Announcing the OOAKguild’s Summer contest!

The theme is WATER. How do you want to portray “water” with your doll/sculpture? What is your interpretation? We are challenging you to come out of your comfort box and have some fun with this. Be creative!

The categories will be Prettiest, Funniest and Most Original.

Contest rules are simple:
1. Enter your Water themed sculpt by emailing a picture to contest@ooakguild.com
2. You may send 1 photo to enter the contest.
3. Photo is due on July 19th by midnight USA eastern standard time.
4. You must keep your entry anonymous! (Only Megan, Debbie, and Faerydae will know.)

Pictures will be posted and voting will begin on July 20th through July 27th via a polling process. Only members of OOAKguild.com will be able to vote.

Winners will be announced on July 28th!

First place will be awarded a prize in each category.

First, second, and third place in each category will receive a winners banner that can be posted on their website.

Any questions, please feel free to ask any of our moderators.

Dive in and have fun!

Hi everyone hope all is well!

I am writing to announce that we are having a summer themed swap! We have so far had quite a few successful swaps. We started off with the Fall Swap which lead to a Culture Swap. After that came the Christmas/Holiday Exchange Swap. Then came 2007! We have had 2 amazing swaps in the form of Winter and Spring themed swaps. And we just completed our first Supplies Swap (Thanks for organizing it Remy!!!!!) And soon it will be our 1 year anniversary here at the OG. Hard to believe huh!!!! So lets make this Summer Swap just as great or even better than the last ones!!! Most of us are now becoming fast collectors just as much as creators! And I know to most of us that is a good thing!

With the summer swap you can create fairies, mermaids, dragons etc as long as it is ooak. But it must have a summer theme. So flowers, trees, leaves, water, grass etc. Let your imagination run wild!!!! I know mine is racing right now. And I am at work which is not helping LOL . Please be aware though that you may have to send overseas.

As always if you have any questions on anything what so ever please feel free to ask one of the mod co-ordination team members. And if you don’t know who they are I will list them at the bottom of this news article.

Now that the OG is approaching it’s 1 year anniversary we will soon be getting into the 2nd annual swaps. Which I am sure will be just as great as the inaugural ones. So come on everyone lets see you sign up!!!!!!

Annaliese

Your swap mods are daydreamerdebbie (Debbie), 4pixies (Remy), and myself munchkin (Annaliese)

Yup - I finally got off my duff and started adding in all the tutorials into the existing Article Library so that people can now view them directly on the OG without having to download them!

So feel free to check them out! Tutorials on the OG

And if you'd like to have us host your tutorial - we'd LOVE to do that and will provide credits and credit links back to you as the author as well!

For Immediate Release

AMACO Bottles of Hope Challenge to be Repeated!

Due to the overwhelming response to our last Designer Challenge,
AMACO (American Art Clay Company) and event coordinator Lisa Pavelka
are pleased to announce a repeat of the January 2007 Bottle of Hope
Designer Challenge.

80 clay covered bottles were submitted in less than a month's time
for the previous designer challenge; the first open to the public.
Twenty-five finalists were selected by the Indianapolis Polymer Clay
Guild out of 80. The finalist's entries were displayed at the AMACO booth
throughout the January/February CHA (Craft and Hobby Association)
convention in CHA-2007 Anaheim earlier this year. A gala award reception was held
at the show. Final judging was conducted by magazine editors, media
representatives and designers in the crafts industry.

We have been growing by leaps and bounds! Saturday, April 7th, we are going to have an "Open House" chat, were we can all get together and some of the old faces can get to know the new!

We've tried to pick a time where the most number of people, WORLDWIDE, can participate:

Welcome Chat: Saturday, April 7th
Chat begins 2 pm East coast time, USA

Which is....
16:00 (4:00 pm SUNDAY, April 8) New South Wales, Australia
21:00 (10:00 pm, Saturday) Helsinki, Finland
20:00 (9:00 pm Saturday) Oslo, Norway
19:00 (8:00 pm Saturday) London, England
14:00 (2:00 pm Saturday) East Coast USA
11:00 (11:00 am Saturday) West Coast USA

You may want to double check my caculation on the times, I tried to make sure its was perfect, but you know how it is.

So mark your calendars, grab the chips and dip and something to drink, and settle in to have some good time with friends!!!

See a lot of new faces around lately? We have been growing by leaps and bounds! Saturday, Feb 10, we are going to have an "Open House" chat, were we can all get together and some of the old faces can get to know the new!

We've tried to pick a time where the most number of people, WORLDWIDE, can participate:

Welcome Chat: Saturday, Feb 10th
Chat begins 2 pm east coast time, USA

Which is....
16:00 (4:00 pm SUNDAY, Feb 11) New South Wales, Australia
21:00 (10:00 pm, Saturday) Helsinki, Finland
20:00 (9:00 pm Saturday) Oslo, Norway
19:00 (8:00 pm Saturday) London, England
14:00 (2:00 pm Saturday) East Coast USA
11:00 (11:00 am Saturday) West Coast USA

You may want to double check my caculation on the times, I tried to make sure its was perfect, but you know how it is.

So mark your calendars, grab the chips and dip, and settle in to have some good time with friends.

American Artist magazine is holding an art competition to celebrate its 70th anniversary, and awards (and magazine features) will be given to artists working in oil, watermedia, acrylic, pastel, drawing media, colored pencil, and mixed media. Grand

Prize winners will be chosen in both the professional and amateur categories, and the judges will designate a First, Second, Third, and Student winner in each of the categories.

The deadline for entry (either online or in the mail) is April 7.

Here’s a link for more information: http://www.myamericanartist.com/2006/12/enter_the_70th_.html.

Hear ye! Hear ye!

The National Polymer Clay Guild is proud to announce "Progress & Possibilities 2007", our third international juried exhibition, open to all NPCG members. The number of entry categories has been expanded to showcase the widest possible range of exceptional polymer clay work. Submitted work must have been completed between April 2005 and March 2007, not previously published and not previously submitted to a "Progress & Possibilities" exhibit. Selected works will be mounted on the NPCG website and included in a show catalog.

* April 1 - Deadline for entries received
* June 30 - Notification sent to artists
* Early Fall - Show mounted on website
* Late Fall - Exhibit catalog available

Selection will be by jurors Carol Duvall, Barbara McGuire, and Elise Winters. The jury will view digital images with an identifying number, but no names. Each piece will be scored on:

* Overall artistic merit
* Originality of idea
* Workmanship
* Difficulty of execution.

For more information, please visit the NPCG site.

Well it's finally arrived. The first swap of 2007. It will be a great year. I can tell!!!!

First we have the new schedule for 2007. You can find all dates and if you have an idea for a swap that you think can fit in the schedule please let Debbie, Remy or myself (Annaliese) know!!! We are here to help and answer swap questions!

See schedule here: 2007 Swap Schedule

Second is the announcement of the first Winter themed swap on the OG for the upcoming 2007 year!

Hello again everyone!!!

It's your friendly OG neighbourhood Swap Organizers. And we are here to tell you about the newest swap we have going on for the start of 2007!!!


It's a new year so we are going to start off with a winter themed swap! Fairies, mermaids, dragons and of course baby's are allowed but it must be winter themed. So snowflakes, snow, blues and silvers and whites, snowmen/woman etc. You can have what ever you like on your ooak as long as it is winter themed. Sign up's start today!!!!


Sign up's will end on Jan 8th 2007. So you have a month to decide if you would like to participate. We have had 3 successful swaps so far. 1 culture swap, 1 fall themed swap, and the holiday exchange. Lets make this swap a great one so we can start the year off right!!!

The mail out date will be Feb 5th 2007. So for those of us that may be a little slower than other's there is a month to do it in. I know I will be slower this time around myself

So if this interests you please feel free to sign up! One of us will keep a running tally/list of who signs up under this post. If you do have to back out for any reason please let us know no later than Jan 8th.

Thanks everyone!
Lets have some fun and start the new year off right!

Sincerley,

Your Swap Team

Debbie, Remy and Annaliese (myself)

To sign up please click on this link: Swap Sign Up

Have a great Holiday everyone!!!!

Annaliese

Well the announcement has been made in the Swap Board about the Christmas Exchange. If you wish to sign up post on that board! Sign up are going on till Nov 10.

Here is the announcement

Ok. So Christmas is fast approaching. I know I know grumble grumble and don't remind me I haven't done my shopping yet. Well this is the good part of Christmas. Having a Christmas Present Exchange!

Just so you are aware this Christmas Exchange is for everyone! Vendors, Suppliers and Sculptors. Everyone that wishes can participate. But if you do happen to sculpt a doll please note that you may not receive one in return as your gift.

Debbie, Remy and I (Annaliese) have put a price limit of $25 USD on the exchange.

As I said before anyone can participate but please let your exchange partner know what you may like. A list of 4 hints as to what to get as a present. For example:

Hint list

- Christmas ornament
- Chocolates (without nuts)
- Candles (Hyacinth scent is always good or gardenia)
- Gift cretificates (depending where you are)

~Note: You are NOT limited to the list above, those are just an example!~

Sign ups for the Christmas Exchange are from now untill Nov 10. Because of Christmas mailings, the date to mail out by will be Dec 6th. That way it will have time to arrive.

So lets have a little bit of fun with this one!!!

Debbie, Remy and Annaliese



So if you would like to participate... SIGN UP and lets make this one great!!!

Have a great sculpting day everyone!

Annaliese

Additional note: And if you do not celebrate Christmas, but a different holiday, just substitute the word Holiday for Christmas and feel free to join in!!