Saturday, 16 August 2025

Challenge 9, wk 3 - Anything Goes card making, craft, scrapbooking challenge at Polkadoodles

 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.
Have you seen our new releases? It's the Summer holidays and if you're in need of some Graduation or New School inspo this adorable download kit is made for you! Download yours today and get creating!




So, let's see the inspiration from the team for this week!


Enrica - Hi everyone! For my floral card this week I colored with Copic the super cute Daisy Delight - Bee Buzzy Gnome together with a few flowers from the Bee Buzzy Flower Digital Stamps and the Garden Fence and Birdhouse Country Scene background. To complete my project I fussy cut some cute images from the Flowers and Foliage - Winnie Special Moments set and added them to the bottom of the card. Have a great weekend! xx

Jenn B - I created my background by blending Distress Oxide Ink in Black Soot all over a piece of watercolor paper and then ink smooshed it a little with some extra Black Soot. I then blended Mustard Seed Distress Oxide Ink on another piece of watercolor paper and die cut the honeycomb from it. I cut it into pieces and attached pieces in each corner. I printed out Bee Cute - Bee Buzzy Gnome and colored with Copics and sponged some Stormy Sky Distress Ink around her. Finished it off with a couple of large gemstone stickers.

Revati - Hello crafty friends, Today I’m sharing a lovely floral card featuring the Lilac Haze Flower digi stamp. This stamp is part of a versatile bundle that includes not only a black-and-white line image, but also a pre-colored version, coordinating sentiments, and patterned papers.I printed the floral image on white cardstock and used my Brother Scan n Cut to cut it out. For coloring, I reached for my Spectrum Noir Tri-Blend Markers to bring the florals to life. To create the background, I ink blended a soft orange shade that beautifully complements the colors in the image. The birthday sentiment I used is from the Winnie Daisy Everyday Greetings digi stamp set.You’ll find more details and photos over on my blog ♥️

Sana - The theme was flowers today. I made this cute Magnet tag for fridge. I used the Bear love coffee digi this time. This one is soo freaking cute i printed it out did some fussy cutting and stuck it with 3D double sided foam to give it dimension. The background paper comes with the beautiful digi set as well. You can make the tag any size you want and also print out the image the size you want. I have also adhered the paper at the backside of the magnet tag and a small pocket for keep sakes or a tag. The size is big enough to look good on the fridge. Also the paws stamp is from mama elephant stamp set I had in my stash. The sentiment is also from one of my stamp sets.
And you have a Beautiful fridge tag to look at everyday.

Judy: This week's inspiration project is a floral card created with the Daisy Butterfly Wings Bundle. I stamped the floral image and colored with Prismacolor Pencils.The cutting die included in the bundle was used to die cut. A diagonally cut piece of patterned paper from Bee Buzzy Stripes & Ginghams Printable Papers was adhered to the top left corner of my white card base. Two of the word stamps from the set were stamped in the lower right corner. I added some confetti embellishments from my stash.


🌟 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!

👉 Share in our Facebook group here


🎉 Don't forget to join our other challenges too!

You could win even more stash and, as always, our challenges are Anything Goes!



📌 So reminder - this is Challenge 9 – Week 3 – ANYTHING GOES

$60 in prizes up for grabs!
You can enter up to 4 times, with 4 different projects.

Closing date: 27th August 2025, Noon (UK time)
Winner announced: 30 August 2025

We will still post weekly inspiration from the team, but the competition will remain open for 4 weeks.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Saturday, 9 August 2025

Challenge 9, wk 2 - Anything Goes card making, craft, scrapbooking challenge at Polkadoodles

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.
Have you seen our new releases? It's the Summer holidays and if you're in need of some Graduation or New School inspo this adorable download kit is made for you! Download yours today and get creating!




So, let's see the inspiration from the team for this week!

Rachael - Hi there! This week it's all about Back to School or graduation as all the results have been out in the UK this week. I used this super cute digi stamp from the new You did It download bundle - I love her! She would also make a great Bookworm, teacher or just a general digi too, it doesn't just have to be school themed. See you next time! 

Julie - For my back to school project, I chose to create a Hidden Bookmark/Paperclip featuring this Rebel Bookworm Girl full of Attitude. After printing & coloring the image I cut her from the rocks she was sitting on and used foam tape to place her on this stack of books from Winnie Fruit Punch Bundle. I created the background (front and back) with printable paper from Rebel Papers, and added the perfect sentiment to approach the school year with “Attitude is Everything”. If you pop on over to my blog I’ll show you how to create this Hidden Paperclip project! Instagram, Facebook


Taty - Hello creatives, today I'm sharing my DT inspiration, a mini album to store all the souvenir photos from the school year. I decorated the cover with the Student/School Precolored image by Polkadoodles. The background was created with a folder to create a brick wall effect. I added a Happy New Year quote at the top, and some books at the bottom as embellishments.

Terri- Hello crafters! It’s Terri here with a cute, muted tone project to share. The theme for the DT this week is Back to School, but not a card. I have a neighbour who has just finished her first year at “big school” and it got me thinking about back when I was a tween and transitioning from primary school to high school those first few years. Going from being the eldest to feeling tiny amongst all of the older kids (even though I looked about 14 when I was 11 lol). So I thought I would create a project about that time in a child’s life and bring out all of the positive aspects and how the sky is the limit when you are young and learning about what you enjoy studying and where your strengths lie. This sweet little make is easy to create with just a few products and would make a lovely gift for a tween, to counteract that sadness that the holidays are over and could be hung from something in their bedroom with the ribbon.
I used a cloud patterned paper from the Springing Around paper pad, which also features as a digi download in the Winnie Fruit Punch Paper Heaven 3 paper pack. I used The Sky’s the Limit Winnie digi stamp and sized her to fit nicely on a 6” circle. After die cutting the cloud circle, I die cut 2 circles from thick white card and glued all 3 circles together. I used my crop-o-dile to add some eyelets to pass the ribbon through. The very apt sentiment is from the Winnie Celebrations 2 sentiment kit, which has 38 digital sentiments, all on the theme of celebrations!
I coloured Winnie in the Hot Air Balloon using Prismacolor Premier coloured pencils in muted tones. For her skin I used my standard pale Caucasian blend of eggshell, goldenrod, Deco Peach and blush pink, white for highlights and burnt ochre for the shadows. I wanted Winnie to have blonde hair but the colours used in the basket were “blonde” colours so I decided to colour her hair an “Ash blonde”, using Sandbar brown, beige sienna, putty beige, beige peach, sand, eggshell and a tiny bit of cream. For her dress, I chose blue and a lighter blue for the big bow on the front: true blue, cerulean, denim & Indigo, then powder blue, blue slate & periwinkle for the bow.
I hope my make inspires you in some way and I will bring you some more inspiration very soon. Crafty hugs, Terri xx


🌟 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!

👉 Share in our Facebook group here


🎉 Don't forget to join our other challenges too!

You could win even more stash and, as always, our challenges are Anything Goes!



📌 So reminder - this is Challenge 9 – Week 2 – ANYTHING GOES

$60 in prizes up for grabs!
You can enter up to 4 times, with 4 different projects.

Closing date: 27th August 2025, Noon (UK time)
Winner announced: 30 August 2025

We will still post weekly inspiration from the team, but the competition will remain open for 4 weeks.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Saturday, 2 August 2025

Challenge 9, wk 1 - Anything Goes card making, craft, scrapbooking challenge at Polkadoodles

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.
Have you seen our new releases? It's the Summer holidays and if you're in need of some Graduation or New School inspo this adorable download kit is made for you! Download yours today and get creating!




So, let's see the inspiration from the team for this week!

Enrica - Hi crafty friends! My project for this week is a very special one for me, it is the card I’ve made for my son’s 16 birthday. I colored with Copic the adorable Party Bear with Cupcake and Party Bear with gift digital stamps from the cute Party Time printables collection. The banner with numbers are from the Label Banner Birthday Numbers. Love these cute little bears, they’re perfect to bring joy to every creative projects. Big hugs, Enrica

Jenn B - I printed out the From All of Us digi stamp and die cut around it, then printed the image again a few times on several pieces of printable paper from the Winnie Celebrations 1 - Paper 1 pack and paper pieced the balloons & party hats. I used another piece for the background and fussy cut one of the sentiments and attached it to another piece, then used an oval punch and attached it with foam dimensional tape. I die cut the #4 from another piece of the coordinating paper and attached that with foam dimensional tape to finish it off.

Revati - hello, crafty friends! I'm so excited to share a sweet and cheerful birthday card I created featuring the absolutely adorable Birthday Mouse Digi Stamp. This charming little mouse instantly brought a smile to my face, and I knew it would make the perfect focal point for a fun and festive birthday card. I began by printing the digi image onto a smooth 80lb white cardstock, which works beautifully with alcohol markers. Once the ink was dry, I brought the little mouse to life using my Ohuhu Alcohol Markers.To finish off the card, I added a fun sentiment strip that I pulled from the Winnie Daisy Fairy Everyday Greetings and Quotes digital sentiment pack. I love how it ties everything together and adds that perfect touch of celebration to the card front. For more details, be sure to check out my blog.

Sana - Today is new Digi Choose day Blog challange. This time the theme For DT was Numbers. So I choose this gorgeous Cute Elephant Tons of love numbers Digi for my make. Here I printed the Number 1 out with the cute elephant image and shaded is with Distress watercolor pencils i had. It just gave the cute vibe for a 1 year old. I then fussy cut the image out and used a 3D double sided foam to stick on the background the background paper is also from Polkadoodles collections.

Judy: The DT was asked to create an inspiration project with Birthday Numbers this week.My card was created with Party Bear with Cupcake, which I coloured using Prismacolor pencils and fussy cut.The background is made up of embossed white cardstock and a patterned paper from the Birthday Party Celebration Digital Paper Download.The sentiment was printed from Birthday Celebration Party Sentiments Greetings Printables. I also printed and fussy cut balloons from the Birthday Party Celebration Bundle.The number #3 was stamped using the Birthday Celebrations 4x8" Stamp Set.To finish, I added a die-cut bunting for extra fun!

🌟 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!

👉 Share in our Facebook group here


🎉 Don't forget to join our other challenges too!

You could win even more stash and, as always, our challenges are Anything Goes!


🏆 Winners from Challenge 8

🎲 RANDOM WINNER – $40 Polkadoodles Store Credit

76 JINNY – Congratulations!

TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE:
Please email us here, quoting the following code: PDWK09001
Claims must be received by 14th August 2025.

(Please note: Winners will receive a reply within 28 days. Please do not keep emailing if you don't receive a reply during this time.)

🌟 Our Top 2 Favourite Entries – Each wins $10 credit

Alexandra
88 Gloria

TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE:
Please email us here, quoting the following code: PDWK0912
Claims must be received by 14th August 2025.

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📌 So reminder - this is Challenge 9 – Week 1 – ANYTHING GOES

$60 in prizes up for grabs!
You can enter up to 4 times, with 4 different projects.

Closing date: 27th August 2025, Noon (UK time)
Winner announced: 30 August 2025

We will still post weekly inspiration from the team, but the competition will remain open for 4 weeks.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter