Week 41 - Anything Goes - PolkadoodlesCrafting

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It's Inspiration Week for our 
Anything Goes Challenge

You can find it HERE

Our winner of the challenge will receive a $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles Download Store.

You have until Noon, GMT, Friday 21st October to enter.

You do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges.

However, we do love seeing your fabulous makes with Polkadoodles images.

We only have a few little rules and they are over there in the side bar ----->

Our Winner and Top 3 of our Anything Goes Challenge Weeks  38/39  

will be announced at the end of this post....

Now onto the fabulous inspiration from the Design Team.

Lou: I have again used the wonderful Festive Christmas soup stamps to create my card. I have kept my colour palate very autumnal with reds, golds and green. Except for the ribbon and lace, Everything else has been created using the stamp sets

Scatty Jan I adore the colours of Autumn and for my project this week I decorated a large leaf shaped card using the wonderful  Autunm Fall digi stamp collection, of course the star of the show had to be Mr Scarecrow. The Paper used is from Work and Play 10 Country Life 

Anjie - I have used the frabjous Winnie In Wonderland Collection CD to make  this. You can also get this in a download format HERE, and in smaller separate items HERE.

I have used Tweedledee image twice here.

Bev here with my seasonal inspiration, Autumn is my favourite time of year so I chose to use it as Colouring Therapy.... using Inspiring Foliage

Tracy - today I have used Serenity Earthstar and tag from Serenity collection. Loved colouring her in and using the Autumn colours 

Gail - I've gone for  Halloween make, a pre-made wooden stand decorated using spooktastic images from the Sundae of Seasons collection, available on CD-Rom here.

Katrina - I love the colour of trees in the autumn so for my inspiration card I've stamped a few tumbling leaves using the 'poinsettia' petal from the new Festive Christmas Soup stamps and coloured them with diluted Brushos. The sentiment was printed from the Daisydays CD straight onto some watercolour paper and I extended the twirly bits with a black fineliner pen.

Michelle  For this project I have used the Festive Christmas Collection  I love this collection so easy to make your christmas cards you can get them done so quick and easy

Claire C I've been playing with some of the gorgeous new Polkadoodles dies to make this card. I love these dies and they cut beautifully. I used Bubblicious Frames to create the base and layers. I made the little window using the Versatile Door/Window Die. The flowers and branches were created using Cherry Blossom Branch and Flowers 2. The sentiment is from Lemonade Fizz Stamp Soup set.

Ruth:  I've used the Twiggy and Toots cd to make a card for my Mum's birthday.  I covered the chipboard letters with paper and then coloured with Promarkers.  Chocolate colours always remind me of autumn.....!

Such fabulous creations!

Now onto our Winner and Top 3 of our Anything Goes Week 38/39 Challenge

The Winner, chosen by Random Org, is.....

8 - Lucy Woods

Please email us HERE to claim your prize of $10 worth of downloads quote code PD41001wk38

from the digi store.

Here is your Winners Badge to display on your blog...

Onto our Top 3, and in no particular order, chosen by the DT.....

32 -Lucy Woods Lucky week for you 
42 - Elena F
93 - Vicky

Here is the Top 3 Badge for your blogs...

Congratulations to everyone.  We thank you all for taking part in our challenges.

We love coming o visit and seeing all your wonderful creations.

Now it's over you....

You can enter our current challenge

ANYTHING GOES 

HERE
See you next week!

Week 46 - Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge - Autumn/Fall Colours

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It's Friday and we hope you have all had a fabulous week!

Have you all been checking out the new additions to Polkadoodles, the Adult Colouring Club, Adult Colouring Books and Bundles....


                    
Go check them out in the Polkadoodles store!

This is inspiration week here at Polkadoodles for our latest challenge

Autumn/Fall Colours....you can enterHERE

The winners of our Add Sparkle, Bling or Glitter Challenge will be announced at the end of this post.


Before we share the DT's wonderful projects, we are very pleased to welcome another two new members to the Polka Doodles family .... MIA and MELANIE... 

Mia - I have used Twiggy and Toots Festive Fun collection to make a wonderful Owl bag. The template and papers are all on the CD/download. Full details can be found on my blog....

Melanie - I have also used the Twiggy and Toots Festive Fun collection to create my card using non-traditional Christmas colours. Check out my blog to see how my project came together.

Scatty Jan - This week I have made a little gift box out of Kraft card  cut on my Portrait. I love Octavia Best Friends one of my favourite digi's ever. You can find her in the shop here . I coloured her up with pencils and added a little bow to finish

Jenny - I thought I'd try something a little different this week, so have used the gorgeous new digi colouring book - Colour Therapy 2 Inspiring Foliage. I took an A4 design but printed it half size to make a background for my card, I used Lyra pencils to colour it and then sprayed with a glitter spray. The sentiment is printed from the Frosted Winter Collection.

Jackie - I really love the colours of Autumn and the Work and Play 10 Collection- Country Life had some great digi images to choose from. I used Copics to colour in the image (I made my image card size but it would be lots of fun to colour in as a larger image too!). The beautiful patterned paper is also from the collection. Details are on my blog.

Karon - For my creation I used the wonderful Dollie Daydream Goes East collection.  The papers in this collection are gorgeous and I wanted to use just the papers.  I have layered up some of the paper to add dimension to the scene.  Then using one of the fans from from the collection, I shaped and then added a little pearl dot and some wonderful sentiment tickets.  Everything, bar the ribbon, is from this wonderful collection :-)

Ruth -  Kept it rather clean and simple this week - used the Serenity Moondust digi and added glitter here and there plus some half pearls.

  

Ria -  For my Fall entry I used this sweet Serenity Resting. I coloured her with pencils, The papers are from the Eden Collection and the sentiment is from the Serenity collection.

Jessie - I used the Autumn/Fall Digi stamp bundle and coloured up the barrel of baskets with my copic markers. I have been really into doing simple cards with lots of colouring and this is no exception. I used some burlap with colourless blender pen to create the background, then coloured the rest of the image. 

Aunty Sue - Hi well for my Inspirational card today I am sharing an Anniversary card using one of the Letters from the Adult Colouring Pages Bundel Alphabet 1 available in the shop HERE.  My colours have been done with Promarkers, Sparkle Gelly Roll Pens and also Gilding Flakes.  More details and pictures on my blog as this was so hard to catch the sparkle and also the colour of the flakes at the same time.

Wendy - For my autumn colours, I've gone with greens & browns and there's nothing more autumny than a gorgeous Scarecrow, This handsome gent can be found as part of this years Autumn/Fall bundle get it here, as are the little toadstools. The papers are also part of the complete collection, but can also be purchased as paper packs here.

Wonderful inspiration from the Design Team, don't you just love Autumn Colours!

Our Winner (chosen by random org) for our Add Sparkle, Bling or Glitter Challenge is...

#89 - Judith

You have won a $10 gift certificate to the Polkadoodles download store.

Please contact us HERE and quote PD46001Wk43 to claim your prize.

Out Top 4 as chosen by the Design Team -  you are making it so difficult for us to just choose a Top 3 :-) are....

#28 - Lynda

#29 - J Atterbury Creations

#55 - Erum

#77 - Sparkling Pink

Don't forget to grab your winners badges from the side bar!

Congratulations to everyone, thanks to everyone that takes part in our challenges, we always appreciate you taking part and we love to see all your work each week - Happy Crafting!

You can enter our current challenge

Autumn/Fall Colours

HERE

Week 45 - Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge - Autumn/Fall Colours

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Happy Friday Everyone!
Have you seen the latest in Nikky's Colouring Book range? We now have a fantastic Colouring Club which you can join and it's only £1 a week to get loads of fabulous printable colouring pages make sure you check it out HERE! 

AND as if that wasnt exciting enough we are all thrilled to be able to reveal that you can now purchase her COLOURING CALENDARS online from lots of sellers across Europe! Whoop Whoop, so exciting! They will make great Christmas gifts!! 
BUY THEM BOTH HERE IN THE UK
AND IF YOU'RE IN EUROPE GET THEM HERE

-A BEAUTIFUL OCTAVIA CALENDAR AVAILABLE - EEEEK!! SO PRETTY!! 

We have a new challenge for you and our theme is

Autumn/Fall Colours

You can make anything you like for the challenge, as long as it follows the theme.

You do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges.

Our rules are over there in the side bar ---->

You have until Noon, GMT, Friday 20th November to enter

Our random winner for this challenge will win 
 $10 of downloads from the store

Now lets take a look at the fabulous creations this week...

Naz - The image I have used is from Polkadoodles Work and Play 10 - Country Life.
This collections is one of my favourite collections from Polkadoodles.
It features 10 fantastic themed characters. It also includes backing papers, sentiments, paper bow sheets, ...I coloured the image using Lyra Pencils and then added some Wink of Stella Clear Glitter pen. The sentiment I have used here is also from the same collection.

Anjie - I have used one of the designs from the fabulous Colour Therapy Florabunda CD, you can also get this as a download HERE if you can't wait for a CD to arrive! This is one of the 6x6 designs and I have made a card blank to fit it using a Tattered Lace Essentials die. In the stripes around the image I've used a Sakura Tiara gold pen to add a bit of glitter, and some gems on the base. More pics and details on my blog.

Julie -- The 'S' is one of the new, fabulous adult coloring pages.  This is Adult Coloring Pages, Alphabet 1.  I colored it with Copic markers. The designer paper on the top layer of the frame is from the Rose Budd Craft Collection Download. It's available in CD, too.   I love Autumn colors, and these new coloring pages are going to be so. much. FUN!

Bev here with my creation I used my Lyra Rembrandt Pencils to colour in one of the Colour Therapy 1 sheets and combined it with the fox from Work & Play 10 - Country Life collection again coloured up with Lyra. The sentiment is from the same collection and was then embossed with a leaf design and inked with distress inks to match. I finished by adding a paper bow & a bit of bling.

Claire C I've used elements from the Autumn/Fall digi bundle (which you can find here, what  bargain!!) to create my little canvas. I've used my Lyra pencils to colour them

Penny here with two creations... I quickly ran home tonight to create a project after realising my first attempt wasn't fitting the theme.. I went Autumn and missed the Autumn colour rude.. Oops.   I used the Autumn bundle and created this CAS card initially

After realising my error I grabbed my image I was playing with for another project (stay tuned for later in the year for my plans for the image below.. I'm excited.)

I used my real brush markers and added lots of layers of colours to achieved a rustic wood feel, the digi lends itself to adding colours and just playing.  I will definitely be trying my hand at watercolour again, this image would be stunning in pencils too.   You can find the Lemonade Stand image in the Picknix Collection 1.   It comes in a pre-coloured version to that is devine with its pastel colourings.

What fantastic makes from the team!

Can't wait to see what you come up with, we love visiting your blogs to take a look  at your wonderful creations. ....Remember only 2 entries per person please.

Don't forget to check back next week for more inspiration and winner of our *Sparkle, Bling or Glitter winner *

Have a great week!

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Week 42 - Crafting Challenge at Polkadoodles - Use a Die Cut

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Bloomin' eck it's Friday again!
That can only mean one thing, time for us to share some Design Team inspiration with you all.
We are in week 2 of our challenge

Use a Die Cut

You can link up your entry HERE

The winners of our Favourite Card Shape challenge will be at the end of this post.
Before we get on to seeing what the Design Team have been up to, let's see what's in the store.

I expect you are all busy bees getting ready for Halloween, well there are some fabulous digi's
and download collections to be had.  No hanging about for that pesky postman either.

Check at the Polkadoodles bundles
HERE






Now let's get on with the show :-)

Asha - Instead of using die cuts to frame or mat, I've decided to create a scene with die cut clouds and grass with papers from W&P 10 Country Life. The star of the card is a sweet little cow from W&P 10 Country Life. I coloured her with my pencils, adhered a ticket tag the CD, inked the edges and my CAS card is done.

Scatty Jan - I have used the amazing Frosted Winter collection using the lovely Artic Wandering Star Octavia also available as a digi here and also the Ice Palace which is available here. I coloured up using Graph'It Markers and also using the silver shake it marker, I cut some flowers from the collection and coloured them up to match. I cut around the bauble using a die.

Jackie - I have been busy colouring up some of the great digis on Work and Play 5- Festive Hollybobs. This one is Hollybobs Skating Fun. The paper, sentiment and bow are also from this collection. I have used a Sizzlits die set for the snowflakes. Details on my blog.

Karon - I have made an easel card this week.  Using a pre-coloured digi with frame from the fabulous Octavia Frosted Winter collection.  She is also available as a black and white image for you to download and colour HERE.  I add some glitter and used my oval dies, to cut around the frames and sentiment.  Everything you see is from this fabulous collection.

Jenny - I have used a large die this week to cut the window on my card. I have used craft card and one of the pre-coloured digi's from the Octavia Frosted Winter collection. I wanted it to look like you were looking out onto a snowy scene, although I've used the coloured image you can get her on her own as a digi download here.

Jessie - I love tucking small die cuts and things in as layers on my cards and the banner on this is a great example of that! I used the Octavia Big Kahunna bundle for this card. the paper and the image all come from that collection! This image is so worth all the time put into colouring it! 

Ria - hmm what a horror to having to add diecuts... Who loves diecuts?? whahahah me of course so here is my card I used the scarecrow from the Autumn/Fall digistamp collection and coloured him with pencils and did his background in watercolours. The papers and sentiment are from the Serenity Collection... Dies are all from Tattered Lace Dies...

Aunty Sue - Wow how do I follow all this inspiration well hopefully this wont scare you away. I have used the Autumn/Fall Digi stamps with this brilliant Guy doesn't he look like he is ready for another drink and also the papers are from the Paper Heaven download 1 and the house and sentiment is from the sentiments pack all available from the shop HERE. My Dies are the corner die and the Railing in front of the house. The image has been coloured with my Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor Pencils. I do hope that he hasn't scared you off from joining us this week.

Wendy - For this weeks card, I've used a sentiment from the Picnix 3 Collection as the main focus and re-coloured in using Craft Artist. The Poinsettia's are also from the same collection. The die is a Tonic verso die, 'Birthday Wishes'.

WOW what fabulous Inspiration.  has it put you in the mood for crafting?!

Our winner (chosen by Random org) for our

Favourite Card Shape challenge is.....

#26 - Natasja

You have one a $10 gift certificate to the Polkadoodles download store.

Please contact us HERE and quote PD42001Wk39 to claim your prize.

Our Top 4 this week, chosen by the DT, and 4 because we couldn't narrow it down :-)

are...

#6 - Wendy

#17 - Bettina

#44 - Jana K

#55 - Lucy Patrick

Don't forget to get you badges from the side bar.

Congratulations to everyone and thanks to everyone that takes part

in our challenges, we love coming to visit all your fabulous blogs.

Keep Crafting!

You can enter our

USE A DIE CUT challenge

HERE

See you next time.