Summer Delights Winner

We would like to congratulate our latest winner

18 Yuri

Yuri, your card is so beautiful with summery flowers and sweet butterflies which is why it has been voted by our Design Team as this fortnights winner!  Congratulations!!

Yuri can you please send me an email at magnoliadownunder@gmail.com to claim your prize.  You can grab your winners badge from our side bar -------------->

Our Fantastic Top Five 

43. Tina

24. Jane

47. Dee Dee

33. Shien Shien

4. Sirpaliina 

Girls you can grab your Top 5 badge also from the side bar --------------->

To enter into our latest Challenge Please Click Here

MDUC Challenge # 228 - Doo Hickeys ONLY (no images)

Welcome back to Magnolia Down Under Challenges!

This fortnight is yet another fabulous challenge - and this one may be just a little bit more challenging than others! Ahhh - do I have you wondering? ahhhh - lets first welcome our sponsor:

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 $10 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.

Our challenge this week is chosen by our gorgeous Karen! Its a doosey too....
This week we would like you to:

USE DOO HICKEY DIES ONLY!
That means - no images are to be used, yep! No Tilda or Edwin or any other 'picture' stamp.
You may use a sentiment (any company) if you wish!

Now lets check out the Doo Hickey delights of Group 1 of our DT:

KAREN

KATHRIN

DEBBIE P

DEBBIE D

Jane

Kylie

Tanja

Franz

JANIEL

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. 

MDUC Challenges #227 Summer Delights - mid challenge reminder and more DT inspiration!

Happy Tuesday to you all.

Welcome to our Summer Delights mid-way challenge reminder.
Below you will find a host of new and amazing inspiration from our wonderful DT.
Our challenge sponsor is Live and Love Crafts with a fantastic prize.

KYLIE

Yulis

YING

Camilla S.

Janne

Tanja

Fleur

Lori

To link up to our Summer Delights challenge- click HERE

AND - if you are a member of our Facebook Challenge group - our first challenge goes live RIGHT NOW as well!!  To go to the Facebook only challenge, click HERE.

We're all looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
Hugs x

MDUC Challenge # 227 - Summer Delights

Welcome back to Magnolia Down Under Challenges and our very first challenge for 2014!

We are so excited to be back and we can't wait to see what amazing work you have in store for us this year.

Have you checked out our new Facebook Challenge yet? It starts with its first challenge next week so make sure you join the group so you're ready to go!

Just a reminder that our blog challenges here are now fortnightly challenges. This means more time for you to enter! It also means that we will be posting a mid challenge reminder next week as well, loads more inspiration!

Lets welcome our sponsor before we go any further - 

we are very happy to have Live and Love Crafts back again this year, thank you so much Sandy!

Live and Love Crafts!

If the words vintage and shabby chic makes your heart beat faster, you will find your haven at Live & Love Crafts! 

Live & Love Crafts is a UK based online store that ships WORLDWIDE. The store is owned and operated by Sandra Mathis, a crafter who is as passionate about the vintage style as she is about customer service and providing a good shopping experience. Live & Love Crafts prides itself on having a website that is easy to navigate with excellent product images. Orders are dispatched fast; usually on the same day received.

Live & Love Crafts stocks a wide range of products from well-loved vintage brands such as Maja Design, Pion Design, Magnolia, Wild Orchid Crafts, Kort & Godt, Prima, Melissa Frances, Maya Road, and the Tim Holtz/Ranger product lines.

The store has a vast selection of laces, ribbons and trims, an assortment of over 200 charms and metal decorations, as well as many other unique embellishments that you can't find elsewhere. To help you save on costs, the charms/metal decos can be purchased singularly and all trims and ribbons are sold by the yard/meter. If you’re looking for products that will inspire and a one stop paper & embellishment shop, look no further than Live & Love Crafts!

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.

And - now for the challenge!

Over here, Down Under, we are enjoying a wonderful HOT HOT HOT summer. This week in particular we are expecting to reach some scorchers above 40 degrees Celsius. 

It seems fitting that we kick of the first challenge of the year with 

**SUMMER DELIGHTS**

And here are the DT examples for your viewing pleasure!

KAREN

DEBBIE P

JANIEL

JANE

LILLEMOR

Franz

DEBBIE D

CAMILLA H

LOUISE

KATHRIN

Even though here at MDUC, the emphasis is always on FUN 

unfortunately, we do have to have some rules :(

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 SUNDAY EVENING 11pm AES time  (the following week  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.

Happy New Year!! A notice about some exciting changes at MDUC

Happy New Year Magnolia Down Under Challenges friends.

We are here today to let you know of some exciting new changes here at MDUC.

This year we celebrate our 5th birthday so we felt it was time to shake things up and make things a little bit more interesting and fun for both you, our beloved friends, and also for our DT.

So what are these changes?

To start with, we are moving the start and end day for the challenges, and the duration of the challenge.

We will now post our challenge on a TUESDAY MORNING at 10am Australian Eastern time and they will finish on SUNDAY EVENING 11pm the following week - Yes! That means you have almost two weeks in which to enter!  Our DT will remain in their groups, Group 1 posting on week 1 and Group 2 posting week 2.  

Our Winners post will now be posted on a Wednesday.  This gives the DT more time to leave their comments on your amazing work and to vote on who they want to win for the fortnight. 

Our first challenge for the New Year goes live this Tuesday 14th and will run until Sunday 26th

Ok, that all sounds pretty simple doesn't it? But that also sounds like there will be less prizes to be won and less challenges enter :(

Ahh - we wouldn't do that to you! We would miss seeing all of your amazing work, it just wouldn't do!

so we've decided to...

HAVE A NEW FACEBOOK CHALLENGE GROUP AS WELL!

Yes! This is the exciting part - we have a NEW FRESH EXCITING Challenge on Facebook!

Our FB Challenge group can be found HERE ---> Magnolia Down Under Challenges on FB.

We invite everyone to come and join us!  Bring your friends!

We will again post our challenges on a Tuesday morning at 10am Australian time - on alternate weeks to the Blog challenge going live

We still have amazing sponsors

Still lots of fun and prizes.

Our first Facebook challenge will go live on Tuesday 21 Jan and we just can't wait!

We hope these changes are as exciting for you as they are for us. We hope this brings us closer to you all.

The DT wish you all the best and very crafting joy for 2014.

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #226 {Anything Goes} - Winners and Top 5

WOW WOW WOW what an AMAZING array of stunning projects you entered into our last challenge of 2013. Once again we want to THANK YOU for supporting our little challenge and we hope you continue to do so in 2014. We do have some changes coming your way and they will be announced soon - before our first challenge begins. We have listened to comments from you and our DT and hope you'll approve and support the changes. But all that is for another post - this one is to celebrate the AMAZING 197 entries we had to vote on - and it was a REALLY tough and close vote for the gals. Luckily we do have 3 prizes to give away so we get to make more of you happy too.

Congratulations to our 3 major prize winners {in numerical order}.......

Pona {34}

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

You can check out more of Pona's stunning work on her BLOG.

Christa {57}

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

You can check out more of Christa's stunning work on her BLOG.

AND.....

Yuri {133}

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

You can check out more of Yuri's stunning work on her BLOG.

We also have an amazing Top Five for you. These are listed in numerical order and we would like to congratulate...

Pysselfröken {13}

Dina {45}

Tamika {85}

Louise {113}

Nancie Quah {123}

The Top 5 picks are all 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! 

Thanks so much for joining us all this week and we hope you'll pop back soon to read all about our challenge changes.

Debbie P and the MDUC DT

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