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Sunday, November 25, 2012

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #174 Wine Tag


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:
Make a Wine Tag to Decorate a wine Bottle!
Its great timing too with the festive season around the corner. 

Lets see how our awesome DT interpreted the challenge:
























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.

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #173 {All About Books} - Winner and Top 5


Not too many entries this week - but once again the quality of the entries was FABULOUS! I loved the different takes you guys gave this challenge - from gorgeous book boxes to amazing bookmarks and elements from books - you guys showed it all - and the variety of ideas within this small group was inspirational. This week we'd like to congratulate our winner.....



Vibekke {3}

Vibekke has created a stunning book box for Christmas. Her beautifully coloured image on the outside is a gorgeous centrepiece with a hint of the delights waiting inside peaking from the top with the tag. If you want to see more of Vibekke's work you can check out her blog HERE.

Vibekke 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 are listed in numerical order and we would like to congratulate...


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

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #173 All about Books


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

This week's challenge is....
ALL ABOUT BOOKS!!
Yes - its pretty open isn't it? 
That is how we like things here at Magnolia Down Under Challenge - less boring things like rules, more creative licence and more FUN!

I was pretty overwhelmed with the creativity of our lovely DT this week. Don't get me wrong, I am wowed each and every week, but this week in particular I am so proud of my friends. They are not just a great group of ladies, but so wonderfully talented too.

Just check out this fabulous eye candy for yourself!
















BRON





A Corner Bookmark for bedtime Lullabies

Zoe
Bedtime Stories Corner Bookmark




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.

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #172 {Wreath} - Winner and Top 5

We didn't get many entries this week but what we did get was some gorgeous ones to check out - and it seems a number of you have something special to decorate your homes with as a result too. We did ask you to have a wreath of some sort showing in your project and had to vote accordingly - but the votes were still close with congratulations going to this week's winner....


Yulis {6}

Look at this amazing project Yulis has created - the detailing and colouring is just fabulous and I for one would be honoured to decorate my home with this wreath! If you want to see more of Yulis' gorgeous work you can check out her blog HERE.

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

We also have another amazing Top 5 - so amazing in fact that we have a Top 6 because we couldn't narrow it down to just 5! These are listed in numerical order and we would like to congratulate...

Mia {1}

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

Sunday, November 11, 2012

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #172 Wreath


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!




The challenge this week is:
Wreaths
It's Remembrance Day today and Christmas is fast approaching, 
 You can either make a Remembrance day card or a Christmas Card either will be fine... 
but you MUST have a Wreath on your Creation!!

Lets see what the DT have created:


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 #171 (Christmas Ornament) Winner and top 5

This is Louise here stepping in for our lovely Debbie P whilst shes enjoying a little well deserved time off ;) Hope you have a blast, sweetie! 
As always it´s been amazing to hop through your blogs gasping about the utterly gorgeous entries youve all admitted. Its fun for us to see something a little diffrent than cards sometimes and you truly wowed us with your work. Unfortunately we can only have one winner and this week we´d like you to put your hands togheter for....



Catz (16)

She made a stunning looking ornament in beautiful colors and we all fell hard as rocks for the depth she has achieved in the background. Those Magnolia trees look amazing in there and the snowflakes are gorge :) Not to mention the coloring - fabby!  
You can see more of her beautiful creations HERE.

Catz, can you please contact us at magnoliadownunder@gmail.com to claim your winners badge and price.

This weeks top 5 was yet again a close one! Here they are listed in numerical order and we´d like to congratulate....


The top 5 picks are linked back to the original entries to make it easier for you all to check them out. Please grab our gorgeous top 5 badge from our sidebar and display it proudly on your blog to let everybody know how fabulous we think your work is! 

Dont forget to check back here in just a few hours to learn more about our new challenge and take a look at the always stunning inspiration from our amazing MDUC DT. We are hoping you want to play along with us! 

Louise and the MDUC team


Sunday, November 4, 2012

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #171 Christmas Ornament

Good morning Magnolia Fans!
Welcome back to another fantastic week here at Magnolia Down Under Challenges. 
We have another brilliant sponsor here today, one very close to our heart. 
Please welcome Hjerteboden......




Our DT member Camilla S. started crafting in 2006, and after that the interest has just grown bigger and bigger for each year.
So big, that the interest has actually spread to her husband! 
But he is not making cards yet, just selling the equipment! Something that is very handy for Camilla;) And she also has her says in what goods they lead.
In October 2010 her husband, Bjarne, started the Norwegian web shop Hjerteboden.
He started out small, but now the inventories with beautiful crafting equipment has grown bigger along with more customers.
Hjerteboden aim to have low prices on equipment for cardmaking/scrapbooking,
and to be one of the fastest on delivery.
 Most importantly, they want the customer to have a positive experience of shopping in Hjerteboden.
Therefore they work hard to be among the best with customer care.
Hjerteboden are selling quality products from Ranger, Tim Holtz, Magnolia, Piondesign, Majadesign, Sweet Pea Stamps, Stempelglede, Saturated Canary, Prima, 
Wild Orchid Craft, Making Memories, Italeri, Kort & Godt and Spellbinders.

Hjerteboden are mainly shipping inside Norway, and the web shop is in Norwegian.
But they are happy to help foreign costumers as well.


Thank you so much Bjarne and Camilla! 

Our challenge this week for you to win this lovely prize:
MAKE OR ALTER A CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT
We can't wait to see what you come up with! Lets check out the amazing works by our Guests and DT:

First up to inspire you this week is our FABULOUS GDT for the past month...KATIE K. Thanx so much for all of your beautiful creations over the past 4 weeks Katie - you have been a wonderful GDT.






















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.