Week 34 - Something Beginning with F or Anything Goes - Polkadoodles Craft Challenge

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Our new challenge is
Anything Goes
 or 
Something beginning with F
The choice is yours.....

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 9th September to enter this challenge.

The winner of this challenge will receive a $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles download store.


Now let's see the inspiration for the challenge...

Scatty Jan hmmmm something beginning F had to be flowers for me. My friend is celebrating her 70th birthday so I wanted to make something a little special. I chose the lovely lantern template from The Lavender Tea collection. It looks quite red in the photo's but its a really deep pink in real life.  I wanted to match the flowers in so I decorated using Lemonade Fizz collection, I think they work perfectly together. All that was added to finish were some pearls, a few fern dies and a battery operated candle.....Lots more photos and info on my blog xx

Tracy - Well for this challenge I decided to do a birthday card for my nephew so I picked a precoloured image from Winston Bear Collection holding a cake..."Food". Again lots of layering as I find fussy cutting a joy and I inked the edges to make images "pop" out

Katrina - Well, they're so pretty (and apparently all the rage at the moment), so it had to be F for Flamingo. The digi stamp is from the Winnie in Wonderland CD and I've coloured it in with pink and purple sparkle pens. The gorgeous backing paper is from the same CD and for the greeting I used one of the stamps from the Daisydays set.

Anita - Hi everyone so for my F'S I used Flowers, Frame, Fancy, Frugal i used a selection of papers from Rose Budd collection which has oodles of papers on, my sentiment qoute from the work and play 10 collection - country life i had fun this week.

Claire C What a fun challenge! My 'F' is frosty and I've used lots of bits and bobs from the gorgeous ' Octavia Frosted Winter' collection which you can find here as a CD or here as a download. I always make my 0wn jar of 'frost' for wintery cards by mixing up different grades of glitter, mica flakes and anything else in my craft stash that looks a bit frosty.

Michelle Wow all as I could think of for something beginning with F was yummy food lol. So I used The VIP XXL Starfish and Sandcastle Collection because it had so many yummy foods to use. I have made a bendy Card and I have only used things from the collection to decorate it hope you all like it.

Bev here with a bright and vibrant card using one sheet (yes you heard right) of the flower stacks from one of the older collections, Back to Nature. the sentiment used is from Magic Garden....

Anjie - Now I really pushed the boat out with this one as on my card I have a Flamingo, some Feathers, some Flowers and some Foliage! Do you think that's enough F's? To make this card I have used the lush Tropical Paradise Flamingo stamp set. The Flamingo you can get as a digi download on it's own HERE. I needed to add some Foliage in there so decided to use the leaf from the Lemonade Fizz stamp set. Lots more info on my blog.

Lovely creations to inspire you all with our Anything Goes or Something beginning with F challenge! 

Our winners of our Anything Goes challenge 32/33 and our Feather in my Cap winners for using PD images (more details on this up top in the tabs section), will be announced next Friday.

Have a great weekend everyone.

Thanks for sharing your creations with us, we love coming to visit and appreciate you taking part in our challenges.

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Week 33 - Anything Goes Craft Challenge - Polkadoodles Crafting

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Happy Friday everyone.

It's inspiration week for our
Anything Goes or as the team have done add texture But the choice is yours
You can find the challenge and  enter it Here

Our winner for the challenge will receive a $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles Download Store.
You have until Noon, GMT, Friday 26th July to enter.
You do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges, however, we do love
seeing your fabulous makes with Polkadoodles images.
We only have a few little rules and they are over there in the sidebar ----->
Remember if you use a Polkadoodles image you could win a Feather in your Cap, more details
on this in the pages tab above.

Our Winner, Top 3 and Feathers for our Anything Goes Challenge 30/31
will be announced at the end of this post

Here is some fab inspiration from the team...
Nikky...I don't get to join in very often but this week I managed...and I've used this lovely Mirabelle Mermaid image called Swimming Around from Polkadoodles Meribelle collection. I decided to turn her upside down as if she was floating around in the ocean...

Scatty Jan I had lots of fun making these simple trio of cards. I used two of the lovely stamps from the Daisydays collection. For my texture I used embossing folders. Lots more photo's and info on my blog xx

Anjie - I've used the Tropical Paradise Flamingo clear stamp set. I stamped onto my colouring card with a clear Versamark embossing ink, then added clear embossing powder over it and heat set it all. I then used 4 distress inks to create the background. This really makes the clear embossing pop and adds great texture. I then stamped and created the message topper in the same way. I added my squiggly line around the edges and mounted the sentiment using 3D foam pads. Finally I stamped some flowers and foliage, coloured them and added some pearls in the centre and glued in place. More info on my blog.

Tracy - I decided for my textured card to use this image from Winston Bear collection. It has many layers that adds texture and 3d look. If your into fussy cutting you will love this collection!

Katrina - As the start of the new term is only a few weeks away I've made a back to school card. I've used the pre-coloured version of the teacher image from the Work and Play 3 CD, and for the greeting I've used a stamp from the Sensational Sentiments set. I've added texture with an embossing folder that has an alphabet design, to fit in with the school/college theme.

Michelle For my project I have used the Winnie in Wonderland Collection I have used a digital image called I'm Late I have also used Design sheet 7 and the Ephemera embellishments and to add my texture I used Modelling paste and distressing tool...

Bev for my make this week I decided to give mixed media another shot. Its always a way of adding plenty of layers and texture. I used the Daisydays Stamp Me set as my main focal point and the background is a mixture of texture paste, acrylic paint, stamps & diecuts.

Claire C I've made a canvas using one of the digis from the Winnie in Wonderland Collection. I've coloured her with my Graph'It Markers and layered her up over one of the beautiful papers and lots of embellies from the same collection (you can find it here as a CD or here as a download). I've added lots of texture with glossy accents on the embellies, black gesso around the edges, some stencilling using glassy gel medium mixed with red acrylic paint and a border made of glitter.

Anita - I loved adding texture on my make this week using the fabulous Summertime clear stamps, My texture was embossing , Hessian, Lace, Cheese cloth, Distressed edges, wooden elements, Die cuts , Fibres and Twine. I had another play with water colours thank you nikky for introducing them too me.

Fabulous inspiration by the Design Team.

Now onto the Winner and Top 3 of our Week 30/31 Challenge.

The Winner, chosen by Random Org, is....

48 - Brenda

                                                 Please email us HERE quoting PD33001Wk30 to claim

your prize of a $10 worth of downloads from the digi store. Here is your Winners Badge to display on your blog....

Onto our Top 3, and in no particular order, chosen by the Design Team.

38 - Norma

50 - Tone

86 - Christine

And finally our Top 3 Feather in My Cap winners are

1-Margaret

14 - Karen K

64 - Alison B

Well done our Feathery friends!  You have been added to our league board

which you can check all about on the pages tabs above.

Each week the league board will be updated, so we can all keep track and at 

the end of the season our Winning Featherist will receive a special Polkadoodles prize.

Here's the badge for your blogs....

Congratulations to everyone.  We thank you for taking part in our challenges.

We love coming to visit and seeing all your wonderful creations.

Now it's over to you! Our current challenge

Anything Goes or Add Texture

Here

Have a great week!

Week 32 - Anything Goes - Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge

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WOW!  Where are the weeks going? Hope you are all having a fabulous summer and still managing to get some you time for crafting.  Here at Polkadoodles it is the start of a new challenge
and our theme is
ANYTHING GOES
The winner of this challenge will win a $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles download store.
This challenge is open until Noon, GMT, Friday 26th August.
We only have a few little rules for you to follow and they are over there in the side bar --->
You do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges.  However, we love
seeing your creations using Polkadoodles Images and remember if you use
a Polkadoodles image you could win a Feather in your Cap,
more details on this in the pages tabs above.

The Design Team have done amazing job this week, why not pop along to
their blogs too and see what amazing creations they make.

Lets see what inspiration they have for you.

Alysha - Happy Friday Doodlers! I have created a background using Pan Pastels and masks added corrugated card and string and a hessian ribbon for texture I then popped on a beautiful fairy from Serenity Fairy Wishes with a sentiment. looking forward to seeing your projects this week. hugs Aly xx

Helen -We're all about adding texture for this challenge so I made a little notebook and added some glittery texture paste using a stencil and some ribbon on the spiral. I've used two of the Winnie in Wonderland characters you can find the White Rabbit here and Winnie here.  I've coloured them both with copics and used a paper from the collection.

Carol - I have made another sweet gift today, this time using plain pink card that I embossed with a starburst pattern and then added some more texture with lace, to decorate, I added a cute topper from Winnie Sugar Sprinkles Springtime Collection and flowers and button from Winston Deluxe Collection.

Pauline - I have used a super image from the  the Work and Play 5 collection to create a Christmas card.  I merged one of the adorable Coloured Characters with a tree from the Embellies section to create my little scene - I printed it out several times to create some decoupage before adding lots of glitter.  I used one of the fabulous papers along with a sentiment from the collection and added some corrugated card stock for my texture.

Lisa - For my make I've used an image and papers from the Winston Deluxe Full Download Collection. I've added lot's of details to my card, using texture paste and a stencil on two corners of the patterned paper, a piece of cheesecloth and I've mat and layered the main Etty Shy image onto a shape die cut from a fine hessian fabric.  

Tammi - For my project this week I have used Winston Digi Design Sheet from the Winston Full Download Collection. For texture I have embossed and sanded for a distress look. Also, behind Winston I added some cheesecloth as well as added a button from my stash.

Oh my!  Aren't they gorgeous Design Team creations!

Now it's over to you for this fortnights challenge.

ANYTHING GOES

You name it, if it is hand crafted then enter our challenge!

Our winners etc of our last challenge Week 30/31 Anything Goes

will be announced next Friday, 19th Aug.

Have a fabulous week everyone.

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Week 31 - Anything Goes - Polkadoodles Craft Challenge

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Happy Friday everyone!

This is inspiration week here at Polkadoodles and as our theme is

ANYTHING GOES

then literally Anything Goes LOL!  Could be a scrapbook page, journal page, card

anything craft related :-)

You can enter HERE

The winner of this challenge will receive a $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles download store.

This challenge is open until Noon, GMT, Friday 12th August.  We only have a few little rules for you

to follow and they are over there in the side bar ------>

You do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges.  However, we love

seeing all your makes using Polkadoodles images and remember if you use a Polkadoodles image

you could win a Feather in your Cap, more details in the pages tabs above.

The winner of our Summertime Challenge will be announced at the end of this post.

Now lets see what the Design Team have to share this week.

Helen - I just love the Winnie in Wonderland collection, anything Wonderland is good by me.  I've used Winnie and the Cheshire Card, you can find her here.  I've coloured her with copics and used papers from the collection to make a teapot and embellies to give it that mad hatters tea party feel.

Alysha - This week I have created a shaped card using elements from both the Serenity Fairy Wishes CD and Little Kingdom CD, Looking forward to seeing your projects, hugs Aly xx

Tammi - I used Winnie Fruit Punch Collection and colored her with Copic markers. Big hugs everyone.

Pauline - I have used the gorgeous flowers from the Daisydays CD.  I resized the flowers in Word and fussy cut them before attaching them to a ribbon covered wreath using hot glue.  To finish I added a sentiment from the CD and a bow.

Carol - I have made a sweet gift using papers from Winnie Fruit Punch Big Bundle and a topper from Winnie Sugar Sprinkles Springtime Collection and flowers, leaves and sentiment from the Daisydays Stamp Me set. 

Ruth:  I've kept it simple and used all elements from Lily Bug Love - I layered the image onto the shaped card and simply added liquid pearl dots and a sentiment embellishment with a button from my stash.  Really quick and easy especially if you're in a rush!

Lisa - I have made a shaped card using some large dies and the beautiful papers from Winnie Starfish and Sandcastles Bundle. To feed my mermaid addiction I've used the super cute Meribelle Pretty and added some pearls, net, seaweed, hand stitching and shells. Both Meribelle and the shells have been coloured with alcohol markers.  

Fabulous Design Team inspiration!

Now onto our Winner and Top 3 for the Summertime Challenge

The winner chosen by Random Org is....

#40 - Lynda

Please email us HERE quoting PD31001Wk28 to claim your prize

$10 worth of downloads from the Polkadoodles digi store.

Here is your winners badge to display on your blog...

Our Top 3, in no particular order, chosen by the Design Team are

#11 - Srebrnolistka

#56 - Suzi Mac

#58 - Lucy Patrick

Here is the Top 3 badge for your blogs...

And Finally our Top 3 4 Feather in my Cap winners are...

#15 - Alison B

#19 - Karen

#34 - Paper Whims

#54 - Nick

Well done our Feathery Friends.  Your names will be added to the league board

which you can check all about in the pages tabs above.

Each week the league board will be updated, so we can all keep track and at

the end of the season our Winning Featherist will receive a special Polkadoodles prize.

Here is the Feathers badge for your Blog...

Now it's back over to you and time to get crafting

so that you can enter our current challenge

ANYTHING GOES

You can enter it

HERE

See you all next week!

Have a good one!