Featured Studio of the Week: popnicute

This week's Ajdjss Guild featured studio of the week is "popnicute" aka Kay. Kay has been an arts and crafts fanatic since she was a little girl. She has experimented with many different art forms during her "growing up" years. This love of art led her to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in Graphic Design. Well, kudos to you Kay!

Kays says that jewelry has always fascinated her. When she wears a piece of jewelry it has to be something she feels is really unique. In fact, she often makes a piece of jewelry that is so very unique just to be much different than anyone else. I guess she has a little bit of the "rebel" in her.

Kay's jewelry techniques run the full gamet from stringing, paper clay, fabrics to quite recently wire wrapping. However, it seems that wire wrapping has become a great passion for her. She is so passionate about wire wrapping that this technique is what will be dominating the designs that appear in her studio today and in the future.

Kay's talents do not just revolve around making jewelry alone. She seems to be quite a good teacher and has made some great tutorials for others to learn how to make fabric bracelets and a special wire wrapped toggle. When you visit her studio you will find these interesting tutorials for sale along with her unique and fabulous jewelry creations.

Kay invites you to visit her etsy shop: http://popnicute.etsy.com/ and also to view her complete jewelry collection on Flickr.com and deviantArt.com

She also has a jewelry blog: http://kaysommers.blogspot.com/ that she invites you to follow.

Any questions about popnicute and her work? Please contact here through her studio:

http://popnicute.artfire.com/

Ajdjss Guild Challenge

The Ajdjss Guild placed a challenge to all artfire jewelry designers to create the funkiest pair of antique brass and turquoise earrings that they can.
Well, this challenge ran for 3 full days and now has ended. At this time voting for the funkiest entry is happening until June 28th at midnight, EST.
Join in the fun and cast your vote on this thread:
http://www.artfire.com/modules.php?name=Chatterbox&file=viewtopic&forum=11&topic=13392

So what are you waiting for? Get out there and vote for your favorite pair of earrings.
ta, ta for now---Margo aka Beadlady5

Our June Giveaway Winner Speaks

Here is the email I received from Swati our Ajdjss Guild Blog June Giveaway:

YAY!!!...i can't believe i actually won something.....i have been entering giveaways for a long time, but this is the first time i have actually won something.....this is like the happiest day of my lil' jewelry obsessed life.....thank you so much....i will definitely tell all my friends about your guild.

It's really exciting because Swati lives in India--I just love knowing that someone from India actually entered our blog giveaway--it's really so cool!

We Have A Winner

The Ajdjss Guild is very pleased to announce that we have a winner for our 1st Blog giveaway "Rock Red". All our wonderful guild gifts will be given to "noble beeyotch" aka Swati. We all wish a huge congratulations to Swati for winning our giveaway. We hope that you will enjoy your gifts from the Ajdjss Guild. Thanks to all our other entrants for taking the time to join in on our giveaway and made it a sucess for us. Now don't forget to check back with us by July 1st for our next Ajdjss Guild Blog giveaway. We hope to see your comments on our blog once again and more...
Posted by beadlady5 at 8:17 PM

2 comments:
beadlady5 said...
WooHoo!!! This giveaway was quite a sucess. We had 11 entrants--I am soooooo very pleased for all the promoting that our guild members did for this giveaway--Way to Go Ajdjss Guild members!ta,ta margo :o)
June 21, 2009 8:23 PM
Shell said...
Alright! We are rockin! Congrats to our first winner!
June 21, 2009 8:32 PM

Feartured Studio of the Week: Royal Designs

I am pleased to announce that this week's featured studio is "Royal Designs" aka Holly.

Although beading can be a very time consuming, quite thought provoking, and also a frustrating endeavor, Holly admits that she really just loves it. She is "driven" to continue to work on a new creation until she feels that it is perfect in her eyes. There have been a number of times when she has just stopped working on a new piece because she just can't find the right "rthym", but thank goodness this rarely happens. Holly truly feels that she will not offer anything for sale unless she loves it and would wear it herself. Well, kudos to you darlin'.

Holly has been designing jewelry since she was a teenager which I really find amazing. She worked in a local store making necklaces out of plastic beads. Well, she certainly has come a long way since those plastic bead creations. Holly's jewelry designs are now made up of Swarovski and Czech crystals, semi precious stones, Swarovski crystal pearls, freshwater pearls, sterling silver, gold vermeil, and more. She takes pride in always informing her prospective customers of all the materials that are used in a jewelry piece that she has made.

Holly happens to be quite a busy lady. Besides creating awesome pieces of jewelry she is the mother of two children who are both in college and she has 4 "fur" babies. She works full time but would love to be sucessful enough to bead all the time.

Holly was an art major in college where she learned all about colors and patterns which she uses in each piece that she creates. In short, Holly puts lots of time, effort, and love in every piece that she makes.

You can see for yourself all the beauty she has created by visiting:

http://royaldesigns.artfire.com/

http://royalddesigns.etsy.com/

If you have any questions that you'd like to ask Holly please contact her through her shops.

Ajdjss Guild "Rock Red" Giveaway

Less that 1 week left to win the Ajdjss Guild "Rock Red" giveaway--check out the rules and prizes that you can win--hey you never know--you could be the "big" winner!

Scroll down below to get all the info and see the prizes!