**WINNER - challenge #255 ***

Hello Magnolia Down Under Challenges 

We are back today with our final winner here at MDUC. 

Thank you to everyone who played along, unfortunately there can only be one winner.

As chosen by Random.org, our winner is

#17 - The Craft Bucket

Congratulations! 

Please send us an email: magnoliadownunder@gmail.com to claim your prize - 

we will also need your mailing address if you can add that in please!!

Thanks again to everyone who participated in our last challenge and supported us over the last 6 years. 

Happy crafting xxx

Challenges #255 - Happy Birthday!!

Hello MDUC friends and welcome to our 6th birthday challenge.

Before we begin today, we have an announcement.

This will be our last challenge. 

It is with great sadness that we bid you all farewell. MDUC has been running for 6 years and finally, the day has come where we must say goodbye. We have been here together for such a long time.
Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end, and it is finally, our turn.

This decision was not an easy one to make.

We ask that you celebrate with us for making it to our 6th birthday by participating on our final challenge. 

We would love to thank our sponsors for looking after us and you.

We extend our heartfelt thanks to our Design Team, present and past.
Without you, this challenge could not have been the success it was for so long. Many friendships have been made here and we hold each one in our hearts.
We thank you for your friendship and commitment.

To our participants - thank you so much for joining us. It has been a pleasure crafting along side you all. Seeing new crafters joining us challenge after challenge, and also the favourites who always come back.

Our sponsor for this, our last challenge, is

Live and Love Crafts!
Winner chosen by our random.

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!

The last challenge for MDUC is:
**HAPPY BIRTHDAY**

Please farewell our amazing DT by visiting their blogs:

Kathrin

Jane

Karen

Ashlee

Tanja

Kylie

Jennifer

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 

An InLinkz Link-up

Winner - challenge #254 Snips and Snails

Welcome back Magnolia fans. 

Thank you for joining us for our winner's post. 

Our challenge #254 - Snips and Snails is now concluded and it is time to see who our amazing winner is....

Sponsored very generously by:

Our winner will receive a "secret package"! Thank you so much Magnolia xxx

And without further ado, 

the winner of this challenge is:

#3 - LAURA

Please send us an email: magnoliadownunder@gmail.com to claim your prize - 

we will also need your mailing address if you can add that in please!!

Our next challenge is a super special one - please join us back here in an hour to see what it is!

Happy crafting,

Kylie 

Challenge #254 - Snips and Snails and Puppy Dogs Tails (One for the boys)

Ohhh.... hello MDUC friends!

I am super excited to bring this challenge to you today. It is one close to my heart. 

But first - lets meet our brilliant sponsor:

Magnolia are very generously sponsoring our challenge by giving to one lucky winner a secret package! 

Thank you so much Magnolia. 

The challenge this week is:

Snips and Snails and Puppy Dogs Tails

(A boy themed challenge)

Lets check out our fabby DT creations:

Kathrin

Karen

Ashlee

Jennifer

Tanja

Kylie

 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 

An InLinkz Link-up

Winners - challenge # 252 - BINGO and #253 Valentines with a twist

Hello lovely MDUC fans.

We are here today to announce the winners of our last two challenges. 

I apologise for the delay of announcing the winner of challenge #252, but as they say, better late than never.

Without further ado... here we go!

Challenge #252 - BINGO

Sponsored by 

One lucky winner is about to receive a secret package! 

Thank you so much Magnolia. 

Chosen by Random:

#13 - Anita

Congratulations Anita!

Challenge #253 - VALENTINES WITH A TWIST

Sponsored by:

Live and Love Crafts!

Chosen by Random:

#23 - Jules Ribbons

Congratulations Jules!

Can you both please send us an email: magnoliadownunder@gmail.com to claim your prize - we will also need your mailing address if you can add that in please!!

We will be back tomorrow with our next challenge. Please be sure to check in.

Hugs Kylie and the MDUC team xx

Challenge #253 - Valentines with a twist - no red

Welcome to another fun Magnolia Down Under Challenge!

We've been looking forward to this challenge, it is a lovely one - hint hint! haha.
This fortnight we're leading into the season of looooove, yep, Valentines Day is around the corner.  But we also have a twist .... more of that after a word from our wonderful sponsor:

Live and Love Crafts!
Winner chosen by our random.

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!

Our challenge this week is:
VALENTINES WITH A TWIST - NO RED

That's right everyone - no red! Just for a nice little change.
We can't wait to see what you come up with.

Lets see how our amazing DT went with the challenge:

Kathrin

Karen

Jane

Ashlee

Kylie

Jennifer

Tanja

Janne 

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 

An InLinkz Link-up

Challenge #252 - BINGO

Happy New Year MDUC friends :) 

Welcome to our first challenge of 2015.

We'll get to that in a minute, first of all, lets check in with our fantastic sponsor:

Magnolia are very generously sponsoring our challenge by giving to one lucky winner a secret package! 

Thank you so much Magnolia. 

And our challenge for this fortnight is:

BINGO!

Just choose a line, either across, down or diagonally for your prooject

Our amazing DT have created these fabulous projects to inspire you!

KAREN

Fancy Folds - Gate Fold, Masking, Make your own Embellishments!

Kathrin
Embossing, Edwin, Shaped Card

Jane
(Fancy folds, masking, make your own embellishments)

 (Card closed)

(Card open)


Janne
(white only, shaped card, make your own embellishment)

Ashlee
(white, shaped, make your own embellishments)

Jennifer
( White Only, Shaped Card and Make your Own Embellishments)

Kylie

(Masking, Fancy folds, Make your own embellishments)

Yulis

Shaker - Edwin - Faux iron embellishment

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 

An InLinkz Link-up

Winner - Anything Goes

Hi There!!

We hope you've all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year! We sure are enjoying our Summer here Down Under, but it has had it moments as well.

Well I'm sure to announce the lucky winners of our Anything Goes Challenge! First Up we have the Random winner of the lush Magnolia Prize..... it goes too:

73. Dian

Congratulations Dian!!! Can you please send us an email: magnoliadownunder@gmail.com to claim your prize - we will also need your mailing address if you can add that in please!!

Next - WOW you guys sure have rocked the Anything Goes theme! So many absolutely stunning entries, you made picking a winner a bit tricky!!! But our winner for the Live and Love Crafts awesome prize is:

34. Kiki

Congratulations Kiki!!! Can you also send us an email to claim your Prize :-)

And now our fabulous TOP 5  not in any particular order

4. Yanny

77. Laura C

21. Charlotte

47. Durvina

56. Nathalia

Congratulations Ladies!! You are welcome to grab the top 5 badge from our sidebar for your gorgeous blogs!!

We are having an extended break over the Christmas/New Year period, our first challenge of 2015 will be on Tuesday 27th January!!! Be sure to check back then!