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DARLING HARBOUR

The monthly challenge is up at Once Upon A...Sketch! This month it is Team A's turn to reveal their layouts.

 

 

Theme: "Its The Weekend!"

 What does your weekend look like? 

Maybe you work, or run around like crazy taking your kids to activities etc. Lunch with friends? Movies? Dinner? Or maybe you do all the exciting stuff like ...clean the house, tend to the garden , kinds birthday parties. You might like to tell us of an exciting weekend coming up, or a weekend past. Maybe a weekend getaway? Whatever it is that you want to tell us that has to do with the theme "Its The Weekend" we would love to hear it. 

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.

 

Here's my interpretation.

Instead of one photo I used 6 smaller ones of our weekend in Darling Harbour, Sydney this past January. Loved the place (loved the whole adventure in Australia!) and took a bunch of photos. My journaling is hidden on the tag underneath the last photo strip.

To create the background I swiped gesso with a credit card, added layers with book paper, patterned paper, notebook paper, Hambly transparency, washi tape, Glimmer mist, stamping, stitching and modeling paste with a stencil.

some close-ups

 

TFL  and thanks for any comment you may want to leave. They are always greatly appreciated!

SO GRATEFUL

is the title of my page for OUAS January challenge. 

 

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 based on the following sketch. 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...

You can journal as little or as much as you like, but your layout must incorporate this theme and the sketch below. 

Here is the sketch

This is my interpretation

I wanted to create a page to celebrate a new friendship - actually a new friendship with 12 wonderful ladies who I met last September in Oregon at a photography retreat.

These wonderful ladies have come into my life to stay and they have made it more beautiful.

Here are a couple of closeups

 

 

HOLIDAY MAGIC

It's the B team's turn to show their creations for the December challenge at Once Upon A ...Sketch.

Theme:  It's December...

We would like you to create a layout and interpret the theme "'It's December.. " however you like based on the following sketch. You can journal as little or as much as you like, but 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 . Hidden journalling is perfectly fine.

Ideas for Journalling: We know that not everyone celebrates Christmas in December, but if you do we would love to hear all about it. If not, then tell us anything that you like about December..celebratory on not! 

Here is the sketch

 

I love Christmas so the only difficulty for me was to pick the right photo. I ended up choosing this one with candles since we burn candles throughout the whole month of December.

I used Imaginarium Designs chipboard border which I treated first with gesso and paint and then embossed with UTEE. You'll see the effect in the closeups.

OUAS NOVEMBER CHALLENGE - TEAM B REVEAL

Today is the Team B reveal time at Once Upon A ...Sketch.  Check it out here.

 

Theme: Anything Goes..

Yep! You read right.. No theme this month. You are free to create a layout based on whatever theme you like.  You can journal as little or as much as you like, but your layout must include SOME journalling 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 . Hidden journalling is perfectly fine.

 

Here is my interpretation

I scrapped a photo of Andrea when he was at the hospital for a minor operation in 2006. His attitude was the best. Right before the operation he had his earphones on and he was jamming away. Note the lil teddybear beside him. Andrea asked the bear to be anesthetized with him and the doctors played the part ;)

EVERYDAY MOMENTS

                                                                            #snapshotsofagoodlife

CSI #38 + OUAS SEPTEMBER CHALLENGE (third week)

Here's the case file with the OUAS sketch

EVIDENCE - CHOOSE AT LEAST TWO ELEMENTS:

• trees/branches
• birds
• flowers
• newsprint pattern
• border 
• china/silverware/cups/pots, etc. as an accent
• dog or other pet accent
• misting
• woodgrain

TESTIMONY - CHOOSE AT LEAST ONE ELEMENT:

• Write in the form of a newspaper article.
• Document something about a pet.
• Document a daily routine.
•  Add a border to your journaling spot.
• Use the lyrics from Lionel Richie's Easy to inspire your journaling--use the happy or sad (or both) parts of the song.
• Inspiration Words: together, read, daily-- use these as inspiration for your journaling, not just as a title 
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I admit that these colors were quite difficult for me but at the end I pulled it off.

I built up layers with misting and masking, tapping Distress Ink through a stencil, stamping a lot on the background. I continued to create layers with different papers, tags and a misted doily. One of the matting papers is a Tim Holtz package and on the UL corner there's a piece of a Jenni Bowlin package. Gotta love recycling, lol!

For my evidence this time I used trees and branches (faintly seen on the background paper), border (stamped the half circles  onto the left edge of the layout) and misting.

My hidden journaling is written on the yellow tag underneath the photo. It's about the joys (and sorrows) of starting over having a child @40 and about how we've managed together. My journaling spot = the tag has also a stamped border on it.

The title is Imaginarium Designs' chipboard which I colored with Distress inks and a touch of white paint.

TFL

CSI and Once Upon a Sketch united

For the month of September CSI and OUAS have teamed up.

The weekly challenges are combined. They have to include the CSI evidence and testimony AND the OUAS Sketch (by Nadia Cannizzo) for each week.

These are this week's color scheme and the sketch

EVIDENCE - CHOOSE AT LEAST TWO ELEMENTS:

• mesh (inspired by the net)
• Use letters as embellishments
• leaves
• misting
• fibers (inspired by her hair)
• tone on tone
• elements that float across the page
• include curved, organic shapes in your design (inspired by the rocks)

TESTIMONY - CHOOSE AT LEAST ONE ELEMENT:

• Write your journaling in the form of a letter (inspired by the letters).
• Write an acrostic using the letters of a person's name or the subject of your layout.
• Use some of the letters in the inspiration image to generate words that describe your topic.
• Scatter your journaling across your page.
• Write your journaling in speech bubbles.
• Inspiration Words: catch, [on] top, float -- use these as inspiration for your journaling, not just as a title

 

 Here is my take on the challenge

I absolutely fell in love with the colors. The photo is of Valentina. I loved to work on the background and incorporating the photo into the background.

My evidence include misting, tone on tone and leaves (stamped around the flowers). I also used mesh but decided to take it off later on since I didn't like the effect.

I  scattered  my journaling across the page.

"We are gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light."

"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."

"There comes a moment when you realize that virtually anything is possible."

 

Here are some closeups

Layers of mixed media techniques: decoupaging book papers and strips of patterned papers, gesso, stenciled dots with Adirondack's Dabber (copper), misting, applying acrylic paint with a brush (black and gold), adding tiny silver pearls to wet gesso, stitching

 

Some of the flowers are fussycut, smeared with gesso and misted, some are fabric flowers which I painted and misted. I added different flower centers and also coppery pearls here and there.

 

Traces of gesso, stamping and flicking watered down black paint

 

gesso, stamping, tiny silver pearls, doily. Here is where I had put the mesh, you can see the pattern it left onto the gesso, but later decided to take off.

OUAS August challenge - EDITED

 

MY LAYOUT WAS FEATURED AT THE IMAGINARIUM DESIGNS BLOG! COULDN'T BE HAPPIER :)))

The theme for the August challenge at OUAS is 

Season (Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring)

We would like you to create a layout and interpret the theme "Season" however you like based on the following sketch. You can journal as little or as much as you like, but 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 . Hidden journalling is perfectly fine.

Ideas for journalling: current season in your part of the world, favourite season, seasonal traditions on your part of the word, a childhood memory, a summer romance, what summer/autumn/winter/spring brings for you, baby it's cold outside, summer loving, spring is in the air, autumn breeze, summer holidays, seasonal changes, etc etc. Anything goes .. 

 

Here's the sketch

And here's my take on it

My favorite season is summer, but I made a layout about spring. The photo is of my godson and his girlfriend. Loved working on this page using gesso, découpaged book papers, stamping, acrylicsand, stitching. I used our sponsors' Imaginarium Designs chipboard and Scrapbook Fantasies ribbon on this layout.

To get more inspiration, go see what the talented ladies of the DT have come up with.  You can find them here and here.

JULY CHALLENGE AT ONCE UPON A SKETCH

I'm really excited. This is my first layout as a DT member at Once Upon a Sketch. Talk about pressure, LOL!

I was introduced at the OUAS blog at the end of June in this post. There are 29 wonderful and talented artists in the Design Team. Be sure to check their blogs.

So here are the deets about July challenge:

 

 

Theme: Friend

We would like you to create a layout and interpret the theme "Friend" however you like based on the following sketch. You can journal as little or as much as you like, but 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 . Hidden journalling is perfectly fine. 

Ideas for journalling: one of your current friends, a childhood friend, an unexpected friendship,what having friends mean for you, a friend that you miss or have lost, family member who is your closest friend, a scrappy/online  friend,  a special person that has touched your life, someone who has helped you out lately, a friend that you couldn't do without, your children's friends / classmates etc., your pet and the friendship you have with it..

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Here is my interpretation.

I scrapped a page about my friend Paola who I met through scrapbooking. We've been together at CKU in Provo back in 2008 - wonderful memories - and then in Mykonos in 2010 where I took this photo during one of the excursions we did while attending the scrap event. My journaling is written on the tag which I slipped behind the photo.

The background is made decoupaging book paper and then painted with Pan Pastels mixed with white acrylic paint. I then layered different papers, tags, an envelope and ribbon, stitched them to the background  and then stamped on them.

 

JOIN US AT OUAS FOR A CHANCE TO WIN ONE OF THE MARVELLOUS PRIZES OFFERED EVERY MONTH!

here are the rules to play

 

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

**You are free to combine Once Upon A..Sketch challenges with other challenges. We don't mind at all!!!

**You are allowed to enter only layouts  for our challenges

**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 July 31st, Australian Eastern Standard Time . The Design Team will vote and the Top 5 layouts PLUS Top 5 featured layouts will be announced soon after the challenge has finished.

**You may enter as many times as you like

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

 

 

I'M SO EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE...

that I'm part of the fabulous Design Team at OUAS!!!! 

Here is the official announcement Nadia Cannizzo, the owner of OUAS, made on the blog.

So without further delay please welcome the brand new (with a couple of oldies :) ) Once Upon A...Sketch Design Team. The team will be split into 2 groups who will show their work on the 1st and the 15th of each month. 

Jeni O'Connor -Administrator (Australia /Canada)

Georgia Heald - Guest Designer coordinator (Australia)

Patti Hamil - Sponsorship Administrator (USA)
Eila Sandberg (Sweden)
Efi Stamatelli (Greece)
Erin Blegen ( USA)
Romy Veul (The Netherlands)
Kelly Foster (USA)
Jolaine Frias (USA)
Vicky Alberto (Canada)
Luzma Bruna (Chile)
Mona Pendleton (USA)
Solange Marques (Brazil)
Anna Zaprzelska/Brises (Poland)
Evgenia Petzer (South Africa) 
Renata Moni (Brazil)
Elena Stefanidou (Greece) 
Melenia Agapides (Greece) 
Cathy Cafun (Australia) 
Tina Walker (USA)
Kim Jeffress (Australia)
Florence Teixeira - France 
Helena Virpi (Italy) THAT'S ME :))))))
Hilde Aaslund (Norway) 
Kay Fatula (USA)
Camilla Ekman (Sweden)
Svetlana Austin (South Africa)

I will introduce these ladies in the coming weeks before they officially start on July 1st! I have already seen some of their work uploaded in our Design Team private blog and I am already getting a feeling that we are in for a treat :) 

I am so happy and excited and honored. Can't wait to start! But you have to wait for July to see the new team's first creations.