September Color Design Challenge

 

Every month Dry Gulch Beads and Jewelry will be hosting a challenge for creative artisans everywhere. Be inspired and unleash your creative talents! What will you create?

Use our colors to inspire your creativity! Post your project using the color palette above. Your design will be eligible to win a $25 gift certificate to Dry Gulch Beads.

Anything can be created for this challenge, including; finished jewelry pieces, headbands, wearable pendants and pins, handmade cards, lampwork beads, cuffs, etc. All creative techniques may also be used to create your projects, like seed-beading, sewing, metal-smithing, paper crafting, leather work, painting, etc. The sky is the limit! Show us how creative you are with our color palette.

For this challenge, Dry Gulch is offering a $25 gift certificate prize to the winner. The judges will be looking for adherence to the color palette, creativity of the project’s design and effort. You may purchase and use Dry Gulch components in your project, but that is not a requirement to win.

Your judges will be the 3 generations of women who create at Dry Gulch Beads and Jewelry. The judges may create and post their own visions of the monthly color palette also, but for inspiration and presentation only.

We’ll publish each created work on Facebook and here on this challenge page. Add your photo in the comments on our Color Design Challenge Facebook post or email us your photo to custserv@drygulch.com. When uploading, you may add a description of your work. If also Facebooking and/or blogging your Dry Gulch Color Design project, please add a link to the Challenge on your page.

Entries for the Dry Gulch Color Design Challenge may be turned in from now until midnight CST, Tuesday, September 30, 2014.

American Made Martha Stewart Contest Nominee

 

 

Help the gals at Dry Gulch become finalists in the Martha Stewart American Made contest.  Click this link and choose share to help us advance to the finals.

 

 

 

We are excited to be part of this contest.  Thanks for "sharing" for us!

August Color Design Challenge at Dry Gulch

 

Design with color and inspire your creativity!

 

Welcome to the

Dry Gulch Color Design Challenge!

 

Every month Dry Gulch Beads and Jewelry will be hosting a challenge for creative artisans everywhere.  Be inspired and unleash your creative talents!  What will you create?

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Use our colors to inspire your creativity!  Post your project using the color palette above.  Your design will be eligible to win a $25 gift certificate to Dry Gulch Beads.



Anything can be created for this challenge, including; finished jewelry pieces, headbands, wearable pendants and pins, handmade cards, lampwork beads, cuffs, etc.  All creative techniques may also be used to create your projects, like seed-beading, sewing, metal-smithing, paper crafting, leather work, painting, etc.  The sky is the limit!  Show us how creative you are with our color palette.



For this challenge, Dry Gulch is offering a $25 gift certificate prize to the winner.  The judges will be looking for adherence to the color palette, creativity of the project’s design and effort.   You may purchase and use Dry Gulch components in your project, but that is not a requirement to win.



Your judges will be the 3 generations of women who create at Dry Gulch Beads and Jewelry.  The judges may create and post their own visions of the monthly color palette also, but for inspiration and presentation only. 



We’ll publish each created work on Facebook and here on this challenge page.  Add your photo in the comments on our Color Design Challenge Facebook post  or email us your photo to custserv@drygulch.com.  When uploading, you may add a description of your work.  If also Facebooking and/or blogging your Dry Gulch Color Design project, please add a link to the Challenge on your page. 



Entries for the Dry Gulch Color Design Challenge may be turned in from now until midnight CST, Sunday, August 31, 2014.

8th Bead Soup Reveal

Welcome to the 8th Bead Soup Reveal!  This is our second Bead Soup Swap, and is as exciting as the first one!  Our partner is Jennifer VanBenschoten of VanBeads.



Above is the colorful collection of beadsoup we received.  What to do, what to do!?  After much deliberation we decided that all four of us here at Dry Gulch would create a design.  So... "without further ado", I present our Beadsoup creations...



Touch of Daisies

This charming necklace made by my daughter, Jennifer, begins with a brass donut.  She cut the decorative oval in half, then added it to the donut before topping it with vintage daisies from a pair of 1940's earrings.  This hangs from a textured gold-plated solid brass chain with colorful and faceted acrylic beads dangling up both sides of the focal.  A summer necklace with a touch of daisies!

 

Summer Charms

Also created by Jennifer is this pretty charm bracelet made with silver-plated rollo chain, textured circles, leaves and pearl drops.  The colorful resin beads from VanBeads add just the right touch and color!

 

On The Beach

My granddaughter, Catherine, picked out the stone doughnut, resin beads, and freshwater pearl.  She brought this necklace together by adding shibuichi and patina - just love the bail!  All this necklace needs is a beach!

 

What's in the Box?

Wow... My granddaughter, Gianna, loves pink and boxes!  For Gianna, this was the perfect opportunity to use the lovely rose quartz.  She soldered a box, filled it up with beadsoup, and enhanced it even further with crystal chain!  She then added quartz chips and cloisonne.  This necklace was finished with hand-dyed vintage seam-binding and iron wire.  What imagination!

 

In the Garden

Yet another fun Gianna pretty!  She used all the resin flowers, then wire-wrapped them to a filigree.  She used silver headpins for stamens.  There is even a cloisonne butterfly, enjoying the beauty of it all!

 

Hippie Chic

And then, there's me, Deborah, also known as Grandma!  This is definitely "hippie chic".  I used the large gold focal from the soup and wrapped it with a filigree, added a special vintage piece and lots more swarovski sparkles!  I dangled different components, including one of my mom's earrings, and a crystalllized peace sign on the bottom.  Oh yes, and of course, "flower power" chain!

That was it!  Thanks for dropping by, and we hope you enjoyed our creations.  Our most sincere "thanks" to our hostess, Lori Anderson, for the opportunity to participate in this fun and exciting beading adventure!  Click the link to find the next Bead Soup reveal.

http://www.prettythingsblog.com/2014/05/welcome-to-8th-bead-soup-blog-party.html

 

Above is our soup we sent to Jennifer of VanBeads - so please hop on over to her blog and see what she's been working on.  Happy hopping :)

 

 

8th Bead Soup Blog Partner

We are thrilled to be taking part in our second Bead Soup Swap!  Our partner this year is Jennifer VanBenschoten of VanBeads Jewelry and Design.  Both soups arrived at their destinations and it's full speed ahead! 

This is the soup we sent to Jennifer.

 

Below is the soup we received from Jennifer.  A challenging and colorful collection indeed!  However, that is the point, and we are truely looking forward to broadening the horizons! 

 

Thank you Jennifer, we are looking forward to this, and can't wait to see your beautiful design!