Once Upon a sketch challenge!

Hi everyone! Yippee! It's live! Yup, our Dec. 1st challenge at OUAS is up! For this challenge, you simply use the wonderful sketch, by Nadia, the awesome creator and owner of our site, and follow the journaling criteria.

The journaling criteria is: 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: Your 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.

I just absolutely love this time of year....just think of all the wonderful things that you could do with this challenge!

The sketch

Our wonderful Sponsor and prizes:

Handmade by Suzanne

Handmade By Suzanne is a Perth, Western Australia based Scrapbooking and Craft online retailer. Stocking an extensive range of the latest beautiful and exciting released scrapbooking and craft products.

With over 3,500 products online and growing there isn’t much in scrapbooking and craft that they don’t sell! Their brands include – Kaisercraft, Bo Bunny, Webster’s Pages, Prima, Hambly Screen Prints, Dusty Attic, October Afternoon, Martha Stewart, Crate Paper, Cheery Lynn, Sizzix - just to name a fraction!

And what better timing to have Handmade By Suzanne sponsor us than the month of December, which is their BIRTHDAY SALE month! Birthday Sale Starts Now! 20% Off Storewide

Handmade By Suzanne is 2 years old in December and to celebrate they are having a month long sale – there is 20% off all items storewide with the exception of the very latest arrivals the previous week

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!

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 Tim Holz alterations embossing folder set prize from Handmade By Suzanne:

Another lucky person will win this set of My Minds Eye 6x6 paper pads in four different collections

Aren't these prizes just awesome!!!!

I can't wait to see your creations...let the fun begin!

As always, thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Hugs!

A big thank you to all of you!

Hi everyone! I wanted to thank you for all the prayers, comments, and thoughts for my recovery while I was in the hospital. I am back home now and will need some time to recover from surgery so I will not be entering in any new challenges at this time. I do however, have a lot of lo's/projects that I will be able to share with you until I'm back on my feet in full force again. Please forgive me for the lack of comments to your blogs over the next few weeks....I promise I will be visiting again soon. Can't wait to see your beautiful creations. In the mean time, please join me as I share awesome challenges over the next month with you.

At this time, I'd like to share two lo's that I did with the gorgeous Pixie Dust Paperie Pink Rose Cottage kit.

Don't ya just love the gorgeous papers and embellies........

Please head on over to our Pixie blog for a 20% Cyber Monday sale...yeah!

And right now we are having our Nov. challenge where you can have a chance to win a $15.00 gift certificate. Simply make something using this photo in anyway that it inspires you...how easy is that!

As always, thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Hugs!

Time Off

Hi everyone - I am John, Sandi's husband. Sandi wanted me to let you know she will not be able to look at blogs or comment on your wonderful work. Unfortunately, she has undergone emergency surgery. Sandi will be in the hospital all this week. We hope she is home by Monday Nov 28. The recovery period is very lengthy, likely 6-8 weeks. Sandi will be able to leave comments as she recovers closer to the eight weeks. Thank you for your understanding. Let's pray for a quick recovery so Sandi can get back to her normal self.

Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge!

Hi everyone!  We've got another wonderful challenge for you at Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge. This time, it's a sketch by Anne, the lovely creator and owner, of AFSC and a book criteria. Yeah! I love to read....it takes you on an adventure, where the present moment is spent somewhere else. So here's your moment to Scrap your favourite book – you can use a scan of the cover, a picture that represents the book’s theme, you can journal why it is a favourite of yours. You have until the 30th of the month to play along!!!

the sketch



Our prize to play for this month is a $25.00 gift certificate from Scrapbooking.com!!

I can't wait to see what you come up with!

For more inspiration, plaese stop by here to see what the other DT gals and guest have created!

As always, thank you for stopping by, and have a wonderful day!

Hugs!

Once Upon A Sketch challenge!

Hi everyone! Yippee! It's up...the new challenge for Once Upon a sketch is live! This  month you follow this awesome sketch by Nadia, the super sweet creator and owner of OUAS, and combine it with the fun journaling criteria...of focusing on YOU! Yes,  focus 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. How exciting...just think of what you can come up with for this challenge....yeah!

The sketch:



The sponsors and prizes

 

 

Imaginarium designs  is an amazing Australian chipboard company which creates awesome chipboard for all your chippee needs. This month, 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.



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...

For lots of inspiration, please stop by to see what the DT and guests have created!

As always, thank you for stopping by. Have a wonderful day!

Hugs!

Pixie ~ Us lo!

Hi everyone! Today I'd like to show you a lo of my dd's that I did with the Pixie dust paperie Pink Rose Cottage kit. I've got to say that this kit is one of my favorite's. There are so many easy to work with papers and embellies in it that the only difficult thing about it is deciding what pic you won't be able to use on any given paper...honestly, I had so many ideas that I could use for each one! I just love that...no waste!!! For this lo I used almost all embellies...so easy, fun, and quick!

Yup! Even that pretty spread of flowers to the rt. of the pic is a sticker...no fussy cutting...yeah!!!

For daily inspiration, you'll want to stop by the Pixie blog, to see what the other talented DT girls and guest designer have created!

             And don't forget to enter the wonderful giveaway. This month there will be 4 winners!

                   As always, thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Hugs!

Lessology Jars of cuteness challenge!

Hi everyone! Today I'd like to share a jar that I made for the Lessology jars of cuteness jar challenge. My husband and my wedding aniversary is coming up in a few days so I thought it would be sweet to make this jar of us, at our wedding, to give to him. It's hard to see because of the glass glare, but there is a picture of us in the jar at the wedding table where the photographer caught a pic of me telling him that "I love him".  For my recyled item, I  attached our pic to a wire and then stuck it into a wine cork, from a bottle of wine, that we recently had. I used a Classico Alfredo jar because it has an embossed finish on it that I thought would really add character to this project.



Close-ups

I painted the cover, then wrapped it and put some embellies on it.

Our pic

the original jar

To see the awesome jars of cuteness that the DT and guest have done you can go here.

As always, thank you for stopping by, have a wonderful day!

Hugs!

Pixie ~ All hearts that are loved....

Hi everyone! Today I'd like to share a lo that I did with the Pixie dust paperie  Pink Rose Cottage kit. For this lo, I wanted to create something that would show the love that my children have for one another and my hubby and I so I decided to create a home with the kiddo's in it to depict that all hearts that are loved will return home for more love. I created the house using some of the stickers, gorgeous pp, Pixie signature crinkled ribbon and one of the 'windows' from the Prima Shabby Chic treasure pkg. that's included in the kit. I added a little sewing, a splash of ink, and cut part of the cardboard from the box, that my beautiful kit came in, for the roof. So easy and fun!

For some reason, I couldn't get the bottom of this pic to come out straight, but the green border at the bottom of the lo is actually a really pretty straight sticker.

For daily inspiration, you'll want to stop by the Pixie blog, to see what the other talented DT girls and guest designer have created!

And don't forget to enter the wonderful giveaway. This month there will be 4 winners!

As always, thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Hugs!

Pixie retro lo!

Hi everyone! A few days ago I showed you a retro lo that I made using the Pixie dust paperie Pink Rose Cottage kit and today I have another to show you...yup, I got two wonderful retro gals off of one piece of pp that was in the kit. I was able to put this lo of my wonderful parents together using it...so fitting for their era! I just absolutely love this kit...you really must check this one out...so easy and fun to play with!



 I  added one of the gorgeous Prima flower buttons, in the kit, to get the proper 'feel' to the lo. I also used a piece of the packing tissue behind the pic, a few drops of ink, and chalk to highlight near the sewing.

Here's a peak of the original paper:

Gorgeous, isn't it!

For daily inspiration, you'll want to stop by the Pixie blog, to see what the other talented DT girls and guest designer have created!

And don't forget to enter the wonderful giveaway. This month there will be 4 winners!

As always, thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Hugs!

Scrap for help challenge!

Hi everyone! Today I'd like to share my lo that I did for the Scrap for help Nov. challenge. This months we've been thinking of Christmas...such a beautiful time of year. You can do any project as long as you have something recylcled in it. For us, we followed our guest designer, Vibeke, using corregated cardboard and some clothing tags. For me, Christmas is a time of showing our loved ones just how much we love them and making our time together a special time. My lo shows hubby and I, from last Christmas, giving one another a hug. My journaling reads "of all the gifts that I could ask for...you are the greatest gift".

To see the awesome inspiration from everyone you can go here.

Our wonderful Sponsors this month are:

Imaginarium designs

Arte Facil artesanato

Momento divertido

You have until midnight Nov. 30th to enter. I can't wait to see what you come up with!

As always, thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Hugs!

Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge!

Hi everyone! Today I'd like to share my lo that I did for the Nov. 1st AFSC. This month's challenge is to scrap about a belief, or philosophy you have – it can be something deep or something silly. It might be a religious or other philosophy, or something as light as your theory on how you can put two socks into the washing machine and only one ever comes back to you. Take this challenge as seriously or not as you would like to!! How fun is this!

Our prize to play for this month is a $25.00 gift certificate from Scrapbooking.com!!

You have until the 30th of November to play along with this challenge!

For more inspiration, please stop by here and see what the other DT members and guest designer have created. I can't wait to see what you come up with!!!

As always, thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Pixie Dust paperie - DT lo!

Hi everyone! Yippee! I have wonderful news to share....I have the honor of being on the Pixie Dust Paperie DT for the Nov. - Jan. term!!! I am so happy to be able to join such a wonderful paper kit club DT.  Such sweet talented gals and the kits are just amazing! Wow! I'm in dreamland! For my first lo using the Nov. kit "Pink Rose Cottage" I put together this retro girl going shopping...yes, us girls just gotta shop! And if you're a shopper, you can order the Pink Rose Cottage kit at a 15% discount today (Nov. 3rd.) because, Kirsty, the lovely owner, is having an early bird special. Simply use code pink-rose-cottage during checkout!





And here's a sneak peek of some of the creations, from the DT and guest, with this gorgeous kit!

And guess what...Kirsty is having a wonderful Nov. giveaway in which 4 lucky people will win! Yup, for more details you can go here.

For daily inspiration, please do come visit the Pixie Dust blog. And if you love challenges, there is a challenge every month with a wonderful prize!

As always, thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Hugs!

Once Upon A Sketch Challenge!

Hi everyone! It's live! Yup, the challenge is live and it's all about you! For our Nov. 1st challenge we would like you to use this sketch, by Nadia, the lovely creator and owner of OUAS and journal at least 2 sentences on when you started scrapbooking and why. For me, this was very exciting...a friend had shown be a small book that the teacher had done about her son, during his year of kindergarden. I was so inspired that I went right out and bought scrapping stuff to do some lo's with my children. Shortly after that one of my daughters got a scholarship to go to a ski academy, so I decided to scrap her years there. My picture is of a scrapbook that I put together for her by using one of her old ski racing outfits. This is such an important memory for us. Now, I am simply obsessed with scrapping...I just can't seem to get enough of it...it allows me to not only take pictures, but also put them together in the form of art...a true passion of mine.

The sketch

Now for our wonderful sponsors:

This month we have a wonderful kit club sponsor called Swirlydoos.

Swirlydoos coordinated scrapbook kits are comprised of elegant papers and products so that you can  create scrapbook pages as well as altered art projects. These kits include the newest and most innovative products and they showcase handmade and non-traditional products found within the crafting community. They also offer monthly challenges on their forums and show both photo and video tutorials which helps you to learn new tips, tricks and techniques. In addition, they have a monthly technique or project kit and various coordinating add ons for those ladies who can never have too many scrappy goodies!

Wow! How exciting!

We also have the awesome  Guest Designer , Leanne Pearce with us and she is the  GORGEOUS etsy shop owner of  The chip chop shop which is just  filled with her amazing and very UNIQUE handmade creations!

The awesome prises!

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 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 Pages paper 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 us, 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!

Yippee! Let the fun begin!

As always, thank you for stopping by! Have a wonderful day!

Hugs!