Sunday, January 27, 2013

Challenge # 181 - Wings


Welcome back to Magnolia Down Under Challenge!
We are celebrating Australia Day here over here this weekend so there is much going on around the country, concerts, award ceremonies, partying!

We don't have a sponsor this week so instead I (Kylie) am donating this adorable stamp, along with a surprise package of goodies to a lucky winner....

And the challenge this week is....
WINGS
You may interpret this as you wish, so long as we can clearly see your wings on your project you are in for a chance at the prize.

Lets check out or amazing DT creations:

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...
  • 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.

Saturday, January 26, 2013

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #180 {Recipe} - Winner and Top 5

Each and every week you get to hear me say WOW about the quality of the entries we get here so this time I thought I'd share what one of my fabulous teamies had to say... "Gosh these ladies are talented! I'm feeling a little envious of them all" ... and those words come from the uber talented Kylie Keuter who many of us admire and feel envious of!

Once again it's been an incredibly close vote but this week we'd like to congratulate our winner.....


Jenny Hodges {40}

I just love it when I get reminded of the older Magnolia stamps and how fabulous they are. Jenny has created such a gorgeous scene here mixing a newer Tilda with the older piano - I can almost hear the music! All the details tie the theme of her scene together brilliantly - from the tag with the word "fame" on, to the charm and the fabulous musical note ribbon. And the colours are just stunning! If you want to check out more of Jenny's amazing work you can check out her blog HERE.

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

We also have another amazing Top 5 for you. These are listed in numerical order and we would like to congratulate...


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! 

Thanks so much for joining us all this week and we hope you'll pop back in a few hours time to check out the next challenge. 

Debbie P and the MDUC DT
xXx

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Challenge # 180 - Recipe: Pink, lace and Metal

G'day Magnolia fans!!
Welcome back.
Well... it seems we had some blogger issues with our winner's post last week. The good news is that our winner did manage to see the post before it was gobbled up. What a relief. Lets see if we have a bit more luck this week ;)

We have a new DT member to welcome this week - Alyce from Kit and Clowder has joined the team! Welcome Alyce! It is lovely to have you on board, we can't wait to see what you have in store for us here at MDUC.

Our sponsor this week is...
Tilda's Town!
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.

This week's challenge is....
PINK, LACE and METAL
Lets check out what the girls have created to share with you, beginning with our newbie, Alyce :)


TANJA


DEBBIE DOLPHIN
Metal Charm and Metal corners

(pink, lace and metal corner)











Jan16a










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.

Saturday, January 19, 2013

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #179 {Flowers} - Winner and Top 5

Another week of GORGEOUS entries - I guess you guys must love adding flowers to your cards as much as I do - LOL. This week I told the gals that I thought they had the harder job - they get to vote for their favourites and I just tally the votes. It was sooo hard to narrow it down again this week - our lovely teamie Debbie Dolphin even said with "the quality (of entries) it's getting harder and harder to decide!". But as far as we are concerned KEEP IT UP - we LOVE it!

After a very tight vote this week we'd like to congratulate our winner.....


Karita {6}

The thing that caught my eye was not only Karita's amazing layout and colouring but check out the gorgeous Tilda charm she added in the bottom right corner - isn't it fabulous!!! I love the layered butterflies too - gives them a sense of lightness and movement. If you want to see more of Karita's amazing work you can check out her blog HERE.

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

We also have another amazing Top 6 for you, there is no way we could narrow it down any further - in fact I really am starting to think we need to change out badge to a Top 6 - LOL! These are listed in numerical order and we would like to congratulate...


The Top 6 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! 

Thanks so much for joining us all this week and we hope you'll pop back in a few hours time to check out the next challenge. Now finger's crossed THIS post doesn't disappear on me like last week's one did!

Debbie P and the MDUC DT
xXx

Challenge # 178 {Anything Goes} - REPEAT POST - Winner and Top 5

So OK - last week I wrote up a post announcing our fabulous winner and TOP from our Anything Goes challenge which ran over the Holiday break. I KNOW some of you saw it as we had comments - which are STILL here - and lots of views - BUT it seems to have gone MISSING!!! In our post list it was back in draft mode but had been re-labelled ready for our NEXT challenge, rescheduled AND written over - VERY STRANGE!!!! I have a feeling Blogger has a few gremlins playing in the system because no-one on our team had anything to do with the weirdness happening. I just wanted to mention it to you all in case those gremlins come visiting YOU. I also wanted to make sure our FABULOUS winner and Top 5 had been seen by everyone - luckily I hadn't thrown out the voting list!

So once again - here they are......

Our incredible winner.....



And our amazing Top 6 - in numerical order and linked back to their entries....


I'll be back in a few hours to announce the Winner and Top 5 of our FLOWERS Challenge once I've tallied all the votes.......

Debbie P for the MDUC DT
xXx

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Challenge #179 - Flowers


Happy New Year Magnolia Fans!

Welcome back to Magnolia Down Under challenge and to our first challenge of 2013.
We hope that you had an enjoyable break over the holiday period.

We all had a wonderful time going through your "Anything Goes" entries over the break - you all WOWED us with each and every entry. We can't wait to see what you come up with this week.

So lets get down to business straight away and check out our sponsor this week!

Our Sponsor this week is Stamping Tilda..
with a fantastic $20 voucher up for grabs to a lucky winner - wow, I wish I could win!



Our challenge to kick of the New Year is -
Flowers
with this lovely inspiration picture for you...

 
And the fabulous DT inspiration pieces:






















 
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.