Polkadoodles Cardmaking, Craft & Scrapbooking Challenge

Saturday, 29 August 2026

Anything Goes International Craft Challenge 8, Week 5 – 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!

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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 💖
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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!

We asked the team to make an UNUSUAL CARD SHAPE this week...

Cute strawberry shaped unusual handmade card made by Renske - Hi everyone! For this challenge, we had to make an unusual card shape. ThisStrawberry Cream Cupcake digital stamp gave me the idea to make the whole card into a cupcake. I printed the digi onto regular printer paper first, cut it out and used it as a template on my card base. When tracing it, I left part of the cupcake over the fold so the card would still open properly. I then printed the digi again at the same size. I coloured it with my alcohol markers. On the front I added the “It’s your birthday!” sentiment from the Winnie Daisy Sentiments set. For the inside, I used “Have the sweetest day” from the Coffee Tea and Cake Sentiments set and added a smaller strawberry from the cupcake digi. I liked repeating the strawberry inside, as it gives you a little reminder of the front when you open the card. A few pink stamped hearts finished it off. Hope you like it. Happy Crafting! Hugs Renske
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Beautiful Unusual Vase of Flowers Card made by Enrica - Hello! For this week’s Unusual Shaped Cards theme I decided to make something a little different using the gorgeous Lilac Haze digital bundle. I created a pretty jar-shaped card and filled it with lots of the beautiful flowers from the collection, layering them up to create a lovely full bouquet.
I kept the colours soft and delicate with pale blue, lilac and white, then added lace, ribbon and one of the pretty sentiments to finish it off. I love how this turned out – it’s a card, but it could easily double as a little piece of home décor too!

Cute ladybird shaped card made by Revati - Hello again! To create this card, I started by printing the sweet Gardening Lili Ladybug Ladybird digi stamp on crisp white cardstock and fussy-cutting her using my Brother ScanNCut. I then colored the image using my Ohuhu Alcohol Markers. For a soft backdrop, I paired her with a subtle light blue pattern from the Spring into Easter digital paper pack. To give the design a unique silhouette, I die-cut the patterned paper using a decorative petal leaf die and layered it onto a slightly larger die-cut white base to create a crisp, fine border. I added the Enjoy the little things sentiment from the Winnie Daisy Greetings digi stamp set, and finished off the scene with a few tiny bumblebees borrowed from the Road Trip Car - Bee Buzzy Gnome digi stamp set for a fun extra detail!
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Pretty hexagonal decorated Christmas box handmade by Nelly - Hello again! Saturday comes around so quick! What are you all up to today?
For this weeks project I have made an unusual shaped card called a hexagon pop up card! You can find the details with how to make it HERE.
I used Polkadoodles pretty scallop dies, Christmas everyday sentiments and Abundant Holly die cuts to create the images. Around the hexagon shape at the bottom I cut images from the Sparkling Christmas paper and topper set

Pretty handmade circle card by Liz - I'm back with a Christmas themed project today, using some of the latest fabulous dies and stencil from Polkadoodles. I used some of the speckled egg distress oxide pad to go over the Winter Village Scene stencil on the base of my card, then in silver mirri cardstock I added the Sparkling wreath and stars dies,
houses from the Sweet glass dome/snowglobe dies and some winter type foliage from the Winter botanical bits dies too.

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

Join our international card making challenge – everyone welcome!
🇳🇱 Kaarten maken challenge / kaarten challenge
🇩🇪 Karten basteln Challenge / Kartenchallenge
🇫🇷 Challenge carterie / création de cartes
🇮🇹 Challenge cardmaking / creazione di biglietti
🇪🇸 Reto de tarjetería / tarjetas hechas a mano
🇸🇪 Kortmakeri challenge / kortutmaning
🇳🇴 Kortlaging challenge / kortutfordring
🇩🇰 Kortlavning challenge / kortudfordring
🇫🇮 Korttiaskartelu challenge / korttihaaste

We hope we've inspired you to enter the challenge - we'll be back next week with more inspiration for this one - ENTER BELOW:

Saturday, 22 August 2026

Challenge 8 wk 4 - 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 POLKADOODLES RELEASES!...

Let's see what the team have been making this week...

Liz - The weather is cooling down thankfully, it was so hot! I couldn't resist making this scene using some of the recent Create & Decorate mdf blanks, Sparkling Christmas dies and stencils from Polkadoodles. This would be fab as a gift or a keepsake for yourself and could simply be for a wintry scene. I sprayed the mdf base piece with distress oxide sprays, then when dry used the Clever Cloudy Moon stencil letting it dry then using another layer of Ocean sparkles stencil butter over the top, this gives a bit of added texture. I then used the stars part of the stencil here and there using some of the fabulous stencil butter paste, again from Polkadoodles - this is clear and did pick up the blue from the base, but it adds to the scene. The scene was created using the adorable elegant sculptured tree dies which I layered up on the base, then used some of the Sweet glass dome/snowglobe dies for the houses and church. I finished it off with some texture paste as faux snow along the bottom edge and over the tree trunks.

Happy Crafting!!

Julie - Hello! This sparkling Unicorn Card has a unique closure that makes the card both easy and fun to create. A few simple measurements of cut colored cardstock and pattern paper start the creation of the card. A printed precolored Hooray Sparkle Unicorn image matted on an additional piece of cardstock create a hiding place for the surprise greeting but also a fun closure for the card. The sentiment was printed from Sparkle Unicorn Sentiments/Cutting Files. I used the top section of the sentiment on the hidden closure tab and the rest of the sentiment on the inside of the card. The printable papers that decorate the card were printed from Pretty Winnie Daisy Papers, and I think they coordinate just perfectly. I added a few sparkling gems and a LOT of glitter to finish off the card. Full details and measurements to create this secret closure card can be found on My Blog.
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Nelly - Happy Saturday everyone! How are you enjoying the summer? It has been a tad warm hasn’t it phew!! This weeks project is a card with a closure and I’ve made this card for a friend who was the big 60 recently. Using Belle Papillon download bundle for a shabby chic feeling soft pink tones I created the closure using a tag punch and layering papers over the top, I really went back into craft history and decoupaged the flowers and made a wax seal! I do hope you like it. I also used the Not So Plain Kraft paper pack and the Great Sentiments Strip stamps and die set.

Maria - Hello lovely crafty friends! Today I’m sharing the third card from my One Sheet Wonder set! This time I cut the beautiful Birthday Fun craft papers into horizontal strips, and layered them with coordinating cardstock. The Starburst stencil is back again to create that lovely background, and I added two little butterflies from the Grow On You stamp set to flutter across the design. Finished off with some sweet Polka Dots enamel dot embellishments, this cheerful card is all ready to go!
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Ana - Hi crafty friends! This week’s Digi Choosday Design Team prompt is Magical Fantasy, and I made a pretty project using Winnie Mermaid Mermazing - Best Friends digi stamp. Growing up, Ariel was always one of my favorite Disney princesses, so a mermaid-inspired card was a must for this week’s challenge.
For this project, I created a mixed media shaker card using papers and sentiments from the Coral Mermaid collection, then added beautiful floral die cuts from the Winnie Sugar Sprinkles Embellies Bundle. I colored the mermaids with Ohuhu Alcohol Markers and finished off with shaker bits and clear glass cabochons to make it more special. I finished with a greeting from the Coral Mermaid Sentiment Pack.
If you’d like to recreate this magical fantasy shaker card, head over to My Cat and Crafts for the full step-by-step tutorial, complete materials list, and detailed instructions.
Tutorial - https://mycatandcrafts.blogspot.com/2026/08/digi-choosday-magical-fantasy-mixed.html
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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

Saturday, 15 August 2026

Challenge 8 wk 3 - 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 POLKADOODLES RELEASES!

Let's see what the team have been making this week...

Enrica - Hi crafty friends!
For my project this week I made a simple tag/bookmark coloring with Copic the sweet Cute Girl with glasses digital stamp and I turned out the laptop image from the Object Digital Stamp and Printable Clipart Pack in a cute blackboard. The ephemera is from Graduation school student Sentiments Quotes. The Main patterned paper is from the Student/School Little Dude set.
This collection is absolutely adorable! I'm trying to collect all the characters —they're all so cute!

Nelly - I wish it was time for the children to go back to school but alas there’s still 3 weeks left ha ha ! For this project I created a notebook/journal it’s an essential item to have for the beginning of the new term isn’t it? I used Polkadoodles Rebel flower digi stamp and coloured her with markers, the design paper is Polkadoodles scrumptious sugar paper pack. I also used an old Polkadoodles stamp which is always my go to when I want to create a mixed media effect! I think this is rather cute, hope you like it!

Jenn - I can hardly believe it's already time to think about going back to school - Summer sure does fly by! The Rebel characters are some of my all-time favorites so I used Bookworm/Study Rebel for my back-to-school card. I colored her with Copics and used a stitched edge rectangle die to cut her out. I die cut the letters for the word SCHOOL and drew stitching on them by hand. The sentiment is a printable from the Graduation School Student Sentiments Quotes set.and I used this paper set to finish.

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Revati - Get ready to kick off the new school year with a little extra encouragement! For this fun back-to-school card, I featured the Cute Girl With Stationery Pens Pencils - Graduation School Student as my main focal point. I printed her onto heavyweight cardstock, cut her out seamlessly using my ScanNCut machine, and brought her to life with vibrant Ohuhu Alcohol Markers. To set the scene, I used the playful patterned paper from the Rocket Card Little Dude Bundle to create that awesome textured brick wall backdrop. Finally, I added a collection of inspiring sentiments using the Graduation School Students Sentiment Stamp set to cheer on the recipient with messages like HOORAY! and so the adventure continues. It’s the perfect way to send some love and motivation for the bright academic year ahead!

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Renske - For this back to school card, I created a colourful scene using the Bookworm / Study Rebel digital stamp as the focal point. I masked the image before blending the sky and grassy background with Distress Inks. I coloured the digital stamp with alcohol markers and added a few white gel pen highlights for extra detail. To complete the design, I added a pair of die-cut birds and finished the card with the sentiment "One Chapter Closed, Another Begins" from the Graduation School Sentiment Quotes digital collection. Everything was mounted onto a soft grey card base, allowing the warm colours and storybook scene to take centre stage.Hope you like it. Happy Crafting!

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