Belle Armoire Jewelry is published by Stampington as a quarterly magazine. The deadline for submissions for the next issue is April 15, 2008. 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 for consideration of publication.

Please read submission guidelines before sending your submissions to: Stampington & Company · C/O: Belle Armoire · 22992 Mill Creek, Suite B · Laguna Hills, CA 92653

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Call for entries: Belle Armoire Jewelry

It’s not that easy to do ugly. I mean to do really gut-twisting ugly.

It’s easy to make a necklace that isn’t that great, but how about to make one that breaks all the rules of good design and leaves your viewer feeling squeamish? I can’t show you a picture of my entry from last year here, because I used plastic vomit as the base. If you’d like to see it, it’s on their website as a semi-finalist from 2007. It’s called “Queasy”, and you’ll have to scroll down just a bit. You’ve been warned!

The Land of Odds has been sponsoring this contest for 6 years now, so there are plenty of…wonderful?…examples of ugly art to look at to inspire you. But please, enter this fun contest and see how hard it really is to do ugly! All the information you need is here. The deadline for submissions is March 15, 2008. Here’s last year’s winner to get you going:

Julia Vogl

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Call for entries: The 6th Annual Ugly Necklace Contest

My turn to host, and we have all been busy coming up with projects and posts that are worthy of Springtime! Our theme? May flowers, of course!

Tammy from Jewelry and Beading was recently inspired by watching a butterfly flit from one flower to another. The result? Flying Butterfly & Flower Earrings.

Noreen over at HankeringForYarn has been designing all kinds of wonderful flowers: Everything from spoolknitters to butterfly bags are in bloom on her blog. Lots of flowery designs to inspire thoughts of springtime!

When Mary Emma sees quilts with floral designs at Quilting & Patchwork, especially Grandmother’s Flower Garden, she’s reminded of her grandmother. At the Trails End Farm, where Mary Emma learned to quilt with Nanny, flowers abounded in the gardens.

Chloe at Tangled Thread shows how to make easy & pretty fabric roses out of ribbon

Katelyn from Stamping Mad talks about how we can bring a touch of spring to Alzheimer’s patients with rubber stamps.

Finally, here’s a fiber-based bracelet that I made after being tempted beyond all control by the gang at the WetCanvas wearable arts forum!

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May showcase for the Arts & Design channel

I just posted a tutorial on making a mixed media necklace from antique piano ivories on my Jewelry Blog.

You can also see my full list of handmade beaded jewelry tutorials on this blog.

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New jewelry tutorial

It got me to thinking that I should share a post with you from another blog of mine where I have all my jewelry tutorials listed.

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Links to my jewelry making tutorials

I feel that the name should somehow reflect the beauty of the floral medallion, but…

I STINK AT THINKING UP NAMES!! (a little help, please?)

Nameless purple floral medallion on handmade beaded necklace

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Handmade beaded necklace with a floral medallion

I’ve got to go decide what to wear…

These are the pieces that will be in the show. I think I’ll wear anything but brown or black, so that I can wear something featuring a different color!

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“Stay Tuned” opens tonight!

I finished this piece on Make Art Monday, but I didn’t have time to get the photo cleaned up and posted until now 

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“Not the Measure of a Woman”

Now I have to send it to them to be photographed for their catalog or advertisements. I’m so excited to see what they will do with it…many of their ads are extremely well styled.

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Fire Mountain Gems contest…

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I got accepted!