Welcome to our Craft & Card Making Challenge!
Ready to get creative? This month’s challenge theme is anything goes, and you’ve got a full four weeks to play along!
We love seeing what you make, so this challenge is all about having fun, getting crafty and sharing your handmade projects with our lovely community. Whether you’re brand new to crafting or a long-time card maker, everyone is welcome — and because one of our prizes is chosen at random, everyone has a fair chance to win 🎉
You can enter any handmade project, in any style, using any theme — as long as it’s made by you. Cards, scrapbook pages, mixed media, tags… we want to see it all!
Even better? You can enter up to four times each month with four different projects, so don’t hold back!
🏆 Prize 1 – Random Winner
One lucky entry will be selected at random to win a $20 Polkadoodles store credit. Spend it on anything you like — yes, even physical products!
🏆 Prize 2 – Design Team Picks
Our team will also choose their top two favourite entries from across the four weeks.
Each of these winners will receive a $10 Polkadoodles store credit.
That’s $40 in prizes every single month — just for doing what you love 💖
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So let's see what the team have made to inspire us this week!
This great kit is packed with 21 XL pieces of MDF that you can decorate as you wish - whether it's making cards, home decor or journal pages and sublimation these pieces are designed by a papercrafter so they're sized for all the possible projects you'd like to make...all you have to do is decorate with inks, papers and get stamping!
This concertina tag book was made just by joining these 3 tags on the back with card and they fold up. I added pocket layers using inked up papers and added some die cuts. These are quite big tags, the tallest one is 5-6" so it makes a decent size and would be great for a grab book (remember those???) or to add to a gift or a card, they're all so versatile and there's a good range of sizes to get stuck into!
This concertina tag book was made just by joining these 3 tags on the back with card and they fold up. I added pocket layers using inked up papers and added some die cuts. These are quite big tags, the tallest one is 5-6" so it makes a decent size and would be great for a grab book (remember those???) or to add to a gift or a card, they're all so versatile and there's a good range of sizes to get stuck into!
Nelly - Do you enjoy making fun fold cards? This week I created this different fold which is A2 in size, i cut from corner to corner on the front flap and added in love with Autumn paper pack you can find HERE, next I added a square piece of card and glued it in on the right hand side, I placed another piece from the autumn paper pack and coloured up a flower stamp, butterfly and added a sentiment stamp taken from big-birthday-surprise-stamp. Finally I embossed the wood grain stencil and coloured with distress ink, I coloured up Having -a-giraffe-clear-stamp-set-for-card-making-craft-scrapbooking/ the leafy-fronds-die cuts was coloured also with green distress inks and the big-hello-sentiment-die-was added to finish this card off...
Maria - I’ve rediscovered the wonderful bow pop-up card and have been making them non-stop lately! It’s such a quick project to put together, yet it always looks so impressive and elaborate. You can find a full step-by-step tutorial for it over on my YouTube channel, MarieleMakes. For this design, I used the gorgeous Adalene Craft Papers — their style complements the dragonfly from the Daisy Dragonfly set perfectly, creating such a dreamy, harmonious look. I coloured both the dragonfly and the leaves with Faber Castell watercolours to give the whole piece that soft, delicate watercolour finish. The dragonfly is mounted on a thin strip of clear acetate, so it appears to float and hover right in mid-air!
What makes this card extra special is its clever design: you can stand it up on display beautifully, but it also folds completely flat, making it really easy and convenient to post or send to someone special.
Products I used:
Adalene French Vintage Shabby Chic 6 x 6" Paper pack
Daisy Dragonfly clear stamps, outline cutting dies and layering Stencils bundle
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Robbie - Hello everyone, this sweet Bunny rabbit image and a fancy fold makes an adorable birthday card. This image was already colored so I didn't have to color anything, I just used papers from Graduation school student Textured polka dot paper bundle 2 . The Happy Birthday sentiment was one I shrunk down and added it to the card using editing software. I fussy cut some flowers to sprinkle on the outside and inside. I finished the centers with some Nuvo glitter drops.
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Blog - https://creationsinpaper.com
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Liz - I'm loving the new MDF blanks, they are fabulous for creating mixed media pieces, either on their own or grouped together, so I couldn't resist using this one for my first project,
After giving the MDF a coat of white Gesso, this lightens any colours you add later on, I then used some acrylic paints for the base colours. I stamped the image from the Be Your Original Self stamps onto Rice Paper, then after glueing it down used the Alphanumeric stencil around using distress oxide inks, I then coloured the face and flowers with slightly deeper acrylics keeping in the same tones.
More stamping from the set around the image gives added interest and layering without bulk,
A little white embossing powder on the script stamp from the set gives another layer, I then used the small dots stamp from the Just A little Note stamp set as it fit in perfectly, using it again here and there,
Some torn Sari silk finished off the project, but you could use some rings if you decided to make it as a cover for an album.
Julie- A birthday in June or July? This card features the Zodiac animal for June/July, the crab, atop a yummy cupcake. The card started with an easy to create faux step card design. The assembly for this card literally takes less than 5 minutes to cut, score and glue together. Then it's just adding the Zodiac/Horoscope Printable Papers and coloring the Crab/Cupcake Image in bright, playful colors to coordinate with the pattern papers. Lastly adding a sentiment or 2 from Zodiac sentiments and a few colored gems for added sparkle. Don't forget to decorate the inside panel with some of the scraps of pattern paper. This small detail adds such an extra wow to the card. Measurements to create the card can be found on my blog.
Taty- Hello creatives today I'm sharing my DT birthday themed inspiration. I created a double fold card and the top side cut diagonally. I covered each side of the card with patterned paper filled with green leaves and decorated the front with the adorable color image Gift parcel Noodle Panda and the inside part with the color image Hanging on tree branch - Noodle Panda. In the central fold I glued the phrase Happy Birthday by die-cutting the green glitter paper, I also used glitter paper to die-cut some leaves to alternate with the white ginkgo leaves to decorate the card.
🌟 Gorgeous Inspiration, big thanks to the team!
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
Click here to enter: We Love 2 Create challenge
We will be back next week with more inspiration with the Design Team!
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