Sunday, March 27, 2011

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #89

Good morning Magnolia Fans!

How is the weekend treating you all? We certainly hope you have had a lot of time to relax and ink up your Magnolia stamps for this week's new challenge!

This week we are feeling a little bit shabby and a little bit chic... you guessed it, this week's challenge is....


  • SHABBY CHIC - use lots of white

Sounds like fun, yes? Well.. lets see what our amazing DT have created just for you...



















HOW TO JOIN IN...

  • You must have at least one Magnolia stamp or Doo Hickey die on your work, it can be a sentiment, background etc does NOT have to be Edwin or Tilda for your card to be entered..
  • You must add your link in Mr.Linky
  • You MUST add a link to your **direct blog post***.... All entries not doing this will be removed.
  • You should have a link back to the challenge blog in your post.
  • Entries close 8:00am Saturday AES time (see the clock on the side bar)
  • DO NOT link your entry to an old card, even a day before will be removed. Making it fair to all the people that have made a card for the challenge...



Saturday, March 26, 2011

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #88 {Jane's Sketch} - Winner and Top 5

Before I announce this week's winner and top 5 I just want to make sure you all checked last week's winners from the blog hop - all the DT candy winners and challenge winners are listed there now - I know a few were missing when I posted last week. Congratulations again to all the winners. And apologies for running a little late tonight - my family turned off all our lights, and computers, from 8.30pm until 9.30pm for Earth hour.

Now onto this week - and I have to tell you Jane was blown away by the gorgeous entries using her sketch - in fact these are her words in an email ...

"OMG I can't believe all the stunning entries with my sketch it is so lovely to see everyone's take on it!!"

I soo know how she feels - when my sketch was used it was an awesome experience - so thanx to everyone for your gorgeous work and for making Jane's day!

Now onto our winner for this week and the DT had a REALLY tough vote let me tell you! Not only were the entries gorgeous but there were soo many different styles. But this week we'd like to congratulate .....


Sara {42}

 I'm sure you'll all agree this is a gorgeous take on the sketch and a wonderful mix of images. If you want to check out more of Sara's work you can check out her blog HERE.

Sara - can you please email Kylie at kyliekueter@tpg.com.au to claim your winner's badge.

And now onto this week's Top 5 - and I have linked these cards back to the original entries to make it easier for you guys to go and check them out. Congratulations to our Top 5 (in numerical order).........


Please grab our Top 5 badge from the sidebar and display it proudly on your blog to let everyone know how fabulous we think your work is! And thanx to EVERYONE who entered - your work was truly gorgeous!

Don't forget to pop back tomorrow morning and check out our new challenge - I'm sure you'll be inspired by our DT to head into your craft rooms and ink up your Magnolia stamps and bring them to life.

Debbie P and the MDUC team
xXx

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #88

Good morning Magnolia Fans!

Welcome back to another fantastic week of Magnolia Down Under Challenges. Thank you all so much for your wonderful visits to all of our blogs over the last week. We so enjoyed having you at our little celebration party. There should be many happy Maggie fans out there with some lovely prizes on the way.

Now... it is going to be hard to top last week, but this week we have another fantastic challenge lined up for you... this week we have a:

  • SKETCH BY JANE
Feel free to be creative with the sketch by all means, but we would like to be able to see the basic elements there in your entry.

And now lets take a peek at the amazing work by our fantastic DT:
HOW TO JOIN IN...
  • You must have at least one Magnolia stamp or Doo Hickey die on your work, it can be a sentiment, background etc does NOT have to be Edwin or Tilda for your card to be entered..
  • You must add your link in Mr.Linky
  • You MUST add a link to your **direct blog post***.... All entries not doing this will be removed.
  • You should have a link back to the challenge blog in your post.
  • Entries close 8:00am Saturday AES time (see the clock on the side bar)
  • DO NOT link your entry to an old card, even a day before will be removed. Making it fair to all the people that have made a card for the challenge...



Saturday, March 19, 2011

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #87 - BIRTHDAY BLOG HOP WINNERS

Hi everyone - WOW - what a week!!!! It was sooo much fun having our past DT members along too - we miss you Jodie and Steph! Thanx to everyone who hopped with us to celebrate our 2nd birthday - and thanx too for those who played along with us on our special week.

Some of the DT had some gorgeous candies up for grabs on their blogs - so here's the list of those winner's. If you have been lucky enough to win a prize please contact me (Debbie P) on rdpam@hotmail.com with your snail mail address and I'll pass your details onto the DT member you won from.....

Congratulations to these winners - and please check back if there are some missing, it's the weekend so the gals may been unavailable to pick their winners in time for me to post.....

Anne - Claudia Casella
Camilla - Riet
Debbie P - Sarah
Debbie D - Monique
Denise - catz
Jane - Catherine
Janiel - Rosamond Crawley
Jodie - Rosamond Crawley
Karen - Peggy
Kathrin - Carol van der Westhuizen
Kristy - Emma Eads
Kylie -Marie-Anne
Sharon - Jenni E
Stephanne - Shirley N
Tanja - Dot
Tara - Kristin

And now for our MAJOR PRIZE winners - and to make it fair we are offering our voted winner the prize from Tickled Pink Stamps and the other 3 prizes have been chosen using random.org. With all these prizes up for grabs we're not having a Top 5 this week - but we could easily have had a Top 10! Could these winners all please contact Kylie at kyliekueter@tpg.com.au to claim your prizes.

Congratulations to our random.org winners.....

Michelle's Scrapbooking $15 voucher - #43 Carol
Quixotic Paperie, Stempelglede stamp - #95 Janet
All That Scraps, new birthday release image - #29 Lisa V

And now for the winner of the TPS Prize, (King Tilda, Emilio Fox and Evie rubber stamps) as voted by the MDUC DT - Congratulations.......

Minna {97}

Isn't this just a stunning wedding card! Minna also took the challenge of "Two of Anything" to heart too - stating "I have two of everything here in my card; two roses, retroflowers, bows, pieces of lace and scrim etc.." What a fabulous job with the challenge. If you want to check out more of Minna's AMAZING work hop on over to her blog HERE.

Minna - can you please email Kylie at kyliekueter@tpg.com.au to claim your winner's badge and prize.

Well I know the MDUC DT had an absolute BLAST bringing you this VERY special event - and from all the comments most of you enjoyed it too. We hope you're inspired to check back in a few hours for our new challenge - I'm sure the girls will have some amazing projects to help get your creative juices flowing.

Debbie P on behalf of the MDUC team
xXx

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #87 - BIRTHDAY BLOG HOP

Good Morning Magnolia Fans!!
Welcome to a very special week at Magnolia Down Under Challenges.
 
This week marks our 2nd birthday!
To celebrate, we are having a fantastic blog hop with amazing prizes from four fabulous sponsors and individual candies up for grabs from the Design Team.

First of all, let me introduce you to our wonderful sponsors:

With a fantastic prize including three fantastic stamps: King Tilda, Emilio Fox and Evie rubber stamps and a surprise 5.5 x 5.5 Magnolia paper pack!

With a fantastic $15 gift voucher

With a wonderful Stempelglede stamp
and


Prize - New birthday release image

In order to win one of the amazing prizes from our sponsors, you will have to enter our challenge! Which is...
TWO - two of anything (two images, two different DP, two flowers - or any combination or groups of two items you can come up with)!

As usual you have until Saturday 19th March, 8am Melbourne Australian time to enter.
BUT WAIT! There is MORE!

Two years ago, Kellie had the brilliant idea to start her own Magnolia Challenge blog and brought along Kristy and Debbie as her partners in crime. Since then, the Design Team has grown and we now boast several amazing ladies, some even in the Magnolia Design Team! So thank you Kellie for starting the dream and allowing us to come together to share our love of these amazing Magnolia Stamps!
It is really exciting that we have TWO original Design Team members still with us to celebrate our second birthday - both Debbie P and Kristy. It is a huge achievement to have them both still with us.  Kellie was also intending to join us for our birthday celebraton but she unfortunately has come down with an illness and has had to pull out. Hope you feel better soon Kel!

We have a fabulous blog hop happening with loads of candy on offer from the Design Team! We are thrilled to have special guest appearances from TWO long lost DT members, Jodie
and Stephanne! Thank you so much girls for joining us for our birthday bash!

Magnolia Down Under Challenges has always had a wonderful Design Team - a group to be proud of, both past and present. We just want to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you who have been a member of this fabulous team.
To our current Design Team - you are an amazing group of Ladies. Continually inspiring, both in your creativity and as friends behind the scenes. Thank you so much for everything you do to contribute to our challenge. We wouldn't be here without you.

Now... onto the hop order!
MDUC blog (you are here)

Just leave a comment on each stop of the hop to be in the running to win one of the candies the gorgeous Ladies have up on offer!
Thank you so much for joining us on our birthday!

To enter the challenge, the usual rules apply:

HOW TO JOIN IN...
  • You must have at least one Magnolia stamp or Doo Hickey die on your work, it can be a sentiment, background etc does NOT have to be Edwin or Tilda for your card to be entered..
  • You must add your link in Mr.Linky
  • You MUST add a link to your **direct blog post***.... All entries not doing this will be removed.
  • You should have a link back to the challenge blog in your post.
  • Entries close 8:00am Saturday AES time (see the clock on the side bar)
  • DO NOT link your entry to an old card, even a day before will be removed. Making it fair to all the people that have made a card for the challenge...

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #86 {Anything But a Square or Rectangle} - Winner and Top 5

We all get stuck in a rut making the same ol' shape cards so it was really fabulous to see so many people stepping out of their comfort zone and using some different shapes - and some gorgeous 3D creations too. But as always we have had to make a decision and choose a winner from all of the wonderful entries we got this week - so congratulations go to.......

Neline {1}

What a beautiful circle easel card - some fabulous details and lovely soft colouring. If you want to check out more of  Neline's work you can check out her blog HERE.

Neline - can you please email Kylie at kyliekueter@tpg.com.au to claim your winner's badge.

And now onto this week's Top 5 - and as requested I have linked these cards back to the original entries to make it easier for you guys to go and check them out. Congratulations go to our Top 5 - OH OK - we couldn't narrow it down - AGAIN - so here are out Top 6 .........


Please grab our Top 5 badge from the sidebar and display it proudly on your blog to let everyone know how fabulous we think your work is! And thanx to EVERYONE who entered - your work was truly gorgeous!

Don't forget to pop back tomorrow morning MDUC time - we have a wonderful new challenge as well as some fabulous 2nd Birthday fun for all - you won't want to miss it!!!

Debbie P and the MDUC team

xXx

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Magnolia Down Under Challenge # 86

Good morning Magnolia Fans!

We hope you had a fabulous week - it seems everyone was in the flower power crafting mood last week judging by the number of entries we received - wow - we were blown away.

Before we get onto the challenge for this week, we wanted to let you in on a bit of a secret for next week's challenge. Next week marks our 2nd birthday! We have a little bit of a celebration planned for you.. so please make sure you check in with us next week for some fun and prizes.

Now for this week, we have another fun challenge shaping up for you, hehehe, yes you guessed it, this week's challenge is:

  • ANYTHING BUT A SQUARE (or rectangle)
So lets take a look at what the amazing Design Team have come up with for you:










HOW TO JOIN IN...
  • You must have at least one Magnolia stamp or Doo Hickey die on your work, it can be a sentiment, background etc does NOT have to be Edwin or Tilda for your card to be entered..
  • You must add your link in Mr.Linky
  • You MUST add a link to your **direct blog post***.... All entries not doing this will be removed.
  • You should have a link back to the challenge blog in your post.
  • Entries close 8:00am Saturday AES time (see the clock on the side bar)
  • DO NOT link your entry to an old card, even a day before will be removed. Making it fair to all the people that have made a card for the challenge...


Saturday, March 5, 2011

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #85 {Flower Power} - Winner and Top 5

I seem to say this EVERY week but WOW you guys blew us away! It seems flowers are a favourite embellishment for many of us - I know I always try to find a spot to pop a bloom or 2 when I create! We've been inspired this week by some gorgeous handmade flowers and some incredible bouquets too. And as always you've made it very hard for us to pick just one winner - but with help from the everyone on the DT we have managed to make a decision - and our decision is to have TWO winners!!!! This week we'd like to congratulate.....


Sara {2}

Isn't this a beautiful card! The flowers certainly add the perfect finishing touch. If you want to see more of Sara's work check out her amazing blog HERE.

AND congratulations to our second winner too......


Natalie Z {82}

What an amazing step card - some fabulous details and beautiful flowers to delight. If you want to check out more of Natalie's work you can check out her blog HERE.

 Sara and Natalie - can you please email Kylie at kyliekueter@tpg.com.au to claim your winner's badges.

And now onto this week's Top 5 - and as requested I have linked these cards back to the original entries to make it easier for you guys to go and check them out. Congratulations to our Top 5.........


Please grab our Top 5 badge from the sidebar and display it proudly on your blog to let everyone know how fabulous we think your work is! And thanx to EVERYONE who entered - your work was truly gorgeous!

Don't forget to pop back tomorrow morning and check out our new challenge - I'm sure you'll be inspired by our DT to head into your craft rooms and ink up your Magnolia stamps.

Debbie P and the MDUC team

xXx