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Archive for December, 2008

EBSQ Challenge Update

22Dec08

We have a new challenge! It’s the Holiday Jewelery Challenge and is hosted by Joseph Callahan. Here are the details:
Holiday Repurposed Jewelry Challenge is open and will run until January 25th.
Make a piece of jewelry out of “Holiday Junk”, something that would normally get tossed out!!! Wrapping paper, tinsel, bows/ribbons, a broken ornament, burnt out [...]

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EBSQ-Etsy Street Team Featured Friday: Lauren Abrams

19Dec08

The EBSQ-Etsy Street Team is proud to annouce this week’s Featured Friday store.

Heide Hibbard:Lauren’s store is full of unique bold polymer jewelry like you have never seen before. It is so enjoyable looking through her store with all the beautiful photos of her work. Her store is loaded with one-of-a-kind pieces that look almost edible. [...]

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Tags: art, ebsq, EBSQ forum, EBSQ/Etsy Street Team, etsy, featured friday

Printmaking Challenge winners announced!

18Dec08

The votes have been tallied and the winner of the first Printmaking Challenge has been announced. The challenge was open to any type of printmaking and theme was mythology. “Athene Noctua” by Elizabeth Fiedel took first place and Ann Murray’s entry “Mercury’s Wings” captured the runner up spot.
Seven artists participated in the Printmaking Challenge and [...]

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Tags: ann murray, challenge, ebsq, elizabeth fiedel, mythology, printmaking, winners

New Simon Sez – I’ve got the BLUES…

16Dec08

Last week’s Simon Sez winner Stephanie M D’Aigle has posted her challenge. Simon Sez… I’ve got the BLUES. To participate in this week’s Simon Sez, go the the EBSQ Forum and look in Challenge Central for I’ve got the BLUES.

Go forth, find blue…

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EBSQ Challenge Update

15Dec08

This week there is a new challenge in the Drawing and Illustration section of the EBSQ Forum. It is the first in an ongoing Drawing Challenge series. You can check out the particulars in Challenge Central and Drawing and Illustration and the entries can be seen in the Drawing Challenge I thread in D&I.

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Simon Sez… Bridge – we have a winner!

14Dec08

And that winner is Stephanie M D’Aigle and her photo of a covered bridge over the Amnicon River.

“The word Amnicon is an Ojibwa term meaning “where fish swim”. The Amnicon River flows near my house and empties into the great Gitchee Gummi, the native words for Lake Superior…meaning shining blue sea.
Shot from the top of my horse Bucko’s [...]

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Tags: bridge, challenge, ebsq, photograph, river, simon sez, stephanie m d'aigle, w. kevin murray

Saturday Sampler

13Dec08

A sampling of EBSQ’s Freshest Art uploaded on 12.13.08

One Red Tree by Benita Sweeney

Revealed by Alex Abruzov

Lady with a Bosch Egg Wooden Altarpiece by Jasmine Becket-Griffith

Robin by Pat DeVane Burns

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It’s not you-it’s us

12Dec08

If you’re trying to upload new artwork to EBSQ and you’re receiving an error telling you that you’re sending an invalid file followed by an error telling you that the specified file cannot be found, the problem is on our end, not yours. Hopefully we’ll have this corrected in the extreme near future.
Thanks for your [...]

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EBSQ-Etsy Street Team Featured Friday: Amanda Makepeace

12Dec08

The EBSQ-Etsy Street Team is proud to announce our Featured Friday Store(s) owned by Amanda Makepeace:

Heide: I love the beautiful scenes Amanda’s jewelry is photographed within. Each thing about her store supports the theme of zen, peace and harmony. I have purchased one item so far from Nature’s Charms, but have my eye on several [...]