Any International Beadweavers’ member may create one new beadweaving piece of your own design (not from a tutorial, kit, book, magazine, or class) in response to the challenge theme. Your work should be entirely beadwoven, or have a substantially woven component, to feature and promote our art form. You may not renew an existing piece, or list a tutorial or made-to-order item as an entry. The item must have been created exclusively for the theme.
Members are expected to participate in challenges when possible, and required to do so once each year. Start the weaving anytime after the theme is announced.
How to Enter:
1. (Required) Complete and list the work for sale on your primary webshop by the 5th of the month of the challenge, before midnight Eastern Standard time.
2. (Required) Send an email to InternationalBeadweavers@gmail.com with a link to your listing before midnight Eastern Standard time the 5th of the month.
3. (Required) Ensure your listing includes the 4 followings things:
I. The theme of the challenge. For example, “This (describe your work) was created for the International Beadweavers Team (insert the month) challenge on the theme (insert the title of the theme).”
II. An explanation of how your work relates to the theme. (Very important!)
III. The address of our team blog where the voting will take place and the voting dates. For example, “Please visit our team blog, https://internationalbeadw.wixsite.com/inbw between the 9th and 15th and vote for your favorite entry.”
VI. A “INBW” tag or hashtag.
4. (Required) Your listing must be for sale for the duration of the challenge (not made to order), unless it sells from your shop. If that happens, please alert the moderators to your sale, and you can still participate. If you must reserve your listing for purchase, please edit both your title and your description to begin with: "RESERVED FOR (buyer's username, or designation of buyer's choice) ONLY." Most webshop hosts do not allow the listing of items not for sale, so reserving your entry to sell elsewhere or keep for yourself is not permitted. Please do not put your shop on vacation mode when you have an item entered in the challenge, or deactivate your entry from the time you list, until the close of the challenge. If you must be away from your shop, please leave your challenge entry active, with a message explaining the date the item will shipped if purchased."
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5. (Required) Paste the link to your challenge shop listing in the designated Facebook thread that is available from the 1st of the month.
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6. (Optional) Help out by promoting the public poll! The purpose of the public poll is to bring as many viewers to our team blog as possible, increasing awareness of International Beadweavers and our art form. The winner of the public poll should be the work that the most viewers liked the best. PLEASE DO NOT request that your friends vote for your work, or that of another member. Please let them make up their own minds about which entry they like the best. Promote the challenge by inviting as many friends, acquaintances, co-workers and family members as you like to vote for their favorite entry. Please use your blog, Facebook, Twitter and any other resources you have to drive traffic to our blog during the challenge. Feel free to say which entry is yours. Many friends will choose to support you with a vote. Let’s play fair with each other, and keep our challenges fun for all.