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Welcome to February's 2017 SMF Soap Challenge!
PLEASE BE SURE TO READ THIS FIRST (and ALL Rules)-
General Rules:
1. The only members eligible to vote are those with their names on the sign up list - regardless of whether or not you have submitted an entry.
2. This months voting will be password locked. Passwords will be PM'ed to registered participants ONLY. So please check your PM's when the voting begins.
3. No posting your entry photos until the entry thread is made. Non enty photos are very welcome!
4. You are allowed to change your entry photo up until the entry thread closes. So if you decide after you post your entry you want another try, and you like the second better, you can change it up until the deadline.
NOW
This month’s challenge is ebru designs.
If you are unfamiliar with ebru art and ebru soaps, please take the time to read my second post. There are great videos listed with ebru art showing the many different designs that can be accomplished.
SMF Challenge Specific Rules
· You must use a slab mold. If you do not have one, you may use a loaf mold as a slab by poring your batter only as thick as a typical soap and cutting as you would a slab pour. If you pour a pattern design, like a dna swirl, into a loaf all the way throughout the soap, and then you cut horizontally and then make bars, that is also acceptable.
· You must use an ebru design. Drawing images like birds and scenery typical of ebru, or patterns: for example peacock and dna swirls, also flowers and sun bursts, and designs typical of ebru are all acceptable. Completely random designs are not acceptable. If you have a question whether or not your design will be accepted, please ask in advance.
· You must use only a skewer like tool to design your soap.
· You may pour a base that is solid or multicolored, you can even spin swirl the base, but the ebru designs on top must be the main attraction of the soap and predominantly cover any swirls that aren't ebru beneath (if a solid base or ebru patterns show through, however, that is ok).
· For your entry, you must show at least one picture of the soap in the mold along with the tool you used to design it. Other cut pictures are welcome but not a requirement.
· You may include information like colorants and fragrance used (though this isn't a requirement).
Challenge Entry Thread Opens February 13, 2017.
Challenge Entry Thread Closes February 21, 2017 (11:59pm CST)
Survey for choosing the winning choices opens immediately the 22nd.
Winners Announced February 28, 2017.
SMF Challenge General Rules
· To enter you must have a minimum of 50 posts and been a member for a month (sorry but no exceptions on this)
· Please add your name to the sign up list if you wish to participate (however, you don’t have to enter a soap at the end if you don’t feel happy with what you have produced)
· The challenge thread should be used to upload pictures of any of your challenge attempts where you can ask for advice and discuss the technique with other members.
· Constructive criticism is welcomed, but please try to keep your comments polite.
· Competition entries must be uploaded to the separate entry thread before the closing date. The thread will open on February 13, 2017 (Please follow the challenge specific rules as to what you need to enter).
· After the closing date February 21, 2017 the winning entry will be chosen using survey monkey and the winner announced on February 28, 2017. There is no prize attached to this challenge.
· If you fail to make the challenge deadline, you are still welcome to upload your soap onto the thread, but your entry will not be eligible for voting. We still love to see anything you have produced.
· Even though there is no prize, this is still a competition. If your entry is deemed not to fulfill the general rules or the rules specific to the challenge in any way, then you will be given the opportunity to amend your entry. If this is not possible then your entry will not be included in the voting.
· Newbie, Saponista, Lionproncess00, Sonya-m and GalaxyMLP reserve the right to have the final say on whether a soap is eligible for voting.
VIDEO 1 Introduction [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi56gT4HldQ[/ame]
VIDEO 2 DNA Swirl, Ebru
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMtL4CHMQVY[/ame]
VIDEO 3 Peacock Swirl with Flowers, Ebru
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw7yjmaNDvc[/ame]
VIDEO 4 Cut Pictures
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpIwGhVaboI[/ame]
PLEASE BE SURE TO READ THIS FIRST (and ALL Rules)-
General Rules:
1. The only members eligible to vote are those with their names on the sign up list - regardless of whether or not you have submitted an entry.
2. This months voting will be password locked. Passwords will be PM'ed to registered participants ONLY. So please check your PM's when the voting begins.
3. No posting your entry photos until the entry thread is made. Non enty photos are very welcome!
4. You are allowed to change your entry photo up until the entry thread closes. So if you decide after you post your entry you want another try, and you like the second better, you can change it up until the deadline.
NOW
This month’s challenge is ebru designs.
If you are unfamiliar with ebru art and ebru soaps, please take the time to read my second post. There are great videos listed with ebru art showing the many different designs that can be accomplished.
SMF Challenge Specific Rules
· You must use a slab mold. If you do not have one, you may use a loaf mold as a slab by poring your batter only as thick as a typical soap and cutting as you would a slab pour. If you pour a pattern design, like a dna swirl, into a loaf all the way throughout the soap, and then you cut horizontally and then make bars, that is also acceptable.
· You must use an ebru design. Drawing images like birds and scenery typical of ebru, or patterns: for example peacock and dna swirls, also flowers and sun bursts, and designs typical of ebru are all acceptable. Completely random designs are not acceptable. If you have a question whether or not your design will be accepted, please ask in advance.
· You must use only a skewer like tool to design your soap.
· You may pour a base that is solid or multicolored, you can even spin swirl the base, but the ebru designs on top must be the main attraction of the soap and predominantly cover any swirls that aren't ebru beneath (if a solid base or ebru patterns show through, however, that is ok).
· For your entry, you must show at least one picture of the soap in the mold along with the tool you used to design it. Other cut pictures are welcome but not a requirement.
· You may include information like colorants and fragrance used (though this isn't a requirement).
Challenge Entry Thread Opens February 13, 2017.
Challenge Entry Thread Closes February 21, 2017 (11:59pm CST)
Survey for choosing the winning choices opens immediately the 22nd.
Winners Announced February 28, 2017.
SMF Challenge General Rules
· To enter you must have a minimum of 50 posts and been a member for a month (sorry but no exceptions on this)
· Please add your name to the sign up list if you wish to participate (however, you don’t have to enter a soap at the end if you don’t feel happy with what you have produced)
· The challenge thread should be used to upload pictures of any of your challenge attempts where you can ask for advice and discuss the technique with other members.
· Constructive criticism is welcomed, but please try to keep your comments polite.
· Competition entries must be uploaded to the separate entry thread before the closing date. The thread will open on February 13, 2017 (Please follow the challenge specific rules as to what you need to enter).
· After the closing date February 21, 2017 the winning entry will be chosen using survey monkey and the winner announced on February 28, 2017. There is no prize attached to this challenge.
· If you fail to make the challenge deadline, you are still welcome to upload your soap onto the thread, but your entry will not be eligible for voting. We still love to see anything you have produced.
· Even though there is no prize, this is still a competition. If your entry is deemed not to fulfill the general rules or the rules specific to the challenge in any way, then you will be given the opportunity to amend your entry. If this is not possible then your entry will not be included in the voting.
· Newbie, Saponista, Lionproncess00, Sonya-m and GalaxyMLP reserve the right to have the final say on whether a soap is eligible for voting.
VIDEO 1 Introduction [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi56gT4HldQ[/ame]
VIDEO 2 DNA Swirl, Ebru
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMtL4CHMQVY[/ame]
VIDEO 3 Peacock Swirl with Flowers, Ebru
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw7yjmaNDvc[/ame]
VIDEO 4 Cut Pictures
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpIwGhVaboI[/ame]
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