Featured Artist - Judy Richards of Cats Paw Artifacts

Judy Richards is a fellow artist and member of etsyBEAD, a bead group street team on etsy. Below Judy shares a brief glimpse into her artistic background:

I'm a lampwork artist who also designs jewelry - unique jewelry with semi-precious stones and my beads and also now precious metal clay pendants and charms.

I'm inspired by ancient pictographs, nature, and abstraction as well in an artistic sense.

I started out as a bead weaver and became familiar with and interested in lampwork beads and making them, took a class, and the rest is history!

Judy's items can be purchased in her online shop, catldy99.etsy.com. Below are just a few pictures of some of her favorite pieces.

7/1/08 Treasury

Being featured on a treasury is always so much fun, and tlsexton0913 (Tammy of Ivonnardona's Creations) was able to get a Treasury and featured one of my keyrings on it! Many thanks, Tammy !

Christian Artists Street Team "Christmas in July" Sale

One of the etsy Street Teams I belong to, the Christian Artists Street Team (CAST), is having a month-long "Christmas in July" Sale. There are several members of the group participating.

Here's a link to search for all the individuals items on sale:

http://www.etsy.com/search_results.php?search_type=tag_title_all&search_query=cast+team+cij

Each store also has a list of all the participating stores.

Here's a couple of the items I have for the sale at 20% off. Both make great stocking stuffers !

Party-Time Earrings	Lime Green Lampwork Bead Keyring

etsyBead Theme Week, Catch the Wave, June 29-July12

The bi-weekly theme is "Catch the Wave". Here are a couple of my theme items that are 20% off during the theme sale. To see more of jewelry collection, visit my etsy shop at http://beadifulworld.etsy.com/.

etsyBead Theme Week, Wild Thing, June 15-28

The bi-weekly theme is "Wild Thing". Here are a couple of my theme items that are 20% off during the theme sale. To see more of jewelry collection, visit my etsy shop at http://beadifulworld.etsy.com/.

etsyBead Theme Week, A Day at the Beach - June 1-14

The bi-weekly theme is "A Day at the Beach". Here are a couple of my theme items that are 20% off during the theme sale. To see more of jewelry collection, visit my etsy shop at http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5507576.

Etsybead Artist Spotlight

Part of the joy of being involved in etsy is the wonderful team streets. I belong to etsyBead, which is an amazing group of artists that are either jewelry designers or lampwork bead artists. On the team's blog, they feature interviews with different members. It was great to be a part of this. Here's a write-up on me:
http://etsybead.wordpress.com/2008/05/27/spotlight-beadiful-world/