February Winners!!

Hi everyone!!

It is time to announce the winners of our February challenge. TOO many beautiful ones but also sadly too many that were disqualified for lack of journalling or sticking to the theme.  PLEASE remember that we need to see SOME journalling and if it is hidden PLEASE let us know where. Also journalling in your language is really encouraged but please tell us a little about it or where it is. THANK YOU :) 

So here are this months Top 10! Really , just by looking through the entries there could have been at least 30-40 that were amazing and could be winners. But this is what the design team voted and the #1 placed winner received an overwhelming amount of votes. Well done :) 

1.Rachael Funnell

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 Which Craft. Please contact Kerry Fellowes at  kerryafellowes@bigpond.com and state OUAS FEBRUARY WINNER in the subject field to claim your prize. You are also invited to come back in April  as our Guest Designer. Please contact me, Nadia, at nadiac78@hotmail.com for all the information on that. 

2. Anna Rogalska

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. Lindy G

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. Tatyana

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. Irina Gerschuck

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. Rulya

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. Smilla

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. Marylin

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. Istorkina

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..

March Challenge

Hi everyone! Welcome to our March challenge. 

I hope you like this one :) It is pretty open and flexible so I hope you have fun. 

Journalling Theme: be inspired by this quote..

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 welcome the winner of the January challenge..

Zuzia Bodakowska/zuziucha (Poland)

**I placed the journalling on the back of the page. It is a personal letter to my older daughter Julia. She is a bit pesimistic girl and I wanted her to remember that we have only one life and it is up to us if it is a happy life or not. Life can be beautiful or very sad. It is up to us if we see the bright side of it or if we only worry about everything. I would like her to enjoy life and smile as often as possible.

 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 on back of layout.

Yuko Tanaka (Japan)

Zaneta Glowa (Sweden)

Journaling is placed on the tag behind the photo.

Elena Olinevich (Belarus)

Used 7 Dots Studio papers and 2Crafty chipboard
Journaling is hidden on the back

Ana Paula Leal (Brazil) 

Daria Pneva (Russia) 

Georgia Heald ( Australia)

*Journaling on the back of the layout

Wilma Voermans (Switzerland)

Aida Domisiewicz (Poland)

Natalia Shalygina (Frau_Muller) (Ukraine)

Song Li (USA)

*Journaling is written in my first language on the back

Val Thorpe (South Africa)

Journalling around the edge of the layout with more on the back.

The winner of this challenge, as voted by the Design Team will be invited to come back in May as our Guest Designer. They will also win the main prize from one of our main sponsors.

Our first March main sponsor is...

Scraps of Elegance offers monthly kits designed for the scrapbook artist with a style on the romantic side... shabby chic, vintage, elegant. We also have on online store combined with our Sister Club, Scraps of Darkness, a fun and friendly forum with monthly challenges and swaps, and tutorials from our wonderful designers and educators. We hope we will inspire you to Create Something Beautiful Today! 

Please click HERE to be directed to the website.

Scraps of Elegance kit club is donating...

Our second main sponsor for March 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 one of our winners!

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 

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. 

February reveal - Part 2!!

Welcome to the second reveal of our February challenge! We love the entries so far! Some amazing and talented people out there :) We cant wait to see more. 

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! 

 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) 

Olga Heldwein (Poland)

Ulrika Blomfelt (Sweden) Journaling on the back.

Stacey Young (Australia)

Patricia Basson (South Africa)

Olga Vasileva (Russia)

Elena Smoktunova (Russia)

Maja Stokk (Sweden)

Anna Wiśniewska - Wiosanka (Poland)

 Ola Komenok (Israel)

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  for 2 winners valued at over AU$10.00 each plus with free domestic and international shipping