July Challenge Winners

And the winners of the July Challenge are:

Public Vote

1st place 

Lavender Hope by Lisa of HiGirls

2nd place

Flower Garden Bottle of Hope by Arlene of Ashpaints

 

3rd place

Bottle of Hope-Lyette-1 by Line of PlaySculptLive 

Members Vote

1st place TIE: 

Blue Bird of Hope by Marie of YoungCreative

 

Bottle of Hope-Lyette-1 by Line of PlaySculptLive 

2nd place 

Ocean Waves by Lisa of HiGirls

3rd place

Hope Full Bottle by Beth of CreateMyWorld

Drawing Winners:

Trish Hummer, Zan Caperton, Sandy Stout

They get to pick a prize from one of our lovely participating shop owners.
http://polymerclayartists.blogspot.com/2013/06/july-challenge-sponsors.html
Congratulations to all the winners, and thank you to everyone who voted and supports our challenges each month.

A sampling of comments left by voters:

--The idea for the little prayer tokens is a very good one.

--Some really high-quality entries! You go, ladies!

--Beautiful bottles!! They are all winners!!!

--I really liked Beth's concept of the bottle being full of Hope.

--Beautiful work on all the pieces. Hard to pick just 3.

--So beautiful, it was hard to choose!

--wow... so much talent, beautiful... each month it gets harder and harder to just pick 3....

Fun

--Those tiny flowers in that beautiful lavender colors inspire me and give me the feeling of hope....

--Beautiful art pieces.

--These BOH's are amazingly beautiful! It was very, very hard to choose just three and then to put them in order.  Thank you all for the wonderful, inspiring eye candy.

--I love that you are supporting a very worthy organization.

--Very difficult challenge, as all of them are so beautiful!

--Love the concepts for these bottles--difficult choice, but I feel my 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choices really reflect the theme. And they just rock!

--Again really great entries!

--Anyone would feel so special to be given such beautiful works of art.

--beautiful work, Kudos to all.

--Loved # 8 by PlaySculptLive.

--Tough vote this month - they were all so beautiful and original. very inspiring!

--What a wonderful idea! I thought it was interesting to try to convey the idea of 'hope' in a bottle...the question of what hope looks like. That would be very individual..for one is was a praying figure, for another ocean waves...I found it hard to choose.

--Nice job ladies

--Hard to choose a favorite, all bottles so well done and filled with love

--Nice Work everyone!

--cool theme!

--I love the bottles of hope, and all of them are beautiful. It was hard to choose.

--Heard it was voting time from Jackie S. Love all the bottles! I had a hard time choosing too.

--Really tough choice this month... great treasures crafted by all entrants!

--Love the bottles!

--Very nice selection and certainly will give inspiration and hope!

--Really hard to pick just 3 'winners'.

--This was a tough decision. Everyone is so talented!

--Excellent, diverse work!

--Great designs. It’s an amazing charity I make bottles every year. Happy claying everyone.