December 1st Challenge **WINNERS**

Oh you girls simply love making it SO hard for us to choose the winners don't you? LOL! Voting was once again SOOOOOO close. There only a couple of points between the winner and the rest. 

Before I announce the winner, the Design Team would like to acknowledge this beautiful layout by..

Maria Castillo 

As beautiful and pretty this layout is, it is more the sentimental theme behind it all that touched many of us here at Once Upon A..Sketch. I have always said that my aim for this blog is to get people to journal more and more about things they normally wouldn't. Well, Maria is a lovely person, who is always so cheery, supportive and positive. I see her leaving comments on many people's blogs and you need to know that this  layout was created a few days after a very tragic event ..a life changing event. I hope she was able to find some solace in creating this page and I hope we can all find 30 seconds out of our day to visit her post HERE to find out the meaning behind this layout and maybe leave her some love. It takes a lot to share this sort of thing with the world, but THANK YOU Maria for sharing your story with us. 

Now, the winner of our December 1st challenge, that was a HUGE fave amongst the Design Team was..

Erin Blegen from the USA

WOW Erin! Your take on the sketch is awesome. The Design Team loved your title! We thought it was SO cute. The way you also distressed the edges of your page give this layout a winning look. The effect you also used on the photos was perfect! Well done. 

For your efforts you have won a spot on our Design Team in January and a $20.00 gift voucher to use at Handmade By Suzanne. Please contact Patti at phami@live.com with your details to claim your prize and please also contact me, Nadia , at nadiac78@hotmail.com and I will give you all the details about next month's challenge. 

Here is your badge to display on your blog..

Top 5 Featured Projects

(in winning order) 

Brises (Poland)

Marylin Rivera (Puerto Rico)

Leanne Nankervis (Australia) 

Anita Tillman (Australia) 

and tied for 5th spot were...

Agneja (Lithuania) 

and

Eila Sandberg (Sweden) 

Well done ladies. Your layouts were ALL amazing and were all so very close. Here is your badge to display on your blog..

Now we have 2 RANDOMLY chosen prizes to give away. 

The person that wins the Tim Holtz Embossing folders from Handmade By Suzanne, is ..

Number 19 is Maja Stokk (Sweden) who entered this gorgeous layout..

And the person who wins the collections from My Mind's Eye is

Number 13 is Patricia Cugnod from France who entered this beautiful page

CONGRATULATIONS girls. Maja please contact Patti at phamil@live.com to claim your prize and Patricia please email me,  Nadia, at nadiac78@hotmail.com to claim your prize. 

Well done to everyone! We cannot wait to see your entries for our current challenge. Bye for now. 

December 15th Challenge

Hi everyone! Welcome to another challenge here at Once Upon A Sketch...Its 10 days until Christmas! Can you believe it? 

December 15th Challenge

Journalling Criteria/theme: Our Christmas traditions. 

We would love to hear how everyone spends Christmas Day. Even if you do NOT celebrate Christmas, what do you do on Christmas Day?

Remember that you are allowed to also create a card or altered project based on this sketch and instead of the journalling criteria you need to use a quote. 

Guest Designers

Ivana Camdzic  (Canada) 

Ivana says: "The quote I used doesn't have too much to do with Christmas, but since the only family we have here in Canada is our friends, we spend the holidays with them and that is one of our new traditions during the holidays. So I decided to create a card about friendship"

Our runner up from our November 15th Challenge

Rachael Funnell  (Australia) 

THANK YOU so much Ivana and Rachael for being our Guest Designers this month...this BUSY and CRAZY month! We loved having you here and hope to see you again. 

Design Team

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

Natalie May (Australia) 

**Imaginarium Designs Chipboard border and title

Heather Jacob (Australia) 

**Imaginarium Designs chipboard title "Together"

Natalie Elphinstone (Australia)

**Imaginarium Designs branch

Georgia Heald (Australia) 

**Imaginarium Designs Flourish

Larissa Albernaz (Brazil) 

Jasmine Shea (Australia) 

** Imaginarium Designs border

LG Belarmino (The Philippines) 

Bente Fagerberg (Sweden) 

**Imaginarium Designs chipboard and Les Papiers de Pandore "En Attendent" papers

Mai Kosugi (Japan) 

Sponsors and Prizes

We welcome one more sponsor to our blog this month!

Les Papiers De Pandore 

Les Papiers de Pandore is a small French manufacturer, born in early 2010.

Earth friendly, we try to respect our environment by using recycled papers, vegetable inks, and by printing locally in Provence.

Proud of its "French touch", the brand features classical designs in soft colors.

It is SUPER exciting to have you sponsor us this month!The winner of this challenge, as chosen by the Design Team will receive these 2 paper lines from Les Papiers De Pandore!

           

                 

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One more sponsor for our November 15th challenge is the amazing Australian chipboard company Imaginarium Designs . They have been so generous to sponsor us all year with their beautiful chipboard and you can purchase it through Seriously Scrpabooking. They are giving away this gorgeous chipboard collection to one randomly chosen winner. 

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Handmade By Suzanne

One lucky person, chosen randomly,  will receive this prize from Handmade By Suzanne!

Tim Holtz Alterations Embossing Folder Set (Dot Matrix)

Thank you Les Papiers De Pandore, Imaginarium Designs and Handmade By Suzanne for sponsoring our challenges this month! We couldn't do this without you. 

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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 December 31st, 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.

More Inspiration From Our Sponsor

Hey everyone. How are you going with the current challenge? You still have plenty of time left, but I wanted to share with you some awesome work from the Design Team from our current sponsor Handmade By Suzanne!

December 1st Challenge

Journalling Criteria/theme: The thing I look most forward to in December.

Write at least 2 sentences on what you look forward to in the next month. December is a festive month so your journalling could be about the Christmas season, the holidays, the presents or if you do not celebrate Christmas what does December bring for you that you look most forward to? Note:You layout DOES NOT have to be about Christmas! It can be about anything December brings.

Other ideas for journalling: an annual holiday or celebration, a specific event such as putting up the Christmas tree or pre Christmas traditions you might have leading up to Christmas, family time, snow covered fields or warmer weather, time off work, school holidays, change of weather, new season fruit.

Handmade By Suzanne Design Team Inspiration

(for further details click on their names to be directed to their blog)

Charmane Koch 

 Linda Eggleton 

Marelize Frisby 

Suzanne McGregor

Here is one from our own Design Team, which unfortunately I could not upload at the December 1st reveal 

Patti Hamil (USA) 

Thank you ladies! Your work is just beautiful. 

I hope you all have been inspired just a little more because there are some fantastic prizes up for grabs this time!

The winner of this challenge, as chosen by the Design Team, will win a spot on our Design Team for the month of January. As well as that, the winner will also receive a AUD$20.00 voucher (plus FREE shipping) to spend in the store at Handmade By Suzanne who is ALSO having a 20% sale storewide ALL of December!!

Here at Once Upon A...Sketch we LOVE to encourage EVERYONE to participate, even those that are fairly new to scrapbooking so this is why we like to offer some prizes for RANDOMLY chosen winner so that everyone feels like they have a chance to win!

One lucky person will receive this prize from Handmade By Suzanne!

Tim Holtz Alterations Embossing Folder Set (Collage)

And one lucky person will win this..

A set of My Mind's Eye 6 x 6 paper pads in 4 different collections. 

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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 December14th, 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.

November 15th Challenge **WINNERS**

One word...WOW! Is that even a word? I do not know, but how else can I describe the quality of work we witnessed here in the past fortnight? What about the incredible way you all described your role as a woman in today's world? From mother, to wife to grandmother, to fashionista ...one WORD came through on all 73 entries "STRENGTH" . Yes as women we are STRONG and we KNOW it! I personally visited ALL 73 entries as did the Design Team, and read each and everyone's journalling and I discovered just how strong us women can be from all walks of life and from every part of the world. I thoroughly enjoyed your work everyone and I loved learning so much about all of you and in many way I saw my self in so much of your journalling. 

This leaves us with one little problem..HOW on earth is the Design Team supposed to pick only a few? This challenge was by far the hardest for the Design Team to pick their favorites. It is virtually impossible and I just want you to know that everyone commented on the outstanding standard of entries. Keep up the good work everyone and please do not be discouraged if you did not win this time. 

The winner of this challenge, which was a favourite amongst all the Design Team for her incredible work, attention to detail, as well as her very deep and meaningful journalling and blog post is ...

Sabrina Sulaiman from Singapore

Sabrina, we were all in awe of this layout. What we were most impressed with was the creative way you chose to do your journalling. We have always loved your work, but the Design Team was simply stunned by this layout and in a word "you aced it!". Well done. 

You have won this badge to display on your blog proudly!

You have also won this this embellishment collection from BasicGrey's Jovial line

Please email me at nadiac78@hotmail.com to claim your prize! Congratulations Sabrina!!

Top 5 featured layouts

(in winning order) 

Lisa Novogrodski from the USA

(Lisa had hidden journalling on the top left of the circle)

Katerina Lailopoulou  (from Greece) 

(Katerina also had hidden journalling on the right hand side of this layout under the butterflies)

Agnieska Be from Poland 

Svetlana (from South Africa) 

and tied for 5th spot were 

Charmane Koch from Australia

and

Linda from Norway 

HUGE congratulations girls! Your work is just stunning. Here is your badge to display to your blogs!

Now its time too announce the RANDOMLY drawn winners of the 2 prizes we had to give away..

The winner of the gorgeous chipboard pack from Imaginarium Designs is

Lisa Barrie from the USA who entered this beauty..

The winner of the embellishment pack from The Chip Chop Shop is 

Anna M. Woleben from South Africa who submitted this BEAUTIFUL layout!

(Anna had hidden journalling rolled up in the paper)

CONGRATULATIONS Lisa and Anna. Please contact Patti at phamil@live.com to claim your prizes. When emailing please state which prize you won. 

Have a great day everyone!