Challenge 24 - Photo Inspiration

Something a bit different here at SGC this challenge, a photo inspiration. Since it is the middle of Winter and absolutely freezing here at the moment I thought this photo was very appropriate....

I found it at http://www.wallpaperweb.org/wallpaper/nature/a-frosty-tree-a-frosty-day-in-central-otago-new-zealand_1440x1080_42327.htm so it is a wintery scene taken in Otago, NZ.

We have 2 fabby sponsors for this challenge.

International Sponsor....

Meljen's Designs is a collection of digital stamps (and more) designed by Melissa Jenkins. It features critters, children, mice, teddy bears and all sorts of fun cuteness. Available from WHIMSY STAMPS , Meljens also have a blog wiith lots of fun challenges and every Monday there is a FREE Image!!!!! Make sure and go check it out as there are also lots of gorgeous creations by the Meljens DT and they showcase Melissa's fantastic new releases as well.

This challenge out DT were lucky enough to be able to use a selection of totally sweet Meljens Images on our projects.

New Zealand - Australia Sponsor

Looking for something special to enhance your scrapbook pages, off the page projects or cardmaking. We hope you find it here. If you are unable to locate what you are looking for email fiona@scrapboxnz.com and we will do our best to source your product for you. Enjoy having a look around the shop and pop over to the blog. This is where you can be kept in touch with new products that are arriving and see wonderful layouts and off the page projects done with the lastest items. Have a go at the fortnightly challenges - always a $20 voucher up for graps. Check out the WEBSITE & BLOG

And now here are this fortnights DT creations........
ALICIA

JULIE


KIRSTEN



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 popping by and we are looking forward to seeing what you create

Lou, Trace & the DT Lovelies xox

Challenge 23 Winners and top 5

Hiho, well this fortnight has totally snuck up on me, and it wasn't until I came home from work and read my emails from the SG yahoo site that I had a sinking feeling that I hadn't prepared the winners post!!!!!... SO without further ado.... here are the 3 winners

Stitchy Bear - #85 Diane Ahlers

Paper Shelter - #133 Bron

Joanna Sheen - #16 Sherryn

Well done ladies, you can contact us from the side bar for your prizes.

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

#121 Shari

#93 Amelia

#19 Nadell

#61 Leah Ann Gast

#140 Margreet

Congrats ladies. Grab our "top 5" badge from the side bar and wear it with pride on your blogs.

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

Lou, Trace and DT lovelies

Challenge #23 - Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!

Welcome to another challenge here at Southern Girls!!!! We are stoked you came along and had a look and hopefully you will play along. This week we want to see projects with a birthday theme. As always our challenge is open to all types of papercraft, scrapbooking, ATCs, cards, off the page..... if you make it with paper, we want to see it. We had an awesome number of entries last week, I know we can do better though..... particularly you New Zealanders and Australians! Every week we get a huge number of international entries and not really very many of you Southern Hemisphere papercrafters. We know you are out there..... hmmmmm maybe you just don't like winning stuff? So this week we challenge you to enter! You have to be in to win and if you haven't got a link there on the link thing we can't visit you can we? No Blog? No Worries...... Just email us a pic of your project and we will post a picture on our blog and you will go in the draw as well, what a deal! (hmmmmm can you tell I used to be in sales?lol)
So get inking, glueing, painting.... whatever it is that gets your creative juices flowing and join in!

International Sponsor

Here is a few words from Stitchy......

Hi my name is Stitchy and I am Co-Owner of Stitchy Bear Stamps...we started this store April 1st, No Fooling haha..I live in upstate New York with my husband and two TEENAGE adults haha, I do say that loosely as they think they run the show here, NOT...

I been creating stamps for a little less than a year now and I am totally addicted to the craft..I started about 4 years ago making digital scraps and I knew there was much more out there, so a friend of mine introduced me to digital stamps...and the rest they say is history...I look forward to seeing all the beautiful creations come through...good luck everyone..stitchy xoxox"

NZ - Australia Sponsors

The Paper Shelter is a digital stamp company with gorgeous images. The images come in both line and coloured. If you are looking for fun, cute and lovely digi stamps for your paper-crafting or web design projects, The Paper Shelter is your one-stop boutique!
This growing catalog of high-quality digi stamps with many different kind of options offers a multitude of themes such as everyday items, holidays, special occasions, children, adorable characters and creatures. Stamps are available in standard black and white line art, as well as in pre-colored format.
Images are wonderful for coloring and make perfect additions to greeting cards and scrapbook albums.



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

And now onto the Design Teams Samples.............

Viv
Trace

Sue

Marie

Lou

Kazza

Julie

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

Winners and top 5

Hello, what another great round of lovely projects to look at. Thanks to you all for joining in.

Onto the winners this fortnight...

International - Heather Ellis digis - #29 Ellie

NZ/Aus - Mad 4 Markers - #73 Ashlee

Congrats ladies, you can email us by clicking on the "Email Us" button on the left hand side bar.

Onto the extremely hard decision on the top 5....

#86 - Chris V

#64 - Denise P

#11 - Anette

#46 - Katie Tate

#71 - Sue

Well done ladies, such wonderful projects to look at. You can grab your blinkie from the right hand side.... please join us again tomorrow for a brand new challenge and more wonderful sponsors.