Welcome "My Scrapbook Nook" Guest Designers + GIVEAWAY

 Hi everyone. 

As you have seen in the past, My Scrapbook Nook has supported our challenge blog by offering generous giveaway's of their monthly kits. I thought it was about time I invited my fellow Design Team members at the Nook to be Guest Designers on our blog and work with our July 1st Challenge

But before I show you their work, I want to introduce the "Nook" for those that do not know it. 

My Scrapbook Nook  is an American kit club which began in 2003. Today they have grown into an international community serving scrapbookers around the world! 

Kits usually contain 10-15 sheets of patterned paper, cardstock, an alphabet, small and large embellishments including items like: ribbons and lace, flowers, pearls, buttons, rub ons, journaling aids.

Does it sound like something you might be interested in? I have found the Nook kits to be AMAZING value. A subscription to the kit is just $US29.50! That is  a real bargain because they are ALWAYS so well coordinated and packed with amazing stuff to use with the latest releases!Plus you get a little parcel delivered to your door every month..what a thrill that is!

Not just that, no matter what your skill level you will SURELY find inspiration in all the step by step classes by the Design Team  that are FREE for everyone to see and use in the forum. The Nook forum is also JUST THE BEST place to get all the gossip in the scrapping world, plus a place to share everyday happening at and meet new people!

My Scrapbook Nook currently has an offer where if you subscribe to the kits for 12 months, you will get your 13 month ABSOLUTELY free. But they have offered as one more giveaway here at Once Upon A..Sketch. If you have been thinking about joining up , now is your chance because ANY NEW subscriptions will go into a draw to win this AMAZING July Kit

It includes:

October Afternoon Paper 5 & Dime

Binder Clip

American Crafts Picot Trim

Maya Road Canvas Tags

October Afternoon Rubber Charms

American Crafts Thickers

October Afternoon Mini Market Alphabet

October Afternoon 12×12 Vintage Sticker & Border Sheet

Let me just show you what my fellow Design Team members have created with this kit and some past kits and our current July 1st Challenge ..

                                                  JULY 1st CHALLENGE

Journalling Criteria: Who is in the photo? Name the person in the photo and at least 1 fact about them. This can be personality, character, talent , achievement etc. but it must be at least 2 sentences long. 

So a warm welcome to My Scrapbook Nook Design Team members..

Danni Reid

Hilde/Scoobie

Jessy Christopher

Katarina Krumeluran

Tanya Tahir

Anna Sigga

Carol Monson 

LG Belarmino

and lastly me, Nadia Cannizzo 

What amazing work girls! Thank you SO much for showing us your gorgeous creations and being guests at our blog!

So to be in with a chance to win the July kit, you need to send me an email at samnadia@hotmail.com by July 30th, telling me that you have taken up a new subscription to the Nook and I will put your name in a list and do a random draw!You will get the July kit for free, and then your subscription will start in August and you will also get your 13th month free. 


I hope you found some more inspiration here today!


Take care!

June 15th *WINNERS*

Time to announce our winners and our Top 5 featured projects. 

Once again you have all outdone yourselves...we are all AMAZED at what people can create with a sketch and some journalling criteria. We find so much inspiration from everyone around the world, SO A HUGE thank you for joining in our challenges and a warm welcome to all our new followers. 

Without further delay, let me announce the winner of the June 15th challenge . We had 73 AMAZING entries and the voting was very close yet once more time....but lets all congratulate this amazingly talented person...

Chantelle Huizenga from Australia

Chantelle, how can we overlook your creativity here? Your photo printed on vellum paper is just the icing on the cake in this incredibly gorgeous layout. Your journalling is so sweet and sincere, your photos clear and well placed, your take on the sketch is so unique and your random embellishments all over made this our winner this time. 

CONGRATULATIONS Chantelle, you have won this gorgeous pack full of amazing chipboard from Imaginarium Designs.

Please email me, Nadia at samnadia@hotmail.com to claim your prize. Here is your winners badge to display on your blog with pride..

Next up, its time for our...

TOP 5 Featured Projects

(in winning order) 

Melenia (from Greece)

Christine Muller from (Germany )

Mahlin Dahlstrom (from Sweden)

Kyoko Matsumura (from Japan) 

Patti Hamil (from the USA)

WOW! What an international combination there..CONGRATULATIONS to all of you. Your layouts were just simply stunning and there was only a few points between them!

Here is your badge to display on your blogs proudly..

We also have 2 more prizes up for grabs. I had originally said that this next prize would be to a Design Team voted winner, but with so many outstanding entries I would also like to give this prize to a RANDOMLY drawn winner. So the winner of...

EK Success Zig Writer Pens

is 

Number 40 is Paloma Carvalho of Brazil who entered this amazing layout as well..

The other random winner of this beautiful set of postcards from Webster's Pages ..

is

#59 Rita  from Italy, with this sweet layout

CONGRATULATIONS to both of you and THANK YOU for entering our challenge. Please email me, Nadia at samnadia@hotmail.com to claim your prizes. 

Last but not least...a special shout out to a very good friend of Once Upon A...Sketch. Someone who always participates in our challenges, promotes our site without being asked, leaves lots of love for people everywhere and is such a valuable member of our challenge blog. Besides all that, she is also super kind and VERY talented.. SO here's to you..

SHAMMA PARVIN

Thank you SO very much to everyone that participates every week! Keep up the good work.

xxx

July 1st Challenge + meet our July Guest Designer Karola Witczak

*apologies for this being a day early! I have major blogger issues and JUST got the chance to post this. You still have some time to enter the last challenge**

Hi there everyone!

THANKS so much for your continued support and the absolutely wonderful talent you all displayed in the last challenge. The Design team is busy voting and I will have the winners soon.

Moving on to our...

JULY 1st CHALLENGE
Journalling Criteria: Who is in the photo? Name the person in the photo and at least 1 fact about them. This can be personality, character, talent , achievement etc. but it must be at least 2 sentences long. 

GUEST DESIGNERS


It gives me great pleasure to announce this very talented person to our blog. PLEASE give a warm welcome to the one and only....


KAROLA WITCZAK 

Hi everyone, My name is Karola Witczak. I am an absolutely addicted scrapbooking Mommy to Rose, wife to Martin, friend of our furry babies - Miki and Chili (cat & the dog). I'm a little crazy woman, who is dedicated to my scrapbooking passion almost every day, for a few years now.  I am constantly trying to develop my passion - in different ways and stepping on different paths - from digital scrapbooking 6 years ago, to an intensive exploration of the intricacies of traditional scrapbooking, constant learning and teaching others as a scrapbooking instructor. Currently I am working as a freelance designer for a large group of scrapbooking companies, shops, projects, challenge blogs and I'm proud ambassador of many top brands and initiatives in my country of Poland and abroad. Sometimes I design products for scrapbooking - it gives me lots of joy and satisfaction. I am proud and honored to being Creative Director and Product Designer in The ScrapCake company. In everyday life I create a LO's, cards, albums, and other things not directly related to scrapbooking - such as notebooks, home decors. 

It is hard to define my style, mostly my friends call it "Karola's style," and often hear that this is a soft, romantic, feminine, eclectic. I love shabby chic but with something modern. In most of my work you can usually see portraits of my daughter - I am absolutely in love with her face, and such pictures usually go to my Lo's and albums. Definitely I like all feminine, romantic themes, delicate, soft colors, I'm also dependent on the sewing machine, especially when I make cards. I love to add new things to my projects, but usually I have a big inspirations from patterned papers, flowers and interesting color palettes - I believe when I have a piece of paper I can create anything!

I am so happy and honoured to be a Guest Designer in Once Upon A Sketch blog! Thank you so much for inviting me to this wonderful creative adventure!

Karola 

And here is Karola's gorgeous layout.

" I made this Lo using my collection The Bright Side of Life, Prima flowers, Prima mask, gesso, and glimmer mists (for splashing).  On the photo is my friend Paulina" 

I have been emailing Karola the last few days and everyone let me just tell you how incredibly sweet she is. She is so warm and friendly and just an awesome person. 

Now we welcome the winners from our last challenge who are our Guest Designers this month too..

Sandi Taloumis

Cathy Cafun  

Jeni O'Connor

WOW! Absolutely gorgeous work!

DESIGN TEAM 

Starting with our  Design Team member that was sponsored by Tidbitz In Time kit club this month, Natalie Elphinstone. Natalie had the chance to work with this amazing July kit from Tidbitz In Time and is Guest Designers there this month. Check out the rest of her projects at the Tidbitz In Time gallery and the Tidbitz In Time blog

**July Kit from Tidbitz In Time

NATALIE ELPHINSTONE

Now the rest of our Design Team..

Gerry Van Gent

 Irini Liolia

Irma Peredne

Helen Tilbury 

and lastly me, Nadia Cannizzo

SPONSOR

You might have read in Karola's biography something about The ScrapCake? Well..our very own Nerrida Mitchell and Gerry Van Gent are on the Design Team and I can confess that its one place I get lots of  inspiration from. 

The ScrapCake is a polish manufacturer of scrapbooking papers and paper accessories. We deliver designer collections produced with the smallest detail in mind to present you with the highest possible quality. Currently we released collections by Kinga Spiczko (aka Pasiakowa) and Karola Witczak. From the very beginning we are operating as an international brand distributing our products in many countries in Europe and other continents. We are cooperating with designers located in different countries and our international Design Team delivers lots of inspirations, challenges and contests on our blog.

PRIZES

The winner of this challenge will get the chance to come back in August as our Guest Designer and will also walk away with this COMPLETE collection from Karola Witzak..

The Bright Side Of Life 

Including: 6 12 x 12 doublesided papers, 5 7 x 12 doublesided papers, 13 tags and labels and 6 x 6 paper pad (24 doublesided sheets)

Our RANDOMLY drawn winner will receive this COMPLETE collection designed by amazing polish cartoonist - Kinga Spiczko. 

Summer At The Seaside 

Including: 6 12 x 12 doublesided papers, 5 7 x 12 doublesided papers, 13 tags and labels and 6 x 6 paper pad (24 doublesided sheets). 

These are simply amazing and JUST RELEASED! Lucky you! These will be sent directly to you from The ScrapCake.  

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 July 14th. 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.

GOOD LUCK TO ALL and hope you have lots of fun. 

Just 3 days left...

..to complete our ...

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. 

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.

More Inspiration from Our Sponsors..

So how are you all going with the June 15th challenge?

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. 

How would you like some more inspiration from some team members from our Sponsors? 

First up some super talented girls from one of our June sponsors Webster's Pages..

Anabelle O'Malley 

Jaz Lee Soo Hui 

Julie Walton 

FANTASTIC work girls. THANKS so very very much for creating for us this month. Have you seen the new  collection from Webster's Pages called Let's Celebrate? They are revealing a little of it each day at InspireMe and there are many chances to win some of the goodies from this collection with their I Spy game...

Now here is one amazing layout by the equally talented Natalie May, from Imaginarium Designs, our other sponsor in June..

and some close ups

**Imaginarium Designs chipboard 

Amazing work Natalie. Thank you once again for your wonderful contribution to our blog. 

MANY MANY thanks to both our sponsors again! Thank you for your generous prizes and support. 

Don't forget the prizes up for grabs this time ...

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 Webster's Pages.....

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.

Bye everyone!