Week 21 - Anything goes - Polkadoodles Paper Crafting Challenge

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Happy Friday!
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 2 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 18/19      

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

We have LOTS of new download releases in the store in May, make sure you check them all out, have you seen our brand new Winnie Special Moments this week? Adorable! 

Check them all out here!

oOo--oOo--oOo

Now onto the fabulous inspiration from the Design Team.

Ruth:  I'm really liking the Belle Papillon collection so I'm using it again for my card for this week!  I save all my offcuts of card when making square card blanks and I've used one here as my base.  All I've added is some ink, waxed twine, half pearls and a heart pearl slider I found in my stash.

Jacki - Hi everyone for my card today I have made a digital designed card using some of the papers and image from the new ubber sweet Winnie Special Moments download then printed it off to make a quick and easy card.

Tina - I have created for you a Slider Card and used different digital design papers. You can find them in the big Set "Winnie Sugar Sprinkles". As you see, you can pull out the paper strip and the sweet unicorn runs to the right side. Then you can see a hidden text. This sweet unicorn is now available in the shop. "Be a Fluffy Unicorn". There you will also find all his friends, including themed sentiments.

Anjie - I've used papers and embellies form one of my fave collections, Picknix 1. I've used the Home Grown bundle for this, or you can buy the whole collection here, which of course is better value as you get 3 kits for less than the price of 2.

Michelle - For my project today I have used the Sticks and Bones collection I have used the papers, embellishments, animals and Digi image from this collection to make this box card.

Bev here and I used the content from Horace & Boo to decorate both the inside & outside of my make this week. Sometimes it's nice to use pre-coloured images and play around within your graphics programme.

Claire C - I've made a card using the beautiful Eden collection this week. I coloured the image (Eden Butterflies) with markers and layered her up over 3 of the lovely papers in the collection and added some of the little butterflies and a sentiment too.

Such fabulous creations, really lovely and inspiring! 

Now onto our Winner and Top 3 of  our Anything Goes Weeks 18/19 Challenge.....

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

#41 - Traceymo

Please email us HERE, within 14 days, quoting the following code PD21001wk18,
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, in no particular order, chosen by the Design Team.....

#3 - Jana K

#105 - Marilyn S

#108 - CaroleAnn

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

See you again next week! 

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 25 - Use a Die Cut -Polkadoodles Crafting

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Hello everyone - Happy Friday!

This week is inspiration week here at Polkadoodles for our 
Use a die Cut (manual or electronic)Challenge

You can enter it here

.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.

The winners from Challenge 22 - For the boys are at the end of this post

Here are more fantastic creations from the team

Michelle - So excited to be here and to be part of the Polkadoodles Team.  For my first Design team make I have used the Winnie Fruit Punch collection.  I have used digi paper, embellishments, digi image Buzz Bee Honey (which is available as a single digi download too) and design sheet 05.  I have used double sided foam tape to raise the embellishments and a border die for my "Use a Die Cut". The image has been coloured with Copics.

Tracy -I have used Winnie Fruit Punch collection. Digi paper, Pre coloured Digi image - Tree Top, Sentiment, Embellies All from the same collection. Also used a die and foam dots

Anjie - So my make for this week is a tag, which is a die cut tag! I have used the amazing, the fabulous, the lush new Winnie In Wonderland collection. This collection is one of my new faves in case you hadn't noticed lol. The elements on this tag are bits that were left over from one of the cards I made using one of the design sheets, I hate to waste things so try to find ways up of using them, and tags are great for that. It also means if you are giving a gift with the card that you have a matching tag!

Ruth:  I was asked to make a card for a new Daddy on Father's Day so I used the template from Paper Boutique Vol 1, traced the letters, added an extra d and then made my own letter y and added it all on the end.  The die cuts I've used are stars, I've hand written the sentiment and used very blingy silver card and plain black from my stash.

Bev here with a card I made for my Dad for Fathers day. I used the wonderful Winston digi & backing paper from Cherryblossom Lane . He's coloured up using Lyra pencils. I used a pennant bunting die across the top with die cut lettering too. Dad loved it. I hope you do too?

Anita- Hi everyone today I had a play with the beautiful Eden Collection download, I have used Eden with butterflies which is also available on its own Here. I coloured her with alcohol markers, for my backing paper I used a delicate print from the lovely Lavender and Tea download collection , I also added a collection of die cuts cut on my manual machine.

Katrina - I've used some pre-coloured cowboy elements from Work and Play 3 to make a male 'Get Well Soon' card. Each piece was die cut with some star dies and I've drawn on rope borders before matting them onto one of the background papers which I have brightened.

Gorgeous creations by everyone. Now onto the winner and Top 3 of our For the Boys challenge. The Winner, chosen by Random Org, is.
                                             66 - Tone

Please email us HERE quoting PD25001Wk22 to claim

your prize of a $10 worth of downloads from the digi store. Here is your Winners Badge to display on your blog....

Now onto our Top 3, and in no particular order, chosen by the Design Team.

1- Elena V
22- Sue P
64 - Twisted Witch

Our Top Feather Winner for this week

80 - Nick

Each fortnight the league board will be updated, so we can all keep track and at the end of the season out Winning Featherist will receive a speical Polkadoodles prize.

Congratulations to everyone.

We really appreciate you entering our challenges and we love coming to visit and seeing all your wonderful creations.

Our current challenge theme is...

Use a Die Cut and you can enter  here

Have a great week everyone :-)

Week 27 - Add Some Embossing... Crafting Challenge at Polkadoodles

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Hi everyone, Friday all ready!

Are you all surviving the UK heat wave?!
Hope you are managing to keep cool, where ever you are :-)

It's the start of a new challenge here at Polkadoodles.
Our theme for this fortnight is

Add some Embossing
(that could be any type of embossing technique)

You have until Noon, GMT, Friday, 17th July to enter.

Our Random Winner for this challenge will win ......
 $10 of downloads from the store!

Please remember there are only two entries per person.
You do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges.
The few rules we do have are over there in the side bar ------->

We are very excited to also introduce some new faces to the team this week - we are honoured to have some Guest Designers joining us!

So please say a big hello to ...

Jessie Banks

Jackie Maunder
Susan Bennett

We are so chuffed and blessed to have these 3 talented crafters joining us for the next few weeks so make sure you pop over to their blogs and follow them for lots of inspiration!

 

Jessie: I use Octavia Moonfly Wistful and coloured her up with my copic markers. For my embossed element I used Stampendous Shabby White and sprinkled it around the image and then heat embossed it, lots of layers finish off this fun shabby card

Susan: I have used Eden Blossoms coloured with Promarkers. My embossing is the backing done with Birds and Swirls embossing folder and also the flowers have been stamped onto vellum and embossed

Jackie:

... and the Design Team have been working hard too - here are their fabulous makes for the start of this new challenge.

Penny - with the beautiful pre-coloured image from the Serenity Collection - Serenity Joyful.  She is also an uncoloured Digi image.   The Collection as always has stunning digital papers and sentiments. I printed on glossy to allow the colours to really pop.   Our theme is Embossing and I chose to use both dry embossing with folders and embossing paste with a stencil and Whipped Spackle Paste.   The coloured image allowed me to make this card up really swiftly.

Asha - My card features a fairy from the sweet Serenity Fairy Collection. She's called Serenity Blossom and is also available as a separate download. I coloured her with Polychromo pencils. The patterned paper is from the Work and Play 10: Country Life Collection. I dry embossed it and inked it to make the swirly design stand out. The ticket tag is from the Serenity Fairy Collection. To finish I added Stickles and bling.

Scatty Jan - For my Embossing card I have used the lovely digi image Luna, coloured with Graph'It markers and a couple of Polychromo also using the White shake it Graph'It pen. I have embossed a tag using a butterfly folder and used distress ink over it. The papers I have used are the Distressed wood printables that I have also ink distressed the edges to match the colours used. Finished off with ribbon, flowers, gems and bling.

Karon -  I have used the wonderful Twiggy and Toots collection for my creation this week.  The striped background has been embossed and inked using a woodgrain effect embossing folder.  All the papers, and sentiments are from this wonderful collection.  I used one of the Design sheets and pre-coloured image and the Design Sheet is available as a single download too :-)

Cheremane - For my inspiration this time I've used the beautifully stunning  Serenity Fairy Wishes Collection.  I have used the pre-coloured Serenity Joyful Digi as my main image. For my embossing I have used an embossing folder on the butterfly edge and sanded it back for tone and then added frantage embossing powder for detail too. I have also embossed my die cut frame. The papers and sentiment are all from the Serenity Fairy Wishes Collection as well. Such a stunning collection and so easy to work with.

Agnieszka - hello Crafters :) Today I want to share with you my exploding box ful of owls ;), this time I used Twiggy and Toots collection :) I added pre-coloured images with owls and two tinny wodden owls. For my embossing I used embossing folder. In the middle of my box (under lid) is a place where you can write something:) I hope you like it. Happy crafting.

Wonderful creations and inspiration from the Design Team and our wonderful

Guest Designers.

The winners for our Frame It challenge will be announced next Friday.

Not it's your turn to get crafting and enter our fabulous new challenge

Add some Embossing.

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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 21 - Girly but NO Pink - Polkadoodles Challenge

Happy Friday Everyone!!

Its time for a brand new challenge - The theme is 

Girly But No Pink

You can make anything you like -  maybe a card, a scrapbook layout of even home décor. You can use any products you like to enter as long as it follows the theme for this week
The rules are in the side bar over there ----->

Remember, you do not have to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges.

You have until 12 noon. GMT, Friday 5th June to enter.

Our Random Winner of this challenge will win
 a £5 voucher to spend instore

Now let's see what the Design Team have been up to!

Naz -  For this card I have used few images from different Polkadoodles collections and put them together. This is something I love to do to create a unique image by putting few different images together.The images I have used here - AMELIACONTEMPLATING ,CHERRYCAKE, STRAWBERRY CUPCAKE 
I coloured them with Copics. I used Kaisercraft Decorative Dies - Block Words to cut out the word LOVE.

Anita- Hi there all today I bring to you Octavia moonfly dragonfly available in Octavia Bundle collection  and as a Digi Download .
The papers are super lush with amazing texture seeing is believing, 
I coloured with alcohol markers and enhanced with polychromos pencils. 

Ria- Here is my card for the Girly but no Pink challenge I used the gorgeouss Eden Collection to create my card. I created this all digital card so I only need to print it on cardstock when I need it and send it off and I can print off more then 1 hahahaha sometimes it is really easy for when you need a quick card and have nothing in stock.... for those forgotten birthday's. I coloured Eden with Markers and enhanced with pencils.

Jenny - I've used Work and Play 10 for my card this week, fancy having something girly but no pink! Well I managed it with the help of the little girl and cats coming in from the milking. 

Anjie - The image I have used is Oddella Fairy and is coloured with my Graph'It Markers. The papers and embellies are from the Eden Collection, which is also available in smaller collections HERE. 

Wendy - On this weeks card I've used the fabby Odella with bag from the Ickyinks. The flowers and the senitment scroll are from the Dollie Goes East collection. The backing papers are also from this collection, the green mat is from the papers section, however the patterned paper is actually from the inserts section, just cut down and stretched to fit using Craft Artist.

Claire C  I've used this gorgeous image from the Octavia Moonfly Collection (available as a download here or as a cd here) , you can also buy her as an individual digis stamp 'Octavia Moonfly Washing Day'. I've coloured her with my Graph'It markers and just added some ribbon, gems and a pretty rose button from my stash.

What stunning makes the team have made!

Remember, our challenge this time is 

Girly But No Pink

Looking forward to seeing all your wonderful creations again and thanks for joining us this week!

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