Week 32 - Anything Goes - Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge

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WOW!  Where are the weeks going? Hope you are all having a fabulous summer and still managing to get some you time for crafting.  Here at Polkadoodles it is the start of a new challenge
and our theme is
ANYTHING GOES
The winner of this challenge will win a $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles download store.
This challenge is open until Noon, GMT, Friday 26th August.
We only have a few little rules for you to follow and they are over there in the side bar --->
You do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges.  However, we love
seeing your creations using Polkadoodles Images and remember if you use
a Polkadoodles image you could win a Feather in your Cap,
more details on this in the pages tabs above.

The Design Team have done amazing job this week, why not pop along to
their blogs too and see what amazing creations they make.

Lets see what inspiration they have for you.

Alysha - Happy Friday Doodlers! I have created a background using Pan Pastels and masks added corrugated card and string and a hessian ribbon for texture I then popped on a beautiful fairy from Serenity Fairy Wishes with a sentiment. looking forward to seeing your projects this week. hugs Aly xx

Helen -We're all about adding texture for this challenge so I made a little notebook and added some glittery texture paste using a stencil and some ribbon on the spiral. I've used two of the Winnie in Wonderland characters you can find the White Rabbit here and Winnie here.  I've coloured them both with copics and used a paper from the collection.

Carol - I have made another sweet gift today, this time using plain pink card that I embossed with a starburst pattern and then added some more texture with lace, to decorate, I added a cute topper from Winnie Sugar Sprinkles Springtime Collection and flowers and button from Winston Deluxe Collection.

Pauline - I have used a super image from the  the Work and Play 5 collection to create a Christmas card.  I merged one of the adorable Coloured Characters with a tree from the Embellies section to create my little scene - I printed it out several times to create some decoupage before adding lots of glitter.  I used one of the fabulous papers along with a sentiment from the collection and added some corrugated card stock for my texture.

Lisa - For my make I've used an image and papers from the Winston Deluxe Full Download Collection. I've added lot's of details to my card, using texture paste and a stencil on two corners of the patterned paper, a piece of cheesecloth and I've mat and layered the main Etty Shy image onto a shape die cut from a fine hessian fabric.  

Tammi - For my project this week I have used Winston Digi Design Sheet from the Winston Full Download Collection. For texture I have embossed and sanded for a distress look. Also, behind Winston I added some cheesecloth as well as added a button from my stash.

Oh my!  Aren't they gorgeous Design Team creations!

Now it's over to you for this fortnights challenge.

ANYTHING GOES

You name it, if it is hand crafted then enter our challenge!

Our winners etc of our last challenge Week 30/31 Anything Goes

will be announced next Friday, 19th Aug.

Have a fabulous week everyone.

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Week 31 - Anything Goes - Polkadoodles Craft Challenge

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Happy Friday everyone!

This is inspiration week here at Polkadoodles and as our theme is

ANYTHING GOES

then literally Anything Goes LOL!  Could be a scrapbook page, journal page, card

anything craft related :-)

You can enter HERE

The winner of this challenge will receive a $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles download store.

This challenge is open until Noon, GMT, Friday 12th August.  We only have a few little rules for you

to follow and they are over there in the side bar ------>

You do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges.  However, we love

seeing all your makes using Polkadoodles images and remember if you use a Polkadoodles image

you could win a Feather in your Cap, more details in the pages tabs above.

The winner of our Summertime Challenge will be announced at the end of this post.

Now lets see what the Design Team have to share this week.

Helen - I just love the Winnie in Wonderland collection, anything Wonderland is good by me.  I've used Winnie and the Cheshire Card, you can find her here.  I've coloured her with copics and used papers from the collection to make a teapot and embellies to give it that mad hatters tea party feel.

Alysha - This week I have created a shaped card using elements from both the Serenity Fairy Wishes CD and Little Kingdom CD, Looking forward to seeing your projects, hugs Aly xx

Tammi - I used Winnie Fruit Punch Collection and colored her with Copic markers. Big hugs everyone.

Pauline - I have used the gorgeous flowers from the Daisydays CD.  I resized the flowers in Word and fussy cut them before attaching them to a ribbon covered wreath using hot glue.  To finish I added a sentiment from the CD and a bow.

Carol - I have made a sweet gift using papers from Winnie Fruit Punch Big Bundle and a topper from Winnie Sugar Sprinkles Springtime Collection and flowers, leaves and sentiment from the Daisydays Stamp Me set. 

Ruth:  I've kept it simple and used all elements from Lily Bug Love - I layered the image onto the shaped card and simply added liquid pearl dots and a sentiment embellishment with a button from my stash.  Really quick and easy especially if you're in a rush!

Lisa - I have made a shaped card using some large dies and the beautiful papers from Winnie Starfish and Sandcastles Bundle. To feed my mermaid addiction I've used the super cute Meribelle Pretty and added some pearls, net, seaweed, hand stitching and shells. Both Meribelle and the shells have been coloured with alcohol markers.  

Fabulous Design Team inspiration!

Now onto our Winner and Top 3 for the Summertime Challenge

The winner chosen by Random Org is....

#40 - Lynda

Please email us HERE quoting PD31001Wk28 to claim your prize

$10 worth of downloads from the Polkadoodles digi store.

Here is your winners badge to display on your blog...

Our Top 3, in no particular order, chosen by the Design Team are

#11 - Srebrnolistka

#56 - Suzi Mac

#58 - Lucy Patrick

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

And Finally our Top 3 4 Feather in my Cap winners are...

#15 - Alison B

#19 - Karen

#34 - Paper Whims

#54 - Nick

Well done our Feathery Friends.  Your names will be added to the league board

which you can check all about in the pages tabs above.

Each week the league board will be updated, so we can all keep track and at

the end of the season our Winning Featherist will receive a special Polkadoodles prize.

Here is the Feathers badge for your Blog...

Now it's back over to you and time to get crafting

so that you can enter our current challenge

ANYTHING GOES

You can enter it

HERE

See you all next week!

Have a good one!

Week 28 - Summer...Crafting Challenge with Polkadoodles

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Happy Friday everyone!
We have a new challenge for you this fortnight and our theme is
Summertime
 You have until Noon GMT, Friday 29th july, to enter this challenge. Our winner will receive a $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles Download Store. We only have a few little rules and they are over there in the side bar ----> You do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges, however, we are loving seeing all your makes with the Polkadoodles images. Remember if you use a Polkadoodles image, you could Win a Feather in your Cap, more details on this in the pages tab above.

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Anyway, let's get on with the show and see what the wonderful Design Team have for your inspiration this week.

Helen -  Just love the Summertime, have we had any yet in the good old UK.  Well our Winnies has and she's enjoying a bit of time in the garden.  She's from the Winnie Fruit Punch collection which you can find on CD or as a download in the store.  I've coloured her with copics and used papers and embellies from the collection to make a scene.

Karon - Summertime, I always think of the beautiful flowers that adorn our gardens during summertime, as I live in Canada most of our gardens are under snow 5 months of the year!  I just had to use the beautiful collection Dollie Daydream Goes East Collection for my card this week.  I layered the flowers and added a sentiment panel to the centre and a little bow to finish off.

Shelagh - My Summertime project is a wedding horse-shoe, made with my Great-niece in mind who is an attendant at her Aunt's wedding, late summer.  Everything I used was from the Winnie Fruit Punch collection, 2 circle dies, ribbon and some self adhesive pearls.

Alysha - My summertime project is a card with the gorgeous Winnie from the recent release Starfish and Sandcastles.

Tammi has used the lovely Winnie Fruit Punch collection to make her sweet card....

Pauline This gorgeous image is from theWinnie Fruit Punch collection , I have used elements from the Design Sheets, Papers, Blooms and Embellies sections.

Carol Today I've been stamping with the fabulous Summertime and Daisydays stamp sets and made a fun pop up slider card in warm summery colours.

Lisa My Summertime make uses elements and papers from the Winnie Fruit Punch Collection in pretty summery colours. Instead of an image I've layered up the butterfly as the focal point along with the fabulous sentiment.

Lovely creations to inspire you all with our Summertime challenge! 

Have a great weekend everyone. Thanks for sharing your creations with us, we love coming to visit and appreciate you taking part in our challenges.

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Week 27 - Add Ribbon or Twine - Polkadoodles Crafting

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Happy Friday everyone.

It's inspiration week for our
Add Ribbon or Twine
challenge and you can enter Here
Our winner for the challenge will receive a $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles Download Store.
You have until Noon, GMT, Friday 15th July 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 sidebar ----->
Remember if you use a Polkadoodles image you could win a Feather in your Cap, more details
on this in the pages tab above.

Our Winner, Top 3 and Feathers for our Die Cut Challenge
will be announced at the end of this post

  

Alysha This week I have 2 projects to show you using twine and ribbon. The first is a simple gift box I have added a stamped daisy on top from the Daisy Days Stamp Collection and some pretty papers.

The second is a card using the same set of stamps I have stamps daisies in a row and the background has been created using brusho's

  

Tammi Lynn -  Hello everyone.  So happy to be here, this is my first creation as part of the Polkadoodles Design team,  I have used Winnie Fruit Punch digi and paper, and pink paper from stash,  The image is colored with Copics. Used some dies, twine and dimensional foam squares to finish it off.

Helen - Here's our Winnie enjoying a little glass of something scrummy.  Sounds good to me on those long hot summer nights!! She's from the Winnie Fruit Punch Collection  which you can find on CD or as a download in the store. I have coloured her with Copics and used papers from the collection.

Karon - Ribbon or twine - I used ribbon :-)  I couldn't resist using the delightful Rose Budd Collection for my card this week.  I love all the elegance that comes with this collection.  The fabulous papers and gorgeous embellishments - I am never at a loss with this beautiful collection.

Shelagh - This week I have used the wonderful Winnie Fruit Punch for my creation, character, embellies, sentiment and word art. The paper is from the Winston collection.  A little bit of twine coloured with alcohol markers, some glitter and distress inks to finish off.

Carol - Here is my inspiration for the week using background paper and the gorgeous Winnie Wonderland Cheshire Cat from the Winnie in Wonderland collection. I coloured my image with copics. I added some twine around an oval of card and used it as a layer and then added some tea time trinkets from my stash, all tied together with more twine, hanging from a triple bow. 

Pauline - I'm so excited to have been invited to join the Polkadoodles Design team, thank you so much to Nikky and the team for asking me. For my first project I have used a Design Sheet and Papers from the Winston Delux Full Collection to create a masculine themed card. I printed the design sheet a couple of times so that I could add some extra layers of decoupage. I fussy cut the sentiment, sign and buttons and then added 3D Crystal Laquer to the buttons.

Lisa For my 'Add Ribbon or Twine' project I have used elements from the Winston Deluxe Full Collection. I printed the flowers, sentiment and papers onto white linen card and mat and layered with grey and lilac card. I wrapped the top panel with twine and lace. The cute Winston Bear Heartfelt has been coloured with alcohol markers and added to the card with fancy die cut oval. I've added a pearl heart and a ribbon bow and curled the petals and added some buttons for added dimension.

Fabulous inspiration by the Design Team.

Now onto the Winner and Top 3 of our Die Cuts Challenge.

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

16 -Lena

Please email us HERE quoting PD27001Wk24 to claim

your prize of a $10 worth of downloads 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 Design Team.

12 -Norma

19 - Gale

106 - Twisted Witch

And finally our

Top 3 Feather in My Cap winners are

7 - Nick

93 - Lucy

106 - Twisted Witch

Well done our Feathery friends!  You have been added to our league board

which you can check all about on the pages tabs above.

Each week the league board will be updated, so we can all keep track and at 

the end of the season our Winning Featherist will receive a special Polkadoodles prize.

Here's the badge for your blogs....

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

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

Now it's over to you!

Our current challenge

Add Ribbon or Twine

Here

Have a great week

Week 24 - Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge - Use a Die Cut

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Happy Friday everyone!

We have some rather exciting news to share with you today, but before we do....

We have a new challenge for this fortnight and the theme is

Use a Die Cut
(You can use a manual or electronic machine)

Our winner of this challenge will receive a $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles Download Store.
You have until Noon, GMT, Friday 1st July 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 ----->
Remember if you use a Polkadoodles image you could win a Feather in your Cap, more details
on this in the pages tab above.

Anyways, let's get on with the news.
We have some wonderful ladies joining us here, at Polkadoodles, over the next few weeks.
We are forcing them breaking them in gently :-)

Please give a very warm welcome to the new members of our Design Team
and while you at it, why not go check out their amazing blogs!

Lisa - Crafting Belle

Helen - Helen's Crafty Shed

Pauline -  Crafting with Cotnob

Tammi Lynn - Crafty Gals Life

Tracy - Stamping All Seasons

Michelle - Cards by Keencrafter

Shelagh - Shelagh's Crafty Concepts

Lisa and Helen are diving in at the deep end and joining us today.

Why not check out their fabulous creations along with the

rest of the wonderful Design Team :-)

Lisa - Hi there, I am so excited to be here and joining the Polkadoodles Design Team.  For my first creation I have used the fabulous Winnie Fruit Punch Collection.  I have used papers, digi stamp and flowers from the collection, adding die cuts, pearls and alphas from my stash.  The digi stamp was coloured with alcohol markers and can also be found as an individual digi download Wishes Winnie. 

Helen -  Today is my first post here at the challenge blog ,so proud to be part of the big kahuna after my Inkies Pinkies colouring DT that I'm still doing!! I've chosen to use Winnie on her bee keeping duties from the fabulous Winnie Fruit Punch collection which you can find on CD or as a download in the store.   I've coloured her with copics and used papers and embellies from the collection.

Scatty Jan - I loved making this card up the papers are just stunningly delish . The paper is from Daisydays also the digi flowerpot that I have paper pierced and those lovely bee's. The flowers are also from the collection layered up to make them pop out of the flowerpot . The stems are stamped from the Daisyday stamps . The trowel and fork are electronic die cuts that I have cut in the same paper to match.    

Alysha - Happy Friday Polkadoodlers! This week I have created a lovely little card using papers and embellishments from Winnie in Wonderland, my very favorite collection at the moment. I have used a delightful little butterfly die and the little butterflies from inside the die. looking forward to seeing your creations. Hugs Aly xx

Karon - I too have used the fabulous new release Winnie in Wonderland.  I absolutely adore this white rabbit.  I have layerd up the papers - so that it looks like you are looking down a hole and there is white rabbit to chase that late birthday :-)  Everything is from this fabulous collection.

Claire C - I've also used the gorgeous new 'Winnie in Wonderland' collection to create my card. I've used a die cut word and die cuts to create the flowers too. The image has been coloured with my Lyra pencils.

Carol - Well I hope you are enjoying all this inspiration using the fabulous new "Winnie in Wonderland" collection.  I coudn't resist using the Winnie Wonderaland Horse to create my card today.  I used my die cut aroung my image which I coloured with my copics and also added some die cut butterflies.  The background paper is from the Rose Budd Collection.

Wow fabulous inspiration again this week for our

USE A DIE CUT challenge

We will announce the winners etc of our For the Boys challenge in next weeks post.

Now it's over to you.

Have a fabulous weekend.  Thanks for sharing your creations with us,

we love coming to visit and appreciate you taking part in our challenges.

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Week 23 - Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge - For the Boys

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Happy Friday everyone.

We are inspiration week for our
FOR THE BOYS
challenge and you can enter HERE

Our winner for the challenge will receive a $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles Download Store.
You have until Noon, GMT, Friday 17th June 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 sidebar ----->
Remember if you use a Polkadoodles image you could win a Feather in your Cap, more details
on this in the pages tab above.

Our Winner, Top 3 and Feathers for our Birthday Celebrations Challenge
will be announced at the end of this post

New releases galore at the moment.  Have you seen the latest.
Nikky has pulled out all the stops, we have several!

Stamping Made Easy
Have you ever wanted to stamp but were a little bit nervous?
Well now you can with help from Nikky
and two wonderful new combination collections

Summertime and Daisydays





And last but by no means least!
If you love all things Alice in Wonderland then you will love
our

Winnie in Wonderland



Why not pop along to the Polkadoodles store, you never know what you will find.
Also, while your there, sign up for the Polkadoodles Newsletter so you don't miss anything!

Anyways, lets see what the Design Team have for you this week.

Karon - Hmmm For the Boys eh!  I couldn't resist using a lovely pre-coloured scene from one of the envelopes in the Cherryblossom Lane collection.  I added some fencing and coloured the river with a grey pencil - to change it to a road :-)  Then added Horace as he is out for a country walk :-)

I have a second card to share with you this week - I have used the new release Winnie in Wonderland.  I love this rabbit!  Everything you see is from this collection and I have added layers to add dimension to the card.

Alysha - Well I will be kicking off my first challenge as a newbie DT with Polkadoodles with this lovely masculine card, I just love his cheeky demeanor and I have to say his little doggie is pretty darn cute too!  This card was created using the Pretty Tuff CD from Polkadoodles.  I hope you like my DT card for this challenge and will come on over to Polkadoodles Challenge Blog  and join in the fun with us, hugs Aly xx

Scatty Jan - Something a little different for me this week , Stamping!! After all these years of saying I couldn't stamp - I followed all the Underlay sheets on Summertime . I now adore stamping so much!

I used stamps from both the new collections for my little scene Summertime and Daisydays I used the stamps to make the fishing rod, fish , fish hook, bubbles and trees and also the sentiment. Trees and grass were coloured in watercolours, The sky was done in pastels and the water using Graph'It Markers along with mix it fluid and a dish cloth .

My second card this week I used the lovely beach hut digi from Summertime and coloured using Graph'It Markers - for the sky and sand I used pastels. The shell and the boat were made using a couple of leaf stamps from the stamps from Daisydays.

Carol - for my inspiration this week I have used some of the lovely pre-coloured elements from the Sticks and Bones collection to make a quick birthday card.

Fabulous inspiration by the Design Team.

Now onto the Winner and Top 3 of our Birthday Celebrations Challenge.

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

#49 - Saskia Pullen

Please email us HERE and quote PD23001Wk20 to claim you prize of

$10 worth of downloads 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 Design Team.

#1 - Dreja

#54 - Yogi

#80 - Jana K

Here's your Top 3 badge for your blogs......

And finally our

Top 3 Feather in My Cap winners are

#64 - Craftyfield

#70 - Billie A

#74 - Andrea Norris

Well done our Feathery friends!  You have been added to our league board

which you can check all about on the pages tabs above.

Each week the league board will be updated, so we can all keep track and at 

the end of the season our Winning Featherist will receive a special Polkadoodles prize.

Here's the badge for your blogs....

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

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

Now it's over to you!

Our current challenge

FOR THE BOYS

HERE

Have a fabulous week everyone.