Creations of 2017

Congrats to Ginger Hopkins, the Grand Prize Winner in our 2017 Bella Creations Contest!  But also, a huge thanks to every single one of you who participated - voters and entry submitters alike!

Only one winner per quarter can be chosen, but if it were up to us there would be multiple winners each round.  We had over 80 fabulous entries this year and there's not one that doesn't deserve a high-five, a fist bump and an honorable mention.  Let's take a look below at some of our favorites - separated by Prisma Frame entries and Bella Moulding entries.

HONORABLE MENTION PRISMA FRAME ENTRIES (hover to see the designer's name):

Jim Rheinhart - Wall Street Gallery

We love how confident this costumed cockatiel appears in the Mid-Mod patterned Butter + Lime Prisma 

Howie Rumjahn - The Rumjahn Gallery

The softer side of Prisma. Pink lip and clear sanded field.

Kurt Neumann - Frame It

Violet and Sunshine forever! An interesting complimentary color choice makes this Beatles image really sing.

Peter Nesbitt - Chappaqua Framing

The Rays pattern perfectly matched in Mustard + Midnight creates a real harmony.

Jeffrey Price - Artists Market

A game changing use of Prisma as the back piece to an arcade acrylic shadowbox.

Gale Harrison - The Paint Box

Even Dr. Suess himself would go just dotty over this pairing of art and frame.

Howie Rumjahn - The Rumjahn Gallery

Painting the Prisma Waves pattern in a two-color scheme can be kind of risky, but it works with this whale print. 

Pat Blossom - River Road Gallery

Wonder Woman never looked stronger than in this metallic Rays pattern Prisma with dramatic Risa shape.

HONORABLE MENTION BELLA FRAME ENTRIES (hover to see the designer's name):

Amy Gibbs - Amy's Frame Shop

Vintage perfection. This minty fresh frame evokes swimming pool water, waves and floating buoys.

Tom Houk - The Frame Maker

Howdy pardner. This is a stack of the Cobalt Blue Raku (converted into a floater frame) on top of the LaLa scoop.

Tena Mancini - Artists Frame Gallery

We celebrate this unconventional lacy paper mat and Renzo frame on a vintage print.

Douglas Cowley - Frame SF

The customer is always right, right? Doug was able to combine almost every single frame from the Gaudi collection into one wide fiesta of color, per client's wishes. 

Eric Strizver - Frame & Save

It's like beautiful music when the perfect art for a particular frame walks into your shop - and your customer agrees! 

Leah De Lane - Fast Frame

We're proud as peacock to see how the Feldspar Green Kintsugi looks like it was custom-made for these feathers. 

Gale Harrison - The Paint Box

Excellent framing and all that jazz; when the frame not only captures but adds to the mood of the art. 

Timothy Kent - Timothy Kent Gallery

Timothy brings this Optical Industry brochure into focus with the Malecon collection.

Michael Pavlock - The Framing Gallery

What's not to love?

HONORABLE MENTION for the MOST ENTRIES: Susan Boni of Frames of Mine in Fort Lee, NJ. Susan and her husband Ed clearly have a lot of fun working with our products and we applaud their creative spirit!

Cha Cha Pink Malecon + Stanley

Susan's customer was hesitant to put a pink frame in his house, but the Oxidized Stanley stack made it all work.

PEZ Collection in Mercury Prisma

This use of Prisma frames to face shadowboxes for a monumental Pez collection is impressive.

Prisma Ketubah with LED

This clear Prisma with the Bubbles pattern is certainly celebratory with the addition of LED lights behind!

A detail of the corner of the lit up Ketubah.

Renzo Collection

An excellent pairing of art and frames.

Warhol in Naranja (orange) Gaudi

Unfortunately this picture is quite fuzzy, but I'm sure the piece was dazzling in real life.

Get ready for the next Creations Contest round coming up in the spring. The best way to submit a winning entry is to get a clear, high-resolution picture of your piece on a neutral background and then be sure to share your submission with all your family, friends and customers so you get the most votes! The three entries that receive the most votes in our Facebook contest are put in front of our independent panel of industry experts who select the winner. We have seen many fabulous entries that receive almost no votes, so we encourage you to share this contest with your customer base - through social media, emails or even just face-to-face in-store. Besides winning free product, this is a great opportunity for a little self-promotion. 

We really look forward to hosting Ginger at the upcoming WCAF 2018 in Las Vegas. We'd love to see as many of you there as possible too. We'll be presenting nearly 100 new items - many of which you can put to good creative use in your 2018 Bella Creations entries!

Happy New Framing Year!!