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At last! I'm sorry it took so long, but I literally spend all my free time making prizes - and it was SO MUCH FUN!
First of all: THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH! I never expected that so many creative and talented people would take time to make designs for my little contest. And I never expected to get SO MANY of them! Thirty nine designs! Oh. My. God. And I wanted to make every one of them! Every time I got a new submission I was like "I am SOOO making this!", because every one of them had something special, someting new, challenging, beautiful. Guys, gosh, guys! I want to hug you all! . Can I? I am honoured, humbled and starry-eyed at the same time .
I promised to make one of the designs as a main prize but I just had to make more. At the end I have choosen those three (in no particular order):
The Contest
This design captured me right from the start. What I love the most about it is that used various references to the culture the game takes place in rather than game itself. Dreamcatchers are brilliant . I had a blast making it, right to the very end and the feathers. I tried to make them out of clay, but thay didn't look too good, so I went and bought real ones, and those looked... not the best either. The earrings were the first thing I started to make but actually I finished them at the very end. I came back to the clay feathers and had to redesign the top and the way they were hanged so the feathers could swing a little but not so much that they would cover the earring design. I know the design was very specific, so if the winner would not like it, she can simply unhook the feathers and leave just earrings without them. Hope she would be happy to get them as much as I was happy making them .
The earrings are 65 mm without the hook and the round part is 40 mm in diameter. All is made with clay and copper wires . Painted with matt varnish.
I nearly facepalmed when I saw this. The idea is so obvious, so clear, HOW DID I MISSED THAT!? It's both really in my style and something I never did before. I adore how there are so few elements to the pendant, but how intricate it actually is. Not to mention how strong message it brings. Really genius idea by ! The thing I changed (sorry! ^^') is the shape of the pendant. I actually browsed throu many medieval designs and I felt that this shape (really popular in this era) would be more matching author's intent from the description (is it? >.<, I kind of could not ask before ). I tried to find tear shaper red jewel but I failed, and in the end the blood drop is made of metallic red clay and painted twice with gloss finish to make it stand out more. I sculpted freaking bird three times. Yeah... I wasted whole day on those failed attempts but finally I figured out how to shape it and think it turned out not that bad ^^. I learned something from it and now I think I can try more reliefs like that. Thank you so much for this design!
Pendant is made of polymer clay, 65x55x10 mm and painted with matt varnish. I added grey cotton cord with a chinese snake knot - I think it gives it more military like vibe .
I wanted to make something Reaper related for some time, especially with the Leviathan DLC coming out soon (and I hope to see other side of the reapers :>). When I saw this bracelet I was so amazed, the patterns, the parts of different reapers used, I loved it, but I was doubting I could make something like that. The design is painted in such a way that is really hard to recreate in precolored clay. It was also a challenge because I have never done color transitions in clay before, but again, it was something new to try . I wanted to stay true to the design as much as possible, but I the design was a few cm too short so I expanded a reaper and added his legs or whatever it is . I was not able to make all the amazing painted details, so when I finished it, the bracelet felt a little empty. I added the black tendrils similar to those indoctrinated people see. I really hope that would like my execution.
Bracelet is 5 cm wide, made of polymer clay with wooden core plus 27 blue Swarovski zirconias ^^.
As for the little pendants I would like to give:
The Assassins Creed one to for beautiful and intricate earring design :thumb316972258:
The Mass Effect one to for amazing unisex design
And the Dragon age one to for outstanding necklace design
I really wish I could afford to make every one of those designs, because all are awsome and you are awsome, and THANK YOU SO MUCH!
The Giveaway
And the totally randomly (thanks to random.org) sweet earrings go to:
From DEVIANTART: , aaaand !
From FACEBOOK: Maggi Handley, Camille Contré-Brion aaand Milena Nienałtowska!
From TUMBLR: jadore-renard, heavens-rogue aaand azhuresunsoar!
Please send your adresses to my email tishaya(at)gmail.com.
If there will be no answer from any of the winners within a week, I will randomly choose someone else.
If you won the sweet earrings, you can tell me which one you would like to get (name more than one maybe?), first come, first served .
Hope you had fun, I hope to repeat this kind of contest someday . THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!
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Commissions are closed. Sorry!
Contest 2 - the winners! :D
EDIT: The first four winners have chosen their prizes, right now I am waiting for the message from bidrohi. :)
First of all let me say that I was completely blown away by the amount and quality of the submissions. I got 36 amazing short stories with great ideas for jewelry and the amount of creativity and skill made me agonize for weeks because I couldn't decide what to make and which stories should I give awards to, so thank you for that XD. Really I am so humbled that so many talented people had fun with my little contest, I will be sure to make another one whenever I am able to.
I had do choose something, finally (sorry for the long wait
Tishaia's Contest for (fan) fiction writers!
It's June, that means it's time for another contest! :D Last year I asked you to draw jewelry, this time I ask you to write about it! ^^
Contest deadline: August 10th, 2013
Contest summary: Write a short story, a fanfiction or original story, with a piece of jewelry mentioned in it! :D
I will accept max of two entries per person, each up to 3.000 words. There is no minimum word count. If the story is a fanfiction it must be in a setting I am familiar with. Here are some of my favourites: Teen Wolf, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, BBC Sherlock, Star Wars (the Movies and the Old Republic game), Star Trek, Inception, The Dark Knight, Final Fantasy V
Bid on me to save the wolves ^^.
Heyhey! Just a reminder I donated this item to the Wolf Pack Charity Project - a Charity auction organized by Sterek Campaign - to save the wolves ^^. The current bid for the pendant is 30$, so if you would like to have this one of a kind piece with handsculpted face of Derek Hale (and Stiles' silhouette in the background :D) please, go and bid on me! :D
(click for the details about the pendant)
The auction rules are here: http://sterekcampaign.livejournal.com/54574.html
My auction is here: http://sterekcampaign.livejournal.com/45178.html#comments
More about the Sterek Campaign and their initiatives is here: http://www.sterekcampaign.com/
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Just got my piece today. It looks even more amazing than it did in the picture. Thank you so very much! It is absolutely stunning (the stamps were very artsy too )