Wk 26 - Red, White or Blue Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge

Welcome back to another fab challenge!

Before we get started today we are super excited to be able to announce our brand new team members from our last DT call...

We have not replaced our team for some time so we had a few gaps we wanted to fill and we've been waiting for just the right people to come along - it just happened that they all came along together!
We are absolutely thrilled to welcome aboard:

Sandie Gough

Cheremane Smith

Samantha Kingdon

Melanie Joyce

Susan Jolley

and Jenny Lowton
and Anna Karpinska

Welcome aboard ladies, it already feels like you've been with us an age and we adore your projects and talent! 

We have a great new challenge for you today

Red White or Blue

So we want to see your projects which include these colours along the way (this can be a combo of any of these, you don't have to use all 3 in your project.

The random winner of this challenge will win a great download bundle from our store and the Design Team's Top 3 will also win a digi too. You have until 11th July to enter and we will announce our winner on 18th July. 

The winner of our last challenge will be announced next week, so let's head to the team to see what they've made today! ....

Scatty Jan For my red/white and blue project I used the lovely caravan girl from the Work and Play Collection 3  - I have used her before but love her red hair this time round. I have colored her using Graph'It markers xx

 Samantha K - My card is made up from lots of separate elements from the Dollie Girl Talk Collection. I used the two lots of wardrobe images, to create the back and the doors. I cut the panel sections out of the doors and mounted acetate onto them, so that the doors can be seen through. The doors are each mounted onto a hinged (folded) piece of card, so that they are raised away from the back (to give clearance of the raised elements and so that they open easily). The dress, umbrella and red shoes are all paper pieced using a paper from the Dollie Goes East Collection and they are all shaped and raised. Everything including the white wardrobe has a little shading to hopefully give it a bit of depth and I have used Promarkers. Finally I attached an angled folded piece of strong card to the back, to act as a stand. xx

Asha - My Red, White and Blue project features the fabulously lush Dolly Goes East Collection. I made a girly birthday card with papers and images from this collection. The card is fairly CAS as I wanted the lovely lady to take centre stage. I coloured her with Graph'It Markers. More details on my blog.

Karon - I just had to use the balloon off of the Bonbon Belles CD.  I used the black and white image and coloured it digitally, along with the little flowers.  I added the sentiment to the top balloon, this is on the CD too.  I decided to make it into a shaped card.  A little bit of ribbon and some bling to finish it off.

What fabulous creations we have today!

So don't forget - The random winner of this challenge will win a great download bundle from our store and the Design Team's Top 3 will also win a digi too. You have until 11th July to enter and we will announce our winner on 18th July. 

See you next week!

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5th Birthday Candy winner and some exciting news!

Hi all - hope you're having a great crafty weekend!

We've just popped in to announce the winner of our 5th Birthday Blog Candy which we were very naughty and forgot to do!

Our random winner is No 49

Jules

Well done!

You have won over £100 of Polkadoodles stash, whoop whooop!!

Email me here to claim your prize and please quote code PD5001 and make sure you include your snail mail address too!!

Thanks so much to you all that entered - thanks for all your support, we really appreciate it!

In addition we also have another little announcement...

As you know we have had our 

Design Team call 

going on over the past few weeks and we are mega excited to announce some new additions to our amazing team! 

These ladies are all super talented and we know they will be a great addition to our Polkadoodleys - when we choose our team we always try to pick people who offer something different to the styles of the rest of the team and this often outweighs whether someone is the best crafter in the world or not, it's important to us to show you as many different styles as we can rather than just have a team of colourers. It seems there is a perception that this is what we are about but in fact it's not - we are all about showing you all the different ways you can use digital products as well as just using an alcohol marker!

Anyway, myself and the team are uber thrilled to welcome aboard:

Sandie Gough

Melanie Joyce

Jenny Lowton

Susan Jolley

Cheremane Smith

Samantha Kingdon

and we also have to say how thrilled we are that 

Cara Lumley Caswell and Yvonne Leslie 

joined us recently too from our other teams too....

We know you're going to love the creations our new teamies make for you so head over to everyone's blogs and make sure you sign up to follow them! 

See you next Friday! 

Wk 25 - Somewhere Over the Rainbow....Polkadoodles Challenge

It's Friday!  Another week gone by here at Polkadoodles and what fabulous
inspiration we have for you all this week.
Our theme is still
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
and it has been

wonderful looking at all your creations.

You can enter the challenge HERE

Don't forget you do not have to use Polkadoodles products to enter the challenges

but please make sure that you follow the rules in the side bar ----->

You have until noon GMT, Friday 27th June, so get creating.

The winners of our Week 22/23 - Men on our Minds Challenge

will be announced at the end of this post.

Have you all been drooling over the new release Rose Budd Papercrafting Collection.  Isn't it stunning!...

 

Now onto our DT inspiration for this week....  

Scatty Jan - I loved this weeks theme, I could not remember all the colours though and had to look them up!!  I used the lovely image Poppy from the Bonbon Belles CD , The sentiment is also from the same CD - The image and the pearls have been coloured in with Graph'It Markers xx

Karon - I tried to take this one literally and that is why I chose to use the cyclist off the Work and Play 4 collection, she is coloured with alcohol markers.  The little puppy (Toto) is from the Dollie Daydream Girl Talk CD, cutting it from one of the digis. The housing scene is from the fabulous CD collection Double Sprinkle of Kraft, I added some blue birds and a balloon from the Bonbon Belles CD collection.  And there you have it, a sort of Dorothy on her bike with Toto, off to the State Fair :-)

Asha - I made a patchwork rainbow background using papers from the bumper Sugar Birdies Collection. The image is a pre-coloured digi called Anya from the Fredericka Mini Collection. I fussy cut her and popped her up on foam tape. For embellishments, I used flowers from Bonbon Belles and I finished the project with a few bling.

Fabulous inspiration for you this week!.....

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The winner (chosen by random org) for the Men on Our Minds Challenge

is

#54 - Alycia Clark

You have won a copy of the fabulous Work and Play 1 Collection

Please email us here to claim your prize and quote PDw250001

Our Top 3 as chosen by the DT are

#41 - Margaret A

#44 - Caroline W

#68 - Mandy

Well done everyone and don't forget to get you blinkies from the sidebar.

You can enter the current challenge

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

HERE

See you next week!

Wk 24 - Somewhere over the rainbow - Polkadoodles Challenge

Welcome to the start of a new challenge here at Polkadoodles.

Our DT call has been extended until June 13th - today, so make sure you get your application in quickly. If you've missed it, please still apply, you never know we might make an exception! ; ) 

Our theme for this fortnight is

Over the Rainbow

What a great challenge!

You have until noon GMT on Friday 27th June to enter this challenge and we will announce the winner on Friday 4th July

Don't forget that you do not have to use Polkadoodles products to enter the challenge, but please make sure you follow the rulesthat are in the side bar ---->
The RANDOM winner of this challenge will win FIVE, yes FIVE digis! Woohoo great prize! The design team will pick their favourite Top 3 : ) 

Now it's time to see the Design Team's creations for this week...

Ruth: I've interpreted the theme as starting new and fresh and have used some of the fabulous Studio 12 stamps - Dreamy Trees, House of Hearts, House of Possibility and Sunshine House. Coloured with Promarkers and then popped onto the ribbed card with foam pads and I've added some cute little key charms and a handwritten sign.

Bev here with my take on our 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow' theme this card could be used as a 'sympathy' card or just to let someone know you're thinking of them.... I used the rainbow, cloud and sun images from the Picnix 1 cd rom. The Thinking of You and Flying Bird stamps. Mounted onto some black card stock to help make the colours pop!

Claire C I've used lots of goodies from the gorgeous new Rose Budd Collection CD for my card - both images were coloured with Graph'It markers and then layered up over one of the beautiful scenes from the CD. To create my 'rainbow' I use some of the fabby butterflies and bows embellishments from the same CD...

Katie Some where over the rainbow weight a pie!!! So I thought about going to the supermarket to get mine!! I used elements from Work & Play 4  I have also used some punches and flowers from my stash.  have fun and Keeeeeeeeeep Crafting xx

Yvonne - Hi there!! I'm the newbie to the team and I am delighted to be here and what a fantastic theme to start off with for me. 'Somewhere over the rainbow' - immediately makes me think of the fabulous movie and of course, what springs to mind but the ruby slippers. So I decided to make my project based on ruby red shoes. I used Dollie Daydream Girl Talk Collection and from the embellishment section, I selected the pair of shoes, which I coloured with my Graph'It Markers, the backing paper is from the new Rose Budd Collection (so lush). I framed the shoes using a Tattered Lace die and finished off with some ribbon and other embellishments from my stash.  

Susan - This week I have used the lovely Sugar Plum Daisy CD . I have printed out 3 toppers so that I could decoupage the flowers to make a rainbow of roses. The rolled roses and other embellishments have been cut from the pieces of backing papers. Everything I have used for my card has come from the CD except the butterfly...

Anjie - I've decided to make a rainbow of flowers for my project using the colours of the rainbow for each flower. The stamp set I have used is The purpose of Art. I have stamped onto Centura Pearl cardstock and used a green and a blue Pan Pastel to create sky and ground. Finally I have drawn a rough line around the edge to add extra interest.

Over the Rainbow

Don't forget  you have until the 27th June, noon GMT to enter

and add you entry to Mr Linky below. We can't wait to see your makes

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Week 23 - Men on our mind - Polkadoodles Challenge

Well, hello there and welcome to another challenge Friday at Polkadoodles!
Firstly, we have some exciting news - you'll be able to see Nikky on Create and Craft TV on Tuesday 10th June at 9am with our most gorge collection ever, the beautiful Rose Budd! Oh My!! You are so going to love this, I've seen some of the samples and they are amazing!!

SQUEEEEAAAALLL!!!!! Sooooo pretty!!! 

We are also very excited to be able to extend our Design Team call so get your applications in pronto, 

you have until 13th June to apply!

It's inspiration week this week, here at Polkadoodles for our

 Men on our Minds Challenge

so you can create anything for the men/boys in your life.

You have until noon GMT on Friday 13 June to enter this challenge and we will announce the winner on Friday 20 June.

Don't forget that you do not have to use Polkadoodles products to enter the challenge, but please make sure you follow the rulesthat are in the side bar ---->

You can enter the Challenge HERE

The winners of our Things with wings can be found at the end of this post.

Now it's time to see the Design Teams creations for this week....

Bev here with some mid challenge inspiration with those Men in Mind I used the fabulous Not For Girls double cd rom. The scooter is so versatile from youths to the older 'boys' out there. The backing paper, topper, border and sentiment are all from the cd. I just added a bit of embossed card & ink. Simple, but hope you'll agree effective?

Anjie - The adorable image, embellishments and papers are from the fabulous Work & Play Collection 3 CD. I have coloured the Bobby with my Graph'It Markers. The lamp post is from the Card/Paper laser Art A5 - Lanterns. I have added some faux stitching around the edges of the papers and a strip of ribbon.

Ruth: I do enjoy using the Paper Boutique cd's - this shaped card - from V3 - (along with removable tools) is really easy to make - I printed everything out using the A5 template and then glued the box together and once dry I could add all the tools. There is another photo on my blog which shows the removable sentiment.

Katie To all the lovely Daddy's out there have a great time and I hope you all get spoilt.  I have used in my Door hanger Work & Play 4 CD ROM. Have a great Fathers day and I look forward to seeing all your fab ideas and creations, have fun and Keeeeeeeeeeeep Crafting xx

Claire C I've used the supercute builder image from the fab Work and Play 4 collection, he's coloured with Graph'It markers. For the background I've used one of the papers from the same CD and added some extra bricks made using the Dutch Doobadoo A5 Brick stencil

What fabulous projects this week!!

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The winner (chosen by Random Org) of our challenge With Wings 

is

16 Mandy

Please email us here to claim your prize and quote PDw230001 

and the design teams top 3 are:
5 - Moshie
56-Stacey
109-Dawn
Well done everyone!  Thanks for taking part, please grab your blinkies from the sidebar!

Don't forget you have until noon GMT on Friday 13 June to enter this challenge and we will announce the winner on Friday 20 June.

Don't forget that you do not have to use Polkadoodles products to enter the challenge, but please make sure you follow the rulesthat are in the side bar 

You can enter the Challenge HERE

See you next week!