Week 23 - Anything Goes - Polkadoodles Paper Crafting Challenge

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It's Inspiration Week and our challenge is
Anything Goes

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 16th June to enter.

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

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 20/21 will be announced at the end of this post....
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We have LOTS of new download releases in the store right now, make sure you check them all out... Adorable! 

Check them all out here!

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We would like you to give a warm welcome to Shylaa and Janet, our newest members of the Polkadoodles Design Team....See their wonderful creations below and why not pop along to their fabulous blogs.

Now onto the fabulous inspiration from all of the Design Team.

Shylaa: It is always fun to have a friend to play in sunshine. I have created a scenic card using Horace & Boo collection. Created the background using stencils and adhered the precoloured digis to create playful scene.

Craftica Here! Sunshine Yellows was a very fun theme for me I love to work my planner every week with a different theme or color and I decide to use A design sheet from the online Polkadoodles STORE.  It was easy to print at home great colors and a lot of fun in one sheet.

I was able to decorate the complete week spread using a single design sheet, it has lots of images and you can get may ideas out of it, So I think probably will continue using these as there are lots of themes and colors!

Jacki  - Hello PD friends this challenge really got me thinking of sunny days especially with the weather we've been having I have used Daffodil Darling bud from the Darling Buds Collection. I have coloured her with polychromo pencils, keeping the card pretty CAS to keep the focus on the gorgeous image.

Helen - It's that time of year when you start to think about a bit of decorating and what better than some lovely sunshine yellow!! If you don't get the paint all over the carpet like me. Best to stick to some wallpapering like the fabulous Painter/Decorator image from the Work and Play 11 Collection. You can find it right here in the store http://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/work-play-11-download-digital-crafting-collection/....

Lisa - For today's make I have created a card using papers, dies and stamps from the Belle Papillon Papercraft Kit along with the Elegant Nest Dies....

Ruth:  I've made a cute pinwheel embellishment to sit on top of a gift box.  I've used papers from the Serenity download - making two large pinwheels and a small one, layering up and securing with a brad.

Carol - I've been so busy with a new job that I hardly have had time to get into my craft room, so today I made a quick shaped card using the pre-coloured Daffodil Darling Bud from the Darling Buds Collection - I love the sunshine yellows and it really brightens the wintery days we are having in Sydney this week.

Karon - I have used the wonderful Dollie Daydream Goes East collection for all the papers and the sentiment on my card today.  Then using the wonderful Polkadoodles Dies, Flower Flourish, Elegant Flourish, Flowers 2 Die and finally the Super Sprigs Die.  A little bit of inking around the edges and all done :-)

Such fabulous creations! Wow!

Now onto our Winner and Top 3 of  our Anything Goes Weeks 20/21 Challenge.....

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

#13 - Karen Neil

Please email us HERE, withing 14 days, quoting the following code PD23001wk20,
to claim your 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

#48 - Christy Sugiarto

#71 - Sewe

#91 - Julie P 

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 to visit and seeing all your wonderful creations...

Now it's over you.....You can enter our current

ANYTHING GOES
CHALLENGE HERE

Week 18 - Anything Goes - Polkadoodles Paper Crafting Challenge

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Our New Challenge this week is

ANYTHING GOES

Closes Noon, GMT, Friday 19 May.  
Our random winner will receive a $10 voucher to the Polkadoodles Digi Store. 
You do not need to use Polkadoodles Products to enter our challenges but 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 ------->

Have you seen our amazing new DIGI STAMP release? 

It's all about our amazing new character ULA - she's a real stunner and perfect for all kinds of crafting especially if you love to get a mixed media feel with your projects.... 

 Check them all out here!

Now let's see what wonderful inspiration the Design Team have for you this week....The DT's twist on the challenge theme is Use a Die Cut and if you want to join in with that theme then go for it :-)

Tina: For my card I used "Dollie Daydream Goes East" and colored with Polychromos. A little bit glitter on it and so "You Can Do Anything. 

Anjie - I used the Polkadoodles Bubbleicious die set for this make. I cut the two frames from watercolour card and then left the die in place and used a distress ink to add some colour around the edge of the die. I mounted the frames onto 3D foam and stuck them down. I then stamped out the Flamingo, flowers and foliage from the Tropical Paradise Flamingo stamp set, also onto watercolour card. Again I used the distress ink to colour them in. I then sprayed the flowers and leaves with water so the card became pliable. I then shaped the flowers and leaves, added some stamens to the flowers and glued in place on the card.

Bev  with a cute little easel card made using Winnie Starfish/Sandcastles Collection. Great minds think alike as I too used the Bubbleicious Frame Die. My image is coloured in with Prisma Pencils.

Claire C I've used stamps from the beautiful Bella Fleur A5 Clear stamp set to create this little wildflower meadow. The butterfly is from Belle Papillon Stamp Set and I've used the matching Butterfly Doublet Die to create the butterfly using acetate and glitter on the back.

Michelle For my project I have used the brand new ULA the one I have used is called ULA Life Journal  and for my die cuts I have used Ribbon gift frames and corners dies 

Lou: I've used stamps from the Tropical Flowers stamp set and the following dies: Ribbon Gift Frame & Cherry Blossom Branch. The stamped images have been watercoloured and mounted on to the branches. I have also extended the Ribbon Gift Frame to make a much longer panel. The sentiment is from the Belle Papillion stamp set.

 

 Lots of fabulous creations to inspire you....

Our Winner and Top 3 of our Anything Goes Challenge Weeks 16/17 will be announced next Friday.

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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Week 40 - Anything Goes - Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge

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Hi everyone! We're starting a New Challenge this week

ANYTHING GOES

Closes Noon, GMT, Friday 21st October. A lucky 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 ------->

Before we get to the inspiration make sure you check out our Facebook group this weekend - we have some great prizes, competitions and also a new launch going on so don't miss out on all the fun! 

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

The DT's twist on the challenge theme is Autumn/Winter colours and if you want to join in with that theme then go for it :-)

Alysha - Hi there Polkadoodlers its another fab challenge.  This week as always its ANYTHING GOES, but the DT had autumn colours for our inspiration, so I couldn't resist using the beautiful Eden Butterflies from the Eden Collection.  Hugs Aly xx 

Helen - We've gone all Autumnal for our new challenge, so Serenity Fairy Kisses sprang to mind from the Serenity Collection. I just love fairies and Serenity is just so devine. For some reason had to give her green hair well she is an Autumn fairy today.

Pauline - I have used one of my favourite collections, the fabulous Winnie in Wonderland, for my card.  I've been fussy cutting again - I have used a gorgeous topper, some fabulous papers and lots of bits and pieces from the Embellies and Ephemera sections.

Lisa - My card today uses the Sticks & Bones Mammoth Dinosaur Download Bundle. I've coloured up one of the cute images, with alcohol markers and layered her up with some of the fabulous papers and embellishments.

Jacki - For my card this week I have used papers fromWork and Play festive hollybobs collection  and the image and sentiment are from Twiggy and Toots download collection I coloured the image with my Pablo pencils, added some glitter snowflakes and jingle bells for a merry chrimbo card.

Karon - I have the wonderful Dollie Daydream Goes East Collection for my card this week.  I love the papers in this collection.  I have faux paper pieced the clothes in the little image, the rest was coloured with Lyra Pencils.  Added some depth by using some foam dots.

Carol -  I have had so much fun with the Festive Christmas Collection, I decided to use it again this week for our Autumn Colours challenge. I just love all the digital elements in these collections and I used them to make a really quick and easy card today.  I arranged the little robin and clock digital soup element on top of a paper from Octavia Frosted Winter collection, added a tag, sentiment and a bow - then printed it all out and layered it onto a backing card - so quick and easy, just what you sometimes need for a Christmas card.

Elena - Hi there Polkadoodlers.  I like to you use the honey in the fall, especially when the cold becomes strong.  Here's my creative inspiration for this theme, "good honey" produced by HONEY PIE.  For part of the project I used printable digital stamps to the collection WINNIE FRUIT PUNCH BIG BUNDLE.  Also the PUNCH PAPER HEAVEN 3  and PUNCH PAPER HEAVEN 1.

Lots of fabulous creations to inspire you.

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

will be announced next Friday.

Now it's over to you....ANYTHING GOES

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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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 22 - Girly but NO Pink - Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge

Hellloooo!!

Inspiration week here at Polkadoodles, for Week 2 of our Girly but No Pink challenge.

But, before we get to that, have you seen the latest releases by Nikky!!

She never stops creating!

This is the latest gorgeous on trend release. Please welcome ...

Serenity

These fairies are delightful, beautiful and so elegant.Fabulous collection including
gorgeous papers to give you that wow factor to your fabulous creations.

Work and Play 11

features all the latest fabulous recreation digis: from golfers, to dancers, skateboarders,
 computer geeks and decorators!What a wonderful choice and fabulous papers,
embellishments and cutting files!

You can enter our latest challenge Girly but No Pink HERE

The winner of our Things with Wings challenge will be announced at the end of this post.

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

Scatty Jan - Ohhhh girly but no pink there's a challenge I just love using Pink. I decided to colour up Eden Cherryblossom part of the Eden collection, The sentiment is also from there, but also as a digi here. I coloured up using polychromos. The Paper is from Dollie Daydream goes East and I have punched the flowers out of the same.

Asha - I'm a little bit country this week! This simple card is made using papers, sentiment and an image from the Work and Play 10 Country Life Full Digital Craft Collection. I coloured the Dog Walking Country Lady with Faber Castell Polychromos and added 3 buttons as embellishment. This image is also available as a download digi.

Penny - At a recent retreat a friend and I were talking about cards for teachers and making this a little bit different and individual.  I coloured up the Teacher Digi from Work and Play 3 and combined her with some of the digi papers from the kit to create the cute little blackboard frame.

Karon - For my card this week, I chose to use the fabulous female golfer, off one of the design sheets, from the wonderful Work and Play 11 Collection.  I printed her out several times and then layered her up pyramid style.  I made a Z-Fold card and all the papers, sentiments, are from this wonderful collection, it's also available as and instant download.  The image is available as in individual download Female Golfer.

Cheremane - Oh what a challenge this is for me as I adore girly but always use pink so it was a nice refreshing change not to.  I used the fabulous Work and Play 11 Cd to create my card and used the
pre-coloured Gymnast isn't she adorable, you can also get her as a single Digi if you choose. Trust me though you will want the whole collection its fab and super for so many occasions.

Agnieszka - hello Crafters :)Today  I've used Work and Play 10 for my card this week,  something girly but no pink! I used pre-coloured image - isn't she is so cute ;) I love this colour combo and I think that green and blue is also suit to girly project. I added some flowers and pearls. Hugs

Lou: I've gone all "grungy" for my girl inspired card and have used lots of elements from Bonbon Belles to create my card. Added some "bling" to lift the colours and used my GraphIt gold glitter shaker pen to highlight the words.

Aren't they gorgeous!  

Our winner (chosen by Random Org) for our

Things with Wings Challenge is...

#47 - Bettina

You have won £5 voucher to spend on IckyInk Digital Stamps

Please contact us HERE and quote PD22001Wk19 to claim your prize.

Our Top 3, chosen by the Design Team,

who, I have to say had a really hard time choosing!  Your creations

were all gorgeous !!!

#3 - Jayne

#8 - Lucy Patrick

#95 - Shabby Pink Stamper

Congratulations to everyone, and don't forget to take your blinkies from the side bar.

If you took part by adding your make in the Facebook Polkadoodles Crafting Group,

we have a winner over there too - so don't forget to check :-)

Also please remember that we only have a little set of rules for your to follow

they are over there in the side bar ----->

Maximum of 2 entries per person and please follow the blog to be eligible for prizes!

Can't wait to see what you create for

our "Girly but No Pink" challenge  HERE

Thank you all for taking part - we look forward to visiting and seeing your

wonderful creations and inspiration each week.

Have a great weekend everyone.

See you next week!

Week 6 - Flower Power - Polkadoodles Challenge

Yay! Friday is here again.

I can't believe that we are already into February.

Octavia Moonfly made her debut this past week and you have all

fallen in love with this wonderful collection.  All the different bundles

are available by clicking on the image below.

Isn't she gorgeous!! And the fact that she is not only available as a full CD collection

or immediate download collection, but she is also available as

individual digi downloads.

Also a quick reminder that we are currently having a

Design Team Call and not just one but two!

We are looking for some new Challenge teamies and also

some new teamies for our all new Facebook Team.

You can read all about it HERE!

The winners of our Case It Challenge will be announced at the end of this post.

Out current challenge Flower Power is open until

Friday 13th Feb, 12 noon GMT

You can enter your creations

HERE

Don't forget, you do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges.

The rules are in the sidebar over there ----->

Now onto the fabulous Design Team inspiration for you this week,

without further ado.......

Scatty Jan for my Flower Power card I have used the lovely  CD collection Bonbon Belles - It has two CD's absolutely full to the brim with so many goodies - All the papers, flowers and embellies I have used are from the collection. Georgia is one of the many characters that can be found on this collection and I have coloured her with Graph'It markers 

Asha: For my project, I'm travelling back in time to this pretty CD released in December 2012 called Cherry Blossom Lane. Adorable characters and cute papers and embellishments fill this spring themed CD. I've coloured the cute bunnies having fun around the Maypole with Graph'It markers and added a floral border. The sentiment is from the In The Garden CD. More papers flowers from my stash for extra power!

Susan  -  Flower Power !!!!!!! for my card this week I have used papers and a precoloured digi from one of my favourite collections Rose Budd CD. The flowers are from the amazing New Octavia collection  also available as a download.  Just goes to show how you can mix & match all of your collections.

Karon - Thought I would try something a little different this week and made this little gift.  The frame is 3.25" square and I have used the Dollie Daydream Goes East collection.  The backing paper, butterfly and flower are all from this wonderful collection.  I layered up the butterfly and added some glossy accents and then layered up the flower too, also adding some glossy accents.  

Melanie - I've once again used the amazing Picknix collection for my card, specifically the In The Garden bundle, which is full of gorgeous images, sentiments and papers. I layered the digital sentiment over a journaling card in a Word program before printing out, then coloured the flowers around the image with a red Spectrum Noir pen. I layered the journaling card with a lovely green polka dot paper from the CD and some scrap dictionary paper from my stash, then embellished with paper flowers, gems and lace ribbon. 

Cheremane - For my take on Flower Power I have used the adorable pre-coloured Etty Bear from the Winston Cd. You can also get Etty as a Digi download on her own, isn't she just the cutest, I have also used the papers and flowers all from the Winston Cd. Head on over to the Shop where you can get all your accessories to complement your Cd's & Downloads for all your crafting needs.

Claire C I've used the gorgeous Work and Play 8 collection for my card, I love this cd and used my trusty Graph'It Markers to colour up the supercute image! I've die cut the flowers from some scraps of the pretty backing papers on the CD and added a sentiment, some lace, velvet ricrac, pearls and die cuts. To finish off i've used one of the fabby paper bows from the CD too

Anna -  I really like challenges with flowers. I love arranging flowers on cards into bouquets, or using only two or even one, large flower. Flowers add charm to projects and I always associate them with a beautiful garden. This time, I present an Easter card in violet colors from from the Winston Cd, layered with beautiful doily and gorgeous flowers.  

WOW - haven't the team done a fabulous job this week.

Gorgeous inspiration.

Now onto our winner, as chosen by random org, from our

Case It Challenge

#4 - Mary Demmons

Please contact us here, and quote PD6001wk3, to claim your prize

You have won a copy of our fabulous

Work & Play 8 collection on download.

Now onto our Top 3 as chosen by the Design Team

#1 - Vannessa

#2 - Kym

#4 - Mary Demmons

You have all won a digi!!

Please contact us here, and quote PD6002wk3, to claim your prize.

Well done and congratulations to everyone.

Don't forget to take you blinkies from the side bar too.

So, off you go now and get crafting my lovelies :-)

Flower Power Challenge - open until the 13th February, Noon GMT

Enter

HERE