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Tutorial Tuesday: Shibori Ribbon Necklace

Feast your eyes upon the glory of hand-dyed Shibori ribbon!  The color is amazing, the texture is petal soft silk, it’s pure luxury and it’s been sweeping the beading world over the last few months.  Brought to us by…

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March Monthly Challenge Color Palette

I’m really enjoying this month’s challenge artwork, Birds on Riser from Adolf Dietrich. It so perfectly epitomizes the season, don’t you think? Especially the colors. Winter-y shades of tan, ice blue, and shades of gray are a lovely background…

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March Monthly Challenge Sponsors + Prizes

Our Wonderful sponsors for the March Challenge. We will have 2 Lucky Winners this Month! Mary Harding Jewelry Mary Harding of Mary Harding Jewelry creates wonderful nature inspired beads, buttons, toggles and other jewelry components. Mary uses earthenware clay and…

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March Monthly Challenge

Birds On Riser, 1944  by Adolf Dietrich Oil on wood 22.6 x 19.7 in. (57.5 x 50 cm) * This art is copyright protected and should be used as inspiration only.* About the Art Naïve art is a classification…

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February Monthly Challenge Winners

Congratulations to this Month’s winners!  1 winner was chosen randomly from all the challenge entrants. 1 winner was chosen randomly from the InLinkz blog entries. Our first lucky winner is Sara Juno. She has won a over $50 in findings and curiosities from Songbead. Our second lucky winner is Shaiha…

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Inside the Studio with Mary Harding

Welcome to Inside the Studio! Each week one of our contributors gives you a sneak peek into their studio, creative process or inspirations. We ask a related question of our readers and hope you’ll leave comments! As an incentive…

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February Monthly Challenge Recap

February’s challenge painting is bright and modern with a romantic feel in a party atmosphere. The modular planes of color mixed with the subtle house shapes and the obvious roses make this perfect for the month when we declare…