It is time for the next stop on the Art Bead Love Tour!!! The winner could be you -- read the details below, copied from Love My Art Jewelry's original blog.
The winner will be chosen Saturday May 5th.
(Both Cinco de Mayo and my dog's arbitrary birthday!)
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We here at Love My Art Jewelry are
always trying to think of new ways to spread the love of handmade, and
the message to create handmade with handmade. So we put our brains
together and came up with this idea, the Art Bead Love Tour.
The Art Bead Love Tour is an ongoing project to spread the love of
handmade to new and exciting places. It’s a way to reach people who may
have never stumbled upon our blog on their own, and give them a chance
to share the love of handmade. We chose to use a chain to link beads as
a symbol of how this project links us all together ~ in our unity to
stand behind handmade.
We have filled one and a half feet of chain with handmade beads,
charms and pendants, donated by our own Love My Art Jewelry Group.
There are 60 beads on this chain, worth approximately $450. It includes
ceramic, glass, polymer, various metals and metal clay beads. It’s a
true tribute to handmade in all its beady glory! These beads are ready
to go on tour…….the Art Bead Love Tour! This tour is basically an art
bead swap, which will go on and on and on.
Here is how it works.
PLEASE.......
....please read the entire post before entering).
We will have a giveaway for this chain (how to enter is explained at the end of the post)
The Details:
1. The winner of the chain will be allowed to take up to 30
beads from this chain. They will then replace each bead they took, with
another handmade bead, charm or pendant of equal quality. It is so important that the quality of the beads be maintained, so that we can keep the Art Bead Love Tour alive. We want to share consistent quality with the next winner.
If you make your own handmade beads or components, it’s a great way to
get your beads into the world for people to try them out, or, if you hoard
collect art beads, it’s a great way to share your collection and get
some new additions as well. (Art Beads should be handmade by an artist,
and not mass produced, such as Hill Tribes
Silver beads or others like them). Remember the focus is on creating
handmade with handmade and beads/components taken should be replaced
with beads/components that are made by an individual not an
organization.
2. The winner will post pictures of what was taken and what was
added, in order to keep an account of the chains progress and to keep
our followers drooling. Please be sure to give credit to the bead
artists as well.
3. The winner will then have a giveaway, just like this one, to
keep passing the chain on and on. Rules can be copied and pasted from
here.
4. When you re-post your giveaway (remember you can copy and
paste from here)-a list should be added to show where the chain has
gone, with links to each previous blog. Ultimately, this will end up
being a very long list!
5. Chain must be shipped to its new home via Priority Small Flat
Rate box with delivery confirmation. Please package it carefully.
6. There will be a button on the Love My Art Jewelry Website
that links to the current blog and giveaway- so if you have the chain,
it will link to your blog, that way our followers can have another
chance to win it.
7. You MUST exchange your beads and have your giveaway completed within two weeks of receiving the chain.
(Please please please, if you can not adhere to the above rules, do
not enter the giveaway at this time. It will go on and on and you can
always enter at a later date.) There will be a button on the side bar
of our blog so that you can track where the chain currently is.
Look where the chain has been……
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