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Take our design challenge!

Thursday, March 17th, 2011

[last update, May 2nd:
designer entries added at the bottom--scroll down!
Grand Prize winner to be picked this week]

Take our design challenge!

(PS: while you’re all waiting for the entries to be posted at the bottom of this post,
enjoy our last design challenge featuring glass bezels!)

The theme is brushed copper beads, look at ‘em:

Brushed copper beads

Design challenge! Satin-finish copper beads

We think you’ll love these: They’re gorgeously shiny… fun to touch…

and we like how people’s faces light up when they see ‘em at our bead shows!

Here’s how to enter:

  1. Leave a comment below.
  2. Get an extra entry in the drawing: Link from your blog to this post.  Share this post in Facebook or Twitter.

Then, wait for an email from me: One week from today, on Thursday, March 24th, I’ll do a drawing & pick 15 lucky participants.  I’ll send those 15 people a packet of these satin-finish copper beads.


They’ll have 1 month to provide photos of the jewelry they make with these beads.  Out of all those entries, Rings & Things will pick a Design Challenge winner to receive a surprise pack of our jewelry supplies! So enter now, tell your online friends, and get thinking–what will you do with a bunch of brushed copper beads?  Doming?  Sawing in half?  Image-transfer solution?  Patina’ing?  Hole punching? –Dave at Rings & Things–


Update, March 29th:  Yay!  Winners!  Here’s the list of the lucky 13 people whose names were drawn:

1. Penny Neville,
http://copperpennydesigns.blogspot.com/2011/03/take-our-design-challenge.html
2. Marie-Noel Voyer-Cramp,
http://skyejewels.blogspot.com/
3. Erin Prais-Hintz,
http://treasures-found.blogspot.com
4. Erin Strother,
http://www.studioEgraphics.com
5. Francine Vorbeck,
http://www.exclusivelyoursdesigns.blogspot.com/
6. Jenny Mac,
http://jennymacoriginals.goods.officelive.com/default.aspx
7. Amy,
http://spritecreations.dnsdojo.com/
8. Kristi Bowman,
http://dreamsomedesigns.blogspot.com/
9. Melissa M,
http://melissameman.blogspot.com
10. Kym Hunter,
http://kymhunterdesigns.blogspot.com
11. Tina Lawrence,
http://www.etsy.com/shop/statementsinsterling
12. Jenny Vidberg, http://shymessmycken.blogspot.com
13. Laura Staley,
http://www.etsy.com/shop/laurastaley

The design entries keep coming in…


 

And the Early-Bird Winner Is …

Thursday, March 3rd, 2011

And the Early-Bird Winner Is …

Congratulations, Sarah Breivis of Juju by Sarah (San Francisco, CA)!  Sarah is our 2011 Your Designs Rock Contest Early-Bird Winner. Sarah’s name was randomly drawn from all contestants who submitted complete contest entries by February 7.  Her winning goodie bag includes:

The 2011 Your Designs Rock Contest Early-Bird Drawing Winning Goodie Bag!

**C&C (“cash & carry”) stock is only available in our Spokane, WA, showroom and at our traveling road shows — find a show near you!

The Your Designs Rock! Contest entry deadline was February 28, and judging will soon be underway.  Finalists will be contacted mid to late April, so they can send in their physical entries for the final judging round.  Winners will be announced the first week in June.

Design contest: Early-Bird prize deadline!

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

Your Designs Rock Contest Early-Bird Drawing

Enter our annual contest by Monday, February 7, and we’ll add your name to our Early-Bird Drawing for a goodie bag!

Last year’s Early-Bird goodie bag included gemstone beads, wooden chain & gold-filled components.

Contestants are entered in the drawing 1 time for each of up to 3 complete entries submitted by February 7.

Don’t delay — that’s less than a week away! Contest details & entry form.

Design challenge results: glass bezels, glass tiles

Friday, December 3rd, 2010

Rings & Things just ran a design challenge with several of our Blog Partners.  Look what they made!
(Note added on March 30, 2011: also see our next design challenge with brushed copper beads!)

We sent our crafty guinea pigs some packages of Rings & Things exclusive new items: glass bezels and glass tiles.

Krissi Sandvik used these glass findings to frame tiny reproductions of her own paintings:

Krissi-Sandvik-design-challenge-glass-tiles

Click to enlarge!

 

Armored Hearts came up with the inspiration of using up old beads that were lying around the workshop.  They make some really fun patterned designs in resin…

Armored Hearts design challenge glass tiles

Armored Hearts design challenge glass tiles

Armored Hearts design challenge glass tiles

Armored Hearts design challenge glass tiles

Armored Hearts design challenege glass tiles

Armored Hearts design challenge glass tiles

Armored Hearts design challenge glass tiles

Juli Nocita took two approaches, layering some ArtChix images into the glass bezels…

Juli-Nocita-design-challenge-glass-tiles-with ArtChix images

…and placing same-size glass tiles and glass bezels together to make an image “box”:

Juli-Nocita-design-challenge-glass-tiles-with glass bezels to make an image box

Suebeads made this magnet set with Tim Coffey special paper:

SueBeads-design-challenge-glass-tiles

Click to enlarge!

Courtney Breul commented, “Loved the bezels, but the clear back can be difficult. You can see the bail.”  (So consider covering it up with an image placed inside.)   This concern didn’t stop Courtney from making all of these great pendants:

Courtney Breul design challenge glass tiles

Courtney Breul design challenge glass tiles

Courtney Breul design challenge glass tiles Mouse immersed some metal charms in resin on glass bezels…

Mouse-design-challenge-glass-tiles-metal charms

…as well as painting unique designs on paper that she resin-ated onto the back of glass tiles.

Mouse-design-challenge-glass-tiles-painted-paper

She’s also contemplating an experiment where she’ll fuse metal clay onto these!

Faye Hadfield made, among other items, this cute Mom gift for her daughter:

Faye-Hadfield-design-challenge-glass-bezels-and-tiles

What would you do with these exclusive glass tiles & bezels?