February Monthly Challenge Sponsors + Prizes

Our Wonderful sponsors for the February Challenge.
We will have 2 Lucky Winners this Month!

Sasha Crow Design

Sasha Crow of Sasha Crow Design creates wonderful ceramic pieces and she uses decorative tin work to make beautifully imaginative, fantastical, one-of-a-kind jewelry. Her pieces are beautifully rustic, like broken pieces of your grandmothers china with patterned metal as the accent. Absolutely fabulous!! A must for your designs!

Sasha Crow Design is located in Springfield, Oregon.

Sasha is donating a $50 gift certificate.

Visit Sasha on FB Components, FB Jewelry, Etsy Components, and Etsy Jewelry.

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Shaterra

Sharleen Newland of Shaterra creates lovely ceramic components. Along with her wonderful clay creations, Sharleen also crafts Leather Bracelets to use as a foundation for your own designs. Or you can purchase complete designs. Go buy some for your jewelry making stash!

Shaterra is located in Grove City, Ohio.

Sharleen is donating a $50 Gift Certificate .

Visit Sharleen on Shopify, Etsy, and Facebook.

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Submit photos of your wonderful Jewelry creations using one or more Art Beads here.

Submit photos of your wonderful Bead creations here.

Vogue Cover by Sonia Delauney has many different elements that can be used for inspiration: figures, bold designs, automobiles, chevrons, triangles, compass rose, reds and blues.

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

**IMPORTANT** Please remember to put FEB ABS in the title or tag of your submission(s).  Pinterest doesn't keep Pins in the order they are posted.

Provide us with the artist of the Art Beads used and we always love to know all the materials you used. 

***Art Beads MUST be used in your entry.***

February Monthly Challenge Sponsors + Prizes

Our Wonderful sponsors for the February Challenge.
We will have 3 Lucky Winners this Month!

Earth Butter Beads

Desiree Malan of Earth Butter Beads founded her business as a means of providing part-time employment for single mothers from impoverished communities in the surrounding rural areas of South Africa's Cape Province. What started out as a one woman operation has become has become a thriving micro-business. She offers a range of hand-made, artisanal beads which are used as accessories for home-crafters and by professional jewelry designers throughout the country and around the world.

Desiree is donating earthy Pitfired Beads valued at $50.

Visit Desiree at her Etsy Shop Beads, Etsy Shop Studio, Website, and Facebook.

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Big Bead Little Bead

Handmade lampwork bead by Lesley Silver of Beadsashore

Anna Weller of Big Bead Little Bead operates, along with her husband, an online bead and jewelry supply shop.  They feature both Artist Made and Vintage Beads. Buying online can be challenging at times, not having the tactile experience, using their photography backgrounds each piece is beautifully photographed. 

Making you happy makes them happy!

Anna is donating a $50 gift certificate.

Visit Anna at her Google+, Website, Twitter, Pinterest and Facebook.

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Earthenwood Studio

Melanie Brooks of Earthenwood Studio is inspired by both the natural world and the urban industrial landscape,  mixing imagery from both, adding a bit of playfulness and humor to create casual yet meaningful jewelry. Melanie uses porcelain and earthenware to create her wonderful Beads, Pendants and Jewelry Components. 

Create your own story using these fantastic Ceramic pieces!

Melanie is donating Ceramic Jewelry Components valued at $50 .

Visit Melanie at her Website, Etsy and Facebook.

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Submit photos of your wonderful Jewelry creations using one or more Art Beads here.

Submit photos of your wonderful Bead creations here.

Amapolos by Edward Julius Detmold has many different elements that can be used for inspiration: Poppies, flowers, Butterflies, foliage, nature, colors of red, coral, pinks and green.

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

**IMPORTANT** Please remember to put FEB ABS in the title or tag of your submission(s).  Pinterest doesn't keep Pins in the order they are posted.

Provide us with the artist of the Art Beads used and we always love to know all the materials you used. 
***Art Beads MUST be used in your entry.***

February Monthly Challenge Sponsors + Prizes

Our Wonderful sponsors for the December Challenge.
We will have 2 Lucky Winners this Month!

Songbead

Rebecca Anderson of Songbead makes wonderful jewelry from beads, notions and other curiosities.  Rebecca offers Czech glass beads, handmade findings and waxed linen cord at The Curious Bead Shop on Etsy, perfect to compliment your art beads. Hop over there to see all the fun stuff she has to offer!

Rebecca is donating over $50 in findings and curiosities from her Etsy Shop.

Visit Rebecca at her Etsy Shop/Findings, Etsy Shop/Jewelry, Blog, Twitter and Facebook.

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Earth Butter Beads

Desiree Malan of Earth Butter Beads founded EBB as a means of providing part-time employment for single mothers from impoverished communities in the surrounding rural areas.
Beads are hand-rolled and hand-painted to produce little ceramic works of art, in which even the fingerprints of the bead-makers often remain, making each bead truly 'one-of-a-kind'. Beautiful, colourfast and durable. Earth Butter Beads will enhance any jewellery or craft project. 

Desiree is donating a $50 gift certificate to her Etsy Shop.

Visit Desiree at her Blog, Website, Etsy Shop, and Facebook.

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Submit photos of your wonderful creations using one or more Art Beads.

The Rose Garden by Paul Klee has with many different elements that can be used for inspiration: pinks, reds, fuchsia, yellows, buildings, lines and cubism.

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

Please remember to put FEB ABS 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. 
***Art Beads MUST be used in your entry.***

February Monthly Challenge Sponsors + Prizes

Our wonderful sponsors for the February Monthly Challenge. 

We will have 2 lucky winners this month.

Kabs Creative Concepts

Kerry Bogert of Kabs Creative Concepts is a lampwork bead artist, a jewelry designer, instructor and author. She does a lot has so much to offer! Check out her website and the different hats she wears!! She is one busy person.

Kerry is donating a copy of her new DVD from Interweave, a couple
spools of wire, and a surprise set of lampwork beads.

 Visit Kerry on her website, blog, Pinterest, Twitter and Facebook.

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Beadygirl Beads

Tera Belinsky-Yoder of Beadygirl Beads creates wonderful, very colorful and fun lampworked beads. What can I say, Tera's beads make me shake and squeal with delight. Love the bright colors, high contrast along with all the dots and bumps. They are yummy layers of fun!!

Tera is donating a $50 gift certificate to her website.

Visit Tera on their website, blog, Etsy, Flickr, Pinterest, Twitter and Facebook.

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Submit photos of your wonderful creations using one or more Art Beads.

Heijinja by Toshi Yoshida has with many different elements that can be used for inspiration: trees, architecture, kimonos, RED, grey, tan, pink, birds, trees and people.

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

Please remember to put FEB ABS 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. 
***Art Beads MUST be used in your entry.***

February Monthly Challenge Prizes and Sponsors!

Our wonderful sponsors for the February Monthly Challenge. 

We will have 2 lucky winners this month.

Gaea Handmade

Gaea Cannaday of Gaea Handmade makes beautiful handmade beads, buttons, pendants, clasps and other jewelry components. She also creates beautiful one-of-a-kind jewelry. Gaea uses several different earth clays with her multitude of glazes to give you the custom look you need to create your own one-of-a-kind pieces.

Gaea means Mother Earth or Goddess of the Earth which is very fitting for this Goddess of earth clays who molds earth.

Gaea is donating a $50 gift certificate to be used in her Etsy Store.

 Visit Gaea at her website, blog, and Etsy.

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Skye Jewels

Marie-Noel Voyer-Cramp of Skye Jewels creates Ephemera for your designs. Her wonderful tiles are made from wood with a multitude of aged images. They are sealed and water resistant. The best part is that Marie-Noel will custom drill your tiles so it can be used as a pendant, connector, charm etc. Fantastic!
 Let's not forget she also designs beautiful jewelry for personal adornment.
Go visit Skye Jewels and start designing your own custom piece.
Skye Jewels is donating a $50 gift certificate to her etsy shop.

Visit the Skye Jewels on Etsy, website, blog, Facebook, twitter, and other Etsy shop.

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Submit photos of your wonderful creations using one or more Art Beads.

The Conference of the Birds by Habiballah has with many different elements that can be used for inspiration birds, flowers, foliage, birds, water, earthy colors, nature and birds.

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

Please remember to put FEB ABS 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.