THE WINNERS VOTED ON BY PCAGOE Members:
1st Place - Mermaid's Necklace by Randee of RMK Design
2nd Place - Go Swimming with Me by Arlene of Ashpaints
3rd Place - Sealife by Els of Beadelz
WINNERS VOTED ON BY THE PUBLIC:
1st Place - Mermaid's Necklace by Randee of RMK Design
2nd Place - Sealife by Els of Beadelz
3rd Place - TIE Under the Sea Pendant by Maggie of Maggie Day Studio and Sealife by Els of Beadelz
The voters who won prizes this month:
Donelle Kemmer
Viktoria Slutsky
Jan McAtee
Winning voters have one week after being contacted to furnish us with your mailing address. If you do not respond within 1 week, your prize will be forfeited and returned to the prize pool.
Congratulations to all the winners, and thank you to everyone who voted and supports our challenges each month.
198 votes were cast this month.
Comments left by the voters:
beautiful work once again. So many talented people!
I had to many favorites this time. I just love to see all talent here. Good luck to all.
I am very impressed at the craftsmanship shown here. Good work one and all. You are winners, every one of you.
All entries are worthy!!! Can't help but adore the seal. Amazing attention to detail!
This is a very interesting challenge. Everyone's work is great that it makes it very very hard to pick. Love all the work.
love the shades of the shade very soothing and de-light-ful
All the entries had a different slant to the challenge, and all were very nice. It was hard to just pick those three! Good work, Ya'll!!
I thought the Under the Sea Necklace was absolutely beautiful but I can see lots of ohter good things also.
Love all the beautiful creations!
They are all beautiful pieces.
I love mermaids & the Under the Sea journal appeared very well designed. The fish were very cute on the Go Swimming with Me Cannister & I loved the quirky little octopus on the Under the Deep Blue Lampshade.
I love your challenges! It makes me happy just looking at all the different interpretations of the subject. It's always so difficult to choose!
Love all the shades of blue and green. Great selection of undersea creatures and creations.
Loved the limestone rocks with inclusions, very realistic!
LOVE all the entries - made choosing difficult!!
I voted for Shades of the Sea Cuff Bracelet, because of its originality in the design. It reminds me of throwing on a loosely woven "cover-up" and lazy days at the beach, looking for shells.
I enjoyed the beautiful entries. I especially like under the water or sea themes.
It's wonderful to see how a theme is translated. So much diversity. I love it all and it's difficult to make a choice.
I was hard put to choose among these offerings and whether to emphasize originality, or the amount of work put into something, or go for sheer beauty--which is subjective, of course. In the end, I decided on "things I would love to own/wear."
At first I thought the background on 17 was paper so I wasn't going to vote for it. knowing it is made of all polymer & inks - it is stunning!
All pieces are medal worthy, I also had favs on the journal and jewelry.
it was a tough decision to make, all the entries are beautiful!!! but i loved the coral brooch the most, love the delicate form and colours!1
Full of my favorite colors: turquoise, emerald, light blue... Which creation can I choose? I love all of them!
Mermaid's necklace looks like it could have been washed up on shore!
I was really impressed by the variety of entries and the fine level of craftsmanship shown by the guild members. The clay paintings were just amazing.
I think they are all quite good, I have never been able to do the blues and greens so I would really love to have one of these beauties. Good Job
The bracelet is so unique. It's only the second one I've seen. The 1st one was a red one in Polymer Cafe. Now that makes me wonder if the same artist made it.
The trinket box looks like it took quite a lot of thought.
The Mermaids Necklace is not all blues and aquas, but the colors of the beaches.
How did she get those little Nemo's on that pen? Remarkable!
Facinated with technique used on Ripples - absolutely beautiful; Love the creativity of the lobster claws and pearly shell created for Memories of Maine; and the Under the Sea Trinket Box is just too cute.
As always..gorgeous pieces of art!! Always hard, hard, hard to select just one (or even three!)..
This "challenge" you do every month never fails to bring a smile and a "wow"!!
these are all gorgeous.. showed my children and my daughter now wants to have a go too! Just wish the clay didnt cost so much in nz.
wow, i simply love the sea.it was hard to decide since there are lots of works i loved. i really loved the mearmaid, I can imagen her sitting on a rock looking at bouts or just playing with some dolphins...
It is fun to see what others are creating! I have created and sold polymer clay pieces for 25 years and may need to enter one day LOL. Keep up the good work.
Very beautiful work, gorgeous colors
So many great choices made this a very hard decision! Beautiful work, everyone -- all the colors are gorgeous.
Viewing these challenge contributions is inspiring. Special thanks to all the artists!
I love the category for this challenge. Finding Nemo is a favorite movie of mine, and I like the references to this.
Beautiful trinket box, Jill!
What a fun collection, thinking maybe I need to play too .......
Wonderful mixtures of interpretations for the challenge.
The three I chose were to exemplify being UNDER the sea- most fluid. Great entries!
love the vibrant color of the fishy fishy cane
As always I have such a hard time voting
because I love them all. Changed my
mind several times but ultimately went
with my first instincts. This was a great theme for summer and I think everyone did such a nice job!
Entry #18 reminds me most of something that may be living under the sea. Entry #4 reminds me of the beach, an entry #5 is just a gorgeous peace. It would be nice to be able to click on the thumbnails to see the entire picture.
Really impressed with the guild and the work of the members. Look forward to your newsletters.
I love the seal. It was more realistic than any other...look into it's sweet face! The body form was right on and the colors were excelletnt.
the photos this month were kind of small to make a decision. I know I could click on each link but it would be nice if they were a bit larger.
Great stuff. Hard to choose a fave. keep it coming, PCAGOE!
Spectacular selection of varied art! Harder than ever to decide. These challenges certainly bring a great variety of skill and talent to the attention of the voters!
It was a beautiful selection to choose from. I always forget to vote and for once on a day off here I am! All of you are so talented. Thank you for letting me vote.
I chose these because they interpret the theme without being obvious or cliched.
Please join us next month for our challenge. The theme for September is "Pink". We hope to have many wonderful creations for you next month!
