Saturday, 25 April 2026

Challenge 5, wk 1 - Craft, Card making & Scrapbooking challenge, Anything Goes

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 💖
This blog challenge is sponsored by Polkadoodles Crafts - check out the store and take a peek at the latest releases!

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So let's see what the Design Team have been making... 


Renske - For this graduation card I created a fun interactive pocket slider design featuring the adorable Noodle Panda digital stamp. I coloured the panda with alcohol markers and built a soft blended background using Distress Ink for the sky and layered die cut grass for depth. The slider reveals a hidden sentiment, adding a playful surprise element to the card. I used patterned paper from the Gnome Men Celebrations collection together with sentiments from the Noodle Panda themed messages and Winnie Daisy Greetings set. This design is easy to adapt and works well for celebrating any graduation. Hope you like it. Happy Crafting.My Instagram: @renske.wishes.you
Facebook: Renske.wishes.you

Liz - I love to create different pieces of art – card making, mixed media etc – so I thought it was time I did an art journal page.I got this gorgeous stamp set from Nikky called Every Wish Stamp Set – I love it!! The flower heads are separate along with a stem stamp, so you can use as many or as few as you wish.I stamped the main larger flower, then used a mask to cover this so I could add the stem to look like it came from under the flower head. I used a mask on the other side too for the added flower head, leaves and squiggle.My background is created using Gelatos, Distress Crayon and a little acrylic ink, simply smooshing the colours to blend a little. I then went over with the Bubbleicious stencil with Antique Linen Distress Ink for a little added feature to the overall design. The small circles are another two stamps from the same stamp set.I finished off with a sentiment strip stamp set, which I then cut down into smaller pieces. I coloured the flowers, leaves etc with my watercolour pencils in matching tones to tie it all in.
Products used:


Judy - I printed the Cute Girl with Stationery Pens Pencils digi from Graduation School Student. She’s coloured with Prismacolor pencils and fussy cut. My card background is made up of ephemera and sentiments from the same collection.
Products used:
Cute Girl with Stationery Pens Pencils
Graduation School Student Ephemera
Graduation School Student Sentiments Quotes
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Enrica - Hi crafty friends! This week the DT was asked to make a graduation project using a given colour palette, and I decided on a slimline card using the Cute Girl in Gown Digital Stamp and Printable Clipart from the Graduation School Student release available at: https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/graduation-school-student/ I love this set – it is absolutely perfect for graduation cards and handmade gifts!

Jenn - The digi stamp I used for my graduation card is called Cute Girl in Gown Graduation School Student. I coloured her with Copics and fussy cut both her and her graduation cap, then attached them with foam dimensional tape. The papers are from the Graduation School Student paper pack. I used my paper punch on the lined paper to mimic paper being ripped from a notebook. I printed out the entire sheet of sentiments from the Graduation School Student Sentiments Quotes, then trimmed and attached the congratulations and so proud.I printed out the Graduation Day graphic from the same set and used a reverse scallop circle die to cut it out.

Revati - I’m sharing a new graduation project featuring the Cute Girl in Graduation Gown digi stamp. After printing the image on 80lb cardstock, I used my Brother ScanNCut for precision cutting before colouring with Ohuhu alcohol markers. To build the scene, I paired a brick-patterned background with a sentiment from the Graduation Word Art Sentiment set. Layering the coloured image over the sentiment strip added the perfect dimension to finish the card. For more details, please visit my blog.
Products I used:
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Sana -For this week’s blog post the DT was given the theme of graduation, and I made a really simple tag this time. I have used the Winnie Congratulations digi – did I say Winnie digis are one of my favourites! The background paper is from the School Graduation papers. I used the cracked stencil from Tim Holtz Sizzix and did some shading with Distress Oxide. A really simple and easy tag or bookmark. Don’t forget to join in the fun.
Products used:

🌟 Gorgeous Inspiration, big thanks to the team! 🌟

Winners from Challenge 4

🏆 PRIZE 1: $20 Voucher
for one Random Winner to spend in the Polkadoodles store – on anything you wish, including physical products!


Congratulations!

To claim: Please contact us via the website CHAT on the homepage, quoting code: PDWK05001
1. Claim MUST be received by 18 May 2026.
2. Claims are processed in a batch approx every 30 days - at busy times it can take longer. Winners will receive an email reply - please DO NOT KEEP EMAILING if you don't have a reply during this time. If you do not hear from us within 40 days please let us know. 

🏆 PRIZE 2: $10 Voucher for 2 lucky winners
voted our Top 2 favourite entries from across the 4 weeks.


Congratulations!

To claim: Please contact us via the website CHAT on the homepage, quoting code: PDWK05012
1. Claim MUST be received by 18 May 2026.
2. Claims are processed in a batch approx every 30 days - at busy times it can take longer. Winners will receive an email reply - please DO NOT KEEP EMAILING if you don't have a reply during this time. If you do not hear from us within 40 days please let us know. 

THANK YOU ALL for your entries - there were some amazing creations this month, it's always hard to just choose 3 winners!

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!

Check out the latest Polkadoodles releases & SHOP HERE


You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

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Saturday, 18 April 2026

Challenge 4, wk 4 - Craft, Card making & Scrapbooking challenge, Anything Goes

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 💖
This blog challenge is sponsored by Polkadoodles Crafts - check out the store and take a peek at the latest releases!

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So let's see what the Design Team have been making... 

Liz - This cute MDF plaque/ sign can be decorated in so many ways, but for this project I used some shimmers from my stash, to keep a light look to it and to show the design already on it, I used the stamps from the Sending Love stamp set, as well as the matching die set, I love this little cutie mouse, so couldn't resist him peeking out between some plants, leaving some stamped directly on the base and some die cut to give different depths, after cutting out the taller flowers and using 3D foam to again add depth I highlighted the flower heads with some Sunbeam Shimmer stencil butter, I then added some tiny bits on the base to look like blossom off the flowers spreading in the breeze, The butterfly was coloured with copics and again die cut out, I then scored along the body so the wings lifted up, I finished it off with a sentiment from the Just A little Note stamp set.

Maria - I’ve become a little obsessed with the Retiform Technique lately, so for this birthday card I grabbed the wonderfully sweet Splendoured Love set and filled the card with lots of lovely details.
The Celebrate Word Die was the perfect match — I layered it for extra dimension and placed it beneath the tag from the Ribbon Heart Tag Dies set. The sentiment comes from the All Occasions Stamps set, while the die-cut hearts and bow complete my heartfelt birthday greeting beautifully.
This card is full of love, texture, and playful charm — just right for celebrating someone special.
Here´s my socialmedia:
https://www.instagram.com/stempelmariele?igsh=bzg1emRobmxsMWdp
https://www.facebook.com/share/16DYyAdSg1/
https://youtube.com/@stempelmariele?si=_HBi7-VDId3ZULNK


Julie - This week's Design Team Project goal was a shaped tag - It's early in the morning when I start my projects for the day and coffee was on my mind, and so a coffee cup shaped tag was created. I printed a sheet of paper with Coffee & Cake printable papers , and also printed 2 copies of Latte Coffee Cup image onto the same piece of paper. These 2 cups were fussy cut from the printed paper and glued together to create a sturdy tag. I used a layer of ridged cardboard and fussy cut a sleeve for the coffee cup and added a dash of burlap. I colored a little coffee cup from the Work & Play Barista digis and paired it with a sentiment from Coffee, Tea and Cake Greetings. Added in a button from the Work & Play Barista elements and tied it all up with a bow to create a focal point on the coffee cup tag. I printed a copy of the coffee cup on white cardstock, cut the lid out and added a bit of shading and added it to the cup with some foam tape to create a realistic look. A little burlap string on the tag allowed me to add it to a paper bag of coffee beans so I can gift them to a coffee loving friend.
Blog: www.thepaperartist.ca
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Taty - Hi creatives, today I'm sharing my DT inspiration, a quick project for those short on time but wanting to personalize their Easter greetings. I created a tag, starting with white cardstock and printing pink digital paper from the Flower Meadow collection. I shaded the edges of the tag with Distress Oxide in Worn Lipstick, and then, using Versafine black ink, I stamped the beautiful flowers from the Great Days Florals clear stamp collection. In the center, I glued the phrase from the Spring Flower Mothers collection.


🌟 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!

Check out the latest Polkadoodles releases & SHOP HERE

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

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Saturday, 11 April 2026

Challenge 4, wk 3 - Craft, Card making & Scrapbooking challenge, Anything Goes

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 💖
This blog challenge is sponsored by Polkadoodles Crafts - check out the store and take a peek at the latest releases!

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So let's see what the Design Team have been making...

Liz

Hi crafters! I started this project using some Lindy's Magicals onto the base of some smooth white card, then when dry I added some heat embossed stamping here and there using white embossing powder — this is great for adding texture. I then used another stamp to produce the random dots in black ink. I love the look of film strips, so I stamped this one and cut it out using my ScanNCut (you can of course fussy cut by hand), then I layered some hand fussy cut flowers which I had coloured with my alcohol markers, simply adding a stamped heart too. I used one of the sentiments from the sentiment strip stamp set to finish it off.

Products used:
Just a little note stamp set
https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/just-a-little-note-clear-stamps-craft-card-making-cutter-dies-wh/

Vintage Ephemera stamp set
https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/vintage-ephemera-clear-stamp-set/

Strip sentiment stamp set
https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/strip-sentiment-a5-6-x-8-panel-stamp-photopolymer-stamp-set-for-craft-card-making-scrapbooking/

My socials:
https://lizscreativecorner.blogspot.com/
https://www.facebook.com/liz.marsden.545
https://www.instagram.com/lizmarsden123/


Renske For this interactive slimline card I used the Flower Fairy on a Scooter digital stamp together with a sentiment from the Spring Flower Mother’s Day greetings set. I coloured the image with alcohol markers in soft spring tones and created a light background with clouds, a simple path and grassy details. To make the design more playful I added a slider mechanism so the fairy can move across the scene. The card is finished with small flower clusters and subtle details to keep the focus on the movement. I hope you enjoy this project and feel inspired to create your own — happy crafting!

My blog: https://renskewishesyou.com
My Instagram: @renske.wishes.you
Facebook: Renske.wishes.you
Pinterest: Renske.wishes.you

Judy

My inspiration project for this week is a 5 1/2 inch square gatefold card with a belly band. I used stamps, stencils and dies from the Hydrangea Ribbon Bundle.The large hydrangea flower was stamped and stencilled with 4 different purple inks. I stamped and inked a stem and set of leaves as well — they were all die cut. A square and fancy doily were die cut and added to the card base.The flower, stem, leaves and a printed sentiment were adhered to a circle die cut and attached to the belly band. The inside of the card was decorated with die cuts and some embossed panels. I stamped leaves and a sentiment.

Products used:
Hydrangea Ribbon Bundle
https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/hydrangea-ribbon-clear-stamps-outline-cutting-dies-and-layering-stencils-bundle-for-card-making-crafts/

Outside sentiment - Winnie Celebrations 2 Sentiments
https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/winnie-celebrations-2-sentiments-digi-kit-download/

Inside sentiment - Rose Budd Craft Download Collection
https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/rose-budd-craft-download-collection/

I would love for you to follow me on social:
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https://www.facebook.com/Createdjust4udesigns
https://jvzcreations.blogspot.com
https://www.youtube.com/@judyvanzandt6190



Enrica

Hi crafty friends! I don't know about you, but interactive cards are always a huge challenge for me. Not because I don't like them — I really do — but simply because I always think I can't make them. For my project this week, I used Noodle Panda Hanging on tree branch & Noodle Panda Relax with Bamboo. I teamed it up with the Spring into Easter - Set 1. I hope you like it — despite any fears, I had a lot of fun!

Products used:
Hanging on tree branch
https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/hanging-on-tree-branch-noodle-panda-bear-cute-printable-digital-stamp-with-svg-outlines-for-card-making-crafting-printable-planner-sticker/

Noodle Panda Relax with Bamboo
https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/relax-with-bamboo-noodle-panda-bear-cute-printable-digital-stamp-with-svg-outlines-for-card-making-crafting-printable-planner-sticker/

DLPD9192 Spring into Easter - Set 1
https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/spring-into-easter-printable-cardmaking-digital-craft-paper-patterns-set-1/

Sana

I went with this beautiful Winnie Wonderland design sheet. I fussy cut the cute elements you get in this sheet and took a 4x4 inch background card, arranging the front the way I wanted. For the bottom I first adhered vellum slightly bigger than the front card. I made a slider first for the interactive card and glued the ephemera I wanted. To make a proper interactive card I worked from the backside, keeping my card base on top so I could see the slider — it's important to attach your slider properly or it will be a mess. I kept the slider in the area I wanted it to move and added double-sided 3D foam, leaving space for the movement. This one was one of my favourites as the Winnie collection is just so gorgeous and versatile. 

Products used:
Winnie Wonderland design sheet
https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/winnie-wonderland-design-sheet-5-printable-digital-download/

Jenn

The DT was challenged with creating an interactive card this week, and I envisioned a panda sliding down a bamboo shoot! Here's
Bamboo snack time - Noodle Panda Bear sliding down the bamboo while he floats on his cloud.
I used the sentiment from the Noodle Panda Themed Messages Noodle Panda themed messages as a sort of pull tab for the slider piece. My papers are from Noodle Panda - Set 3 printable digital paper patterns. I used a sentiment strip die cut to create the slider tab, added a foam strip to the back of the panda, then attached a plain piece of sturdy cardstock to the back side of the panda.

Revati - I created a fun interactive box card featuring the adorable Road Trip Car Bee Buzzy Gnome Digital Stamp. To build the scene, I used a vibrant blue sky from the Spring to Easter Digital Paper Pad and layered grass and hill borders using green paper from the Lilac Haze Flowers Bundle. After printing everything on white cardstock, I used my Brother ScanNCut to cut the images and colored them with Ohuhu alcohol markers, adding a touch of sparkle with a glitter brush pen and crisp white highlights for extra dimension. Finishing it off with sentiments from the Winnie Daisy and Gnome Men digital stamp sets, this 3D card is ready to hit the road! For more details, visit my blog 

Products I used

Road Trip Car Bee Buzzy Gnome Digital Stamp

https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/road-trip-car-bee-buzzy-gnome-cute-digital-stamp-printables-for-card-making-scrapbooking-and-junk-journaling/?aff=23

Spring to Easter Digital Paper Pad 

https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/spring-into-easter-printable-cardmaking-digital-craft-paper-patterns-set-3/?aff=23

Lilac Haze Flowers Bundle 

https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/lilac-haze-watercoloured-flowers-printable-craft-digital-stamp-download-svg-papers-greeting/?aff=23

Winnie Daisy Messages Digi Stamp 

https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/winnie-daisy-greetings-quotes-and-sentiments-printable-clipart-digital-stamp-digistamp-for-cards-cardmaking-crafting-and-stickers/?aff=23

Gnome Men Messages Digi Stamp 

https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/gnome-men-greetings-quotes-and-sentiments-printable-clipart-digital-stamp-digistamp-for-cards-cardmaking-crafting-and-stickers/?aff=23


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🌟 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!

Check out the latest Polkadoodles releases & SHOP HERE

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter
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