Zeus and Zoe Design Team Inspiration

Hi everyone. 

Our main sponsor this month is the wonderful etsy shop Zeus and Zoe which is run by a friend of Once Upon A...Sketch Marivic Clifton. Marivic has been supporting our challenges for a while now with her BEAUTIFUL handmade tags from Berry71Bleu and I also happen to be a sponsored designer for her for both her etsy shops. 

I invited the team from Zeus and Zoe to give us their interpretation of this month's challenge, but first here is a bit about the etsy shop

"Zeus and Zoe is an etsy shop selling one-of-a-kind crafting goodies, embellishments for scrapbooking, crafting, altered art, home decor, collage art. We also make custom/themed project collection boxes depending on your crafting needs.  Each box has different vintage themes and sold individually. We had put together papers, vintage elements (buttons, rhinestone brooches, doilies, ephemera items), trims, skeleton keys, flowers, charms, hand-made tag and so much more. With any of these boxes, you will be able to make numerous projects or use the embellishments to add to your existing projects. Some of the collections come with boxes to decorate with or use for extra storage.We had made these collection with all crafters in mind. We all love the vintage theme and it goes very well with any pictures you want to scrap or just to decorate your home with."

Here is the link to the Etsy shop:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/ZeusandZoe/

For information on custom themed collection/boxes, pls email berry71bleu@att.net.

The theme of this challenge is BIRTHDAYS. 

We would like you to create a layout and interpret the theme "BIRTHDAYS" however you like based on the following sketch. You can journal as little or as much as you like, but your layout must incorporate this theme and the sketch below. Please make sure that we see some sort of journalling on your layouts and please tell us where your journalling is . Hidden journalling is perfectly fine. 

Ideas for Journalling:most memorable birthday celebration for you or anyone in your family, the last birthday you celebrated and tell us your thoughts on turning this age, your child's/other family member's birthday and your thoughts on their age, a birthday that was a turning point in your life and your excitement/fears or other thoughts you had, an upcoming birthday for you or anyone and your thoughts, the best birthday present you ever received/gave and why?. You can also base your layout on a non - person birthday. This means your birthday theme can be based on : a pet, a business venture, a milestone anniversary etc etc. Its up to you how you interpret "BIRTHDAYS

Here is what the Design Team from Zeus and Zoe created for our challenge using wonderful embellishments from Zeus and Zoe...

Marivic

Mitra

Jaz

Rebecca

Sandi Taloumis

and here is mine as a sponsored designer for Zeus and Zoe..

Nadia Cannizzo

The entry with the most points, as voted by the Design Team will be invited to be our GUEST DESIGNER in August and create along side our Design Team. 

Zeus and Zoe has donated the following collection for the winner of our monthly challenge.

Now here are our permanent ongoing sponsors for 2012. For more details on these sponsors please see the left sidebar of our blog or click on the images to be directed to their websites. 

Besides the main prize winner, the next 4 winning entries will receive the following prizes..

7 Dots Studio kit from C'est Magnifique Kit Club + FREE postage to anywhere in the world + add any other item in the store at NO extra postage cost 

These are the prizes up for grabs for our RANDOMLY drawn entries..

Scrapbooking Fantasies has donated TWO ribbon packs (for 2 winners) from Scrapbooking Fantasies . Each prize is valued at over $10AUS each and contains 29 half metre lengths of ribbons, trims and lace in shades of red, yellow and sky blue from quality brands, plus FREE international postage!!

**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 enter only layouts  for our challenges

**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 June 30th, Australian Eastern Standard Time . The Design Team will vote and the Top 5 layouts PLUS Top 5 featured layouts 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.

June Challenge Team B Reveal

Hi everyone! Happy Friday! We have reached the middle of the month already..Can you believe it? We are half way through the year already and time is going by too fast isn't it? 

Well nothing we can do about it, but we can have some fun along the way and I hope scrapping makes you happy and its " your thing" ! I constantly say I wonder how it is that I stayed with a hobby for SO long because I get very bored very very easily and quickly. But I think its simply that scrapping is not just a hobby for me any more. It is part of everyday life and pretty much the only thing I do for me. 

SO I sure hope you are enjoying creating too and today I have the very last reveal of our original team here at Once Upon A..Sketch. As of next month the new team will take over so this is nothing short of bitter sweet for me. 

I won't go on about it now, as I will post a farewell post at the end of the month to properly say goodbye. 

SO I hope you get some scrapping done this weekend and here is some more inspiration for you...

The theme of this challenge is BIRTHDAYS. 

We would like you to create a layout and interpret the theme "BIRTHDAYS" however you like based on the following sketch. You can journal as little or as much as you like, but your layout must incorporate this theme and the sketch below. Please make sure that we see some sort of journalling on your layouts and please tell us where your journalling is . Hidden journalling is perfectly fine. 

Ideas for Journalling:most memorable birthday celebration for you or anyone in your family, the last birthday you celebrated and tell us your thoughts on turning this age, your child's/other family member's birthday and your thoughts on their age, a birthday that was a turning point in your life and your excitement/fears or other thoughts you had, an upcoming birthday for you or anyone and your thoughts, the best birthday present you ever received/gave and why?. You can also base your layout on a non - person birthday. This means your birthday theme can be based on : a pet, a business venture, a milestone anniversary etc etc. Its up to you how you interpret "BIRTHDAYS

Please help me welcome the winner of our April challenge who has been invited back to be our Guest Designer for June..

Solagne Marques

I am Solange Marques, and I live in Curitiba, Brazil,  with my husband, João, and some of my children. I have five children : Camila, Alexandre, Bruno, Gabriela, Miguel and two  grandchildren: Clara and  Samuel. They are always present  in my creations. I am graduated  in architecture and fine arts, but I have been  working in a Bank for 23 years as an appraiser of jewelry.I have  been in  love with Arts and Crafts since I was a child . I discovered  Scrapbooking in 2004 and today I am totally crazy about it.I love to use paints and texture in my layouts and I melt the photos with the background. I love mixing  a lot of techniques  and products in my pages  such as acrylic paints, watercolor, stamps, modeling paste and acrylic gesso.I love the artsy style! 

My Blog : Solagne Marques

Thank you Solagne for being our Guest designer for the month of June!

Please click on their name to be directed to their blog for more details. I am sure they would appreciate some love too :)

Larissa Albernaz (Brazil)  

  ***Imaginarium Designs  heart top picket, swirl corners

LG Belarmino (The Philippines) 

Bente Fagerberg (Sweden)

***Imaginarium Designs 'corner'

Natalie Elphinstone (Australia) 

***Imaginarium Designs Edward Relief

Jasmine Shea (Australia)

Maiko Kosugi (Japan) 

Heather Jacob (Australia) 

***Imaginarium Designs cogs and alphas.

Pamela Young (USA) 

Our main sponsor for the month of June is a gorgeous etsy shop Zeus and Zoe owned by Marivic Clifton who also runs Berry71Bleu. 

"Zeus and Zoe is an etsy shop selling one-of-a-kind crafting goodies, embellishments for scrapbooking, crafting, altered art, home decor, collage art. We also make custom/themed project collection boxes depending on your crafting needs.  Each box has different vintage themes and sold individually. We had put together papers, vintage elements (buttons, rhinestone brooches, doilies, ephemera items), trims, skeleton keys, flowers, charms, hand-made tag and so much more. With any of these boxes, you will be able to make numerous projects or use the embellishments to add to your existing projects. Some of the collections come with boxes to decorate with or use for extra storage.We had made these collection with all crafters in mind. We all love the vintage theme and it goes very well with any pictures you want to scrap or just to decorate your home with."

Here is the link to the Etsy shop:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/ZeusandZoe/

For information on custom themed collection/boxes, pls email berry71bleu@att.net.

Now here are our permanent ongoing sponsors for 2012. For more details on these sponsors please see the left sidebar of our blog or click on the images to be directed to their websites. 

The entry with the most points, as voted by the Design Team will be invited to be our GUEST DESIGNER in August and create along side our Design Team. This person will also win this fabulous prize from Zeus and Zoe

 A collection pack from the Zeus and Zoe etsy shop

The next 4 winning entries will receive the following prizes..

7 Dots Studio kit from C'est Magnifique Kit Club + FREE postage to anywhere in the world + add any other item in the store at NO extra postage cost 

These are the prizes up for grabs for our RANDOMLY drawn entries..

Scrapbooking Fantasies has donated TWO ribbon packs (for 2 winners) from Scrapbooking Fantasies . Each prize is valued at over $10AUS each and contains 29 half metre lengths of ribbons, trims and lace in shades of red, yellow and sky blue from quality brands, plus FREE international postage!!

**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 enter only layouts  for our challenges

**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 June 30th, Australian Eastern Standard Time . The Design Team will vote and the Top 5 layouts PLUS Top 5 featured layouts 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.

May Challenge Winners

Well everyone, you sure do know how to make it hard for us. LOL! It was incredibly hard to choose just a few out of 124 entries so I asked the Design Team to do something different and choose some of their faves to feature here as winners. I will also put these names in a draw for the prizes that we have to give away this month too. 

So here we go..

1. Teresa Manchas (USA)

Design Team member Heather Jacob says : "so many beautiful dimensions to this page Teresa, I adore the softness of the layered banner draping across the corner, the butterflies, the layering and all the fussy cutting is just exquisite AND that precious photo completes a perfect page ....  a wonderful, magical  page to treasure x "

2.Jennifer Snyder (USA)

Design Team member Jasmine Shea says : "I loved reading about her grandmother’s story and the sentiment behind that gorgeous photo was beautiful.  The feathered wings with the jewel was just stunning and there is such a delicacy to this page."

3. Charmane Koch (Australia) 

Design Team member Heather Jacob says : "this layout stood out to me in the gallery . I love the rich earthy brown hues, the monochromatic tones, the way you have placed the stencil flowing over the photo , all the elements perfectly placed giving such a gorgeous whimsical, arty feel to this entire creation ... I love every little piece of this beautiful page Charmaine . x "

4. Hilde Aaslund (Norway) 

Design Team member Jasmine Shea says : "The honesty and humour in Hilde’s page caught my attention along with the simplicity yet effectiveness of her page.  It just shows that there is a whole other side to our “motherhood”.

5. Erin Blegen ( USA) 

Design Team Member Trudi Harrison says: "Erin’s project dedication to her mother is honest, touching and heartfelt. The gorgeous colours, layering, fussy cut elements and amazing attention to detail make this a total stand out"

Design Team Member Georgia Heald says:  "I love the bold colors, the layered fussy cutting, the great mix of clean lines and perfectly placed messy and of course the honest and touching story to the page. Complete standout for me!!"

6. Cathy Cafun (Australia) 

  

Design Team Member Trudi Harrison says: "Cathy’s page is pure vintage delight.  Terrific interpretation, composition, arrangement and detail make this page a total stunner"

7. Adriana Bolzon (Australia)

Design Team Member Patti Hamil says: "I chose this beautiful layout because it stood out to me in every detail. The aged looking cracked photo, the perfect banner with stunning little details, the lucious floral clusters......there is just so much to say about this beautiful page!"

8. Lynnda Hosni ( Australia) 

Design Team Member Patti Hamil says: " I chose this layout because I loved the vibrant and bright colors. I also loved how she did the journaling. The layered photos were visually stunning too. It’s just a really well balanced page, and the style is so fresh!"

9. Keren Tamir ( Canada) 

 Design Team member Natalie Elphinstone says: "Although Keren's journaling is hidden on the layout, she's shared it on her blog and it's just so very touching. It's honest and heartfelt and I think that's exactly what OUAS is hoping to inspire our contributors to do. Despite her children not being biologically hers Keren has captured and expressed the exact same emotions that all of us feel when we hold our children in our arms for the first time. This is a beautiful layout not only in it's design but in it's sentiment even more so"

10. Lovelez'Lao ( Philippines) 

Design Team member Natalie Elphinstone says: "I love the way she has created such diverse texture and layers in her background and her layout is so lovely to look at. But even more importantly is how much wonderful honest and hearfelt journalling she has hidden so cleverly in a scroll on her page. She shows how motherhood isn't always peaches and cream, but it's always worth it! Wishing you all the best as you plan on adding to your beautiful family"

11. Billie- Jean Beveridge (Australia) 

I (Nadia) chose to feature this layout as I simply could not look past the journalling. Billie - Jean, I thank you for your journalling as it is so true and heartfelt and something most of us can relate to. The ever evolving relationship between mother and daughter and not fully appreciating what they mean to us until we have children of our own. I, for one, can tell you that reading your journalling was like reading my story. Besides that, your layout is beautiful. I like everything about it..the interpretation of the sketch, the flower cluster and colours. Just wonderful. I hope you give this to your mum!!

12. Chantelle Huizenga (Australia)

I also chose to feature this layout and the reason is that the gorgeous photo stood out to me in the gallery. I wanted to follow the link and read the journalling behind this beautiful photo and Chantelle's journalling is sweet and so true.  I love the soft and warm feel one gets when looking at that picture of a mum with a her 4 boys. The intricate details and colours you have chosen here Chantelle are just gorgeous and I couldn't look pas this one. Well done.

13. Kitika (Russia)

Design Team member Bente Fagerberg says : "Kitika has an eye for mixing those beautifully patterned papers, and has combined them with delightful embellishments to make this exquisite layout.I love how she made that cute banner out of roses and how the other flower embellishments manage to draw the eye to that absolutely delightful photograph. I just love this!!

**Edited - I am sorry I made a mistake with the features and posted the wrong layout under Kitika's name. I have now corrected it but I believe that the original layout I featured, which was Riika' s still deserves to be featured and here it is . I apologise for this!

Here are the prize winners out of the above featured layouts using random.org. just for this month only. Just for this month, we will not have the winners banner at the top of the page as with 13 layouts featured it is very hard to fit them all in. I hope you understand!

The person who wins the main prize from Enjoy Scrapping AND gets to come back as our Guest Designer in July  is #2  Jennifer Snyder. Well done Jennifer!!! Could you please contact Georgia for your Guest Designer information at hericarusempire@bigpond.com and myself for your prize in the email provided below. 

The person that wins the mini kit from Enjoy Scrapping is #4 Hilde Aaslund 

The 2 winners of a ribbon pack from Scrapbooking Fantasies are #13 Kitika and  #6 Cathy Cafun

The winner of the $20.00 voucher from C' est Magnifique kit club is #9 Keren Tamir

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Now here are the randomly chosen winners out of all the entries. 

The winner of the Imaginarium Designs chipboard pack is ...#63 Amy Voorthuis 

The winner of the handmade tag by Berry71Bleu is #91 Jan Rankine

The winner of the Julia Cotrim canvas and paper collection is ...Aina Aaroe Sannes 

Well done ladies! Could all the winners please contact me Nadia, for your prize at nadiac78@hotmail.com.
Please include your address and the prize you won. 


Thank you SO much for your wonderful support of our challenges everyone. I look forward to seeing more 
from you this month! 


Thank you!