June 1st Challenge **WINNERS**

Hi there everyone! I hope you are well. 

I know I always say this, but boy oh boy is it SOOOO hard to choose the winners each fortnight. The level of work is amazing. It is near impossible to pick just a few entries as winners. All of us find it VERY VERY hard and hope that you do not get discouraged and continue to join us in future challenges! 

All of us at Once Upon A..Sketch are just so happy with the amount of people we meet through the challenges,  the new blogs we discover and the inspiration we gather from all of you. We hope you are all having a fun time, just as we all are.

So...who is our winner this time? 

Guess what? THERE ARE 3! YES!! The votes from the Design Team came back and there were 3 people on the same points...So what to do? Well I think they are all deserving and I cannot take away the win from anyone. SO all you 3 are invited back in July as our Guest Designers. You all deserve this as I do not think its fair to choose just one of when you were all on the same points...

So without further delay lets all congratulate these 3 amazing artists..

Sandi Taloumis

 Jeni O'Connor

Cathy Cafun

CONGRATULATIONS girls. Your work is incredible and we are so pleased you shared your talents here with us. As you know there was only 1 prize this month, so I randomly chose 1 winner amongst you 3 to receive ..

from Webster's Pages, and the winner of this prize is Cathy! So could you Cathy please email me, Nadia, HERE so you can claim your prize and Sandi, Jeni and Cathy please email Irma HERE to get all the info about your Guest Designer spot next month!

Here is your winners badge to display proudly on your blog

So now that is sorted, lets move on to our Top 5 featured projects.

TOP 5 featured projects

(in winning order)

MAIKO MIWA

 Nadhrah Maidin

Jolaine Frias

Romy Veul

Helena Virpi 

Well done everyone! We loved your work. Here is your featured badge to post on your blog

We also have a random winner. The person chosen to win ..

from Webster's Pages is

Bec Young

CONGRATULATIONS Bec! So happy for you..please email me HERE to claim your prize. 

Do you see what I mean when I say that we have a VERY tough job of working out the winners? 

But before I go today I would love to say a HUGE HELLO to the AMAZING and SUPER TALENTED girls of Japan, who really displayed some incredible work in the last challenge. We ALL know the devastation that Japan and its people suffered and continue to suffer on a daily basis. I dont know if any of these girls were affected by the natural disasters not long ago, but to have to live every day knowing your people are suffering is just terrible for your spirit. To see you all active in the scrapping world and taking part in challenges is just so inspiring! Please click on their names to be directed to their blogs. I am certain you will be inspired by their work and they would love to hear from you!

Welcome to our blog...

Maiko Kosugi 

Yumi Takasaki

Yuko Taguchi

Kanako Hajiri

Michiko Kato

MAIKO MIWA (our Top 5 winner)

Rikkarin

(sorry I could not get to your blog to get your photo)

Just stunning work! Very detailed and very soft. Well done girls...!

Thank you everyone. Keep up the good work. 

Bye for now!

June 15th Challenge

Hi everyone. Time to reveal our June 15th challenge. 

Thank you SO much to everyone for your contribution to our blog. We have reached 600 followers and we are all so happy that you are here! I will be back with the results of the last challenge soon!

June 15th Challenge

Journalling Criteria: The theme 'A Moment In Time'. You can interpret this any way you like, but you must journal at least 4 sentences on why your pictures are memorable. 

GUEST DESIGNER INSPIRATION

EMELINE SEET

 THANK YOU so much Emeline for your wonderful contribution to our challenges this month. It has been WONDERFUL having you here. We hope you have enjoyed your time with us. 

Now here is one more layout from our Guest Designer winner from our last challenge ..

LENE NEBY

Thank you also Lene for your STUNNING work. We look forward to your participation in future challenges.

DESIGN TEAM INSPIRATION 

As always, we showcase the brilliant kit from the monthly kit club Tidbitz In Time. You might remember that Tidbitz In Time is sponsoring our Design Team and each month 1 or 2 of our Design Team members get to work with that month's kit and are Guest Designers there that month. This month the June kit was simply stunning. Full of Pink Paislee and 7Gypsies and a load of ZVA flowers, bling, pearls...the list goes on.

*June Kit from Tidbitz In Time


Here is Bente Fagerberg's example using this kit and to see what else Bente and the girls from Tidbitz InTime created visit the gallery HERE.

Now the rest of our super talented Design Team..

Heather Jacob 

** Imaginarium Designs chipboard frame and title

Trudi Harrison 

** Imaginarium Designs chipboard letters and butterfly


Helen Tilbury 

Irma Peredne 

** Imaginarium Designs chipboard

LG Belarmino 

 ** Imaginarium Designs chipboard frame and fence

Natalie Elphinstone

** Imaginarium Designs chipboard butterfly and letters

Rosella Palladino 

** Imaginarium Designs chipboard letters and corner swirl

Steph Devlin 

** Imaginarium Designs chipboard word "Beauty"

PRIZES

For this challenge there will be 3 prizes, which means 3 winners..!

 One lucky person, whose project will be voted on by the Design Team will win this gorgeous pack full of amazing chipboard from Imaginarium Designs which you can purchase at Seriously Scrapbooking (they ship anywhere in the world at actual postage cost)

The other lucky person , also voted by the Design Team will win this collection of....

EK Success Zig Writer Pens

Let's not forget that we like to encourage EVERYONE to play along here, no matter what your skill level. So our lucky 3rd winner will be chosen RANDOMLY to win this beautiful set of postcards..

from our other sponsor this month..

The Design Team will also vote on their Top 5 favourite projects and those projects will be our FEATURED projects for this challenge. 

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 our right sidebar 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 June 30th. 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.

See you again in a few days when we reveal more gorgeous work from our sponsors. 

More Inspiration from Our Sponsors..

How are we all going with the June 1st Challenge? 

Remember the challenge is this...

JUNE 1ST CHALLENGE

Our JOURNALLING CRITERIA this time is to journal about a female. It can be ANYONE...your self, your best friend, your daughter,grandma, mum, sister, cat. ...As long as you write at least 2 sentences about the female in the photo (you can always create a CARD or ALTERED item based on this sketch and use a quote instead) . Your jounralling can be any type, i.e. typed, printed etc. 

To help you with this I designed a feminine looking sketch for you..

You can see all the Design Team and Guest Designer examples HERE, but today I wanted to inspire you with some beautiful work from the Design Team of our sponsors. 

First up we have some girls from ..

WEBSTER'S PAGES

Welcome to our blog girls!

EMMA TROUT

 JULIE WALTON

STACEY MICHAUD

What an amazing job you all did. THANK YOU for creating for us. 

Next up, is our guest from Imaginarium Designs ....

NATALIE MAY 

**Chipboard is Imaginarium Designs, which you can purchase through Seriously Scrapbooking 

Don't forget that Seriously Scrapbooking, although based in Australia, will ship ANYWHERE in the world at actual cost. 

Natalie, this is a breathtaking layout and I could not wait to show everyone! Thank you also, for designing for us this month...

So I hope you have a little more inspiration for the June 1st challenge.

 The winner this time will get to come back in July as our Guest Designer and will also walk away with ...

Our randomly chosen winner will receive a set of ...

Both of these prizes will be sent to you directly from the Webster's offices!!

How would you like the chance to win one of these or to be our Guest next month? Take part in our challenge and you never know! It could be YOU!

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 our right sidebar 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 June 14th. The Design Team will vote and the winner and the Top 5 projects 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.

Cannot wait to see what you create. 

May 15th **WINNERS**

Hi everyone. Its time to announce the winners of our May 15th challenge. Everyone, I seriously am not joking when I say that it is IMPOSSIBLE to narrow down 83 STUNNING entries to a handful. As each of our Design Team members was sending me her votes I constantly heard the same message from them...that they are finding it VERY VERY hard to pick just a few as the quality of the work that you are all producing is amazing! 

For this reason, I have decided that along with the winners and the Top 5, I will feature some more layouts that caught our eye. 

At this point I need to stress that we had to overlook some OUTSTANDING entries, which did not follow the journalling criteria which was that the journalling had to be typed. This was SO hard for us to have to do as we could see the effort that was put into these layouts, so please make sure you remember the sketch always comes with the added journalling criteria. 

Please do not be discouraged to try again if you have not been featured yet. There are so many outstanding entries each fortnight and we really want to see many more from you!

So without further delay let me introduce you to the 2 winners from our last challenge. ..

The winner of the $20.00 gift voucher from Your Scrapbook Stash  is the super talented ...

VIBEKE HARILA  of Norway

 What is there not to like about this layout? The artistic photos, the well placed flowers and embellishments, the gorgeous layering. A perfect layout that was a favourite of all our Design Team. 

Congratulations Vibeke! We love your contribution to our blog so please email me, Nadia, here to claim your prize. 

Our second winner and a VERY close runner up is this gorgeous layout by 

MARIANNE JOHANSSON also from Norway

 I am wondering..is there something in the water in Norway, because we have seen some beautiful work come out of there! Keep going girls. Well done Marianne..you have won this kit, so please email me here to claim your prize. 

Now lets move on to our...

TOP 5 featured projects

(in winning order)

TINA DALTON from Australia

SANDRA CHERUBS from Lithuania 

 DEBBI TERHANIi from the USA

HILDE AASLUND   from Norway

MILAGROS C. RIVERA from Puerto Rico

What gorgeous work. Well done everyone. 

Now, here are some more that were voted by the Design Team as eye catching..

Melenia from Greece

Eila Sandberg from Sweden

Shamma Parvin from Singapore

Nadrah Maidin from Malaysia

Catherine Siwczak from France

Just gorgeous layouts and really any one these could have been a winner. Well done girls. Keep up the good work. 

Lastly I want to mention a couple of entries that stood out to me personally! A shout out goes to Elaine Forum Smidt who entered this layout. 

Elaine, was so pleased that she received some nice comments on her entry from our Design Team that she emailed me to thank me. She explained that where she lives, Argentina, supplies are SO limited and she feels quite isolated as not many people are fans of scrapbooking. Elaine is not only a really friendly person, but also inspiring. She has started her own challenge blog, where she posts a layout from someone she finds inspiring and the challenge is to try and recreate that layout with recycled , handmade or whatever items you have at hand. Well done Elaine for trying to encourage a new generation of scrappers in your country!

And something to make you giggle..When this lovely girl Dalia Chapman, from Lithuania, realised that our journalling criteria this time was to TYPE your journalling and upon discovering that her current printer was not working,  did the thing that would only seem normal to other addicted scrappers..she bought a NEW PRINTER..LOL! In her own words

"Here is my take on May 15 challenge at Once Upon A Sketch. This time journaling should be typed. Can you believe this, I even went and bought a printer for it, well it was about time I had one really, but as you can see scrapbooking has totally twisted my little head. ha, ha ;)"

LOL! That's what I call commitment Dalia and for that I would like to show everyone your gorgeous layout ..

Before we go, here is the RANDOMLY chosen winner of the gift voucher from Your Scrapbook Stash..

Congratulations Vanessa De Bonis. Please email me here to claim your prize. 

Thanks so much everyone. See you next time.