Hello and a warm welcome to The Official Magnolia Inspiration Challenge (TOMIC) blog which is made especially for you Magnolia lovers by the International Magnolia Design Team!

Monday 26 September 2011

TOMIC # 17 - Get inspired!!!

Hello dear TOMIC friends!
Here comes another week with a brand new challenge awaiting for you but before revealing you the theme, we would like to announce the winner of last week's challenge:

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Congrats to you lady and please send a mail to TOMICblog@gmail.com with subject "winner challenge 16" so that Magnolia can send you your secret prize!

Now on to our new challenge # 17 - "GET INSPIRED"
This week we want you to use this beautiful sketch designed by our talented dt member Tina and get your inspiration from this picture of the swedish gustavian style whether you use the colors, the design, some elments of it, etc...Let your imagination work!
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and the picture you will have to inspire you from:
Inspiration picture, Gustavian style

Let's see what our talented DT members have done for this challenge but first, here comes the beautiful card made by our guest designer
GDT Henny

Now on to our design team members marvellous creations:
Chris

DT Tanja



You have untill sunday 20:00 (Paris time) to send us your project using Inklinkz. Please remember that to be eligible for the draw of the secret prize kindly offered by Magnolia, you have to use both sketch and inspiration from the picture. We would also like to remind you that from now on we will choose a guest designer once a month so be prepared to join us really soon!!!

Have fun, Magnolia DT.


Wednesday 21 September 2011

TOP 5 and Guest DT - TOMIC #15

Hello Magnolia lovers!
The Magnolia DT is proud to present last challenge's TOP 5. 
It was a tough job and we would like to thank you all for joining us.
Here are the TOP 5 winners:





Congratulations everyone! 
Please email us at TOMICblog@gmail.com, putting 'Top 5 Winner' as the subject so that we can send you your badges!

The winner of our GUEST DT SPOT is
Audhild


Congratulations Audhild! Please can you email us at TOMICblog@gmail.com placing 'Guest DT Spot' as the Subject and we can send your your Guest DT badge and the theme of the future challenge. If you are unable to join us please let us know and we will then pick another guest.

We also wanted to remind you of our current challenge which is
"Fall with a sketch" 
and that you can find here.
Love from The Magnolia DT!

Monday 19 September 2011

Challenge #16 ~ Fall with a Sketch

Hello Magnolia lovers!

Before giving you the new challenge, we would like to announce the random result. And the winner is

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number : 42
Maranda




Congrats to you, please send name and address to : TOMICblog@gmail.com so Magnolia can send you a secret prize!

Welcome to TOMIC new challenge :

Fall with a Sketch

This week our Challenge is Fall and we have a Sketch for you made by our dear DT Liza. The theme and the Sketch are mandatory for this challenge.

Please read the rules on the sidebar before submitting.



And just take a look at what our wonderful Magnolia DT members have made for this challenge. You can find all our blogs on the sidebar and see more gorgeous Magnolia creations!

DT - Tanja
(using a stamp from the new Christmas 2011 Collection)







You have until Sunday evening to enter using the Inklitz tool.
The randomly chosen winner will be published next Monday along with the new challenge.

The Magnolia DT!





Wednesday 14 September 2011

Top 5 and Guest Designer - Challenge #14



Hello Magnolia lovers!
The Magnolia DT is proud to present last challenge's TOP 5. It was a very tough job and we would like to thank you all for joining us.
Here are the TOP 5 winners:










Congratulations everyone please email us at TOMICblog@gmail.com, putting 'Top 5 Winner' as the subject so that we can send you your badges!

The winner of our GUEST DT SPOT is



Congratulations Henny! Please can you email us at TOMICblog@gmail.com placing 'Guest DT Spot' as the Subject and we can send your your Guest DT badge and the theme of the future challenge. If you are unable to join us please let us know and we will then pick another guest.

We also wanted to remind you of our current challenge which is " Chocolate and brown and cream " and that you can find here

Love from The Magnolia DT!

Monday 12 September 2011

Challenge # 15 ~ Chocolate and brown & cream

Hello Magnolia lovers!

Before giving you the new challenge, we would like to announce the random result for the winner of challenge #14 ~ Making your own background. And the winner is

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number : 28
Mandy
And just look at her fabby card!
She has stamped and coloured every single bee:)

Congrats Mandy, please send your name and address to : TOMICblog@gmail.com so Magnolia can send you a secret prize!

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Welcome to TOMIC new challenge :
Chocolate (brown & cream)

The colours brown and cream are mandatory and have to be dominant. 
The chocolate theme can be illustrated by recipe, word, decorations, theme... 
You must use a Magnolia stamp which is cooking related from the numerous collections of Magnolia stamps. 

Please read the rules on the sidebar before submitting.

And just take a look at what our wonderful Magnolia DT members have made for this challenge.
You can find all our blogs on the sidebar and see more gorgeous Magnolia creations!
But first we are delighted to welcome our Guest Designer Paola, who has made this stunning creation for this week's challenge.



DT - Tina




She has used a brand new Christmas image, released at Stempelmekka in Germany.

You have until Sunday evening to enter using the Inklitz tool.
The randomly chosen winner will be published next Monday along with the new challenge.
The top 5 will be revealed on Wednesday.

The Magnolia DT!


Wednesday 7 September 2011

Top 5 & Guest DT TOMIC # 13

Hello Magnolia Lovers,

Today we are pleased to announce the top 5 entries and Guest DT for TOMIC # 13 Back to School + Metal!

We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who joined us it was such a pleasure to visit with you all and see your gorgeous creations.

So without further ado here are the Top 5 entries chosen by the Magnolia DT

#47 - Jaimy


#25 - Durvina


#38 - Mandy



#31 - Rosesarah

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# 22 - Yulis



Congratulations everyone please email us at TOMICblog@gmail.com, putting 'Top 5 Winner' as the subject so that we can send you your badges!

The winner of our GUEST DT SPOT is

# 31 - Rosesarah


Huge congratulations Rosesarah !
Please can you email us at TOMICblog@gmail.com placing 'Guest DT Spot' as the Subject and we can send your your Guest DT badge and the theme of the future challenge. If you are unable to join us please let us know and we will then pick another guest.

Just a reminder we hope you will be able to join us for this week's challenge at TOMIC  - Make your own Background which is here!


Love from The Magnolia DT!

Monday 5 September 2011

Challenge #14 - Make your own background

Hello Magnolia lovers!

Before giving you the new challenge, we would like to announce the random result for the winner of challenge #13. And the winner is

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number : 32
Lisbeth

She has made two stunning timetables for her children,
what a great idea!
Just take a look:


Congrats Lisbeth, please send your name and address to : TOMICblog@gmail.com so Magnolia can send you a secret prize!

Welcome to TOMIC new challenge : 
Make your own Background

We'd like you to show us different ways of making a background . You could use stamps, paint, mist sprays, wet or dry embossing for example but I'm sure there are many other ways of making a background paper. :)

Here is a step by step of how I made the background paper for my card using Magnolia Butterflies and dots stamps, shimmer mists, distress stains, distress ink pads and pens.




I spritzed the A4 card with the glimmer mist.

I dabbed the different colours of distress stain over the card.

Add water and perfect pearls powder to a mister and spray over the card allowing it to run by lifting and tilting the card.

The ink is dried and I added some Spun Sugar distress ink here and there over everything and dried again.

Using the Magnolia Butterflies and dots stamps I stamped over the entire sheet. Turning the sheet as I stamp to keep the images angled in different directions.

I stamped using distress inks Broken China, Victorian Velvet and Chipped Sapphire (forgot to add that one to the photograph :D )

I doodled around the images with white, black, pink and blue gel pens. Over the top of everything I dabbed Picket Fence Distress stain.

Again I sprayed with the perfect pearl and water mixture and allowed it to blend which gives a nice muted tone.

Here is Tilda waiting to sit on the paper I made for my card. I hope you'll have a try at making your own paper using inks etc., it's fun!! :) but of course your background can be made in any number of ways as mentioned above. We're sure you can think of lots more! 
Chris x

Please read the rules on the sidebar before submitting.

And just take a look at what our wonderful Magnolia DT members have made for this challenge. You can find all our blogs on the sidebar and see more gorgeous Magnolia creations!




Angie Hunt

You have until Sunday evening to enter using the Inklitz tool.
The randomly chosen winner will be published next Monday along with the new challenge.
The top 5 will be revealed on Wednesday.

The Magnolia DT!