January Challenge Winners!!

Hi everyone! I hope you are all well. 

The votes are in and we have our winners of our January challenge. 

1. Amy Voorthuis (The Netherlands)

Well done, you have won the prize from our main sponsor this month which is the kit from Deer&Fawn Design. You are also our fist placed winner which means you get to come back in March as our Guest Designer. Congratulations!!! Please also mention you are the GDT winner when contacting me for your prize so I can get all the information out to you. 

2. Sandi Smith (Canada)

(journalling on tag behind the photo) 

For your efforts you have won an Imaginarium Designs chipboard pack full at AU$50.00 shipped to youfree!

3. Miranda Edney (USA)

Good work! As our winner you have won a Scraps of Elegance main kit valued at US$35.95 value, shipped to you free Priority shipping within the USA, or free First Class shipping for international winners!

4. Ruki (Spain)

(journalling on tag behind the photo)

Congratulations! You have won a  US$25.00 gift voucher at The Flying Unicorn online store and kit club, with free domestic and international shipping ! 

5. Cathy Lane (South Africa)

Well done to you. You have won a Julia Cotrim Scrapbooking patterned paper and canvas collection with free domestic and international shipping 

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

Erin Blegen's pick for January is Jeanette Lee (Singapore)

Congratulations for being a Designer's Pick! You have won a AUS$25.00 prize pack from Sassy Scrappers with free domestic and international shipping 

Chantalle McDaniel's pick for January is English Teacher Jurgita (Lithuania)

 

Great work! Besides being a Designer's Pick you have also won a prize pack valued at AU$20.00 from  Njoyfull Crafts shipped to you for free! 

Renata Moni's pick for January is Billie Jean Beveridge (Australia)

Fantastic work!!!You have won a prize pack from SA Crafters valued at US$15.00 shipped to you for free!

Vicky Alberto's pick for January is Madoka Kinosada (Japan)

Congrats to you for being a Designer's pick. You have also won a prize pack to the value of 15.00 Eurofrom Get Creative Embellishments 

Mona Pedleton's pick for January is Lisa Duke (USA)

You have won yourself a ribbon pack from Scrapbooking Fantasies valued at over AU$10.00 shipped to you for free!

This is your badge to display proudly on your blogs

This month, I chose someone I think is worthy of being spotlighted because firstly he (yes its a man!) has created a really pretty layout but more so because I think his journalling is so honest and its something we have all felt in our lives at some point. You can read all about his layout at his blog but basically Charlie talks about not fitting in and just HOW BRAVE are you Charlie to share this with us and put it out there when most people would not. Also, I just think you are amazing for pushing through all that and instead of going and hiding away from the world you decided to "show them" and just made a decision to find yourself and be happy!!!. Well done. Keep going!!!

Charllie G. (The Philippines) 

And here is your badge to display at your blog..

The entry picked via Random.org which has won a Scrapbooking Fantasies valued at over AU$10.00 is Lovez' Lao (The Philippines) . Congratulations to you :))

Can all the winners PLEASE contact me, Nadia at onceuponasketch@hotmail.com within 7 days to claim your prize.

 PLEASE write "OUAS January Winner" in your subject and please send me your address and tell me the prize you won.

 Many thanks!!!

Still Time...

Hey everyone! 

Just reminding you that you still have time to enter our challenge this month and I just want to remind you that challenges now end at midnight 25th of each month (Australian Eastern Standard Time) so this means you have just under 2 days left to enter our January challenge which is this.,.

Theme: "The start of something new" 

The new year is among us. What better way to celebrate change, renewed hope and having a positive attitude than with a brand new year? A new start...a new horizon and the start of something new! A new year is full of possibilities. So in honor of the start of 2013, we would like you to create a layout and interpret the theme "The start of something new..." however you like. Whatever that sentence inspires you to scrap then go for it. 

Ideas for journalling: Include the theme sentence as your title, a new job coming up or the beginning of a new job and in the past and what it meant to you, a child's new toy, a new house you are building/moving in to or one you have moved in already, a new year and what it means to you, a new attitude, the start of a new school year, a new relationship - yours, a family members, your child's, a new friendship, new wardrobe, new diet, new phone, new haircut...

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 . You are allowed to journal in any language but please tell us where on your page we will find your journalling. Remember journalling has to be a bit more than a title, or a generic comment. Hidden journalling is perfectly fine.

Now here are some examples from our Guest Designers and our Design Team

Natasha Naranjo Aguirre 

Jess Mackenzie (Australia)

Svetlana Austin (South Africa)

** Imaginarium Design chipboard letters

Helena Virpi (Italy)

Florence Teixeira - France 

"On this year, I will cook!"

*Hidden journalling under the spoon.

Vicky Alberto (Canada)

*Hidden journalling on back of layout*

Georgia Heald - (Australia)

*Maja Design Vintage Summer Basics Paper - 1946

*Hidden journalling under shipping tag

Cathy Cafun (Australia) 

*Maja Design Walking in the Forest & Crea Diem papers 

** Imaginarium Design Tinies Cogs and Steampunk Clock

Chantalle McDaniel (Australia)

*Maja Design patterned paper 

** Imaginarium Design chipboard letters

Kelly Foster (USA)

Romy Veul (The Netherlands) 

** Imaginarium Design chipboard frames

Mona Pendleton (USA)

Anna Zaprzelska (Poland)

**Journaling on the back of the layout

Renata Moni (Brazil)

** Imaginarium Design chipboard flourishes

**Hidden Journaling on the folded paper with the roses.

Erin Blegen (USA)

**Hidden journaling on tag behind bottom photo**

**Pink ribbon from Scrapbook Fantasies**

The winner of this challenge as voted by the Design Team will win the prize from our main sponsor and also be invited to come back in March as our Guest Designer.

Our new sponsor for the month of January

 Deer & Fawn Designs

Deer & Fawns Designs is an online store that offers heaps of Handmade goodies…. Scrapbooking Embellies, Gifts, Jewellery and much more

We are constantly adding to our releases and some are limited and once they are sold out they are not re stocked.

We have some AMAZING new products in store for 2013 such as J Crochet Baby goodies, more handmade scrapbooking supplies & also more Washi Tape designs…..

Make sure you like and follow us on facebook and also become a follower of our blog to see some inspiration from our DT with projects listed regularly for you to see.

Deer & Fawn Designs is donating this beautiful kit for our January winner...

Here are our permanent sponsors for 2013 and the prizes they are kindly donating. 

Imaginarium Designs chipboard, is donating a chipboard pack full of their newest releases valued at AU$50.00 , with free domestic and international shipping 

Scraps of Elegance kit club is donating their main kit valued at US$35.95 value, with free Priority shipping within the USA, or free First Class shipping for international winners!

The Flying Unicorn online store and kit club, is donating a US$25.00 gift voucher to spend at their store with freedomestic and international shipping ! 

Julia Cotrim Scrapbooking is donating a patterned paper and canvas collection with free domestic and international shipping 

Sassy Scrappers is donating a AUS$25.00 prize pack with free domestic and international shipping 

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

Njoyfull Crafts is donating one of the above prize packs or similar valued at AU$20.00 with free domestic and international shipping 

Get Creative Embellishments is donating a prize pack valued at 15.00 Euro,  shipped free anywhere in the world

SA Crafters is donating a prize pack valued at US$15.00 , shipped anywhere in the world. 

December Challenge *** Winners***!!!!!

Yeah we have a pretty amazing and efficient Design Team here. They all voted even after I made an error and asked the wrong people to vote right in the middle of the BUSIEST and CRAZIEST time of the year. THANK YOU TEAM!! 

I have said this before, but one thing we take very seriously here is the voting and it simply takes a long time to vote. Its not just picking whoever just to fill in the numbers. Voting is a job all on its own and as we all know everyone is very very busy but this team finds time in their busy lives to vote efficiently for the winners because we all feel how important it is to all of you AND to us too!

We are always looking for different ways to feature layouts here without taking away the "exclusivity" of being amongst the Top 10 out of SO many entries (sometimes close to 120+). So after throwing some ideas around we decided to introduce a more personal way of featuring layouts so that hopefully all styles and preferences are represented. 

The Top 5 winners will still stay the same. These are the Top 5 with the highest marks. 

But further down, you will find that starting from this month our Top 5 Featured layouts will be 5 Design Team member's individual picks. That means that 1 of 5 Design Team members chose 1 layout outside the winners that really stood out to them , so much that they gave it very high points. We hope you like this feature because its a little more personal and I think it is nice when you know someone specifically liked your layout. 

One more feature we wanted to introduce is a spotlight on one of our entries. We would like to choose 1 entry/participant for whatever reason they stood out. This can depend on many reasons, journalling, design , participation etc etc. So look for that further down...

So let's see how we went this month!

Please note: Can all the winners PLEASE contact me, Nadia ( nadiac78@hotmail.com), within 7 days to claim your prize. PLEASE write "OUAS December Winner" in your subject and please send me your address and tell me the prize you won. Many thanks!!!

Can all the winners also grab their winners or featured badges from the right sidebar of our blog. Thanks!!

Top 5 Winners

(in winning order) 

With an amazing OVERWHELMING result (the highest points I have ever seen I think!) our December winner is...

Yuko Tanaka (Japan) 

Congratulations Yuko!!! This is sooooo beautiful and perfect for our December theme. So soft and so warm and that picture just goes beautifully with all the white surrounding it. Your journalling (and I hope the translation is correct) speaks of the little child's wonder at Christmas. 

So well done, you have won a $25.00 Gift Voucher from The Trinket Track.  Yuko you are also invited to return in February as our Guest Designer so once you contact me I will forward all the details to you!!!

Christin G (Norway)

Christin we loved the way you used white space here. The pops of red are just so striking and the journalling of your 3 year old opening Christmas presents is so sweet. Well done!

You have won a gorgeous paper collection from Maja Design. 

Evgenia Sokolinskaya (Russia) 

(journalling hidden on the right hand side under the flowers in a piece of rolled up paper) 

WOW Evgenia! I read on your blog that you didnt like this layout very much, and that it took you many hours to put together. But we LOVED IT! Its very special and the way you have framed your picture is just perfect! Well done to you. 

Evgenia you have won a $20.00 gift voucher from C'est Magnifique kit club with free postage. 

Vibeke Harila (Norway)

Vibeke this is SO SO detailed and beautifully layered. There are so many things to look at, and just LOVE how you included your journalling in that little envelope! For your efforts , you have also won a chipboard pack from Imaginarium Designs. 

Debbie Burns (USA)

(journalling tag hidden behind picture)

Well done Debbie!!! What a beautiful background you created and what a GORGEOUS picture you have used here too. Everything just sits so nicely on this layout. Beautiful work!!

Debbie for your gorgeous creation you have won a paper and canvas collection from Julia Cotrim Scrapbooking. 

Top 5 Featured Layouts

(please remember to get your Featured Badge from our sidebar)

Vicky Alberto's pick is Keren Tamir (Canada) 

(journalling on the back) 

Nadia Cannizzo's pick is Rachelle Sigurdson (Canada) 

(journalling behind the layout)

Hilde Aaslund's pick is  Jan Rankine (Australia)

Efi Stamatelli's pick is Cathy Lane (South Africa)

Melenia Agapides' pick is  Zanka (Sweden)

Well done to all the Designer's picks!!! Really beautiful work there. 

Spotlight Feature

This month, we wish to spotlight someone that we all feel deserves a mention because this person plays along at almost ALL our challenges , supports us in any way she can, leaves us comments and encouraging words and we just love having here here. 

Denise Price (USA)

        

Denise entered not 1 but 3 layouts this month! Now that's what I call dedication and loyalty. Thank you Denise for being an active participant of our challenges and we wanted you to know we recognize your support and loyalty to us! We would LOVE to send you a handmade tag from Berry71Bleu to thank you :) 

Randomly Chosen Winners

Of course we do not forget the random winners. I choose these winners by Random.org. 

Well done to the following people..

The 2 people that win the ribbon packs from Scrapbooking Fantasies are 63. Catt Bautista (Philippines)  and 43. Francine (NZ) 

The person that wins that $10.00 voucher from The Scrap Locker is 2. Kathleen White, USA 

Please note: Can all the winners PLEASE contact me, Nadia ( nadiac78@hotmail.com), within 7 days to claim your prize. PLEASE write "OUAS December Winner" in your subject and please send me your address and tell me the prize you won. Many thanks!!!