Simply Magnolia

BLING and BOWS Challenge

2012-02-26T04:08:00.002-08:00

Hello all, for our next challenge today we are pleased to have a brand new sponsor at Simply Magnolia.

Creative Treasures are from the UK and stock a fabulous range of gorgeous ribbons, lace, embellishments and many other goodies for your cards. They are offering the winner this beautiful prize.

The challenge this fortnight is

BLING and BOWS

so get out your bling and shiny embellishments and have at least 1 bow on your creation for a chance to win!

Ready for some inspiration?

This week our Guest Designer is

JULIE

and the DT Girls

SARA

INGE

TESSA & ANKE

ANJA

BONNIE

LINS

SHARON

TRACY

Please link your entries below.

Time for some Winners!

2012-02-25T20:04:00.000-08:00

Hi, I'm here a little earlier than usual with the winners of our last challenge. Thankyou to those of you that entered our Colour Combo challenge, we had so many fabulous entries.

The lucky winner of the $15 voucher from Tildas Town

TINA MAKUC

and here is her sweet card.

The next 2 winners receive a Guest Designer spot in one of our future challenges.

Chosen by the DT this week, they are

#29 Cinzia

and #68 Becky

Ladies, please email me (Tracy) so we can organise your badges and prizes.

As always we have our awesome

TOP #3

chosen by the Design Team Girls.

In no particular order, they are

#28 Mae Nazareth
#48 Natalie Z
#55 Kicki

Well done ladies, please take your Top #3 badge from the sidebar.
Back later with a new challenge. Tracy xx

Red &/OR Pink with White Challenge

2012-02-12T03:57:00.000-08:00

Hi, we're back with a brand new challenge and this time it is a colour combo.

We want you to use

RED and /or PINK with WHITE.

Yes they are in favour of Valentines day, but your creation can be for any occasion.

This week we are very pleased to announce another brand new sponsor for this year,

They stock a great range of stamps and offer 10% off all orders over $75 aswell as free postage.

The lucky winner will recieve a $15 Gift Certificate to spend!

Our Guest Designer for this week is,

CHRISTA

Aswell as the fabulous Design Team creations.

Hearts & Love Winners

2012-02-12T03:04:00.000-08:00

Good evening all, hope all is well.

Absolutely awesome entries again this fortnight. It really is a pleasure to see all your talent.

So without further ado, the lucky winner of the Ribbon Girl prize is

and that is

NELLY

How great do those hearts look!

The Winner of our Guest Design Team spot is

DOREEN

Well done to you both, your cards are fantastic. Please email me, Tracy (email in sidebar) to organise your prizes.

Now we have also selected our TOP #3

They are absolutely stunning creations so make sure you take a look.

In no particular order

#60 - Sirpaliina

#131 - Manuela

#48 - Catz

Well done to all 3 of you, please take your Top 3 badge from the sidebar.

Hearts & Love Challenge

2012-01-29T06:07:00.000-08:00

It's that time again for another fun challenge and to get you in the mood for Valentine's Day we want you to create something with Love that has Hearts on it. It could be for that someone you love or created with craft items you love to use, just make sure there are hearts on it.

Our fabulous new sponsor for this challenge is

and the winner will receive this blue kit. Just look at the goodies in there!

Thanks Girls!

The design team have been busy creating lovely inspiration for you, take a look.

Now it's your turn and we look forward to seeing what you come up with. Just add your entry to the link below and good luck!

Anything But A Card Winners

2012-01-29T05:25:00.000-08:00

Welcome back to another fantastic two weeks of entries.

Thankyou to all of you who entered, we had a wonderful time seeing all you've created.

Now, on to our Winner, who receives our great prize kindly donated from Scrapbooking Allsorts.

WINNER

and that is
#30 Brita

Our next prize is the chance to be a Simply Magnolia Guest Designer for a challenge,

GDT WINNER

#18 Julie P

Congratulations to both ladies, just stunning! Please email me, Tracy, (see sidebar) to organise your prize.

Our TOP #3 Fantastic entries, chosen by the design team, in no particular order are

#41 Cathy Lee

#50 Mo

#53 Marianne R

Well done ladies please grab your well deserved Top 3 badge from the sidebar.

Back soon with our next challenge.

Anything But A Card Challenge

2012-01-15T06:56:00.000-08:00

Back again, this time with a brand new challenge, which is to create

ANYTHING BUT A CARD
Our sponsor this week is Scrapbooking Allsorts with these goodies below.

The design team have come up with a great range of ideas, take a look and to find out more click on their name to see their blogs.

INGE

SHARON

SARA

TESSA & ANKE

LINS

ANJA

TRACY

BONNIE

Best of luck, we can't wait to see your ideas.

Celebrate Challenge Winners

2012-01-15T06:10:00.000-08:00

Hi all, sorry for the late posting, my internet provider had a slight meltdown and almost gave me one to!

What a staggering amount of talent you all have, it is so much fun blogging around to see what you've been making. Of course this week was no exception. So without further ado our Magnolia-licious prize winner for the Celebrate Challenge is

Meike

The winner of our Guest Designer spot is

Christa

Congratulations girls, please contact me, Tracy so we can organise your prizes.

We also have our top #3 fabulous creations and because they are so good we've added the images too!

In no particular order,

#39 Lorrain

#90 Tinie

#80 Janet

Congratulations to our Top #3 girls, please feel free to take your well deserved badge from the sidebar.

Celebrate Challenge

2012-01-01T06:02:00.000-08:00

It's a new year and time to

CELEBRATE

and that's our new challenge. It could be any occassion you like as long as your creation is celebrating something.

Our prize for this challenge is from our fabulous new sponsor Magnolia-licious.
How lucky are we! Thankyou Diana.

Here is a bit of DT inspiration

GDT Chantal

Sara

Hope you can join us!

Winners and a Happy New Year!

2011-12-31T15:09:00.000-08:00

From all of us here at Simply Magnolia, we hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and we wish you all the best for a Happy, Healthy, Crafting New Year!

Once again we had the most amazing entries for our Christmas challenge, thankyou to all of you wo joined in.

We have 2 prizes to give away today.

Jacobi Winner is Sjoukje

Duymelot Prize Winner is Karla50

Our GDT Winner is Ineke

Congratulations girls please contact us to organise your prizes. (Email in sidebar)

Our TOP #3 are

44 - Sirpaliina

87 - Janiel

141 - Nanda

Well done please take your badge from the sidebar.

We'll be back later with a new challenge.

Christmas Challenge Reminder

2011-12-26T14:51:00.000-08:00

From all of us here we hope you have all had a very Merry Christmas!

Just a quick reminder that this challenge finishes in a little more than 3 days.

As promised our second prize for this challenge is from Duymelot.

Place your entries in the post below.
Good Luck!

Christmas Challenge

2011-12-11T06:02:00.000-08:00

Well we all know Christmas is almost upon us, so this challenge is show off what you have been making for it. This challenge will run until December 30th and features two of our wonderful sponsors for this year Jacobi and Duymelot Yes that means 2 great prizes will be given away!

The prize for Duymelot will be shown in a couple of weeks,
Here is the great prize from Jacobi

Here are the inspiring creations from the Design Team.

Tessa & Anke

Inge

Lins

Sara

Sharon

Anja

Tracy

Now it's your turn, Good Luck!

Sketch Challenge Winners

2011-12-11T05:13:00.000-08:00

Hello again, thankyou to those who had a go at our sketch you've all done a fantastic job!

Our prize from Scrapbooking Allsorts this week goes to our randomly drawn winner,

#20 Francesca

This is her fabulous card.

Our welcome Guest Designer is

Chantal

Congratulations ladies please contact me, Tracy to organise your prize.

Don't forget to check out all the fabulous work made by our winners and Top 3 by clicking on their names to see their blogs.

Our TOP #3 for this challenge are

#9 Becky H
#36 Yulis
#45 Martine

Congratulations, please take your Top 3 badge from the sidebar.

Back soon with our new challenge.

Time for a SKETCH!

2011-11-27T05:14:00.000-08:00

Hello and welcome again to our new challenge. This fortnight we have a sketch for you, you can turn it if you wish as long as the sketch is still followed.

Scrapbooking Allsorts is our sponsor and they are offering a

Memory Box PENNANT Die

and a Magnolia stamp, TILDA SPARKLES

Here it is...

Take a look at what the Design Team have come up with below.

First up is our Guest Designer

ALESSANDRA

SHARON

LINS

INGE

TESSA & ANNKE

SARA

ANJA

TRACY

Anything Goes WINNERS

2011-11-27T05:09:00.000-08:00

WOW!! You have all just blown us away with your awesome talent out there and made it extremely hard to choose a Top 3. This challenge has certainly been one of our best yet in terms of participants and fabulous creations. Thankyou....

So without further ado, our lucky winner is

MANUELA
Isn't it sweet!

and our welcome Guest Designer is

MAUMAU

Congratulaions ladies, please contact Tracy to sort out your prize.

Now as it was a hard choice this week, we have a
TOP 5
Make sure you click on their names to see their beautiful work.
#12 Karin
#29 Marina
#35 Liz
#120 Norma
#122 Franz

Ladies please take the Top #3 badge from the sidebar.

Well done everyone and we hope to see you all play along again with our next challenge.

ANYTHING GOES

2011-11-13T04:09:00.000-08:00

Hi all and welcome to a new challenge at Simply Magnolia.

To begin with, our winner from our Buttons and Lace challenge is

Miria

and our invited Guest Designer is

ale munhoz del monte

Congratulations ladies could you please contact Tracy with your details.

Our TOP #3

(which was extremely hard to choose)

4 - Anne

10 - Channieke

30 - Jolanda

Please take your Top 3 badge from the sidebar.

Now on to our nice and easy challenge

ANYTHING GOES!

Which is sponsored by the wonderful

De Egel

who are giving the winner 2 Marianne Design paper pads.

Here is some fabulous DT inspiration to get you started.

This week we also introduce our new DT member Lins.

Martina GDT

Sharon

Inge

Lins

Tessa & Anke

Sara

Anja

Tracy

HOPE YOU LIKE OUR CREATIONS, WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOURS!

BUTTONS AND LACE

2011-10-30T13:58:00.000-07:00

Welcome to this weeks Simply Magnolia Challenge. Firstly we must share some news. Due to personal business endevours going well and limited spare time, Yvonne has had to hand over the running of the blog to me, Tracy. Aswell as this our regular DT member Bonnie is on an extended leave due to personal reasons. We wish them both well!

Winner of the Halloween challenge is

Congratulations

CELINE

We would also like to invite the next winner to be a Guest Designer for our next challenge.

MARTINA'S WELT

Congratulations ladies, please contact Yvonne (see sidebar) with your details.

Top 3

#5 Catz

#24 Angelique

#33 Raffa

The new challenge theme is

BUTTONS and LACE

HALLOWEEN

2011-10-16T00:55:00.000-07:00

Good morning. Time for another challenge at Simply Magnolia. Thanks you to everybody who entered into our last challenge, such beautiful creations! Sadly we are saying goodbye to Carol who has decided to step down from the DT. Of course we would like to wish Carol all the best for the future.

Mr Random Org has drawn a winner:

HENNY

And here is Henny's gorgeous creation:

And we would like to invite the next winner to be our GD for our next challenge:

NATALIE

Congratulations ladies. Please email Yvonne - see sidebar - to claim your prize

Top 3:

*64 - Catz

*15- Artesania

*38 - Nanda
Congratulations! Please help yourselves to the Top 3 badge on the side bar.

The next challenge for the following two weeks will be:

HALLOWEEN

We are sponsored by Jacobi

and here is whats on offer:

And here is what our design team have come up with:

Chelsea GD

Sharon

Inge

sara

Tracy

Tessa & Anke

Anja

Now it is your turn! See you in two weeks!

COLOUR CHALLENGE AUTUMN COLOURS

2011-10-01T23:45:00.000-07:00

Good morning!

Thank you to everybody who entered our Shabby Chic Challenge. Mr Randon Org has drawn a winner:

PEGGY

And here is Peggy's card:

And for our GD Spot:

CHELSEA

Congratulations ladies! Please email Yvonne ( see side bar) to claim your prize

And for our Top 3:

13 - Eva-Marie

40- Joukje

58 - Kylie

The challenge for the next 2 weeks is a

COLOUR CHALLENGE - AUTUMN COLOURS:

We are sponsored this time by Duymelot and the prize is this sentiment stamp set:

And here is what our DT have come up with:

This challenge will run until the 15th October.

Please link you creation using Mr Linky below and please remember only one entry per challenge!

SHABBY CHIC

2011-09-18T08:00:00.000-07:00

Goodmorning! Wow we had an amazing amount of entries for our last challenge. I am so glad Mr Random chooses the winners! Here we go:

The winner is:

SANNE

And here is Sanne's card:

And we would like to invite the following winner to be our GD for our next challenge:

ANNE

Congratulations ladies! Please email Yvonne ( see side bar) to claim your prize.

How difficult was it to choose a top 3!:

* Catz

* Ingrid

* Marianne

Congratulations! Please help yourselves to the Top 3 badge on the side bar.

Our challenge for the next two weeks is:

SHABBY CHIC

We would like to welcome our new sponsor. Our very own Tracy co-owns Scrapbookingallsorts.

And look what's up for grabs:

Magnolia stamp: Tilda spreads love

My Minds Eye paper pad 6x6

Magnolia Pink Tulips

Kaisercraft Rhinestone strips

Maybe you need some inspiration? Well here you go:

Allberto -GD

Sharon

Inge

We hope you will play along with this challenge. You have until the 1st October.

ANYTHING GOES

2011-09-04T01:05:00.000-07:00

Goodmorning. Welcome to another challenge at Simply Magnolia. Here are the winners of the last challenge: " Love is in the air":

ROSINA
You are the lucky winner of 2 Magnolia stamps.
Here is Rosina's winning card:

And for our GDT spot:

we would like to invite:

ALBERTO
Congratulations! Could you both please email Yvonne ( see side bar) to claim your prize.

Here is the top 3 choosen by the DT:
* 3 - Teresa
* 24 - Paola
* 27 - Janine
Congratulations. Please help yourselves to the top 3 badge on the side bar.

The challenge for the next two weeks is:

ANYTHING GOES
and we are sponsored by De Egel Kaartenmakerij

and the prize is 80 sheets of ColorCore paper 15x15cm.

And here is some inspirations from our DT:

Karin GD

Inge

Anja

Tessa & Anke

Sharon

Carol

sara

Tracy

Yvonne

Bonnie

We hope you will be able to join us.

Please link your creation using Mr Linky

LOVE IS IN THE AIR

2011-08-28T00:14:00.000-07:00

Goodmorning! Thank you all so much for joining us for our Sketch challenge. We had an amazing amount of entries and I am glad it's Mr Org choosing a winner:

INGBA

Here is Ingba's card. Gorgeous!!:

And we would like to invite:

KARIN

to be our GD for our next challenge.

Congratulations ladies. Please email Yvonne ( see side bar) to claim your prize.

The DT choose their top 3 and how difficult was that!

* Catz

* Ineke

* Mandy

Congratulations! Please help yourselves to the Top 3 badge on the side bar.

Before we move on to our next challenge we just wanted to congratulate our DT members Tessa and Sara for appearing in the Magnolia Ink magazine!

The challenge for this week will be:

LOVE IS IN THE AIR

and we are sponsored by Duymelot who are giving away these 2 stamps from the Winner takes it all collection!

Here is some inspiration from our fabulous DT:

Marie (GD)

Sharon

Inge

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS CHALLENGE WILL ONLY RUN FOR 1 WEEK

THE NEXT CHALLENGE WILL BE 4TH SEPTEMBER

SKETCH

2011-08-07T00:05:00.000-07:00

Good morning. Thanks to all who entered into our colour challenge. Mr Random has drawn a winner:

JACOMIJN

And here is Jacobijn's card:

And we like to invite the following winner to be our GD in 3 weeks:

MARIE

Congratulations Ladies. Please email Yvonne ( see side bar) to claim your prizes.

And this week's top 3:
*Suzi
* Ashley
* Sharon

Congratulations! Please help yourselves to the I made the top 3 badge on the side bar.

Now onto our next challenge which is a sketch:

We are sponsored by Jacobi and here what's up for grabs:

And here is some inspirations from our DT. We would like to thank Ashlee for being our GD for this challenge

Ashlee ( GD)

Inge

Tessa & Anke

sara

Sharon

Please note that this challenge will run for 3 weeks. Our next challenge will be on Sunday 28th August.

MIDWAY REMINDER

2011-07-31T03:18:00.000-07:00

Just to let you know that you still have 6 days to enter our colour challenge!

Simpy Magnolia team

COLOUR CHALLENGE: PINK/BROWN/CREAM

2011-07-24T00:05:00.000-07:00

Good morning. Hope you are all well. Thank you to all who entered into our Birthday card challenge.
Before we see who has won we would like to welcome SARA to our team. Sara was chosen to be our GD last time but when asked if she wanted to join our team on a permanent basis she immediately said yes! Welcome Sara.

Mr Random has chosen a winner:

INEKE BEZEMER

Here is Ineke's card:

And here is winner for our GD spot:

ASHLEE

Congratulations ladies! Please email Yvonne ( see side bar) to claim your prize.

The DT have also chosen their top 3:
* Bron
* Renate
* Dee Dee

Congratulations! Please help yourselves to the top 3 badge in de side bar.

The challenge for the next 2 weeks is:

COLOUR COMBO: PINK/BROWN/CREAM

We are sponsored by Phooka and you can win 3 digi's of your choice

And here is some inspiration from our DT:

Anja

Inge

Sharon

Tessa

Yvonne

We hope you will be able to join us.

See you in two weeks!

BIRTHDAY CARD

2011-07-09T22:51:00.000-07:00

Goodmorning. Wow we had an amzing amount of entries for the last challenge! Thanks to all. Before we move on to announcing the winner we have to say goodbye to Chantal who has decided to step down from the DT. Chantal we wish you all the best and I am sure we will "meet" again somewhere in blogland.

The winner of the stamp set is................

SANDRA

and here is Sandra's card:

We would like to invite the following winner to be our GD.........................

SARA

Congratulations ladies. Please email Yvonne ( see side bar) to claim your prizes.

We have also chosen a top 3:
* Paola
* Durvina
*Tracy Payne

Congratulations ladies. Please help yourselves to the I made the Top 3 badge on the side bar.

And now on to the next challenge:

BIRTHDAY CARD/CREATION

For this challenge we are sponsorted by De Egel Kaartenmakerij and the prize is 2 distress ink pads of your choice

Here is some inspirations from our fabulous DT:

Nadine GDT

Inge

Sharon

Tessa

Yvonne

This challenge will run until 23rd July.

Please link you card/creation using mr frog linky.

MIDWAY REMINDER

2011-07-03T03:42:00.000-07:00

Good morning. Hope you are all enjoying a nice lazy Sunday.

Just to rmind you that you still have 6 days to enter our Anything Goes challenge. We hope you'll play along.

Simply Magnolia Team

NEW DT ANNOUNCEMENT!

2011-06-26T11:10:00.000-07:00

As promised I am back with the names of the ladies who have agreed to join our DT.

Before I announce the names I would like to thank everyone who entered into our DT call, it was such a difficult choice but the new members are:

Welcome ladies! We cannot wait to see your creations.

Simply Magnolia Team

ANYTHING GOES

2011-06-26T07:30:00.000-07:00

Good morning! Thank you for everybody who entered into our sketch challenge and also for our DT call.

We will be announcing the new DT members in a little while.

Mr Random has choosen a winner:

DETJE

You will win Jacobi's prize

And here is Detje's card:

And for our next GD spot:

NADINE

Congratulations ladies. PLease email Yvonne ( see side bar) to claim your prize

And now onto our next challenge which is ANYTHING GOES

WE are sponsored by:

And you can win these fantastic stamps by Nicole Verkooijen ( just click on her name and it will take you to her blog)

Here some inspiration from our DT:

Tanja GD

chantal

Tessa

Anja

Yvonne

We hope you will all be joining us.

"See" you in two weeks

MIDWAY REMINDER FOR OUR CHALLENGE AND DT CALL

2011-06-17T10:31:00.000-07:00

Evening everyone. Just wanted to let you know that you still have 8 days to enter our sketch challenge and also our DT call.

Hope you have a great weekend

Simply Magnolia

SKETCH CHALLENGE AND A DT CALL

2011-06-11T23:17:00.000-07:00

Good morning! Thank you to everybody who entered into our Heart challenge.

Before we move on to this weeks challenge we have some news: Maris has decided to step down from the DT for Simply Magnolia, of course we wish Maris all the best in the future. We are therefore looking for not 1, not 2, not 3 but 4 new DT members!. So if you would like to join our team please put DT next to your name when you enter this week's challenge.

Now back to the winners:

Mr Random org has been busy!

1st Prize - 3 digi images by Phooka:

Bella

2nd prize - a mini Magnolia image with 2 papers:
Anita

3rd prize - GD spot for our next challenge:
Tanja

Congratulations ladies. Please email Yvonne ( see side bar) to claim your prize.

Our next challenge is a sketch:

We welcome back one of our regular sponsors:

And here is the prize on offer:

And here some inspiration from our DT:

GD - Christine

chantal

Tessa

Anja

Yvonne

MIDWAY REMINDER

2011-06-05T08:10:00.000-07:00

Hi. Just to let you know that you still have 6 days to enter our Heart - Heart - Heart challenge.

We would love it if you played along!

Simply Magnolia DT

HEARTS - HEARTS - HEARTS

2011-05-28T23:57:00.000-07:00

Good morning. Hope you are all having a lovely and relaxing weekend.

Thank you so much to everybody who entered our gift card challenge. Mr random has picked three winners:

And that is Marrie, Congratulations you win the gift voucher for De Egel

Next is the 2nd prize of the Magnolia stamps and papers:

And that is Celine! Congratulations as well

And the 3rd prize to be our GD for our next challenge:

And that is Christine! Congratulations

Ladies please email Yvonne ( see side bar) to claim your prizes.

And so we move on to our next challenge by Tessa and HEARTS, either an image with hearts or a heart shaped card, anything as long as we can see a heart somewhere.

Here is what you can win:

1st prize are 3 digi images from Phooka

2nd prize: this gorgeous Magnolia image from the Magnolia Mini World and 2 sheets of each 6 x 6 papers:

3rd prize: be our GD for our next challenge

Here is some inspiration from our DT:

Bea (GD)

Maris

We hope that you will be able to join us for this challenge.

MIDWAY REMINDER

2011-05-20T08:45:00.000-07:00

Hello everybody. It's been great to see that so many people have become our follower in the first week!

Thank you

We would like to remind everybody that there is still 8 days left to enter our challenge. There is also another prize up for grabs:

There is 1 Tilda image and sentiment from the new Rainbow Collection and 4 mini sheets of paper.

So the 1st prize is a 10 Euro voucher to spend in De Egel Webshop.

2nd prize is the above Magnolia prize and......

3rd prize will be a GDT spot for our following challenge

We cannot wait to see you entries!!

Have a great weekend

Simply Magnolia Team

GIFT CARD PURSE CHALLENGE

2011-05-16T03:01:00.000-07:00

Hi. Welcome to Simply Magnolia ( formely known as Nederlandse Magnolia Challengesblog)

I have taken over the running of the blog from Chantal and as I am based in the UK I thought it would be a great idea to branch out a bit.

For our first challenge we would like to see a gift card purse/bag.

We are sponsored by Kaartenmakerij De Egel

and the lucky winner gets a 10 Euro voucher to spend in their shop or website!

Here is what the DT have come up with:

GDT Bianca

Maranda

Tessa

Anja

Maris

Yvonne

And now it is your turn!!

Please us Linky.com to link to your card.