An Email Entry from Christine Bonifacio

This gorgeous card was entered by the very talented Christine Bonifacio from New Zealand.  Christine doesn't have a blog but she is a member of the ARTFULL CRAFTS design team so you can find some of her layout and cards on the ARTFULL CRAFTS BLOG.

Thanks loads for entering Christine :)

Challenge 30 - Stripes and Polka Dots

Hi Everyone. Thanks as always to those of you who took part in our 'Slugs and Snails' challenge - clearly male cards aren't as unpopular as we're led to believe cos we had plenty of wonderful entries.....but then our entrants are a talented bunch!!

For today's challenge, we want to see your project incorporating 'Stripes and Polka Dots'. Can't wait to see what you come up with!!

The Australia and NZ Sponsor for this challenge is.........

And the International Sponsor is............

And now for some inspiration from our always fabulous Design Team

Autumn

Bettina

Karen

Nik

Tracy

Viv

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 for joining for our challenge,
Trace, Lou and the DT Lovelies!

IF YOU LIVE IN AUSTRALIA OR NEW ZEALAND PLEASE ADD EITHER AUS OR NZ NEXT TO YOUR NAME IN THE LINK ENTRY.

Winners for Slugs and Snails and Puppy Dogs Tails.........

Time for this weeks winners!!!!!!!!!!

Winner of our Aus/NZ Prizes are ...........

 #51 Xox Tanya

#41 Brenda NZ

International...........

#27 Cheri



Winners please email us using our email link in the sidebar.

And our Top 5 in no particular order............

Top 5
#62 Sarah T
#37 Carissa
#52 Janette G
#17 Lou Mac
#32 LaDiva

Please grab the badge from our sidebar :)

Happy Hellos to the new and Sad Goodbyes to the old (not literally)

FOR OUR CURRENT CHALLENGE SEE HERE

As you are probably aware if you are regulars here at SGC we recently had a DT call, which we decided to have over a couple of weeks as a certain little baby wasn't due until the end of the month and his Mum ALWAYS goes overdue..... well he showed up early and put things into a bit of a tailspin.  But we have things well in control now and we are well ready to make the DT announcements, so here we go...............


It is with heavy hearts we say goodbye to some lovely ladies who have been with us from start of this adventure,

ALICIA
KAREN
SUE

So it is a very sad goodbye to these mainstays from the original DT here SGC, BUT also we are very excited because we are saying hello to a bunch of talented new comers to our team, so here is a huge SGC welcome to........

AMBER
BEKKI
BETTINA L
DEEANNA
KELLIE
KIM
NORINE
REBECCA
SHANNA
SHELL
SUE N
SUE U
TANYA

As you can probably tell we have also decided to expand the team a bit so you will have loads more luscious DT samples to look at on challenge days.  Thank you to EVERYONE who took the time to apply, you all made it a really difficult decision!

And now just because I can't resist showing off and I co own this challenge blog, here is the totally gorgeous reason this post is late...........

Ok so that is a wrap......... 

Thanks to you all for being so awesome......

Lou, Trace & The DT Lovelies

Challenge 29 - Slugs and Snails and Puppydog's Tails......

Hi there, everyone! Huge thanks to all of you that entered our last 'Anything Goes' challenge - and to those of you that have entered our DT call. It's a very exciting time here at Southern Girls - between looking for some new 'faces' and with our Lou being in labour, as we speak!! Despite all that, the 'show must go on' and so the challenge this time is to create a project for the boys or men in your lives!

EDITED: Update..... Lou has had a beautiful baby boy! Mother and babe doing well.

We've got fabulous sponsors, as usual!

Australia and NZ Sponsors

Lili of the Valley strives to produce excellent quality products with beautiful designs that enable you to make lovely cards every time, simply and easily. They also pride themselves on taking care with everything they do to make sure you receive great products, at a good price and as quickly as possible.

Joanna has been involved in the craft world since 1979. She has written over 30 books on cookery, herbs, stencilling, crafts and flowers during the past 20 years and is now best known for her work on TV with her craft CDs, cardmaking and pressed flowercraft programmes. She also has a very successful online retail business.

International Sponsor

Heather Ellis - Heather is a very talented UK based writed and illustrator who has had many children's books published and has designed some very cute character images for MFT, as well as images that retail under her own name.

And here's some inspiration from our wonderful DT Ladies!

Alicia

Julie

Karen

Louise

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

Thanks for joining for our challenge,
Trace, Lou and the DT Lovelies!

IF YOU LIVE IN AUSTRALIA OR NEW ZEALAND PLEASE ADD EITHER AUS OR NZ NEXT TO YOUR NAME IN THE LINK ENTRY.

Only 5 hours until DT call finishes

Just a reminder.... only 5 hours to go until DT call ends.

We have a heap of very talented card makers / scrapbookers to look at already so far.... Just letting you all know that there will be a delay of a few days before we send out an email to successful applicants.... maybe even up to a week........ why.... I hear you ask??????? LOU is in labour as I type this..... yep she has done a runner on me and the DT lovelies to have her baby (zippy as he/she is known to us!!)

Thank you to the many of you that have applied... you sure aren't making our life any easier!!

Hugs

Tracy

Winners of our Anything Goes Challenge

Hi Ladies,

Thanks for entering our "Anything Goes" Challenge.  

We were blown away with your amazing creations!!!  Our DT were so overwhelmed by the number of entrants and the quality of projects so this week we have picked a random Top #5

Our Prize winners this week are:

International Winner for our Robyn's Fetish Prize is: 

# 61 Jackie R

 

NZ/Aussie Winner for our Paper Pretties Prize is: 

# 215 Shannah

Congratulations, you can contact us from the side bar for your prizes!!

Onto the top 5..... and in no particular order.....

#133 - Jovita

#36 - Bella
#83 - Zora

#226 - Kelly

#327 - Heidi

Congratulations, please grab our "top 5" badge from the side bar and wear it with pride on your blogs.

We would love to see you all back again tomorrow for our brand new challenge and fabby new sponsors. 

Alicia, on behalf of:

Lou, Trace and DT lovelies