“Mailler of the Year” Contest!

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We launched our “Featured Product of the Month” Contest in September of this year and have since received some seriously impressive entries featuring our X12 AA rings, size D20 rings, and Glass Rings.  We have awarded three winners so far with $25 B3 gift certificates and can’t wait to see whose creation using size H18 jump rings wins this month!

Its the end of the year though, and we have decided to up the ante to start 2012 with a bang!



In January 2012, we will have our first ever “Mailler of the Year” Contest.  All of our previous Featured Product Contest winners will go head to head in our very own super bowl of chainmaille for a grand prize of a $100 B3 gift certificate! (…and of course bragging rights until we crown a new winner in 2013.)

December is your last chance to make it into the running for the 2012 contest, so get weaving!  This is going to be a seriously tough competition, we can’t wait to see who wins.

 

Maillers’ Choice Kit – vote for December’s color combination!

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B3’s Maillers’ Choice Kit was a crazy success last month!  We asked you to choose your favorite color combination for our Bold & Brilliant Byzantine Kit and put a limited number of the top-voted combination on our sale page and they sold out in a flash!



For December, you’ll be designing a Japanese Lace kit.  This intermediate level project is a great introduction to the Japanese family of chainmaille weaves – one of Rebeca’s favorites!  You will not only choose the colors for the rings but also whether you want a 2-row or 3-row finished bracelet.

Voting for the Maillers’ Choice kit starts today and closes on the 10th. Your top-voted combination will be made into kits and released on our website on the 15th.

Don’t forget, there will be a limited number of these kits available at the discounted price, so stop by early to get yours!

VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE COMBINATION NOW!

 

The color choices this month are inspired by winter – icicles, sugar plums and silver bells.  The more people we have vote, the higher we’ll set the discount on the kit so make sure to cast your vote using our survey (not in the comments below) to make it count!  


       

Congratulations to November’s Featured Product of the Month Contest Winner!

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Voting for Novembers’s Featured Product of the Month contest is officially closed and the winner as chosen by you is……

 

Wing N. and her piece “Glass Caterpillar Choker”!


Congratulations, Wing! Your creativity has earned you a B3 gift certificate for $25! To claim your prize, please send an email to [email protected].



This also means that Wing has claimed a spot alongside our previous 2011 winners in our first ever “Mailler of the Year” contest.  There is one spot left and it could be yours!  Make a project using our size H18 jump rings for your chance to win December’s contest and claim that final spot for you chance to win the grand prize of a $100 Blue Buddha gift certificate.


Thanks to EVERYONE who participated in November’s contest.  The work you produced was just beautiful and we hope it inspired some more of you to try integrating glass rings into your pieces.  December’s submissions are now open.

Happy Weaving!


Get your chainmaille jewerly supplies in time!

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B3 will be closed DECEMBER 23 through JANUARY 4

for the holidays and for end of year inventory.


During this time, we will continue to process and ship all orders placed by 5pm CT  Dec 22 but please be aware that there will be a bit of a delay due to half the studio being off on any given day.  No order new orders will processed until we reopen on Jan 5 – this includes express orders.  We also will not be answering the phones during this time.

Holiday supply orders are pouring in; we’re prepping for and participating in some of our favorite local holiday shows...

Yep, the holiday season is in full swing.


As such, we have changed our order processing time for regular orders to 4-7 days.  As always, we strive to beat the times we post and often do, but we know projects being made this time of year are often time-sensitive and we want you to be able to place your order with plenty of time to create those holiday gifts.

CUTOFF TO RECEIVE YOUR ORDER BY 12/23 = 5pm CT Dec 15

We also understand that when your order leaves our studio, it is just the beginning of its journey.  Many customers choose Express Shipping & Handling for their order at this time of year to make sure they get it in time.  While all reasonably-sized express orders we receive are processed and shipped within 24 hours, not all orders arrive to their final destination overnight.   

 

USPS lists Express Shipping as “Guaranteed overnight delivery to most U.S. addresses” and most customers do receive their express order from USPS overnight with no problems at all.  However, for some folks who live far away from an airport or in rural areas, it takes a bit longer.  To calculate how long it will take for you to receive an order using Express shipping, use the USPS EXPRESS SHIPPING CALCULATOR.
As a courtesy to our customers, we would also like to offer overnight shipping through UPS at this time of year.  If you are interested in shipping your order via UPS, please contact us by sending an email to [email protected] as soon as you have placed your order.  Please give your name and your order number in the email and we will get back to you as soon as we can with a quote.



Featured Product of the Month Contest – December

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FEATURED PRODUCT FOR DECEMBER – Size H18


By popular demand, December’s featured product is our size H18 jump rings.  Why do people love this size so much?  It is INCREDIBLY versatile and is a great “Goldylocks Size” (Not too big, not too small. *wink*)  We just KNOW this is going to be a huge month – show us what you got!

This ring size has two blog posts full of inspiration – one for base metal rings and one for precious metal.  Your project can be made from one or the other or even combine them!

 

Here’s how the contest works:


Make a project which primarily uses our featured product**. The project can most definitely use other rings and components, but the featured product should really be the star of the piece. The project does not necessarily have to be brand new to be submitted – if you have some amazing piece you made last year hanging around that uses the featured product of the month, share it!


 

Take a picture of your project and post it to our page on Facebook. Give your piece a title and Make sure to write something like “This is my submission for the Featured Product Contest!” in the little box that says “Say something about this photo…” when you upload it to our wall. Please note: upload your photos from your computer directly to be sure they will show up on our wall. We’ve experienced some technical difficulities with folks uploading from other devices so it’s just safer that way!

Submissions will be accepting between the 1st and 15th of every month so make sure to get your project posted in time! Please limit your submissions to 2 per person.

 

 

Get Votes! Submissions will close on the 15th of each month at which point the B3 Staff will choose our favorites. The top entries will be eligible for voting through a survey which we will post to our blog as well as our wall on Facebook. If you are one of the finalists, feel free to share the link with friends via email, Facebook, Twitter or any other means.

Voting will close on the last day of the month.

 

 

That’s all it takes! We will award the top voted finalist each month with a $25 B3 Gift Certificate and will feature YOUR project in a special blog post and possibly even future B3 ads** to inspire fellow chainmaillers all over the world.


**Please also note that while the project is not required to be made from Blue Buddha Boutique rings, any winning projects that use primarily rings from another supplier or rings made by the artist will not be eligible for posting on our blog or use in our ads. We do this to prevent false advertising. We do not want to create the image that we sell a product that we in fact do not. Thank you for your understanding.

FEATURED PRODUCT FOR JANUARY – Enameled Copper Jump Rings

January’s featured product will be enameled copper jump rings – any size you choose!  Show off how these brilliantly colored rings can really shine in your designs.  We can’t wait to see what you invent.

VISIT OUR BLOG FOR LOTS OF WEAVE IDEAS TO GET YOUR STARTED!