August 15th Challenge

For the winners of our last challenge, please see the post below..


Hi everyone! Time for a new challenge here at Once Upon A...Sketch..

AUGUST 15th CHALLENGE

Journalling Criteria: Write AT LEAST 2 sentences from the lyrics of your favourite song. Journalling can be in any language and can be any type i.e. handwritten, alphas, printed, rub on. 

You MUST combine our journalling criteria with the following sketch. 

GUEST DESIGNERS

Anabelle O'Malley 

and our winner from the July challenge 

Anita Stokes

Thank you SO very much to Anabelle and Anita for being our guests this month. WE LOVED having you here and hope to have you again soon. 

Now here are some examples from our Guests from Imaginarium Designs, who are our monthly sponsors. 

First up is the amazing Natalie May, our permanent guest designer from Imaginarium Designs with her take on our sketch using Imaginarium Designs chipboard 

Tomoko Takahashi , another member of the Imaginarium Designs Design Team, using Imaginarium Designs chipboard. 

Asuka Miyamoto, also using Imaginarium Designs chipboard. 

The next layout is from a guest from our other sponsor Pretty Paper Petals...

Chloe Nielsen

Thank you to all our Guest Designers from our sponsors for their outstanding work.

Design Team 

Heather Jacob

**Imaginarium designs chipboard alphas and a small flourish

Natalie Elphinstone 

Gerry Van Gent 

** Imaginarium Designs chipboard ( small butterflies and frame)

Bente Fagerberg 

**swirl and  small branch from Imaginarium Design

Helen Tilbury 

**Pretty Paper Petals flowers 

Trudi Harrison 

PRIZES and SPONSORS

Our first sponsor is the truly AMAZING...

Imaginarium designs,  is a new chipboard company founded in 2010. It is the combined collaboration of  a Mother and Son team who both work in the paper craft industry.

Please visit the blog for inspiration and to see what the design team has been up to   www.imaginariumdesigns.blogspot.com and you can  purchase this amazing chipboard  at Seriously Scrapbooking (they ship anywhere in the world at actual postage cost)

Thank you SO much to our lovely sponsor Imaginarium Designs. We couldn't do this without your support!

Imaginarium Designs have so generously offered this prize to our  winner as chosen by our Design Team..

...a pack of their latest and most popular chipboard. The best thing about this, is that the pack will be different each month and will be customised to fit the winners needs. So if you have girls, you will be sent girly chipboard etc. And don't forget that they also sponsor our entire Design Team so please see the examples above for all the creative uses of this awesome chipboard. 

This month we will have 2 RANDOMLY CHOSEN winners who will receive the following 

  

Pretty Paper Petals is an Australian based, online blog store that started out a year ago. A simple tissue paper flower started it all off.......one was made for a layout and people kept asking where they could get it.....All of our flowers are carefully handcrafted by Vicki (the founder), and we are adding new items to the store every month

One randomly chosen winner will receive this EMBELLISHMENT KIT from Pretty Paper Petals 

The other randomly chosen winner will receive the August Kit from Tidbitz In Time

Tidbitz In Time is a US based monthly scrapbook kit club designed to bring you the latest papers and embellishments every month -- right to your mailbox.  Your pages will go together easily but your creative opportunities will be endless! Our goal is to make each and every kit an incredible value jam packed full of new products and wonderful ideas. 

Crate Paper - Potrait Collection - Papers, Alpha Labels Stickers, Border Stickers, Custom Trims, 

Prima - Flowers and Say It In Studs packs.  

Things to consider when playing along... 

**This is an international blog, so anyone can enter 

**You are allowed to create a card, layout or off-the-page item based on the provided sketch and additional journalling criteria. If you are creating a card or altered item you only need to include a quote. 

**You are also allowed to flip or rotate the sketch or alter it to suit your needs, but please make sure its still recognisable. 

**Post your creation on your blog or an online gallery and link it on the bottom of this post  using the Link tool. Please provide a direct link to your post, not your entire blog.If the link tool is down, please leave a comment on the comments section and link your layout there. 

** The deadline for this challenge is midnight August 31st , Australian Eastern Standard Time . The Design Team will vote and the winner and the Top 5 project will be announced soon after the challenge has finished.

 **You may enter as many times as you like and combine this with other challenges. 

**Also, please consider turning off word verification for comments on your blog. For a complete list of the rules please see the top of this page.

August 1st Challenge *WINNERS*

Hi everyone. Time to announce the winners of  August 1st  challenge. We had a total of 94 entries. That is just incredible to me. Thank you to each and everyone of you who take part in our challenges and provide us with such eye candy each challenge. Welcome to our new followers...we have reached over 760! 

As you all know, here at Once Upon A..Sketch, the winners are voted on by the Design Team and we also have some randomly chosen winners as well. We have 2 challenges each month, so our Design Team takes turns in voting as we truly believe in the importance of getting around and commenting on peoples work, being an active member of this team and choosing who each of us believes to be the best deserving to win not just the prize, but to be the winner of the entire challenge. If you make the effort to join in and play along with out challenges, then we will make sure that we also make the effort to let you know that your work is acknowledged. We see that most of you create amazing pages...with so much detail and so much effort that would take time to create. But not all can win. We take the voting process very seriously here at Once Upon A...Sketch so that you can be assured that all the entries are looked at before the final votes are sent in to me. 

This time around, 9 Design Team members voted, and they each email me their votes, so no one knows who has been voting on what entries!! The person that won this challenge received top marks from EACH of our Design Team members that voted. It is the first time I have seen that here and this person should be very very happy and proud, as her name was at the Top of almost each members list. 

Our winner, out of 94 entries is this stunning entry by 

Lisa Barrie of the USA

Lisa, this layout stood out amongst all the other entries, simply because the colours are stunning and compliment each other so well. Your background is just stunning and the way you framed the photo is so well done. Not only did you create such a gorgeous layout, but also did a little tutorial on how to create that little prefume bottle at the bottom right of your layout. All these details, against the white paper make for one beautiful layout. So well done to you!!

For your efforts, you win a spot in our Design Team for the month of September as well as the August kit from Tidbitz In Time. YAY! We cannot wait to see what you create for us. 

Please email Irma here irma0408@yahoo.com  for details on your Guest Designer spot and please contact Patti here  

phamil@live.com to claim your prize. 

Lisa, here is your winners badge to display on your blog

So lets announce the Top 5. These next 5 names again appeared over and over again as the votes were coming
in. These were so so close and only a few points separated these


Top 5
(in winning order) 


Romy Veul from The Netherlands







Christin Gronnslett from Sweden







Chelsea Le from the USA





Cynthia Lorens from Brazil 

Amelia Khalik from Malaysia





Well done everyone. These are simply breathtaking! So happy to see people from all over the world
participating in our challenges.


Here is your badge to display on your blogs proudly, as I think its huge to be Top 5 
out of 94 entries. 





Lastly we have 2 randomly chosen winners. 


The first person, who wins an embellishment pack from Pretty Paper Petals is..

Number 65 is Chiqui Guitierrez from The Philippines, who submitted this beautiful layout

 The other random winner, who wins the Crate Paper - Portrait collection pack is

Number 9 is Toni Cartwright from Australia who entered this gorgeous looking layout

Congratulations to both girls. Please email Patti  here phamil@live.com to claim your prize.

Amazing work from everyone. It is really so so hard to choose just a few. Keep up the good work everyone!

Just a few days left...

...to get your entries in for our current challenge. 

The August 1st challenge ends on midnight, Sunday 14th of August! Don't forget to scroll down this post to see the prizes up for grabs PLUS this is the challenge where you can win your self a Guest Designer spot for the month of September. 


Please also take a moment to view the previous post, announcing the winners as I was able to update that post with the images of the winning projects and I have also updated the banner at the top of the blog. My sincere apologies to the winners for not being able to post your projects here earlier. I am so happy to have your incredibly gorgeous projects beautify our blog! 

AUGUST 1st CHALLENGE


Journalling Criteria: Finish this line "A PERFECT DAY IS....." . Your journalling has to be at least 2 lines long, and with the theme of a whatever a perfect day for you is or a perfect day that you have had already e.g.  a birthday, a holiday, a childhood memory, a wedding day, graduation day etc. Your journalling can be ANY type : handwritten, typed, etc...

You MUST combine our journalling criteria with this sketch...

GUEST DESIGNERS

Please give a VERY warm welcome to the lovely 

Anabelle O'Malley from the USA

Hi everyone, I am Anabelle. My love for paper crafting is at the core of my desire to design scrapbook pages, cards and projects. This passion, along with my creativity and enthusiasm pushes me to learn new techniques and apply them to my work. My goal is to inspire others through my work with design teams and freelance opportunities. I am flexible, driven and professional. I work well under time constraints and as part of a team. Most importantly, I am constantly challenging myself and truly love what I do!My style has been described as 'bold', 'fun', 'glitzy' 'a bit shabby' and 'detailed'. I pay close attention to the design elements on my pages. While the photos are the main focus of my layouts, I enjoy highlighting products and telling a story though my work. I enjoy using a variety of techniques including sewing, stamping and using computer software as I create scrapbook pages, cards, mini-albums and altered items. Fashion and home accent trends definitely influence my work and I find inspiration in ads, catalogs and clothing. I am currently designing for Webster's Pages, Vintage Street Market and Emma's Paperie.

Here is my blog - Bits and Pieces...

SO happy to have this talented scrapper here. She is SUCH a sweet person!

And here is Anabelle's GORGEOUS layout based on this sketch and our journalling criteria.

Now here is a layout from our last challenge winner, who is also this month's Guest Designer..

Anita S. from Australia. 

"A perfect day for me is making sure I am around people I love. Have used Glitz Designs papers. Thanks to Nadia for a great sketch!"

DESIGN TEAM 

Sandi Taloumis (USA) 

Vicky Varvadouka (Greece)

Jenni O'Connor (Australia/ Canada) 

Patti Hamil (USA) 

Irma Peredne (USA) 

Nerrida Mitchell (Australia) 

Irini Liolia (Greece) 

Helen Tilbury (South Africa) 

SPONSORS

I am so incredibly happy to FINALLY have Tidbitz In Time sponsor one of our challenges. You might have noticed that Tidbitz In Time has been inviting 2 of our DT members each month to be Guest designers at the website and their kits have been featured here too. I am excited that one of you will get to receive the FABULOUS August kit from our good friends at ...

Tidbitz In Time is a US based monthly scrapbook kit club designed to bring you the latest papers and embellishments every month -- right to your mailbox.  Your pages will go together easily but your creative opportunities will be endless! Our goal is to make each and every kit an incredible value jam packed full of new products and wonderful ideas. 

                

Pretty Paper Petals is an Australian based, online blog store that started out a year ago. A simple tissue paper flower started it all off.......one was made for a layout and people kept asking where they could get it.....All of our flowers are carefully handcrafted by Vicki (the founder), and we are adding new items to the store every month

PRIZES

Our winner, as voted on by the Design Team, will get to come back in September as our Guest Designer and will receive the August 2011 kit from Tidbitz in Time which looks like this..

Crate Paper - Potrait Collection - Papers, Alpha Labels Stickers, Border Stickers, Custom Trims, 

Prima - Flowers and Say It In Studs packs.  

This month we will have 2 RANDOMLY CHOSEN winners who will receive the following 

One randomly chosen winner will receive this EMBELLISHMENT KIT from Pretty Paper Petals 

and one randomly chosen winner will receive another Crate Paper - Portrait Collection pack.        

..which includes Portrait Border Stickers, Portrait Layered Chipboard, Portrait Collection Kit -  16 Pattern papers, border stickers, phrase stickers and designer die cuts

So there are 3 prizes and 1 Guest Designer spot up for grabs!

Before we go I would like to show you a few layouts from the Design Team members from our sponsors. 

Wendy from Tidbitz in Time, using the August Kit from Tidbitz in Time 

Vicky from Pretty Paper Petals  using flowers from Pretty Paper Petals. 

Chloe Nielsen from Pretty Paper Petals, again using flowers from Pretty Paper Petals. 

Things to consider when playing along... 


**PLEASE NOTE THAT THE ENTRIES ARE NOW TO BE LINKED ON THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST***

**This is an international blog, so anyone can enter 

**You are allowed to create a card, layout or off-the-page item based on the provided sketch and additional journalling criteria. If you are creating a card or altered item you only need to include a quote. 

**You are also allowed to flip or rotate the sketch or alter it to suit your needs, but please make sure its still recognisable. 

**Post your creation on your blog or an online gallery and link it to the bottom of this post using the Link tool. Please provide a direct link to your post, not your entire blog.If the link tool is down, please leave a comment on the comments section and link your layout there. 

** The deadline for this challenge is midnight AUGUST 14th (AUSTRALIAN EASTERN STANDARD TIME (Sydney Time) ) . The Design Team will vote and the winner and the Top 5 project will be announced soon after the challenge has finished. 

**You may enter as many times as you like and combine this with other challenges. 

**Also, please consider turning off word verification for comments on your blog.

 For a complete list of the rules please see the top of this page.