beads, Anne creates enameled beads and components. They are all so wonderful with many possibilities!
Anne is donating a grab bag of enamel, glass and mixed metal components worth $50.

Visit Gardanne Beads at her Etsy shop, blog and Etsy shop #2.
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Melissa Essenberg of Chinook Jewelry creates fabulous pendants and jewelry components from porcelain clay. All are hand formed and stamped with designs to enhance their shape. We are so thrilled with the popularity of ceramic clay items being used: buttons, pendants, components and of course beads.
Melissa is donating the items shown above worth over $50.

Visit the Chinook Jewelry on her website, blog, BeadShowTravel website and blog #2.

 Submit photos of your wonderful creations using one or more Art Beads.
Cache-Cache (Hide and Seek) by Berthe Morisot is lovely impressionistic painting with many different elements that can be used for inspiration, texture, color, female forms, mother & child and couture.
We can't wait to see where your creativity takes you with the art for this months challenge
Please remember to put MAYABS in the title or tag of your submission(s).  
Provide us with the artist of the Art Beads used and we always love to know all the materials you used. 

4 comments:

Gardanne said...

Thanks Tari, you always do a wonderful job with the photos.

Tari of ClayButtons.com said...

Your pic looks fantastic on my computer. Thank you for the clean shot. It makes my job easier!

Mark Spencer said...

The beads looks like easter eggs. :) This would make a fashionable accessories.

roseworksjewelry said...

Yay! I hope I manage to enter this month - the prizes look fabulous!