Week 20 - Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge - Birthday Celebrations & DT CALL

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Happy Friday everyone!

We are still in Birthday mode here at Polkadoodles so we hope you are joining in all the fun. Why not pop along to the Polkadoodles Facebook page and see what we are all up to. You might snag some great surprise discounts and other fun stuff along the way.

Yes, we are looking for a couple of new DT members so if you're interested please click the image above or go to the post below this one for more details on how to apply!

We have a new challenge starting today and our theme just has to be ....
Birthday Celebrations
You can make anything you like for the challenge, as long as it follows the theme.
You have until Noon GMT, Friday 3rd June to enter.
The winner of this challenge will receive a $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles Download Store.
Remember, 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 ----->

Now lets see what fabulous Birthday inspiration the Design Team have for you this week.

Ria -Happy Birthday Polkadoodles.. for today's card I used the sweet Maddie Twirling Curls, coloured with markers and pencils. For the card I used the pretty Lavender Tea Collection and a wooden 7 from my stash...

Scatty Jan - Who doesn't love a Birthday party? Well my project started out as a cake, which in turn turned out to be afternoon tea - which then had to move outside as it became an afternoon tea party. I have used so many collections which are all listed on my blog along with a lot more photos and info so pop across and help yourself to a slice of cake xx

Jenny - Happy Birthday Polkadoodles! For my card I've used Lily Love Bug and I chose the heart because we do love Polkadoodles! You can get her as a single digi or as part of a collection, here.

Karon - Happy 7th Birthday Polkadoodles, whoop whoop!  :-)  I have used the fabulous Winnie Fruit Punch collection for everything on my card.  I used a pre-coloured image and also added some beads and wire to the butterfly.  I love doing easel cards, they come together so quickly.  This Winnie image is also available as a single black and white digi for you to colour up yourself, Winnie Wishes.

Carol - Happy birthday Polkadoodles - for my inspiration I have made a cake card using a background paper from Winnie Fruit Punch for the icing, added a die cut sentiment and then decorated the cake with some toppers from Winnie Sugar Sprinkles and of course the candle embellishments from the Winston Collection. I also added some pearls, a rose and some ribbon and bows.

Such wonderful creations from the Design Team.

Our winners of our Things with Wings Challenge and our Feather in my Cap winners (more details on this in the tab up top), will be announced next Friday.

Now its over to you.  We really appreciate you all entering our challenges and 

love coming to visit and seeing all your fabulous creations.

Have a wonderful week.

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Week 19 - Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge - Things with Wings

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US!
Hope you are all well and have had a fabulous week!  
YES, it's our 7th Birthday here at Polkadoodles - a whole 7 years of trading, wow the time has gone past in such a flash! Watch out over the rest of the month as we have loads of special offers and stuff going on n a daily basis so make sure you keep checking in for 24 hour discount codes and allsorts of fun stuff!

It's inspiration week for our current challenge
Things with Wings 
and you can enter
HERE
Remember you do not have to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges.
The winner of this current challenge will win $10 to spend in the Polkadoodles download store.
The Winner, Top 3 and our Feathers in your Cap for our Swirls and Flourishes Challenge
will be announced at the end of this post.

The latest releases Little Kingdom and Magic Garden and accompanying Stamp Soup sets
have been such a hit....

       

Now lets see what the Design Team have for your inspiration this week....

Scatty Jan - For my with wings project I made a little post box which I cut on my portrait - I then used the lovely Lily Bug collection to decorate it , you can find that here. There are lots more photo's and info on my blog so please stop by xx

Jenny - For my things with wings  I have also used Lily Bug Love and have made a 7 inch square card. I put all the items on to a couple of pages in Craft Artist and then once printed cut them out and layered them up.  This is my first card with this collection even though I have had it for a while, hope you like it.

Carol - for my Things with Wings inspiration, I used the beautiful Bees, sentiment, background paper and  Honey Bee from the Winnie Fruit Punch collection and made an easel card. I coloured my images with my copics and you can find the colours I used on my blog.

Ria - For my Inspiration Things with wings I used the gorgeous Serenity Fairy Kisses and coloured her with water-colour mediums. The sentiment is from the Twiggy and Toots collection.  And my flowers are from the Lavender Tea Collection.

Jackie - This past fortnight has been busier than usual for our household! Luckily for me, I was able to play around with the Lily Bug Love Collection and create a card using my computer. I think I will build up a collection of this type of card front for those busy times when I need a card in a hurry!!

Karon - I needed a quick card this week as I nearly forgot it was hubby's birthday!  As I always print out lots of bits and pieces and papers, I delved into my Twiggy & Toots folder in the drawer and found just what I needed :-) A pre-coloured topper, which is also available as a single digi purchase for you to colour and you can find that HERE.  The Twiggy and Toots Collection is full of fabulous inspiration and if you love owls, you will fall in love with these! A bit of inking and layers and a quick card was put together. Phew!

Such wonderful inspiration for you this week.

Now, let's announce our Winner and Top 3 of our Swirls and Flourishes challenge.

The Winner chosen by Random Org is...

#21 - Deanne

Please email us HERE quoting PD19001Wk16 to claim your prize $10 worth of downloads from the digi store.  Here's your Winners badge for your blog.

Our Top 3 chosen by the Design Team are...

#5 - Nela

#26 - Cicci vid Pennan

#30 - Bridie Payne

Here is your Top 3 badge for your blogs.

And finally our Feather in your Cap, for using a Polkadoodles image, for this week is...

#30 - Bridie Payne

Please take the following badge for your blog.  If you would like to learn more about our Feather in your Cap feature,  check out the Win a Feather page tab above :-)

Congratulations to everyone.  We really appreciate each and everyone that enters our challenges, and love coming to visit and seeing all your wonderful creations.

Our current Challenge theme is Things with Wings

and you can enter HERE

Week 16 - Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge - Swirls and Flourishes

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Happy Friday everyone.
Did you all have a good week?  We have a new challenge for you this fortnight and our theme is
Swirls & Flourishes
This could be die cut swirls or flourishes. in the paper, any part of your creation as long as it is included somewhere :-)  You have until Noon GMT, Friday 6 May, 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 you Cap, more details on this in the pages tab above

Anyway, let's get on with the show and see what the wonderful Design Team have for your inspiration this week.

Scatty Jan - For my make this week I have used the fantastic Lavender Tea collection you can find it in store right here or a a CD here . So very lovely to craft with including some lush templates - This time I decided on a triple easel card there are lots more photos and details on my blog xx

Jackie - For the Swirls and Flourishes challenge I have played with The Winnie Sprinkles Springtime Collection. I played around resizing flowers and butterflies from the CD and chose an image to print off. This was coloured using Copic markers - I have to say, I am really enjoying colouring Winnie!

I added both die cut and crystal swirls and flourishes on the layers of my card.

Ria -  For the Swirls and Flourish challenge this week I used the gorgeous Eden Collection. I printed Eden Cherryblossom on Kraft and coloured her with alcohol markers and pencils. The swirls are from a die set.

Carol - today I've made an easel card with a very cute frame featuring A Gift, a sentiment, butterfly and background paper from from the Winnie Fruit Punch collection.  I printed all my elements on Copic Xpress-it cardstock and coloured my image with my Copics. The swirls are from a Couture creations die, which I tinted with Copics and embellished with flowers.

Jenny - I've made a very simple card because it's for someone I work with and we don't go too elaborate for workmates. I have used Winnie Sugar Sprinkles and I really don't think she needs too much as the images are perfect to stand alone.

Mia - This card is made using the gorgeous Winnie Sugar Sprinkles collection. All the papers, image and embellishments are from the collection. The swirls are from Joanna Sheen. For more details please visit my blog.

Karon - Ooh swirls and flourishessss :-)  I have used the Lavender Tea Collection for my cards to day. I couldn't decide whether to give the front panel a scalloped circle or a rectangle so I did two cards :-) Which do you prefer?  The darker flourish on the purple background is from the Lemonade Fizz Collection.  I have inked all the edges of all the flowers and the layers.

Wonderful inspiration from the Design Team, hope that gets your creative juices flowing.

Our winners of the Floral Frenzy Challenge and our Feather in my Cap winners

for using PD images (more details in the pages tab up top) will be announce next Friday.

Have a great week - Thanks for sharing your makes with us each and every week, we love coming to

visit and appreciate you taking part in our challenges.

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Week 15 - Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge - Floral Frenzy

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Happy Friday!  Middle of April already!
It's inspiration week here at Polkadoodles and our current challenge
Floral Frenzy  Enter HERE

So we want to see flowers on your creations, floral papers, embellishments
charms you name it, if it's a flower it counts :-) Remember, you do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges. Only a few little rules and they are over there in the side bar ----->  The Winner and Top 3 of our Cream & Sugar Challenge, along with our Top 3 Feathers for using a Polkadoodles image, will be announced at the bottom of this post.

Winnie Fruit Punch is one of our new releases that has really got your creative juices flowing....

There are individual Design Sheets, digi stamps, even small bundles to purchase in the

Polkadoodles Download store, or you can buy the whole collection

either as download or CD.

Anyway's lets see what the fabulous Design Team have for your inspiration this week.

Scatty Jan - For my make this week I have used the fantastic Lemonade Fizz collection you can find it in store right here or a a CD here . So very lovely to craft with including some lush templates. The wheelbarrow is one of the templates but I just layered it up instead so it sat on my card- This time I decided on a bee hive shaped card this was so much fun to make. there are lots more photos and details on my blog xx

Mia - I decided to make something a little more 3D for this week and used the flowers from the Winnie Fruit Punch CD and the leaves from the Winnie Sugar Sprinkles Springtime to upcycle these teacups I purchased cheaply from a charity shop. I love all the florals and characters on both CD's.

Jenny - For my Floral Frenzy I decided to take the easy way and use a template from the Lemonade Fizz  collection.  I printed a couple of sheets of backing paper and then printed the template onto  the back, as my Cameo isn't plugged in at the moment I cut this out by hand. I took some of the embellishments into Craft Artist and filled a page with bees, flowers and a butterfly which I cut out by hand.

Ria - For my Floral Frenzy I used the cute Winnie Fruit Punch collection. I used one of the pre-coloured toppers and added some stitching to it. Followed a sketch I found online as I love sketches :) it is so easy if you are out of ideas just Google card sketches and you will find instant MOJO :) I cut out the flowers by hand as that went faster then setting up the silhouette this time ;) happy weekend.

Jackie - For my Floral Frenzy card I printed off some of the great papers, pre-coloured images and digi from the Winnie Sprinkles Springtime Collection. It was hard to choose what to print off first, everything's super scrummy!!  I used a punch on the patterned paper for the strip in the background, and used foam tape to give some height to my flowers and depth to the butterfly. I coloured Winnie using Copic markers.

Karon - I have use the delightful Winnie Fruit Punch for my card today.  Using the fabulous fat bees and beautiful flowers.  All the edges have been inked up, some foam tape was used to add some dimension.

Carol here with a topiary tree featuring 3 printed sheets of daisies  from  Winnie Fruit Punch. I cut the flowers using my Cameo, shaped them and layered them and added a rhinestone centre. The base for the topiary came from the Silhouette store and I added a ribbon and filled the pot with chocolates.

Gorgeous creations by everyone. Now onto the winner and Top 3 of our Cream & Sugar challenge. The Winner, chosen by Random Org, is...

#20 - Mrs T

Please email us HERE quoting PD15001Wk12 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.

#5 - Sharon G

#10 - Elena F

#17 - Bridie Payne

Here is your fabulous Top 3 badge for your blogs.

And last but by no means least our

Top 3 Feather in My Cap winners,

for using a Polkadoodles image are

#5 - Sharon G

#14 - Lucy Patrick

#17 - Bridie Payne

Well done to our Feathery friends.  You have been added to our League board which you can check all about at the pages tab up top :-) 

Each week 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.

Please add this wonderful badge to your blogs.

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...

Floral Frenzy and you can enter HERE

Have a great week everyone :-)

Week 12 - Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge - Cream and Sugar

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Happy Easter everyone.  Hope you all have lots
of chocolatey wickedness goodness to eat :-)

JUST BEFORE WE GET TO THE CHALLENGE WE HAVE SOME OTHER NEWS...

We decided to make things a little more interesting around here so we are now introducing an extra Winners slot for our challenges every week, called

FEATHER IN MY CAP

Basically we will be awarding Special Feathers to our favourite Top 3 entries that use a Polkadoodles image and you will be entered onto the Feathery League Board - this is so fun, so check out the RULES on the tab at the top of the page HERE - you even get a Feathery badge if you're awarded a feather!

We have a new challenge for this fortnight and our theme is

CREAM & SUGAR
So lovely creams, ivories, coffee and pink colours.

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

We only have a few little rules and they are over there in the side bar ---->

The winner of this challenge will receive a $10 gift certificate to the Polkadoodles download store.

You have until Noon, GMT, Friday 8th April to enter.

The newest releases are available for pre-order in the Polkadoodles store.

Lavender Tea and Lemonade Fizz
and the complimenting stamp sets
Lavender Tea Stamp Soup and Lemonade Fizz Stamp Soup
have all been an amazing hit!










Why not go check our the store!

Anyways. lets get on and show you the wonderful inspiration from the Design Team

Mia: This card is made using the Winnie Sugar Sprinkles collection. The colours are perfect for this challenge and I just love this spotty paper!! The dress up rabbit Winnie is super cute and great to use all your colouring techniques!

Scatty Jan - Oh what a lush challenge - I also used the Winnie Sugar Sprinkles collection. keeping my card very CAS, I dont really do CAS so this was a challenge to me on its own. Yummy delish just take a look see at that ice cream, I used Glossy accents over it and it really does look good enough to eat!

Jackie  - Cream and Sugar is the delicious theme for this fortnight! I have coloured in one of the cats from the Work and Play 12 collection using pencil. The caption and flowers are from this collection, too.  The wood grain background paper is from Work and Play 10 - Country Life and it one of my favourite papers...I always have a few sheets of it printed off because it works with most colours. 

  

Jenny - Cream and sugar is the challenge and this one is fine it won't make you fat!  I wanted a plaque to hang near the door of the caravan so came up with this one.  I have used papers from Winston and Winnie Sugar Sprinkles and and of course Winnie herself opening the door.

Carol - For my Cream and Sugar card I chose to use Tea for Twoo, Tea Party from Twiggy & Toots and some of the gorgeous papers from Winston and coffee tags from Barista Coffee/Cake bundle kit from the Work and Play 12 collection. I used my cameo to cut the tags out, so that was super easy and coloured Twiggy in with my Copics.

Karon - Ah Coffee!  Yes please :-)  I have used the fabulous Winnie Sugar Sprinkle collection for my side easel card.  Love all the papers in this collection.  All the layers were inked up and some foam tape added for dimension.

Ria - I am using the super sweet Winnie Sugar Sprinkles collection for my card. I love it that Nikky added those cute frames to this collection. So you only have to colour them and then cut them out. So much easier then searching for matching dies :) 

Wonderful!

Don't forget to come back next week, for more fabulous inspiration from the Design Team.

We will also announce our Winners and Top 3

of the Spring Colours challenge

and our very first Feathers in your Cap Top 3 :-)

HAPPY EASTER

Thank you all so much for your entries, it means so much to us that you join us each week!

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Week 11 - Polkadoodles Crafting - Spring Colours

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Hello out there and Happy Friday!

We are into Week 2 of our current challenge
SPRING COLOURS
and you can enter HERE.

The winners of our Tic Tac Toe challenge will be announced at the end of this post.

Don't forget Nikky is on Create and Craft today
at 
9.00am and 1pm
Two different shows.
4 fabulous new products that you really don't want to miss!!

We have all been loving the new releases
and 
Winnie Sugar Sprinkles
has really got the
creative juices going!




It's so nice to see you all sharing your makes over on the Polkadoodles Facebook Page.
Don't forget to enter our challenges too.

We only have a few rules for our challenges and they are over there in the side bar ---->
Don't forget you don't have to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges.
The winner of this current challenge will win a $10 gift certificate to the
Polkadoodles Download Store.

Anyways, enough of that, how about we take a look at the
fabulous Design Team makes.

Ria -  For our pastel inspiration I used the gorgeouss Winnie Sugar Sprinkles Papers, sentiment and the cute Winnie Springtime Hello. I coloured her with watercolouring pencils, wink of stella (which doesn't show in the pic) and white dots with Molotow marker. Flowers and swirls are cutting dies from Tattered Lace.

Scatty Jan - My main project is pastel, please excuse the bunny for he did not dress for the occasion! I have used the lovely  Winnie Sugar Sprinkles, there really is so much on this collection that could be suited for many occasions - I cut the Easter box out on my portrait , using a lovely egg from the collection. I added in the little chick peeking out and one of the little rabbits , I covered his tail in fun flock but you can't really tell from the photo.  I finished of by using one of the great sentiments and flowers and some buttercup liquid pearls . There are lots more photo's on my blog xx

Mia - I used the gorgeous Winnie Sugar Sprinkles collection for this series of gift wrap and card. I used the papers and digis to create a coordinating card, gift box and present. I also used the SVG files that come with the collection to cut out the layers. For more photos and details please check out my blog.

Jackie - How often have you wanted to give a little thank you to your local vet for looking after your precious pet? There are some great starting points for a card in the latest Work and Play 12 Collection including the vet/cat groomer design sheet and lots of beautiful paper choices.

Anjie - I know it's not my week for a make but with me being away I was eager to get crafting and couldn't stop with this fab new Work and Play Collection 12. I printed one of the backing papers onto card stock to create the card blank. Then I printed out all the embellies and the cat topper. I wanted to make the topper 3D so I printed it 3 times and decoupaged it up. More pics and details on my blog.

Jenny  - Hooray for Spring, lovely colours and some sunshine at last! This week it's time for some inspiration for our Spring colours Challenge, I have used the gorgeous Winnie Sugar Sprinkles for my card and I have tried something I saw on tv!  I was flicking through the channels and saw a Spellbinders die demo'ed it was a 6 inch square with two extra squares cut but with just the tops of the square attached, well I wouldn't want to pay for a die which is so limited so I used my Cameo and cut the same thing.  The first picture is the outer and the second is the underneath layer, this is all sitting on a six inch square card.

Carol - I just love Spring colours - almost as much as the simply fabulous Winnie Sugar Sprinkles collection which I couldn't resist using for my inspiration make this week. I made a very special gift box using some of the many florals, papers, and embellies to decorate the really cute New Bonnet image. I used my Cameo to cut everything out which made it super easy. Check out my blog for more details and to see what I added inside the box for my gift....

Karon - Last week I made a little gift set of 6 cards.  After making some envelopes for the cards, I decided it would be best if I make a gift box for them.  So I have made a Gift Box Easel card to store the set.  Using Winnie Sugar Sprinkles for all the elements of this creation.

Wonderful inspiration from the team.

Our winner (chosen by Random Org) for our Tic Tac Toe challenge is...

#47 - Irena Stefanova

You have won a $10 gift certificate to the Polkadoodles Download Store.

Please contact us HERE and quote PD11001Wk8

Our Design Team Top 3 are...

#16 - Jane

#44 - Lucy Patrick

#60 - Julie P

Congratulations everyone and don't forget to get your winners badges from the side bar.

Thanks to everyone that takes the time to enter our challenges.

We love stopping by to see what your wonderful inspiration.

Enter the current challenge

SPRING COLOURS

HERE