Would you like to participate in one of  Beadwork Magazine’s challenges, where you get to design a a piece using one of their challenge kits?  Just email an image of your work to Beadwork Magazine, and you could be a winner!  Beadwork wants to get a sense of  your style, technical excellence, and the scope of your beading knowledge, so make sure you send your very best piece.
Deadline: November 20, 2009
Rules and submission information

Stampington & Co is getting ready to publish another issue of their special publication Haute Handbags. The deadline is Nov 15, 2009, so get out your supplies and get going! Here’s all the important submission information.

How do you carry it? That’s the question Somerset Studio would like to help answer through their special publication titled Haute Handbags. Whether we use purses, clutches, totes, portfolios, sacks, bags, or attachés, there are many styles made with an astounding array of materials emerging from all corners of the creative world – all vying to be carried and used with style. You …read more

How would you like to see your design walking down the red carpet (on someone’s neck, of course!) at the People’s Choice Awards?  You have a chance to experience that thanks to a special project arranged with PCA by Kendra Scott. The winning designer will receive a trip to Los Angeles in 2010 to rub elbows with the stars at the People’s Choice Awards and an additional trip to Austin, Texas to visit Scott’s design studio and stay at her chic, downtown loft.
The People’s Choice Awards is the only show voted on entirely by the public for awards in …read more

The Land of Odds is holding their annual contest called All Dolled Up: Beaded Art Doll Competition.  Here is a gorgeous entrant from 2007, that won Runner-Up.
Azure, created by Ralonda Patterson
This year, the contest is to create a Beaded Art Doll by manipulating beads and forms into an imaginative tactile and visual 3-dimensional representation of this year’s theme: Earthen Mother.   The grand prize this year will be a $1000 gift certificate for the Land of Odds.
All the rules can be found through links on this contest page.
Deadline: August 31, 2009

A hand-me-down sweater … a raggedy old skirt from the thrift store … a plain T-shirt … Using just a few tools coupled with your creativity, all of these items can be transformed into fantastic works of wearable art! The publisher of Belle Armoire and Somerset Studio invites you to submit your own altered and embellished clothing and accessories to be considered for the second volume of this exciting publication. Chapters will include Skirts & Dresses, Pants & Overalls, Jackets & Vests, Shirts & Tops, Children’s Wear, Sassy Shoes, and Accessories.
Deadline for artwork to be received: June 15, 2009. Please …read more

Summer Challenge Title: Magical Forest
Deadline: June 8, 2009
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.
To enter, …read more

The deadline for entering this year’s contest is May 1!!  Get your entries in as soon as possible.  To inspire you, Jaime Guthals of Interweave Press has created a fun youtube video with the winners from last year…click below and then get to work!
Complete rules

Iron Wire Jewelry
Author: Brenda Schweder
Entry deadline: April 27, 2009
If you’re a talented, skilled jewelry designer working with iron, Lark Books needs you! We’re seeking high-quality images for the gallery section of Iron Wire Jewelry, to be released in Fall 2010.

Send us pictures of your best earrings, necklaces, bracelets, rings, or other creative jewelry showcasing your original designs and amazing skills. If you incorporate other materials like beads or resin, that’s great too, but make sure iron is the most prominent. Submission to the book is free.
Download entry form here.

Belle Armoire Jewelry is published by Stampington as a quarterly magazine. The deadline for submissions for the next issue is April 15, 2009. From the website: If you’d like to share your inspiration and detailed how-to instruction for creating beautiful jewelry with readers, we want to hear from you. Belle Armoire Jewelry covers a broad range of mediums, from art clay to polymer clay to found object to fiber to wire to beads and much, much more. Whether you are a creator of necklaces, bracelets, earrings, brooches, pendants, rings or other jewelry, we welcome you to submit your artwork …read more

The competition is open to professional and amateur beaders from the U.S. and around the world. All work entered in the competition must be original.
Deadline: April 6, 2009
Bead Dreams contest information
Finalists will be on display at the Bead&Button Show, June 3-7, 2009 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
To enter the Bead Arts Awards – Fill in the online form