Wednesday, 1 April 2026

Challenge 4, wk 1 - Craft, Card making & Scrapbooking challenge, Anything Goes

Welcome to our Craft & Card Making Challenge! 
Ready to get creative? This month’s challenge theme is anything goes, and you’ve got a full four weeks to play along!

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.
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 peek at the latest releases!

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So let's see what the Design Team have been making...


We have to make an apology: this post should have published on Saturday but blogger deleted it!
For the past year we keep having continuous issues with Blogger - it deletes posts, corrupts our text and removes photos and doesn't like our links...it is a real nightmare! We are now therefore removing most of the hyperlinks - which we hate - but it seems to be the only thing we can do to get the post to be ok. 
So I apologise for the long, messy posts with loads of messy long URL links - it seems to be the only way! 
We've tried AI to help us but randomly it just seems to lose an entire post or part of the post disappears or corrupts...if any of you know what causes this and are experiencing it too, please let me know because it's driving me crazy and I'm spending a ridiculous amount of time trying to put the posts together each week, it's been going on for a year now and I can't get to the bottom of it even with ChatGPT. It's so bad I am seriously thinking of finding a new platform or just closing the challenge blogs down because it's such a hassle - which I don't want to do.  So any of you that are code experts - please reach out! I'm sure it must be happening to someone else too - so maybe we can resolve it for all of us! Just on Saturday, after scheduling and checking this blog, I go on there today and the entire thing has completely vanished! So I apologise for the long messy blogposts you are seeing, I'll continue to try and find a fix! 

Anyway, on with the DT inspiration!....

Wendy - Hello everyone, this week we have a new mini release just in time for Easter so I've been having fun creating with these new digistamps...DOWNLOAD them here


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Jane - Hi everyone! I also have been having fun creating with these new digistamps...DOWNLOAD them here



Judy - Like Jane and Wendy I have also had my hands on the new digital release this week and here's what I made...check them out here: https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/march-april-2026-releases/



ENRICA - Hi crafty friends! I made this cute tag to celebrate the arrival of spring by coloring the pretty Primrose digital stamp with Copic markers. I created my own background with metallic watercolors and Distress Ink, I then printed some elements from the Udderly Cute printable ephemera set, fussy cut and layered them to create charming details.
These are the products I used:
I really enjoy how it turned out, hope you like it too! Follow me:

Jenn B - Hello and Happy Spring everyone! Today I made this card using the Easter chick collection...

Revati - I'm Getting into spring with our cute little Easter Basket Chick. I printed the image onto white cardstock, cut it using my Scan N Cut machine and then colored it using my Ohuhu Alcohol Markers.
For my background, I wanted a very light and subtle floral theme to match the flowers around the little chick, but also something that would not over power our colored focal point. So I chose paper with small white flowers on a light peach-toned background from the Bee Buzzy Flowers and Plains Digi Paper Pad. For the sentiment, I chose a simple one that says "Sending Sunny Wishes Your Way" from the Easter Greeting Digi Stamp.
Products I used :
For more details, visit my blog.

Sana - This week I've made a cute Easter card... today i chose the spring into easter sheet. This full sheet just caught my eyes and I wanted to make something really cute and delicate. I fussy cut all the images first then took a 4x4 white  card base cut off the front in half so the inside can be seen. I stuck 2 different papers on the front panel and the inside of the card giving it the look of 2 toned. I stuck the  main digi half way so it does not stick to the inside of the card as well. And here we have a cute little card for someone cute. The background papers are from the same digi spring into easter paper patterns. Hope you enjoy this weeks blog hop. I used this set:  https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/spring-into-easter-printable-cardmaking-digital-craft-paper-patterns-set-1
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https://www.instagram.com/bornforfashionbysana/

Renske - Hello everyone! For this spring themed card I created a cheerful window scene using the Watering Can With Flowers Spring Garden digital stamp. The watering can was coloured with alcohol markers and placed in front of the window on a handmade windowsill to add a little extra depth to the design. Behind the window I created a soft ink blended sky and grass background to give the feeling of a bright spring garden. I finished the card with the sentiment Livin the Spring Life from the Spring Gnome Fun Puns, Quotes and Sentiments digital set. The soft colours and garden theme make this a lovely card to celebrate the arrival of spring. Hugs Renske
My Instagram: @renske.wishes.you

🌟 Gorgeous Inspiration, big thanks to the team! 🌟

Winners from Challenge 3

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

Congratulations!

To claim: Please contact us via the website CHAT on the homepage, quoting code: PDWK04001
1. Claim MUST be received by 18 April 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.

Congratulations!

To claim: Please contact us via the website CHAT on the homepage, quoting code: PDWK04012
1. Claim MUST be received by 18 April 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

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