September 15th Challenge + YOUR CHANCE TO PICK THE WINNER

For winners of our last challenge please see below

Welcome to our next challenge for the month of September! I am so excited to post this challenge as my super AWESOME Design Team have been thinking of ways to throw some twists in how we pick the winner. We thought it would be fun for you all out there to pick the winner! This challenge will end on the 29th of September , which is 2 weeks from today and you will all have a chance to vote for the winner and Top 5 projects for one whole day on the 30th of September before the new challenge is posted on the 1st of October.
The catch here is that everyone can only vote 1 time, but of course you can get everyone you know to vote for you! As it gets closer to the day I will remind you all, and we just cannot wait to see who you will pick!

So on to our September 15th challenge.

Journalling Criteria: This time you need to journal 2 lines directly on your photo. You can write on your photo, you can print your writing on your photo,  you can use journalling strips on your photo etc. There is no theme this time, just a journalling technique criteria. 

You must also use this sketch. 

Guest Designers

Stacy Cohen 

Lisa Barrie

THANK YOU SO much to Stacy and Lisa for being our Guest Designers this month. We loved your work and you provided us with such inspiration! We hope to see you back here again!

The following projects are from our Imaginarium Designs girls, starting with Natalie who is our permanent Guest Designer.

Natalie May

*Imaginarium Designs Chipboard 

Tomoko Takahashi

                                                           *Imaginarium Designs Chipboard 

Asuka

                                                           *Imaginarium Designs Chipboard 

Design Team

Patti Hamil

LG Belarmino 

Trudi Harrison 

**Chipboard - Imaginarium Designs**

Bente Fagerberg

**Papers from 3ndy Papir 

Heather Jacob 

**Imaginarium Designs chipboard

Natalie Elphinstone

** Imaginarium Designs chipboard flourish and frame

Jasmine Shea

*Imaginarium Designs Chipboard Butterfly and flourishes inked with silver

Helen Tilbury

  

SPONSORS

3ndypapir is a tiny, Norwegian design company.

Owner and designer Gudrun Loennecken creates all the whimsy, vintage patterned papers. These papers are perfect for all paper lovers: cardmakers, scrapbooker and all papercrafters.

It is all designed and printed in Norway on heavy weight, high quality paper

Our web adress is: http://3ndypapir.blogspot.com/

Our second 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 sponsors . We couldn't do this without your support!

PRIZES

      The winner of this challenge, as chosen by YOU, will receive this from our fantastic sponsor Imaginarium              Designs...

...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.  

There will also be a prize for the second placed winner this time, as voted by you. They will  receive a set of the brand new collection from 3ndypapir. Here is a sneak peek of the collection you will be receiving directly from this Norwegian company.

                                             There will also be 2 randomly chosen winners this month. 

One winner will receive the Count Me In  collection from Sassafras Lass

Our second randomly drawn winner will receive the Mix and Mend collection from Sassafras Lass as well..

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 September 29th, Australian Eastern Standard Time . 

**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.

September 1st **WINNERS**

Hi again everyone! 

The votes are in and we have the winners of the last challenge. I say winners, because from here on we have decided to choose not one , but TWO people from our 1st challenge of each month to be our Guest Designers for the upcoming month. There is no other way to put it...the level of creativity we are witnessing here in each challenge is simply outstanding. We have a high number of entries and we feel as though we could pick SO many people to be winners. I have said every time how difficult it is to choose the winners so I hope that this helps a little. 

Lastly, before I announce the winners, I just want to point out how important it is that you stay very closely to the journalling criteria. Please do make sure that you read the criteria carefully as unfortunately there were SOOOO many entries in the last challenge that we had to overlook simply because they had just followed the sketch and not included the criteria. 

OK! Here are the 2 winners of our last challenge. The 2 people that received the highest scores from our Design Team and will get the chance to come come back as Guest Designers in October are...

Isay Pablo (USA) 

and..

Aashild HR (Norway)

Simply outstanding work. They are both centred around neutral backgrounds, which simply make the colours pop and stand out amongst all the entries. Well done!

Now as you all know there is one prize for one winner, and that prize will go to the first placed winner which is Isay Pablo. Isay, besides winning a spot on our Design Team in October, you have also won a collection from Norwegian company 3andypapir. Isay, please contact Patti at onceuponasketch@hotmail.com to claim you prize. 

Both of you girls have also won a winners badge to display on your blogs..

Isay and Aashild, please contact Irma at onceuponasketch@hotmail.com to get all the info on your Guest Designer spot for October. 

Let's move on to the next lot of entries we want to mention. 

Top 5 featured projects

(in winning order)

Efi (Greece)

Karen Shady (Australia) 

Gayle Price (Australia) 

Shona Keehn (Canada)

Kitika (Russia) 

Well done girls. Absolutely amazing work. Here is your badge to display on your blogs..

So lets find out who our RANDOM winners are. We had 2 prizes to give away this time. The first person that wins this Prima pack 

is

#60 is Karin from Puerto Rico who submitted this layout

Our other randomly drawn winner, who receives this pack of Inkadinkado stamp sets ..

..is..

#12 is Sandra Munro from Australia who submitted this gorgeous layout

Karin and Sandra, please send us an email with your address to onceuponasketch@hotmail.com to claim to your prizes. Lucky girls!

Lastly, our Design Team members look out for noticeable projects while visiting your blogs and commenting. This time, our Design Team member Irma, noticed the extraordinary patience shown by this girl..

Auksaranke (Lithuania) , who submitted this layout..

At first glance, you would think that the shapes on this layout are die cuts, which means shapes cut by a machine. But to put it in Irma's words "I believe not too many people realize that that medallion and other elements are not die cuts but hand-cut three separate layers of cardstock and pieced together...WOW! that's dedication and a huge dose of patience!" I totally agree. The cutting and the patience exhibited here is to be applauded. It is extraordinary to see such skill and patience. Absolutely amazing Auksaranke. Well done!

Thank you all once again for supporting our challenges and submitting wonderful work from all over the world. We are just so excited to visit your blogs and get to know so many people...especially people in smaller countries. Its amazing to see how much scrapbooking has affected and united people from all corners of the world and all walks of life. 

Tak care, Nadia. 

August 15th Challenge **WINNERS**

For our current challenge click HERE

Hi everyone. Apologies for taking a while to announce the winners of our last challenge. Our Design Team has been busy voting and I have just added up the numbers. For the first time in a very long time the voting was so spread out and besides the winner there were SO many entries that were so close. But unfortunately we can only choose a few as hard as that might be. 

Out of 76 fantastic entries, the winner of our September 15th challenge is...

Frensisbeen from Russia

Can I just say here that this layout is one of the most captivating ones I have seen in a VERY long time. There is something dreamy and whimsical I believe about this layout. Something serene and something so unique. This was one of my absolute favourites from the last challenge and I was so pleased when the Design Team chose this as the winner. Well done Fransisbeen, you have won this pack of awesome chipboard from our very generous sponsor.. 

Imaginarium Designs

We cannot wait to see what you do with this chipboard. Please email Patti with your address details at onceuponasketch@hotmail.com to claim your prize. When you have received your prize and you have started creating why not let the people at Imaginarium Designs know what you have created? You can email your work with  Imaginarium Designs chipboard to us at  onceuponasketch@hotmail.com and we will share your work with them. You have also won this badge to display on your blog..

Top 5 featured projects

(in winning order)

Maiko Kosugi from Japan 

Vibeke Harila from Norway 

Amelia Khalik from Malysia

Anne Bente from Denmark 

Rene Sharp from South Africa

plus 5 more that caught our eye..

Mazlina from Australia 

Jenny Svensson from Sweden 

Sylvia Mellander from Sweden 

Lizzy Crust  from Australia 

Georgia Heald from Australia 

Well done to all of you. Really gorgeous work from everyone. Here is a badge for all of you to display on your blogs..

Now lets have a look at our 2 lucky RANDOMLY drawn winners. We like to have random winners here as we like to encourage everyone to have a go no matter what your scrapping level is. 

The first random winner who wins this embellishment pack from Pretty Paper Petals

 is..

#40 is Christina V from Greece who entered this lovely layout

Our second random winner, who wins this August kit from Tidbitz In Time..

is...

#53 is Sarah Rogers from Australia who entered this layout. 

Well done to both of you. Could you please email Patti at onceuponasketch@hotmail.com to claim your prizes. 

Thank you all for your continued support of our challenge blog. We cannot wait to see more from you..

Bye for now.