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Mixed-media Jewelry Gift Swap

There is nothing better than receiving a surprise in the mail. And what’s more special than a new piece of jewelry?

Cloth Paper Scissors invites you to be a part of our Mixed-media Jewelry Gift Swap. Use your favorite mixed-media supplies and ideas and send us a creatively inspiring pair of earrings, a necklace, a brooch, or a bracelet. A selection of the jewelry will be featured in the November/December 2013 issue. All participants who adhere to the guidelines will receive a randomly chosen piece of jewelry in return. One lucky winner will receive the Editors’ Pick prize package, sponsored by iceresin.com, and worth more than $100.

Rules:

1.       Create an original mixed-media piece of jewelry: a brooch, a pair of earrings, a necklace, or a bracelet. Your submission must be sturdy and small enough to ship in a small padded envelope.

note: One submission per person.

 

2.       Your jewelry piece must be free of any text or images that are protected by copyright, unless you have the expressed written permission from the person or institution that holds the copyright and you provide that written permission with your submission.

 

3.       You may use any mixed-media supplies in your arsenal: paper, fabric, inks, paints, markers, stitching, wire . . . or anything else that makes your jewelry piece unique.  

 

4.       Please place your artwork in a plastic bag for safety in shipping and attach a card to the jewelry with your name and contact information. This information will remain attached to the jewelry when it’s sent to its new home, so only include the information you wish to share.

5.       In addition, please include a photo of your piece of jewelry with your name, address, phone number, and email address.

 

note: We encourage you to upload a photo of your jewelry on the clothpaperscissors.com community, but this is not required to take part in the challenge.

 

6.       Your artwork must be in our offices no later than July 17th, 2013. At that time a flat shipping and handling fee of $5 U.S. and Canada and $10 for all other international locations will be due.  All funds must be in U.S. dollars and made payable to Interweave. 


All artwork will be shipped by November 15th.

Please send your jewelry creation, along with the S&H fee, to:

Interweave/Cloth Paper Scissors
Attn: Mixed-media Jewelry Swap
490 Boston Post Road, Suite 15
Sudbury, MA 01776

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• If you have any questions, please contact Barb Delaney at bdelaney@interweave.com. Please be sure to include your first and last names and your contact information in all email correspondence.

• By submitting your reader challenge entry, you are authorizing F+W Media, Inc. to publish your project in upcoming publications and promotional materials, on our websites, and in our other e-media, as well as to possibly display it at shows.

• F+W Media, Inc. will not be held responsible for loss or damage due to circumstances beyond our control.    

 

Amazing Alphabets Reader Challenge

Letters are everywhere: formal, graffiti, stylized, stretched, inventive, and more. We want you to get your writing groove on and send us your best rendering. Draw, paint, doodle, sketch, print, write in cursive . . . whatever writing style moves you. But make it colorful and make it fun. Show us what you've got!

The rules

1. Create an original mixed-media piece of lettering art. Your submission must be on a flat 4" x 6" substrate. That substrate can be paper, mat board, canvas board, or other, as long as it fits the size requirement of 4" x 6".

2. Your Amazing Alphabet must be free of any text or images that are protected by copyright, unless you have the expressed written permission from the person or institution that holds the copyright and you provide that written permission with your submission.

3. You may use paper, fabric, inks, paints, markers, stitching . . . and anything else that makes your alphabet unique. Just make sure the piece is flat.

4. On the back of your Amazing Alphabet, please include your name, address, phone number, and email address. Please place your artwork in a plastic bag for safety in shipping.

note: We encourage you to upload a photo of your Amazing Alphabet on the clothpaperscissors.com community, but this is not required to take part in the challenge.

 5. There is no entry fee for this challenge as the artwork will become the property of Interweave and will not be returned.

 6. Your Amazing Alphabet must be in our offices by May 10th, 2013. Please send your Alphabet to:

Interweave/Cloth Paper Scissors
Attn: Amazing Alphabet
490 Boston Post Road, Suite 15
Sudbury, MA 01776

We will feature some of the Amazing Alphabet art in an upcoming issue of Cloth Paper Scissors and/or on our website.

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  • If you have any questions, please contact Barbara Delaney at bdelaney@interweave.com. Please be sure to include your first and last names and your contact information in all email correspondence.
  • By submitting your mixed-media Amazing Alphabet to our challenge, you are authorizing F+W Media, Inc. to publish your entry in upcoming publications and promotional materials, on our websites, and in our other e-media, as well as possibly display it in shows.
  • F+W Media, Inc. will not be held responsible for loss or damage due to circumstances beyond our control.

Tunnel Book Reader Challenge

Did you catch our A Look At . . . Tunnel Books article in the January/February 2013 issue of Cloth Paper Scissors? Give this challenge a try by mixing those simple instructions and your signature style. The samples in the article were relatively unadorned, but we know you can turn up the heat with your mixed-media stash. Doodle, collage, paint, stitch, quilt, layer, or otherwise embellish your pages to make your own little theatrical tunnel-book show.

the rules

1. Create an original mixed-media inspired tunnel book. Your finished piece needs to weigh no more than 1/2lb. and be able to fit into an 8" x 10" padded envelope.

2. Your artwork must be free of any text or images that are protected by copyright, unless you have the expressed written permission from the person or institution that holds the copyright and you provide that written permission with your submission.

3. Mix your media. You may use paper, fabric, fibers, embellishments and found objects, inks, paints, stitching . . . and anything else that makes your tunnel book unique.

4. To be considered for the challenge, send two low-res images (one full image, one detail shot) of your piece via email by March 1, 2013, to cps.challenges@interweave.com, with the words "Tunnel Book" in the subject line. Please include your name, shipping address, email address, phone number, and a brief explanation of your artwork.

5. Finalists will be posted on the Reader Challenge blog on the CPS community on March 11, 2013. Artists will not be notified directly.

note: We encourage you to upload the image of your tunnel book to our Reader Challenge gallery on the clothpaperscissors.com community, but this is not required to be a part of the challenge.

6. If accepted as a finalist for print consideration, your artwork must be in our offices no later than April 1, 2013. At that time a flat shipping and handling fee of $8 U.S., $10 Canada, and $12 all other international will be due. For safety, be sure to place your entry in a plastic bag before packing it for shipping. All artwork will be returned the week of June 12, 2013.

Shipping address:

Interweave/Cloth Paper Scissors

Attn: Tunnel Book Challenge

490 Boston Post Road, Suite 15

Sudbury, MA  01776

We will feature some of the tunnel book finalist art in an upcoming issue of Cloth Paper Scissors and/or on our website.

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  • All funds must be in U.S. dollars and made payable to Interweave.
  • If you have any questions, please contact Barbara Delaney at bdelaney@interweave.com. Please be sure to include your first and last names and your contact information in all email correspondence.
  • By submitting your mixed-media tunnel book to our challenge, you are authorizing Interweave to publish your entry in upcoming publications and promotional materials, on our website, and in other Interweave e-media, as well as possibly display it in shows.
  • Interweave will not be held responsible for loss or damage due to circumstances beyond our control.

 

Make Mine Mini

Colorful, dazzling, inspiring . . . eye-catching! All of these words and many more are used to describe artwork, and often they are used all at once! But how often have you used "mini"?

We invite you to create a mini piece of mixed-media art, 4" x 4" or smaller. Use your paints, encaustics, collage papers, fibers, stitching, and more to create this wee masterpiece. Try making something you would normally do large and make it Lilliputian.

the rules

1. Create an original, mini, mixed-media piece of art. Your finished piece needs to weigh less than 1lb. and be able to fit into a 6" x 6" box, or smaller.

2. Your artwork must be free of any text or images that are protected by copyright, unless you have the expressed written permission from the person or institution that holds the copyright and you provide that written permission with your submission.

3. Mix your media. You may use paper, fabric, fibers, embellishments and found objects, inks, paints, stitching . . . and anything else that makes your piece unique. Just make sure that it is 4" x 4" or smaller.

4. To be considered for the challenge, send two low-res images of your piece, one full image and one detail shot, via email by January 4, 2013, to cps.challenges@interweave.com, with the words "Make Mine Mini" in the subject line. Please include your name, shipping address, email address, phone number, and a brief explanation of your piece.

5. Finalists will be on the Reader Challenge blog on the CPS community on January 11, 2013. Artists will not be notified directly.

note: We encourage you to upload the image of your Make Mine Mini artwork to our Reader Challenge gallery on the clothpaperscissors.com community.

6. If accepted as a finalist for print consideration, your artwork must be in our offices no later than January 30, 2013. At that time a flat shipping and handling fee of $8 U.S., $10 Canada, and $12 all other international will be due. For safety, be sure to place your entry in a plastic bag before packing it for shipping. All artwork will be returned the week of April 18, 2013.

Shipping address:

Interweave/Cloth Paper Scissors
Attn: Make Mine Mini
490 Boston Post Road, Suite 15
Sudbury, MA  01776

We will feature some of the Make Mine Mini finalists' art in an upcoming issue of Cloth Paper Scissors and/or on our website. We're shaking up the challenge in big ways-by going super small!

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  • All funds must be in U.S. dollars and made payable to Interweave.
  • If you have any questions, please contact Barbara Delaney at bdelaney@interweave.com. Please be sure to include your first and last names and your contact information in all email correspondence.
  • By submitting your mixed-media Mini artwork to our challenge, you are authorizing Interweave to publish your entry in upcoming publications and promotional materials, on our website, and in other Interweave e-media, as well as possibly display it in shows.
  • Interweave will not be held responsible for loss or damage due to circumstances beyond our control.

Art Supply Doodle Reader Challenge  

Do you find yourself doodling while you’re on the phone or in a meeting? When you’re trying to process an idea or problem? Do you doodle the same shape, item, or scribble every time? We’d like you to doodle something special for us: your art supplies. Sketch your brushes, doodle your sewing machine, or draw your pliers. Inspire and amaze us with your best rendering.

The rules

1.   Create an original doodle of your art supplies, but there’s a catch: you can only use
      one color . . . or you can make it black-and-white.

2.   Your submission must be on a flat 4" x 6" substrate. That substrate can be paper, mat
      board, canvas board, or other, as long as it fits the size requirement of 4" x 6".

3.   Your doodle must be free of any text or images that are protected by copyright, unless
      you have the expressed written permission from the person or institution that holds the
      copyright and you provide that written permission with your submission.

4.   On the back of your doodle, please include your name, address, phone number, and
      email address. Please place your artwork in a plastic bag for safety in shipping.

note: We encourage you to upload a photo of your doodle on the clothpaperscissors.com community, but this is not required to take part in the challenge.

5.   There is no entry fee for this challenge as the artwork will become the property of
      Interweave and will not be returned.

6.   Your Art Supply Doodle must be in our offices by Friday, December 14th, 2012. 
     

Please send your art to:

Interweave/Cloth Paper Scissors
Attn: Art Supply Doodle
490 Boston Post Road, Suite 15
Sudbury, MA 01776

We will feature some of the doodle art in an upcoming issue of Cloth Paper Scissors and/or on our website.

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•  If you have any questions, please contact Barbara Delaney at 
   bdelaney@interweave.com. Please be sure to include your first and last names and your
   contact information in all email correspondence.

•  By submitting your doodle to our challenge, you are authorizing Interweave to publish
    your entry in upcoming publications and promotional materials, on our website, and in
    other Interweave e-media, as well as possibly display it in shows.

•  Interweave will not be held responsible for loss or damage due to circumstances beyond
   our control.

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