September Challenge "Letters" Winners

Top entries selected by the public

1. "Life is Art Mosaic" by Arlene of HarrisonHollow

2. "Fantasy Garden Letter " by  Lisa of HiGirls 

3. "Granny Squares Afghan What Not Box " by Angela of polymerclaycreations   

Top entries selected by members

1. "Fantasy Garden Letter " by  Lisa of HiGirls 

2. "Granite O" by  Susan of 11BOLDstreet

3. "Granny Squares Afghan What Not Box " by  Angela of polymerclaycreations 

View all of the entries:

http://polymerclayartists.blogspot.com/2015/08/september-challenge-letters.html

Congratulations to the drawing winner:  Kathy Postill

You get to pick a prize from one of our lovely participating sponsor shop owners.

Comments from the voters:

# 5 is immaculate and original. # 3 - a lot of work and practical for use in the workbench. # 9 good combination of colors and well made.Sometimes it is difficult to choose only 3 works. All beautiful creations, my congratulations to all the artisans.

What a diverse collection! They are all wonderful!

So many ways to use words. Inspiring.

Tough decision this month, great work everyone!!

This topic seemed particularly challenging, but as always, the artists have a creative and interesting take on the chosen theme!

This is an unusual challenge and it was really fun to see the skills involved in meeting the challenge!! Keep up the good and creative work.

Interesting competition idea!

I look forward to this event every month...everyone's work is so lovely..it is always so hard to vote.

I always love these votings, everyone is so creative. Nice job once again.

I have been voting on here for years and everything is always changing and getting better and better. I look forward to this time of month (lol). Great jobs people.

Just wanted to say "thank you" as I was the winner of the certificate last month. I didn't even realize there was a certificate! I love my heart I picked! All are inspiring.

#6 and #4 had a really nice "feel".

Love the letter by Lisa. It is very artistic as well as useful.

August Challenge winners "Fairy House"

Top entries selected by the public

1. Fairy House by Linda of Claymation3d  

2. Trixie's Fairy cottage teapot by Lisa of HiGirls 

3. Mushroom Fairy House  by Marie of MarieYoungCreative

Top entries selected by members

1. Fairy House by Linda of Claymation3d  

2. 3-way tie

Trixie's Fairy cottage teapot by Lisa of HiGirls 

Mushroom Fairy House  by Marie of MarieYoungCreative

Fairy in a Bottle House by Betsy of StrebeDesigns

3. She sells Seashells by Beth of CreateMyWorldDesigns

View all of the entries:

http://polymerclayartists.blogspot.com/2015/08/august-fairy-house-challenge.html

Congratulations to the drawing winner:  Nancy Woolweber

You get to pick a prize from one of our lovely participating sponsor shop owners.

Comments from the voters:

Nice work, as usual, ladies!
Heard about the contest on the OTE Facebook page. Have done a bit of work with polymer clay and enjoy seeing the great work being done.
These are all so beautifully well done it was more difficult than usual to pick my favorites! You guys are all winners in my book!
So enjoy seeing your creations!
Hard to decide this month!
Beautiful work ladies!!! It was a challenge picking three.
So much creativity, I like them all. The teapot is my favourite because I am an tea-addict. If I was a fairy I would have chosen that house :-) All the houses are made with joy and love, that's what I see! 
As for the designs. Stunning!! Great work everyone.
They are so cute and it looks like it was fun to make them.
Great work.
Would love to see these in the garden!
I wish I could have voted for them all!
Keep up the wonderfully great work. I love it all.
I really enjoyed seeing the results of this challenge! It was especially clever that some of the artists made usable items out of the fairy houses. I had such a hard time only picking three! :)
I am always impressed with the workmanship and imagination in the monthly challenge pieces. Every one is a source of inspiration. :-)
I love fairies and all of these were wonderful. It was really hard to decide I loved them all.
The talent and creativity is amazing!
I love #7 and the blog behind it. So creative.
Every one of these is gorgeous and magical!
#5 belongs to a friend. I am very impressed with her work.
Lovely pieces!
These artists do such fine work!
It was hard to decide!
Fun theme, which of course = fun entries! Great work everyone!
This was really, really hard. I honestly like them all, great works of art.

Again, a beautiful collection of art.

July Challenge winners "Texture Plates"

The winners in the PCAGOE July Challenge: "Texture Plates" are:

Top entries selected by the public

1. "Ms. Cat in the Hat" by Betsy of StrebeDesigns

2. 2-way tie

"Patches Texture Card Holder" by Marie of MarieYoungCreative

"Colorful Mosaic Business Card Case" by Angela of polymerclaycreations  

 3. "Bronze Copper Stamped Set No. 113" by Susan of 11BOLDstreet

Top entries selected by members

1.  3-way tie

"Bronze Copper Stamped Set No. 113" by Susan of 11BOLDstreet

"Polymer Art Prints" by Beth of CreateMyWorldDesigns

"Ms. Cat in the Hat" by Betsy of StrebeDesigns

2. "Colorful Mosaic Business Card Case" by Angela of polymerclaycreations  

3. "Patches Texture Card Holder" by Marie of MarieYoungCreative

View all of the entries:
http://polymerclayartists.blogspot.com/2015/06/july-texture-plate-challenge.html

Congratulations to the drawing winner: Sharon Walsh

You get to pick a prize from one of our lovely participating sponsor shop owners.

Comments from the voters:

·         Such great ideas!

·         Wow, what an inspirational challenge this month! I've never made plates before and I was very impressed with all of things that could be created with them. It seems like a great way to get something beautiful out of your scrap clay!

·         Always love to see the variety of work every month.

·         Beautiful, amazing and inspiring work by all!!! You guys rock!!

·         I choose the cat because I like people who think out of the box and the other two because they are just very pretty even though I think the bronze would maybe even be prettier in black with a contrast in colour.

·         1 Loved the colors here. (#5) - 2 Liked the way the texture plates worked for this. (#7) - 3 Liked the change using texture on a necklace. (#9).

·         Fun to get ideas of possibilities of creating my own stamps some day.

·         Fabulous entries!

·         These textures really show off what you can do with polymer. They are all winners!

·         This was a tough one and you all really brought it this month!!

·         Amazing amount of work - again! I was really intrigued with how everyone came up with their textures! So well done by all!

·         Beautiful entries. Enjoyed going to individual sites to see process.

·         I need to make more picks because they are all fabulous.

·         Too many good choices! Some really innovative hand created textures--inspiring!

·         Congratulations to everyone who entered this month’s challenge. It was very interesting to see the variety of handmade texture plates and the beautiful finished pieces that were made using them. Awesome works!

·         Love your monthly challenges!

·         A fun theme. Love seeing the different directions taken. Wonderful work by all.

May Challenge Winners

The winners in the PCAGOE May Challenge: "Fish" are:

Top entries selected by the public

1. Farrah the Fantasy Fish  by Lisa of HiGirls

2. Flossy the Flying Fish by Betsy of StrebeDesigns

3. Punny Phish Rainbow Trout by Beth of CreateMyWorldDesigns

Top entries selected by members

1. Punny Phish Rainbow Trout by Beth of CreateMyWorldDesigns

2. Farrah the Fantasy Fish  by Lisa of HiGirls

3. Feeling Tropical by Marie of MarieYoungCreative

View all of the entries:
http://polymerclayartists.blogspot.com/2015/05/may-challenge-fish.html

Congratulation to the drawing winners:
Doreen Haskell
Maite Mora Ferrer
Dulcie Harris

They get to pick a prize from one of our lovely participating sponsor shop owners.

Comments from the voters:

So hard to choose this month great work everyone!!!!

Beautiful work.

Wow, it was really hard to pick this month, the submissions were all great! Beautiful work everybody!

Thank you for allowing us to see all the entries and vote. I'm a new to polymer clay.

They are all beautiful as usual!!

This is a wonderful challenge, well done!

I liked the beauty of #10 and #12, and #3 made me smile, so I voted for them, though I could see a lot of effort went into others, too, especially the ones involving a lot of cane work, as well as the coral and beautiful little fish in #9. I liked the humor of the idea of a literal "rainbow" of bones for the trout in #11, too, and vacillated between voting for it or for #3, but finally settled on #3 because besides the humor, I actually felt affection for the fish!

Again they are all beautiful.

Great work!!

As always, entries are amazing!

So hard to choose sometimes, everyone does such a great job.

This challenge has really brought out the creativity. I loved all of them!

I think each of the fish submissions is outstanding. Have just sweated over a pair of blue octopus earrings, including microsurgery (a pin) to one tentacle! Great work everyone!

A link to additional photos or a blog can influence my vote. The 3-D views cannot be underestimated. Even something as simple as listing an item for sale with multiple views really helps.

Love to see the beautiful results of their imaginations.

I always enjoy looking at these wonderful works of art!

I am blown away by these entries. My mouth just dropped open. Wow, ladies.

There is no end to the talents! Hard choices to make.

Wow! Super creative submissions this month!

These fish are beautiful.

Cool theme--they're all so good!

Fabulous work by all...hard to pick just three!

Do more fish!

This month was one of the toughest challenges to vote for... outstanding work by all!!

Such a creative group. I can't wait until I have listed PC pieces in my polymer store so I can join the group. Thanks for creating such a wonderful group.

Beautiful designs and creativity.

Love love love all the fish!! Almost had to get out my rod and reel!