Southern Girls Challenge

Friday, 26 July 2013

Design Team Introductions Team Trace

For our latest challenge click HERE

HI, Tracy here, and I am thrilled to bits to be welcoming such a fabulous group of talented ladies onto the Design Team here at Southern girls which I co-run with Lou. I reside in Taranaki, where most days apart from working full time you will find me in my craft room working on one project or another. I am married to a very understanding man (when tea is sometimes late), and have two beautiful daughters Cameron 14 and Bailee 10, who also share my love of all things crafty. I am mainly a card maker, but have recently been enjoying Project Life, scrapbooking and even started a Smashbook! I hope I am able to continue to inspire and encourage Southern Girls participants with the projects I will be sharing.
Happy Crafting
Tracy

http://www.stampingseasons.blogspot.co.nz

My name is Viv and I live in Hawera, in beautiful New Zealand, close to a snowy mountain and the west coast beaches. I live with my partner of 20 years and our 2 poodles ,1 golden retriever , a ginger cat, 6 motorbikes (his!) and our VW Kombi. I work 3 days a week as a pharmacist, and the rest of the time I train my dogs in agility, make cards, read, cook, walk dogs , brush dogs, clip dogs, make more cards........ notice any themes here?!!!!

I like to use copics mainly with some pencil colouring too, now that I have a large set of polychromos to play with. I have a dedicated room for all my stash, and my dogs all join me in there while I'm playing, gets a bit crowded sometimes but I love their company.

http://www.doggonecrazy-viv.blogspot.co.nz

Hello I am Shell, I work full time as a Driver for the Kenaitze Indian Tribe with the Elders, Married 34 yrs come September with 2 grown sons that I'm extremely proud of. Only Furry kids at home, they are my 3 pure bred Australian Shepherds (well one is my son's….she's here most of the time tho)& 1 Tabby cat that thinks she's a dog.

I Love to create with most all kind of craft mediums tho paper crafting is my #1 favorite and if I wasn't a DT member I would be majorly stressed as that's my de-stressing mode….LOL

I've lived in Alaska for over 20 yrs now and don't regret moving here!

http://akstamping.blogspot.com

Hi, I'm Fiona Darwent, 47yrs of age and live in Whangarei, area of 100 beaches!! live with fab builder hubby and have 3 boys, 9,13,16. I started scrapping 4 yrs ago and haven't looked back! Love making layouts for each of the boys albums, and the family one too! This year is the first time to actually create for myself , previously i had a home based scrap store and ran classes, fun but demanding also. So now its time to really play! Let the fun begin!!

http://www.darwent.blogspot.co.nz

Hi my name is Jenny and I live with my partner and 2 children (aged 17 and 20) in Melbourne Victoria. I have always loved craft and have tried my hand at many different types. Then I discovered Copic markers - my biggest passion! I just love to colour in. I am a certified Copic designer having completed the standard and intermediate levels. I teach card making and Copic colouring classes and I am always on the look out for a new stamp or digital image that is good to colour. I work three days a week which makes me appreciate 'my time' even more. You will often find me at my desk in the study trying to find the tape and the scissors under a pile of paper and cardstock.

http://craftbyjenny.blogspot.com.au/

G'Day crafty people,
I am super excited and honored to be a member of Southern Girls DT. I can't wait to see what is in store for us!
I have been a crafter of some description all my life, but card making has been my passion for the past two years. I love nothing better than sitting down with my girls; Caitlin and Amelia; and being creative. Mind you they both know not to touch mummy's stash so they also have their own stash of crafting goodies! I work full time for a charity that supports the homeless in Canberra, Australia so this is also my little bit of stress relief, and cheaper than therapy - just!
Hugs,
Linda xox

http://squirrelsnippets.blogspot.com.au

Hi my name is Tanya Watson and I'm very excited to be back on the Southern Girls Design Team. I live in Tuakau with my two kids Jacqueline (14 years old) and Cody (5 years old) they both keep me busy that's for sure, I do part time work as well...I've been scrapbooking for 11 years now and over the years I have loved watching my style change and definitely enjoying where its at right now...I mostly do layouts and have got about 5 smash books on the go so do quite a bit in them now - do cards every now and again but not to much of a fan of my cards I have made :) I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with for the challenges and hope that some of my work can inspire you...

http://photosandcrafts.wordpress.com

Hi, I’m Chris. I live in SE England with my husband of many years and my Great Dane, Mathilda. I am a mother of two grown children and the besotted grandmother of two gorgeous little girls. I am now retired, although I do look after my grandaughters two days a week while my daughter, a teacher, works. This leaves me plenty of spare time to indulge in my favourite pastimes : card making, scrapbooking and reading (not to mention drinking coffee – and nattering with friends!).

http://andheresoneimadeearlier.blogspot.com/

Thursday, 25 July 2013

Challenge 74 - Animal Antics

Time for another challenge here at SGC and this week we want to see those have the theme Animal Antics! So anything with an animal somewhere on your project will do.Remember you can enter by email if you don't have a blog and we accept any type of papercraft projects. Now on a sad note a number of girls from Team Trace are leaving as their term is up. These girls have done an amazing stint at Southern Girls and showed us all some pretty outstanding projects along the way. Myself and Lou would like to thank Stephanie, Kasey, Eva Marie, and Siv for all your hard work in helping make Southern Girls such a success. All the best for whatever you are moving on to.

So on that note,, here are our fabulous sponsors this fortnight

The Paper Shelter

Milk Coffee Stamps

Here are some wonderful inspiration from our design team....... Please give the girls that are leaving some bloggy love

Christine
Using 'Jurassic Love' from The Paper Shelter

Viv

Using Tiffany reading book from Milk Coffee Stamps

Tracy

Using Charlotte and Butterfly from Milk Coffee Stamps

Shell

Using "PepeL'Souris" from The Paper Shelter

Stephanie
Using

Siv
Using Jurassic Love from The Paper Shelter

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, IF YOU ARE GOING TO BACKLINK MAKE SURE IT IS IN THE SAME WEEK THAT OUR CHALLENGE WENT LIVE! Thanks :)

Winners - No Spoolin

The winners of our No Spoolin Challenge are.........

98. Karen.O NZ

69. Meighan Wheller (AUS)

63. Angela Marie

Congratulations to our winners :) Please contact tracy{dot}rich{at}xtra{dot}co{dot}nz

Winners - Leaf it Out

Sorry for the delay with the winners for the winners of our Leaves it out challenge but here they are.....

Sue Smith NZ

Denise NZ

Mian Hahne

Congratulations to our winners :) Please contact tracy{dot}rich{@}xtra{dot}co{dot}nz

Monday, 22 July 2013

Design Team Call for Southern Girls

DT Call - SGC are on the hunt.......... For our Current Challenge scroll down too the next post.

Hard to believe that 12 months has nearly passed since our last call. We are on the hunt for some DT Members for our happy little group.
If you think you may be interested, check out the following info..........

We are an open blog so any type of paper crafters can apply. We are a fortnightly challenge and the team is split into 2 groups so you are only required to do 1 project per month most months. We have lots of fabulous sponsors, some give us images to work with (YAY). And some of them give us delicious products to use on our projects. So check our sponsor list and if these companies are your thing. If you are a scrapbooker or OTP artist you will not need to work with the images unless you want to.
We are pretty chatty, about loads of stuff not just crafting, so be prepared to work those fingers in our group message centre.
You will need an active blog, public facebook or instagram page.
You will need to be able to use digital images if you are a card maker.
You must be able to use Yahoo groups as this is where we do our communicating.
The term is 6 months with an option to reapply

If this sounds like a DT that may appeal to you please contact Lou & Trace at THIS EMAIL ADDRESS LINK!!!!!! (southerngirlschallenges{at}gmail{dot}com) with an email telling us a little about yourself, any current (if any) DTs you are on, fav techniques/ syles that sort of thing and attach your fave 5 projects for us to see and also add a link to your blog please. We are looking forward to perusing the hundreds of applicants emails and eagerly await all your lovely blog links :) Call closes 20th July. Successful applicants will be notified by the 26th July and the new team will be announced here on the 1st August.

Thursday, 11 July 2013

Challenge #73 - NO SPOOLIN

It's time for another fortnights challenge here at SGC YAY :) This week we DON"T want to see any ribbon, twine or cotton on your projects, basically anything that comes on a spool is a NO NO. Washi tape is allowed as that is a roll not a spool.

A big round of applause for our fabby sponsors.......

NZ/AUS Sponsors