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 if it's handmade by you.
This challenge is 4 weekly - giving you 4 weeks to enter with
$80 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 4 weeks.
PRIZE 1: $50 voucher x 1
• 1 x Random Prize (we will randomly select 1 winner, so everyone has a chance to win) : $50 voucher to spend in the Polkadoodles store, on anything you wish including physical products.
PRIZE 2: $10 voucher x 3
• 3 x $10 prizes : we will select our Top 3 favourite Top 3 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 - Happy Saturday! Today I've made this cute 'Just because' gift card which has little post-it notes on the inside. So cute! I"ve used this super cute Bella Bear in a bee costume digital stamp which is adorable...you can also get this precoloured too if you aren't into colouring...
Patricia - For the “Just Because” challenge. I created a Special Day Tag. Which I had so much fun creating by combining several techniques. The Your Love Lifts Me Up Balloon Digi Stamp “ I colored with my Copic markers, and it came out adorable. The sentiment “It’s your Special Day? Guit Outta Here!” from theGnome Men Greetings was the perfect touch, and I inked its edges with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. I used Distress Oxide inks in these three colors — Picked Raspberry, Fossilized Amber, and Tumbled Glass — to blend across the background on the Tag, then added water splashes to activate the inks and create those magical spots. Using Vintage Photo Distress Ink, I blended the edges of the tag to give it a vintage look… and I loved the result — the blending turned out beautifully! To finish it all off, I added a Tiny yellow ribbon and some golden rhinestones.
I just loved how cheerful, sweet, and colorful this tag turned out! Hope you like it. Happy Crafting!
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Taty - Hello creatives today I shared my DT inspiration, a lollipop created with the cute bear obtained with the Beary cute critter Great outdoors die and the brown eva rubber. I added the leaves and the small beehive cut with the same collection of dies. The lollipop is ready to decorate gift packages or a children's birthday table.
Sana - Today I've made a graduation theme, and i soo loved making this one. I have used Birthday party flower cake Coloured digi image. It's a really simple card to make and gift it to someone special. I did some of my shading on the flowers here and there just lightly to do some shadowing effect. And the background papers are from letS hang out paperpad collection they are just soo gorgeous and versatile. The best thing about these are i printed them the sizes i wanted the background size is 7x5 the second layer is 4x6 and you can have a cool background. You can also print the background in full A4 sizes and cut the sizes you want. The graduation sentiment was handwritten by me. Enjoy making something different and unique.
Terri - Hello lovely crafty peeps, it's Terri here again with a vibrant, fancy and very versatile tag project to share! I used the Toadstool Lily LadyBug Digi stamp and coloured it up with Copics. Unfortunately I used too many to list but I will share a couple of my favourite blends that I used. My go to for caucasian skin is E53, E51 and E50. I love Blue Green tones and use BG49, BG13, BG32 & BG11 a lot! I coloured Lily's Toadstool stalk in this blend and also one of the large mushrooms. A gorgeous vibrant pink blend that I use(d) is RV09, RV06, RV04 & RV02. A lovely peach blend that I used is YR02, YR61, YR00 & YR000 and lastly, a gorgeous lavender/periwinkle /hydrangea blend is B66, B63 & B60. I used the Winnie Wonderland Toadstools Digi stamp behind Lily sitting on her Toadstool and sized it to be quite tall, in order to indicate that Lily and her Toadstool are quite small in comparison. I coloured up the scene with my Copics and added some extra depth and highlights with my Polychromos coloured pencils. I then added in some very easy blades of grass and did a rough, squiggly pattern around the mushrooms and at the base on the ground, to represent moss. Next, I used 3 nesting Tag dies from my stash and used the smallest to line up where I wanted the centre of the scene to be. I then placed the middle one so that it was evenly spaced around it. I taped the middle tag die down and removed the smallest tag, then die cut the scene within the middle tag. After that I placed the smallest die on the now smaller scene so that it was centred and die cut that. Next I die cut about 7 small tags from yellow card stock. I used the largest tag to cut one yellow, one bright pink, three white tags, plus one from one of the papers from the Splashing Around 6x6 paper pad, which is unfortunately no longer is stock, but Polkadoodles stock loads of other fab paper packs, both digi downloads and physical pads. I then glued the patterned paper tag onto one of the white die cuts.
To assemble, I glued the frame left from the middle tag, centrally onto the yellow tag, then glued the smallest scene tag shape onto the stacked and glued yellow die cuts that I had adhered into the aperture inside the middle tag. This provides a complete scene, but with one area (Lily Ladybug) highlighted by being raised. It's a subtle effect when looking straight at the tag, but when you tilt it you can see the yellow from the stacked die cuts which looks great.
Next I used my trusty Crop-o-dile to punch holes and add eyelets to each of the large tags. I then arranged these in the order I wanted (layering the coloured tags like mats and layers) onto a small book binding ring. I raided my ribbon and twine stash for offcuts to tie in a shabby chic way to the ring. I also made a little string of coloured seed beads and attached that to the ring.
The theme for this make was "Just Because" so I decided to make a fancy gift tag to go with a small gift you might give someone you haven't seen in a while or "Just Because" you want to! The recipient can then either keep the tag and use it as a piece of home decor, or pop it into a memory album by sliding one of the two white tags into a pocket. Or, the recipient might want to keep it for a while and then spread the kindness further by removing the tag with their message on and gifting the tag to someone else! The sentiment of "Just thought I'd bug you, from the Lily Ladybug Messages Digi stamp set is perfect for this!
More gorgeous inspiration for you this week to use, big thanks to the team!
We hope you'll share what you make with your Polkadoodles products on our Social Media!
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
So, just a reminder....
this is CHALLENGE 7, Week 5, ANYTHING GOES
$80 in prizes up for grabs.
You can enter up to 4 times, with 4 different projects.
Closing date for entries: 2nd July 2025, Noon. WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED 9th July.
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We will still post weekly inspiration from the team but the competition will remain open for 4 weeks.
