May Monthly Challenge Prizes

Our wonderful sponsors for the May Monthly Challenge. 

We will have 2 winners this month.

Gardanne Beads

Anne Lichtenstein of Gardanne Beads creates beautiful lampworked beads. Along with her lampworked beads, Anne creates enameled beads and components. They are all so wonderful with many possibilities!

Anne is donating a grab bag of enamel, glass and mixed metal components worth $50.

Visit Gardanne Beads at her Etsy shop, blog and Etsy shop #2.
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Chinook Jewelry

Melissa Essenberg of Chinook Jewelry creates fabulous pendants and jewelry components from porcelain clay. All are hand formed and stamped with designs to enhance their shape. We are so thrilled with the popularity of ceramic clay items being used: buttons, pendants, components and of course beads.
Melissa is donating the items shown above worth over $50.

Visit the Chinook Jewelry on her website, blog, BeadShowTravel website and blog #2.

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

Cache-Cache (Hide and Seek) by Berthe Morisot is lovely impressionistic painting with many different elements that can be used for inspiration, texture, color, female forms, mother & child and couture.

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

Please remember to put MAYABS 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. 

May Monthly Challenge Prizes

This month we'll have one lucky winner for the Art Bead Scene's Monthly Challenge.

Lynn Davis of ExpeditionD has donated a heart pendant made from polymer clay and a pewter wing pendant. Lynn creates wonderful artifacts that are perfect for your beautiful creations

Visit Lynn at her, blog, Lynn Davis etsy, and ExpeditionD etsy.

Heather Wynn has donated a "live bravely" pendant made from polymer clay with a silver leaf charm and and a "if my words had wings" polymer clay pendant. Heather also works in silver and is a jewlery designer.

Visit Heather on her website and etsy. 

Off Center Productions has donated two porcelain handbuilt door pendants inspired by the doors of Nagaland. Off Center Productions is a two person studio of Joan Tucker and Lana Weed creating one of a kind items in porcelain.

 Visit Joan and Lana on their website, blog and Facebook. 

Get your Art Beads, Art Buttons, Art Charms or Art Pendants out, start creating and enter this months challenge! 

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

"The Juggler" painting by Marc Chagall has many different elements that can be used for inspiration, bright bold color, contrast of color and imagery of the characters.

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