October Challenge ***WINNERS**

Hi everyone! Thanks so much for your patience in announcing the winners for last month's challenge. We take voting pretty seriously here and as we are a pretty big Design Team it takes a while for everyone to get their votes in. Just so you know, there is about 12+ Design Team members that vote every time just to make it fair and produce a variety of winners with different styles , from different countries etc..

So for this month, the clear winner from all 94 entries in October was voted on by 12 Design Team members   and the score was very high! 

Top 5 Winners

(in winning order) 

(can all winners please email Patti at phamil@live.com with their full name and address and prize they won within 7 days!!. Also can the Top 5 winners please get their winners badge from the sidebar of our blog :) Thank you ) 

1. Rachael Funnell (Australia)

Congratulations Rachael! You were our winner for the month of October and you have won a beautiful Christmas collection from Riddersholm Design  AND a spot on our Design Team for December!  Please email our sponsor coordinator Patti at phamil@live.com with your full name and address and prize you won and please  contact our guest designer coordinator Georgia Heald (hericarusempire@bigpond.com )  to receive all the information for your Guest Designer spot in December. 

2. Vibeke Harila (Norway)

(Hidden journaling behind the chipboard lady)

Just stunning Vibeke! Congratulations! You have won prize package from Moments of Tranquility.

3. Monique Liedtke ( The Netherlands) 

(The journaling is handwritten on the tag and then hidden behind the photos)

Beautiful work Monique! Well done! You have won a mini 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 from C'est Magnifique shop. 

Jennifer Snyder (USA) 

Well done Jennifer! LOVE how you printed the quote on the photo/ You have won a chipboard pack from Imaginarium Designs. 

Elena Olinevich (Belarus) 

( journaling is hidden under the photo padding)

Congratulations Elena! There are so many amazing details on this layout and your theme is so sweet too. You have won a collection from Julia Cotrim Scrapbooking!

Now here are our Top 5 Featured layouts. These are the ones that caught out eye and received votes from the Design Team as well. Please do not forget to get your Featured Badge from the left sidebar of our blog. 

Cathy Lane (South Africa) 

Shona Keehn (Canada) 

Rachelle Sigurdson (Canada) 

Anita Nosova (Russia) 

Jodi Cent (Australia)

Congratulations to all the featured layouts. So many different interpretations of the challenge! Well done. 

Now here are the winners, chosen randomly using random.org.

The winner of the handmade tag from Berry71Bleu is #17 Sa Crafts

The winner of the ribbon pack from Scrapbooking Fantasies is  #34 Jessica Vin 

The winner of the $10.00 gift voucher from The Scrap Locker is #88 Liz Russell 

Can all winners please email Patti at phamil@live.com with their full name and address and prize they won within 7 days!!.Thank you!

Have a great day everyone and thank you always for playing along with us. 

November Challenge + Meet Our Guest Designer Anna Maria Wolniak

Hey everyone!!! Welcome to the our blog ! Can you believe that it is November already? WOW ! What happened there? Time has just gone by so quickly that its scary. 

Thank you all who played along in our last challenge. The Design Team will have a look at all the entries and we will announce a winner soon.

Now here is November's challenge..  

Theme: Anything Goes..

Yep! You read right.. No theme this month. You are free to create a layout based on whatever theme you like.  You can journal as little or as much as you like, but your layout must include SOME journalling 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.

Please help me welcome a super duper inspirational lady..

Anna - Maria Wolniak 

Hi! My name is Anna-Maria Wolniak and I am from Poland :)

Even few years ago scrapbooking was only a part of my artistic activity, this trivial section, which I practiced just because I wanted to archivise some moments of my life. Quickly it developed in one of my passions, and how it came out not long ago ? way of life. One thing that haven't changes is that I'm still doing it for pleasure. Currently I cooperate with eight scrapbooking companies, the biggest are: Prima Marketing, Lily Bee, Freckled Fawn, Chic Tags and Color Conspiracy and of course our Polish native I {lowe} SCRAP and SODAlicious. I am also a member of a French group Entre{ART}istes. Sometimes I am also a guest designer at various challenge blogs around the world like for example Cocoa Daisy and Pages of My Book and now - Once upon a sketch!

Besides scrapbooking I also design scrapbooking papers, write articles, I am a leader of various workshops in Poland and other countries of Europe (France, Spain, Austria, Germany, Hungary). I am also a co-owner of ILS. I'm not going to write about my other passions because it would took way too long. Those who want to get to know me better should visit my blog:

http://www.annamariawolniak.wordpress.com and my facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Anna-Maria-Wolniak/337046963019104

I absolutely love what Anna Maria creates and here is her layout for our November challenge. THANK YOU so much Anna Maria for being our Guest Designer this month!!

Now here is what our Design Team created. To see further details of their work please click on their name to be directed to their blog. 

Vicky Alberto (Canada)

*Journaling on the back*

Cathy Cafun (Australia) 

*Hidden Journaling on tag on left hand side*

 **Pink & Yellow ribbon is from Scrapbook Fantasies**

Georgia Heald - (Australia)

*Hidden journalling on tag behind photo

*Imaginarium Designs chipboard feathers and mini clock

Kelly Foster (USA)

*Hidden Journaling on tag behind photo

*Imaginarium Designs chipboard used

Romy Veul (The Netherlands) 

**Mini clock and frames from Imaginarium Designs**

Mona Pendleton (USA)

***Just YOU Title from Imaginarium Designs***

Anna Zaprzelska (Poland)

 *Hidden Journaling on tag behind photo

Renata Moni (Brazil)

**Hidden Journaling behind photo. 

** Chipboard numbers  and  green swirls by Imaginarium Designs **

Erin Blegen (USA)

**Purple Cord is from Scrapbook Fantasies**

Tina Walker (USA)

** Journaling hidden in pocket behind photo **

** Chipboard alphas and medallion by Imaginarium Designs **

Florence Teixeira - France 

** Journaling hidden behind photo **

Svetlana Austin (South Africa)

*Hidden Journaling on a tag at the back of the layout*

*Imaginarium Designs chipboard used

**Pink ribbon is from Scrapbook Fantasies**

Our main sponsor for November is a beautiful online store called The Trinket Track..

Welcome to The Trinket Track. The home of the cutest little trinkets around!

Here at The Trinket Track we aim to provide a variety of crafters with a wide selection of embellishments for scrapbooking and cardmaking. Love to make your own accesories? No problem, we have you covered too with a selection of beads, links, ribbon and other little trinkets.

We hope you have an enjoyable shopping experience down the track!

For ideas on how to use our embellishments visit the blog http://www.thetrinkettrack.blogspot.com.au/

 and our store address is http://www.thetrinkettrack.com/

Now here are our permanent sponsors for 2012. For more information please see our sidebar. 

How would you like to be our Guest Designer for the month of January?  The winner of this challenge with the most points, as voted by the Design Team will be invited to be our Guest Designer in January and create along side our Design Team. This person will also win a $25.00 store voucher from ...

The next four winning entries will win the following prizes

A 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 from C'est Magnifique kit club.

There will also be 3 randomly picked winners who will receive the following..

2 ribbon packs for 2 winners from Scrapbooking Fantasies. Each pack includes 29 x ½ mt lengths.

**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 November 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.

C’est Magnifique Kits 1st Anniversary Blog Hop!

Hi everyone and welcome to the C'est Magnifique Kits Blog Hop!! 

If you've arrived here from the Manor House Creations blog, then you're right on track! If not, head back to the beginning of the hop HERE at the C'est Magnifique Kits blog!

For the past year C’est Magnifique Kits has been bringing you their sophisticated and unique kits with paper and embellishments from all over the world! We're lucky to have C'est Magnifique as a monthly sponsor here at Once Upon A...Sketch and are so excited to be a part of this birthday bash blog hop!

Along the way there will be plenty of inspiration as the design team shares with you their projects featuring the amazing November kit! There will also be prizes from four manufacturers, and prizes from C’est Magnifique Kits AND their design team! Lots and lots of goodies to be won!

Here is what the GORGEOUS November kit looks like..

The kit includes the new 7 Dots Studio's "Domestic Goddess" line designed by Finnabair. 

Now, here is our October challenge....

Theme: The following quote..

We would like you to create a layout based on this quote. You can interpret it ANY way you like. There is no wrong or right way to interpret this quote  but your layout must incorporate something from this quote 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.

...and here is how some Design Team members from Cést Magnifique interpeted our challenge using the beautiful November kit...

Camilla Ekman

Joyce Lawrence

Valerie Serfozo 

Beverly Sams

It’s time to get started! Here’s what you need to do:

1. Visit each blog along the Blog Hop

2. Leave a comment on each blog (and become a follower, if required)

3. End the blog hop back at the C’est Magnifque Kits Blog, and leave a comment

You have until midnight (US EST) on Monday, October 29 to complete the Blog Hop.

Your next stop along the Hop is at the Pink Paislee blog HERE

Have fun and good luck!