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The Beading Contest 2007-08 is now closed - check back soon to learn more about 2008-09 Contest! |
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Gold Medal Winner (Winner), each category ~ |
$100.00 gift certificate |
Silver Medal Winner (1st Runner Up), each category ~ |
$75.00 gift certificate |
Bronze Medal Winner (2nd Runner Up), each category ~ |
$50.00 gift certificate |
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Enter as many pieces as you want and in as many categories as you want.
The same project can be submitted to more than one category, up to 3 total per project.
At least 50% of each project should be made from products from the category in which they are entered.
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First place-winning designs in each category will go on to compete for the Grand Prizes, and may appear:
• in our 2008-09 comprehensive Jewelry Maker's Catalog
• on our website
• in our back cover ads in top industry magazines
• in one of our supplemental catalogs.
Your designs will be seen by hundreds of thousands of beading enthusiasts, along with your name and contact information, if you desire.
Winners of 1 category will not be eligible to win other categories if the project was entered in more than 1.
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Beading Contest Categories
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Art Clay®: Sculpt one-of-a-kind jewelry and non-jewelry creations using 99% silver clay for infinite design possibilities.
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Briolette: Incorporate gemstone, terbium, cubic zirconia, Swarovski® crystal components and faceted glass in flat, graduated, twisted or multi-colors.
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Chain: From chunky to delicate, precious metal to plated, layer it on.
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Charms, Drops and Links: It's a world of opportunity! Precious metal, plated metal, copper, brass and gemstone inlay -- use as many as you like.
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Freeform Expression: NEW category! Unleash your creativity and express yourself. This category offers you the freedom to create innovative, edgy designs of any nature. From jewelry to home décor, fiber art to functional art - step outside the jewelry box. If you can dream it, you can make it.
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Gemstone: Dazzle your designs with faceted, opaque or translucent nuggets, chips, stations, components and pendants.
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Glorious Glass: Embellish with all things glass. Czech Fire-Polished glass, Czech pressed glass, goldstone, rainbow "stone," bumpy beads, lampworked glass, liquid glass, Dichroic glass, glass components... the catalog's the limit!
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Kato Polyclay®: A rainbow of opportunity awaits you... Craft original jewelry and non-jewelry components using the finest, most colorful molding clay available.
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Kids' Creations: A category designated specifically for the young designer-artists. If you are 12 years or younger, enter your design in this category - use any materials that inspire you!
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Metals: Indulge your creations with precious metal, plated metal, brass, copper and/or nickel beads and findings.
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Natural Pearls: Cultured freshwater pearls of any size color or shape.
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Organic Inspiration: Awaken your natural senses with shell, quill, wood, bone, horn and fossil beads and beading components. (Please submit cultured freshwater pearls to the Natural Pearl category.)
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Seed Beads: Design with the seed beads of your choice... any style, shape or size by Miyuki Shoji, Matsuno, Ornela® or Ming Tree™.
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Swarovski®: Create sparkling designs with Swarovski® crystal components from bicones to pearls and chatons to inlaid headpins.
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Turquoise: Whether it's Sleeping Beauty, stabilized, natural, chalk, simulated, reconstituted, resin or howlite if it looks like turquoise -- and has plenty of it -- it's in the right place.
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Wire: Get wired with sterling silver and gold-filled wire, color-coated copper wire, niobium wire, Wonder Wiggle Wire® and memory wire.
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To enter, submit your design on an 8x10 color photograph or a digital file on a CD or DVD disc. Resolution must be at least 300 d.p.i.. Email entries will not be accepted. Please do not submit your design photographed on a person. Please photograph the entire piece, including clasp or closure if applicable. Additional detail shots permitted. Pictures and/or CDs become the property of Fire Mountain Gems and Beads; do not send in the actual jewelry unless requested. We request that contest entries be composed of products from Fire Mountain Gems and Beads' comprehensive catalogs. Components purchased from Smart Bargains (online) or Great Product section of our sales flyers do not qualify. Other components, such as fabric, feathers, and items which Fire Mountain Gems does not sell, may be obtained elsewhere and incorporated into the design.
Entries must be received by August 31, 2007. For confirmation of receipt of your entry, please send it via registered mail or through a carrier that will confirm receipt; Fire Mountain Gems and Beads will not be able to confirm receipt. Please make sure to fill out the entrance packet completely remembering to include your name, address, email address, phone number, Fire Mountain Gems and Beads account number, which category your entry is for and a list of the products used in your creation (including Fire Mountain Gems and Beads' item numbers where applicable). For minors, please include the account number through which the beads were purchased.
Download your Standard Entrance Packet here.
All entrants 17 years and under must complete the Minor entrance packet.
Download the Minor Entrance Packet here.
For photography tips click here.
Send your photograph or CD/DVD to:
Fire Mountain Gems and Beads Beading Contest
One Fire Mountain Way
Grants Pass, OR 97526
Contest is open to all Fire Mountain Gems and Beads' customers. Employees of Fire Mountain Gems and Beads are not eligible to enter.
Finalists will be notified by mail by 10/01/07. Finalist pieces must be submitted to Fire Mountain Gems and Beads for judging postmarked no later than 10/31/07. Shipping costs will be reimbursed by crediting your Fire Mountain Gems and Beads account. Entrants may be asked to sign a release form which will allow Fire Mountain Gems and Beads unlimited use of the photographs of the winning pieces, although submission will constitute agreement. Winning pieces will be returned upon completion of photography approximately 2 months after receipt date.
We look forward to receiving your incredible creations!
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Beading Contest Frequently Asked Questions:
Q: Is there a limit to the number of categories I can enter, or designs I can submit?
A: Yes. You can enter as often as you want and as many categories as you want, however, you can only enter the same project in up to 3 categories.
Q: What other items, if any, are allowed to be in the design if they are not purchased from Fire Mountain Gems and Beads?
A: If it's a bead or beading component, it must be purchased from Fire Mountain Gems or made by the artist. Other components, such as fabric, feathers, and items which Fire Mountain Gems and Beads does not sell, may be obtained elsewhere and incorporated into the design. The majority of the design, however, must be composed of product purchased from Fire Mountain Gems and Beads. When a piece is made by the artist, please note that on the materials list accompanying the entry.
Q: Can customers based in a facility enter?
A: Absolutely. Due to facility regulations, we may not be able to send the pieces back to the customer. Facility entries will be sent to a family member after photography, instead of being returned to the customer.
Q: Can pieces made with Fimo or Sculpey be entered in the Polyclay category?
A: We are limiting entries in the Polyclay category to products made with actual Kato Polyclay™ -- available on our website -- but not projects made with Fimo or Sculpey. You may enter such projects into any other category they may apply to, depending on what other Fire Mountain Gems and Beads products are contained in the pieces. If a design contains elements made from Polyclay you may enter it either in the Polyclay category or into whatever other category the secondary elements qualify it for.
Q: Is my child allowed to submit a design they created?
A: Yes. Designs by younger customers can be entered in the general categories or in the age-defined Kids' Creations category. However, the same guidelines apply for entering one piece in multiple categories.
Q: Do entries have to be original creations or can they be something that you make from a pattern?
A: Fire Mountain Gems and Beads prefers that customers enter projects of their own design. However, if you are using someone else's pattern, contact that artist and receive their permission, in writing, to use their design for the contest. Please include a copy (you keep the original) of that document with your entry.
Q: Why do you limit which components we can use in a Beading Contest entry?
A: Fire Mountain Gems and Beads limits which products can be used in contest entries for the benefit of our customers. Many of our customers like the pieces in the Beading Contest so much that they choose to make one for themselves. To assist that, we request that the majority of each Contest entry be composed of products available in the Fire Mountain Gems and Beads' comprehensive catalogs. Designs may also contain "found" components or elements made by the artist themselves as focal interest pieces.
If you have a question regarding the contest, please send an email to: beadingcontest@firemtn.com |
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