The Doodle Formula Contest

Oodles of doodles!!!! Check them out by clicking on our gallery pic on the left. Such great entries we received for this month's challenge! A big huge THANK YOU to all our talented designers who participated. We are proud of each one. It must have been a lot of fun doodling!!!

If you have purchased the book, and did the workshop based on Adrienne Looman's, The Doodle Formula, we know you are loving it :-) As you may already know, it is our #1 bestseller!!!!! If at anytime after the contest you finish a doodle LO, please upload it to our Gallery, or email it to us :-)

Please stay tuned. We are going over each of your entries. Adrienne Looman will help us pick the winner!!! This will be a toughie, Adrienne. Thanks!!!!!!

We will announce the winner soon! Best of luck to all!

The Doodle Formula Challenge

Please email us your entry now at : admin@bookoto.com,

or if you can, you may upload your entry directly to our

with:

Name

Title of your layout

A brief description of your doodles/process

Thank you!

Inspired by Adrienne Looman's new book, "The Doodle Formula" , our challenge this time reaches a whole new level! Here is your chance to create a doodled layout, a one-of-a-kind, ultra personalized and inimitable page that will beat the big designer names in the scrapbooking industry. Let your very personality scream in the pages!

AMAZE US

SURPRISE US

ALLOW US A GLIMPSE OF YOUR CREATIVE SPIRIT!

Create a Layout with Oodles of Doodles

The doodles should be executed using pens, pencils, markers, watercolor or paint. It should be a 12x12 page.
Be as creative as you can be. Your LO will be judged based on The Formula, which include: (btw, if you have The Doodle Formula and you have done Adrienne's step-by step workshop, you already know what we're talking about :D

A. Your Use of Shapes

Shapes may be inspired by an embellishment, a chipboard, a photograph, a patterned paper, or anything you see around you that inspired you to make the LO.
We borrowed 3 of Adrienne's LO's - take a look at the shapes used here:

B. Impression of Depth

When you have created dimension in your otherwise flat page is another element that must be present in your page. So go ahead, doodle those shadows :-)

Here's a sample to give you an idea:

C. Your Use of "Fillers"

Fillers are the finishing touches. You utilize them to cap off the creation of a page. You may use dots, circles, or any other shape imaginable that can fill up those empty spaces. For example, take a look at the fillers in this layout.

And guess what, Adrienne Looman herself will be picking the best layout (thanks, Adrienne)!

"Lets see....I'll bet you want to know a little more about me right? hehe. Well, I am 25 and I'm a total dork (I really am! you'll see lol). No kids...but I *do* have a little chihauha puppy named Bruiser (mass destroyer!). Not married either--it's ok too because I can do plenty of scrapbooking lol. Speaking of it, I've been scrapbooking for 10 years and consider it a passion more than just a hobby. Although my style in scrapbooking has drastically changed within the last year or so, you can find some of my older styles in the 2003/2004 Chatterbox idea book, and in an upcoming 2005/2006 Chatterbox idea book. I have also been published in a few issues of the following magazines: Paper Trends, Scrapbook Trends, Scrapbook Answers, Idees De Scrap. In addition I have contributed several projects to other idea books and have a few to be announced at a later date this year. I've been blessed to have the opportunity to design for several companies including: Scrappers Bliss, Scrapologie, Queen and Co, and the two that I am currently: Urban Lily and Scrap in Style TV. Oh and I've also been a guest designer for a couple places too!--Scrap Magie being one of them--thats totally fun! In June of 2006 I launched my own line of products which include handmade buttons and progressing to digital kits and foam embellishments....it has been rather successful (I am blessed). Every day I end up wondering what I did to deserve such great things in my path...I don't get answers but all I can do is soak everything up and enjoy life right now....in this very moment. Thank you for taking the time to read more about me! "

The winner will receive from www.bookoto.com, a choice of one of these:

A. Bluegrass Publishing package which includes a copy of The Doodle Formula and one Misty Tracey's Digital kits on CD, or

B. Simple Scrapbooks Package including the hottest new books by Donna Downey.

This challenge runs from April 21-May 29 .

Deadline of submission is on May 29, 2008, at 12:00 noon Manila Time, or 12:00 midnight May 28, , eastern standard time, US. You may submit your entry by uploading it directly to our gallery, or email to admin@bookoto.com.

Happy doodling, all!! :-)

A "THANK YOU HUG" TO ALL

We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to all who supported and continue to support bookoto.com in all our endeavors especially in the light of the recent Scrapfest 5.

Likewise, a warm congratulations to the lucky raffle promo winners and recipients of our freebies! Special mention goes to MMMaster Iris Uy for winning the grand prize of one year worth of issues of Somerset Memories magazine, courtesy of Stampington & Company. She's one lucky girl, isn't she? :-)

Thank you all, dear friends, subscribers, supporters, customers, patrons, and sponsors!

We would not be here if not for your continuously warm support. Watch out for the new offerings we will be unveiling very soon :-)

In the meantime, check out this month's "Oodles of Doodles" contest and you may be the lucky one!

Ta-ta!

"Get Digi With Us" Digital Scrapbooking Winner

We know that you have all been waiting for this, so we will cut the suspense :-) Each entry was fabulous! It was extremely hard to choose. But in the end, we know we had to pick that one lucky winner!

The bookoto team and our special guest host, Renee Pearson have chosen the winning LO.

Renee announces:
"I have looked at the contest entries. They’re all so terrific it was hard to make a choice! :D But we have chosen: Truly Amazed by Marites Tirol! Hugs, Renee"

Designer: Marites "Teys" Tirol

Marites says of her subject: "I love this photo of my little girl because I never want her to lose that sense of awe and wonder even when she grows older. I hope that she will always be amazed at everything she experiences and that she will not take even the everyday ordinary things for granted. "

"I drew my inspiration from the paper layouts of the Scrapbook Exchange ladies and tried to duplicate the "cutting with an X-acto knife" technique by extracting the design from the Tinkering Ink Victoria paper and then I layered it on top of the bg paper and the photo and applied shadows. I then applied glitter styles to the edges to simulate applying glitter IRL to the cutout."

Techniques : Extraction, Layers, Drop Shadows, Blending, Glitter Styles, Texturizer
Software: PSCS3
Materials Used: Tinkering Ink Digital - Covent Garden Collection: Victoria paper, Alphabets,
Michelle Coleman - Edge Overlay
Shabby Princess -harvest spice stamped floral frame
Fafbr - Ouhlalasouris -staples
Sylvia Unterweger - Fancy Flutters
Corina Nielsen - Safety pin hearts
Christina Renee - ATC floral vine stamp
Newlife's dreams - precious memories lace
KSK Designs - Summer spice stitching
Flergs - Glitter Style
Birgit - Button (recolored)
Heart Doodle - Dri Mendes De Bem (Recolored)
Font - Oceanside

Congratulations, Teys!

Your prize is a 20-page 12 X 12 album of your very own digital layouts from

and Shutterfly.

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You think the fun has ended? Think again! Because now it's Raffle Time!

We randomly selected from our list of participants, a winner who will receive a copy of the April/May 2008 issue of Digital Scrapbooking Magazine, as shown here:

Who's the lucky raffle winner? Watch this video :-)

Congratulations, Kaje!

(We hope Ian pronounced your name right:-)

And to each one who joined our contest, shared their LO's, posted on our Forum and Gallery, said hello, read our blog, browsed our books and shopped on www.bookoto.com:

Thank you so much! SALAMAT! Mwah! Until next time...

hugs,

the bookoto team

Thank You!!!!!

A big, huge thank you to each one who joined bookoto.com's "Get Digi With Us" Digital Scrapbooking contest! We proudly present these works of art:

Special thanks to our special guest host this month, Renee Pearson.

Renee Pearson is an Associate Editor at Digital Scrapbooking magazine where she writes a regular column on digital design. This established star in the digital scrapbooking world broke new ground with her bestselling book, “Digital Designs for Scrapbooking.” The sequel to that book, “Digital Designs for Scrapbooking 2: Making Your Own” is quickly becoming the “must have” digital techniques book.
Renee’s easy to understand teaching and writing style makes her an in-demand teacher. She teaches digital scrapbooking workshops internationally and online at bigpicturescrapbooking.com.

Please give us at least a week to decide on the winner (this is going to be tough!) We will then make the big announcement on our blog.

The winner will receive a 20-page 12 X 12 Digital Scrapbook Album of her very own digital creations, delivered to her door from www.bookoto.com and Shutterfly!!! We will have a special album dedicated to the winner's masterpieces in our gallery as well.

One last thing! THIS WEEKEND, we will raffle out a special prize, for all who registered in our Gallery and Forum. So please stay tuned, as the fun never ends:-)

Maraming salamat! Salamat gid! TY! Mwah!