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Winner of the pendant necklace from my blog-o-versary post is....
Michelle from Beadalotta!
Congratulations, Michelle! Email me and let me know if you would like this pendant necklace or one with YOUR special mantra on it! {Maybe I can even deliver it in person!}
The Challenge of Color blog hop is officially under way! Just two weeks from today we will be revealing our creations based off the specially selected color palette that I sent each participant.
Here is the gist of the blog hop:
- Each participant gave me a color choice that would be either a true challenge or something that they would feel comfortable with. Some opted to have me surprise them!
- Palettes were selected with a minimum of 3 colors from area paint stores. Cards were then mailed to all participants, or emailed to our overseas friends.
- All participants are listed over in the right side bar. Grab this list of live links to blogs for the blog hop. Please be sure to let me know if your name or the link is not correct. Or if I missed you somehow.
- We will be creating jewelry using the paint chip palette. All the colors are encouraged but dropping or adding colors is fine. (And don't forget to take a picture of the palette... with only a few exceptions, each participant has a unique palette.)
- Use of art beads is strongly encouraged.
- Naming the piece with one of the paint chip colors is encouraged.
- The blog hop will happen on Friday, December 3rd. Be sure to come back and hop around and make new friends! We have people from all across the US and around the globe. So.Much.Fun!
There will be prizes awarded in a random drawing after the blog hop for all those who participated. I have a growing stash of materials that need a good home and we also have one sponsor (thanks Jeannie of JKDJewelry!) and the potential of another bead artist who was watching from afar and liked the idea so much she is considering creating something special just for me to give away... how cool is that?
In the meantime I thought that you should see what I am working on. I decided that I should challenge myself as well. So I picked out some paint chip palettes and combed through my stash to see what I had that would work. Here are the palettes and the beads that I will work with...
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| Featuring art beads clockwise from top left: Chinook Jewelry, Marsha Neal, Lisa Peters Art and MACarroll, Kelleys Beads, Lynn Davis, Julsbeads |
I can't say that I will be able to finish all of these by the December 3rd blog hop date, but I will sure try! And if nothing else, I have some ready made inspiration kits for when I can't get my mojo going!
It was fun to go through things that I had, things that I recently purchased and things that I forgot that I bought to find the base materials for some jewelry. Now to sit down and pull it all together! If nothing else, I will have these things to sell in my new Etsy shop {find a link over on the sidebar} for the holidays!
If you are participating in the blog hop, do you like your color palette? Is it a challenge or just a welcome change?
If you are not participating, will you come back to see what unfolds? Is there something that I can do to entice you to hop around with us?
Would you be interested in seeing more of these color challenges/blog hops in the future? Any suggestions?
Do tell!
Enjoy the day!
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