Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Welcome back - this week the team are taking a well deserved break until the New Year so we will be back on 5th January to kickstart all our crafty inspiration in 2016.

The whole Polkadoodles and Digi Choosday team would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year filled with love, health and happiness through the festive season and 2016, and we'd like to take the opportunity to say a huge heartfelt thankyou to all of you for supporting the challenge every week, we really appreciate your support and love seeing your amazing creativeness every week.

Make sure you check the main Polkadoodles blog over the festive period as we have lots of goodies coming up and special promotions for you...

DON'T FORGET WE HAVE OUR LATEST RELEASE OF THE

 COLOUR THERAPY CLUB OUT NOW FOR DOWNLOAD 

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See you on 8th January! 

Week 51 - Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge - Anything Goes

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Hello everyone.  Well, here we are another Friday and guess what

Christmas is just a week away ahhhhhhh!

Are you all ready and prepared - have you finished all your crafty bits?

It's the start of the final Challenge of the year and this one goes on for 4 weeks!

The theme for this final challenge is everyone's favourite

ANYTHING GOES

You will have until Friday 15th January 2016 to enter, Nikky is giving the Design Team a little break.
As a special for Christmas we will choose TWO WINNERS for this challenge who will both receive a $20 voucher for downloads in the Polkadoodles Store! 

We will be back on Friday 8th January with an inspiration post and the winners

of our Traditional Christmas Challenge.

Take the time to take a peek in the Polkadoodles store

Maybe there's some last minute downloads you could give

as Christmas Presents - watch out because over Christmas and New Year there *wink wink* could be some amazing deals up for grabs in the store!....So Keep up to date too with all the offers and goodies at Polkadoodles by signing up for the newsletter.

Now let's see what the Design Team have for you for the last time this year :-) - we'd like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your amazing support, entering your beautiful creations and all your lovely encouragement and comments during 2015 - we're all looking forward to a brand new start in January and will be taking a little break over the festive period to recharge our crafty mojo's!...

Scatty Jan - Showing you today a card I have made for my lovely Mother In Laws Birthday . I have used lots of different collections but look how good they all work together. Using Kraft card I cut the dresser on my portrait. I then covered it using the Distress wood papers dabbing a little distress ink here and there. I Framed a photo of my MIL using the frame from Twiggy & Toots Festive Fun. The bag and little hat were borrowed from the Winston collection. And the flowers and butterfly from Rose Budd collection. Added some lace , pearls and buttons to finish , oh and some little drawer handles , More photos on my blog xx

Mia - This card I made using the fabulous Florabunda Colouring Book Pages. I just love these pages and had to but both this one and the Inspiring Foliage download. They are amazing to colour please check out the rest of the details on this card over at my blog xx

Ria - Ohh my last Polkadoodles card for 2015 ;) makes me wonder what 2016 will bring us hahaha so I decided to use my favourite Twiggy stamp Twiggy hats off combined with the fence and the birdhouse from the Twiggy and Toots collection. I coloured it with watercolouring pencils and Peerless watercolours. White dots with molotow marker. I didn't use any designer papers just an 8x8 Embossing folder and Die from Tattered Lace. Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...

Karon - For my creation this week I have made a Gift box Easel card.  All the papers, embellishments are from the wonderful Studio 12 Picknix 3 - Nordic Winter collection.  Even the Merry Christmas is from this collection as a cut file for your cutting machines.  You will have to stop by my blog to find out what the box contains LOL!

Jenny - I love these anything goes challenges and it's ever so easy with all the luverly stuff Nikky brings us. This time I've used Serenity Earthstar, because I've been busy making Christmas cards I have used a pre-coloured image but she is a dream to colour in yourself too.  you can buy her on her own or for pure indulgence buy the full collection. more details on my blog on how I made this.

Melanie - I am using this adorable Twiggy and Toots Festive Fun Collection this week. I had such a fun time coloring her using my Copic markers. Visit my blog to see all the details. 

Aunty Sue - Wow well the mad rush is on for the big day and if you are like me still trying to get some last minute cards done. Also gosh the price of posting. Well to solve both what better way than to use Work & Play Festive Hollybobs. I have used all pre coloured embellishments and 3 papers and layered them all up in Word. This solves the extra weight and thickness as you print as 1 sheet. I just added a couple of think gems some fluffy stuff, glitter and twine and hey presto. 1 quick and cost effective card which I can print time and time again. You can get Festive Hollybobs as a download here if you fancy doing some quick projects. On top of this these are just the embellishments wait till you see the Characters.

Jackie- This week I have played with the Serenity Collection for the Anything Goes challenge. My card features paper, sentiments and a digi from this range. The digi image is called Serenity Joyful. Details for this card are on my blog. I love that the image is available in colour if you are after a quick make, too!

Jessie - I love the holidays and making traditional Cards. I also adore how Nikky adds little gems of images in with her collections (you really do get so much stuff when you buy the full collections) I used the Work and Play 5 Hollybobs collection for this card, and it is an example of one of those great images you can find Rudy in this collection as well as all the patterned paper I used.

So, now it is over to you. ....The theme, everyones favourite

ANYTHING GOES

Please remember we only have a few rules, they are over there in the side bar ----->

Only two entries per person.

Nikky and all of the Design Team wish you all

A

Very

Merry Christmas

and a

Happy New Year!

See you all in 2016!!!

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Week 50 - Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge - Traditional Christmas

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Hello everyone.  Happy Friday!  Wow, not long now

until Christmas is here.  Hope you are all busy crafting!

The winner of our White plus one other Challenge, will be announced at the end of this post.

This week is inspiration week here at Polkadoodles for our 

Traditional Christmas Challenge

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

We only have a few rules and they are over there in the side bar ----> Please, only 2 entries per person - thank you.

Before we see the Design Team inspiration, don't forget to take a look in the Polkadoodles store...

New colouring pages (#3) are up for the Monthly Club

Keep up to date by signing up for the Polkadoodles Newsletter,

then you won't miss out on anything new, including any special offers!

Now, let's take a look at what the Design Team have for you...

Scatty Jan - I have used the wonderful Twiggy & Toots Festive Fun, I have made a set of 7 cards all slightly different in one way or another. I have used all pre-coloured bits and pieces adding some glitter and glossy accents here and there. I also used a tiny piece of tinsel on each one so they really are dressing the tree.  I'm so pleased how these have turned out . They will be sent out in boxes for the Family. Lots more photo's on my blog.

Jenny - I have used one of the pages from the first edition of the Colour Therapy Club, as soon as I saw it I knew I had to buy it and make some of my Christmas cards with it.  I coloured with my Lyra pencils and sprayed with a fine mist of glitter spray, the sentiment is from the Octavia Frosted Winter Collection there are more details on my blog.

Jackie - It has been a super busy week for me this week. Thankfully there are so many wonderful pre coloured images, elements and gift boxes on the Work and Play 5 Collection- Festive Hollybobs. You can buy the cd here or get the instant dowload in time for Christmas. I have used the pyramid box from it as the base of my chocolate box and have added a diecut, glitter and ink. Details are on my blog for this quick, little project.

Karon - I have used the wonderful Studio 12 Picknix 2 - Gingerbread Twist for my card today.  Made a little window to look out onto the fabulous winter scene.  Added some depth by raising the window onto foam tape and inked all the edges of all the layers.

Ria -  I have used the cute Twiggy and Toots Festive fun Collection for my card. This image is Christmas wishes. I used watercolours and stickles to colour it. White dots are molotow marker.

Mia - I have used the lovely papers from the Twiggy and Toots Festive Fun Digital Collection for my card. Check out my blog for more details.

Aunty Sue - Now for my card I have used a fab CD/download from The Work & Play collection called Festive Hollybobs and you can find it in the store HERE. I have gone with lots of Pre Coloured Embellishments and layered them up to create this scene. Love that they are PNG so are so easy to use in Word as I did. I printed 3 of the Reindeer and layered for a 3D effect. The backing Paper is from Octavia Frosted Winter. Lots of glitter gems fluffy stuff and paint added to finish my card. Also on my blog is a picture of another Tradition called Reindeer Food using the same image.

Our winner (chosen by random org) for our White and One other Colour Challenge is...

#4 - Mags

Well done! You have won a $10 gift certificate to the Polkadoodles Download store.

Please contact us HERE and quote PD50001Wk47

Our Top 3 4 this week are

#3 - Wendy

#5 - Marie

#7 - Pamellia

#37 - Andrea Norris

Congratulations everyone!  Don't forget to collect your winners badges from the side bar.

Thanks to everyone who enters, we really enjoy coming to see your creations each week.

So now, over to you....

The current challenge is

TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS

You can 

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Week 49- Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge - Traditional Christmas

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Happy Friday Everyone!
We have a new challenge for you and our theme is

Traditonal Christmas

You can make anything you like for the challenge, as long as it follows the theme.

You do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges.

Our rules are over there in the side bar ---->

You have until Noon, GMT, Friday 18th December to enter

Our random winner for this challenge will win 
 $10 of downloads from the store

Now lets take a look at the fabulous creations this week...

Ruth:  I've made a gift card wallet and used papers printed from Picknix 3:  Nordic Winter and added a bow made from contrasting papers.  No template used for the wallet - I just made it up as I went along!  The chunky button I found in my stash (attached with a fair amount of glossy accents) and the bow slides off so you can open the wallet.

Naz - The image I have used here on this project is called "OWL IN A PEAR TREE" and it is part of the "TWIGGY & TOOTS FESTIVE FUN" collection.

I used Lyra pencils and Wink of Stella Clear Glitter Pen to colour the image and then added some

Glitter Snow.

The sentiments are also from the Twiggy & Toots Festive Fun Collection.

Caz.- I have gone along with the Reds and Greens for my easel christmas card...And ive used the cute Happy Christmas Digi available as a single digi here...Also the Digi, Papers, sentiment. And  the Candy cane and holly leaves cutting file...Can be found in this fab collection..Available as a DOWNLOAD. Or if you prefer on a CD.

Julie -- I've spent the week decorating the nursing home where I work.  I've seen all the tinsel, baubles, and glitter I need to see for quite some time now, so you won't see too much of it on this project.  I used the Picknix 3 -- Nordic Winter Collection on this card.  It is available in digital download for instant gratification (yes!) or in CD.

Bev here with a little hybrid crafting. I too used Picknix 3, Nordic Winter to make my traditional Christmas card. Its fabulous for all your Christmas crafty projects and you can download it instantly here too so ideal for those of you (like me) who have left everything until the last minute.

Anjie -  I've used papers and embellishments from the amazing Picknix 2 Gingerbread Twist collection.  I've printed this onto 300gsm cream card and then used my scanNcut to cut all the embellishments out. The base card is an 8x8 cream card. I've decoupaged the Santa image to make it stand out even more. Please visit my blog for more info and more photos.

Claire C We're spoiled for choice this week as there are so many gorgeous Christmassy goodies in the Polkadoodles store!! I've used lots of goodies from the  Picknix 2 Gingerbread Twist collection. to create this card. All the precoloured images and embellies are so handy for this busy time of year.

What fantastic makes from the team!

Can't wait to see what you come up with, we love visiting your blogs 

to take a look  at your wonderful creations.

Remember only 2 entries per person please.

Don't forget to check back next week for more inspiration and winner of our *White and one other colour challenge*

Have a great week!

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Week 48 -Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge - White and One other Colour

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Happy Friday Everyone!

Here we are for Week 2 of our challenge

White and one Other

The winner of this challenge will receive a $10 voucher for the store!

You can make anything you like for the challenge, as long as it follows the theme.

You do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges.

Our rules are over there in the side bar ------>

You can link up your entry
Here

You have until Noon, GMT, Friday, 4th December  to enter.

Our Winner and top 3 for our challenge Autumn/ Fall can be found at the bottom of this post

Before we share the DT's wonderful projects, we are very pleased to welcome another two new members to the Polka Doodles family
Caz  and Lorna

Now onto this weeks Inspiration here at Polkadoodles

Naz - For this project I have used AMELIA CONTEMPLATING from Polkadoodles.

I coloured her using Copics and Wink of Stella Clear Glitter Pen.
The sentiment I have used for this project is from Work and Play 10 - Country Life.
These sentiments are the ones I've been using a lot on my projects, I like the look of circle sentiments.

Lorna I have used Twiggy n Toots Festive Fun Collection available as a CD. or if you prefer as a Download. More details can be found on my blog

Caz ..For my project, I have  gone with Red and White...I have made a Owl Gift bag..Really enjoyed making this bag.  So easy to make..And defo intend making more...They are fab..The Owl Bag template can be found on Twiggy n Toots Festive Fun Collection available as a CD. or if you prefer as a Download. Sentiment and tag can also be found in this collection..Along with papers ive used..(except lashes).

Ruth:  I've been busy making baby cards - there is an abundance of expectant mums at work!  I've used a cute spotty pink paper from the Serenity paper bundle download, made some large letters and then added my own twist to the banner.

Jessie - For my one colour plus white I chose brown, and went with every shade of brown that exists in my Polychromos set, so I used white plus 10 different shades of brown to colour up Octavia Whistful. One piece of patterned paper from the Violin Theme Paper Collection frame the image perfectly for a super clean and simple card! 

Julie -- I started with a Kraft base, then used white with shades of brown.  I just HAD to use these two beautiful deer.  They are so sweet, they speak to me.  It's deer hunting season right now here in NW WI, and while I know we have more deer in this state than people, I still don't like hunting season.  This card is my tribute to all the deer out there.  You can get the image individually here.  The whole Frosted Winter Octavia Collection Digital Download can be found here.  If you're more patient than me, and want the CD, that link is here. The shaped card design I used on this is also from Polkadoodles.  This is Elegant Card 2 SVG cutting file.  The sentiment is a freebie, found in the Polkadoodles store.

Bev here with my inspiration post. Anyone up to there eye's in 'stuff' at the moment with little time for crafting? So I made a quick card this week using the Winston collection & not a character in sight. There's just so much within the collection if you haven't tried it please do you won't be disappointed x

Claire C I've gone for a sepia tone for my little altered notebook and coloured up the beautiful  digi stamp 'Cinders'  (you can find her here). I've coloured the image with my Lyra pencils and used her to cover a little notebook, adding ribbon, lace bead trim and a little flower. I've inked around the edges with distress inks and added a little gilding wax to finish off

Anjie -  I have used 2 papers and lots of embellishments from the fabulous Picknix 3, Nordic Winter collection.. I have distressed the edges of the papers and added some drawn lines for added interest.

Our Winner (chosen by random org) for our Autumn/Fall Challenge is...

55- Nick

You have won a $10 gift certificate to the Polkadoodles download store.

Please contact us HERE and quote PD47001Wk44 to claim your prize.

Our Top 3 this week

14 - Susan

44 - Crafting Vicky

53 - Jennifer

Don't forget to grab your winners badges from the side bar!

Congratulations to everyone, thanks to everyone that takes part in our challenges, we always appreciate you taking part and we love to see all your work each week - Happy Crafting!

You can enter our current challenge

White and one other colour

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Week 47 - Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge - White and One other Colour

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Happy Friday everyone!

Hope you have all had the most wonderful week.

Have you all been jumping on the Colouring Bandwagon

Fabulous Colouring Club and Adult Colouring Books and bundles

are available now in the Polkadoodles store.

We are here for the start of our next challenge and our theme is

White and One other Colour

Please remember that there is a limit of two entries per person

and we only have a few rules to follow they are over there in the side bar ----->
You have until Friday, 4 December to enter.

Our random winner for this challenge will win
a fabulous $10 gift certificate to the Polkadoodles download store.

The Design Team have some wonderful inspiration for you this week

lets check out what they have for you.

Mia - I have used Twiggy and Toots Festive Fun collection  to make my card - I just love the Twiggy & Toots download - especially this robin that I've used for my project - More details on my blog

Melanie - I have also used the Twiggy and Toots Festive Fun collection to create  a digital card front (6x6) , I also coloured him up too -  More details on my blog 

Scatty Jan - I used the lovely Eden collection this time to make my card. I've used this collection many times to make these type of cards. A few weeks back I made one very similar using blues. I have coloured up with pencils . The image, papers, flowers , ribbon etc can all be found on the collection here . The image Eden Blossoms can be brought as a single digi here

Jackie - I have used Brown and White to create a card with Sepia Tones. I am still having lots of fun choosing papers and images from the Work and Play 10- Country Life Collection. My image is coloured using Copics but don't forget all the images are also available coloured already for you! Lucky for me I had a feather and chicken wire die in my stash and I loved the distressed wood grain paper from the CD. Details on my blog.

Ria - For our White and one other colour I used this colouring page from the Colourtherapy 1 Florabunda download, and I added Maddie Shy digistamp to this page. Coloured with Spectrum Noir markers and Stickles.

Karon - I went for the a blue Christmas :-)  All the papers, poinsettia and sentiment are from the wonderful Frosted Winter - Octavia collection.  I used a snowflake embossing folder on the white panels and inked all the edges of my card layers.  A little bit of foam tape under the sentiment panel to add some dimension and formed my poinsettia with a stylus.

Aunty Sue- Well when I saw this challenge White plus 1 colour for me it had to be Black or shades of. As to which image I had a look round Work & Play 10 in the digi images and found this cute family of kittens did you know that it is available as a digi for a mere 99p talk about bargin HERE.

Now the papers I printed in Grey Scale and the sentiment is from the CD too. So here they are...

Fabulous inspiration from everyone.

Now it's over to you and time for you to get crafting and enter this fortnights challenge

White and One other Colour

Check back next week for more wonderful inspiration and

our winners from our Autumn/Fall Colours challenge.

Have a great week.

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Week 46 - Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge - Autumn/Fall Colours

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It's Friday and we hope you have all had a fabulous week!

Have you all been checking out the new additions to Polkadoodles, the Adult Colouring Club, Adult Colouring Books and Bundles....


                    
Go check them out in the Polkadoodles store!

This is inspiration week here at Polkadoodles for our latest challenge

Autumn/Fall Colours....you can enterHERE

The winners of our Add Sparkle, Bling or Glitter Challenge will be announced at the end of this post.


Before we share the DT's wonderful projects, we are very pleased to welcome another two new members to the Polka Doodles family .... MIA and MELANIE... 

Mia - I have used Twiggy and Toots Festive Fun collection to make a wonderful Owl bag. The template and papers are all on the CD/download. Full details can be found on my blog....

Melanie - I have also used the Twiggy and Toots Festive Fun collection to create my card using non-traditional Christmas colours. Check out my blog to see how my project came together.

Scatty Jan - This week I have made a little gift box out of Kraft card  cut on my Portrait. I love Octavia Best Friends one of my favourite digi's ever. You can find her in the shop here . I coloured her up with pencils and added a little bow to finish

Jenny - I thought I'd try something a little different this week, so have used the gorgeous new digi colouring book - Colour Therapy 2 Inspiring Foliage. I took an A4 design but printed it half size to make a background for my card, I used Lyra pencils to colour it and then sprayed with a glitter spray. The sentiment is printed from the Frosted Winter Collection.

Jackie - I really love the colours of Autumn and the Work and Play 10 Collection- Country Life had some great digi images to choose from. I used Copics to colour in the image (I made my image card size but it would be lots of fun to colour in as a larger image too!). The beautiful patterned paper is also from the collection. Details are on my blog.

Karon - For my creation I used the wonderful Dollie Daydream Goes East collection.  The papers in this collection are gorgeous and I wanted to use just the papers.  I have layered up some of the paper to add dimension to the scene.  Then using one of the fans from from the collection, I shaped and then added a little pearl dot and some wonderful sentiment tickets.  Everything, bar the ribbon, is from this wonderful collection :-)

Ruth -  Kept it rather clean and simple this week - used the Serenity Moondust digi and added glitter here and there plus some half pearls.

  

Ria -  For my Fall entry I used this sweet Serenity Resting. I coloured her with pencils, The papers are from the Eden Collection and the sentiment is from the Serenity collection.

Jessie - I used the Autumn/Fall Digi stamp bundle and coloured up the barrel of baskets with my copic markers. I have been really into doing simple cards with lots of colouring and this is no exception. I used some burlap with colourless blender pen to create the background, then coloured the rest of the image. 

Aunty Sue - Hi well for my Inspirational card today I am sharing an Anniversary card using one of the Letters from the Adult Colouring Pages Bundel Alphabet 1 available in the shop HERE.  My colours have been done with Promarkers, Sparkle Gelly Roll Pens and also Gilding Flakes.  More details and pictures on my blog as this was so hard to catch the sparkle and also the colour of the flakes at the same time.

Wendy - For my autumn colours, I've gone with greens & browns and there's nothing more autumny than a gorgeous Scarecrow, This handsome gent can be found as part of this years Autumn/Fall bundle get it here, as are the little toadstools. The papers are also part of the complete collection, but can also be purchased as paper packs here.

Wonderful inspiration from the Design Team, don't you just love Autumn Colours!

Our Winner (chosen by random org) for our Add Sparkle, Bling or Glitter Challenge is...

#89 - Judith

You have won a $10 gift certificate to the Polkadoodles download store.

Please contact us HERE and quote PD46001Wk43 to claim your prize.

Out Top 4 as chosen by the Design Team -  you are making it so difficult for us to just choose a Top 3 :-) are....

#28 - Lynda

#29 - J Atterbury Creations

#55 - Erum

#77 - Sparkling Pink

Don't forget to grab your winners badges from the side bar!

Congratulations to everyone, thanks to everyone that takes part in our challenges, we always appreciate you taking part and we love to see all your work each week - Happy Crafting!

You can enter our current challenge

Autumn/Fall Colours

HERE