Saturday, 22 March 2025

Challenge 4, Wk 3 - Anything goes Card making, craft, scrapbooking challenge, Polkadoodles

 Welcome to our Craft & Card making Challenge!

The winners of our last challenge are at the bottom of this post!


Challenge theme: ANYTHING GOES
Enter this Craft Card making Challenge competition following the instructions at the end of this post and you could win a prize - we make it random so everyone has a chance to win whether you're a beginner or not!Enter anything you wish if it's handmade by you.

This challenge is now 4 weekly - giving you 4 weeks to enter with $80 in prizes per month.
You can enter up to 4 times, with 4 different projects. We will still post weekly inspiration from the team but the competition will remain open for 4 weeks.

PRIZE 1: $50 voucher x 1
• 1 x Random Prize (we will randomly select 1 winner, so everyone has a chance to win) : $50 voucher to spend in the Polkadoodles store, on anything you wish including physical products.
PRIZE 2: $10 voucher x 3
• 3 x $10 prizes : we will select our Top 3 favourite Top 3 entries from across the 4 weeks.
• The winners will be announced on the 4th week of each challenge.



So, let's see the inspiration from the team for this week!

Wendy - I have an adorable card to share with you today using the latest digi release Birthday Celebration bundle. I used the adorable Party Time Bunny and one of the flowers for this sweet card. What I love about digital stamps is it's so easy to resize and manipulate all of these elements to fit perfectly on my card. I resized and rotated the flowers to create a beautiful border around the bunny. It was really fun to design this way.

Carrianne - Hello friends! Today, I’m sharing a clean and simple card that features the beautiful Alcea Hollyhock Flowers, which I thought would make the perfect choice for a Mother’s Day card. I paired it with a lovely sentiment from the Spring Flower Mother’s Day Friends Greetings set—this set is packed with so many wonderful sentiments, making it perfect for all your floral card creations! I began by resizing and printing the image to suit my design, then colored it with Copic Markers and fussy cut it out. For the background, I used a diagonal stripe window die, which I adhered to a white A2 card base for a bit of texture. I added the image on foam tape to give it some dimension and make it pop. The sentiment was printed, trimmed, and also adhered with foam tape to give it a little lift, tying everything together beautifully.
Copics used:
V12-V15-V17
Y13-Y15-Y18
YG61-YG63-YG67

Taty - Hello creative friends! My DT inspiration for the new Mother's Day themed challenge was created with the gorgeous Winnie Sugar Sprinkles Springtime. color digital image. I created an interactive card, with a sliding mechanism, where by pulling the right insert the left part also comes out. I printed the image on 200g white cardboard and then I precisely cut out the girl, the flowers and the butterflies which I glued on the front with the word mum in the oval frame. In the right insert I pasted the phrase present in the set.

Merja


Julie - I created a card using this sweet trio of printable bunnies - find out more on my social here



More gorgeous inspiration for you this week to use, big thanks to the team! We hope you'll share what you make with your Polkadoodles products on our Social Media!


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So, just a reminder....
this is  CHALLENGE 4, Week 3, ANYTHING GOES
$80 in prizes up for grabs.
You can enter up to 4 times, with 4 different projects.

Closing date for entries:  3rd April 2025, Noon. WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED 5th April. 
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We will still post weekly inspiration from the team but the competition will remain open for 4 weeks. 

Saturday, 15 March 2025

Challenge 4, Wk 2 - Anything goes Card making, craft, scrapbooking challenge, Polkadoodles

Welcome to our Craft & Card making Challenge!
The winners of our last challenge are at the bottom of this post!


Challenge theme: ANYTHING GOES
Enter this Craft Card making Challenge competition following the instructions at the end of this post and you could win a prize - we make it random so everyone has a chance to win whether you're a beginner or not!Enter anything you wish if it's handmade by you.

This challenge is now 4 weekly - giving you 4 weeks to enter with $80 in prizes per month.
You can enter up to 4 times, with 4 different projects. We will still post weekly inspiration from the team but the competition will remain open for 4 weeks.

PRIZE 1: $50 voucher x 1
• 1 x Random Prize (we will randomly select 1 winner, so everyone has a chance to win) : $50 voucher to spend in the Polkadoodles store, on anything you wish including physical products.
PRIZE 2: $10 voucher x 3
• 3 x $10 prizes : we will select our Top 3 favourite Top 3 entries from across the 4 weeks.
• The winners will be announced on the 4th week of each challenge.



So, let's see the inspiration from the team for this week - we've been creating lots of gorgeous Boys & Male themed projects to inspire you... 

Renske - Hi everyone! For this card, I created a fun slider design with a football shooting towards the goal. I started with the Soccer Football Gnome for Men digital stamp. I coloured it with alcohol markers and added highlights with a white gel pen. The background was made using distress inks for the grass and sky, along with a cloud stencil for a soft, textured effect. I made the footballs from the Gnome Men Soccer Football Printable Pattern Paper and finished it with a sentiment from the Gnome Men Greetings, Quotes, Sentiments set. Hope you like it! My Instagram: @renske.wishes.you, Facebook: Renske.wishes.you

Adam - Everyone's favorite drink "Dragon Fruit" (not coffee, silly) is the inspiration for this card made with these gorgeous Polkadoodles Crafts dies and papers. I made a multi-colored mug using the Love you a Latte dies and placed it onto a fun sheet of coordinating card stock from the Devine Hearts paper pack. I modified the sentiment by cutting off the bottom half and using only the "Love You".

Enrica - Hi everyone! Today I made a fun card for a boy's birthday using the Little Dudes downloads. These are a must-have collection if you need to make cards for young boys, there is something for every year I think! I used papers from the collection too as they all co-ordinate with each theme...

Jenn B - I used two of the digi papers and the cute knight digi stamp from the Knight & Dragon set. I colored him with alcohol markers, fussy-cut, and attached with foam dimensional tape. I added a little textured die-cut from the same background digi paper and added a button to highlight the colors. I love the little ticket sentiment, which is from the same Knight & Dragon.

Revati - Hello crafty friends, I created a sweet and simple card design using the Cook Gnome for Men Digi Stamp. I colored this cute and adorable image using my Tri Blend Markers. I then cut this image using my Brother Scan n Cut Machine. For my background I used a blue floral pattern from the Spring to Easter Digi Patterned Paper. I printed "Let's Hang Out!" sentiment from the Winnie Daisy Sentiment Digi Stamp.

Judy: It's all about Boys/Men for the DT's inspiration projects this week!I created a card featuring Bob the Dog in a Boat. The image was printed and colored with Prismacolor Pencils. Strips of a patterned paper were handout to form waves and I die cut another patterned paper for clouds. The sentiment was printed from the Bob in a Boat Set and die cut.

More gorgeous inspiration for you this week to use, big thanks to the team! We hope you'll share what you make with your Polkadoodles products on our Social Media!


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So, just a reminder....
this is  CHALLENGE 4, Week 2, ANYTHING GOES
$80 in prizes up for grabs.
You can enter up to 4 times, with 4 different projects.

Closing date for entries:  3rd April 2025, Noon. WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED 5th April. 
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We will still post weekly inspiration from the team but the competition will remain open for 4 weeks. 

Saturday, 8 March 2025

Challenge 4, Wk 1 - Anything goes Card making, craft, scrapbooking challenge, Polkadoodles

Welcome to our Craft & Card making Challenge!
The winners of our last challenge are at the bottom of this post!


Challenge theme: ANYTHING GOES
Enter this Craft Card making Challenge competition following the instructions at the end of this post and you could win a prize - we make it random so everyone has a chance to win whether you're a beginner or not!Enter anything you wish if it's handmade by you.

This challenge is now 4 weekly - giving you 4 weeks to enter with $80 in prizes per month.
You can enter up to 4 times, with 4 different projects. We will still post weekly inspiration from the team but the competition will remain open for 4 weeks.

PRIZE 1: $50 voucher x 1
• 1 x Random Prize (we will randomly select 1 winner, so everyone has a chance to win) : $50 voucher to spend in the Polkadoodles store, on anything you wish including physical products.
PRIZE 2: $10 voucher x 3
• 3 x $10 prizes : we will select our Top 3 favourite Top 3 entries from across the 4 weeks.
• The winners will be announced on the 4th week of each challenge.


So, let's see the inspiration from the team for this week - we've been creating lots of gorgeous Spring projects to inspire you in March... 


Julie - This adorable wide eyed sheep brings fun to this interactive card as she actually jumps over the fence into this pretty little meadow. The images from Polkadoodles Sheepy Sheep collection were colored and perfectly paired with a sentiment from Spring Into Easter messages. Details to create this super fun card can be found on my blog. Instagram, Facebook

Merja - This time I wanted to do some stenciling. I started with white cardboard and added flowers with Wildflower Meadow stencil and paste I coloured with Distress Inks. I let it dry and then I added a few more layers of flowers with Distress Inks positioning the stencil differently each time. When I was happy with the flowers I coloured the background also with inks. Then I stamped the sentiment on tracing paper with Sentimentals stamp set and heat embossed it. I tore the tracing paper and taped it on the card. Lastly I added some Glossy Accents drops here and there.


Adam - Being a huge Taylor Swift fan, I immediately thought of using the Polkadoodles Crafts new Just My Type dies to create a card inspired by "The Tortured Poet's Department" as performed during the Eras tour. This typewriter die is very reminiscent of the one from the props during the concert. This card and the die should resonate with all the Swifties of the world.

Nunzia: When I think about Spring, the first animal that comes in my mind is the rabbit, so cute and furry. For this reason I made this interactive card, with these 3 little bunnies closing the card that when opened magically shows a sweet message. Papers and message are included in the same bundle.


Carrianne - Hi friends! Today, I’m excited to share a fun pop-up window interactive card featuring the adorable Cute Chick with Flower Stick digital image, along with a sweet sentiment from the Darling Buds Sentiments set. I used Copic Markers to color the image, and the sentiment was printed and die-cut using a stitched circle die. For the background, I added a beautiful cover plate to a white panel, which I adhered to a blue A2 card base. I then used a larger stitched circle die to cut out the center of the panel, and added a note card slightly smaller than the base to the inside.
To create the interactive pop-up element, I cut a strip of white cardstock to 1 x 4.25 inches, scoring it at 1/2", 1", and 1 1/2" to form an accordion fold. I adhered it in the center of the panel with liquid adhesive, then placed the circle die-cut piece on top to create the pop-up effect. I hope you'll give it a try because it was so much fun to make!
Copics used:
Y13-Y15-Y18
YR04-YR07
B000-B00-B01


Wendy - Hi everyone! I know it's already March, but I've been having so much fun playing with the Theo Penguin Winter Snow Days bundle that I had to make 1 more winter card. Look how happy Theo is with his Iceman creation. Doesn't he look so proud? I paired them with one of the backgrounds that you get with this bundle. Those are my favorite, and It's been so much fun building scenes with them. Thank you for looking!


Taty - Hi friends, I'm sharing my DT inspiration for the March spring animal theme challenge. I created an interactive card, with a sliding mechanism, where by pulling the right insert the left part also comes out. I decorated the external part with the magnificent Flowers Lily Ladybug image colored with Prismacolor pencils, for the background I used the wonderful Heart Wreath stencil and a gold colored paste. For the right insert I used the new and fabulous All You need is Love die which frames the Sleeping Lily Ladybug Ladybird image, always colored with pencils.


More gorgeous inspiration for you this week to use, big thanks to the team! We hope you'll share what you make with your Polkadoodles products on our Social Media!


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So, just a reminder....
this is  CHALLENGE 4, Week 1, ANYTHING GOES
$80 in prizes up for grabs.
You can enter up to 4 times, with 4 different projects.

Closing date for entries:  3rd April 2025, Noon. WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED 5th April. 
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We will still post weekly inspiration from the team but the competition will remain open for 4 weeks. 



Winners from Challenge 3 (ended 6th March)

RANDOM WINNER - $50 credit to spend in the Polkadoodles store!

60 Craftyfield - Congratulations! 

TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE: 
PLEASE EMAIL US HERE, QUOTING THE FOLLOWING CODE PDWK04001 TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE. CLAIMS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 19/3/25.
(PLEASE NOTE - WINNERS WILL RECEIVE A REPLY WITHIN 28 DAYS, PLEASE DO NOT KEEP EMAILING IF YOU DON'T RECEIVE A REPLY BACK DURING THIS TIME)


Our Top 3 favourite entries for this challenge who win a $10 credit to the Polkadoodles store are....


Congratulations!
TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE: 
PLEASE EMAIL US HERE, QUOTING THE FOLLOWING CODE PDWK04123 TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE. CLAIMS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 19/3/25.
(PLEASE NOTE - WINNERS WILL RECEIVE A REPLY WITHIN 28 DAYS, PLEASE DO NOT KEEP EMAILING IF YOU DON'T RECEIVE A REPLY BACK DURING THIS TIME)

Don't forget to join in our other challenges too -You could win more stash and as always our Challenges are **Anything Goes**

Click here to enter: Digi Choosday Blog
Click here to enter: Gem of a Challenge (starts today!)
Click here to enter: We Love 2 Create challenge

Check out the latest Polkadoodles releases & SHOP HERE


We will be back next week with our next challenge and more inspiration with the Design Team!


Check out the latest Polkadoodles releases & SHOP HERE