Wk 14 - Animal Magic...Polkadoodles challenge

Hi everyone, welcome back to another Polkadoodles challenge!

Before we get down to business we have to give you a heads up for 3 hours of Nikky on Create and Craft TV next week - you can join her for 3 hours throughout the day at 8am, 1pm and 4pm so make sure you tune in!

So let's get to this week's challenge!

This week we are looking at

Animal Magic

And the team have come up with some great inspiration as always!

You have until 18th April at noon GMT to enter this challenge and the winner will receive a copy of our Work and Play 1 collection which is worth £10 so well worth entering this one! 

You don't have to use our products to enter so get making!

Before we get to their makes let's deal with our winners from last time! Our week 11 and 12 challenge was Mum's the word and we had some lovely entries!

Our random winner chosen by Random.org is

11 Lady E

Well done! Email us here quoting code PDw140001 to claim your prize, you won a copy of our Work & Play 1 collection, woohoo! 

....and the Design team's favourite top 3 are:

16 Witchyfingers

29 Sharon

15 Cheremane

Well done everyone! Thankyou all for entering and playing along with us, please grab your blinkies from the sidebar! 

So let's get to the challenge!...

Ruth: I've used the fab Paper Boutique Vol 3 to make my card - I cut out all the elements and layered them up how I wished, added some wobbly eyes and glossy accents to the nose. I've layered it up using foam pads for depth. A really great card to make and a wonderful cd too!

Claire C: This challenge was a great excuse to use one of my favourite cds, Cherryblossom Lane to create this 'bendy' card. The CD is on offer at the minute so don't miss it as such a bargain price! The background is one of the precoloured scenes from the Cd and I've coloured the images with my Graph'It markers.

JAN - I decided to go all yellow ready for Spring with my make today. I made a shaped card - all papers, images and sentiments are from the 'Sugarplum Daisy CD' with a few extra little embellies from my stash, including some honeycomb embossing peeking out at the bottom!

Karon -  It's so fun looking through the CD's and finding so many new things to play with.  I made a shaped card using the pre-coloured log and mushrooms, from the Double Sprinkles of Kraft CD  Then had to add the cute Happy Birthday Owl from the Sugar Birdies CD, which I coloured with pencils.  Added a little bit of bling to finish her off.

Kerrie - I had a good think for this Challenge and Chose to use 'Double Sprinkles of Kraft' CDrom this was my first ever Polksdoodles CDrom and still a firm Favourite of mine. I love the Owls on this CDrom but I also love the Pastel Colours mixed with the Kraft Card styles of papers etc aswell. I chose an Image and then had fun choosing Papers, Sentiment and Flowers in similar colour ways and then coloured the Image to match in with the colours I picked. I settle on making a shaped card after i chose the sentiment because its a similar shape. and I couldnt resist a jaunty angle xx

Fabulous makes from the team as always! Don't forget you have until 18th April at noon GMT to enter this challenge and the winner will receive a copy of our Work and Play 1 collection which is worth £10 so well worth entering this one! 

You don't have to use our products to enter so get making!

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Studio 12 Gift Set

Hello folks, it's Fliss here with you today with an idea for gift giving with a matching card perfect for a dear friend.
It's actually easier to make than it looks so read on to see how it came together.

Apart from the kraft dotty paper which I sneaked in from the Polka Doodles Double Sprinkle Of Kraft CD, all the elements and papers are from the Garden Collection on the Studio 12 Picknix Collection 1 CD.
I made the patchwork style paper which I used to decorate a plain kraft bag by resizing 3 of the green papers and 3 of the flowers to 5cm square in my photo editing software and then dropped them into a Word document in the design you can see. I printed it out on the antique beige old fashioned parchment card for a soft look then tore the edges and inked them with Antique Linen Distress ink before attaching to the bag.
I then printed out 2 of the yellow daisies, again resizing them and then fussy cut them out. I cut out a circle of the dotty paper and attached the daisy to this then punched a hole in the top and tied the tag to the bag with twine.
I then used a large frilly die to cut out my card blank from beige card and used the next size down to cut out the layers of green patterned paper. I printed the sentiment from the CD directly on to the kraft dotty paper and then die cut this and a further layer. I assembled them on the card blank and added the daisy at the top right side.

Just the thing to make for a special friend whether for a birthday or just to say thanks for being a friend.
Hugs, Fliss xx

Week 14 Challenge - Sketch, mix up your layers

Hello all, it's Dee here as your hostess and it's time for another Friday challenge from Polka Doodles. But first I need to let you all know that Nikky is demo-ing this weeks Pick Of The Week on Create and Craft TV starting at 12 noon British time today. Sky 671, Freeview 36 and Freesat 813.

The new CD A Double Sprinkle of Kraft will be making an appearance so watch/tape/sky+ to see some amazing demos and inspirational ideas. Nikky will be doing live shows till Tuesday if it doesn't sell out and the rest of the week will be repeats. Plenty of chances to catch some of the shows.

Back to the challenge and this week I have a sketch for you, but look carefully because I want you to mix your layers up and interlink your different elements.

The challenge closes on Sunday 17 April at 12noon GMT. Without further ado I need to announce the top three from challenge 12 which was 'Spring has Sprung'

First Place: Claire C
Second Place: nnalorac
Third Place: Tina

Congratulations! Please email Nikky with your placing and challenge number in the subject field for your blinkies! The first place winner will receive a Polka Doodles download!

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Now onto the inspirational Design Team samples!

Enfys: I used papers from Double Sprinkles of Kraft, and the image is from Back to Nature, coloured with Promarkers. I added a bit of sewing to the mix, and some Thickers letter stickers for the 'HI' word

Fliss -I've made my card from the fabulous new A Double Sprinkle of Kraft CD as I've really loved working with the gorgeous papers and sweet images on there. I've coloured the lovely image with Promarkers and followed the sketch with papers and a border from the CD. My only additions were some pink paper and pearls from my stash and a sentiment from the Sugar Birdies Collectors Edition CD.

Saskia - This robot, made in 3d, is so funny! The template and the papers are from the Paper Boutique III cd-rom! I just added some little star-stickers and twine from my stash.

Claire I loved the sketch and it worked so well with all the wonderful papers from the new Double Sprinkles of Kraft cd. I have used Promarkers to colour the beautiful bird and birdhouse images.

Lis-m . This is a fab sketch. I used the new "Sprinkles" cd, the colours worked together so well. I cut out and 3'd the girl with the daisies (from the in the garden section). Added a sentiment and glitter, simply but pretty.

Ashley : I was inspired by various sets, I used the not for girls definitely for men and paper boutiqueII cds + the adorable little Nellienoo and sensational sentiment sets.

Miria For my card I was totally inspired by the new CD Double Sprinkles of Kraft: everything comes from it except a few embellies from stash.
Colette Well it looks like the new Double Sprinkles of Kraft is a big hit with us all. I've also used it for my card this week, Everything on the card, except for a strip of Jute, came from the CD. I flipped the sketch 90 degrees clockwise and made the scene up from various stampies on the disc, I coloured the black and white wellies stampie and layered it up to give a 3D effect and used the Kraft alphabet to make the word retirement.

Josie: This week I used the backing papers, topper and sentiments from the new CD Rom A Double Sprinkle of Kraft. I distressed the edges of the papers and topper with Distress Inks.

Tracie: I used papers and an image from Double Sprinkles of Kraft for my card this week. I watercoloured the gorgeous girlie with Aquamarkers, layered up some papers from the CD and added a sentiment from the new Sentiment Stamp Sheet, and finished with a couple of little gems.

Emma, hi everyone, I used backing papers from the new Sprinkle of Kraft Cd alongside a stamped Flutterby Fairy with wings from one of the butterflies on the new CD too. I hand rolled some little paper roses with some punched leaves to finish off.

Ruth: I too have used A Double Sprinkle of Kraft - all the papers are from the cd along with the very cute image! I've made the flower by cutting out circles of double sided card, lightly drenching in water and then waiting for them to dry - really easy!

Dee: I've used the papers from the Wonderland CD for my card this week. I've also used flower chipboard shapes. I covered one with a backing paper and I used paint dabbers on the rest. I then stamped with a sentiment from the sentiment set. I little bit of inking with weathered wood distress inkpad and 3 big brads finishes of this card.

Good luck with the challenge - closing date is 12noon GMT on Sunday 17 April.

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