June 13 Link Up Your Palette Post!

Welcome to the start of the Silk Color Palette Challenge: Round 2!

If you were shopping for silks to use in your next jewelry creation - what would that palette look like?

Where do you find your color inspirations for projects?

How would you choose what silks to buy?
What color palettes are you drawn to?

Do you enjoy picking out colors?

Well, NOW is your chance to pick out 10 colors of silks from the ones that I sell, and put them together in a photo mosaic and submit them to this Challenge!

Marsha Neal Studio Flickr Photo Set for Silk Colors

It is free to submit your ONE palette of up to 10 colors of silks!

It just takes a bit of time to decide on the palette and make the photo mosaic to submit (and come up with a fun name for it!). 

And you must have it linked up in the Inlinkz gadget on this blog post by Sunday, June 17, 2012 (closes at Midnight EST). The earlier the better so you avoid technical difficulties, and the more time your palette is up on the blog, the more exposure you will get!

On Monday, June 18, 12:01am, the voting polls will open up on a new blog post.

There is a limit to 10 votes per person for this session.

Please play fair and don't use all 10 votes on your own or have your friends vote for yours 10 times.
Try to spread it out a bit and pick the ones you really do like the best!

Voting closes at Midnight on Thursday, June 21, 2012.

Winners will be announced here on June 22, 2012.

If your palette is one of the top 8 voted for - I will pull your 10 silks, photograph them, and put them up for sale in my Etsy shop and my Website.

2 other artists are already in from Round 1:

Most bundles sold in Round 1: Kim Roberts.

Random winner from previous finalists that sold at least 1 bundle - Catherine Pruitt.
1 ~ Round 2 finalist gets picked by me.

1 ~ Round 2 finalist gets picked by a special guest.

For the duration of Round 2 (June 26 - September 17, 2012) you can promote your silk palette and try to help me sell as many as possible. You can promote your palette through challenges, tutorials, giveaways, etc - whatever you can think up to help sell more of them...

The more that sell, the more chances you have at winning more silks for yourself as well as the giveaways and drawings I will be holding here on my blog.

Here are some links to get your started:

1. Marsha Neal Studio Silk Color Images on Flickr

*use up to (10) of the individual silk color image addresses to upload into the mosaic maker*

2. Free Mosaic Maker: Big Huge Labs

*suggested size: 3 columns, 4 rows and add in the white Marsha Neal Studio Silk Color Palette 2012 image to fill up room. The more square, the better the image will look for voting. Remember up to 10 colors are allowed. Duplicate colors are fine. Save the .jpg image to your computer and make sure you have your name and palette name as the file name.*

3. Details on Giveaways and Examples are on the Silk Color Palette Page

*here on this blog - see tab above*

So what are you waiting for?
Go pick out your silk bundle color palette and get it submitted!
And help promote this event and get entered into the drawings by commenting on the June 12 blog post.
Do this even if you aren't planning on submitting a color palette this round so you can try to win some silks for your next project!