It's the month of love which means its time to show appreciation for the special people in your life! This month we want to see the pieces you have made in honour of the most romantic day of the year - VALENTINE'S DAY.
Simply submit an image of your piece on this thread by midnight, Tuesday 28th February to enter.
Our favourite will win a £100 Cooksongold shopping spree, good luck!
Terms & Conditions:
The closing date for the competition will be at midnight GMT 28.02.17.
The judging will take place on 01.03.17. The following criteria are used to determine the winner: design, the technique used and the overall finish of the piece. The Cooksongold judging panel will make the final decision.
The winner will be announced and notified via the forum by 03.03.17. The winner must redeem their shopping spree (up to the total value of £100) using their own Cooksongold account and within 2 months of receiving their winner information email.
In the case of the winner's shopping spree exceeding the total prize value of £100, the winner is liable to pay for any amount over the value of £100.
The competition is open to all Cooksongold customers aged 18 years and over. Only one entry per person.
Employees of Cooksongold, their agents and families are excluded from the competition together with any person connected to the competition.
To enter the competition, simply comment on the relevant forum thread with a photo of your themed design. No correspondence will be entered into.
All designs submitted must be the original work of the individual submitting them and must not infringe the rights of any other party. Cooksongold reserves the right to contact an entrant for further clarification if necessary.
Cooksongold reserves the right to disqualify any entry if it has reasonable grounds to believe you have breached any of these terms and conditions.
In submitting your design, you give your permission for it to be included in any marketing or any other promotional material connected with this draw, and for Cooksongold to upload your design to Instagram and Pinterest if it is chosen as the winner. Copyright for all images submitted for this draw remains with the respective entrants.
Entry into the competition is deemed as acceptance of the rules.
Cooksongold reserves the right to amend these rules at any time and to cancel or amend the competition if for any reason we believe it cannot be conducted fairly or in accordance with these terms and conditions.
Imagery associated with this competition is not representative of the exact prize, and is for marketing purposes only. Cookson Precious Metals Ltd reserves the right to change the prize for one of equivalent value.
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No purchase necessary. There is no cash alternative.
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A Valentine's day gift for someone you "moon over"
It is said if you give your lover a moonstone necklace when the moon is full you will always have passion with each other. It is also said that you should practice letter stamping on copper before doing it on sterling silver. I clearly did not do this! The recipient assures me it adds to the handmade look!
14th February is almost upon us! If you haven't submitted your Valentine's Day themed design yet, don't worry as you still have a couple of weeks left to enter.
What lovely entries. That rose is beautiful Peter.
I've not posted for ages either (hope things are improving for you Ceri), last year was annus horriblus for us, with a few wonderful moments.
The most romantic pieces I have ever had the privilege of making were my children's engagement rings. The first for my daughter, keeping that a secret was a killer, and the second for my son to give to his (now) fiancee......
The entries this month are all beautiful! And Peter and Goldsmithing you are both amazing as usual, I can only dream as being nearly as good one day...
I'd like to enter my heart-of-hearts necklace. This is actually part of my first batch of items I created from wax and sent away to be cast. The heart design is something I could have just pierced from silver sheet but I wanted to experiment in wax! I used a piece of pre-sliced Ferris File-a-Wax for the heart and the arrow was made using pink sheet wax and blue wax 'wire'. I created the heart design using Word. The past few years I've been learning traditional silversmith techniques and then got distracted with metal clay for a while. For me wax casting feels like a combination of both which I find pretty exciting right now. (Photographing jewellery is still a challenge for me, so I go around my house taking pics under different lighting, etc. to see what works best, which is why my pictures all look so different!)
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