Magnolia Down Under Challenge {Sketch} - Guest DT Announcement, Winner and Top 5

Sad to say once again you guys have NOT made life easy for us with trying to pick a winner. So many beautiful entries - although there were a couple that we had trouble seeing any hint of the sketch in. You can interpret a sketch many ways but it should still be visible in your finished creation. But we have taken a vote and although the votes were spread far and wide across many of the entries we do have a winner. This week we'd like to congratulate......

Jenny Hodges {13}

Jenny has created a beautiful Christmas card with fabulous gold touches and neutral tones. Her colouring of Santa is stunning and the whole layout has a wonderful vintage feel to it. If you want to see more of Jenny's gorgeous work you can check out her blog HERE.

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

Before I announce our Top 5 I need to let you know who random.org selected to be our Guest DT for the following month. Congratulations.....

KATIE K {6}

Katie please contact us at magnoliadownunder@gmail.com to let us know if you'd like to play along.

We also have another amazing Top 5 - and these spots were hotly contested yet again this week. These entries are listed in numerical order and we would like to congratulate...

Becky {11}

Mel {28}

Artesania {30}

Liz Marsden {34}

Audhild {48}

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

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #166 Sketch

Good morning Magnolia Fans!

Welcome back to our next challenge. 

This week we don't have a sponsor but we do have a GDT call! 

We will choose a random winner from all of those who enter to be our Guest for the next month. 

Does that sound like fun? It certainly is for us... :) 

The challenge this week is a fantastic SKETCH by our 

adorable Louise!

Lets check out what the ladies have done with the fantastic sketch:

sara

Kathrin

Lori

Janne

Kylie

Sharon

Camilla

Kat

Tanja

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 Challenge #165 {White on White} - Winner and Top 5

Well I have to say I was rapt when this challenge fell on my week. I've always loved the look of white on white - the textures and the pop of colour from the image work so well together to create an amazing effect. My fellow DT examples and your gorgeous entries certainly did nothing to change my mind about the fabulous results of white on white. Unfortunately with so many gorgeous entries it made voting very tight indeed but we do have a winner and this week we'd like to congratulate.......

Minna {31}

Minna has created some fabulous textures on her card with textiles, corrugated card, die cuts and paint. Her fabulous colouring of Santa is the perfect match with the white pen highlights. I love the snowy feel surrounding Santa and the warm glow from his lantern. If you want to see more of Minna's gorgeous work you can check out her blog HERE.

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

We also have another amazing Top 5 - and these spots were hotly contested this week - we could easily have had TEN entries listed here but we did manage to keep it down - just! These entries are listed in numerical order and we would like to congratulate...

Karita {3}

Lillemor Engdahl {14}

Yulis {16}

Durvina {30}

Audhild {43}

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

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #165 White on White

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:

This week, the challenge is:

White on White

(Use ONLY white to create you card.  Use colour only on your image)

It was a bit of a challenge for us too! Let me assure you, but the results are stunning!! Lets check out the creations by the DT:

LOUISE

DEBBIE DOLPHIN

CAMILLA H

DEBBIE P

BRON

Kylie

JANE

JANIEL

KAREN

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.