Magnolia Down Under Challenge #77

Good morning Magnolia Fans!!!

Wow - less than a week until Christmas. I am sure that there are many children around the world beginning to get very excited now. Are you all ready? Hmm... I don't think we are ever really completely ready, do you?

We are very sad to say that this is our last challenge of the year! We are all having a little break and spending some time with our families. We will be back in the New Year with a bunch of wonderful new challenges for you to play in - so make sure you keep an eye out for us on January 9th! Of course this means that you have three weeks to play in our current challenge!

 We would love to take this opportunity to wish you all a wonderful Christmas and a very happy and safe holiday period. 

We are also very excited to announce that we have a very important Guest playing along with us this week, Kristy Young. Kristy was one of the original DT of Magnolia Down Under Challenges, along with our founder, Kellie and our wonderful DT Coordinator, Debbie P. Kristy stepped down in April after over a year with the team but is now excited to be returning as our regular VIP (Very Important Princess) and will be playing with us for the first challenge of each month. I am sure you will be as excited as we are to welcome her back.

So, with the announcements out of the way, it is time to let you know what our challenge is!  For the next three weeks the challenge is:

• A GIFT FOR YOU

KRISTY
{The most precious gift of all....a baby}

KAREN

DEBBIE

DEBBIE DOLPHIN

ANNE KRISTINE


DENISE

JANIEL

JANE

KYLIE

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 Mid-day 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...

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #76 {Colour Challenge} - Winner and Top 5

WOW - this is my last Winner's Post for 2010 and I'd like to take the opportunity to thank all the AMAZING crafters we've had enter our challenges throughout the year. I'd also like to thank the FABULOUS ladies I have the pleasure of "working" with on the DT - they are not only extremely talented but lovely, kind hearted people as well.

It's been a lot of fun for us to bring these challenges to you and we've been working hard behind the scenes to make sure we come up with some fun things for you for next year too. We do have one final challenge coming your way tomorrow - so I hope you drop in to check it out.

But for now I need to announce the winner of challenge #76. Once again it was a close fought battle - with only 1 vote between 1st and 2nd places! But this week we'd like to congratulate....

Maddy Hill {17}

We know you'll agree with us that this is one gorgeous card! You can check out more of Maddy's work on her blog HERE.

Maddy please email Kylie at kyliekueter@tpg.com.au to collect your winner's badge.

And then there's out AMAZING top 6 - we just couldn't narrow it down to 5 this week . Here they are listed in numerical order - congratulations to these amazing crafters ...

Kristy{2}

Janne {5}

Kiki {14}

Kaylou {18}

Dena [33}

Denise Lynn {34}

Congratulations go to you all - make sure you grab our Top 5 badge from the side bar to show all your blog friends just how fantastically clever you all are!!!

We hope you'll pop back tomorrow morning to check out our last challenge for 2010 - it will be running until January 8th, 2011 - with our next challenge going live on Sunday January 9th. I know the DT has some gorgeous eye candy for you to enjoy too.

Kylie will be bringing the next challenge to you so I would personally like to take the chance to wish you all a very

MERRY CHRISTMAS

and a

HAPPY and SAFE NEW YEAR

Debbie P

xXx

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #76

Good Morning Magnolia Fans!

Welcome to Magnolia Down Under Challenge #76. Are you all organised for Chistmas? There is now less than two weeks to go! Where does the year go? 

This week's challenge is a nice easy one and hopefully will help you to get those last few Christmas cards finished, lol, but of course this challenge would work for most occassions, not only for the holiday season... this week's challenge is....

A COLOUR CHALLENGE ~ Please use RED, BROWN and CREAM on your project

Of course you can use additional colours in limited amounts if you wish, but we would like to see these three colours predominately on your creation.

I think the Design Team enjoyed this challenge, they have created some amazing works to share with you, so without further ado, let us share our works with you:

SHARON 

CAMILLA

TARA G

KAREN

KATHRIN

KYLIE

TANJA

FRAN

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 Mid-day 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...

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #75 {Patchwork} - Winner and Top 5

Well it's getting closer to Christmas and I guess everyone's getting busy decorating the house, baking and shopping - I know I am - LOL. We may not have had many entries this week but they were ALL gorgeous - so thank you to everyone for taking the time to play along! As always I have the MDUC DT helping out with picking the winners and they've done a wonderful job yet again. This week's fabulous winner is.....

Linda Pysselbus {17}

What an amazing effort - look at all those strips of paper soooo beautifully "quilted". You can check out more of Linda's work on her blog HERE.

Linda please email Kylie at kyliekueter@tpg.com.au to collect your winner's badge.

And then there's out AMAZING top 5 too, listed in numerical order - congratulations to these amazing crafters ...

Catz{2}
Raindropecho {3}
Gosia S {5}
Jeanet {for both 10 &26}
Becca Fabozzi {21}

Congratulations go to you all - make sure you grab our Top 5 badge from the side bar to show all your blog friends just how fantastically clever you all are!!!

We hope you'll pop back tomorrow morning to check out our next challenge - I know the DT has some gorgeous eye candy for you. We'll be taking a break soon so we hope you can play along until we do! Until then - Happy Stamping!!!

xXx

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #75

Good Morning Magnolia Fans!!

I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend! Can you believe - only three weeks to go until Chrismas. Wow - where did the year go?  We're seeing a lot of amazing Christmas cards around in blogland at the moment so you are obviously all getting very organised!

This week we have a fun challenge for you..... one that was inspired by our very own April Rose (hi April!!).  Our challenge this week is to....

• MAKE YOUR OWN PATCHWORK BACKGROUND - ohhh... sounds interesting doesn't it?

Our DT have done an amazing job this week!  Lets take a look, shall we?

KAREN

JANIEL

DEBBIE DOLPHIN

and the inside a Patchwork Tree.

ANNE KRISTINE



Denise

JANE

DEBBIE P

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 Mid-day 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...

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #74 {Summer} - Winners and Top 4

I guess it seemed strange to a lot of our regular entrants to come up with a Summer card when large parts of the Northern Hemisphere are suffering early blizzards and snow storms - LOL. We in Melbourne haven't had an ideal start to our Summer  - we've just gone through the wettest Spring in 18 years - so the cards that were entered were a welcome reminder that we are supposed to be heading into warmer weather.

Although we didn't get a lot of entries we did get some FABULOUS ones. And this time the DT has been unable to come up with a clear winner. After all the votes were tallied we have a tie for the Winner's Badge - so both of these amazing entries get to claim the badge for themselves.

Congratulations....

Ingrid {7}

You can check our more of Ingrid's fabulous work on her blog HERE.

And our other winner for the week that we'd like to congratulate is.....

Janet Blauuw {8}

And Janet's blog is HERE if you want to see more of her amazing creations.

Ingrid and Janet please email Kylie at kyliekueter@tpg.com.au to collect your winner's badges.

With 2 winners this week we have a Top 4 instead of a Top 5 and we'd like to congratulate these amazing entries in numerical order...

Jeanet {13}

Maddy Hill {14}

Wenche {17}

Nancie Quah {19}

Congratulations go to you all - make sure you grab our Top 5 badge from the side bar to show all your blog friends just how fantastically clever you all are!!!

We hope you'll pop back tomorrow morning to check out our next challenge - I know the DT has some gorgeous eye candy for you. Until then - Happy Stamping!!!

Debbie P

xXx

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #74

Good Morning Magnolia Fans!!!

And a big welcome to our next challenge. It looked like you all enjoyed our sketch challenge last week. It was fantastic.. thank you so much Chantelle!

This week we have a challenge that may just give you a little break from Christmas cards... this week our challenge is.......

• SUMMER

We start off our week with some inspiration from the gorgeous Asa. This is Asa's last week with us as our Guest so we would like to take this opportunity to say a massive THANK YOU to you Asa!! You have been a dream Guest. It has been a pleasure having you here at MDUC.

And of course, some fantastic inspiration from our wonderful Design Team! Thanks so much girls :)

TaraG

CAMILLA

KYLIE

SHARON

Kathrin

TANJA

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 the 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 Mid-day 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...

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #73 {A Sketch} - Winner and Top 5

Once again we've had some GORGEOUS entries this week. I know when my sketch was used I was sooo excited to see it turned into so many gorgeous cards - and I'm sure Chantelle feels the same. I know I say it every week but you guys sure have made it tough on us this week - and the voting has been extremely close. In fact I held off the posting of this announcement to make sure I got all the votes in and tallied!

But we do have a winner and I'd like to congratulate...

Catz {13}

What an amazing effort - look at all those fabulous details and what a GREAT way to incorporate the sketch! You can check out more of Catz's work on her blog HERE.

Catz please email Kylie at kyliekueter@tpg.com.au to collect your winner's badge.

And then there's out AMAZING top 5 too, listed in numerical order - congratulations to these amazing crafters ...

Ingrid {1}

Gosia S {2}

Jeanet {30}

Bron {31}

Kiki {37}

 Congratulations go to you all - make sure you grab our Top 5 badge from the side bar to show all your blog friends just how fantastically clever you all are!!!

We hope you'll pop back tomorrow morning to check out our next challenge - I know the DT has some gorgeous eye candy for you. Until then - Happy Stamping!!!

xXx

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #73

Good Morning Magnolia Fans!!

It looks like you all enjoyed last week's challenge! We saw some AMAZING entries - you are all so very talented.

This week we have a nice easy challenge for you... this week's challenge is:

• A sketch by our past DT member Chantelle:

And now for some fantastic examples of this sketch in use, starting with our Guest for this month, Åsa:



ÅSA

And of course, our wonderful Design Team:



JANIEL

KAREN

ANNE KRISTINE

DENISE BODDEY

JANE

DEBBIE DOLPHIN

DEBBIE P

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 the.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 Mid-day 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...

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #72 {Shabby Chic} - Winner and Top 5

Well it certainly looks like Shabby Chic was a popular challenge - and boy did you guys come up with some GORGEOUS creations for us to drool over during the week. In fact the standard was soo high that you guys made it REALLY hard for us to choose our winner and top 5! All week we've been discussing the gorgeous cards appearing and knowing we were in for a tough vote. But we do have a winner.

Congratulations........

Lori {44}

I'm sure you'll all agree Lori made a beautiful little box and frame set. I am just wishing my name was Bailey right about now so I could claim this for myself - LOL. If you want to check out more of Lori's amazing work check out her blog HERE.

Lori please email Kylie at kyliekueter@tpg.com.au to collect your winner's badge.

Now onto our Top 5 - and I have to admit with each set of votes that came in this changed around. But here are our final Top 5 in numerical order....

Camilla {20}

Ingrid {21}

Annica {29}

Kathy{64}

Hanne {65}

Each and every week we have inspired by YOU guys to learn new things and improve our own skills - and for that we thank you. Congratulations go to you all - make sure you grab our Top 5 badge from the side bar to show all your blog friends just how fantastically clever you all are!!!

We hope you'll pop back tomorrow morning to check out our next challenge - I know the DT has some gorgeous eye candy for you. Until then - Happy Stamping!!!

xXx

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #72

Good morning Magnolia Fans!! And welcome to our next Magnolia Down Under Challenge. Can you believe it is only six weeks until Christmas? Where did the year go? We are seeing a lot of gorgeous Christmas cards entering our challenge at the moment, so a lot of you are being super organised.... but enough chat! You are here to find out this week's challenge, aren't you?

This week we have a challenge that will be easy for some but more challenging for others... including me (Kylie) ... This week's challenge is...

• SHABBY CHIC

First off we have our gorgeous Guest for November, Åsa with a beautiful drawer box for us. She has done a wonderful job, I just love this idea!

ÅSA

And now for the rest of the Design Team.... including our Boss Lady Kellie! Woo hooo!! Kellie decided to come back and join in with us this week ... please make sure you stop by her blog to leave her loads of comments so she visits us more regularly...

KELLIE

TaraG

Kathrin

KYLIE

CAMILLA

FRAN

(Fran and her partner Glenn were married last weekend and here she is with some thank you cards to share with us... don't forget to stop by her blog and wish the happy couple all the best!)

SHARON

TANJA

HOW TO JOIN IN...

• You must have at least one Magnolia stamp 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 Mid-day 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...