Happy New Year 2019

Hi Dragonfly friends. 

Just letting you know that Dragonflies will be closing.

I have enjoyed your wonderful company as have the Dragonflies. Due to health reasons, and needing to take more care of myself, family commitments, I made the decision to close.

The girls as all sad but also understand.

I am also taking more time to paint. I started learning how to paint with water colours 2 years ago. Love doing Water colours now and and a few other mediums. 

Time to relax more and try something different.

Thanks to all who took part in our wonderful card challenges, it would not have been a card challenge without you. 

Big Dragonfly hugs from us all. Blessings Hilde and the Team.

If you are interested to follow my personal Instagram account, where I post a lot of my art, you will find it under

hildemarsh

I also have a fb page for the art and it's under

Hilde's Arty things

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year for 2019

Hi all, what a wonderful year it was. Looking forward to the new one.

I wonder what glorious things are going to be. 

See the good in people and the bright side of things.

I hope you will have a wonderful Christmas. Make memories, take photos, be nice. Reach out to those in need, be generous. I pray peace over you .

Remember the reason for this season, and enjoy.

Merry Christmas

Winners # 118 - Christmas Tag

Thank you all so much for being such a great bunch of card makers and beyond. Without you we could not be. Big big Dragonfly hugs to you all and thanks again for a wonderful creative year.

Praying that you will all have a peaceful Christmas. Just remember the real reason we get together in this awesome time of year.

Susan was lucky last for the year to pick the top 3 and here they are: 

# 3 Tip Top

# 4  Carole J

# 6  Lisa Lynn

Congratulations all, lovely tags. Well done, please help yourself to the top3 badge on the side bar, by right clicking and saving. Blessings, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the Dragonflies....

Winners of # 117 - Special Event

Thanks to all who have taken the time and effort to participate in our challenges, 

wonderful entries once again.

So here are the top 3 from the Special Event cards......picked by our lovely Granmargaret.

# 12 Papertree

#16 Linda McEnery

#19 Bernadet

Congratulations to you, well done. Please help yourself to the top 3 badge from the side bar - right click and save. Blessings Hilde and the team.

There is still plenty of time to enter into our current challenge which is
Large Christmas tag.
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# 118 - Large Christmas Tag -last challenge for the year

Big Dragonfly hugs, hope you are all well. This will be our last challenge for 2018. We are giving our Design Team a well deserved rest to get ready for the busy season.

Please keep a look out for the top 3 of the last challenge in next Saturdays post. 

Nothing like a beautiful large tag to get the creative juices flowing. So we are asking you to make a large Tim Holtz type of tag. So they are approx. 15 cm long and around 6 cm wide. You don't need to have the die , just ball park it and you got it. Most of us have a hole punch for the top. Too easy.

I have often just used a normal card size ( C6) and cut them out from front and back of the card so you get two. No drama

Let's see your wonderful works ( I have often used these instead of cards, specially when I have forgotten to send one, lol.) and attached it to the present, or gift or anything I was handing over.

But having said all that, what ever tag you can manage is fine.
Blessings Hilde

Christmas tags

Here are the wonderful tags from the Team to inspire you:

 CG

GranMargaret

Susan

Hilde


There you have it, looking forward to your lovely tags, blessings Hilde

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Winners # 116 - Be thankful

Hi all, what wonderful cards everyone made for the 'be Thankful' challenge.

I love looking at your card entries but also end up spending hours looking at everyone's blogs. Sadly I have already exceeded my limit on how many blogs I can follow...phfft.

Here are the top 3 selection of the challenge:

# 10 - Sarah T

# 3 - Avril B

# 6 - AJ

Such awesome cards, so hard to choose. These are gorgeous. Well done everyone and congratulations. Please take the top 3 badge from the side bar by right clicking and saving.

Congratulations from Hilde and the Dragonflies

There is still time to enter into our current challenge which is:

Special Event/ Celebration

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# 117 - Special Event/ Celebration

Hi all, hope you had a great week. A big Thank You to everyone that took part in the last challenge. Keep a look out next Saturday for the top 3.

Now onto our new challenge which is:

Special Event / Celebration

We are delighted to have Priya again as our special Guest Designer. She has made a wonderful card. Very creative!

Priya our Guestdesigner

A great array of examples from our Dragonfly team, and once again I am amazed at the talent and variety of cards that can be made for this theme.

Hilde

CG

Wynn

Granmargaret

Susan

Susan, inside of card.

Well there it is. What a beautiful set of cards. Looking forward to seeing your creations.

A shout out to our Guest Designer and thanks for being part of our Dragonfly family for a short time.

Please remember, cards only unless otherwise stated. Blessings Hilde and the Team.

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Winners # 115 - Pinktober

Welcome to the Dragonflies. Hope you had a great week. The weather here in Sydney is definitely getting warmer. Not looking forward to the hot summers and bush fires that come with it.

But spring is nice, as all the flowers are eager to show off. 

Congratulations to the top three of Pinktober.

Here they are:

Sarah T

Lisa Lynn

Marlene

Well done everyone. Please help yourself to the top 3 badge on the side bar, by right clicking and saving. Congrats again, blessings Hilde and the Team

There is still plenty of time to enter our current challenge called:
Be thankful

# 116 - Be thankful

Hi all , Dragonfly hugs to you. Big thanks to all who took part in our Pinktober challenge. Awesome entries. Watch out next Saturday to find the top 3.

Our new challenge ( love new challenges) is:

Be thankful

We have a wonderful treat today, our special 500 followers challenge was that the top 3 had a chance to be our guest designers. 

Very delighted to show you our first Guest, her name is Pippa, please go and check out her blog.

Very well done indeed.

Pippa

Our second Guest Designer is Priya and she has made this lovely card for our challenge. Hop on over to her blog and say hello.

Priya

And here are our wonderful Dragonflies:

GranMargaret

CG

Susan

Hilde

A nice mix of cards to inspire you, looking forward to seeing yours..Blessings Hilde and the Team

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Winner # 114 - CAS

Hi all and thanks for finding us, if you were part of our wonderful CAS challenge we thank you for being part of our great Crafting with Dragonflies blog.

It was CG's turn to pick the top 3, and she said it was hard. I know I came across so many great CAS cards, some more embellished some less. Clean and Simple is hard to do.

Here are the top 3:

# 9  Diamond Lane Design

# 15 Karten Kram

# 24 Lovely Linda

Congratulations to you all. Well done. Please help yourself to the TOP 3 badge on the side bar. Right click and save. Blessings Hilde and the team.

There is still time to take part in our Pinktober challenge, 

hop on over, we would love to see you.

#115 - Mostly pink - Pinktober - Breastcancer month

Hi all and thanks for looking. What a wonderful array of CAS cards were to be found in out last challenge, please keep a lookout next Saturday for the top 3.

Today we are starting a new challenge which is very close to my heart. As some of you may know I am a Breast cancer survivor, and even though the cancer has come back I am still alive and kicking. 

I know too well the ups and downs of this journey, and my heart goes out to everyone that is connected to this awful thing called cancer.

It not only affects the person with cancer but all of their families and friends. So in dedication to those amazing women, we would like you to make a card for this occasion.

Please keep it mainly pink and add the pink ribbon if you can.

Here are some inspirational cards from the Dragonfly team:

 Granmargaret

 Hilde

 Susan

CG

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Winners # 113 - Anything goes

Hi all, sorry for the late posting. Congratulations to all the wonderful participants of the challenge.

Everyone's entries were marvelous, but we need to pick only three. 

Remember that we are celebrating our over 500 followers and for that we are asking the top 3 to be our guest Designer for one of our up coming challenges. 

Make sure you contact us, see the get in touch details , top tab and send me an email  and I will give you all the instructions you need, and you will get to choose which challenge to participate in.
Congratulations

# 47 Priya Satish

# 36 Pippa

#3 Ellie

Well, it was difficult to choose that is for sure.

So congratulations to you all and we are looking forward to working with you in the coming weeks.

Please email me and we will go from there.Please help yourself to the top 3 badge on the side panel.

Just right click and save..

Blessings Hilde and the team

# 114 - CAS

Hi all, a big Dragonflies welcome to you. Hope you had a good week. So excited to find out who the top 3 are from our last challenge as they will be invited to be our Guest Designers. Keep a look out for next Saturdays posting.

Just in case you are not sure what CAS means, it is a casual card without much fuss, that's my translation, but technically is stands for = Clean and Simple

So here some examples from the team:

 CG

 Susan

Granmargaret

Hilde

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Winners # 112 - Spring has sprung

Hi all, just a little late again, sorry. Here are the winners of the spring has sprung card challenge, and so many beautiful cards, well done everyone. It was Ina's turn to pick the top 3, and here they are:

# 11 Amelia B

 I thought it a perfect Spring card with the mouse getting ready to plant new blossoms

#12 Aussie Annie

loved the easel card with the cute bear and beautiful embellishments

#17 Gloria Shirr

Wishing I had an old chair I could put a cushion, hat and then add beautiful flowers on and around it.

Certainly hard to pick just 3, love Ina.

Well congratulations to you all, what great cards. Please help yourself to our 'new' badges on the sidebar, by right clicking and saving.

Blessings Hilde and the Team

Please make sure you enter into our current challenge which is : Anything goes (card only)

click here

# 113 : Anything goes ( card only)

Welcome to all of our followers, including the new ones. Please make yourself at home. 

We have reached 500 followers and I would like to celebrate that with this challenge, the top 3 will be invited to be our guest designers for challenge # 115. Which will give you plenty of time to get ready.

We have a wonderful challenge today, and it's everyone's favorite

Anything goes

Here are the lovely cards from the Dragonfly team, this should get you going:

CG

Gran Margaret

Hilde

Susan

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