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

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Merry Christmas everyone 
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Week 39 - Anything Goes - Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge

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Have you seen the amazing new addition
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Introducing Craft Dies by Polkadoodles
This is just one of the new collection of dies,
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It's Inspiration Week

for our Anything Goes Challenge

You can enter HERE

Our winner of the challenge will receive a $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles Download Store.

You have until Noon, GMT, Friday 7th October 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, Top 3 and Feathers for our Anything Goes Challenge Weeks 36/37     

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

We will also be announcing our overall Winner of our Feather in Your Cap :-)

Now onto the fabulous inspiration from the Design Team.

Helen - It will soon be here only a few more weeks to go, Yeah!!!  I love Christmas and so do Twiggy and Toots, so I've used their Festive Fun collection for my little bit of inspiration.  There's even loads of fab templates you can use.  I used a scene and embellies from the CD and one of the fab images and coloured it with copics. Merry Christmas PF fans!!

Alysha - Hello Polkadoodlers, this week I have been getting messy and created a lovely spritzed card This has been created using the BRAND NEW release of Stamp Soup Festive Christmas Kit

Looking forward to seeing your projects this week, hugs Aly xxx

Pauline - I have made a wall hanging using the fabulous new Festive Christmas Collection, the adorable Robin and beautiful Poinsettias are from the CD, I have printed them out and fussy cut them - I love fussy cutting, I find it so relaxing.  The sentiment is also from the CD, I printed it onto one of the backing papers.

Lisa -  I like to make a variety of Christmas cards, some more complex and some simple easy to produce designs. For these cards I have used the Twiggy & Toots Festive Fun Download Collection. I faded the bauble digis to pale grey and placed them behind the sentiment, before printing onto white linen card. 

Karon - I had to finally get my Christmas hat on :-)  So I decided to have a play with the wonderful Twiggy & Toots Festive Fun Collection.  All the elements are from this wonderful collection. (The aperture card was designed using by electronic cutting machine).  It's meant to be a door and then you open the door to the super cute carolers Twiggy and Toots :-)

Carol - I've had a lot of fun with the new  Festive Christmas Collection  and added some papers and the most gorgeous Angel Owl from the Twiggy & Toots Festive Fun Collection. I printed Angel Owl and coloured her with my copics, fussy cut her out and then added her to the card layered up with papers, a tag, a flower and some holly leaves.  So much festive fun.

Elena - I used the Husky Hugs of Octavia collection Frosted Winter, the scenery is made with Picknix Collection 2 - Gingerbread Twist.

Ruth:  I've made some really quick and simple pillow boxes for gift cards for my three nieces this Christmas - I've used Twiggy and Toots Festive Fun and added one of the little characters as a gift tag.

Such fabulous creations and inspiration.

Now onto our Winner and Top 3 of  our Anything Goes Weeks 36/37 Challenge

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

#49 - Eve

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

#25 - Sharon
#65 - Anet

#78 - Heather M

Here is the Top 3 Badge for your blogs...

And finally our Feather in Your Cap Winners for using a PD image

#24 - Paul

#41 - Louise

#45 - Andrea Norris
#74 - Teresa

Well done our Feathery Friends!  You have been added to the league board

which you check all about on the pages tabs above.

Here is the Featherist Badge for your blogs...

FEATHERY FRIENDS LEAGUE WINNER
Each fortnight the league board has been updated with our Feathery Friends winners,
entries that have used a Polkadoodles image.
This has now come to the end of the season and we have our overall winner.

Nick - Nick's Scrap Shack

Well done Nick - you have one 3 Digis from the Polkadoodles Download store.
Please email us HERE quoting FFWPD001 to claim your prize.

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

Week 49 - Secret Santa (part 1)...Polkadoodles challenge

Welcome back to another fabulous challenge!

We've gone all "Secret Santa" here at Polka Doodles for the next fortnights challenge as we wanted to make our last challenge of 2014 a little bit different with the festive season looming.

Each of the DT has made a card for someone else on the DT but nobody knows who is making for whom ... hee, hee, hee....

So the challenge this fortnight is ...

"Who would you make a Secret Santa card for and why?"

Link up to the challenge using Mr Linky below ...... now you don't necessarily have to make a card or project for this challenge but you could do a short post instead sharing your Secret Santa (crush/hero/heroine etc etc). Link up to your post as normal and use the photo of your secret crush Santa in Mr Linky. If you do make a project, link as per normal.

NOW as an added bit of fun, visit each DT blog and have a guess, using the clues, as to whom they may have made their project for .... leave a comment on their blog with your idea and you could be in with the chance of winning a prize of a wonderful Polka Doodles digi image. We will randomly choose 3 DT blogs (names in a hat thing) and then randomly chose a comment from each blog and the winning comment will each receive a Polka Doodles digi image.

This special Secret Santa will last for 2 weeks so you have until 18th December to enter - if you're canny you could win 3 digis and we will also have 3 fabulous overall prize winners chosen at random, each of whom will receive a copy of one of our amazing Collections worth at least £10.99 each!

The winners of our Clean and Simple Challenge Weeks 46/47 are at the end of this post!

So let's see who has made what this week .....

Scatty Jan Wow how much fun are we going to have over the coming weeks - I made my card using the Festive Hollybobs collection - This is available as a cd or download collection.
For my first clue I am going to tell you I live in the UK but to reach my Secret Santa's destination my card has travelled by aeroplane..... For more clues , and some more photo's  and to leave your guess come visit my blog xx

Asha - Secrets, surprise and Santa ... these are a few of my favourite things! The background paper is from Angelberry Christmas, the cosy houses and trees are from A Home For Christmas and the greeting is from Festive Hollybobs. To accentuate the snow I used Texture Paste and glitter. For extra sparkle and shimmer I used Liquid Pearls and Stickles.
Clue: My Secret Santa is into crafting, cooking and cats. She lives way across the pond and ... tell you more on my blog! 

Karon - This is so much fun and great that you can all join in too :-)  I have also used the fabulous Work and Play 5 Festive Hollybobs collection for my card.  I coloured this little lady with pencils. She is also available as a single download, along with other characters off this wonderful CD.
For my first clue, my secret Santa keeps herself very fit and is very busy throughout the year.  There are some more clues on my blog - so why not stop by and have a guess :-)

Ashley-What a blast this week has been making my Secret Santa Card for a Secret Friend! I used the amazing Festive Hollybobs collection.(Yes I am addicted to that one) Since this is a Christmas Challenge I just had to do a whimsical Winter scene. I tried a fun zig zag snowflake print for the background and I think it makes the card all the more "whimsy" 
Now for the fun part : 
My very first clue for the recipient of this card is that she has beautiful blue eyes. Need another hint? Hop on over to my blog and catch the rest of the clues!

Mel - I had great fun making my Secret Santa card - the CD I opted for is once again Festive Hollybobs, and I've gone a bit dotty for beautiful big satin bows since using this gorgeous ribbon on a gift bag recently. I love the sumptuous effect it gives for this time of year! And of course you can't go wrong with a lovely stick pin and some sparkly silver skeleton leaves.
My first clue for the recipient of this card is that she's got blonde hair. The rest of the clues are on my blog, so do pop by to take a look :)

Anna -  As a surprise for a very nice friend living in England, and who creates beautiful things (you can read more about her on my blog), I decided to make a round, Holiday card using paper from the Picknix Collection 2...Gingerbread Twist CD collection, without a picture, but with my favourite die cut deer, a poinsettia, which I made myself, and a Polish saying “Magia Swiat Bozego Narodzenia”, which means “The Magic of Christmas”. Besides blue, which I used here, all accessories are in two colours – white and red (they are symbolic of Poland, a country in which I live) - because I wanted the friend, for whom I made this card with great pleasure, to know where I am from.

Leah - Hello everyone!  It's a might chilly up here right now, so the heat is on full blast!  I have made a Christmas card for my Secret Santa recipient using Maddie with Present, and some of the cut out printable tags from the Festive Hollybobs Collection.  I coloured Maddie with my Prismacolor pencils and used a Wink of Stella pen to give her an all around halo.
I have a special clue for you:  my Secret Santa recipient has a special pooch!  :)

Cheremane - I love this fab idea and I hope you will enjoy and join in the fun with us. I have done a clean and simple Christmas card for my Secret Santa and I have used Octavia Friendly Hugs Digi and the Papers and Bow are from Work and Play Festive HollyBobs Cd. 

Now onto a clue: She is a lovely lady and loves Fairy's, for a few more clue's pop on over to my Blog.

                                              

Lou: I hope my Secret Santa person likes my card as I have been brave and used glitter just for them. I have used an image from the Work and Play Festive HollyBobs CD and papers from Angelberry Christmas. My first clue is that this person lives by the coast.

The "Secret Santa" challenge will end on THURSDAY 18th DECEMBER at midnight (GMT) and winners will be announced on FRIDAY 19th DECEMBER. along with the challenge winner.

You will get all the clues and loads more info on all the blogs so make sure you pop in and see all the team and leave comments to be in with a chance of winning their digistamps - we're keeping it secret who has the key to the digis so you have to enter on everyone in case you miss out LOL!!

Our winner as chosen by Random Org for our Clean and Simple Challenge is

#57 - Leona

You have won a fabulous download bundle worth £5 from the digistore

Please email us here to claim you prize, quoting PD49001wk46

Our Top 3 this week, as chosen by the DT, 

you all made such fabulous creations it was really difficult.

#5 - Kathyk

#11 - Novinka

#50 - Sue N

Congratulations to everyone, don't forget to take your blinkies from the sidebar.

Just to let you know that the winner for our Nordic Christmas Challenge, will be announced next Friday, 12 December.

See you next week for Round 2!! Good luck!!

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Week 46 - Clean and Simple - Polkadoodles Challenge

It's Friday! And it's the start of another fabulous challenge here at Polkadoodles.

This fortnights challenge...

Clean and Simple.

You will have until Friday 28th November, noon GMT, to enter.

You do not have to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges, 

and the rules for the challenges are over there in the side bar ---->

THE WINNER OF THIS CHALLENGE WILL RECEIVE A FABULOUS DOWNLOAD BUNDLE WORTH £5 FROM THE DIGISTORE....

Make sure you get this date in your diary as Nikky will be on 
Create and Craft on Thurs 20th November 
which is next week with another fabulous Polkadoodles show - don't miss it because there's something special going on! 

 Let's take a look at what the team have to share this week...

Scatty Jan I absolutely adore the Octavia collection - This card uses Octavia Friendly Hugs and she is coloured using Graph'It Markers - I am not usually a CAS crafter but I do think Octavia is such a lovely digi she speaks out on her own xx

Asha - Not being CAS-worthy I struggled to make this card. For my project, I used Libby the gypsy girl from the Fredericka Mini CD collection and dressed her up in Christmassy colours with the help of Graph'It markers.  You can also download Libby as a single digistamp. The sentiment is from Gingerbread Twist. Somehow it seemed appropriate, given my fertile imagination! A little gold choc wrapper, gold stitching, 3 eyelets, a few Liquid Pearl droplets and it's done.

Anna -  I don't often make cards in the Clean and Simple style, but here it is - a very simple and uncomplicated card. The background is made from a corrugated cardboard and on it, just a beautiful image of a Teddy Bear from the Winston Deluxe Papercrafting CD collection, and a tiny clothes pin on the bow.

Karon - Well, CAS hmmmm!  This is probably as close as I will ever come to a CAS card.  The temptation to add bling to those snowflakes was really hard to resist.  As is, I had to add ribbon and the embossed background ;-)  I used the pre-coloured snowman off the fabulous Work & Play 5 - Festive Hollybobs collection, and decoupage him.  The sentiment is from A Home for Christmas CD collection.

Cheremane - It's really hard for me to do CAS as I just love using ribbon and bling, But I have to say I really did enjoy making this card and maybe its a start of more cas from me. I have used the gorgeous Octavia Thinking Digistamp and delicately coloured her added a little glamour dust along with some simple mat and laying and just one gem as I just couldn't resist.

Ashley -  I have a very hard time with open white space I feel like its so limiting but it is also amazing! Okay well let me stop rambling, look at this beauty, I am so proud that I was able to do CAS. I used the  Work & Play 5 Festive Hollybobs collection. I can not stress this enough, if you do not have this set you NEED it! IT has the absolute best digi  images of the season!

Leah - Like most of my counterparts, I have a wee bit of trouble with CAS, however, who doesn't love a good challenge!  I used Octavia Best Friends for this project, and what a spectacular image she is to color!  I want to try her in all different hair and eye colors.  I colored her with my Prismacolor Pencils on vellum, then used 2 simple layers to put her in a shadowbox frame, along with ribbon and one die cut.  The quote by George Eliot speaks volumes for myself and many others.  I really love the look of the shadowbox, and I can see a few more of them in my future!  I have also discovered that glass is very hard to photograph!  There are a few reflections in there :P

Melanie - I love clean and simple cards - I would definitely say it's my style! Don't feel you need to use a white card blank to get this look - the emphasis is on placement and embellishments (or lack of them!), making sure your finished product is unfussy and uncluttered.  For this card I used the lovely black & white postcard from the Festive Hollybobs CD. I mounted it onto a kraft card blank at an angle, coloured the holly leaves with my pens and added a subtle pop of red with some gems for berries. I then simply tied the card with red & brown twine and added my sentiment. So simple!

Wow - Amazing inspiration from the Design team this week.

It's sure to get those creative juices flowing :-)

Please do not forget, there are a maximum of 2 entries per person.

Have a fabulous week everyone.

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Week 45 - Recycle It - Polkadoodles Challenge

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Polkadoodles challenge!
Don't forget that every Tuesday we have a great inspiration post full of colouring ideas for you from the Digi Queens so check it out below this post - and did you know that our sister team Digi Choosday have a fab Tuesday challenge for you to? make sure you sign up, there are often Choosday/Tuesday deals and offers so you need to make sure we're on your blogfeeds and join up with us over on Polka Doodle Dandies, our Facebook group for even more specials and all the daily news from the team!

So here we are, week 2 of our Recycle It Challenge.

Do you think we are all getting in Christmas mode LOL!

You don't have to make something Christmas to enter the challenge, just tell us what you

have reused in you project, on your blog.  It's always good to see

what us crazy crafters can reuse, don't you think?!

You can Recycle anything you wish - and this can be something as simple as reusing a bit of ribbon!

You have until Friday 14th November  noon GMT to enter. Just please follow the rules in the sidebar. You don't have to use our products to enter!
THE WINNER OF THIS CHALLENGE WILL RECEIVE A COPY OF THIS BRAND NEW COLLECTION WHICH IS WORTH £11.99!

Have you seen the latest new release at Polka Doodles.....

The fabulous Work and Play 7 - Less Work, More Play!!

The winners of your weeks 42/43 Christmas Fun challenge are at the end of this post.

You can enter the current challenge
Recycle It - HERE

But first lets see the Design Teams inspiration for you this week....

Anna -  Wow! It’s been a long time since I made a card with flowers! Recently I’ve been making mostly round and Christmas cards, so today, especially for you, something elegant with flowers. A multi-layered card, with the aforementioned flowers, ribbons, white tulle, pom poms, paper doilies, a Polish cut out sign ‘Sto lat’ (roughly translated, it means ‘May you live a hundred years’), also something recycled from a blouse, i.e. gray tulle with gold accents and sequins. The paper, which I used comes from Rose Budd collection. If you want to see more photos, I invite you to  visit my blog.

Lou: I have used lots of recycled bits on my card: kraft card is from a cereal box, lace from ..who knows, corrugated card from packaging and canvas effect card from the inside of a gift box. I have used the Perfect poinsettia and Christmas Doodles stamp sets, coloured with my distress inks. Full details and more photos are on my blog.

Scatty Jan The other week I was using some spray and sparkle on some poinsettias , I had sprayed them on an old bit of Kraft - When they were dry and I took them off I loved the Kraft more than the poinsettias and definitely couldn't bear to throw it out. The photo does it no justice it is just full of sparkle and magic. Perfect for this Challenge.

I decided to pop it on as the background for my bag . I coloured up using Graph'Its the wonderful digi image Octavia Thinking. The Bow is from the Festive Hollybobs collection and the flowers are from the Cherryblossom Lane CD.

Asha - My project started with something yummy wrapped in gold in a brown paper cup. I used paper from Festive Hollybobs, a sweet angel and candy canes from Angelberry Christmas and a sentiment from Gingerbread Twist to make a tag. The gold wrapper is a band in the middle of the tag and the brown paper cup is now a halo around the angel. Extra embellies from my stash: ribbon, twine, Stickles and Liquid Pearls. I also used Graph'It markers to add extra colour to the digis.

Karon - I had these bottles from some little flowers that I have placed in better storage.  I decided they would be perfect to fill with treats.  So I removed all the labels and ran them through my dishwasher to sterilize them and then decorated and filled them. Before...

I used the Work & Play 5 Festive Hollybobs collection.  I decided to showcase just 4, out of the many, design sheets that are available in this fabulous collection.  These are great if you want lots of elements already put together and are great for making quick cards and projects.  I wrapped each bottle in papers off the CD and also made some little rosettes for the bottle tops.  Here are my bottles all filled and decorated.

Cheremane - I have decided to use a empty tin to make my remote control holder for my recycled project seeing we all have empty tins at home. Make sure you give it a good wash first though.

I've used the fabulous Winston Cd to make my recycled remote control holder for my hubby, mind you he can never find the remote as I always have it. The Winston Cd is pack full of gorgeous images, papers and accessories galore. The main image I have used is Winston Bear Snoozy Days which you can get on his own as a  Digi download as well. Head on over to the Polkadoodles Shop where you can get lots of crafty goodies to help you remake my project.

Samantha K - I used the wonderful Work and Play 6 Collection to create a get well pen.

There are a great range of images and embellishments and as always papers, in this collection, something for everyone :) For my recycled item I used an old pen that was the type you get given advertising a company with their details in the barrel. I emptied these out and added my own bits :)

Its a fully working pen. I created a little image square, with a character, some flowers and a sentiment (all from the CD) and I had a pen with a large barrel, that once taken apart, had the printed square popped inside to make a cute get well pen :)

Ashley- I Decided to make use of an extra wedding invitation print out and not waste paper. I was simple I wanted to recycle all my old scraps and papers so for my card I only used scraps and printed on old wedding invites =) I used the amazing Work & Play 5 Festive Hollybobs collection for the main image as well as the background paper and North Pole embelly. What's so great about the collection is all the amazing images work well with one another or as a stand alone image! So head on over to the store you don't want to miss out on these adorable images for this Christmas and Holiday season! 

Melanie - For my recycling project I decided to upcycle a glass candle jar for a first Christmas keepsake or gift. I used the wonderful Festive Hollybobs CD for this, which contains some lovely design sheets with papers, toppers and extra elements that were perfect for decorating this candle jar. I added some punched snowflakes, a chalkboard panel and red silk ribbon to finish. The final touch was a red silk ribbon bow for the candle jar lid. This Mistletoe Kiss image is also available as a clear stamp in the Polka Doodles store - gorgeous!

WOW - amazing creations and ideas!  

Now lets announce our winner (chosen by random.org) for our last challenge, Christmas Fun

#80 - Deonna B

Please email us here to claim your prize, which is a copy of the fabulous Winston Collection, please quote the code PDwk45001wk42

Now onto the Top 3 as chosen by the Design Team

#8 - Mummylade

#13 - Sandra

#33 - Christine Craig

Congratulations to everyone and thanks for entering our challenges.

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

Recycle It Challenge can be entered HERE

Don't forget you do not have to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges

and please remember that there are a maximum of 2 entries per person.

Have a great week everyone.