Sunday, February 27, 2011

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #85

Good morning Magnolia Fans!

We hope you all had an enjoyable crafty week :) Thank you for coming to visit us again for this challenge.
Our challenge this week will be pretty easy for most of you.. can you guess?? Our challenge this week is....

  • FLOWER POWER
So without further ado... lets have a look at what our gorgeous DT have put together for you:





Here is a side shot of the Book Box....



(pop over to my blog and see the inside)




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...


Saturday, February 26, 2011

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #84 {Distressing} - Winner and Top 5

Boy oh boy you guys don't like to make life easy for us - there were soooo many stunningly gorgeous creations for us to check out and vote on this week. I guess distressing is a favourite technique for many of you - LOL. I do want to thank you ALL for giving us such wonderful eye candy - it's just a shame we can't pick you ALL as winners. I know the DT had a tough choice this week but we do have a winner. Congratulations go this week to......

Lillemor Engdahl {3}

Isn't this a simply gorgeous card! The colour combo and details are fabulous. If you want to see more of Lillemor's work check out her amazing blog HERE.

Lillemor, can you please email Kylie at kyliekueter@tpg.com.au to claim your winner's badge and prize.

Now onto this week's Top 5 - and as requested I have linked these cards back to the original entries to make it easier for you guys to go and check them out. Congratulations to our Top 5 - oops we couldn't narrow it down so here's our Top 6 - LOL.....


Please grab our 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 thanx to EVERYONE who entered - your work was truly gorgeous!

Don't forget to pop back tomorrow morning and check out our new challenge - I'm sure you'll be inspired by our DT to head into your craft rooms and grab your Magnolia stamps.

Debbie P and the MDUC team
xXx

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Magnolia Down Under Challenge # 84

Good morning Magnolia Fans!

Thank you so much for visiting us again this week. We have a nice easy challenge for you this week, but we also are excited to have a terrific sponsor as well...Tickled Pink Stamps.
Tickled Pink Stamps is an Australian based online company that stocks a range of popular and well sought after stamps from many companies all over the world and is always so excited to be supplying you with everything cute, quirky and PINK... They now have their very own Lil Lolita and Lil Lads along with the cute lil Cherrie in both rubber and digital stamps. Tickled Pink Stamps is excited to be sponsoring Magnolia Down Under Challenges.
Kellie from Tickled Pink Stamps has very generously donated the very cute "King Tilda" stamp from the new "You are So Special" collection as the prize this week.


So rather than keep you in suspence... I had better tell you what the challenge is! It is a nice easy one for you this week...
  • DISTRESSING
And here are the examples from our very talented Design Team!





{The front}

{The inside of the pop-up card}










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...


Saturday, February 19, 2011

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #83 {A Sketch} - Winner and Top 5

I don't know about you guys but I love a good sketch - it's a great place to get going if you're staring at your image and DPs and thinking "what next" - LOL. Thanx to our very own Kristy Young we had a fabulous sketch for you all to work with - and boy did you guys do it justice with some fabulous creations and wonderful ideas.

Unfortunately we can only pick one winner and this week we'd like to congratulate......

Bron {26}
 
I'm sure you'll all agree this is a beautiful use of the sketch. If you want to see more of Bronwen's work check out her blog HERE.

Bronwen - can you please email Kylie at kyliekueter@tpg.com.au to collect your winner's badge.

Now onto this week's Top 5 - and as requested I have linked these cards back to the original entries to make it easier for you guys to go and check them out. Congratulations to our Top 5.....


Please grab our 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 thanx to EVERYONE who entered - we LOVED seeing your work!

Don't forget to pop back tomorrow morning and check out our new challenge - I'm sure you'll be inspired by our DT to grab your Magnolia stamps and get colouring.

xXx
Debbie P

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Magnolia Down Under Challenge # 83

Good morning Magnolia Fans!!

WOW - we were all so overwhelmed at last week's response to our Love challenge. Thank you so much to everyone of you who participated.
Can you feel the change in the season approaching? Here in Australia we haven't had much of a summer, it has been fairly cool and wet. With only a few weeks of summer left though, you can see the autumn coming. It is wonderful, autumn is my favourite time of year.

Our challenge this week is a nice versatile one. This week's challenge is....



  • A SKETCH by our own Kristy Young.








The Design Team have once again done a fabulous job with the sketch, so lets take a look:


KAREN




DEBBIE DOLPHIN









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...


Saturday, February 12, 2011

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #82 {Love} - Winner and Top 5

Oh My Goodness - were you ever a Loved Up bunch this week - LOL. We were blown away by 126 FABULOUS entries and just loved spending time checking them all out. With all the craziness in the world today it was wonderful to be surrounded by so much beauty and love!

The hard part was trying to narrow it down to a winner and Top 5 - I'm sooo glad I have the amazing MDUC DT to help me out with this. Without further ado we'd LOVE you to help us congratulate our winner......


Hanne A {121}

I'm sure you'll all agree this is a beautiful card. Even the sentiment is gorgeous with it's swirls and butterfly - just fabulous, even if I DON'T know what it says - LOL. If you want to see more of Hanne's work check out her blog HERE.

Hanne - can you please email Kylie at kyliekueter@tpg.com.au to collect your winner's badge.

Now onto our Top 5 - and places on this list were hotly contested and we just couldn't narrow it down to just 5 - so we'd like to thank you ALL for making our job sooo hard - I wish ALL my jobs were this much fun though - LOL. Congratulations to our Top 6 for this week.....

Leah Ann Gast {36}
Louise F {44}
Paola Levi {59}
Camilla {85}
Angie Hunt {112}
Carol H {114}

Please grab our 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 thanx to EVERYONE who entered - we LOVED seeing your work!

Don't forget to pop back tomorrow morning and check out our new challenge - I'm sure you'll be inspired by our DT to grab your Magnolia stamps and get colouring.

xXx     Debbie P

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Magnolia Down Under Challenge # 82

Good morning Magnolia Fans!

We are back with another fun challenge for you today. But before we get into that, we just wanted to let you know that we have a little change to the closing time of our challenge. Until now it was 12:00 noon on Saturday Melbourne time, but in order for us to collect the votes for the winners and top 5 we have adjusted the time back to 8:00am on Saturday. There is a clock in the sidebar set at the correct time so please just check there if you are not sure. Now with the business out of the way... lets get onto our new challenge!

With Valentines Day just around the corner, we thought it was time for a little love fest here at Magnolia Down Under... so the challenge this week is.....

LOVE - it can be a Valentines Day project, or wedding, baby - the choice is yours, so long as it is clear to us its luuurrrvvvee :)
So.. withour further ado, here are the amazing interpretations from our Design Team!



















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 am 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...


Saturday, February 5, 2011

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #81 {Embossing} - Winner and Top 5

Hi Everyone - Debbie P here back from holidays and wanting to thank the gorgeous Karen for looking after the winner's posts for me while I was away - she did a fantastic job as I'm sure you'll all agree. I had a blast while visiting New Zealand with my family but I did miss seeing everyone's gorgeous entries. It was great getting back into it this week - and once again you guys haven't disappointed! I've always LOVED embossing and it was fun seeing all the different ways you guys embossed.

It was pretty tough picking just one winner this week but we'd like to congratulate.....

Gloria D {60}

Isn't this a beautiful card and a deserving winner, the colour combo is stunning and the details fabulous! If you want to see more of Gloria's gorgeous work check out her blog HERE - and make sure to check out her cute Fimo characters too, they are as wonderfully detailed as her cards.

Gloria - can you please email Kylie on  kyliekueter@tpg.com.au to collect your winner's badge.

Now onto our Top 5 for this week - and you guys made it really difficult to narrow down to just 5 - though we LOVE a tough voting week because it means we have soooo many gorgeous entries to drool over - LOL.

Fairy Pickles {6}
Lori {11}
Catz {20}
Camilla {38}
Janette Olen {51}

Please grab our Top 5 badge from the sidebar and display it proudly on your blog to let everyone know how fabulous your work is! And thanx to EVERYONE who entered - we LOVE seeing your work!

Don't forget to pop back tomorrow morning and check out our new challenge - I'm sure you'll be inspired by our DT to grab your ink and get started.

xXx
Debbie P