Vote to select March’s “Feature Weave” contest winner!

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CAST YOUR VOTE NOW!

Submissions for March’s Featured Weave Contest are closed and the B3 team has done the difficult job of narrowing down the submissions to our group of finalists which means it’s time for YOU to cast your vote to determine the winner. This month, we challenged folks to create pieces featuring Full Persian and FP variations.  It was so cool to see the range of uses people pulled out for this weave.  Good luck choosing a favorite!

To share the survey, we recommend you copy the link to this blog post and use that in any emails, blog posts, or social media posts you’d like to make about it (we’ve noticed some weirdness in the past with sharing the link directly – it sometimes like to bump people out of voting that haven’t already.)

Get a sneak peak at the all of our finalists below:

                 

FEATURED WEAVE FOR MARCH – Japanese 12-in-2


For April, we’re featuring Japanese 12-in-2. This weave can be manipulated in many ways to create different shapes, curves, zig-zags and more.  Want some ideas?  Visit our “Weave Samples” album on our page on Facebook.  There are lots of neat ideas for Japanese 12-in-2 in there and we think they’ll definitely get you thinking!

Want to see which B3 sizes work well for this weave? Visit our base metal stats & uses page and our sterling silver stats & uses page, or check out these weave ideas posts right here on our blog.

Never tried this weave but feeling up for the challenge? You can purchase Blue Buddha instructions for Japanese Lace (Japanese 12-in-2) here in our projects section.


 

 

Vote for April’s “Maillers’ Choice” kit!

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B3’s “Maillers’ Choice” kit continues to be a hit! So much so that, in order to make sure our inventory can keep up with the popularity of these kits, we have bumped up voting by a month. Below you can vote for the kit we will release in April.


For April, we’re inviting you to customize a kit to create a Dragonscale bracelet. This is a favorite project among our customers and we always enjoy playing with different colors to change its overall look and feel.  And yes, this is a challenging weave, but we’ve heard from many folks that the Blue Buddha Dragonscale tutorial helped them conquer it so we know you’ll be able to conquer it too!

 

Congratulations to February’s “Featured Weave” contest winner plus information about March’s contest.

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Voting for February’s Featured Weave contest is officially closed and the winner as chosen by you is……

 

Chrys M. with his piece “Dragonscale Bow Tie”


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

 NOTE TO CONTEST PARTICIPANTS

In order to ensure everyone has a chance to participate in and win our monthly contests, we have added a new stipulation as of March that participants are not eligible to win two or more months in a row (you may still win more than one month per year, they just cannot be consecutive.)  We are well aware of the transparent reason for why we created this rule *wink*, so we did actually consult with this month’s winner, Chrys about the idea of this new rule before fully deciding to institute it.  He very graciously agreed that to keep the contest fair and fun for everyone, this rule would be a good addition (what a great “Mailler of the Year”, right?!)  And so it shall be.  Good luck to all our March participants – we can’t wait to see what you create!

FEATURED WEAVE FOR MARCH – Full Persian


For March, we’re featuring full persian. This weave was requested by our community on Facebook and we can’t wait to see what you create with it! The weave works in a number of sizes from very small (base metal size D22) to quite large (base metal size T16) and offers neat tapering options.

Want to see which B3 sizes work well for this weave? Visit our base metal stats & uses page and our sterling silver stats & uses page, or check out these weave ideas posts right here on our blog.

Never tried this weave but feeling up for the challenge? You can purchase Blue Buddha instructions for Full Persian 6-in-1 here on our sale page. (Scroll all the way down almost to the end of the page to find them.)

CRE8TIME Maker Studio this week – win crafty prizes!

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We posted about our new “CRE8TIME Maker Studios” in the beginning of February and shared lots of inspiring words from our community about why they were committing to making time to create in 2013.  Well, this week B3 is helping you make time by hosting our first ever CRE8TIME Maker Studio.  On Thursday March 8th from 4:30-8:30pm, our studio doors are open to makers of all kinds so come all ye maillers, knitters, quilters, hackers, crocheters, dabblers and crafters of any kind and join us in a monthly celebration of making time to make.

 

 

As a bonus for our very first maker studio, we have some fun crafty swag to give away that we scooped up at the CHA Show in January.  We’ll have 3 prizes available – one filled with knitting-related swag, another with paper/scrapbooking elements and a final one with some fabric crafting fun (including some really awesome scissors.)  We’ll raffle off the prizes near the end of the evening and you can’t win if you don’t come so – JOIN US!

CRE8TIME Maker Studio
Blue Buddha Boutique
1127 W Granville Ave (right off the Granville Red Line)
Chicago, IL 60660

FREE event, no RSVP needed!

Featured Weave for March: FULL PERSIAN

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FEATURED WEAVE FOR MARCH – Full Persian


For March, we’re featuring full persian. This weave was requested by our community on Facebook and we can’t wait to see what you create with it! The weave works in a number of sizes from very small (base metal size D22) to quite large (base metal size T16) and offers neat tapering options.

Want to see which B3 sizes work well for this weave? Visit our base metal stats & uses page and our sterling silver stats & uses page, or check out these weave ideas posts right here on our blog.

Never tried this weave but feeling up for the challenge? You can purchase Blue Buddha instructions for Full Persian 6-in-1 here on our sale page. (Scroll all the way down almost to the end of the page to find them.)

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:




Make a project which primarily uses the featured weave or a variation of the featured weave. The project can use any and all B3 supplies and can use other weaves, but the featured weave should be the star. Please see the complete rules and details below for more information about qualifications.




Take a picture of your project and submit it using our official Featured Weave Contest form (link below.) You may post the piece online somewhere and provide us with a link, or upload it directly in the form. You will be asked to provide your name and an email address we can use to contact you in case anything goes wrong with your submission—or if you are the winner of the contest!

GO TO THE SUBMISSION FORM

Submissions are closed at midnight CT on 15th of every month and are limited to 2 entry pieces 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. 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.

 


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.



Complete contest rules and details: Submissions are limited to 2 per person and must use the featured weave of the month as determined by Blue Buddha Boutique. The project is not required to be made from Blue Buddha Boutique rings, however 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 to prevent false advertising. Pieces do not have to be specially created for the contest but should be no more than 12 months old. Current employees and interns of Blue Buddha Boutique are not eligible for this contest. Finalists are chosen by Blue Buddha Boutique and voted upon anonymously by the public to determine a winner. Submissions may be disqualified at the discretion of Blue Buddha Boutique if they are deemed inappropriate in any way. If a winner does not claim their prize within 15 days of notification, the second place winner will be awarded the prize.  Please note: As of March 2013, participants are not eligible to win two or more months in a row.