Week 36 - Anything Goes ... Polkadoodles Craft Challenge

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Crafting time! Crafting time! The kids are back in school! Crafting time LOL!
oOo
Before we start the challenge this week, just a heads up to set your alarms and reminders for next week's Create & Craft shows with Nikky - you can catch her on Fri 16th Sept at 2 & 7pm GMT so don't miss it! 
oOo Starting a new challenge this week
ANYTHING GOES
Closes: Noon, GMT, Friday 23rd Sept.
Winner: $10 voucher to the Polkadoodles Digital Download Store.
You do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges.

Now let's see what delights the Polkadoodles Design Team have for you this week - the DT's twist on the theme is Oh I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside...if you want to join in with that theme then go for it!

Helen - Oh I do like to be beside the seaside too, even when it's cold and windy as so often here in the UK.  Our Winnie loves it too, sitting on the dock of the bay, dipping her toes and ooow look Merribelle Mermaid is taking a peep at her.  I have used two collections Starfish and Sandcastles, including Winnie and two backing papers merged together and lovely Meribelle Mermaid too.

Alysha - Hi there! Once again its Polkadoodle Challenge time as always its Anything Goes, this week I am “at the beach” with Winnie enjoying a bottle of Prosecco, as one should. So come and join us here at Polkadoodles for lots of fun inspiration and great prizes for joining in. Hugs Aly xx

Here I've used the Starfish and Sandcastles CD

Carol - how fabulous is it to be by the seaside?  For today's challenge inspiration I've used the very lovely Winnie Starfish and Sandcastles collection for my pre-coloured image, paper and embellishments.  I added a sentiment from the collection on a sun shape I created using clip art.

Pauline - I have used a super image from the the Winnie Starfish & Sandcastles CD collection, all of the gorgeous images on this CD are perfect for the Oh I do like to be beside the Seaside theme.  The papers, topper and elements are all from the CD, I have fussy cut lots of bits and pieces from a selection of the design sheets and from the embellies section.

Lisa - I've used the wonderful Winnie Building Sandcastles digi stamp and merged it with the palm tree digi stamp that can be found on the Winnie Starfish & Sandcastles VIP XXL Download to create a scene. I have coloured the scene with alcohol markers and simply mat and layered onto some green card and a tent fold card blank. 

Karon - I have used several collections for my card today.  Bonbon Belles Collection for the mermaid, beach huts, starfish, beach ball and all the papers. Then had to use the little girl swimmer from Work and Play 4 Collection. The sentiment comes form the Summertime Collection and the scene and fence is from the wonderful Cherryblossom Lane Collection.

Lots of fabulous Seaside inspiration for you.  You could always sneak out for the day

whilst the kids are in school :-)

Our winners of our Anything Goes challenge Weeks 34/35 and our Feather in My Cap winners

for using PD images (more details on this up top in the tabs section),

will be announced next Friday.

Now it's over to you.

Will it be Anything Goes

or the twist Beside the Seaside - it's up to you!

Thanks so much for entering our challenges and sharing your creations with us.

We love coming to visit and seeing your inspiration.

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Wk 29 - Summertime....Polkadoodles Craft Challenge

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Hello everyone - Happy Friday!

This week is inspiration week here at Polkadoodles for our 
Summertime Challenge

We have some amazing new Clear Stamp sets in store which are perfect for this challenge so make sure you check them out here
You can enter Here

.Our winner of this challenge will receive a $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles Download Store.
You have until Noon, GMT, Friday 29th 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.

The winners from Challenge 26 - Add Ribbon or Twine are at the end of this post

Here are more fantastic creations from the team

Tracy - Something a bit different from me this time, an art journal page for our Summertime challenge.  I have printed out and fussy cut a heap of different images from the Winnie Fruit Punch Collection.

Michelle -  I had so much fun with this one.  When I think Summer, a nice cold cocktail comes to mind.  I have used the Winnie Fruit Punch Collection, using embellishments, paper, sentiment and digital image coloured with alcohol markers.  The cocktail glasses I enlarged to fit with my project and the butterfly I made a bit smaller, this is the beauty of these collections you can make them any size you like :-)

Anita - I went way out of my comfort zone on my Summer Time creation and had a dabble with watercolouring without a brush !! I used the Summer Time Collection  to create my scene using the lovely digital images.

Scatty Jan When I think of Summer I think of all the lovely flowers , so my project this week reflects that. My cards have matching envelopes too (more pics on my blog) I have used  for the pink card - papers from  Lemonade Fizz - The purple card papers from Lavender Tea - The blue card papers from Octavia Moonfly. The sentiment stamps you can find here

Katrina - I've used part of a sentiment, some papers and a digistamp from the fabulous Starfish and Sandcastles VIP XXL Collection. Winnie is coloured with Promarkers and I've added sequins and some mesh ribbon to finish.

Anjie - For this card I have used a flower from the new Tropical Paradise Flamingo clear stamp set, and a sentiment from the new Oceania clear stamp set. I've coloured the image with Pickled Raspberry and Pine Needles distress inks. I've then cloured over the whole background with the Pickled Raspberry ink and added the usual squiggly black line with a fine liner.

Ruth:  I've made a cute pillow box with papers from the Lily Bug Love paper collection - its really easy to make as long as the lines are scored in the right places!  To finish, I've made a double pin wheel, added a half pearl to the centre and used some ribbon from my stash to add a bow.

Bev here with a summertime floral creation made using Cherryblossom Lane collection. I just adore the watercoloured look of these pre coloured flowers. and used one of the A5 inserts as my actual card base. This collection is just so versatile.

Claire C Flowers and birds are perfect for our summer theme so i've used some of the beautiful new stamps Tropical flowers 1 and Tropical Paradise Flamingo for my card

Fabulous inspiration by the Design Team, there are some real WOW projects here this week! Great work, teamies!

Now onto the Winner and Top 3 of our ribbon or Twine...

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

78 - Nick

Please email us HERE quoting PD29001Wk26 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.

25 - Rutscht

46 - Lucy

81- Cec

And finally our

Top 3 Feather in My Cap winners are

42 - Maxibelle

58 -Paperwhims

78 - Nick

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...

Now it's over to you! Our current challenge is

Summertime, and you can enter

Here

Have a great week!...

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.

Week 10 -Polkadoodles Crafting- Spring colours

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Happy Friday Everyone!
We have a new challenge for you and our theme is

Spring 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 25th March to enter

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

Watch us on Create and Craft TV next Friday 18th March at 9am and 1pm...you don't want to miss it, we have 4 new products to share with you and they are all absolutely delish - you really don't want to miss them! 

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

Nikky: I discovered one of my favourite stamp sets hiding in a corner of my desk this week so I've gone stamp cray cray. You can get this, called 'Can I live here please" from the store HERE. I coloured this using watercolour paints.

Katrina - I'm really enjoying my stint as guest designer, thank you so much for having me.  I've decoupaged the beautiful 'Rosie Washing Day' from the Cherryblossom Lane CD and made a greeting using two stamps from the Sensational Sentiments Stamp Sheet.  The card is covered with a paper from the Pretty Sweet CD.

Ruth:  I've decided to go for a very spring like theme (and a few pastels thrown in!)  Papers have been printed on both sides from Lily Bug Love and I've made little windmills - the larger ones are 3 layers - from some templates I've had for years.  All perfect to pop onto a lolly stick and to be used in a plant pot!

Bev here, I've not had much spare time this week so I opted for one of the design sheets from the devine Winnie Sugar Sprinkles  collection ~ tell a lie I actually printed the same sheet out twice, so I could give the card a little more dimension. I glittered the topper and backing sheet to give it some sparkle although I'm not sure my photography skills do it justice.

Anita- For the challenge this time I thought I would go right back to basic with my make using a pre coloured Topper image from Cherryblossom lane cd collection , Just the basics scissors and glue and some crafty bits and pieces.

Claire C I've made a very quick card using one of the design sheets from the fabulous Winnie Sugar Sprinkles  collection, they are perfect when time is against you! 

Karon -  With Easter just around the corner, I have used the bunny design sheet too this week :-) Great minds think a like LOL!  Love this little bunny girl.  You can either buy the Design Sheet, I have used most of the elements from or you can by the whole fabulous collection Winnie Sugar Sprinkles.

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 the winners of our Tic, Tac, Toe challenge - Have a great week!

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Week 28 Crafting Challenge at Polkadoodles - Add some Embossing

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Happy Friday Everyone!

July Releases!! Pre Order now!!
See our fantastic Nikky's launch of her latest collections
On 
Create & Craft
Friday 17th July at 10am

Inspiration week here at Polkadoodles, for Week 2 of our 

Add some Embossing challenge

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

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 24th July to enter

Our Winner and top 3 for our challenge Frame it can be found at the bottom of this post

Now lets take a look at the fabulous creations from our Design Team.

Guest Designer Jackie Maunder...This week I've had fun colouring the gorgeous 'Maddie with Present' digi from Polkadoodles store.Embossing using a double sided Spellbinders folder and a Spellbinders die today. Embossing on white card always looks so crisp! Pop over to my blog for colouring details....

Naz - The image I have used here is from WORK and PLAY 10 COUNTRY LIFE called FOX DIGITAL STAMP. WOODLAND LOG/TREE is from TWIGGYand TOOTS OWLS Collection. Like I said in my previous posts, I like to combine different stamps and images form different collections. I coloured the images with Copcis and added some watercolour pencil for shading and added few pearls and some stitching for embellishment.

Bev here with my take on this fortnights challenge. I used the brilliant Bonbon Belles Collection for my easel card, honestly Nikky has crammed so much on these two discs that you'll be ooing and ahhhing for hours! I've had to take time out of DT duties recently and have been struggling with my crafty mojo but it's great to be back!

Ria- For my card I used my favourite collection TWIGGY AND TOOTS ;) sorry I just can't help myself I have to use them Alot hihihi So I combined Twiggy Hats off and one of the birdhouse stamps and coloured them with Pencils. My embossed parts are on the Tattered Lace Dies that I used.

Anjie -  I have used Serenity Earthstar from the Serenity Fairy Wishes bundle. You can also buy the image individually HERE. I have used Graph'It Markers to colour her in and the embossing is done using a folder from Tattered Lace.

Jenny - I have also used Serenity but I chose Butterfly she is from the Serenity Wishes Bundle and individually too. I have used both Graphic markers and Copics, I have used a corner embossing folder for something a little different.

SerAnita - Hi there today I have used the adorable collection from Cherry Blossom lane cd collection , I 

used the pre coloured image it's so cute, I also used an A4 embossing folder.

Wendy - I've used two different types of embossing on my card, both heat and dry. The image I've used is A Gift for You from the Twiggy & Toots collection.  You can get the full collection here, or just Twiggy as a digistamp here.

Our winner (chosen by Random Org) for our

Frame It Challenge

31 - Norma

You have won $10 of downloads from the store

Please contact us HERE and quote PD28001Wk25 to claim your prize.

Our Top 3, chosen by the Design Team,

26 - Elena 

44- Julie

49 - Melissa

Well done and don't forget your badges

You can enter the Embossing challenge HERE

See you all next week!

Week 24 - Fathers Day/Anything Male - Polkadoodles Challenge

Happy Friday Everyone!

Just take a looksie at what our Nikky has been up to this week

How amazing are these characters!!

Inspiration week here at Polkadoodles, for Week 2 of our 

Father's Day/Anything Male

Our random winner for this challenge will win a £10 download voucher for the store! 

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 19 June to enter

Our Winner and top 3 for our challenge Girly But No Pink can be found at the bottom of this post

Now lets take a look at the fabulous creations from our Design Team.

Naz - The stamp I have used for this card is from TWIGGY AND TOOTS collection. 
I coloured the image with Copics and cut it out. Owl's party hat, balloons and the banner as well as the happy birthday sentiment are all from Polkadoodles Cherryblossom Lane. 
For the word DAD I used Kaisercraft Decorative Dies - Block Words.
I used some Wink of Stella glitter clear pen on the balloons, the hat and and the banner.
To finish off my card, I added few pearls for embellishment.

Claire C  I had a lovely evening colouring one of the gorgeous images from Twiggy and Toots with my Graph'It Markers. I adore this collection, you can find it here on CD or here as a download or if you prefer you can get the digi on its own too, its called Gone Fishing. I've added lots of lovely papers and embellies from the collection and as always Nikky has come up with a fabulous selection of sentiments too

Jenny - I have used an older collection for my card, I decided on a card for my friends grandson. I used one of the boys from the Pretty Tuff collection.  He isn't easily pleased and doesn't like too much fuss so hopefully he'll like this.

Wendy - So for my Fathers Day card, I've used elements from Work and Play 3, available as a CD rom or downloadable here. Both backing papers are from the Male Caravan section, with the check paper having been re-coloured in Craft Artist. The sentiment is also from this collection and I suspect originally susposed to match with the Doctors in the collection, but fits perfectly with my theme. The image is also available as a digi for you to colour here.

Anjie - I have used the Skateborder image from the Work and Play 11 collection. The image is also available on it's own HERE. I have coloured him with my Prisma pencils. All the papers, embellies and borders are also from the same collection.

Anita - Hi there everyone today for my Fathers day / male make I have used the postman and co- ordinating papers from the Work and Play 4 Collection  , He is also available on his own Here, I have not coloured him this time round I used the pre coloured version it prints out a dream.

Our winner (chosen by Random Org) for our

Girly But No Pink challenge

93 - Andrea

You have won £5 voucher to spend  instore

Please contact us HERE and quote PD24001Wk21 to claim your prize.

Our Top 3, chosen by the Design Team,

60 - Jacee

74 - Jessie

79 - Gail L 

Well done and don't forget your badges

You can enter the Fathers Day / Anything Male challenge HERE