I just found out about this challenge from Stringing Magazine and wanted to let you all know. Deadline is tomorrow but theres still time to enter!
| Stringing Challenge | ||
Challenge yourself by creating a piece using stringing or simple wirework techniques based on a title provided by the editors of Stringing. All entries will be posted on the website, and readers will have a chance to vote on their favorites. Winter Challenge Title: “Fun in the Sun” Spring Challenge Title: “Channeling Cinderella” To enter, please send a clear, high-resolution TIF (better) or JPEG (good) photo of your stringing and/or simple wireworking project that is 300 dpi at 3″ x 5″ to stringing@interweave.com. An e-mail will be sent within two weeks after the close of voting for each challenge. Please do not contact us asking for news of the winners before then. Thanks Challenge Rules: One entry per person, please (so send us your best work!). Submissions must be of the type you would see in Stringing magazine—in other words, projects created using simple stringing, crimping, wireworking (simple loops, wrapped loops, jump rings), and simple knotting techniques. If in doubt, see Stringing 101 (it’s in every issue of Stringing) for a list of acceptable techniques. Projects created using beadweaving or other non-stringing techniques (such as netting; peyote, brick, right-angle weave, and square stitches; bead embroidery; chain mail; and macramé) will not be considered for winners. General Rules: Winners will be chosen on the basis of votes for each entry as received at stringingmagazine.com during the voting period. Interweave Press cannot control, and disclaims any responsibility or liability, for online voting and is responsible only for using its best efforts to collect and count the votes actually received. Editors’ choice will be chosen by the editors of Stringing; all decisions of the editors shall be made in their sole and absolute discretion and will be final. If an entry is selected as a winner by the voting conducted at the Stringing website, but the entry does not conform to the contest rules, then the entrant and the entry will be disqualified and the next-ranked entrant will be selected. By entering, entrant is assuring Interweave Press that entrant possesses the right to submit all entry materials for use by Interweave Press as described in these contest rules without the consent or approval of any third party, and Interweave Press is entitled on rely on entrant’s right to do so. By entering the Stringing Challenge, each entrant is granting to Interweave Press the perpetual, exclusive, and royalty-free right to (a) use the photographs and other entry materials submitted by the entrant without photo credit(s) for the photographer(s) who took the photographs, (b) photograph and reproduce the entry in the various print and electronic publications of Interweave Press and the advertising, publicity, promotional and marketing materials of Interweave Press in any and all media, and (c) use the name, image, likeness, and biographical data of the finalists and winners in connection with all of the foregoing uses. The contest is void where prohibited or restricted by law. |
