Magnolia Down Under Challenge #170 Birthstones

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:

I wish I could win! It is just stunning!

Our challenge this week:

Be inspired by your birth stone!

To assist you, we have this lovely little graphic below.

First up to inspire you we have this wonderful creation by our fabulous Guest DT this month...

KATIE K

February - Amethyst plus orange and yellow

Gorgeous card Katie! Thanks so much!

And now check out what the MDUC DT gals have come up with for your viewing pleasure....

KYLIE

June - Light Amethyst and Pearl

JANIEL

October- Rose Pink

SARA

November -topaz

CAMILLA S.

February-Amethyst

Lori 

July - Ruby

Sharon

May - Emerald

Janne

July-Ruby

Tanja

December - Blue Zirkon

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 #169 {Fa La La La} - Winner and Top 5

We were glad to bring a little music into your lives this week and it certainly had us humming away to all the FABULOUS songs that inspired your gorgeous creations. It's amazing how many lyrics can pop into your head - even when it's a song you haven't thought of in years! I know I say it every week but you gals really make it tough for us - but we LOVE that you come up with soo many gorgeous entries. This week we'd like to congratulate our winner......

Lillemor E {11}

Lillemor created a beautiful card inspired by the song Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas by Michael Buble - I can hear his dulcet tones as I type and Lillemor's card suits the style of song perfectly with it's elegance and class. Lillemor never fails to create beautiful cards with her beautiful colouring and detailing. Do yourself a favour and check out her blog HERE for more stunning inspiration.

Lillemor 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 yet again this week. These entries are listed in numerical order and we would like to congratulate...

Yulis {2}

Vibekke {7}

Deb.x {71}

Catz {23}

Marianne R {61}

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 #169 Fa La La La

Good morning Magnolia fans! Welcome back to another fantastic week at Magnolia Down Under Challenges.

We are awfully happy to have you join us again for another fun crafting session.

Lets check out our sponsor before we move on to the challenge details:

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.

Soo.. by now you might all be wondering what it is the challenge is this week?
Its a really fun one!
This week we would like you to be:

Inspired by a song

First up to inspire you we have this wonderful creation by our fabulous Guest DT this month...

KATIE K

Santa Claus is Coming to Town

JANE

Walking In A Winter Wonderland - Dean Martin

KYLIE

Santa Claus is coming to Town

LOUISE

Hark the Herald angels sing

CAMILLA S

White Christmas - Bing Crosby

KAREN

Puff the Magic Dragon - Peter, Paul & Mary

JANIEL

Blue Christmas without You. - Elvis Presley

CAMILLA H

Ave Maria - Celine Dion

DEBBIE P

Raise Your Glass - Pink

BRON

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas

DEBBIE DOLPHIN

Last Christmas-Wham

Zoe

The Kookaburra Song

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 #168 {Shaker Card} - Winner and Top 5

Boy oh boy did we have fun shaking things up this week and checking out all of your amazing shaker cards - and it was fabulous to hear we had inspired some first timers to give shakers a go too. We love that you guys come along and play in our challenge but as time passes the biggest challenge for us is to pick a winner - but it's a challenge we love to have! This week we'd like to congratulate our winner.....

Liz Marsden {2}

How adorable is this little Christmas scene with Tilda climbing onto the roof to watch Santa flying by. I love that silhouette, it's such a fun idea - but hang on tight Tilda! There are so many gorgeous details to enjoy in this snowy creation. If you want to see more of Liz's gorgeous work you can check out her blog HERE.

Liz 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 yet again this week. These entries are listed in numerical order and we would like to congratulate...

Catz {11}

Marianne R {17}

Manuela {22}

Becky {24}

Charlotte {26}

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 #168 Shaker Card

Good morning Magnolia Fans,

We hope you have an enjoyable weekend planned and hopefully that includes a bit of crafting!
Lets get down to business straight away and check out our sponsor this week!

Our Sponsor this week is Stamping Tilda..
with a fantastic $20 voucher up for grabs to a lucky winner - wow, I wish I could win!

And the challenge this week is"

"Shake it Baby.... Shake it!!!"

we would like to see Shaker cards

First up to inspire you this week is this fabulous snow globe from our wonderful Guest DT this month KATIE K - one side is a shaker and the other a shadow box.

Isn't that brilliant? Fantastic work Katie!

And now onto the inspiration from our wonderful DT...

KYLIE

SARA

CAMILLA S

CAMILLA H

Lori

Sharon

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 #167{Favourite Colours} - Winner and Top 5

Before I announce our winner I have to say how sorry we all were to hear that the TOMIC and Just Magnolia challenges are closing. We are all lovers of all things Magnolia and it has been a pleasure working alongside these 2 teams to bring you guys plenty of fun challenges and seeing the results when you guys managed to combine them. We also want to reassure you that we here at MDUC aren't going anywhere and will keep bringing you challenges to play along with.

Now onto business - each and every week the DT gals tell me how hard it was to narrow down the vote and this week was no exception - but we do have a winner and this week we'd like to congratulate.....

And the inside....

Silvie {62}

What a truly gorgeous card Silvie has created using one of her personal favourite colour combos {pink, mauve/purple, cream/white}. There are just so many gorgeous details to look at and that's before you open it up and see there's more on the inside, and yes on the back too! Silvie's ability to use so many elements so beautifully is a signature of her work. If you want to see more of her amazing creations check out her blog HERE.

Silvie 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 yet again this week - so hotly in fact that we have a Top 7 with too many tied to split. I think it's our biggest "Top 5" yet but we love to put smiles on people's faces so enjoy - LOL. These entries are listed in numerical order and we would like to congratulate...

Karina {17}

Delphine {23}

Sirpaliina {40}

Alby {42}

Vibekke {57}

Marika {65}

Irene Daryanto {75}

The Top 7 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 #167 Your Favourite Colours

Welcome back Magnolia fans! 

Have you been checking out all of the lovely photos on the net of the big Magnolia day at the store in Boras?  Some of our gorgeous DT are there hanging out with each other! Mind you the rest of us are sitting at home trying to keep up to date via Facebook, haha. Its all very exciting. 

Well.. it is time for another challenge here at MDUC. 

This week we welcome back Live and Love Crafts as our wonderful sponsor!   Thanks Sandy!

Live & Love Crafts is a UK based online store that specializes in vintage and shabby chic craft materials. We ship WORLDWIDE.
We stock the unique and beautiful vintage inspired scrapbooking papers from the Scandinavian vendors Maja Design, Pion Design, Inkido, Landstoken, and Riddersholm Design.
Live & Love Crafts also carries gorgeous laces, trims, pins, broaches, buttons, flowers, resin pieces, vintage trinkets and other craft embellishments from vintage specialists such as Prima, Melissa Frances, and Maya Road.
Further products that are part of Live & Love Crafts’ portfolio are flowers from Kort og Godt, rubber stamps, cutting dies and embellishments from Magnolia, Bildmalarna and Vilda Stamps, distress inks, paints, glitter and other innovative craft products from Ranger.

Don’t forget to visit this fab shop and have a look around, you will fall in love immediately!

Lovely Sandy offers to the lucky winner a £10 store voucher.

The challenge this week is to:
Use your favourite colour combo!!
We want to see 3 or 4 colours in your combo. 

Can't wait to see what you come up with! 
But in the meantime, lets see what the gorgeous DT have created:

LOUISE

(Pink, yellow, brown and white)

KYLIE

(Blue, red and kraft)

CAMILLA H

(Pink, brown and white)

DEBBIE DOLPHIN

(Sepia, Pale Blue, Cream, Brown and White)

BRON

(Kraft, Black, White, Red, Purple, Blue)

Front of Card

Inside of Card

DEBBIE P

(Green, Blue and Brown)

KAREN

(Chocolate, Plum, Gold and Green)

ZOE

(Red , White, Pink and Brown)

JANE

teal, white and kraft

DENISE

Plums Cream and Blue

JANIEL

(Pink, Cream, Black)

CAMILLA S

(Blue, Brown, White)

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.