November 15th Challenge

Hi everyone, its time for another challenge here at Once Upon A...Sketch. We hope you find some time to play along.


We also officially welcome some new Design Team members, the super talented Maiko Kosugi, Goergia Heald and Larissa Albernaz. Welcome girls.

November 15th Challenge

Journalling criteria: This time the journalling criteria focuses on YOU as a woman OR ANY female in your life. What is the best thing about being a woman? Motherhood? Shopping? Make Up? Girls nights? Gossip? Your journalling can be as long as you wish and in any language, but you must journal at least 2 sentences on the best part of being a woman.

You must combine the journalling criteria with this sketch..

Guest Designers

Leeann Pearce

Our winner from our September 15th Challenge

Keren Tamir

Here is our permanent Guest Designer from our sponsor Imaginarium Designs..

Natalie May

*Imaginarium Designs Butterflies and alphas 
 

Thank you so much to all our Guest Designers for being here with us this month!

Design Team 

(please click on their names to be directed to their blogs) 

Larissa Albernaz

Bente Fagerberg

 *doilies from The Chip Chop Shop

LG Belarmino

Natalie Elphinstone 

*Imaginarium Designs butterfly and "girl"

Georgia Heald 

Jasmine Shea 

Mai Kosugi 

Helen Tilbury 

*Imaginarium Designs frame and letters

Heather Jacob

**Hidden journaling written on the tags in the envelope pocket.

Imaginarium designs .. flourish and alphas .

Sponsors and Prizes

Our November 15th challenge sponsor is the amazing Australian chipboard company Imaginarium Designs which you can purchase through Seriously Scrpabooking and they are giving away this gorgeous chipboard collection to 1 randomly chosen winner. 

Our Guest Designer, Leeann Pearce has a GORGEOUS etsy shop filled with her amazing and very UNIQUE handmade creations called The Chip Chop Shop which is giving away a stunning collection of goodies to the value of $25.00 to one randomly chosen winner. 

Lastly, the winner of this challenge, as chosen by the Design Team, will receive this embellishment collection from BasicGrey's Jovial line.  Just in time for Christmas...

This collection includes a 6x6 paper pad, and 1 packed each of stitches brads, glazed brads, epoxy stickers, pops stickers, ribbon doilies and clips.

Things to consider when playing along...

**This is an international blog, so anyone can enter

**You are allowed to create a card, layout or off-the-page item based on the provided sketch and additional journalling criteria. If you are creating a card or altered item you only need to include a quote.

**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 winners and the Top 5 project will be announced soon after the challenge has finished.

**You may enter as many times as you like and combine this with other challenges. We don't mind at all. 

**Also, please consider turning off word verification for comments on your blog. .

October 15th challenge **WINNERS**

For our current challenge please click here

Hi everyone. Its time to announce the winners of our last challenge! 

Huge congratulations go to...wait for it..not 1 but 3 people who all received the same POINTS! I think this has only happened once before and I think that they are all deserving winners. I can see why the Design Team voted for all of these to be winners!!

 So without further delay let me introduce you to the 3 winners of our October 15th challenge... CONGRATS to...

Shona Kheen from Canada

Wendy Kwok from Singapore

Marylin Rivera from Puerto Rico

As you know we only had one prize for one winner for this challenge from our sponsor Imaginarium Designs but since we have 3 equal winners we believe that everyone should win something so Marylin, Wendy and Shona please email me your details at nadiac78@hotmail.com and I will work out a prize for all of you!!

Here is your badge to display on your blogs! WELL DONE girls...we loved your work!

Now lets move on to our ..

Top 5 featured projects 

(in winning order) 

Efi from Greece

Eila Sandberg from Sweden 

Joyce Lawrence from the USA

Sarah Groen from New Zealand

Shell Carmen from Australia

Congratulations girls. Here is your badge for your blogs!!

Lastly, we have the RANDOMLY chosen winner of a gorgeous embellishment pack from Bibby's One Of A Kind..

Number 5 is Jurgita Lenart from Lithuania who submitted this cute  layout..

Congratulations!! Jurgita please email Patti at phami@live.com to claim your prize!

I hope you are all well and cannot wait to see your entries for the current challenge.

Bye for now.

November 1st Challenge

Hi everyone. Thank you SO much to everyone that played along in the last challenge. The Design Team is busy voting and we will announce the winners very soon.  Welcome also to all our new followers! Its great to see you here. I hope you get the chance to play along with our upcoming challenges. 


We also welcome some BRAND NEW Design Team members this month! Welcome Lene, Vibeke, Mahlin and Pamela. 

November 1st Challenge

Journalling Criteria: This time you need to journal at least 2 SENTENCES on WHEN you started scrapping and WHY?

You MUST combine our journalling criteria with this sketch.

Guest Designers

It is so exciting to announce this month's Guest Designer. This lady has a unique and instantly recognisable style and we are so happy she has accepted our invitation to be our Guest Designer. HUGE welcome to the extremely talented..

Leeann Pearce from Australia

I’m Leeann Pearce and I am married to Quentin and we have 3 beautiful girls, Holly (9) Storm (8) and baby Jorja (2). We made a tree change last year and now live in the country on a farm not far from the ocean. We are slowly getting the farm animals. We have a dog and 9 chooks and I love that we get farm fresh eggs each day. I have been scrapbooking since about 2004. I like my creations to be fun and bright which reflects my personality – happy and a little quirky! I am a design team member for Aussie Scrap Source and also Basic Grey. I adore embellishments and have my own etsy shop call “the chip chop shop” made up of handmade yummies from dyed doilies, pin toppers, journal spots and acrylic designs. I love the whole process of creating and always look forward to creating the next one.

Here is what Leanne has created for our challenge...

Welcome also to the winner of our last challenge, who gets to be our Guest Designer for the month of November...

Keren Tamir

My name is Keren Tamir from Ontario Canada, and I'm 37 years old. I am a wife to a wonderful husband who is very supportive of my scrapbooking hobby and a mother of two amazing kids: a 10 year old boy and a 4 year old girl. I've been scrapbooking for 7 years and I mainly scrapbook about our family. I love to create and experiment with many different mediums and techniques. I get inspiration everywhere I go. I’m constantly thinking about scrapbooking and I design my layouts in my head usually while driving. I scrapbook at night when everyone is asleep because I love the inspiration you get when it’s quiet. I love my camera and I’m always taking many pictures everywhere I go.

I would love to see you over at my blog Expressing From My Heart.

Here is Keren's take on our challenge.

Design Team

(Please click on each Design Team member's name to be directed to their blogs.)

Irma Peredne

Patti Hamil

*Imaginarium Designs chipboard flourishes, title and butterfly

**Swirlydoos October kit papers, blooms. Filmstrip from previous Swirlydoos kit

Irini Liolia

Gerry Van Gent 

*Imaginarium Designs  title & year chipboard

** Manor House Creations flowers

Mahlin Wiggur

Vicky Varvadouka

*Imaginarium Designs chipboard flourish

Sandi Taloumis 

Jeni O'Connor 

*Imaginarium Designs chipboard title, clock, words and butterflies

** Manor House Creations flowers

Lene Neby

Pamela Young

Vibeke Harila

Sponsors

We are SO excited to have one of the best kit clubs sponsor us this month. Please welcome.....

Swirlydoos

Swirlydoos coordinated scrapbook kits are comprised of elegant papers and products that help our members create beautiful pieces of art both in their scrapbooks, and altered art projects. Swirlydoos tries to include only the newest and most innovative products on the market, as well as showcasing handmade and non-traditional products that we find within the crafting community. We encourage new growth in our members by offering monthly challenges on our forums and offering both photo and video tutorials which help them to learn new tips, tricks and techniques. We also offer a monthly technique or project kit to help further our members in their artistic ability. In addition, we offer various coordinating add ons for those ladies who can never have too many scrappy goodies!

Our forums are filled with some of the most talented scrapbookers on the net and ALL of our members are warm, welcoming, fun, and willing to share what they know with any “Swirly Sister” who wants to know. Our members encourage one another whole-heartedly and with unmatched humour. Swirlydoos has a very welcoming, yet tight “family feel” to it, this is a characteristic we cherish. Come check us out at http://www.swirlydoos.com/ and see for yourself what sets Swirlydoos apart from other scrapping communities on the net!

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You might have read earlier that our Guest Designer , Leanne Pearce has a GORGEOUS etsy shop filled with her amazing and very UNIQUE handmade creations called...

The Chip Chop Shop

THANK YOU so much and WELCOME Swirlydoos and The Chip Chop Shop!

Prizes

How would you like to be our Guest Designer for December? This is the challenge where you have the chance to win a spot on our design team for the whole upcoming month simply by winning this challenge. As well as being our Guest Designer, the first placed winner as chosen by the Design Team will win this prize..

The complete October kit from Swirlydoos kit club.

This kit is simply stunning. It includes the captivating Vintage Blue line from Glitz Designs, papers, flowers, wood flourishes and rub ons from Kaisercraft, Prima Resin Old Window, Maya Road wooden spools and pearl pins and much much more.

This time we also have 2 prizes to give away to RANDOMLY chosen people!

The first prize for one randomly chosen winner will receive a mixture of products from "the chip chop shop" to the value of $25.00 plus postage.

Our other randomly drawn winner will receive the gorgeous Webster's Pagespaper collection Ladies and Gents which includes 1 sheet of alphas, 1 die cut paper, 1 vellum paper, and 6 sheets of patterned paper.

Don't forget that 5 projects will be voted on by the Design Team to be our Top 5 featured projects. So that could be your name and your project on our winners banner at the top of this blog for a whole 2 weeks!

Things to consider when playing along...

**This is an international blog, so anyone can enter

**You are allowed to create a card, layout or off-the-page item based on the provided sketch and additional journalling criteria. If you are creating a card or altered item you only need to include a quote.

**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 sidebar 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 14th, Australian Eastern Standard Time . The Design Team will vote and the winners and the Top 5 project will be announced soon after the challenge has finished.

**You may enter as many times as you like and combine this with other challenges.

**Also, please consider turning off word verification for comments on your blog.

For a complete list of the rules please see the 

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