September 1st Challenge + Meet Our September Guest Designer **STACY COHEN**

Hi everyone and welcome to the September 1st challenge. First day of September and for us here in Australia it is the very first day of spring. The weather in Sydney has been amazingly beautiful and just perfect for scrapping. 


Welcome to our brand new followers! We are very excited that you are here and we hope you join in the fun. Thank you SO much to everyone that played along with the last challenge!!


So here is our September 1st challenge...

Journalling Criteria : A memorable year - Your title must be a year, and you must journal at least 2 lines on why this year is memorable for you. Examples: the year you got married, the year you graduated, the year you moved to a new house/country, the year you started a new job, the year your child was born, the year you lost someone dear. Your journalling can be in any language and any format (written, typed etc)

You must combine our journalling criteria with the following sketch...

GUEST DESIGNERS

It gives me great pleasure to announce our Guest Designer for the month of September. Please give a warm welcome to the incredibly talented..

Stacy Cohen

I live in Los Angeles, California with my loving husband and our two wonderful little daughters. My girls are the inspiration for all my creative projects . . . I call them my little muses.

I work part-time as a health insurance agent. It’s the perfect part-time career because my hours are flexible and I have plenty of time to spend with my family with enough extra time for scrapping.

I started scrapbooking in September of 2004 and I have been hooked ever since. Scrapbooking is my hobby, passion and creative outlet. I always say, “It’s cheaper than therapy!” I’m a very slow scrapper, often spending several nights on one layout. I love to fuss over all the little details and get everything just right. I would define my scrapping style as romantic with a touch of shabby chic, and my pages just don’t feel complete without a flower (or two, or three or four). My work has been published in Creating Keepsakes, Scrapbooks Etc., Scrapbook Trends, Memory Makers, Somerset Memories, Cards, Simply Handmade, Scrapbook Inspirations, and Scrapbooking m.m. I am currently on the design teams for Creating Keepsakes Magazine and Prima. You can visit my blog at www.stacycohen.blogspot.com.

Now here is a project from our other Guest Designer for September, Lisa Barrie, who is our winner from last challenge.

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

Natalie May

**Imaginarium Designs Chipboard flourishes and numbers

Tomoko Takahashi

                                                                      **Imaginarium Designs chipboard

Asuka

                                                                            **Imaginarium Designs chipboard

DESIGN TEAM

Irma Peredne (USA)

Nerrida Mitchell (Australia)

** Manor House Creations flowers and papers from The ScrapCake.

Irini Liolia (Greece)

** Imaginarium Designs chipboard Numbers, butterfly and trellis

Gerry Van Gent ( The Netherlands)

Vicky Varvadouka (Greece)

**Imaginarium Designs chipboard

Sandi Taloumis (USA)

**Imaginarium Designs Chipboard Flourishes

Patti Hamil (USA)

**Imaginarium Designs chipboard title and butterfly

Jeni O'Connor (Canada/ Australia)

**Imaginarium Designs chipboard word title, butterflies and corner.

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/

PRIZES

How would you like to be our Guest Designer for October? This is the challenge where you have the chance to win a spot on our design team for the whole upcoming month simply by winning this challenge. As well as being our Guest Designer, as chosen by our Design team, you will also receive a set of the brand new collection of 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 time.

The first random winner will receive this Prima flower pack..

The other random winner will win this set of 4 complete Inkadinkado Stamps 

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 14th, 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.

New Design Team Members

Hi everyone! Its time to announce to you the new people that will be joining our team here. 

Please give them a warm welcome! I am so excited to announce these ladies. I know they will be PERFECT for our diverse style here at Once Upon A..Sketch and I know they will provide a lot of inspiration for you too. 

Pamela Young  from the USA

I am SO thrilled to be a part of the Once Upon a Sketch team. My main passion is scrapbooking, although I do other projects as well.  I have been scrapbooking for about 10 years. My style can only be called the "Pamela style"...not really defined by any other so called style. You can find my work in several different magazines, including Cards, Creating Keepsakes, Memory Makers, Scrapbooks and Cards Today, Scrapbooks Etc, Scrapbook Trends, and more.

  I am currently designing for BasicGrey, Fancy Pants Designs, We R Memory Keepers and The ScrapCake.  I live in the US in beautiful Colorado, and I am a stay-at-home mom to two wild boys, ages 8 and 6, and a 2 year old girl. They grow up so fast. I am enjoying life right now, even though it can get a bit chaotic. 

Here is my blog Pamela's World of Scrap

 Larissa Albernaz from Brazil

Hi, I´m Larissa Albernaz

As a paper crafter, I have been scrapbooking for six years. Along these years, scrapbooking has provided me a great sort of artistic possibilities. In fact, I love scrapbooking because it provides me to  express myself in style, mixing paper, embellishments, colors, memories and a message.

So, scrapbooking to me is not only a way to preserve my memories but, it's the way I do Art.In making Art I pursue something that has sense to me, which inspires me and that can be different, interesting, cute, creative, colorful and fun!  I adore papers and creating page layouts or 3 dimensional pieces. One of my life’s little pleasures is to cut, tear and distress them, creating anything that translates the story I want to tell. A scrap of paper is the perfect place for my dreams and impressions.My style is eclectic, crafty.

I´m on the design team at Hambly Screenprints, Basic Grey, Webster`s Pages, The Color Room, {Entreartistes} French magazine, 4 heures 37 and Yummy´s, a Brazilian online store.

You can check out my works at my blog: http://www.lariscrap.typepad.com

10 random facts about me:

I love chocolate.

I love Paris.

I love to read.

I love cutting paper.

I love taking a shower with water in abundance and burning hot.

I don´t like coffee.

I don´t watch TV.

I hate to go out on rainy days, so, I´m glad I live in Brazil!

I love laughing. Life is too short to take completely seriously.

I´m an early bird! I love to create when everybody else is sleeping and they can´t bother me! This is the perfect time to spread things on the floor all over the place until it gets completely surrounded by papers, tools, paint and pictures.

I love colors. If I were a color, I´d be turquoise... or the rainbow. I´m not sure, I´m a woman and I constantly change my opinion.

But it´s true... seeing a rainbow makes me as happy as if I had found that pot of gold! "

Lene Neby from Norway

My name is Lene Neby and I'm 37 years old. I live in Hamar / Norway with my husband Knut and our 5 children ( 3 boys and 2 girls).

When i don't drive my children to activities and practise, I love to scrapbook - that's my passion! I have always been a crafty person but I really got addicted to scrapbooking in 2007 when I was home with our youngest daughter. You will probably seen pictures of our 2 girls on my layouts, the boys in my familiy tend to flee when they see me with a camera.I love the creative prosess from taking the picture to find the right paper and embellishemt to match it ! For me this is therapeutic ! I often use a lof of embelishment and I'm totally adiccted to details.

You can see my work at: www.lenemors.blogspot.comI am a designer for Pion Design - a swedish manufacturer, and I'm in the Design Team for Manor House Creations. 

I'm so happy to be in the designteam for Once Upon A...Sketch !

Georgia Heald from Australia

Hi, I'm Georgia. I Iive in beautiful (but cold!) Tasmania, Australia. I run a small business as well as being a wife to Daron, mum to Mitchell (14) and a step mum to Jessica (19) and Tyler (21). I just discovered scrapbooking in March this year and have become instantly addicted! I love absolutely everything about this fabulous hobbie. From the creative side of playing with gorgeous papers and embellishments,  the continual reminder of the things that are most important to me, to the fabulous community of supportive, inspiring and creative women!!

It is insane for me to think that I created my very first page just over 6 months ago and now I have been invited to join what is THE best blog design team out there! If there ever was inspiration for those new to scrapbooking to keep rocking the OUAS challenges, I am it! I feel so very honoured and excited to have been asked to join the OUAS team and can't wait to start creating and viewing all of the fabulous submissions!

I would love it if you dropped by my blog, Starting to Scrap, and say hi!

Vibeke Harila from Norway 

I have been scrapping for 4 years – and I love it. Everything from taking the perfect picture – to the pleasure of making something great out of it.  I really enjoy when I have the time – and the inspiration to make layouts. Lately I have made some cards too;) I am a happy girl from Norway – crazy for scrapbooking! My favourite style is lots of layers, shabby with white and light colors. I am so lucky that I am a member of 3 other Design Teams: Mollys Scrapbooking, Pion Design and ScrappeHuset. I am so proud to be a part of this wonderful team!!:) You can visit my blog here:http://vibekescrapperogskryter.blogspot.com/

Mahlin Wiggur from Sweden 

My name is Mahlin and I live in a beautiful house here in Sweden.

I´m working as a special ed´s teacher for kids with autism and Aspergers syndrome and then I go home to my  2 year old son Vilmer and our siamese cat Andy.

´ve been scrapbooking for about 3 years now, but I´ve been crafting since the first day I got my hands on a pair of scissors.  When I create I use alot of bright vivid colors. I combine them with lots of pattern. One might say I´m somewhat addicted to color =) . I also work with a lot of detail on my layouts and you´ll often find clusters of embellies on my projects. I´m always on the look out for new exciting embellies to create with and I have a huge stash of vintage ephemera to dive in to.

I can´t create without: Color, stickles (or any kind of glitter glue), chipboard and bling.
I have a hard time with: ribbons and visible journaling.

When I scrap I do it as pure art, and mostly just for myself, as therapy. I feel good when I create. The memory keeping is a huge bonus but not my main goal, that´s why you won´t find so much journaling on my pages. I just scribble down a few words on the back. 

Here is my blog: http://mahlin.blogg.se/

 Maiko Kosugi from Japan

 Hi everyone! I live in Tokyo, Japan. Also known as mai* I'm married to a professional violinist and together we have 2 adorable sons, 4 and 8 years old. I am currently working as a piano teacher to children at home. I started SB from March, 2009, and it has become my favorite hobby ever since. I am currently on the Design Team for Prima, The Dusty Attic DT and Color Combos Galore.

Here is my blog: Happy Smile 

Welcome girls. I cant wait to see what you create starting November!

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.