Marvelous Magnolia Challenge Blog: January 2013

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Marvelous Magnolia Challenge 12 ANYTHING GOES

Its Thursday and time for another

Marvelous Magnolia Challenge

Thank you all for becoming our followers and the warm welcome

to the Magnolia Challenge's in blog world!

We have recieved many wonderful comments on our

new challenge format,

but entries have been low, so....

we are opening up our challenges to be more open themed.

We hope that everyone understands the new format

and we are happy to answer any questions if posted in the comment box.

This challenge theme is

ANYTHING GOES

and our Marvelous Sponsor is

Welcome to the Ribbon Girl - to help your craft budget go further we always sell our buttons, flowers, diamantes, pearls, flatbacks, crystal stems, charms and embellishments in small quantities so you can mix and match with more choice! Seam binding is sold in 5 metre bundles. Divine Bakers Twine and button twine in 10 metre bundles. All of our beautiful ribbon and lace is sold by the metre and when you need more than one, we supply in a continuous length whenever possible

New DT Members

We had a few DT members who have had to step down for various reasons,

and we thank Becky and Alison for their

beautiful and amazing creations contributed during

their time with us... and wish them all the best!!!

Now we would like to welcome our new team mates

and we are so excited to have them join in!

Pink Team Welcomes

Gina, Charlotte, and Brita

Purple Team Welcomes

Celine and Irene

Welcome ladies.... we are beyond delighted to have all of you!

This week is the Purple Designers to showcase

their work for your inspiration

Suzie

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Marvelous Magnolia Challenge 11 Top Cards

Good day Magnolia fans!

It seems it was a lean challenge last week

but we are very excited about next weeks challenge,

so stay tuned for that!!!

Our beginners catagory was most popular last week and

the DT has selected

7. MIJA

There was only one entry in intermediate and expert catagories

so our winners by default are..

Intermediate

1. Betty CH

Expert

1. Barbara GR

Congrats ladies!

Please email Suzie sue@tranquilpc.co.uk

to recieve your Marvelous Magnolia blinkie.

The winner of the

Live & Love Crafts

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Marvelous Magnolia Challenge # 11

Hello everyone out there in blogland!

Thanks to all of you brave souls who entered our first

new format challenge last week.

We are working out the kinks and hope that everyone will

take a moment to read the challenge rules for

what catagory you fall into.

BEGINNER

A beginner is someone who has placed in 3 or less Magnolia only challenges.

This would be any placement of a top 3 or 5 in a Magnolia challenge. We are not referring to a random winner. We are talking about being selected by the

owner or the DT in their top selections.

INTERMEDIATE

An intermediate crafter is someone who has placed in 6 or less Magnolia only challenges. This would be any placement of a top 3 or 5 in a Magnolia challenge. We are not referring to a random winner. We are talking about being selected by the owner or the DT in their top selections.

EXPERT

An expert crafter is someone who has placed in more than 7 Magnolia only challenges. This would be any placement of a top 3 or 5 in a Magnolia challenge. We are not referring to a random winner. We are talking about being selected by the owner or the DT in their top selections.

This challenge is

"Tilda and Edwin on the same card"

Our marvelous sponsor this challenge is

Live & Love Crafts

Live & Love Crafts is a UK based online store that specializes in vintage and shabby chic craft materials. We ship WORLDWIDE.
We stock the unique and beautiful vintage inspired scrapbooking papers from the Scandinavian vendors Maja Design, Pion Design, Inkido, Landstoken, and Riddersholm Design.
Live & Love Crafts also carries gorgeous laces, trims, pins, broaches, buttons, flowers, resin pieces, vintage trinkets and other craft embellishments from vintage specialists such as Prima, Melissa Frances, and Maya Road.
Further products that are part of Live & Love Crafts’ portfolio are flowers from Kort og Godt, rubber stamps, cutting dies and embellishments from Magnolia, Bildmalarna and Vilda Stamps, distress inks, paints, glitter and other innovative craft products from Ranger.

The lovely PINK designers have this inspiration for you...

We have a few gals who for various reasons could not make this challenge.

Marvelous Magnolia Challenge #10 New Format Top 3

Hello Magnolia lovers!

Its time to announce our top selections from our

first new format challenge!

It seems that we need to be more clear about

how we have thought out the catagories...

BEGINNER

A beginner is someone who has placed in 3 or less Magnolia only challenges.

This would be any placement of a top 3 or 5 in a Magnolia challenge. We are not referring to a random winner. We are talking about being selected by the

owner or the DT in their top selections.

19. lizzi DT

INTERMEDIATE

3. Karina

EXPERT

3. Charolette DT

CONGRATS Ladies...for being our first new format top choices!!

Please email Suzie for your blinkie badge!!!

sue@tranquilpc.co.uk

The Pretty Little Ribbon

Winner is

12. Wilma Z

Please email Rina at FashionistaChallenge@gmail.com

with your mailing adress to sort out your prize.

New DT members will be made on a
post later this week.

Thank You

Thank you all for your patience during our growing pains.

We all believe strongly in this new format and

knew there would be a few bumps in the road along the way...

hopefully I have explained it better and things can be smooth sailing from here on out :)

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Marvelous Magnolia Challenge #10 New Format

Hello everyone out there in blogland!

Today is the announcement of our new challenge format and we are

very excited to share it with you but before we do that

we have 2 DT members who have had to

step down due to overwhelming committments,

so we are looking for 2 new DT members!

If you would like to be considered please put DT

after your name in your entry.

NEW CHALLENGE FORMAT

Our goal is to enable all levels of crafters to be able to

be recognized for their Magnolia creating talents!

We will now be offering the ability for 3 levels of entries...

Beginner

Have won 3 or less Magnolia Challenges

Intermediate

Have won up to 6 Magnolia Challenges

Expert

Have won more than 7 Magnolia Challenges

You will choose what level entry you fall into and enter your

card into that linky. Its as simple as that!

We ask that everyone be on the honor system and if you choose you

may enter a higher level if you prefer.

The Dt will select ONE top selection from each catagory

and that crafter will recieve a Marvelous Magnolia blinkie for their blog.

We will continue to have random winners for prizes.

The challenge theme is

"New Beginnings"

Our NEW sponsor this challenge is

and they are offering this pretty prize package

The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop supplies gorgeous ribbons, twine, seam binding, lace, rubber stamps, pearls, mulberry paper flowers, charms and many more embellishments to the crafting world. We offer free postage to all UK orders over £25 (International orders over £25 will receive the equivalent discount).

Our lovely Purple DT has created some

inspiration for you...

PLEASE remember if you'd like to be considered for the

2 open DT spots, to put DT after your name.

Chris

Challenge # 9 Top 3 Wedding Cards

Hello Marvelous Magnolia Fans...

today is the posting for our top 5, however we had very low entries

and have opted to select a top 3 this challenge...

#11 Anita

#12 Plony

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Marvelous Magnolia Challenge #9

Hello and Happy New Year to all of you

Marvelous Magnolia followers!!!

I hope you are excited about a new year and a new challenge at

This is a special challenge for the DT as we are

surprising our teamie Laney who just got married this week!!!

The challenge is a

WEDDING THEME CHALLENGE

and all creations were with Laney and her groom in mind.

Our Marvelous Sponsors

Magnolia-Licious

Magnolia-licious is your one stop shopping paradise for Magnolia Stamps, Mini Magnolia's and a wonderful selection of Cutting Dies from a variety of companies including Memory Box, Poppystamps and Marianne Designs. Our prices are the best and you receive a 2% Store Credit for each dollar you spend.

and

Marker Pop

MarkerPOP.com is an online retailer dedicated to providing high quality markers & stamping products backed by superior service and affordable prices. Our huge selection of Markers & Stamping products and Price Match Guarantee program make us the one stop shop for supplying all your stamping needs. With you in mind, we’ve designed a site that makes shopping a breeze and most orders qualify for Free Shipping! Along with our extensive Copic & ShinHan Products, we also offer the industries best products in markers and inks including Tsukineko and Tim Holtz products and accessories. Our rubber stamp collection offers a wide range of styles from Greeting Farm, CC Designs, Magnolia, LaLa Craft, Stamping Bella, My Favorite Things, Lawn Fawn and many more including our Exclusive Gorjuss Collection.

With a shared passion for stamping and art, MarkerPOP.com is proud to sponsor Marvelous Magnolia Challenge, where one lucky winner will win a $10 gift voucher towards your next MarkerPOP purchase.

***Important News***

Before we share our Marvelous DT creations with you

we want you to know that the DT and I have some BIG plans for

restructuring the way challenges operate.

We are working towards a way that ALL crafters and

Magnolia lovers have a chance to win the

coveted badge for their blog....

We will be announcing our new format

with the next challenge,

so get ready!!!

Congrats Laney....

here are the DT cards created for your special day!