Welcome to our Craft & Card Making Challenge!
Challenge Theme: ANYTHING GOES
Enter this Craft & Card Making Challenge competition following the instructions at the end of this post and you could win a prize – we make it random so everyone has a chance to win, whether you're a beginner or not!
Enter anything you wish, as long as it’s handmade by you.
This challenge is 4-weekly – giving you 4 weeks to enter!
- $60 in prizes every month
- You can enter up to 4 times, with 4 different projects
- We will post weekly inspiration from the team, but the competition remains open for 4 weeks
🏆 Prizes
PRIZE 1: $40 Voucher x 1
- 1 x Random Prize – we will randomly select 1 winner, so everyone has a chance to win.
- $40 voucher to spend in the Polkadoodles store – on anything you wish, including physical products!
PRIZE 2: $10 Voucher x 2
- 2 x $10 prizes – we will select our Top 2 favourite entries from across the 4 weeks.
- The winners will be announced on the 4th week of each challenge.
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So, let's see the inspiration from the team for this week!
Julie - Baking up a “sweet treat” card was Easy as Pie when using images from Coffee & Cake Big Value Bundle. I chose to use the Cherry Chocolate Sundae Cupcake image sized almost as big as my card front, colored with Copic Markers. I cut the image just along the bottom of the white icing so I could pop up the top portion of the cupcake with foam tape. The background includes a piece of Love & Kisses pattern paper cut with a scalloped edge that reveals the sweet sentiment from Coffee Tea & Cake Greetings. Glossy accents on the chocolate drip literally added “icing to the cake”. Full details on my Blog. My Instagram, Facebook
Taty - Hi crafters! Today I created this delicious card using this lovely digistamp in the store called Waffle Cream Frosting Cupcake - it makes me so hungry!
Terri- Hello lovely crafters! It’s Terri here, delighted to bring you some more crafty inspiration in the form of the cute card featuring these super cute Pandas doing what I love best and munching on donuts (lol) and melon, along with a punny sentiment and some corresponding bamboo and donuts digital patterned paper. I also used the scallop rectangles and tags die set from Polkadoodles.I coloured the scene with Copics and wanted the coats of the pandas to look different from each other. Therefore I used neutral greys on one and warm greys on the other. I wanted the pandas to look fluffy (as they are!) so I used the flicking technique to colourise them, by using a light pressure and making small flicks all over their coats. I couldn’t resist adding eyelashes to the pretty girl Panda too!
•Their cheeks, inner ears and toe beans were all coloured with R12 and R20. I used many different YGs and several Gs for the grass, with a base of chartreuse (YG13) before adding more details such as a slightly deeper green for the cast shadows of the pandas (YG06) and lots more greens for the grass blades.
•For the sky I kept it very light and used BG0000, BG000, B000 and B00.
•I cut the scene out using the inner rectangle from the die set, then adhered this to the scalloped base in pink. I used a 7x7 inch card initially, and trimmed this down a tad. I trimmed the green bamboo printed paper to around 6 inches square and adhered that to a piece of black card, which I eyeballed (I have a good eye!) to leave a slim border, which I then stuck to the card base in the top left corner, leaving a slim border of the white card stock. At this point I trimmed the card base down so that the other two sides had the same border width.
Next I cut a 2 inch wide strip of light blue card and adhered a 1 1/2 inch wide strip of the donut paper on top. I then adhered this 6x2 inch strip decorative element onto the left side of the card, an inch or so from the edge. I next positioned the panda scene at a jaunty angle, with the long sentiment cut in two parts, positioned above and below. Once I was happy with the positioning, I
stuck them down using tweezers, starting with the scene, using glue on top of the some foam pads I had added to the backs of the 3 elements (a handy tip to keep them put!).
I think this card turned out really cute and it’s always fun to colour fuzzy little critters! Don’t ever be put off by colouring white elements in a card either, especially with animals as when you look at reference photos you can see that the white is more of an off white with bits of true white here and there. I used WG0, E000 and E40 on both Pandas’ white bits and even added some coloured pencil and white gel pen detailing to make the cuties look extra fluffy. I hope you enjoyed this cute card and I look forward to bringing you lots more inspiration soon! Terri
🌟 More Gorgeous Inspiration This Week, big thanks to the team! 🌟We hope you'll share what you make with your Polkadoodles products on our social media – we LOVE seeing your makes!
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🎉 Don't forget to join our other challenges too!
You could win even 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
📌 Challenge 8 – Week 2 – ANYTHING GOES
$80 in prizes up for grabs!
You can enter up to 4 times, with 4 different projects.
Closing date: 31st July 2025, Noon (UK time)
Winner announced: 2 August 2025
We will still post weekly inspiration from the team, but the competition will remain open for 4 weeks.
