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New Challenge at OUAS!!!

It's that time again!! A new challenge is up at Once Upon A Sketch. Please go check it out and see what the Design Team and Guest Designers have done!!! www.onceuponasketchblog.blogspot.com

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..

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 randomlychosen winner.

Our Guest Designer , Leanne 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 onerandomly 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...

Swirlydoos

Wow...the October kit from Swirlydoos was fantastic! I have enjoyed this kit tremendously. This page was done for the Swirlyhues challenge. I didn't finish in time but this is it!!! This is our youngest ds and his girlfriend. Aren't they sweet?!?!?! I absolutely love this kit. I've gotten quite a few pages done with it. I still have some left and guess what? I got my CNS and should have my next kit in the next few days! I can't wait!!!

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This is a Dusty Attic chippie from my good friend Gabrielle!!! Thanks Gabi! I used alcohol ink and then used a Sakura glitter pen to the edges. I used a definition sticker on a scrap of the patterned paper and attached it to it. The little blooms are handmade, I will post a tutorial tomorrow hopefully on them, they are so easy, and you can do any size and color.

The leaves chippies are just painted with a light green acrylic paint and then alcohol inked a little darker in places. I dotted blue liquid pearl in the centers of the butterfly trim.
The little chippie butterflies are Imaginarium! I love Imaginarium chippies, they are so easy to work with and even the tiniest detail lets go easily. I used little pearls in the center. On the butterflies themselves I inked them with alcohol ink in Butterscotch and then dabbed gold fixative in spots and used a glitter pen on the edges.
A little more detail of the leaves and blooms.
Check back for the tutorial, it really is super simple!! If I can do it, anybody can do it! LOL! Thanks for visiting my blog, I really appreciate it!

It's time for a new challenge at OUAS!

I'm so happy to announce that a new challenge is up over at "Once Upon A Sketch". Please be sure to check out the blog at www.onceuponasketchblog@blogspot.com to see the design team projects and more details.

The Main prize for this challenge is a lucious October kit from Swirlydoos kit club. I used this kit for my layout along with some Imaginarium chippies!

Here is my take on the challenge.

I embossed the key with gold and drew the journal spot, I got the idea from an old one that was black.

For the chippie flourishes I embossed them with white and sprayed them with Studio Calico's Mister Huey's mist in custard. The bloom wasn't quite the right color either, so I sprayed it with Mister Hueys also!

I used the Tim Holtz film and used rubon words on it, it worked perfectly!!!

On the butterfly I embossed it white and then used a couple of colors of ink and dabbed it with color.

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.

Swirlydoos and Gabi's Sketch!!!

My good friend Gabrielle Pollacco has done a beautiful sketch! I liked it so much that I had to give it a try. I also had just received my lucious, goodie crammed October kit from Swirlydoos, so I decided to use it. This is the original sketch. You can check out Gabi's page on her blog at:http://gabriellepollacco.blogspot.com/2011/10/bo-bunny-i-made-sketch.html

And this is my take on the sketch. I used this picture of our youngest ds and his girlfriend walking just before dark! I had to use the chippie lampost from Kaisercraft! The papers are from Glitz!! And of course the blooms are Prima!
I cut a circle from a piece of cardstock and placed it over the page around the lamp, then I used Studio Calico Mister Huey's mist to make a "glow" around it. The actual lampost is heat embossed with black and platinum embossing powder. Then I used Glitz alpha stickers for the word.
This is detail of the smaller rubon lamp, I placed a small gem for the flame in both and you can also see some of the liquid pearl accents that I used around the scallop circle.
I cut out the birds from the sheets from Glitz! I kept the rest and used several layered as matts.
Here's a closeup of the blooms.
and another of the lampost detail.
I loved this sketch and really had fun doing this page. The Glitz collection is just absolutely stunning and I loved every piece of it! I have plenty of this Swirly kit left and will post more pages later!!!

Ever do a page with no patterned paper?

Makes you think outside the box. I did one for WorldWin and kept it simple to focus on the cardstock. I did mange to do some simple techniques on the page, but it turned out pretty cute!

I used punches, stamps, stickers and blooms for it!

The background paper was done with different leaf pattern stamps. I used gold, green and burnt orange inks for it. I punched the little lacy borders.

The leaves are stamped and cut out. Folded a little bit and that's it! Really, really simple! I added the 2 Prima blooms and that's it!!!! I wanted to show off the WorldWin papers on this. I used several different types and colors! I used ColorMates and DoubleMates paper on this. Gives a different look rather than the usual type leaves!

Websters Pages GiveAway!!!!

October 21, 2011

Wanna Win Webster's Staff Favorites?

Here at Webster's Pages, we are big believers in spreading the love. And one thing all of us working here can agree on is that we LOVE these products. Oh, we all have our favorites, but there's a general consensus around here that we've got warm and fuzzy feelings over what we create...and we're taking this Freebie Friday to share that with you!

One lucky reader is going to get our staff's FAVORITE products.

I know...you're wondering how any of us chose just ONE thing, and let me tell you, it wasn't easy... but I think we've managed to narrow it down...I am really excited because this is what you could win:

Brandin's favorite...One of the new Photobooks from My NovelTree.

What can we say? This alone would make for an awesome giveaway...you'll be able to drop your own photos right into the book and we'll print it out and send it to your door!

And I could stop here...but then you'd miss out on all the other favorites.

Shauna Benson, our Operations Manager, loves the gem strips.

And really, who can blame her? Great way to add some sparkle...

Tim Myers, Business Operations & Manging Director, likes the 6x6 paper pads.

I think Tim can appreciate a smart product when he sees one...and the paper pads are brilliant. (And cute...but Tim didn't say that...I did...)

Our Graphic Arts Director, Jaime Andrews, has a soft spot for our Feather Flowers and Pins...

...which are just plain unique.

And me? Well, I don't just like...I obsess over the Bloomers.

I think I talk about them in my sleep.

You have to admit...they're pretty!

So, we won't make you jump through any hoops to enter this giveaway, but we're so excited we're offering extra chances for you to enter today.

• Tweet about the giveaway, you get to enter again
• Share this post on Facebook, you get to enter again
• Blog about it, you get to enter AGAIN!

That's FOUR chances to win this time...just for playing along!

Be still my Webster's Pages Lovin' Heart!

And the good news just keeps on coming... guess who won LAST WEEK'S giveaway?

I think I would buy bloomers and silhouettes, I think they are gorgeous

Posted by: sandra m | October 14, 2011 at 02:08 AM

So Sandra M. (who was up WAY too late when she posted that comment...I'm praying you live overseas, Sandra!!) email me at cwalsh [at] websterspages [dot] com and I will make sure you get your $25 gift certificate!

Help us spread the word and enter the giveaway today!!

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