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Your invitation to win! Enter the 2012 Jewelry-Making Contests for your chance to win up to a $1,000 gift certificate for Fire Mountain Gems and Beads’ products, as well as worldwide recognition as a designer-artist. Contest entrants may also have their work showcased in and on the following Fire Mountain Gems and Beads materials:
- Backcover advertisements in leading international jewelry-making magazines
- Email newsletter campaigns, press releases and other advertising mediums
- Gallery of Designs
All artists are invited to join the Jewelry Artists online showcase.
View contest guidelines and entry details here:
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2011 Fire Mountain Gems and Beads' Contest featuring
Seed Beads, Glass or Acrylic Winners
Announcing the winners of the 2011 Fire Mountain Gems and Beads Seed Beads, Glass or Acrylic Jewelry-Making Contest! Congratulations to Ezartesa who received the Grand Prize Gold Medal for her exquisite necklace Reef. Inspired by the underwater world, the necklace was designed with incredible seed bead work, on both the front and back of the piece.
A special thank you to all of the talented designers-artists who participated. Get an up-close look at all of the amazing award-winning designs and finalist pieces in the Gallery of Designs.
Past Contests
Metal Clay, Metal Beads, Wirework or Chain Winners
Announcing the winners of the 2011 Fire Mountain Gems and Beads Jewelry-Making Contest featuring Metal Clay, Metal Beads, Wirework or Chain! We'd like to thank all the designer-artists who participated in the contest.
Congratulations to the Grand Prize Gold Medal Winner Lucila Nassau! Prophecy, a museum-quality metal clay necklace, was inspired by Lucila's birthday and a certain corresponding Mayan prophecy. Get an up-close look at the grand prize creation and all of the award-winning designs and finalist pieces here.
SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS Winners
Thank you to all the amazing artists who entered the 2010 Fire Mountain Gems and Beads Jewelry-Making Contest Featuring SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS. We're happy to announce Irina Wilson has been awarded the Grand Prize Gold Medal for her spectacular necklace entitled Paradise. Inspired by her own paradise, Irina's design combines a unique use of Swarovski rivolis and outstanding stitchery resulting in a vibrant, professional statement piece. See this piece and all the other prize-winning creations here.
2010 Fire Mountain Gems and Beads' Contest featuring
Pearls, Organic Beads or Molding Clay Winners
Congratulations to Melissa Grakowsky, the Grand Prize Gold Medal Winner of the 2010 Fire Mountain Gems and Beads Jewelry-Making Contest Featuring Pearls, Organic Beads or Molding Clay. The stunning necklace, titled Cultivation, is a cascading bib-style necklace made of exquisitely handcrafted polymer clay roses and cultured freshwater pearls. Cultivation was chosen for its incredible polymer clay workmanship, attention to detail and skilled use of a variety of contest materials. View Melissas grand prize necklace and the rest of the winning and finalist pieces here.
2010 Fire Mountain Gems and Beads' Contest featuring
Gemstone Winners
Introducing the artwork of Keiko Wada, the Grand Prize Gold Medal Winner of the 2010 Fire Mountain Gems and Beads Jewelry-Making Contest featuring Gemstones. Keiko's fantastic bib-style necklace, Isis, and Egyptian bracelet were created using a variety of techniques and bead types, resulting in dimensional works of art. Congratulations to Keiko and all the gemstone winners and finalists! View the award-winning showcase here.
Announcing the winners of the 2010 Fire Mountain Gems and Beads' Jewelry-Making Contest featuring Glass! View the award-winning designs featuring one-of-a-kind creativity, technique and style.
The Grand Prize Gold Medal piece by Amy Johnson draws on her mathematical inspirations. Amy created her necklace by making cone-shaped beads that fit inside each other, in progressive sizes. Get an up-close view of Contessa, as well as the other prize winning designs here. Thank you to all who participated in this years contest.
Congratulations to all the winners of the 2010 Fire Mountain Gems and Beads Jewelry-Making contest featuring Seed Beads, including Grand Prize Gold Medal Winner Patricia Kraemer! Patricia's incredible necklace design, Hummingbird with Barb Wire, reflects Patricia's poignant memories of recent years and features one of her favorite subjects -- birds. View the award-winning showcase with direct links to see all the stunning winning pieces up close and personal in the Gallery of Designs.
Thank you to all the notable artists who participated in the 2010 Fire Mountain Gems and Beads Jewelry-Making Contest featuring Metal Clay, Metal Beads, Wirework and Chain. We'd like to express special congratulations to Melissa J. Lee who created the Grand Prize Gold Medal Winning Design I think, Therefore I am 2.0. Melissa's striking reversible necklace creation of art clay, gemstones and seed beads with it's binary-coded message was inspired by her love of science fiction — particularly cyberpunk.
Congratulations to all the winners, and thank you for sharing spectacular creativity, technique and style with the jewelry-making community. View the award-winning showcase with the following direct link.
Announcing the winners of the 2009 Fire Mountain Gems and Beads' Jewelry-Making Contest SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS category! View the award-winning designs featuring one-of-a-kind creativity, technique and style. Thank you to all the jewelry-artists for participating in this first product-themed contest.
Congratulations to all the winners of the 2009 Fire Mountain Gems and Beads' Jewelry-Making Contest! Here is the award winning showcase featuring spectacular creativity, technique and style. Thank you to all the notable designer-artists that participated in this year's contest.
The votes are in and the judging complete in the biggest Fire Mountain Gems and Beads Jewelry-Making Contest ever! Be inspired by the winning designs and get an up-close view of each, with materials lists and direct links to products.
Presenting the designs of the 2007 Fire Mountain Gems and Beads Annual Jewelry-Making Contest winners. View over 500 designs that display the fantastic talent from designer-artists around the world.
See the winning designs of the 2006 Fire Mountain Gems and Beads Jewelry-Making Contest and get inspired to create your own award-winning styles!
The results are in! Check out the winners of the 2005 Fire Mountain Gems and Beads Jewelry-Making Contest for a look at the cutting edge of beading. You can view each winning design in detail.
Congratulations to all our winners of the 2004 Fire Mountain Gems and Beads Jewelry-Making Contest! Fire Mountain Gems customers are the most creative folks in the world!
Did you miss the 2003 Contest winners? Don't worry, you can still check out these timeless designs right here.
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