Archive for October 2011
Introducing B3′s new Maillers’ Choice Kit – choose your favorite color combination, we’ll sell it (and at a discount!) For each Maillers’ Choice kit, we will choose one of our most popular kits and invite you to vote on your favorite metal and color combination for it. A limited number of the top-voted combination will then be made available on our website at a discount and once they sell out, that’s it!
We’re kicking off Maillers’ Choice with our Bold & Brilliant Byzantine kit, designed by artist Kat Wisniewski. This is a beginning level project and is a great way to start learning how to incorporate glass rings into your chainmaille jewelry. It also uses our brilliantly-colored enameled copper jump rings – a fun compliment to any design. It’s the perfect project to kick off Mailler’s Choice because it’s easy for everyone to make and lends itself to some really beautiful color combinations.
Voting for the Maillers’ Choice kit starts today and closes on the 10th. Your top-voted combination will be made into kits and released on our website on the 15th.
Don’t forget, there will be a limited number of these kits available at the discounted price, so stop by early to get yours!
VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE COMBINATION NOW!
Need something tactile to help you decide? Below is a palette of this month’s metal and color choices. Print it out and cut it up to play with possible combinations, then vote for your favorite.
chain maille jewelry projects · chainmaille kits · sale · voting
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Featured Product of the Month Contest – November
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FEATURED PRODUCT FOR NOVEMBER – Glass Rings
The Featured Product of the Month for November is our shiny Glass Rings. B3 Ambassador Kat Wisniewski loves inventing new ways to integrate glass rings into her work and we can’t wait to see what you come up with as well.
Visit the Glass Rings Weave Ideas blog post for some of our favorite weave ideas to get you started then pick up your glass rings on our Clasps, Components, and Beads page!
Here’s how the contest works:
Make a project which primarily uses our featured product**. The project can most definitely use other rings and components, but the featured product should really be the star of the piece. The project does not necessarily have to be brand new to be submitted – if you have some amazing piece you made last year hanging around that uses the featured product of the month, share it!
Take a picture of your project and post it to our page on Facebook. Give your piece a title and Make sure to write something like “This is my submission for the Featured Product Contest!” in the little box that says “Say something about this photo…” when you upload it to our wall. Please note: upload your photos from your computer directly to be sure they will show up on our wall. We’ve experienced some technical difficulities with folks uploading from other devices so it’s just safer that way!
Submissions will be accepting between the 1st and 15th of every month so make sure to get your project posted in time! Please limit your submissions to 2 per person.
Get Votes! Submissions will close on the 15th of each month at which point the B3 Staff will choose our favorites. The top entries will be eligible for voting through a survey which we will post to our blog as well as our wall on Facebook. If you are one of the finalists, feel free to share the link with friends via email, Facebook, Twitter or any other means.
Voting will close on the last day of the month.
That’s all it takes! We will award the top voted finalist each month with a $25 B3 Gift Certificate and will feature YOUR project in a special blog post and possibly even future B3 ads** to inspire fellow chainmaillers all over the world.
**Please also note that while the project is not required to be made from Blue Buddha Boutique rings, any winning projects that use primarily rings from another supplier or rings made by the artist will not be eligible for posting on our blog or use in our ads. We do this to prevent false advertising. We do not want to create the image that we sell a product that we in fact do not. Thank you for your understanding.
FEATURED PRODUCT FOR DECEMBER – Our size H18 jump rings
By popular demand, December’s featured product will be our size H18 jump rings. Why do people love this size so much? It is INCREDIBLY versatile and is a great “Goldylocks Size” (Not too big, not too small. *wink*) We just KNOW this is going to be a huge month – show us what you got!
STAY TUNED TO OUR BLOG FOR A WEAVE IDEAS POST
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Show Off Your Maille: FRIDAY is FANday!
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Wow! We asked you to show us your maille and show us you did! We loved seeing all your posts to our wall on Facebook this week. There were way too many to squeeze into one blog post, but we did it anyway. Check out this awesome collage of chainmaille aweseome-ness (yes, I just used awesome twice in that sentence.) Keep doing what you’re doing to spread the addiction to this great craft. You guys rock!
To see all the show offs (and become one yourself) visit our page on Facebook.
Only two days left to participate in our “Show Off Your Maille” week. There is a bunch of maille walking around our studio today! Hope these pieces inspire you (and Jason’s constant readiness to mug for the camera makes you smile like it does us!)
Jason, Quality Control Specialist and Niobium Anodizer Extraordinaire:
Bracelet and pendant by Jen, our amazing Inventory Coordinator:
Necklace by our lovely General Operations Manager, Nadja:
And of course, Blue Buddha owner and founder Rebeca sporting a shaggy scales necklace and doubled Captive Inverted Round copper cuff with a patina:
Help us spread the addiction! Wear your maille with pride this week and post pics of yourself in your maille to our wall on Facebook. Tomorrow’s blog post will feature your photos!
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Show Off Your Maille: Wednesday
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It’s humpday of “Show Off Your Maille” week and it looks like the B3 team is getting more used to modeling their creations! Enjoy these spunky pictures (complete with fist bump) of two of our order processing masters, Emily and Lisa. BTW – this is Lisa’s SECOND appearance on the B3 blog for maille week – she’s rocking out on showing off!
Help us spread the addiction! Wear your maille with pride this week and post pics of yourself in your maille to our wall on Facebook. Friday’s blog post will feature your photos!
