Hearts and Flowers Winner and Top 5

Good Morning, it's Karen here again this fortnight to announce our latest winner.... it's

50. BARBARA

Barbara has created a beautiful hearts and flowers card, with a shadow effect image, isn't it just awesome!! I personally love the soft blue/grey papers and of course Barbara's stunning colouring.  Barbara can you please send me an email: magnoliadownunder@gmail.com to claim your prize.  You can also collect your winners badge from the side bar.

Now for our top 5, we had a lot of entries this fortnight which was so pleasing to see, and that made voting for our design team so much harder with so much variety, but we managed to narrow it down to these lovely ladies... congratulations!!

TOP 5

9. Malin

47. Yuri 

34. Asalill

25. Donna Lee

83. Lois Alfar

If you would like to enter into our latest challenge which is Butterflies.... then please click HERE

MDUC Challenge # 230 - Butterflies

Welcome back to Magnolia Down Under Challenges!

This fortnight is yet another fabulous challenge - 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.

Challenge # 230 is
BUTTERFLIES

Lets check out Group 1's amazing Butterfly creations:

KATHRIN

JANE

DEBBIE D

JANIEL

CAMILLA H

KAREN

FRANZ

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 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. 

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MDUC Challenges #229 - mid challenge reminder and more DT inspiration!

Hiya
Welcome to our midway reminder of our Hearts and Flowers Challenge.
To go straight to our challenge click the link HERE.... but first check out what our amazing DT has come up with.

Fleur

Camilla S. 

Tanja

Yulis

Ying

Lori

Janne

Doo Hickey Die's Only Winner & Top 5

Hey!!  It was so great to see your entries for last fortnight's challenge of Just using your Magnolia Doo Hickey Dies Only, and without an image. It was a different kind of theme, but we at the DT loved the challenge, we hope you did too.

So we would love to congratulate our most awesome Winner this fortnight 

19. Christa aka SCRAPMOM

We adore we vintage feel of this beautiful Birthday card, the use of your dies with the hint of distress inking around the edges, a beautiful balanced card Christa.  

Can you please send an email to me at magnoliadownunder@gmail.com to claim your awesome prize. You can collect your winners badge from the side bar! Congratulations Christa!!

Our TOP 5 this fortnight are:

7. Kirsty-Anne

20. Barbara

12. Tina

8. Dunja

13. Sandy

Congratulations girls, please feel free to grab our TOP 5 Badge from the side bar!!

Our new challenge theme this fortnight is Hearts and Flowers, perfect for Valentines Day in a couple of days!!  We hope your loved one spoils you!!

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Hugs

Karen and the MDUC DT

xxxx

MDUC Challenge #229 - Hearts and Flowers

Welcome back to Magnolia Down Under Challenges!

It looks like we scared you all off a little with our Doo Hickey challenge! Well... this fortnight will be an easier one for you :)

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!

HEARTS and FLOWERS

(we would like to see both please)

Lets take a moment to check out the delights prepared by our DT:

KATHRIN

KAREN

DEBBIE P

Jane

JANIEL

DEBBIE D

LILLEMOR

CAMILLA H

FRANZ 

 

 

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.

thanks for playing! 

1. Scrap Emporium by Adri Munhoz	2. lizzidroege...2014: Vintage Valentine....	3. ScrapbookFashionista Designs by Rina	4. Julie P	5. Tinie's Creatieve Blog: Een lekker rood kaartje
6. Sirpaliinan askartelut: Tilda Rose Scent	7. Tamarina Ustvarjalnica: Bee mine	8. Flo Magno-Maniac's Blog	9. Malin	10. Lo shakerato Alberto: The Butterfly Circus
11. AJ's Designs: Gotta Love, Love, Love Tilda	12. ~*Sheena*~	13. kiki foe	14. Suzo	15. Einat
16. Hazel's Handmade crafts: Tilda With Love	17. little angel	18. Pooja	19. Gayle's Crafty Blog :	20. Chris C.
21. sarah	22. Simply cute: LOOOOVE	23. Love	24. Tanvi C	25. Donna Lee
26. Anny	27. Valentines Day Card.. | homelycrafting	28. lizzidroege...2014: LoVe.....	29. JenniferD	30. Dian Ratna
31. Karin	32. Contagious Crafts: Happy Valentine's Day!!!	33. scrapcard girls: Knutsel en zo...Zwart Wit en YMAM	34. Åsalill	35. Fiona L
36. Hos Dorte	37. Something Beautiful By Julie: F is for Flowers	38. Henneke's Creative Creations: Valentinesday card	39. Joyce	40. Cinzia C.
41. Anita	42. Pona	43. Karen G.	44. Nancie Quah	45. kavitha
46. tamika	47. Yuri	48. Stempelhexchen: #88 LHoSM "Love or Hearts"	49. Karina	50. Barbara GR
51. Cards by Manuela: London Tilda	52. Hilde & Petra	53. kreative-basteltante: Valentinswichteln im Stempel	54. Sofia	55. Creaplekkie van Jeanet
56. sue w	57. Kathy Tanner	58. Kitty	59. SOMA	60. Dewi
61. Hazel's Handmade crafts: Pretty in Pink	62. Vicky xx	63. Kaija	64. IDAS KREATIVE SIDE...: Tilda med hjerter!:))I	65. Renate
66. flowers for you	67. Sharon Gurnhill	68. Ashlee's Magnolia	69. Minhas Magnolias Tildas e eu: Nascimento de Isabel	70. Pysselfröken
71. Kelly N	72. jackelien design: Magnolia kaart	73. Rita V	74. Annie B	75. Betty CH
76. Inger Marie: 100% søt	77. Kuni	78. kavitha	79. Nuvolina	80. Gro
81. Durvina a la Carte: Happy Birthday	82. Lisa	83. lios_alfar	84. Lesley



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MDUC Challenges #228 - mid challenge reminder and more DT inspiration!

Welcome to our mid challenge reminder!
This fortnight we're looking for Doo Hickeys only, so NO images or accessory stamps, sentiments are allowed though :) Yes - a tricky one!  The results are spectacular though and we have all been inspired by each other and your creations.

Lets check out some more amazing projects by our fantastic DT:

Camilla S.

Yulis

Janne

Lillemor



Fleur

Lori

Ying

To add your creation to the linky - click HERE

Can't wait to see what you create!