Skye Jewels and Vintaj

After a rough year it is so great to be back in full force! To start things off I was offered a chance to participate in the Bead Partner Program with Vintaj! What an honour! I was so thrilled that even though I was not finished with my cancer treatments, I jumped at the chance! What a great way to get back into the swing of things!

With the help of digital collage artist Ella Bouchard, we came up with a set of Exclusive images just for the weeping willow challenge! Vintaj supplied me with a colour palette that I should work with. I forwarded that to Ella and gave her ideas of what I was picturing for images. She did an amazing job and these pendants are the result!

I have a selection of 1X3, 1X2, 1X1 and 1.5inch circles and 1inch circles. You can find them all in my Supply Shop on Etsy. I love the colour theme, and I love the rustic images. I chose a variety of things to go into it since not everyone will want to play with trees.

Of course for those of you who are interested in trees, I have quite a few to choose from! I have a few different versions of the Weeping Willow and also the tree Jess Italia Lincoln used in her design featured on the Design Challenge ad.

I hope you will take a moment to participate in the challenge. I am excited to see what kind of pieces will be entered! Use your imagination and don't forget to include your favourite Art Beads with your Vintaj findings for the best results! My tiles of course go very well with the Vintaj filigree, shown in the necklace I created at the top of this post.

Thanks for visiting, I hope you leave us some of your thoughts to read :)

Marie

Studio Saturday with Erin Prais-Hintz

Welcome to Studio Saturday! Each week one of our contributors gives you a sneak peek into their studio, creative process or inspirations. We ask a related question of our readers and hope you'll leave comments! As an incentive we offer a free prize each week to bribe you to use that keyboard.
The following week we choose a random winner.

This week's winner is Jill aka The Beading Mommy
Congratulations! You have won a ceramic house button from Tari Sasser of Creative Impressions in Clay. Send Tari an e-mail with your address and she will get it out to you as soon as possible!

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This week we visit the studio of

Erin Prais-Hintz of Tesori Trovati Jewelry.

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Unwritten

No one else can speak the words on your lips.

Drench yourself in words unspoken.

Live your life with arms wide open.

Today is where your book begins.

The rest is still unwritten. 

~ Natasha Bedingfield

This month has been all about the story for me. I am honored that the sweet ladies at Vintaj chose me to represent their May theme of 'storybook' for their monthly Art Bead Partnership. Vintaj has been important to me in telling my own creative story and this month has been such a delight for me!

{imagine - castle - available on Etsy}

I created nine new limited edition 'simple truths' designs to go with the storybook/fairy tale theme. I also had a lovely interview with the ladies at Vintaj and posted a video blog of where my creative story lives... in my basement... late, late, late at night... with chaos all around (try not to laugh too hard at my space ;-)

To wrap up this fairy-tale-come-true for me, and to keep to the theme of this month with my quarterly Challenge of Literature (there are 34 really talented people playing with me to reveal their literature inspired creations on a blog hop on May 31st!), I thought I should do something a bit fun.

{storybook story beads - limited edition phrases - available on Etsy}

So I started a with progressive story starter on my blog post here, and invited my readers to add to the story, line by line, in the comments. Not only are there some incredibly creative jewelry designers, but there are some skilled storytellers as well! 

{happily ever after - available on Etsy}

So far there are magic hats, and quilts and keys... dragons and owls and fairies... a princess named Angelina and a Lady Erina ;-)... a castle on the edge of a forest in Wisconsin... and all sorts of creative twists and turns.

You still have time to add your line to the story...

The comments on this post will be open just through today, Saturday, May 12th.

{write your own happy ending - available on Etsy}

To sweeten the deal to entice you to comment, I am giving away a very special prize on my blog to a random comment on this post. Want to know what it is? Go and check it out! There is no limit on the number of comments  you can leave, the only rule is that you have to keep the story going! Next week  I will see if I can pull all the comments and compile the story including writing my own happy ending!

{tales they tell - tulips - available on Etsy}

But I need to gift a lucky reader of Art Bead Scene with a prize today as well. I will give away one of the 'tales they tell' tulip pendants pictured above to a random comment on this post.
To win, all you need to do is answer this question...

Every person has a tale to tell and every art bead can tell it.

Which art bead artist(s) do you feel could tell YOUR tale best with their artisan components?

Erin Prais-Hintz invites you to go on a journey of inspiration at her blog Treasures Found :: Inspiration is Everywhere. You can view a gallery of her work at http://www.tesoritrovati.com/ or purchase her new line of 'Simple Truths' in her Etsy shop.

July/August-Vintaj Art Bead Partner

My time as Vintaj's Art Bead Partner has come to a close. 
I wanted show all the fantastic designs the gang at Vintaj made with my pieces. 
All of these designs can be found in their Design Gallery.
The theme was Carnival Ferris Wheel.

Sweet Treats



Fancy Free




Fun Day at the Fair



Carnival Ferris Wheel



Carnival Lights



Remembering the Fair



Ring Toss



Ticket to Ride



Carnival Nights



Summer Fair



Thanks Vintaj!! It's been great to see your creations! 

Circle Collection

Vintaj Art Bead Partner

As some of you may know Vintaj has started a great new partnership on their blog, Art Bead Partner.

They choose the theme, Art Bead Artist and partner with them for a month using their products and the art beads (buttons) made by the artist.

Here are the details from Jess at Vintaj:

"As you know, here at Vintaj we LOVE working with Art Beads! We are all huge fans of Art Bead Scene and follow many bead artist’s blogs, incorporate their unique handmade components into our jewelry and share some of their sites on our Favorite Art Beads page. Today I’m excited to announce a new blog feature ~ our design team recently came up with the concept of featuring a monthly Art Bead Partner to reflect our design themes."

I am very fortunate to be their Art Bead Partner for August. I created a new collection of buttons and beads just for this partnership. I was so thrilled to be asked to be an Art Bead Partner, I had to make something special. 

This is the Circle Collection shown being used as components. 

Clay is a changeling, any button can be a component, pendant, charm, clasp etc.

You get the picture. If you see a button and would rather use as something else, ask if it can be changed for your use.

Bracelet by Jess Italia using the Four Circle as a component. Stitch Markers double as charms.
Earrings also made by Jess using the Circle Beads.


Take a look at Vintaj's Gallery they have great ideas and designs using their finding and embellishments. 


Art Bead Partner Special!
Get 20% off minimum order of $20 using code ABP20 from Creative Impressions in Clay. Put code in the voucher box.