Anything Goes International Craft Challenge 9, Week 4 – Polkadoodles Card Making & Papercraft Challenge

ANYTHING GOES – ANY CRAFT BRAND – EVERY CRAFTER WELCOME - WORLDWIDE

Cards • Papercraft • Scrapbooking • Mixed Media • Digital or Physical Crafting

 Welcome to our current Card making, Craft, Papercraft Scrapbooking challenge...this challenge is open to any crafter, anywhere in the world. 

You do not have to use Polkadoodles products to enter - all entries are welcome!

••• ••• •••

This challenge is Monthly - giving you a whole month to enter with 

$45 in prizes per month. 

You can enter up to 4 times, with 4 different projects. 

We will still post weekly inspiration from the team but the competition will remain open for 1 month.

Ready to get creative? We love seeing what you make, so this challenge is all about having fun, getting crafty and sharing your handmade projects with our lovely community. Whether you’re brand new to crafting or a long-time card maker, everyone is welcome — and because one of our prizes is chosen at random, everyone has a fair chance to win 🎉
You can enter any handmade project, in any style, using any theme — as long as it’s made by you. Cards, scrapbook pages, mixed media, tags… we want to see it all!
Even better? You can enter up to four times each month with four different projects, so don’t hold back!

🏆 Prize 1 – Random Winner
One lucky entry will be selected at random to win a $20 Polkadoodles store credit. Spend it on anything you like — yes, even physical products!
🏆 Prize 2 – Design Team Picks
Our team will also choose their top two favourite entries from across the four weeks.

Each of these winners will receive a $10 Polkadoodles store credit.

• (If you are outside the UK you will still need to pay any shipping/customs fees if you use your voucher on physical products)

That’s $40 in prizes every single month — just for doing what you love 💖

••• ••• •••

This blog challenge is sponsored by Polkadoodles Crafts - check out the store and take a look at the

LATEST POLKADOODLES RELEASES!...

Let's see the beautiful projects from the DT this week!

Beautiful Autumn Card by Rachael...

Hello! Rachael here, sharing one of the cutest images from our latest Winne release using the super sweet wishes in the wind stamp. I wanted the image to be the star of the show so I printed it onto a card panel slightly smaller than A6 size and coloured it with a combination of markers and pencils for detail. Don't be put off by the colouring; there is detail showing where you can shade, or if colouring isn't your thing - there are pre-printed images you can use. I finished it with a sentiment and stamp from my stash. Perfect for an autumn birthday, or even just to say 'hello'

Fun Pink Friendship Card made by Renske...

Hello everyone! For this card, I used the Ruby Flowers digital stamp as my main focal point. I coloured Ruby in a pink and peach palette, with a soft bouquet to bring the image to life. I paired her with the Spring Tons of Love pattern paper, using the pretty dotted design as the first layer. The background for Ruby is a light textured panel to give Ruby some space to stand out. I finished the card with a sentiment from the Noodle Panda themed Messages set. I kept the design simple so the beautiful Ruby Flowers image remains the star of the card. Hope you like it. Happy Crafting!
My blog: https://renskewishesyou.com
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Gorgeous Pink Friendship Card by Revati...

To create an uplifting friendship card instead of a traditional birthday greeting, I colored the Ruby Birthday Cake Digital Stamp with alcohol markers, framed the image, and foam-mounted it offset to the right over a soft floral pattern from the Bee Buzzy Flowers and Plains Digi Paper Pad. To build a flowing, encouraging message, I arranged multiple sentiment strips time to celebrate, you are amazing,  and  you are incredible from the Graduation School Student Sentiment Bundle in a gentle cascade across the design. Finally, lightly inking the edges of both the focal panel and the sentiment strips tied every sweet element seamlessly together.
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Gorgeous Mixed Media style Friendship Card by Nelly...

Morning everyone, hope you’re enjoying the cooler weather! This weeks team theme is friendship, I used to Ruby Gift digital image from the Ruby collection and you can find it by clicking HERE. I coloured with alcohol markers and created the background using Ruby ons. The heart is from the Scribble Heart die - she’s quite a cool character isn’t she?

Colourful Ruby Girls Friendship Card by Enrica...

Hi there! This week the DT was asked to celebrate friendship using the Ruby collection and for my card I’ve colored with Copic the beautiful Ruby Gift with glasses/specs, Ruby Party Girl and Ruby Oo-la-la
digital images. I’m quite sure my friends would be happy to receive such a sweet card! Big hugs x Enrica x

Whimsical Woodland MDF Craft Project by Liz...

I love the colours this time of the year so I used one of these great journal book/folio covers to create a decorated house.  I added some texture with a brick/stone stencil, then painted over with some acrylic paint and sanded back parts for more texture once it was dry. The toadstools are part of the MDF kit and again, I painted them with acrylic paints. I added some die cut leaves from the Winter Botanicals Bits dies which are amazing, added some enamel Polkadot embellishments and a little moss from my stash. I used the Chamomile flower dies to create the flower near the window along with some stuff from my stash.

Thanks so much to the design team for their gorgeous inspiration this week!

Don't forget to join in our other challenges too -You could win 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

We will be back next week with more inspiration with the Design Team!

Check out the latest Polkadoodles releases & SHOP HERE

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Anything Goes International Craft Challenge 9, Week 3 – Polkadoodles Card Making & Papercraft Challenge

ANYTHING GOES – ANY CRAFT BRAND – EVERY CRAFTER WELCOME - WORLDWIDE

Cards • Papercraft • Scrapbooking • Mixed Media • Digital or Physical Crafting

 Welcome to our current Card making, Craft, Papercraft Scrapbooking challenge...this challenge is open to any crafter, anywhere in the world. 

You do not have to use Polkadoodles products to enter - all entries are welcome!

••• ••• •••

This challenge is Monthly - giving you a whole month to enter with 

$45 in prizes per month. 

You can enter up to 4 times, with 4 different projects. 

We will still post weekly inspiration from the team but the competition will remain open for 1 month.

Ready to get creative? We love seeing what you make, so this challenge is all about having fun, getting crafty and sharing your handmade projects with our lovely community. Whether you’re brand new to crafting or a long-time card maker, everyone is welcome — and because one of our prizes is chosen at random, everyone has a fair chance to win 🎉
You can enter any handmade project, in any style, using any theme — as long as it’s made by you. Cards, scrapbook pages, mixed media, tags… we want to see it all!
Even better? You can enter up to four times each month with four different projects, so don’t hold back!

🏆 Prize 1 – Random Winner
One lucky entry will be selected at random to win a $20 Polkadoodles store credit. Spend it on anything you like — yes, even physical products!
🏆 Prize 2 – Design Team Picks
Our team will also choose their top two favourite entries from across the four weeks.

Each of these winners will receive a $10 Polkadoodles store credit.

• (If you are outside the UK you will still need to pay any shipping/customs fees if you use your voucher on physical products)

That’s $40 in prizes every single month — just for doing what you love 💖

••• ••• •••

This blog challenge is sponsored by Polkadoodles Crafts - check out the store and take a look at the

LATEST POLKADOODLES RELEASES!...

Let's see the beautiful projects from the DT this week!

Cute Pumpkin handmade card idea by Julie

I started this spooky little card with a Creepy Halloween Paper from PolkaDoodles, but before hitting print, I added a few digital spider webs at a low opacity along with the “EEK!” sentiment, also from PolkaDoodles. Once printed, I added some black acrylic paint splatters to give the background a slightly messier, spookier finish, then matted the panel onto a black card base. The Stacked Pumpkin Trio image was printed separately, coloured with Copic markers, and fussy cut before being attached with a wobbler mechanism— three pumpkins now wobble and sway! For a little extra drama, I added Glossy Dots to the EEK sentiment and the pumpkins’ eyes, giving them that shiny, dimensional finish. A few sparkly bat embellishments from my stash finished everything off with just the right amount of Halloween sparkle. Cute, spooky, and it moves... I’m calling that a Halloween win!
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How to create a shimmery gold Autumn card using dies and watercolours by Maria

Hello! Autumn is welcome to move in with me, joyfully! I absolutely love this golden season, and staying true to that theme, I’ve made leaves glow with radiant golden shine! I started by creating a watercolour background using warm brown, yellow and terracotta inks, then die-cut the leaves straight from that painted panel. You’d never guess it, but I used the Sweet Poinsettia flower Craft Cutting Dies for this! It works perfectly for autumn foliage too don’t you think?  For the second background, I blended yellow, orange and red inks into another soft watercolour wash, trimmed it to a strip, and layered it onto my card base. Then it was time for plenty of liquid gold! I brushed it over every leaf and flicked delicate splatters across the card for that extra sparkle.
To finish, I added a lovely sentiment from the Christmas & Everyday Sentiment Strip Pack because if this card doesn’t sparkle, I don’t know what does!
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How to make a cute handmade card for Autumn using paper strips and digital stamps, tutorial by Ana

Hello, crafty friends! Today, I’m sharing another autumn-inspired card but this time, featuring this oh so adorable Cute Bunny Sweeping Leaves Pre-Coloured Digi Stamp from Polkadoodles’ newest collection, Hello Autumn! For this project, I paired the digi stamp with the coordinating pattern papers from the Hello Autumn Collection. And since this was made to work together perfectly, card making is just oh so easy. Be sure to check out the Hello Autumn Collection for more adorable autumn and Halloween inspiration, and don’t forget to join the Challenge, we’d love to see what you create!
Find the full Card Tutorial HERE
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A Cute handmade Witch card making idea by Nelly

Happy Saturday everyone! What are you up to today? This weeks card is one of many Halloween cards I have made, blended background using distressed inks, picked raspberry, fosilled amber, wilted violet and mariner blue. The images were coloured with alcohol markers. The Halloween images were taken from the Hey pumpkin stamp set and you can find them on the Polkadoodles website by clicking HERE they are reduced in price so go and grab a bargain!

Create a pretty handmade Christmas Joy card using simple dies and stencils by Liz

Hello again! I have another Christmas card for today, using some fabulous products from Polkadoodles. I used the brilliant Joy text stencil on the base of the card with salvaged Patina distress oxide ink, then die cut the Joy dies set in silver Mirri and a blue pearlised card from. my stash.  I cut out some some Sparkling snowflakes from the dies  in the mirri card too, simply layering these up to create the finished look, some holly and berries from the Sparkling Delicate Baubles Dies in the same colours filled in a corner and continued the theme. Happy Crafting!!

Thanks so much to the design team for their gorgeous inspiration this week!

Don't forget to join in our other challenges too -You could win 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

We will be back next week with more inspiration with the Design Team!

Check out the latest Polkadoodles releases & SHOP HERE

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Anything Goes International Craft Challenge 9, Week 2 – Polkadoodles Card Making & Papercraft Challenge

ANYTHING GOES – ANY CRAFT BRAND – EVERY CRAFTER WELCOME - WORLDWIDE

Cards • Papercraft • Scrapbooking • Mixed Media • Digital or Physical Crafting

 Welcome to our current Card making, Craft, Papercraft Scrapbooking challenge...this challenge is open to any crafter, anywhere in the world. 

You do not have to use Polkadoodles products to enter - all entries are welcome!

••• ••• •••

This challenge is Monthly - giving you a whole month to enter with 

$45 in prizes per month. 

You can enter up to 4 times, with 4 different projects. 

We will still post weekly inspiration from the team but the competition will remain open for 1 month.

Ready to get creative? We love seeing what you make, so this challenge is all about having fun, getting crafty and sharing your handmade projects with our lovely community. Whether you’re brand new to crafting or a long-time card maker, everyone is welcome — and because one of our prizes is chosen at random, everyone has a fair chance to win 🎉
You can enter any handmade project, in any style, using any theme — as long as it’s made by you. Cards, scrapbook pages, mixed media, tags… we want to see it all!
Even better? You can enter up to four times each month with four different projects, so don’t hold back!

🏆 Prize 1 – Random Winner
One lucky entry will be selected at random to win a $20 Polkadoodles store credit. Spend it on anything you like — yes, even physical products!
🏆 Prize 2 – Design Team Picks
Our team will also choose their top two favourite entries from across the four weeks.

Each of these winners will receive a $10 Polkadoodles store credit.

• (If you are outside the UK you will still need to pay any shipping/customs fees if you use your voucher on physical products)

That’s $40 in prizes every single month — just for doing what you love 💖

••• ••• •••

This blog challenge is sponsored by Polkadoodles Crafts - check out the store and take a look at the

LATEST POLKADOODLES RELEASES!...

Let's see the beautiful projects from the DT this week!

Pretty Teacup birthday card made by Renske...
Hello everyone! This time we're making inspiration for September birthdays. The Winnie Wonderland Always Tea time digital stamp is perfect for that. I kept the design warm and cosy with soft autumn colours. I created the background with distress inks, and added stamped leaves. I added some water platters for what texture. I coloured the image with my alcohol markers, and placed it with foam tape on my background to give it dimension. I add some die-cut flowers and leaves around the image, using the same colour as the tea set. To finish the card, I used a sentiment from the Coffee, tea and cake sentiments set. Hope you like it. 
My blog: https://renskewishesyou.com
My Instagram: @renske.wishes.you
Facebook: Renske.wishes.you

Mouthwatering birthday card with a chocolate cake digital stamp, handmade made by Enrica...

Hi crafty friends! Happy Birthday to all of you who celebrate this month! This week the DT was asked to make a Birthday card using an object and this gorgeous birthday chcocolate cake digistamp from the Party Time collection was the first thing I thought of. I colored it with Copic markers using autumn colors even though I cannot miss a touch of pink!

A handmade flower themed card using precoloured clipart made by Revati...

For this soft and elegant birthday card, I printed the pre-colored Butterfly Flowerpots digital stamp onto watercolor cardstock to easily add my own custom watercolor washes over the design. Once the paint fully dried, I brushed a sparkling glitter mix onto the butterfly wings, flower petals, and flowerpots for a touch of shimmer, paired it with the "Sending Birthday Wishes" sentiment printed from the Alcea Hollyhock Flowers digi bundle, and mounted the finished panel onto a matching pink card base.
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Hydrangea inspired card made by Nelly...

For my project this week I was inspired by a plant in my garden, hydrangeas! The purple and blue hues are captured in the flower image on the MDF plaque which has been stencilled from layers in the matchable stamp, die and stencil set, aren’t they just gorgeous? I used acrylic paints to cover the MDF plaque and the jug and honeycomb are also from the mdf set. I wrapped garden twine around the handle. The home sweet home is a rub on I had in my stash.

Thanks so much to the design team for their gorgeous inspiration this week!

Don't forget to join in our other challenges too -You could win 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

We will be back next week with more inspiration with the Design Team!

Check out the latest Polkadoodles releases & SHOP HERE

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Anything Goes International Craft Challenge 9, Week 1 – Polkadoodles Card Making & Papercraft Challenge

ANYTHING GOES – ANY CRAFT BRAND – EVERY CRAFTER WELCOME - WORLDWIDE

Cards • Papercraft • Scrapbooking • Mixed Media • Digital or Physical Crafting

 Welcome to our current Card making, Craft, Papercraft Scrapbooking challenge...this challenge is open to any crafter, anywhere in the world. 

You do not have to use Polkadoodles products to enter - all entries are welcome!

••• ••• •••

This challenge is Monthly - giving you a whole month to enter with 

$45 in prizes per month. 

You can enter up to 4 times, with 4 different projects. 

We will still post weekly inspiration from the team but the competition will remain open for 1 month.

Ready to get creative? We love seeing what you make, so this challenge is all about having fun, getting crafty and sharing your handmade projects with our lovely community. Whether you’re brand new to crafting or a long-time card maker, everyone is welcome — and because one of our prizes is chosen at random, everyone has a fair chance to win 🎉
You can enter any handmade project, in any style, using any theme — as long as it’s made by you. Cards, scrapbook pages, mixed media, tags… we want to see it all!
Even better? You can enter up to four times each month with four different projects, so don’t hold back!

🏆 Prize 1 – Random Winner
One lucky entry will be selected at random to win a $20 Polkadoodles store credit. Spend it on anything you like — yes, even physical products!
🏆 Prize 2 – Design Team Picks
Our team will also choose their top two favourite entries from across the four weeks.

Each of these winners will receive a $10 Polkadoodles store credit.

• (If you are outside the UK you will still need to pay any shipping/customs fees if you use your voucher on physical products)

That’s $40 in prizes every single month — just for doing what you love 💖

••• ••• •••

This blog challenge is sponsored by Polkadoodles Crafts - check out the store and take a look at the

LATEST POLKADOODLES RELEASES!...

Let's see the beautiful projects from the DT this week!

Cute Autumn Bear Friendship Card made by Rachael

Hi everyone! For my project this week I used the adorable Hello Autumn Bear digital stamp to create this sweet friendship card. I printed the black and white digi together with one of the sentiments from the collection, so my main panel was all ready to colour in one layer.
I coloured the image using Ohuhu alcohol markers, then added strips of orange gingham washi tape down each side of the card for a lovely Autumn contrast. I cut the flower from vellum and added a yellow Nuvo Drop to the centre for a little extra detail. To finish, I used a brown marker to doodle the border around the image. A really quick and easy card, but I love how cute he looks! Hope you like it and Happy Crafting! Hugs Rachael x
Instagram: @theglitterypinkcraftroom

Fun Birthday cards made by Maria

Hello everyone! Were you looking forward to the final card from my One Sheet Wonder? This time I cut the lovely Birthday Fun craft papers into vertical strips, and layered them with matching cardstock. For this last card I used the Big Birthday Surprise stamp set, placing the sweet little bear along with the bunting banner on the design. The Starburst stencil works its magic once more to create that wonderful background!
Now I’d love to know – which card is your favourite? Isn’t it amazing how much you can create from just one single 6” x 6” (15.2cm x 15.2cm) sheet of paper?
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Pretty Daisy card using chipboard made by Nelly

Hi everyone1 Saturday means a new project to share with you all! I’ve used the Daisy wings stamp matchable stamps, dies and stencils for the main feature on this card, distress inks in yellow and orange tones for colour. Perfect Autumnal card and it’s only a few weeks away!

Cute Autumn/Fall Fox card created by Julie 

This sweet fall card is an easy one to put together, and when my love of fall meets my love of coffee, a cozy little fox in a latte cup was pretty much inevitable.I started with two pieces of Freddy The Fox printable patterned paper adhered to the card base, then cut a tag from a third coordinating pattern. Freddy the Fox Latte was printed and coloured with Copic markers, along with a few digital leaves from the Freddy Fox Ephemera Pack. A simple hemp or burlap bow finishes the top of the tag, while foam tape between the different elements adds plenty of dimension. The sentiment is from the Coffee and Cake Sentiments collection, and because apparently I cannot declare a card finished without adding a little sparkle, I scattered a few coordinating gems around the design. Print, colour, layer and embellish — a cute autumn card without any complicated crafting required!
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MDF Owl and Tree project created by Liz 

How cute is this little Owl sheltering on the xmas tree?  The MDF owl is from the Critters/animals MDF kit (so adorable) and I used one of the larger MDF trees from the Christmas stacker set for the base. My owl has a jumper on which I stencilled with the Cute little trees stencil and Ocean Sparkles stencil butter through it. He's coloured with acohol markers and then I layered up some of the Winter botanical bits dies with a flower from my stash. One of the Sparkling snowflakes dies was used behind him on the tree along with some faux snow which I added to his hat too, along with a flower from my stash and some die cut Holly from the Abundant Holly die set.

Thanks so much to the design team for their gorgeous inspiration this week - wow!

Winners from Challenge 8

🏆 PRIZE 1: $20 Voucher
for one Random Winner to spend in the Polkadoodles store – on anything you wish, including physical products!

75 Lisa
Congratulations! To claim: Please contact us via the website CHAT on the homepage, quoting code: PDWK09001
1. Claim MUST be received by 19 September 2026.
2. Claims are processed in a batch approx every 30 days - at busy times it can take longer. Winners will receive an email reply - please DO NOT KEEP EMAILING if you don't have a reply during this time. If you do not hear from us within 40 days please let us know.

🏆 PRIZE 2: $10 Voucher for 2 lucky winners
voted our Top 2 favourite entries from across the 4 weeks.
95 Bridie
Adriana

Congratulations! To claim: Please contact us via the website CHAT on the homepage, quoting code: PDWK09012
1. Claim MUST be received by 19 September 2026.
2. Claims are processed in a batch approx every 30 days - at busy times it can take longer. Winners will receive an email reply - please DO NOT KEEP EMAILING if you don't have a reply during this time. If you do not hear from us within 40 days please let us know.

THANK YOU ALL for your entries - there were some amazing creations this month, it's always hard to just choose 3 winners!

Don't forget to join in our other challenges too -You could win 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

We will be back next week with more inspiration with the Design Team!

Check out the latest Polkadoodles releases & SHOP HERE

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter