February 1st Challenge **WINNERS**

Hey everyone! THANK YOU so much to everyone that played along with our last challenge. We had 80 amazing entries and voting was very difficult yet again!

As you know, we have switched teams with our sister blog Get Creative  for February and so the winners this time have come from the Get Creative Design Team. 

**Please note all winners have 1 week to claim their prizes**

I received votes from 12 Design Team members from Get Creative and the winners were so close all along. It is with great pleasure though that I announce that the winner out of 80 gorgeous entries, as chosen by the Get Creative Design Team is ...

CATHY CAFUN (Australia) 

(Cathy has hidden journalling on the orange tag on the right of the photo)

Cathy, you have created a work of art here. This is SIMPLY a pleasure to look at. The bold colours, the stunning picture and the way you interpreted this layout makes it clear to see why you were chosen as a winner out of so many. Your layering here is superb and the whole feel of your layout represents the young and funky attitude of your handsome son. Well done Cathy!!!

Cathy, for your efforts you have won your self a spot on our team for the month of March as well as a lovely kit from Swirlydoos! Please contact Irma ( irma0408@yahoo.com ) to get all the information on your Guest Designer spot and please contact Patti at onceuponasketch@hotmail.com to claim your prize. 

Please also grab your winners badge from the left hand side of this blog!

As you all know we usually feature our Top 5 at this point. But ladies we had SO many wonderful entries and such a high amount of entries that the Get Creative team was simply blown away and found it hard to narrow it down to just a few. SO I have decided to feature 10 layouts this time that were all stunning and could have easily been winners. 

Top 10 featured projects

(in winning order) 

Coming in at just 1 point behind Cathy's winning layout is

Erin Blegen (USA)

Followed closely behind by these next few layouts...

Shona Keehn (Canada) 

Mazlina (Australia) 

Sarah Groen (New Zealand) 

Michelle Whorwood (New Zealand) 

Lillesmor (Norway) 

Anne Bente (Denmark) 

Kelly Foster (USA) 

Kay (USA) 

(*Kay has hidden journalling in rolled up in paper) 

Leanne Nankervis (Australia) 

Well done to all of you! Please grab your featured badge from the left hand side of this blog. 

Unfortunately there were some entries that could not be counted in the voting as they included no journalling or the wrong theme. Please remember to read the journalling criteria closely :)

Random Winners

The winner of the handmade tag by Berry71Bleu is #45 Anupama Choudary

The winner of the 2 paper collections from FeatureArt is #58 Dani Cavalcante 

CONGRATULATIONS Anupama and Dani! Please contact Patti at onceuponasketch@hotmail.com with your address and the prize you won!

Thank you for participating in our challenges everyone! We look forward to seeing more of your creations. :)

February 15th Challenge

Hi again everyone and welcome to a new challenge here at Once Upon A..Sketch. We are delighted to see so many of you embracing our sister blog Get Creative this month and playing along with our challenge as well as theirs. Its awesome to see how scrapbooking, which is JUST a hobby, can bring together so many people from all over the world. 

I hope you have been enjoying the challenges. Let's see what the next challenge is!
(Thanks to our lovely follower Denise Price for suggesting we add the word "vacation" as that is the word used instead of "holiday" in some parts of the world)

February 15th Challenge

Journalling criteria/theme: HOLIDAYS/VACATION 

Have you printed out all those photos from your last holiday/vacation or most favourite holiday/vacation? We would LOVE to see them and hear all about it. With the theme of holidays/vacation for this challenge, we would love to hear about: your favourite holiday/vacation of all time or a favourite place you would LOVE to take a holiday in . Or how about the last holiday/vacation you went to?  Maybe you have not travelled yet? Then tell us about your DREAM HOLIDAY /VACATION destination. 

Remember that you are allowed to also create a card or altered project based on this sketch and theme and instead of the journalling criteria you need to use a quote. 

You must combine our journalling criteria/theme with this sketch.

 Guest Designers

 Trina McClune (New Zealand) 

 Our winner of our last challenge... 

Jeanette Lee (Singapore)

THANK YOU so much Trina and Jeanette for your contribution this month. We hope you loved the challenges as much as we loved seeing what you created with them.

Get Creative Guest Design Team

Anastasia Sergiaki  

Anastasia Teologlou 

Eleni Gratsia

Marie Papadopoulou

Melenia Agapides

Olga Milona

Elina Katechi

Channa Suitella 

Efi Stamateli

Alex Pantazi 

Irini Liolia

Sponsors

We are delighted to be sponsored once again by a friend of Once Upon A..Sketch, the gorgeous US kit club..

SWIRLYDOOS

Swirlydoos coordinated scrapbook kits are comprised of elegant papers and products that help our members create beautiful pieces of art both in their scrapbooks, and altered art projects. Swirlydoos tries to include only the newest and most innovative products on the market, as well as showcasing handmade and non-traditional products that we find within the crafting community. We encourage new growth in our members by offering monthly challenges on our forums and offering both photo and video tutorials which help them to learn new tips, tricks and techniques. We also offer a monthly technique or project kit to help further our members in their artistic ability. In addition, we offer various coordinating add ons for those ladies who can never have too many scrappy goodies!

 Come check us out at http://www.swirlydoos.com/ and see for yourself what sets Swirlydoos apart from other scrapping communities on the net!

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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   http://www.imaginariumdesigns.blogspot.com/ and you can  purchase this amazing chipboard  at Seriously Scrapbooking (they ship anywhere in the world at actual postage cost)

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We also welcome one more sponsor to Once Upon A..Sketch who will actually sponsor all our challenges with 1 prize all year long!! How exciting!

"Berry71bleu is an Etsy shop owned by Marivic Clifton. We specialize in custom and premade embellished hang tags, scrapbook pages, and altered gift ideas with a vintage flair. Each handmade item is unique and embellished with vintage or modern replica findings that goes perfectly with what we sell. We also accept custom orders. Pls visit our etsy shop,http://www.etsy.com/shop/berry71bleu/ or email berry71bleu@gmail.com for more information. Check out our blog, http://berry71bleu.blogspot.com/ for inspiration from our Design Team".

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Feature Art

Feature Art is an art paper designing company located in South Australia.

CREATING THE UNIQUE DESIGN is our company mission. We offer unique patterned paper that help to develop the versatile craft projects for the craft industry. All our paper product is designed and printed in Australia. We will continue to provide our customers with excellent products and best service always.

Website: http://www.featureart.net.au/store/index.php

Prizes

The winner of this prize will receive this gorgeous kit from Swirlydoos...

** January kit

We are SO fortunate to have so many sponsors who love our site and want to sponsor prizes so besides the main prize for the winner, we will also have a prize for one person featured in the Top 5. I will do a random draw amongst the Top 5 featured projects (sometimes depending on voting there are more) and 1 person will win this generous pack of chipboard from Imaginarium Designs

Lastly we LOVE to encourage EVERYONE here at Once Upon A..Sketch to play along with us NO MATTER your skill level or scrapbooking style. SO we have 2 prizes us for grabs for 2 RANDOMLY chosen people. 

A GORGEOUS handmade tag from Berry71Bleu. Here is an example of the kind of tag you could receive..

2 paper collections from FeatureArt...

Good luck everyone!!

Things to consider when playing along...

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

**You are free to combine Once Upon A..Sketch challenges with other challenges. We don't mind at all!!!

**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 right hand side of this blog 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 February 29th, Australian Eastern Standard Time . The Design Team will vote and the winners and the Top 5 project will be announced soon after the challenge has finished.

**You may enter as many times as you like 

**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 Sponsor **SWIRLYDOOS** Design Team

Hi everyone. You still have about a week to enter our current challenge and today I wanted to show you a few layouts created for our current challenge by our main sponsor for February SWIRLYDOOS kit club 

Firstly, a little about the sponsor..

SWIRLYDOOS

Swirlydoos coordinated scrapbook kits are comprised of elegant papers and products that help our members create beautiful pieces of art both in their scrapbooks, and altered art projects. Swirlydoos tries to include only the newest and most innovative products on the market, as well as showcasing handmade and non-traditional products that we find within the crafting community. We encourage new growth in our members by offering monthly challenges on our forums and offering both photo and video tutorials which help them to learn new tips, tricks and techniques. We also offer a monthly technique or project kit to help further our members in their artistic ability. In addition, we offer various coordinating add ons for those ladies who can never have too many scrappy goodies!

 Come check us out at http://www.swirlydoos.com/ and see for yourself what sets Swirlydoos apart from other scrapping communities on the net!

February 1st Challenge

Journalling Criteria/theme: LOVE

February 14th is Valentines Day here in Australia and in many parts of the world. For this challenge we would like you to create a project about the one MALE you love. And we do not mean just your partner or spouse. We mean any male in your life. 

Ideas for journalling: You could journal about the love you have for your son, father, grandfather or a special person in your life or any pet.

Remember that you are allowed to also create a card or altered project based on this sketch and instead of the journalling criteria you need to use a quote. 

You must combine our journalling criteria/theme with this sketch

Guest Designers from Swirlydoos

Paulien van den Bosch 

Tiffany Morgan 

Lisa Valentine 

Thank you ladies for designing for us for this challenge. We love the inspiration you provided!!

SO how are you all going with the current challenge? We have loved the entries so far and can't wait to see more. Here are the prizes for a lucky few :)

Prizes

How would you like to be our Guest Designer for March? The winner of this challenge as voted by the Design Team will get to come back next month and be part of our Design Team. This person will also win this awesome kit from Swirlydoo's

December Kit from Swirlydoos

We also have 2 prizes up for grabs that will be given to two RANDOMLY selected entries.

The first prize is a BEAUTIFUL handmade tag from Berry71Bleu

The second prize for another randomly chosen person are these 2 paper collections from FeatureArt. 

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 right hand side of this blog 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 February 14th, Australian Eastern Standard Time . The Design Team will vote and the winners 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.

Take care everyone!

January 15th Challenge **WINNERS and TOP 5 ! "

For our current challenge please click HERE 

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Hi everyone. Time to announce our winners from the last challenge. Incredibly hard yet again and the Design Team took great care in choosing the layouts they thought were winners. We had 9 Design Team members vote individually and one person's name was popping up everywhere....

WINNER

MAIKO MAWA (Japan) 

(Maiko's journalling is hidden in a tag under the flowers) 

HUGE congratulations Maiko. Where do I begin? Beautiful picture, amazing details and clustering of the flower images, gorgeous use of colour and an overall amazing layout we couldn't help but choose as the winner! Well done! 

Please don't forget to grab your badge from the lest hand side of this blog and you have won a 30 day membership at Miss Art's Papercrafting School at the the Extra Credit Level!! Lucky you! Please contact me, Nadia ( nadiac78@hotmail.com) to claim your prize. 

Top 5 Featured Projects

(in winning order) 

Marion (Norway) 

Efi (Greece) 

Kelly Foster (USA) 

Romy Veul (The Netherlands) 

Bellaidea (Poland) 

CONGRATULATIONS once again girls. Your work amazed us! Please take your Featured badge from the left sidebar of the blog. 

RANDOM WINNERS

The winner of the 2 paper collections by FeatureArt is #1 MAYA  from Norway 

The winner of the chipboard pack from Imaginarium Designs is #40 Lauren Tomacek from Australia

Congratulations to both of you. Maya and Lauren, please contact our sponsor coordinator Patti ( onceuponasketch@hotmail.com ) with your postal details and which prize you won to claim so it can be sent to you right away. 

All prize winners PLEASE note that you have 1 week from today to claim your prizes. THANK YOU!

Well done to all the winners. Keep up the good work everyone.