Week 4 - Anything Goes - Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge

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Starting a New Challenge this week.

ANYTHING GOES

Closes Noon, GMT, Friday 10 February 

Winner will receive a $10 voucher to the Polkadoodles Digi Store.

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

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

We only have a few little rules and they are over there in the side bar ------->
Please remember a max of 2 entries per person - thank you.

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Now let's see what wonderful inspiration the Design Team have for you this week.

The DT's twist on the challenge theme is to Use a Design Sheet from one of the collections.

 Jacki:For my card I have used design sheet 12 from the new Helga download I put the card together digitally in my MCS programme to create this really simple but pretty Retirement card using the different elements on the design sheet.

Ruth:  The Design sheets on each CD are such good value and you get sooooo much to work with! The hardest bit is trying to decide which elements to use!  I've gone for Work and Play 12 - Geek Scientist - you can buy the sheet on its own or if you want more, buy the download as you get each character with its own design sheet.  All I've added is some card candi, glitter glue and glossy accents!

Alysha ~ Hi there! This week as always is anything goes over at Polkadoodles Challenge Blog but DT have used a Design Sheet. I have used HELGA Polkadoodles new release for January, hope you love her as much as I do, hugs Aly xx

Helen - What better to combat those winter blues than a little bit of retail therapy. I've used the Dolly Daydream Girl Talk Download Collection which you can find right here, the card shape is a template from the collection and I've coloured up Dolly Daydream and attached her to the front of the card.

Lisa - I've used a designed sheet from the Winston Download Collection to create a masculine birthday card.

Karon - For my card this week I have used Design Sheet #11 from the Winnie Sugar Sprinkles collection.  You can also get just this Design Sheet #11 on its very own if you need a quick card to make.  All I have added is an embossed backing paper, everything else is from the Design Sheet.

Pauline - For my card I have used a design sheet from the Rose Budd Collection, the papers and sentiment are also from the collection.  I have inked the edges of everything and just added some ribbon and pearls.

Carol - I used a design sheet from the Winnie Starfish and Sandcastles collection electronic print/cut/trace download. I also used a backing paper from the Winnie Starfish and Sandcastles collection

creativEle  - I used a design sheet from the WINNIE FRUIT PUNCH BIG BUNDLE.  I created a three-dimensional paper imagining the front & back of a shoes store SHOPAHOLIC.

Lots of fabulous creations to inspire you.

Our Winner and Top 3 of our Anything Goes Challenge Weeks 2/3

will be announced next Friday.

Now it's over to you.

ANYTHING GOES

Please remember a maximum of 2 entries per person - thank 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 10 - Digi Queens

Welcome back to another Digi Queens day of inspiration.

Before we head to see what the team are making for us this week, make sure you check out our fab new collection

Work and Play 7....

Let's see what the team have for you this week...

Victoria - Hi everyone, this week I've used the footballer from the Work and Play 6 Collection.  He's just perfect to pop on a card for all those budding football stars!!

Click on this link to buy this digi now!

I coloured the image with Promarkers, here are my colour combinations: hair - primrose, buttercup, pastel yellow; skin - almond, blush, sunkissed pink, coral; clothes - cool grey 1, purple, ruby, cool aqua; grass - forest green, pine.

Hi Anita here today I have chosen a super cutie called  Emily party she was so fun to colour with my promarker's and add a little sparkle too perfect for a princess. I teamed the image up with my new addiction of digital papers from Dollie daydream girl talk selection

I coloured using my promarker's and these are what I used ,
Hair: burnt sienna, raw sienna, oatmeal. skin: almond, blush, oatmeal ,soft peach, dusky rose, pastel pink. pinks : tropical pink, rose pink, pink carnation, pink mittens. Greens: mint green, soft green, pastel green, yellows :ginger, amber, gold, pastel yellow. also used a white posca pen and a wink of castella clear.

Emilly Party

Girl Talk

Jackie here, with another one of Nikkys fabulous creations.  I have used the digi image, Etty Bear Sewing, and coloured wiith Copics.

The copics I used are. B0000, B000, B01, B02,, B05.  R81, R20. E30, E31, E33, E35, E37. C1, C3.

Lizzy- I have made a slider pop-up card to share with you all this week.  I used one of the characters and a sentiment from my favorite collection, Work and Play Collection 5 Festive Hollybobs.  This is Hollybobs Presents.

You can find Hollybobs Presents and the sentiment in the complete Festive Hollybobs Collection or she can be purchased as a single digi as well. They can be found here...

I colored her with my Graph'it Markers.  Here are the color combos I used:

skin: 4125, 4115, 4155, 3120

hair: 1210, 1230, 1270

blue: 7109, 7110, 7115, 7119

green: 8240, 8260, 8270

red: 5215, 5240, 5270

Pami here with my card for this week.  Today I decided to use one of the gorgeous images from Dollie Daydream Goes East.  She is called Elegance.  I also used papers from the Full Collection which are just beautiful.  

You can get the digi here:

You can get the Full Collection here:

I coloured with Copics and here are the colours I used:
Skin - E000, E00, E21, E11, E04, R20
Hair - W9, W7, W5, W3
Clothes - R89, R39, R85, R83, R81

Hello everyone, it's Leah's turn now, lol.  This week I used Nikky's fabulous "Shannon" digi.  I LOVE this image, it reminds me so much of my childhood on the beaches of British Columbia.  We used to camp near the beach, and as kids my sister and I would collect seashells and sand dollars :)  Starfish were harder to come by :)

You can find this sweet image here on the Polka Doodles website:

I colored "Shannon" with my Prismacolor Premiere pencils in the following colors:
Hair - PC1084, 941, 947
Skin - PC927, 939
Dress - PC1092, 1031, 102I 9
Shell - PC1018, 1080, 1095
Starfish - PC940, 943
Flowers - PC1095, 1018

What great makes!

Don't forget to pop over to Digi Choosday today where we have some exciting news - in the meantime we'll be back on Friday with more Polkadoodles loveliness too!

Week 41 - Anything but Square - Polkadoodles Challenge

Yay- It's Friday!

Inspiration week this week for our challenge

Anything but Square

Your can enter HERE

You have until noon GMT, Friday 17 October, to enter

and don't forget you do not have to use Polkadoodles Products to take

part in our challenges.

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

The Winner and Top 3 of our Sketch Challenge 

is at the end of this post.

Time to take a look at the fabulous inspiration from the Design Team this week...

Lou: I have used Work and Play 6 for my card this week. I have used the hoover digi and made it in to an A4 sized card background. I cut around the edges of the hoover to make my shaped card blank. All the added elements are taken from one of the design sheets found on the CD. As an added embellishment, I have cut up a "real" duster.

 

Samantha K - I decided to do another 3D project.  Etty and Winston are printed straight from the CD and have also been reversed, so either side shows them.The flowers were all printed and cut direct from the CD and then shaped and glued together. I added little birdies and dragonflies to the top and a couple of butterflies inside. All of the elements you see were from the Winston CD :) You can find more details and photos on my BLOG

Scatty Jan For my shaped card I have used the fabby Dollie Daydream collection, all the Papers, the image and sentiment are from this wonderfull collection. I have coloured with Graph'It markers - You can also buy the stunning image Pondering on her own here

Asha - I made a gift bag using papers and digi stamp from the Dolly Daydream Girl Talk Bonus Edition. The image of the Bouquet Dollie is also available for download as a digi. I coloured her with Graph'It markers, added a bow and ribbon for handles and called it a day.

Cara - I've used the Work and Play 4 cd to create my card today.  I created and cut a beach ball using the papers from the CD on my silhouette.  I printed off the Swimming Girl image and coloured her up with my Graph'it markers. (she is also available separately as a digi download here)   Finally I created "waves" with ribbons and pearls.

Cheremane - This week I've used Festive HollyBobs Cd, whats more you can get lots of the Characters as Digi Images ready to download straight away to craft with. This challenge theme is great for me as I  always tend to make square cards so its nice to do something different. The Hollybobs Angel is one of the pre-coloured images from the Cd along with the fabulous papers and bow with just a few accessories from my crafty stash and whats more you can get lots of other crafts goodies over at the Polkadoodles Website.

Anna - For today's inspiration I chose a round card again, because this type of card, in my opinion, is more interesting to design, in the sense that one can decorate it with techniques, which will not work well for square or rectangular cards. This card is constructed in layers, doily on a doily. Around, and under the last doily, I arranged a fabric flounce, which here presents itself exceptionally well. This time I wanted to do something in blue, so I decided to use papers, which I printed earlier, i.e. two blue papers from the Winston Deluxe Papercrafting CD collection, and one from Polkadoodles cd Work and Play Festive Hollybobs I also used a sign and a snowman from Picknix Collection 2...Gingerbread Twist CD , some white paper, from which I cut out a star, spruce branches, and some red glitter paper, from which I made a beautiful deer. Moreover, I decorated the card with ribbon, pom poms, glitter dots, button, sequins and my favorite tulle. If you want to see more photos, I invite you to visit my blog.

Karon - For my shaped card, I went with a hexagon shape.  I used papers and image from the Work and Play 2 CD collection.  My little gamer is coloured with pencils and layered up on pop dots for depth.  I have inked all the edges of all the layers too.  

Melanie - I rarely do cards that aren't square so this was a new one for me! I used the new Winston CD for this one, which features some gorgeous material-effect labels, and I used one to form the basis of this card. I used some of the beautiful flowers from the CD and mixed them with layered paper flowers and blue and lilac gems, then added a strip of pink ruffled organza ribbon.

Fabulous creations and inspiration.

Now on to the winner and Top 3 of our Sketch Challenge.

Our winner (chosen by random org) is 

#5 - Irena

You have won 4 digi downloads of your choice

Please email us here to claim your prize and 

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The Top 3 as chosen by the DT this week are

#6 - Agnieszka 

#7 - Roma

#15 - Joasiaam

Congratulations to everyone and thanks for taking part in our challenges everyone.

Don't forget to claim your blinkies from the side bar.

Anything but Square Challenge

enter 

HERE

Please don't forget only 2 entries per person.

Have a great weekend.

WK 30 - Clash the Colours - Polkadoodles Crafty Challenge

Here we go everyone!  It's time for another wonderful challenge here at Polkadoodles.

Firstly, we almost forgot to tell you but you can see Nikky back on your TV screens at 
Create and Craft TV 
this Tuesday 29th July 
so make sure you don't miss the show!!

Our theme this fortnight is

Clash the Colours

So anything bright and colourful is allowed and you have until 8th August to enter.

Our Random Winner will be announced on the 15th August and will win a copy of our new Work & Play collection!

A new Work & Play Collection has been released this week.  This is number 6 in this fabulous series which are perfect to help build up a digi library of characters useful all year round - and they are a complete bargain price considering how much you get on there! This one is even a BONUS edition with extra elements...

And don't forget the newly released Work & Play Festive Hollybobs Collection too - Christmas is well and truly underway for us card makers now and it's ridiculous when it's this hot hahaha!! 

Also, Nikky has released a lot of new stamps for the Work & Play characters too - so if you prefer stamps to digis and cd's then you can find them here in the New Products Section

Ok, lets get on with the show and here is the Design Team's fabulous inspiration for you this week....

Don't forget you do not need to use Polkadoodles products.
Also, please remember that there are a MAX of 2 entries per person.

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

Scatty Jan - For my colour clash I went for pinks and reds, wow they do clash! I used the lovely Dollie Daydream goes east backback digi which I coloured with Graph'It Markers. The Papers and flowers are Dollie Daydream Girk Talk collection xx

Melanie - I chose to use some elements from the Dolly Daydream Goes East CD for this card, because of its lovely bright colour palette. I absolutely adore this watercolour-effect patterned paper, which I trimmed around and attached to an acetate card front. I chose to clash the pinks, reds and purples with a bright turquoise, which I think gives a lovely summery effect. The sentiment, paper banners and the dragonfly are all taken from the CD, and I embellished with a little bit of ribbon, a paper flower, button and gems.

Karon - Wow - great minds think alike.  I too have used the Dollie Daydream Goes East collection.  I made up a fan using black card and added a patterned layer, and some pearl dots.  The sentiments and butterfly are also from this wonderful collection.  The base butterfly paper is from the Fredericka CD and the blue polka dot paper is from the Bonbon Belles CD.  My printer was out of some ink, so I had to raid my stash of papers and luckily already had the fan and butterflies cut from previous sessions.

Anna -  Lately I’ve been making more cards using torn paper. I decided to make such a card for today’s inspiration. I chose a beautiful purple paper from Dolly Daydream Goes East CD , which in itself is decorative thanks to its texture; I cut it, tore it and arranged it in layers. Afterwards, I glued white lace underneath. On the surface, I arranged flower decorations and attached crystals, which reflect the color of the large, pink flower and my favorite tulle. I also glue on a piece of torn, pink paper to maintain unity of color and design. 

Sandie - Hello there, I'm here with some inspiration for Clash of colours! I really enjoyed this one and got to mix inks with digi's again and I hope you like the result. I used two fab digi's of Koi carp from Dollie Daydream Goes East CD from Polkadoodles (as the orient is full of colour) and I coloured them with Graph'it Marker pens as the vibrant colours from this brand was absolutely perfect for the job at hand. The background is made with distress inks onto satin silk card and detailing with a black micron pen..full details of how I made it are on my blog...happy crafting and I can't wait to see what you all make :)

Cara - I also chose to use the Dollie Daydream Goes East CD and Graph'it Markers  for this theme.  With the bright papers of the CD and the bold colours of the markers they are a perfect match!

Cheremane - Hi there wow where's the shades its a tad bright in here. I have used the fabulous Hairdresser  from Work & Play CD 2, this CD is so much fun, if only I had the guts to die my hair this colour. The papers and sentiments are all from Polkadoodles CD's.

Samantha K - I made my card using papers and elements from the Dollie Daydream goes East CD.  The image is called Dollie Daydream - Glitz and is available for download.  I used two papers to create the background and printed parts of the top paper twice so that I could cut out some of the lanterns and decoupage them to give a bit of depth. The image is coloured with Promarkers and wink of stella. I went for greens and pinks as they clash great ;) I also used some wink of stella on some of the lanterns and lights, just to add a bit of glitz (although sadly you can't see it in the photos).  The peacock feathers were cut with my silhouette and coloured with distress inks. The sentiment which is also from the CD, was coloured using distress inks and wink of Stella, this is also raised like some of the lanterns. xx

Fabulous creations!  Lots of inspiration to get you creative juices flowing.

Now it's you turn so come along and enter the new challenge!! Don't forget you can win that great Work & Play collection and you have until 8th August to enter! 

Also, please remember that there are a MAX of 2 entries per person.

We'll be back next week with last time's winners and more inspiration but we are really looking forward to seeing what you make this week!!

Have Fun!

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