July Monthly Challenge Prizes

Our wonderful sponsors for the July Monthly Challenge. 

We will have 4 lucky winners this month.

Kylie Parry Studio

 Kylie Parry Studio makes lovely earthy nature inspired beads, charms, pendants and jewelry components. Kylie uses stoneware clay (mid fire) to handform creations then glazes them in colors from nature. Many of her pieces have sepia toned decals made with images from vintage dictionaries fired onto them

Kylie is donating a $50 gift certificate.

Visit Kylie at her Etsy shop, blog and Facebook.

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Kristi Bowman Design

Kristi Bowman Design makes beautiful pendants and jewelry components from copper, bronze and silver Metal Clay. She creates unique designs for you to make your our jewelry and also makes jewelry for you to buy.
Kristi is donating all the items in the picture above worth over $50!

Visit the Kristi at her Etsy Shop, Art Fire Shop, Blog and flickr.
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Kerri Fuhr Fine Crafted Glass Beads

Kerri Fuhr Fine Handcrafted Glass Beads creates beautiful handcrafted lampworked glass beads. Kerri's design are one of a kind and her craftsmenship equals the beauty of her beads. She makes focal beads and sets of beads. What great possibilities with these beauties!

Kerri is donating her Bee Bead shown above.

Visit the Kerri on her website, blog, and Facebook.

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Creative Impressions In Clay

Tari Sasser of Creative Impressions In Clay uses low fire white clay and bright underglazes to create Fun, Funky and Functional buttons, beads, pendants and other jewelry component. Any button can be a pendant, connector, or clasp. One of the great features of clay is that it can be altered and manipulated for your needs.
We love Art Beads and Buttons! 
I will be partnering with one or your favorite makers of jewelry findings this month. 
Stay tuned to the place to be Scene.
Tari is donating $50 gift certificate to be used on her website.

Visit the Tari on her website, blog, and Facebook.
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 Submit photos of your wonderful creations using one or more Art Beads.

Morning in the Garden at Vaucresson by Edouard Vuillard is lovely painting with many different elements that can be used for inspiration, texture in the foliage, flowers, architecture, vivid vermillion, yellows, greens, pinks and female form.

We can't wait to see where your creativity takes you with the art for this months challenge! 

Please remember to put JULYABS 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.