Week 28 - Anything Goes - Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge

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Happy Friday! We're starting a New Challenge this week....

ANYTHING GOES

Closes Noon, GMT, Friday 28th July. Prize:  $10 voucher to the Polkadoodles Digi Store.

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

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Join us on Create & Craft TV 

Monday 17th July, 2pm & 7pm (UK BST)

Join us for 2 hours of inspiration and fun with lots of our Polkadoodles products!  If you're outside the UK you can also watch online here...

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Over at Polkadoodles store 

we have launched LOTS of new products, including our brand new 

STAMP OF THE MONTH (limited edition)

and our latest Christmas Stamp releases

- don't miss these, they are selling fast and we have limited stocks - once they're gone, they're gone!
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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........CHRISTMAS and if you want to join in with that theme then go for it :-)

We would like to welcome another new member to the Polkadoodles Design Team.  Say hello to Norma, she has a wonderful blog and you must pop along and take a look.She has jumped straight in this week, so check out her creation below, along with the rest of the fabulous Design Team :-)

Norma.- For my first project as a DT in Polkadoodles,  I decided to make a winter card that hides a gift card, I  used  MissPretty that was released  in June and some of the trees for the kit  Winnie Winterland  I colored it with my copic markers. I think that it can be super cute for a little girl.

Ruth:  I've used one of the soon to be released Christmas stamps!  I've combined Frosty The Snowman with the Christmas Gifts stamp.  All coloured with Promarkers and added to an acetate card.  Such cute stamps and perfect for kids!

Helen - Christmas will soon be here so I'm starting on the gift bags for those pressies and you can't beat this little Owl Gift Bag. It's a template from the Twiggy and Toots Festive Fun Collection, bet you didn't know that was there and soooo easy to make, just print , cut and stick!! You can find it right here.

Karon - I have used the fabulous new Polkadoodles Stamp sets on my card today.  The Christmas Poinsettia/Holy set and the Christmas Santa Claus set.  I am not one for colouring, so I stamped the Poinsettia out several times on green then red papers (my papers are from the wonderful Festive Christmas collection), then I fussy cut the poinsettia and layered it up with some foam tape.  Then stamped the sentiment onto the blue paper - perfect.

Carol - Today I have made a Christmas card with papers from the  Festive Christmas collection and topped it with Hollybobs Santa from the Work and Play 5 - Festive Hollybobs collection.  To make the cutting out easier, I combined Hollybobs Santa and the background paper he is on before I printed it. Then I used some nesting dies to cut each layer before assembling the card - so it was much easier than fussy cutting Hollybobs Santa, though I did fussy cut the flower.

Lisa - I have made a card today using papers and embellishments from the Festive Christmas Download.

Craftica - Today I used Winnie Winterland - Design Sheet 13  to create little messages to add to my daughter's classmates little presents for the last day in school, I'm working on everything ahead of time as she usually gets a lot of brilliant ideas the night before going on Holiday.

Shylaa - I have fallen in love with Ula's Life. I have created a Christmas card with Ula life journal stamp. Adhered the pattern paper to the card base. Added the postage die cut panel above it with foam tape. Tied a twine around it. Decorated the diecut panel with 3d stickles and sequins.The Ula image is water coloured with staedtler colour pencils and did a fussy cut and adhered to the diecut panel.

Lots of fabulous creations to inspire you.

Our Winner and Top 3 of our Anything Goes Challenge Weeks 26/27

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 51 - Anything Goes - Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge

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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 30 December 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 ----->

Our Winner and Top 3 of our Anything Goes Challenge Weeks      

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

Now onto the fabulous inspiration from the Design Team.

Alysha - Its a TRADITIONAL Christmas for our DT theme this week and I have used Festive HollyBobs CD to create this lovely festive card. Looking forward to seeing your entries. Hugs Aly xx

 

Jacki - For my card  I have gone all out tradional and got really crafty using papers and images from Baked with love Winnie in Winterland and http://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/festive-christmas-download-collection/

Helen - I just love this Cosy Christmas image from the Winnie in Winterland Collection that you can find right here. It makes me feel so warm and snuggly just how you should be for a traditional Christmas.

Karon - I have used an oldie but a goodie this week.  Just using a simple panel from the Wonderful Studio 12 - Picknix 2 - Gingerbread Twist collection.  I but and layered several layers, added some sparkle pen and some snowtex for dimension to the canvas.  Merry Christmas everyone xx

Lisa - Today's make is a quick make, ideal for very last minute Christmas Cards! I have used papers, a sentiment and a Snowman and Heart embellishment from the Festive Christmas Download. For speed I layered the papers digitally and to stop the card looking to plain added some doodling and some sparkle.

Carol - Another quick and easy Christmas card from me this week using digi papers and a sentiment from Winnie Winterland to make a simple z fold card. 

Pauline - I have used a gorgeous image and papers from the Winnie in Winterland collection to create my Christmas card.  I fussy cut the holly which is also from the Winnie in Winterland collection, the tag is from the Festive Christmas collection.

Elena   - Winnie in Winterland collection is the protagonist of my card. The sweet timbre MR & MRS CLAUS is colored with COPIC. Christmas stars instead with watercolor pencils.

Such fabulous creations.

Now onto our Winner and Top 3 of  our Anything Goes Weeks 48/49 Challenge

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

#91 - Teresa

Please email us HERE 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

#47 - Rosemary Rogers

#50 - Lucy Woods

#73 - Helene

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 o visit and seeing all your wonderful creations.

Now it's over you.

You can enter our current

ANYTHING GOES CHALLENGE

HERE


Merry Christmas everyone 
xx

Week 44 - Anything Goes - Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge

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Hi everyone, we are starting a New Challenge this week....

ANYTHING GOES

Closing date: Noon, GMT, Friday 18 November           

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 ------->

Have you seen all the gorgeous new embellishments and stock that's now in store on the website? Make sure you go and check them out now, we have stock arriving all the time! 

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 Weave some Paper and if you want to join in with that theme then go for it :-)

Alysha -  I cut out a tree shape with my Cameo and then weaved the pattern behind the tree using Polkadoodles Xmas Papers and matted it onto some red card. Looking forward to seeing your projects this week.

Helen - I've dusted off my paper weaving and made a background paper using papers from the new Baked with Love Collection to go with the little ginger in her snowglobe. I've added some flowers and a festive decoration from the collection to. You can find everything  right here.

Pauline - I've used four papers from the Lavender Tea CD to weave a background for my clean and simple Winter Birthday card, the flower is also from the CD.

Jacki - For my card I have used The festive Christmas collection I love these papers they are gorgeous.  I decided to keep my card clean and simple focusing on the pattern of the weave and the image.

Lisa - I have used fabulous papers from Festive Hollybobs Full Download Collection to weave a square, which with a paper ribbon, bow and some foliage cut with Cherry Blossom Branch Die has turned into a Christmas Present. The sentiment on the little tag is also from the collection.

Elena - For my card I have used BAKED WITH LOVE papers. I love these cards, so I decided to bring out their beauty with a simple card.

Carol - If you take a couple of patterned papers from Winnie Winterland and weave them together to put behind a house shaped cut out. Then add a couple of characters from Baked with Love, add some more decorations and a tag and here is what you get:

Karon - I have used the wonderful Winnie Winterland collection for my card today.  I weaved some of the papers and these were placed behind the Stocking window.  Also used the wonderful Super Sprigs Die and the Flowers 2 Die for the flower on the top of the stocking.

Lots of fabulous creations to inspire you so we hope you have some fun with our theme, although of course you don't HAVE to weave because
ANYTHING GOES! 

Our Winner and Top 3 of our Anything Goes Challenge Weeks 42/43 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 43 - Anything Goes - Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge

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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  4 Nov 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 ----->

Our Winner and Top 3 of our Anything Goes Challenge Weeks      

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

Now onto the fabulous inspiration from the Design Team.

Ruth:  I've used the wonderfully Christmas (especially in red!) Bubbleicious Frame as my background and starting point then made a wreath of poinsettias with  the very versatile Flowers 2 dies - I pinched the edges.  Papers are printed from Winnie Winter Wonderland (print on both sides so you don't get any white showing) plus added some seed beads to the centres.  And to finish off, the little tiny sentiment tags have been cut with the Versatile Door / Window / Flap die.

Helen - Feeling a lot Christmassy at the moment so I've taken the Festive Hollybobs collection that you can find right here in the store and merged 4 images to make a Christmas Scene and used some papers from the collection too.  I've add some corners and the tree branch from the fab new dies that cut like a dream you find them here too.

Pauline - I've used the two adorable gingerbread people from the Festive Christmas CD, the sentiment and papers are from the CD as well.  I also used the fabulous new Bubbleicious Frame Die and lots of Distress Ink to create a rustic feel.

Alysha ~ Ooooooh I'm feeling all Christmassy like my team mates too. Here I have made a lovely Christmas card using Twiggy and Toots Festive Fun CD. Looking forward to seeing your creations this week. hugs Aly xx

Lisa - For my make today I've used the fabulous Festive Christmas Download Collection and I just love the rich traditional colours in this collection. I have layered the leaf image multiple times over red and green papers from the collection, printed, fussy cut and shaped into a Poinsettia, with a lovely bit of bling for the centre. I have kept the rest of the card fairly simple, using a sentiment printed onto white card and the inside of Bubbleicious Frames Die as a template to cut it out, layered onto the Bubbleicious Frames Die cut from Kraft card and a stripey paper from the collection. 

Karon - I have a play with one of the wonderful pre-coloured toppers from the Festive Christmas Collection and used the Super Sprigs Die to add some leaves to the white poinsettia.  I added some layers by cutting out an extra reindeer and birdhouse.  

Jacki - For my card I decided to merge 2 of adorable images from the Twiggy and Toots collection the papers are from the Festive Christmas collection I distressed them added diluted paint splats and frantage then added a large christmassy bow.

Carol - For my inspiration I've used the Winnie Winterland collection and used papers, a tag, some holly foilage and the very cute Candy Cane Elf to decorate a step card. 

Elena - For my ispiration I've used full elements of Winnie Winterland Collection.  Papers, elements and stamp painted with distressink. Front card more elements and paper base are red, while the back of the card is a collage of objects mounted on several levels with photoshop and green to fit ours theme.

Such fabulous creations from the team!

Now onto our Winner and Top 3 of  our Anything Goes Weeks 40/41 Challenge

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

#60 - Debra Miller

Please email us HERE 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

#69 - Bernadet, #85 - Jana K, #106 - Agneta Johansson

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 o visit and seeing all your wonderful creations.

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

ANYTHING GOES
CHALLENGE HERE

See you next time!

Week 42 - Anything Goes - Polkadoodles Crafting

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Welcome Back to another new challenge! 

ANYTHING GOES

Closes Noon, GMT, Friday 4th Nov           

Prize: $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 ------->

Dont forget to order your FANTASTIC new kits which work fabulously well with all the new Polkadoodles dies....
For a limited time if you buy both these kits TOGETHER you can get Baked with Love
HALF PRICE!!! 
Yes, HALF PRICE! (discount will be added at checkout)
       

And as a little reminder don't forget to join us on Tuesdays at our Digi Choosday blog where the team have more amazing inspiration and amazing discount codes every week!

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

The DT's twist on the challenge theme is Red/Green

and if you want to join in with that theme then go for it :-)

Lots of fabulous creations to inspire you....

Tracy - Today I used Work and Play 5 - Festive Hollybobs collection.  Images I used are 3 Rudy's which I place together, lamp, Insert 10 going across card, hbsent-07 which are the tags, and the yummy paper is hb15...

Gail - Got inky and messy with a mixed media card using the the fabulous Daisydays stamp set, available here or for the best value you can purchase the complete bundle stamp set and co-ordinating CD-Rom here.....

Michelle  I have used Festive Christmas Collection for this make Had so much fun I cannot get 

enough of this collection endless projects can be made from this Collection

Claire C I've made a snowy Christmas card using some of the fab new stamps and dies from Polkadoodles. The stamps are from Red Red Robin and O Christmas Tree and I've also used dies from Elegant Lamplight and Gate and Ribbon/Gift Frames and Corners . The images have been coloured with my PanPastels....

Anjie -  I've used the new Festive Christmas collection that was on Create and Craft a couple of weeks ago. You can now buy it from the Polkadoodles store as a download HERE, or a CD HERE. And of course don't forget those lush stamps! There is a full description of how I put this card together, and oodles of photos on my blog....

Scatty Jan I have used the wonderful Winnie Winterland collection to make my two cards. I have also used the lovely die set Ribbon gift frame that you can find here xx

Bev here,  I took a break from card making this week to make a cute little sleeve to go over a relatively cheap box of sweets. I used the Festive Christmas collection and Red Red Robin stamp set which can be found HERE.

Katrina - I've made a little hanging from a flat canvas with the Festive Christmas stamps and co-ordinating CD. I mixed Stamping Medium with some green acrylic paint to stamp the trees and stamped the robin with Black Archival ink before colouring him in with acrylic paints. The wording was printed from the CD and covered in glossy accents

Our Winner and Top 3 of our Anything Goes Challenge Weeks 40/41 will be announced next Friday, but now it's over 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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