Featured Product Contest for November – Geometric Shapes

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FEATURED PRODUCT FOR NOVEMBER – Geometric Shapes


For November, we want to see just how creative you can be with a bunch of circles when it comes to creating geometric shapes. Pieces can be symmetrical or abstract, straight-edged or curved – whatever you can imagine! Just make sure shape is the focus. Looking for some inspiration? Check out these geometric chainmaille pieces.

As a special bonus prize for this month, the winning piece will be featured as our cover photo on our page on Facebook*! Just a little extra motivation to be creative this month *wink*.

*Pleas note that, in order to prevent false advertising, we can only feature pieces created primarily with Blue Buddha product. Thank you for understanding!

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:




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. 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 Product 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 product 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.

Inspiration: Geometic shapes in chainmaille

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For November, we’re challenging participants in our “Featured Product” contest to use any and all B3 products to create pieces inspired by geometric shapes.  We never get tired of the possibilities that exist when it comes to creating jewelry from little metal circles, but we’re even more floored by the way jump rings can completely transform into shapes that aren’t even circular in nature.  We can’t wait to see what everyone comes up with in November!

To get you started, we’ve put together this group of inspirational pieces created by B3 Designers Rebeca Mojica and Kat Wisniewski.


         

“Show Off Your Maille” week, 2012: Friday/Fanday!

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It’s the final day of “Show Off Your Maille” week which also means it’s Fanday!  In addition to a couple final B3 show-offs, we are also posting a bunch of work posted by some of our Facebook community members.  Thanks to everyone who shared their work with us as well as all of you who wore your chainmaille in pride this week. It’s really the people who love this craft that have helped increase its popularity and who continue to educate other folks about how it is made and what value it has.

Kudos to you for doing your part!  Keep showing off!

If you’ve ever called B3 with a chainmaille emergency, question or anything else for that matter, you’ve probably spoken to this little lady a time or two.  Aimee is our customer care supervisor and chainmaille expert.  She also has a myriad of other talents as evidenced by the gorgeous wire-wrapped ring she is wearing in the picture (also made by her!)

Dan is showing off one more time!  Another customer care specialist/chainmaille expert – he fields many of your questions as well plus some of you may recognize him from the Bead&Button show.

Finally, give it up for our Facebook community show-offs!  You folks inspire us to do what we do – thanks so much for sharing your awesome work with us!  See something you like?  Hop on over to our page on Facebook and leave a comment or give a like to this fan photos.

“Show Off Your Maille” week, 2012: Thursday

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Perhaps not surprisingly, even folks that join our team as total strangers to chainmaille don’t stay that way for long.  Today’s show-offs are our General Manager, Nadja Aller and me, Jenna Deidel, B3’s Marketing Maven.  Despite being lifelong artists and crafters, neither of us knew much about chainmaille jewelry when we first began working at Blue Buddha Boutique.  That quickly changed (as you can see from the photos below) and we’re so glad it did.

Don’t forget – we’ll be highlighting photos shared on our Facebook wall by folks like you here on our blog tomorrow!  Make sure to stop by and post a pic of the pieces you’re showing off today.

Above: Nadja shows off her “Dodecahedron” necklace (yes, those are hands!!) as well as her black and red “Tapered Mobius” necklace.

Above: Jenna double-wrists it with Rebeca’s design, “Elfweave Braid“, on the left and Kat’s design, “Rapid Track“, on the right. 

“Show Off Your Maille” week, 2012: Wednesday

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It’s humpday for our “Show Off Your Maille” week and today we have show-offs in the form of chainmaille expert, customer care specialist and weaving assistant Dan Rychtarik as well as our fearless leader, Rebeca Mojica (modeling pieces she created as well as showing off a piece she purchased from Kat Wisniewski.)

Don’t forget, you can participate in our week of increasing awareness and appreciation for the craft we love so much by posting pics of the chainmaille pieces you’re wearing today on our page on Facebook. 

Above: Dan Rychtarik sporting his maille.  See more of his work on the When Rings Dream page on Facebook.

Above: Rebeca Mojica showing off her chainmaille belt.  See more of Rebeca’s work at Rebeca Mojica Jewelry.  The center image shows: “Coiled Butterfly Cuff” (left) by Rebeca and an “Akimbo” bracelet (right) by Kat Wisniewski of Elemental Art Jewelry.