Magnolia Down Under Challenge #166 Sketch

Good morning Magnolia Fans!

Welcome back to our next challenge. 

This week we don't have a sponsor but we do have a GDT call! 

We will choose a random winner from all of those who enter to be our Guest for the next month. 

Does that sound like fun? It certainly is for us... :) 

The challenge this week is a fantastic SKETCH by our 

adorable Louise!

Lets check out what the ladies have done with the fantastic sketch:

sara

Kathrin

Lori

Janne

Kylie

Sharon

Camilla

Kat

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 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...
• We reserve the right to remove your entry if we feel it is not appropriate. We are a FUN challenge that is designed for MAGNOLIA FANS and any entry that is not deemed to be 'playing nice' will be deleted. We apologise for the need to add this rule. This is OUR challenge blog and we reserve the right to moderate entries.

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #165 {White on White} - Winner and Top 5

Well I have to say I was rapt when this challenge fell on my week. I've always loved the look of white on white - the textures and the pop of colour from the image work so well together to create an amazing effect. My fellow DT examples and your gorgeous entries certainly did nothing to change my mind about the fabulous results of white on white. Unfortunately with so many gorgeous entries it made voting very tight indeed but we do have a winner and this week we'd like to congratulate.......

Minna {31}

Minna has created some fabulous textures on her card with textiles, corrugated card, die cuts and paint. Her fabulous colouring of Santa is the perfect match with the white pen highlights. I love the snowy feel surrounding Santa and the warm glow from his lantern. If you want to see more of Minna's gorgeous work you can check out her blog HERE.

Minna can you please contact us at magnoliadownunder@gmail.com to claim your winner's badge and prize

We also have another amazing Top 5 - and these spots were hotly contested this week - we could easily have had TEN entries listed here but we did manage to keep it down - just! These entries are listed in numerical order and we would like to congratulate...

Karita {3}

Lillemor Engdahl {14}

Yulis {16}

Durvina {30}

Audhild {43}

The Top 5 picks are are linked back to the original entries to make it easier for you guys to go and check them out. Please grab our gorgeous 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 remember to pop back in a few hours to check out our new challenge and the always amazing inspiration from the fabulous MDUC DT, and hopefully you'll want to play along too. 

Debbie P and the MDUC team

xXx

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #165 White on White

Good morning Magnolia Fans!

Welcome back to our next challenge. 

We are very proud to be sponsored this week by:

Mother and daughter Mary and Andrea have always crafted and found it was becoming more and more difficult to buy very small quantities of good quality ribbon, lace and buttons and embellishments at reasonable prices. We resented having to purchase a full roll when we only needed one metre. We love ribbons, lace and all things pretty and sparkly, so in 2010 we decided to open our own online store and make small or large quantities easily available to all crafters. Mary owns the shop and runs it on a day to day basis while Andrea looks after the Ribbon Girl Blog and Design Team. We only stock best quality products and offer products which we would personally buy and use ourselves.  We supply traditional, modern and vintage style ribbon, lace, twine, seam binding, fancy pins, tiny pom-pom and ric-rac trim, plain, striped, polka dot and sparkly buttons, narrow tuille, net and mesh fabric. We stock a huge range of charms, diamante spacers, gems, buckle slides, pearl and crystal flourishes, hearts, gems etc. We also offer a useful range of mulberry flowers, liquid pearls, glossy accents, glitter glue, sticky tape, wool felt squares, plus many other unusual and seasonal accessories and embellishments to card makers, stitchers, crafters, scrapbookers and cake decorators. We're happy to send small samples of ribbon, lace and twine are available upon request and if you are planning a wedding or other special occasion we may be able to offer special prices for larger quantities.

The Ribbon Girls are generously giving away this beautiful prize this week:

This week, the challenge is:

White on White

(Use ONLY white to create you card.  Use colour only on your image)

It was a bit of a challenge for us too! Let me assure you, but the results are stunning!! Lets check out the creations by the DT:

LOUISE

DEBBIE DOLPHIN

CAMILLA H

DEBBIE P

BRON

Kylie

JANE

JANIEL

KAREN

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...
• We reserve the right to remove your entry if we feel it is not appropriate. We are a FUN challenge that is designed for MAGNOLIA FANS and any entry that is not deemed to be 'playing nice' will be deleted. We apologise for the need to add this rule. This is OUR challenge blog and we reserve the right to moderate entries.

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #164 {Pop Up Card} - Winner and Top 5

We were a little worried that this challenge would scare people off but we're soo glad a few of you stuck with us and gave it a go. Sometimes I think it's nice for you guys to hear from someone other than me - LOL - so here's what a couple of my teamies said this week......

" I know there was not a huge amount of entries but I think they are all fantastic and should all be congratulated on stepping up to the challenge." (Bronwen)

and

"I love them all, we may not have had many entries, but the ones who did - WOW - very impressive!!" 

(Kylie)

With the gorgeous entries we had to vote on I have to say it was a very close call indeed yet again and this week we'd like to congratulate our winner......

Marika {2}

Marika has created a stunning 3D Fall theme scene with the perfect mix of images, colours and embellishments - can you believe it's her first pop up card thanx to Camilla's wonderful tutorial last week. If you want to see more of Marika's fabulous work you can check out her blog HERE.

Marika can you please contact us at magnoliadownunder@gmail.com to claim your winner's badge and prize

We also have another amazing Top 5! These entries are listed in numerical order and we would like to congratulate...

Hilde & Petra {15}

Chris Dark {16}

Lisbeth {17}

Nicole {19}

Sirpaliina {21}

The Top 5 picks are are linked back to the original entries to make it easier for you guys to go and check them out. Please grab our gorgeous 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 remember to pop back in a few hours to check out our new challenge and the always amazing inspiration from the fabulous MDUC DT and hopefully you'll want to play along too. And this week is also the first time the fabulous Camilla H joins us so you won't want to miss THAT! 

Debbie P and the MDUC team

xXx

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #164 Pop Up Card

Welcome back to another fun filled week at Magnolia Down Under Challenges.

We have a really great challenge for you this week together with a brilliant tutorial by our talented and lovely  Camilla S. 

But first, we have a DT announcement. 

A few weeks ago, we were faced with the very sad news that Eulanda had decided to say good bye to us here at MDUC. Eulanda will always be one of the MDUC family and it is terribly sad to see her go. She is an amazing girl, full of fun and very much loved by us all. 

Thank you so much Eulanda for being a part of our DT. You gave us so much more than creative inspiration.

But every cloud has a silver lining. 

There was only one thing we could do to cheer ourselves up here at MDUC - we needed to add a new member to our DT family. 

We are over the moon to welcome Camilla H as our newest DT member.

I am sure Camilla needs no introduction, her stunning entries here week after week either winning or coming in our Top 5. Her elegant creations always blowing us away.  She is as talented as she is a darling of the craft world. 

A big welcome from all of us Camilla. 

And now... down to business!!

Our brilliant sponsor this week is.... 

Tilda's Town!

Tilda's Town is an online store that specializes in Magnolia stamps. We carry one of the largest inventories in USA and the world with over 1000 Magnolia stamps in stock at all times. Our shipping is always free worldwide regardless of order total. Whether you buy one stamps or 100, you will never pay shipping. As an added bonus, all orders above $60 can get an additional 10% by using discount code TILDA10. Shop today for the latest collections!

This week Tilda's Town is offering a lucky winner a $15 Gift Certificate! With a new collection to be released very soon, I can imagine someone is going to be very happy with this prize! Thank you so much Tilda's Town

Now, lets hand it over to Camilla to introduce the challenge for this week. 

Hi there! 

This week we have a "real" challenge for you! 

It is time for pop-up cards.

I, Camilla, will now show you how I made my pop-up card for this challenge. 

(There have been made many tutorials before of how to make a pop-up card, so I am not the first).

First I start with decorating the card inside. For this card I wanted to make an Australian scene:) 

If you look really closely you can see the Blue Mountains in the back, and also the typical Australian red sand on the roads;)

Now we only need some Aussie girls!

The stamps I have used: 

Tilda with her Kookaburra (Australia Collection 2012)

Kangaroo Tilda (Australia Collection 2012)

Tilda with UGG shoes (Australia Collection 2012)

Waterfall Background (Tilda & Edwin's Pet/Animal Collection 2009)

♥♥♥

I have also cut out some paper strips. They measures from 8mm-1cm wide.

And two of them are folded like this: 3cm, 3,5 cm, 3 cm, 3,5 cm and a small piece of paper left to glue it all together. I will show you how under. For the Tilda with UGG shoes who will stand abit further out than the two others, I have folded her paper strip like this: 3 cm, 5 cm, 3 cm, 5 cm + a bit extra to glue it all together. 

Here you can see that I put some glue on to the extra bit of paper.

And put the paper strips together like this.

Here are all three fasten.

Then I want to fasten the paper on to Tilda. I add the glue to the paper like you see over.

And puts it gently on Tilda like this. 

Now I want to fasten Tilda in to the card. And I have to put glue on to the two sides of the paper that will be fasten inside the card.

Like this.

Then I continue and do the same with the other Tildas.

I will show you how it looks from different angles under.

And here they are, put right into the beautiful Australian nature:)

I hope that my explanation was easy to understand. 

And that you are inspired to give it a try!

Thank you so much Camilla for a brilliant tutorial!! 

Some of the DT had a go at these during the week and we all agree, they are worth the little extra time as we all had fabulous results. 

If you would like to try a pop up card slightly different to Camilla's, there will be some links at the end of the post for you to check out..

Now, lets check out these amazing Pop Up Cards!!

Kat

Lori

sara

Tanja

Janne

KYLIE

SHARON

Other Pop Up Card tutorials you may like to check out:

Split Coast Stampers - Surprise Pop Up

Pedestal Pop Up

Triple Layer Pop Up

If you find some more tutorials, feel free to link them up in the comments section so we can check them out too!

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...
• We reserve the right to remove your entry if we feel it is not appropriate. We are a FUN challenge that is designed for MAGNOLIA FANS and any entry that is not deemed to be 'playing nice' will be deleted. We apologise for the need to add this rule. This is OUR challenge blog and we reserve the right to moderate entries.