November Monthly Challenge Sponsors + Prizes

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

Firefly Design Studio

Michelle McCarthy of Firefly Designs makes ceramic pendants, buttons and jewelry components. Wonderful designs and great gifts for the jewelry maker on your list!
Firefly Design Studio is located in Port Charlotte, Florida.

Michelle is donating everything pictured above valued over $50.

Visit Michelle at her blog, Etsy Shop, Website, and Facebook.

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Beady Eyed Bunny

Leah Curtis of Beady Eyed Bunny creates polymer clay beads and jewelry components. Leah also makes wonderful jewelry that incorporates a variety of materials, from Czech glass and artist made beads, to semi-precious gemstones,vintage beads and metals. 

Beady Eyed Bunny is located in Mill Valley, California.

Leah is donating $50 in products shown above: a selection of polymer clay Rustic Roses, a copper clay charm with a Cubic Zirconia, polymer sand dollar charms, and a mix of enamel glass headpins.

Visit Leah on Facebook, Blog, and Etsy.

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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.

Owl above door to center reading room on fifth floor of the 

Library of Congress’s John Adams Building, Washington, D.C. by By Lee Lawrie. 

This Month's art has many different elements that can be used for inspiration:  Owls, birds, sun, art deco style, Leaves, silver, pewter, brass and metallic colors.

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

**IMPORTANT** Please remember to put NOV 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.***

November Monthly Challenge Prizes + Sponsors

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

Ragged Robyn

Robyn Cove of Ragged Robyn  creates beautiful beads and pendants that are both organic and rustic. Each piece of her jewelry is eclectic and stunning incorporating different materials as well as her own handmade treasures. 

Her beads would be a great addition to your bead stash!

Robyn is donating a $50 Gift Certificate to her website.

Visit Robyn at her Website, Blog, Etsy, Pinterest and Facebook.

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Gardanne Beads

Anne Lichtenstein of Gardanne Beads makes handmade glass, enamel and mixed metal beads + jewelry components.  Anne skills with glass are evident with the mixing of colors and going between powered glass and glass rods.
A true glass artisan!
Anne is donating a $50 to her etsy shop or at any of her shows.

Visit Anne on her Etsy Shop, Facebook and blog.

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Submit photos of your wonderful Jewelry creations using one or more Art Beads here.
Submit to our new Bead Category here.

Cattelya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds by Martin Johnson Heade has with many different elements that can be used for inspiration: orchids, flowers, hummingbirds, birds, nests, eggs, trees, foliage, pinks, greens + other colors of nature.

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

Please remember to put NOV 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.***

November Monthly Challenge Sponsors + Prizes

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

Swoondimples

Heather Millican of Swoondimples creates wonderful pendants and beads using Polymer Clay. Each is carefully handcrafted with a heartfelt saying, throw in a bit of texture, patina, love and you have something to hold onto.

Heather is donating a 2 Pendants & 2 Beads (shown above) valued over $50.

Visit Heather at her Etsy Shop, twitter and Facebook.

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Captured Moments

Cindy Kovar of Captured Moments makes ceramic Pendants, beads and jewelry components. She even has pendants with built in bezel cups that can be used with resin!

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

Visit Cindy at her Etsy Shop, Blog and Facebook.

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

Basket of Apples by Paul Cezanne has with many different elements that can be used for inspiration: apples, reds, greens, yellow, brown, fruit, fabric, bottles, baskets, bread and still life.

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

Please remember to put NOV 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.***

November Monthly Challenge Sponsors and Prizes

Our wonderful sponsors for the November Monthly Challenge. 

We will have 2 lucky winners this month.

Skye Jewels

Marie-Noel Voyer-Cramp of Skye Jewels designs creates wonderful wood ephemera charms, pendants and jewelry. All are hand tinted. Marie will drill holes in the wood tiles to your specifications. This provides many options when creating your own designs. 

Marie is donating the items show above plus a few new items worth $50.

 Visit Marie on her website, blog, etsy shop #1, etsy #2, and Facebook.

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Lorelei Eurto

Lorelei Eurto of Lorelei Eurto is a jewelry designer and author. Her newest endeavor and soon to be full time job, is making jewelry components to be used in jewelry designs. Look for more fantabulous things to come from Lorelei!

Lorelei is donating 2 of her Tin Snippets worth $50.

Visit Lorelei on their website, blog, Shopify and Facebook.
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Submit photos of your wonderful creations using one or more Art Beads.

Three Worlds by M.C. Escher has with many different elements that can be used for inspiration: trees, leaves, water, fish, reflections, dimension, and black &white.

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

Please remember to put NOV 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.

November Monthly Challenge Winners

Congratulations to this Months winners! 

We have 2 winners chosen randomly from all the challenge entrants.

Gail/Bantering Bird

Our first lucky winner is Gail/Bantering Bird.

She has won 3 charms for Hint Jewelry worth over $50.

T-Rose/troseleigh

Our second lucky winner is T-Rose/troseleigh.

She has won prizes from Mary Harding Jewelry, Pendants (shown below) worth over $75.

        Hint Jewelry                            Mary Harding jewelry

Thank you Hint Jewelry and Mary Harding for being our November Monthly Challenge sponsors!

Winners, please E-mail Tari with your information so your prizes can be sent to you.

A Big THANK YOU to everyone who entered this month using "Madonna Pietra degli Scrovigni" by Marie Spartali Stillman, as your inspiration. 

We were so fortunate to have so many beautiful entries and experience such creativity from our wonderful readers.

Visit us tomorrow to see what November's challenge brings.

November Monthly Challenge Sponsors and Prizes

Our wonderful sponsors for the November Monthly Challenge. 

We will have 2 lucky winners this month.

Hint Jewelry

Beth Hemmila of Hint Jewelry creates spectacular handcrafted silver charms. "Tell your unique story through personalized handcrafted jewelry." You create a meaningful piece of jewelry to that helps tell your story.

Beth is donating 3 Charms worth over $50 .

Visit Beth at her blog, twitter, Facebook, flickr and Etsy.

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Mary Harding Jewelry

Mary Harding of Mary Harding Jewelry creates beautiful Nature inspired pendant and jewelry components. She also makes beaded jewelry using a freeform peyote stitch. You can see many of Mary's piece in Heather's New book "Jewelry Designs from Nature."


Mary is donating a the items shown above worth $75.

Visit the Mary on her website, Etsy, Facebook, and blog.

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

Madonna Pietra degli Scrovigni by Marie Spartali Stillman has with many different elements that can be used for inspiration foliage, landscape, flowers, portrait, muted colors and feminity.

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

Please remember to put NOV 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. 

November Monthly Challenge Prizes

This month we have 2 fabulous sponsors for our November Challenge.

Genea Crivello-Knable from Genea Beads is donating the pendant, headpins and beads shown above ($68 value). Genea makes wonderful beads and jewelry components. The bright colors of her lampworked beads are juicy and make you want to touch them.

Visit Genea's blog, Etsy, Twitter, flickr or "like" her on Facebook.

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Heather Powers of Humblebeads is a donating a $50 gift certificate. 

Whether it's the birds, beads, trees, toggles, headpins or many pieces of jewelry,
who doesn't love Heather's ability to create beautiful color combinations and designs.

My favorite have always been the Van Gogh pieces.

Visit Heather on her website, Twitter, Facebook, Etsy, flickr and her blog!

 Submit photos of your wonderful creations using one or more Art Beads.
Tree of Life by Gustav Klimt has many different elements that can be used for inspiration, patterns, repetition, curlycues, symbolism, spot color and gold.
We can't wait to see where your creativity takes you with the art for this months challenge!




Please remember to put NOVABS in the title or tag of your submission(s). 
Provide us with the artist of the Art Beads used and I always love to know all the materials you used.