DIGI CHOOSDAY! Tues 29th Oct..Fashion Divas!

Hi everyone and welcome to another Digi Choosday!!

Firstly we want to thank everyone for such a lovely response and such great comments on our first post last week! We really appreciate that you loved the challenge and all took time to enter, it made our week!  

So, as a big thanks for your support today we are repeating our 

40% off code 

for you so grab those digis while they're on this amazing offer, this is not a permanent thing but you can use the code until Friday this week!

 Just enter DCD001 at the checkout 

(PLEASE make sure you go through the SENDOWL checkout (you can't miss it, there is a big flashing arrow pointing to the checkout button!) to ensure you get your downloads immediately, if you go through the Polkadoodles checkout you have to wait for us to release the digis and the discount DOES NOT apply!)

As we give you 10 days to enter the challenges we don't have a winner to announce until next week, 
so let's get straight to our 2nd challenge...

Fashion Divas!

The team have loved this challenge and the projects are just stunning, these guys are really showing us how to use digis to their best arent they?

We have some fabulous fashion digis in the store so make sure you check them out here....

The winner of this challenge will receive a great download bundle and our Top 3 favourites of the week may be asked to Guest design with us next month! You have until Tuesday 5th November to enter and we will announce the results on Tuesday 11th November's post.
We also have a great new Facebook group where you can enter the challenge if you don't have a blog - just jump to the group here to join in! Don't forget to pinch our badge for your blog sidebar - we'll see you back here on Friday for our usual Polkadoodles challenge....

Scatty Jan - I loved making my little dressing table and thought it very apt for this week - Fashion Diva’s - I have used  Beach Day and Foxy Friend and coloured with promarkers , adding some black gems to Beach day to glam her up. On Foxy Friend I have used glossy accents and Black diamond stickles. I have also used the paper from the Girls hoot collection...

Anjie ....Here is my project for this weeks challenge, which is fashion Divas. This lady is obviously as fashion diva if she takes her little doggie for a walk dressed like this!

The image is Emma Canning Walkies and is coloured with Graph' It Markers. The papers are from the Cherryblossom Lane CD Rom Collection. I've also added some flowers and embellishments from my stash. Hope you come and join us for the challenge...

Zoe - I decided to make a gift for my niece as I've bought her a fashion wheel toy for Christmas & wanted to create a notebook/clipboard for her to keep her designs together. I used the fabulous digis from Emma Canning - Foxy Friend, Geek & Cute as a button. I coloured the images with a mix of markers. The background was created using the gorgeous Classic Hearts/Wedding collection it is a stunning collection with elements that can be used for almost anything. I mounted the main project onto some thick cardboard and added buttons, clips & sparkle!

Sarah - I thought I'd have a go at a shaped card for a change.  I used an Emma Canning image - Prom Day - which I coloured with my ProMarkers.  I used papers from Heart to Heart collection and Sugar Boys.  I then used some of my dies to cut out the base card, umbrella and circle in the middle.  Finished off with some lace, flowers and a chipboard sentiment from my stuff.

Debbi – Well this little lady is getting ready in her room for a night on the town. I made a diorama card, using a gorgeous patterned paper download from the Tail Father download bundle. And the ‘Fashion Diva’ is from Emma Canning’s digi stamp range. I coloured her with my Promakers. Then as a finishing touch, I added some flat back pearls. Am I the only one who has now got the Beyonce song 'Diva' in their heads :)

Sally - This Choosday challenge is Fashion Diva. So I made a bag using a plain paper bag and chose on of  Emma Canning's digi images called Christmas Shopping  and coloured her with Promarkers and Graph'it markers. Chose a background paper from Lulu Ladybug digi bundle and a dotty heart from the Owl Always love you digi bundle. Matted the paper on red and black cardstock, tied a ribbon around it and added "Shopping" on the bottom - My Love Shopping gift bag.

Katrina - Ohhhh to be a Diva! I just loved this challenge and so knowing I had a special birthday coming up I chose to make my friend a special notebook (she loves keeping notes!) using the lovely Emma Canning Foxy Friends :) My friend is such a bright cheerful person I tried to make my creation as bright as I could!

Susan - This week i have made my first ever spring card,the digi papers are from the fab download Feather Birds and the image is Walkies by Emma Canning coloured with Graph'it markers

Cara

For this challenge i've used the super sweet Emma Canning Geek download, isn't she sweet! I've teamed her up with papers and sentiment from the Girls Hoot download bundle.

Jo
For this challenge I made a wardrobe gift box with gorgeous papers from the Sugar Boys collection. The fashion diva is from Emma Canning's digi stamp Playing Dress Up. Love her shoes ;)

Kevin

For this challenge I have made a Handbag style card, Using Emma Canning's fabulous image called Taylor camping. I have coloured her with my Graph'it Markers , the paper is from Emma Canning Animal/nature download bundle.

Jo Austin

Hi all.... I am totally loving this challenge today, and felt like this beautiful girl, Cute as a Button by Emma Canning, is just wonderful and worked so well with the challenge this week. I coloured her with watercolour pencils, adding deep shading direct to paper. 

So there is all the fab inspiration from the team - I'm sure you'll agree that they're all superb makes again this week, love love love all the work these guys have put in!

Remember you do NOT have to use our products (although obviously we would love it if you did) , just add your entry to Mr Linky below (you have until Tuesday 5th Nov to enter and the winner will be announced on our Week 4 post Tues 11th Nov) and pinch our badge for your blog sidebar - we'll see you back here on Friday for our usual Polkadoodles challenge....

..Oh and don't forget to get busy with that Discount Code!!...
Rules: 
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2. Please FOLLOW the challenge theme!

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Clean and Simple at Studio 12

Hi there crafters,

JAN here today to show you a really quick 'Clean and Simple' card using two stamps from the fabulous Studio 12 range.  I do tend to spend forever on my cards, but occasionally we all need to make a 'quickie' at the last minute - so here's what I made ...

I used the leaf stamp from the 'Shabby Owl Blossom' set and stamped the image three times in black ink, inverting the middle image.  I added a little colour to the leaves with my Promarkers and drew a doodled border to frame them.  I stamped out the sentiment from the 'Leave a Little Sparkle' set and added a few adhesive gems.  I mounted the whole thing on green pearlised cardstock before adding to my card base.

Quick and simple! What do you think?

Hugz, Jan xx

Week 43 - Christmas Anything But A Card Polkadoodles and Studio 12 challenge

Happy Friday Doodlers!

Well it's been a REALLY busy week at Doodle Towers! We have 3 fantastic pieces of news for you....
1. We hope you all checked out the brand new Digi Choosday challenge (see here) .... gorgeous work from the team and don't forget that discount code! You still have time to enter and to use the code and we will be back on Tuesday with another fantastic challenge for you!

2. In addition, make sure you check the Polkadoodles site as we have some Terrifyingly good offers every day in our Trick or Treat week of discounts for you!

3. We'd also like to give you a heads up to a brand new venture which we know you will all LOVE - if you've started your Christmas shopping then this is a must-see, they're amazing!! We also have a very special discount code for you too - use DHD001 to save a special 10% off your first order!

So this week we challenge you to make anything 

Christmas

(we'd prefer it not to be a card but if you can't manage that then any Crimbo project will do! The winner of this challenge will win £30 of stamps from the Polkadoodles store!

The random winner of our Week 41 Halloween challenge is: 

Lucky 13, Denise! 

Well done Denise, you have won a £10 voucher to spend in the Polkadoodles store! 

Our Top 3 favourite entries are: 43 Elena, 44 Debbie, 16 Shell - well done everyone, pick your blinkies from the sidebar and Denise please email us here to claim your prize! 

So, let's get on with what the wonderfully talented Design team have been up to this week, you have until Sunday 3rd November to enter!......

Alethea - My head has not been in crafting lately and wasn't too sure what to make for this challenge but remembered I had a spare door hanger lying around  so I decorated that. I have used everything from the Home For Christmas CD. I printed some elements off separate so that I could give the hanger a bit of dimension and I just added a bit of kindyglitz and rock candy stickles for some sparkle!

Asha - Did you know that the Home For Christmas CD collection makes gift giving breeze? No?! You've come to the right place. About a week before Christmas I leave large home made festive cookies on my colleagues' workstations and to house these delights I painstakingly make little boxes from scratch. Not this year! Look what I found in the CD! A cookie box template...actually there are 3 and I chose this vintage looking one. All you have to do is print, glue and dress. It even comes with a sheet of embellishment. Yay! Extras from my stash: bling and ribbon - that's all. Here's to a hassle free Christmas!

Karon - I decided to use the pre-coloured images on the fabulous Home for Christmas CD.  All the images including the lovely background scene are in this wonderful collection. I first printed out the scene and secured this to an 8" x 10" artist board.  I then printed the houses out and add some foam dots to give them depth on the background scene.  Santa's sleigh and Rudolph is attached to some acetate to make it stand freely away from the background. The trees and church were printed and cut and I added glitter to them; after all what's Christmas without glitter :-)

Jo - When I saw the title of the challenge this week, I knew immediately what I wanted to make! A Christmas wreath using papers, embellishments and images from the Home for Christmas CD... and I just love how it turned out. I don't have a wreath hanging outside the house, but I do like nice decorated ones hanging indoors. With the images, I have flipped them around to face each other, printed them out and cut them leaving a small white border around the edges to give definition. I added some glitter glue to finish.

Lidia I made a Christmas wreath with Studio 12 stamps so I hope you Like this idea that can help you to decorate the Christmas Tree....

Miria  I made a milk box : it was so easy following the template from cd Paper Boutique I !
Paper and coloured digis are from fab  Home for Christmas CD Rom , the tickets are from Picknix Collection 2 Gingerbread Twist....

Sally - This weeks challenge - has been great fun as I have been making all kinds of gifts for a Craft Fair that we are having on base.  I was fortunate to find some wooden trays in a cheap store which I thought I could alter.  So, I painted the tray white then used papers, embellishments and digi images from the Home for Christmas CD Rom to decorate the tray.  It is an ideal size for a Cookie Tray to leave out for Santa on Christmas Eve....

Rebekah - Hi everyone for this challenge I have made an altered tin using some fab papers and elements from the Home for Christmas CD. I love the brown and blue colour scheme and both the cute gingerbread topper and the cute vintage style ticket sentiments are also from the CD.

Zoe - For this challenge I decided to set myself a task of using the digi images from the amazing Home For Christmas CD  to create a wreath. I chose the fabulous Poinsettia and the super santa. I took both into Serif Craft Artist and digitally manipulated the images - flipping to face the opposite way & changing sizes - positioning them around a rough circular shape. Once happy I printed it off and coloured every single image with a mix of markers including some Graph It markers. I chose more contemporary colours to match my home decor and once coloured I attached a ribbon.

Anjie 

It's not my turn for the challenge at Polka Doodles this week but I wanted to join in as I'm loving working with the A Home for Christmas CD Collection so thought I'd gate crash and join in!
The challenge is to  make anything but a card, and here is my project. I cut out 3 tags in Kraft card and then printed some papers, embellishments and sentiments from the CD. I cut out three strips of papers for each tag and distressed the edges using distress ink. I glued the papers onto the tags and added some faux stitching with a white opaque pen. I then cut out all the embellishments and stuck them in place. I then used a distress ink on the sentiments and added them. I finished off the tags with some ribbon.



Claire C I've used some of the adorable images on Home for Christmas to create some Christmas Tree Decorations. I gave the images a coat of glossy accents and layered them up over one of the gorgeous polkadot backing papers and popped them on some die cut bauble shapes.

Hopefully the DT have inspired you to make your project for this weeks challenge and we cannot wait for you to share it with us. Please use Mr Linky to add your details so we can come over and see your project in full.   Remember you have until Sunday 3rd November noon to enter this challenge and follow our rules:

1. No backlinks please!

2. Please follow the challenge! 

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Studio 12: A Vintage Christmas Tag

Hi, Miria here with a new creation for Studio 12.
Christmas is just around the corner so I decided to make a tag using the cd Picknix Collection 2 Gingerbread Twist  -  it's so inspirational  - and I went vintage.
I recycled some corrugated cardboard from a packaging; I dabbed it with white acrylic paint
I printed the coloured images I chose, cut them out , dabbed them as well and finally I layered them on the tag.
I added two sentiment tickets from the same cd: I'm in love with them :) and here it is ...

Hope you liked it.
Don't forget you can find two challenges on the blog, our traditional Polka Doddles on Friday and our new one, Digi Choosday on Tuesday, on this very blog.
Don't miss the Wicked Wednesday promotion on the shop here.
Hugs from Italy, Miria.

DIGI CHOOSDAY digital challenge! Week 1...Anything Goes!

Hi everyone - welcome to the first Digi Choosday challenge post!

Digi Choosday is our opportunity to bring you some fantastic inspiration using our DIGI products which can be found in the Polkadoodles store - AND some fantastic special offers for you each Tuesday (hence the name Choos-day, get it?)...

I'm so happy to also say we have a totally new Digi Choosday Design Team, all of which will be sharing their amazing creations with you at 9am sharp every week, so make sure you don't miss the feed, I have a feeling it's going to be awesome! 

So to kick off our very first challenge our theme is...

Anything Goes!

And to go along with this great challenge we have a super special offer for you 

save a massive 40% off in the Digistore here until Saturday - just enter the code DCD001 at the checkout! 

(PLEASE PLEASE go through the digi checkout or your order will not be despatched immediately AND you will not receive your discount and this cannot be applied retrospectively!)

Now, to enter these challenges you do NOT have to use our products (although obviously we would love it if you did) so the world is your oyster - just share your most fabulush creations with us!
We will choose a RANDOM winner each week and our fave Top 3...then each month we will choose someone from our Top 3 to join us as a Guest Designer the following month - woohooo!
Along the way we will have some great prizes and some great special offers on our digistore, so make sure you don't miss out on the weekly offerings.

The winner of this challenge will receive 3 free downloads!

We also have a great new Facebook group where you can enter the challenge if you don't have a blog - just jump to the group here to join in! 

So let's get on with the challenge and see what the Fabulushly talented team have to show us this week. Add your entry to Mr Linky below (you have until Tuesday 29th Oct to enter and the winner will be announced on our Week 3 post Tues 4th Nov) and pinch our badge for your blog sidebar - we'll see you back here on Friday for our usual Polkadoodles challenge....

Scatty Jan.....How cute is little Ralph, I could not wait to get him coloured. He sits perfectly on my little Nesting/bird box. The Papers and Tag are from the download pack Christmas Joy and the Flowers and Holly Leaves from the download pack Back to Nature.

Anjie- Isn't the digi image just adorable! It is called Teddy hug and can be found here. I have coloured him with my Graph' It markers and then sprayed him with Graph'It Mix It Fluid which gives some texture. The papers and embellishments are from the Home for Christmas CD Collection. I have embossed a piece of white card and then used gold, copper and green Pan Pastels. I'm in love with the metallic pans, they give such a great effect!

Zoe - I decided to make a gift card to allow me to send a book voucher/card as a present, and as soon as I saw Emma Canning's Bookworm I knew I had to use it. I also chose elements from the Love Will Flourish digi collection even though this says it's for wedding stationery.  The papers and embellishments are so suitable for many an idea so it's always worth looking beyond the collection title. I took all of the images into Serif Craft Artist to create the main topper & bookmark. I matted & layered both onto coordinating card  before creating a simple pocket for the gift card/voucher to slot into along with a matching bookmark.

Debbi - You can't help but love Ralph, who is all ready for winter in his furry hat. I loved making this shape card, which can be used for winter birthdays as well as Christmas. The great thing about digi stamps  and downloads is the variety of things you can make. I made this card by importing the digi into the Silhouette Cameo software, which I separated  into sections and coloured each one. And the little secret of the furry hat...is a makeup cotton pad split in half :)

Sarah - Am very excited to be doing my first Digi Chooseday post and looking forward to using all the fabulous digi stash! For my very first project with the team I used an Emma Canning image - To Die For which I coloured with my ProMarkers and matched her with papers and embellishments from Sugar Boys download and Tail Feather download.  I then added a die-cut, a sentiment from Marriage Download bundle and some lace to finish off.  I thought maybe the card could be sent to a crafty friend who just purchased their first die-cutting machine, or even just someone who really loves their die-cuts (oh that would be me!!).

Cara
I'm so pleased to have been picked for this brand new design Team, I love working with Digital downloads, they are just so flexible to work with.  For my first card I used this super cute image called Christmas Cuddle by Emma Canning and coloured her up with my fabulous Graph'it Markers.
 I used the Christmas Joy download bundle for all of my papers and embellishments.

Kevin
I am very excited to be on this brand new design team, I enjoy working with Digital images and Polkadoodle download bundles, I have used this gorgeous image from Emma Canning called The Happy Couple which is coloured with Graph'it Markers. and the beautiful Boundless Love Digital download bundle.

Jo....
Hi everyone... I'm soooooo pleased to be able to do a little playing designing with the fabulous products from Polkadoodles. For my first project, I totally fell in love with this Emma Canning Sew and Sew digi image which was printed onto some fantastic white card, and then coloured with alcohol markers. After she was mounted with some die cuts, I trimmed up some of this paper and layered it onto brown cardstock. The card was finished with a die cut bunting and a border punch.

Joanne
Hello everyone, I am sooo excited about being a part of Digi Choosday! For my first project I couldn't resist colouring the gorgeous Emma Canning digi, Skate Away With Me. I added a sentiment, available here, and a glittered, kraft card snowflake embellishment for a bit of added sparkle. The background paper is from Christmas Joy, available here.

Susan - I was so exited when I got picked for the brand new Digi Choosday DT . I have used the Digi collection Girls Hoot ,and an image from the very talented Emma Canning Prom Day coloured with Graph'it markers . All are available at Polkadoodles.

Katrina

I decided to give a Christmas feel with this Emma Canning Angel digi but it can be used all year round - very clever design! 

Sally - Hi there, so excited to be on the new Design Team!  I have used one of my favourite digis from Emma Canning called "All lit up" which I coloured with my Graph'it markers. I then used the a backing paper, embellishments and sentiment from the digi bundle Christmas Joy to complete my card. I matted it on brown cardstock and die cut a holly tag for my sentiment.

So there is all the fab inspiration from the team - I'm sure you'll agree that they're all superb makes!

Remember you do NOT have to use our products (although obviously we would love it if you did) , just add your entry to Mr Linky below (you have until Tuesday 29th Oct to enter and the winner will be announced on our Week 3 post Tues 4th Nov) and pinch our badge for your blog sidebar - we'll see you back here on Friday for our usual Polkadoodles challenge....

..Oh and don't forget to get busy with that Discount Code!!...

Rules: 
1. No backlinks
2. Please FOLLOW the challenge theme!

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Week 42 Challenge - Christmas Is Coming!

Welcome to another Polkadoodle challenge! We have some REALLY EXCITING NEWS to share this week! 

WELCOME TO

From now on, here on this blog we shall be publishing a brand NEW CHALLENGE EACH TUESDAY! 

If you love using digi images and want to be in the know about some fantastic offers, new stuff and inspiration then you need to drop in every Tuesday to see what we bring you! We have a fantastic new Design Team, specially for the Digi Choosday Challenges and we are delighted to announce that the new team joining us are:

Jo Austin

Anjie 

Sally

Kevin 

Zoe

Debbi

Scatty Jan

Susan      

Jo

Katrina

Sarah

Cara

Our first challenge kicks off this Tuesday 22nd October so don't forget to drop in and join us - we will have some fabulous free candy to share with everyone!

On with the current challenge for today!...

We have tweaked our challenge rules and we are now picking a RANDOM WINNER each week to get one of our great prizes! We're doing this as a massive thanks to you all for entering each week and we think it's much fairer that everyone gets an equal chance to win some lovely goodies, so from now on, if you enter then you're in the draw! We will still choose our favourite top 3 as well and they will receive a little prize too. IN ADDITION, you can now enter as many challenges as you wish and are no longer restricted to 10!

So our randomly chosen winner for Week 40 is ..... number 19 - Jackie Bowman

Well done, email us to claim your prize of a £10 gift voucher to spend in the Polkadoodles store!

In addition, the Design Team have picked their favourite Top 3 and these are:

no 27 - Sue Bearhouse *~* no 23 - Darlene Pavlick *~* no 7 - Vickie O'Dell

Well done everyone! Grab your blinkies from the sidebar!

Now onto the theme for this week which is

Christmas Is Coming!

Have a look at the fab samples from the Design Team - you can almost smell the mince pies and hear the crunch of the snow!
Closing date for the challenge is Sunday 27 October at 12noon GMT and don't forget to link your actual blog post so we can come and visit you!

Ruth:  Something a little bit different from me - I went for an unusual fold card and made this!  Use papers from A Home For Christmas along with some ribbon, half pearls I found in my stash and some die cuts.  The sentiment ticket is also from the cd.

Shell- I decide to go for a very simple but effective Christmas card this week.  I have a lot of cards to make this year and I need something that would be quick but also look good too. I think this fits the job nicely.
I used some papers and a sentiment off  A Home For Christmas CD

JAN - I chose to make a 'Three Panel Screen Card' for my folded design, using the fabulous 'A Home for Christmas CD'.  The baubles are also cut and folded to give a lovely 3D effect.

Anjie -  I decided to do a gatefold easel for this challenge for something a little bit different.I have used images and papers from the A Home for Christmas CD Collection. The images are coloured with Graph'It Markers and slightly distressed with a distress ink. I've added some spider web, flowers and buttons. There's some real fun images in this collection, it's not all about people, although there are some in it, it's more about houses and Christmas Characters, so there is something for everyone.

                                          

Lizzie - I used the wonderful A Home For Christmas CD for the papers and embellies. I printed a piece of card both sides and then printed a template I have had for ages on one side and cut out and adhered it together. I did the shoes papers opposite to each other as I thought they would make great place settings on my Christmas table, alternating them along the table. I printed and cut out lots of holly, used gems to bling up.

One shoe I added Stickles glitter glue, I didn't want the shoes the same ! I added some chocolates in a bag with ribbon and printed names, adding holly again.  

This is what the shoes look like empty .........NO I didn't eat the chocolates .......... honest !!! 

Kim  I've made an envelope gift bag (a tutorial for this is below the challenge post) using papers, topper and sentiment from the A Home for Christmas cd

Bev Oh this weeks challenge was so much fun! I made a never ending, kinetic card, using papers and embellies from A Home For Christmas I just added a bit of sparkle to make it pop.

Patty I used the wonderful A Home For Christmas CD  to make this cute boys and girls Christmas tags! I use lots of tags at Christmas.  I printed the cute girls and boy images on white cardstock and cut them, then aged the white tags, cut a piece of white border and when all the pieces were cut I adhered it all together. I added the red ribbon and tied a small bow with the twine to add with the brown button.

Hopefully the DT have inspired you to make your project for this weeks challenge and we cannot wait for you to share it with us. Please use Mr Linky to add your details so we can come over and see your project in full.

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