Challenge #13 - Ohhhhhh Brad, ohhhh Janet....... and mini DT Call

So actually the challenge has nothing to to do with The Rocky Horror Picture Show, I just thought the challenge title was catchy :)

This week we would like to see......

Brads, Gems or Dewdrops on your projects.

so get out your bling and get blinging.

We have another 2 fabby sponsors for this challenge who we will get to know a little more about shortly but first some news.

We are sadly saying goodbye to Carol this week, she has decided to step down from the DT and pursue some new avenues. We will miss Carol in our chats plus of course her Gorgeous layouts. So we need to say hello to someone new..... we just don't know who it is yet, so we are having a mini DT CALL, if you think you would like to be on our team please put DT after your name on Mr Linky (if you are from NZ or AUS your name would look like this.... BonnieBell NZ (DT)) . We need someone chatty, fun and preferably a scrapbooker or OTP artist. You will need to complete one project per month and be able to find your way around Yahoo Groups. This is open to International applicants.

So now onto our very kind and awesome sponsors..........

New Zealand/Australia Sponsor

The Team at Artfull Crafts are pleased to be sponsoring a Scrappin' Sensations Layout kit for this week's winner. The monthly kits are designed by Liz Gregory and includes 3 layouts and 3 cards/projects.

Artfull Crafts runs out of Timaru and has just moved into bigger and better premises. Our store is bright and spacious and we also have a great looking website! (www.artfullcrafts.co.nz). Look out for us at SENZ this year with our Kaisercraft tutors coming back to inspire you all.

We stock a range of Scrapbooking, Stamping and Beyond the Page projects. Click on our website Sign-Up special and receive a set of sample papers and workshop mags for free. Best wishes for this week's challenge.

International Sponsor

At Wild Orchid Crafts we're very passionate about our beautiful Mulberry Paper Flowers and many other craft items, and we're always working hard to make sure that the quality of our products and service s is a high as it can possibly be, while offering excellent value for money to all of our customers.

All of our Mulberry Paper Flowers are made using natural, renewable resources. The flowers are all handmade by experienced crafts people using high quality materials and great care is taken to ensure that they are made to the highest standard. We are very proud of the quality and manner in which our flowers are produced, and the fact that they are made using natural, renewable resources.

As well as Mulberry Paper Flowers and leaves, we have many other beautiful craft items including lace, pins, self-adhesive pearls, crystal drops and hearts, and many more besides. To find out more, please visit our website: http://www.wildorchidcrafts.com

Tracy

Viv




Sue



Michelle




Karen




Julie





Bettina




Autumn




Alicia



IF YOU LIVE IN AUSTRALIA OR NEW ZEALAND PLEASE ADD EITHER AUS OR NZ NEXT TO YOUR NAME IN THE LINK ENTRY. If you live anywhere else just put your name. The following rules stay the same and we will now be deleting entries that do not follow these simple guidelines as is not fair on the people that do. We are not trying to be mean, just fair.....

ONE ENTRY PER PERSON PLEASE

ENSURE YOU LINK BACK TO SOUTHERN GIRLS IN YOUR BLOG POST

LINK TO YOUR POST NOT YOUR BLOG.




Thanks loads for playing along with us....
Lou, Trace & The DT Lovelies

3 Winners plus top 5

Well what great projects again this week. So hard to pick the top 5 again ........and this round we have 3 winners....... so without further ado... here we go....

First up the winners................................................

Scrapbox NZ - Beverley Cunningham

Joanna Sheen - Alethea

Meljens - Dawn Bennett

Well Done!!!!!!

Now onto the top 5............................................

#26 - Maddy

#11 - Karen

#28 - Tracey

#48 - Karina

#32 - Mari

Such beautiful stunning projects. Please email us here for your prizes.

Also, sadly we have one of our DT lovelies, Carol is leaving us, so we will be on the hunt for a new DT member, so if you would love to be part of our tight knit chatty DT, then come back tomorrow for more details on how you can get a chance to join us.. plus don't forget our new challenge for the fortnight

Colour Challenge - Blue & Chocolate

Welcome to another challenge at Southern Girls. This week we are giving you a colour challenge, we would like to see a BROWN & BLUE colour combo on your creations. You can of course use any neutrals but we want to see blue and brown featured.

We have THREE sponsors this week, Meljens for our Internationals and both Joanna Sheen and Scrapboxx for our NZ and Australian entrants so for you kiwis and aussies that’s 3 chances to win! For you international girls a chance to win some gorgeous Meljens images.
Hope to see lots of entries again this week as we love visiting your lovely blogs.
And now a word from our sponsors...........

International Sponsor

Meljen's Designs is a lovely stamp company owned and illustrated by Melissa Jenkins. She illustrates whimsical digital images inspired by her kids and family. The Meljen's Designs store officially launched on April 1 and is steadily growing! Meljen's Designs has new releases along with a new challenge every Thursday, freebies every Monday and a Guest Designer each month at the Meljen's Designs Blog. Please visit the Meljen's Designs line of stamps at the WHIMSY STAMPS STORE to browse and enjoy Melissa's wonderful images!

New Zealand and Australian Sponsors

Come and join us on our website at; www.joannasheen.com or www.joannasheen.co.uk

For postage and packing free worldwide on an exciting array of craft supplies.


Scrap Box NZ are pleased to be a sponsor of the Southern Girls Challenge. We are a family owned web business based in sunny Nelson, central in New Zealand to send out all your scrapbooking products. We stock leading brands and are the home of 99c Bazzill Basic cardstock. We stock over 250 colours across the bazzill range of basics, dotted swiss, bling, glazed and wedding cardstock.

Looking for something different then have a look around the shop and I'm sure you will find something of interest.. Maya Road Trinket Pins, Bakers Twine, Lasercut Chipboard, Glimmermist and Ribbon sold by the metre, are among some of the best selling products, along with a huge selection of papers. If there is something you are after and can't find, get in touch with fiona@scrapboxnz.com and I will see if I can source that product for you.
And now our gorgeous DT Samples................

Alicia

Deb

Julie

Louise

Patricia

Sue

IF YOU LIVE IN AUSTRALIA OR NEW ZEALAND PLEASE ADD EITHER AUS OR NZ NEXT TO YOUR NAME IN THE LINK ENTRY. If you live anywhere else just put your name. The following rules stay the same and we will now be deleting entries that do not follow these simple guidelines as is not fair on the people that do. We are not trying to be mean, just fair.....

ONE ENTRY PER PERSON PLEASE

ENSURE YOU LINK BACK TO SOUTHERN GIRLS IN YOUR BLOG POST

LINK TO YOUR POST NOT YOUR BLOG.

Embossing Challenge Winners and Top 5!

Wow, another great amount of entries for the Embossing Challenge, thanks so much to everyone that participated and left comments. We love reading your thoughts on the challenge and the DT cards almost as much as we love seeing your gorgeous creations!

We are going to change things a little with the winners. From now on you will have 2 weeks to contact us, if we do not hear from you we will redraw so someone else has a chance to get their hands on the scrummy goodies! There will be a list at the top of the blog uder the banner with unclaimed prizes that will be put up if we do not hear after 1 week, so if you see someones names on the unclaimed prizes and you know them make sure and let them know they have won a prize at SOUTHERN GIRLS that they need to claim. :)


First of all our lucky winners from Random.org....

The winner of the free digi images from Digital Delights is...... dum dum de dum....

#49 KASEY

and the winner of the scrapping goodies from Scrapbook Dreams is ..... dum dum de dum....

#36 RACHEL NZ

Congratulations ladies, please email us at southerngirlschallenges at gmail dot com
remember no gaps and change the at and dot for @ and .

Now onto the top 5, you all made it REALLY hard to pick a top 5 this week the original list was 32!
So after much voting and narrowing down the final top 5 are.....

#21 Mari Harpham
#33 Cabio
#71 Karen NZ
#87 Sharon
#97 Anita

YAY! Congrats ladies and be sure to email us for your very cool SGC top 5 badge!

Hope to see you back tomorrow for our new challenge,

Lou, Trace & the DT Lovelies

Embossing Challenge - Email Entry

We had this entry come through to our email from Ngaere Bennetts, she has used metal plumbing tape and embosing on this awesome layout.

Thanks Ngaere!