January Winners

Hello everyone! 

Its time to announce the winners of our January challenge. As you might recall we had over 130 entries and I firstoly wish to thank you all again for playing along with us. I also want to thank the Design Team for taking this seriously because it was an incredible job and they really do all the voting , commenting etc without any real compensation other than that they wish to acknowledge the fact you all have played along and just how much we love to see your entries. So yes, they went through all the entries and it was VERY hard !

We have , nonetheless, our winners and a huge congrats goes to them :) 

So here they are..

1. Zuziucha (Poland)

Well done! You are the winner of our challenge. You have won the prize from our main sponsor this month, which is AUS$40.00 prize pack with free postage by Whitch Craft. Please contact Kerry Fellowes at  kerryafellowes@bigpond.com and state OUAS JANUARY WINNER in the subject field to claim your prize. . You are also invited to come back in March as our Guest Designer. Please contact me, Nadia, at nadiac78@hotmail.com for all the information on that. 

2. Dorota Dolega (France)

Congratulations! You have won a 7 Dots Studio  prize pack full of their product valued at US$50.00 with free domestic and international postage. Please contact Tusia at tusia@7dotsstudio.com and please write "OUAS WINNER" in the subject field to claim your prize. 

3. Tina Ollett

How awesome! You have also won  a US$50.00 gift voucher by The Flying Unicorn  to spend at their store ! Please contact Alda Stevens at cs@flyingunicornllc.com to claim your prize. Please write "OUAS WINNER" in the subject field. 

4. Beck Beattie (Australia)

Congrats! You have won a AUS$50.00 prize pack from 2Crafty Chipboard ! Please contact Vanessa  at salesat2crafty@optusnet.com.au and please write "OUAS WINNER" in the subject field to claim your prize. 

5. Anita Nosova (Russia)

Congratulations!!! You have won a kit from Swirlydoos kit club i valued at US$36.50 with free domestic and international postage. Please contact Krissy at krissy@swirlydoos.com and please write ÖUAS WINNER" in the subject field to claim your prize. 

6. Smilla

Well done to you! You have won a Die-namites dies prize pack to the value of US$30.00 with free domestic and international postage. Please contact Lynne Forsythe at rangerjunkie@rocketmail.com to claim your prize. Please write ÖUAS WINNER" in the subject field. 

7. Teeshoom

How cool! You have won a gift voucher  from Lindy's Stamp Gang valued at  US$20.00 gift voucher with free domestic and international shipping. Please contact Tracey at lindysgang@yahoo.com and please write "Once Upon A..Sketch WINNER" in the subject field to claim your prize. 

8. Marta (Maremi)

Congrats! You have won a prize pack to the value of AU$20.00 with free domestic and international postage from Scrappers Garden online store . Please contact Linda at scrappersgarden@bigpond.com to claim your prize. Please write "OUAS WINNER" in the subject field. 

9. Danisa G

Well done!! You have won yourself a Wiff Of Joy  stamp set from the Stephanie Schütze Design collection valued at  EUR14.90 with free domestic AND international postage. Please contact Katharina at order@whiffofjoy.ch to claim your prize. Please write "OUAS WINNER"in the subject field. 

10. Felicity Wilson

You have won a AUS$20.00 voucher from Scrapbooking Fantasies with free domestic and international shipping 

Can all the above winners please grab your winners badge..

February challenge!!

Hello wonderful people :) 

Our team here and I are immensely honoured that so many of you participated in our January challenge. What a boost of confidence for our brand new team and for me. What a way to start a new year. I have said this before.. there have been times when my life is so crazy busy that I have wondered "Maybe its time for OUAS to go?".. But every time I talk myself out of it because of all of you that continue to play along with us. I have talked myself out of it because somehow I end up with the best and most reliable Design Team out there and part of our current Design Team include Tracey Sabella, Val Thorpe and Lizzy Hill who have most definitely gone above and beyond to fill in for me behind the scenes when life gets super busy! I could not do this without them, or with the amazing sponsors .. SO A BIG THANKS to you all. 

Stay tuned for our January winners who will be revealed all too soon. The Design Team will SOMEHOW try and figure out some winners from our 139 entries... :)

Just on a side note.. please please please remember to stick to the theme and to add some journalling. We unfortunately had to disqualify some VERY beautiful entries because we could not find ANY mention of ANY journalling. As I mention below PLEASE feel free to journal in your language (we encourage that) and please feel free to include HIDDEN journalling but please do tell us in your blog post where your journalling is . Please try and also tell us how you interpret the theme. Sometimes we look at some of the entries and have NOTHING to do with our theme... 

On a last note, as I have mentioned before you are allowed to combine your OUAS entry with as many others as you like. But please do note that our sketch is compulsory and we noticed some people in January combined our challenge with another sketch challenge which kind of doesn't make sense. LOL! Unless the 2 sketches are identical then I cannot see how 2 sketch challenges can be combined. Thank you for your understanding :) 

Good luck with February;s challenge. Remember this is a short month! Only 28 days :) 

Journalling Theme: "Totally addicted to...." 

You are free to interpret our theme ANY WAY you like. It is for your inspiration and this theme word DOES NOT need to be part of your title or journalling. But please make sure your layout is based on the sketch below and includes journalling (hidden journalling is fine). Acceptable journalling is MORE than just a sentence, or generic writing such as date/place etc. It needs to be present and at least 3 lines long. Remember, hidden journalling (under a photo/tag or behind your page) is perfectly fine but please DO let us know in your post where your journalling is! 

Please help me welcome the winner of our December challenge , the very inspirational ..

Lisa Griffith (USA)

My name is Lisa Griffith and I live in the US with my hubby and our son.  I love a lot of textures on my layouts and I love working with paints and inks.  I have a passion for antiques and anything vintage, I am always rummaging around thrift shops and estate sales looking for old books, magazines, postcards, lace, anything I can incorporate into my work. I really enjoyed this months theme, paper crafting is so rewarding and relaxing to me, and definitely addicting! It's so fun to take an idea or an emotion,  bits of paper and glue and create something unique. 

You can find me at www.thepaperattic.blogspot.com    

Thank you Nadia for having me! Lisa xo

Now here is Lisa's take on our challenge

 Now here is what our Design Team came up with. Please click on their blogs for more details on
their creations. I am sure they would love to hear from you !!!

Tracey Sabella (USA)

**Additional journaling is on the back.

Yuko Tanaka (Japan)

Zaneta Glowa (Sweden)

I used 7 Dots Studio paper and alpha stickers. Journaling placed on the backside.

Tetiana Komarova (Taniko) (Ukraine)

Ana Paula Leal (Brazil) 

Daria Pneva (Russia) 

Georgia Heald ( Australia)

*Journaling on the back of the layout

Wilma Voermans (Switzerland)

# Journaling on the backside 

Aida Domisiewicz (Poland)

Natalia Shalygina (Frau_Muller) (Ukraine)

Song Li (USA) 

Journaling on the back of the layout

Val Thorpe (South Africa)

Journalling on the back can be read on my blog.

The winner of this challenge, as voted by the Design Team will be invited to come back in April as our Guest Designer. 

They will also win the main prize from our main sponsor for February which is..

Whichcraft do you do? Whichcraft offers unique laser cut wooden embellishments and items to alter.  Based in Australia, Whichcraft started as a hobby for Kerry and has now progressed to a zibbet store, youtube channel and facebook page. New designs and product developement are ongoing so there is always something new coming out. Stock is kept on hand so orders are packed and shipped quickly and efficiently and Kerry's customer service is second to none! Offering some custom cutting and flat rate international shipping worldwide Whichcraft has something for you, no matter Whichcraft you do!

zibbet: http://www.zibbet.com/WhichCraft

youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ksdec

facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whichcraftdoyoudo?ref=hl

Whichcraft has donated a minimum of AUS$40.00 prize pack with free postage to anywhere in the world for our January winner. 

Now here are some more AMAZING prizes donated by our wonderful permanent sponsors for 2014.

First up is our Facebook sponsor. Please don't forget to upload your entry to our Facebook Page HERE for your chance to win this price..


13arts is donating 10 colours of their gorgeous paint tubs , in your choice of colours, with free domestic and international postage. 

7 Dots Studio will donate a prize pack full of their product valued at US$50.00 with free domestic and international postage. 

The Flying Unicorn online store is donating a US$50.00 gift voucher to spend at their store !

2Crafty Chipboard is donating a chipboard pack to the value of AUS$50.00 with free domestic and international postage

Swirlydoos kit club is donating their monthly kit valued at US$36.50 with free domestic and international postage

Die-namites dies is donating a prize pack to the value of US$30.00 with free domestic and international postage

Lindy's Stamp Gang is donating a US$20.00 gift voucher with free domestic and international shipping..

Scrappers Garden online store is donating a prize pack to the value of AU$20.00 with free domestic and international postage

Scrapbooking Fantasies is donating a ribbon pack valued at over AU$20.00 plus with free domestic and international shipping 

January challenge reveal - Part 2!

Hi everyone! Back again today with the second reveal of the month for our current challenge. 

I am very certain you will find something here to inspire you! Awesome work by the Design Team :) Can;t wait to see yours!

Journalling Theme: "Lesson learnt..." 

You are free to interpret our theme ANY WAY you like. It is for your inspiration and this theme word DOES NOT need to be part of your title or journalling. But please make sure your layout is based on the sketch below and includes journalling (hidden journalling is fine). Acceptable journalling is MORE than just a sentence, or generic writing such as date/place etc. It needs to be present and at least 3 lines long. Remember, hidden journalling (under a photo/tag or behind your page) is perfectly fine but please DO let us know in your post where your journalling is! 

 Now here is what our Design Team came up with. Please click on their blogs for more details on their creations. I am sure they would love to hear from you !!!

Lizzy Hill (Australia)

Stephanie Schütze (Switzerland)

Limor Webber (Canada)

Ulrika Blomfelt (Sweden)

Stacey Young (Australia)

Patricia Basson (South Africa)

Journalling is on the Tag

Jelissa Mei (Singapore)

(journalling at back of page)

Olga Vasileva (Russia)

Elena Smoktunova (Russia)

Maja Stokk (Sweden)

Anna Wiśniewska - Wiosanka (Poland)

 Ola Komenok (Israel)

Olga Heldwein (Poland)

The winner of this challenge, as voted by the Design Team will be invited to come back in March as our Guest Designer. 

They will also win the main prize from our main sponsor for January which is..

Whichcraft do you do? Whichcraft offers unique laser cut wooden embellishments and items to alter.  Based in Australia, Whichcraft started as a hobby for Kerry and has now progressed to a zibbet store, youtube channel and facebook page. New designs and product developement are ongoing so there is always something new coming out. Stock is kept on hand so orders are packed and shipped quickly and efficiently and Kerry's customer service is second to none! Offering some custom cutting and flat rate international shipping worldwide Whichcraft has something for you, no matter Whichcraft you do!

zibbet: http://www.zibbet.com/WhichCraft

youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ksdec

facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whichcraftdoyoudo?ref=hl

Whichcraft has donated a minimum of AUS$40.00 prize pack with free postage to anywhere in the world for our January winner. 

Now here are some more AMAZING prizes donated by our wonderful permanent sponsors for 2014.

First up is our Facebook sponsor. Please don't forget to upload your entry to our Facebook Page HERE for your chance to win this price..

13arts is donating 10 colours of their gorgeous paint tubs , in your choice of colours, with free domestic and international postage. 

7 Dots Studio will donate a prize pack full of their product valued at US$50.00 with free domestic and international postage. 

The Flying Unicorn online store is donating a US$50.00 gift voucher to spend at their store !

2Crafty Chipboard is donating a chipboard pack to the value of AUS$50.00 with free domestic and international postage

Swirlydoos kit club is donating their monthly kit valued at US$36.50 with free domestic and international postage

Die-namites dies is donating a prize pack to the value of US$30.00 with free domestic and international postage

Lindy's Stamp Gang is donating a US$20.00 gift voucher with free domestic and international shipping..

Scrappers Garden online store is donating a prize pack to the value of AU$20.00 with free domestic and international postage

Scrapbooking Fantasies is donating a ribbon pack  for 2 winners valued at over AU$10.00 each plus with free domestic and international shipping 

Wiff Of Joy stamps is donating 1 stamp set from the Stephanie Schütze Design collection stamps valued at  EUR14.90 with free domestic AND international postage. 

The deadline for this challenge is January 31st (Australian Eastern Standard Time - Sydney Time) 2014!!