Week 4 - Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge - Love and Romance

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Happy Friday everyone!
Aww, love is in the air this week and our challenge theme is...
Love and Romance
That could mean a Valentines, Anniversary, Wedding or even a creation with hearts!
Anything you like as long as it follows the theme.
Remember, 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 --->
You have until Noon GMT, Friday 12 February to enter and our Random winner for this challenge will receive a $10 voucher to the Polkadoodles download store.

Before we have a look at the Design Team creations don't forget to take a look at the newest Polkadoodles Releases!
Look at this baby - just released today!! Whoop whoop!! This is adorable and not just a Love collection either, this can be used all year round!

  

Soooo many pretties to play with in this collection! EEEK!! Too too cute! 

Check the preview magazine HERE

AND We also have our lovely Sticks & Bones collection released last week....


Did you know that you can buy single digis, different bundles and of course thecuteosaurus whole mammoth bundle!  Why not check out the store now!

Now lets see what the Design Team have been creating....

Scatty Jan - For my Love/ Romance project I decided on a little bag for a hen night. I have used Work & Play 9 - love & Kisses .And have done a mini tutorial on my blog so hop across to find all the details and plenty of photos xx

Melanie Smith - I have used Work & Play 9 - Love & Kisses. I choose this image because it reminded me of my husband and I :-) It was such fun to color.

Karon - Seems we all had similar ideas as far as which collection to use.  I have something a little different to share today.  I did this book fold for my nephew and his new wife.  All the papers, embellishments and cut files are from the wonderful Work & Play 9 - Love & Kisses collection.  If you would like to see what the book fold is, you will have to pop along to my blog :-)

Jessie - Who says we can't love our pets, even if that pet is a dinosaur! I used Walk the Dinosaur Girl from the new Sticks & Bones Collection in Digital and CD form! I coloured her and her best friend up with my copic markers, all of the paper's and embellishments (aside from the twine) all come from this collections, its seriously a fantastic TON of product to work with and I can't wait to see what you do with it, and with this weeks challenge!

Ria- I think this Cupid from the Work and Play 9 Love and Kisses is my all time favourite from this collection. I coloured her with watercolouring pencils.

Jenny -I have used the Work and Play 9 Collection - Love and Kisses, I love this collection and after all this time just got around to doing one of the Rocker Cards, these are in PDF format and you just print. cut out and use whatever bits you need. I have been out of the house so much that crafting has been just what I can fit in so these kind of designs that are ready to go are perfect for such times.

Aunty Sue - Well as Valentines day approaches we turn to Love and Romance. So I found this fab design sheet on Twiggy & Toots of the Happy couple sheltering from the rain (and those of us in the UK know about that). Dont they look cute in their wellies. The design sheet is a decoupage and this was my 1st love when I started crafting. So guess double Love. You can find the collection here 
The spotted paper is from the collection and the rose one is from Love & Kisses collection available here

Jackie- I have been busy cutting out heaps of the gorgeous images from the new Sticks and Bones collection available here. I love how it is something different for a loved one. I chose to make a stepper card this week and coloured in the main image. Don't forget that the images are available pre coloured if you prefer. The papers and sentiment are also from the collection.

Mia - I have used the gorgeous Work & Play 9 - Love & Kisses Collection to make this cute Valentines card. The images and papers are perfect for any romantic card and it was so hard to choose between them. I loved colouring in these couple especially the girls hair for more details come and visit my blog.

Fabulous inspiration once again from the team.

Now it's over to you for our

Love and Romance Challenge

We love coming to visit you all, so lets see what you create for this challenge.

Please remember only 2 entries per person.

Don't forget to check back next week, for more inspiration

and our winner of the Winter Birthday challenge.

Have a fabulous creative week!

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Week 3 - Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge - Winter Birthday

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Happy Friday everyone!  Wow can you believe we are approaching the end of January already!

We have an inspiration week for you this week here at Polkadoodles 

for our

Winter Birthday challenge

you can enter HERE

Don't forget you don't have to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges.

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

The winners of our Anything Goes Challenge will be announced at the end of this post.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NIKKY!
from all the Design teams we
want to take this opportunity to thank
you for all that you do.  For you
are one amazing creative chick
and continually amaze us with each new
collection you design.
You are one amazing lady and
we are so happy and lucky to be on this
continuing journey with you.

Have a fabulous Birthday Nikky!
xxxxx

Before we see what the design team have been up to, have you seenthe latest new release

STICKS & BONES

There are amazing bundles, individual digi images and also the fabulous

whole Sticks & Stones collection to be had in the store!
If you click on this image you can see a great magazine preview of the collection - 
and as a special treat, because it's Nikky's birthday today she is giving you a SPECIAL CODE to SAVE 15% 
on this awesome collection until 29th January! 
So just enter the code 
Birthday15 
at the checkout on both CD's and downloads in this collection!
see mag below..........                         shop collection below.....

  

Let's see what the fabulous design team have for your inspiration this week......

Mia - This card is made using the papers from the Twiggy & Toots Festive Fun CD ROM and the beautiful unicorn is the Arctic Unicorn digi stamp please check out the rest of the details on this card over at my blog xx

Ria- For the winter birthday challenge I created a shakercard, I used one of my favourite stamps from the Octavia Frosted Winter Collections , this is Frosted Fox  and coloured it with watercolourpencils.

Scatty Jan - For my make for this challenge I went with winter colours of Blue, and made a cute owl bag perfect for a Birthday.  I used the template from Twiggy and Toots Festive Fun , and re-sized to 65% before cutting out.( I used pale blue card stock to make the bag shell.) I used some papers from the same collection and also some from Picknix 3 Nordic Winter.

The presents, cake, candle, and heart button are from Winston Collection

The Bow and Flowers from Octavia Moonfly Collection

and the sentiment from Rose Budd Collection

What a mix and match I just love using all different elements from the collections.

Lots more photo's on my blog xx

Jenny - Here's my idea for a winter birthday, I always think of blue and purple tones for winter. This card is made using Oddella Twig which I coloured with my Graph'its, the backing paper is from Octavia Frosted Winter and the sentiment comes from Work and Play 6, more details on my blog.

Melanie - I have done a hybrid project with the wonderful Work & Play 9 - Love and Kisses. This printed image from the CD was a beautiful match to my designer papers and the bling I added to her tiara just fit for a princess birthday card.

Jessie - Octavia has always been one of my favorite characters! And Frosted Penguins from the Octavia Frosted winter is no exception! I wanted to colour her in pinky purples and blue so I pulled papers from the Octavia Moonfly Collection which still made for a fantastic winter birthday card! She was painted with my inktense pencils.

Aunty Sue - Hi for my Winter Birthday I didn't want to go down the Blues colour theme, so went with a nice warm Red and the Blues with my background paper from Octavia Frosted Winter collection.  The Tree is also from this collection in the shop HERE.  The Cute girl is from Our Love and Kisses collection which you can find HERE you can purchase the image on its own also.  But do checkout this collection with Valentines just around the corner.

Jackie - I have used the gorgeous Work and Play10- Country Life collection for this week's card. The papers, image and sentiment are all found in it.The fox image on it's own is available here as a digi stamp to colour. I used lots of die cuts to create a white winter effect for the current challenge theme. Details on my blog.

Karon - I went back and used an older collection.  Studio 12 Picknix 2 - Gingerbread Twist for my papers and the sentiment.  Made a little faux shaker element and then added a single snowflake :-)

Wonderful inspiration from the design team.

We have two winners from our Anything Goes Challenge

chosen by Random Org and they are....

#104 - Sharon G

You have won a $20 voucher for downloads in the Polkadoodles store

please quote PD03001wk51 

#10 - Craftyfield

You have also won a $20 voucher for downloads in the Polkadoodles store

please quote PD03002wk51

Congratulations!!

You can contact as HERE to claim your prize, please quote the codes as given above :-)

For our Top 3 as chosen by the Design Team

#68 - Deni

#114 - Irene M

#137 - Elena F

Congratulations everyone and don't forget your blinkies form the side bar.

We loved everyones amazing creations and enjoyed visiting your blogs.

Now it's over to you once again for our 

Winter Birthday

challenge

HERE

See you next week - don't forget to use that great code for the new collection!

Week 51 - Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge - Anything Goes

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Hello everyone.  Well, here we are another Friday and guess what

Christmas is just a week away ahhhhhhh!

Are you all ready and prepared - have you finished all your crafty bits?

It's the start of the final Challenge of the year and this one goes on for 4 weeks!

The theme for this final challenge is everyone's favourite

ANYTHING GOES

You will have until Friday 15th January 2016 to enter, Nikky is giving the Design Team a little break.
As a special for Christmas we will choose TWO WINNERS for this challenge who will both receive a $20 voucher for downloads in the Polkadoodles Store! 

We will be back on Friday 8th January with an inspiration post and the winners

of our Traditional Christmas Challenge.

Take the time to take a peek in the Polkadoodles store

Maybe there's some last minute downloads you could give

as Christmas Presents - watch out because over Christmas and New Year there *wink wink* could be some amazing deals up for grabs in the store!....So Keep up to date too with all the offers and goodies at Polkadoodles by signing up for the newsletter.

Now let's see what the Design Team have for you for the last time this year :-) - we'd like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your amazing support, entering your beautiful creations and all your lovely encouragement and comments during 2015 - we're all looking forward to a brand new start in January and will be taking a little break over the festive period to recharge our crafty mojo's!...

Scatty Jan - Showing you today a card I have made for my lovely Mother In Laws Birthday . I have used lots of different collections but look how good they all work together. Using Kraft card I cut the dresser on my portrait. I then covered it using the Distress wood papers dabbing a little distress ink here and there. I Framed a photo of my MIL using the frame from Twiggy & Toots Festive Fun. The bag and little hat were borrowed from the Winston collection. And the flowers and butterfly from Rose Budd collection. Added some lace , pearls and buttons to finish , oh and some little drawer handles , More photos on my blog xx

Mia - This card I made using the fabulous Florabunda Colouring Book Pages. I just love these pages and had to but both this one and the Inspiring Foliage download. They are amazing to colour please check out the rest of the details on this card over at my blog xx

Ria - Ohh my last Polkadoodles card for 2015 ;) makes me wonder what 2016 will bring us hahaha so I decided to use my favourite Twiggy stamp Twiggy hats off combined with the fence and the birdhouse from the Twiggy and Toots collection. I coloured it with watercolouring pencils and Peerless watercolours. White dots with molotow marker. I didn't use any designer papers just an 8x8 Embossing folder and Die from Tattered Lace. Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...

Karon - For my creation this week I have made a Gift box Easel card.  All the papers, embellishments are from the wonderful Studio 12 Picknix 3 - Nordic Winter collection.  Even the Merry Christmas is from this collection as a cut file for your cutting machines.  You will have to stop by my blog to find out what the box contains LOL!

Jenny - I love these anything goes challenges and it's ever so easy with all the luverly stuff Nikky brings us. This time I've used Serenity Earthstar, because I've been busy making Christmas cards I have used a pre-coloured image but she is a dream to colour in yourself too.  you can buy her on her own or for pure indulgence buy the full collection. more details on my blog on how I made this.

Melanie - I am using this adorable Twiggy and Toots Festive Fun Collection this week. I had such a fun time coloring her using my Copic markers. Visit my blog to see all the details. 

Aunty Sue - Wow well the mad rush is on for the big day and if you are like me still trying to get some last minute cards done. Also gosh the price of posting. Well to solve both what better way than to use Work & Play Festive Hollybobs. I have used all pre coloured embellishments and 3 papers and layered them all up in Word. This solves the extra weight and thickness as you print as 1 sheet. I just added a couple of think gems some fluffy stuff, glitter and twine and hey presto. 1 quick and cost effective card which I can print time and time again. You can get Festive Hollybobs as a download here if you fancy doing some quick projects. On top of this these are just the embellishments wait till you see the Characters.

Jackie- This week I have played with the Serenity Collection for the Anything Goes challenge. My card features paper, sentiments and a digi from this range. The digi image is called Serenity Joyful. Details for this card are on my blog. I love that the image is available in colour if you are after a quick make, too!

Jessie - I love the holidays and making traditional Cards. I also adore how Nikky adds little gems of images in with her collections (you really do get so much stuff when you buy the full collections) I used the Work and Play 5 Hollybobs collection for this card, and it is an example of one of those great images you can find Rudy in this collection as well as all the patterned paper I used.

So, now it is over to you. ....The theme, everyones favourite

ANYTHING GOES

Please remember we only have a few rules, they are over there in the side bar ----->

Only two entries per person.

Nikky and all of the Design Team wish you all

A

Very

Merry Christmas

and a

Happy New Year!

See you all in 2016!!!

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Week 48 -Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge - White and One other Colour

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Happy Friday Everyone!

Here we are for Week 2 of our challenge

White and one Other

The winner of this challenge will receive a $10 voucher for the store!

You can make anything you like for the challenge, as long as it follows the theme.

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

Our rules are over there in the side bar ------>

You can link up your entry
Here

You have until Noon, GMT, Friday, 4th December  to enter.

Our Winner and top 3 for our challenge Autumn/ Fall can be found at the bottom of this post

Before we share the DT's wonderful projects, we are very pleased to welcome another two new members to the Polka Doodles family
Caz  and Lorna

Now onto this weeks Inspiration here at Polkadoodles

Naz - For this project I have used AMELIA CONTEMPLATING from Polkadoodles.

I coloured her using Copics and Wink of Stella Clear Glitter Pen.
The sentiment I have used for this project is from Work and Play 10 - Country Life.
These sentiments are the ones I've been using a lot on my projects, I like the look of circle sentiments.

Lorna I have used Twiggy n Toots Festive Fun Collection available as a CD. or if you prefer as a Download. More details can be found on my blog

Caz ..For my project, I have  gone with Red and White...I have made a Owl Gift bag..Really enjoyed making this bag.  So easy to make..And defo intend making more...They are fab..The Owl Bag template can be found on Twiggy n Toots Festive Fun Collection available as a CD. or if you prefer as a Download. Sentiment and tag can also be found in this collection..Along with papers ive used..(except lashes).

Ruth:  I've been busy making baby cards - there is an abundance of expectant mums at work!  I've used a cute spotty pink paper from the Serenity paper bundle download, made some large letters and then added my own twist to the banner.

Jessie - For my one colour plus white I chose brown, and went with every shade of brown that exists in my Polychromos set, so I used white plus 10 different shades of brown to colour up Octavia Whistful. One piece of patterned paper from the Violin Theme Paper Collection frame the image perfectly for a super clean and simple card! 

Julie -- I started with a Kraft base, then used white with shades of brown.  I just HAD to use these two beautiful deer.  They are so sweet, they speak to me.  It's deer hunting season right now here in NW WI, and while I know we have more deer in this state than people, I still don't like hunting season.  This card is my tribute to all the deer out there.  You can get the image individually here.  The whole Frosted Winter Octavia Collection Digital Download can be found here.  If you're more patient than me, and want the CD, that link is here. The shaped card design I used on this is also from Polkadoodles.  This is Elegant Card 2 SVG cutting file.  The sentiment is a freebie, found in the Polkadoodles store.

Bev here with my inspiration post. Anyone up to there eye's in 'stuff' at the moment with little time for crafting? So I made a quick card this week using the Winston collection & not a character in sight. There's just so much within the collection if you haven't tried it please do you won't be disappointed x

Claire C I've gone for a sepia tone for my little altered notebook and coloured up the beautiful  digi stamp 'Cinders'  (you can find her here). I've coloured the image with my Lyra pencils and used her to cover a little notebook, adding ribbon, lace bead trim and a little flower. I've inked around the edges with distress inks and added a little gilding wax to finish off

Anjie -  I have used 2 papers and lots of embellishments from the fabulous Picknix 3, Nordic Winter collection.. I have distressed the edges of the papers and added some drawn lines for added interest.

Our Winner (chosen by random org) for our Autumn/Fall Challenge is...

55- Nick

You have won a $10 gift certificate to the Polkadoodles download store.

Please contact us HERE and quote PD47001Wk44 to claim your prize.

Our Top 3 this week

14 - Susan

44 - Crafting Vicky

53 - Jennifer

Don't forget to grab your winners badges from the side bar!

Congratulations to everyone, thanks to everyone that takes part in our challenges, we always appreciate you taking part and we love to see all your work each week - Happy Crafting!

You can enter our current challenge

White and one other colour

Here

Week 46 - Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge - Autumn/Fall Colours

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It's Friday and we hope you have all had a fabulous week!

Have you all been checking out the new additions to Polkadoodles, the Adult Colouring Club, Adult Colouring Books and Bundles....


                    
Go check them out in the Polkadoodles store!

This is inspiration week here at Polkadoodles for our latest challenge

Autumn/Fall Colours....you can enterHERE

The winners of our Add Sparkle, Bling or Glitter Challenge will be announced at the end of this post.


Before we share the DT's wonderful projects, we are very pleased to welcome another two new members to the Polka Doodles family .... MIA and MELANIE... 

Mia - I have used Twiggy and Toots Festive Fun collection to make a wonderful Owl bag. The template and papers are all on the CD/download. Full details can be found on my blog....

Melanie - I have also used the Twiggy and Toots Festive Fun collection to create my card using non-traditional Christmas colours. Check out my blog to see how my project came together.

Scatty Jan - This week I have made a little gift box out of Kraft card  cut on my Portrait. I love Octavia Best Friends one of my favourite digi's ever. You can find her in the shop here . I coloured her up with pencils and added a little bow to finish

Jenny - I thought I'd try something a little different this week, so have used the gorgeous new digi colouring book - Colour Therapy 2 Inspiring Foliage. I took an A4 design but printed it half size to make a background for my card, I used Lyra pencils to colour it and then sprayed with a glitter spray. The sentiment is printed from the Frosted Winter Collection.

Jackie - I really love the colours of Autumn and the Work and Play 10 Collection- Country Life had some great digi images to choose from. I used Copics to colour in the image (I made my image card size but it would be lots of fun to colour in as a larger image too!). The beautiful patterned paper is also from the collection. Details are on my blog.

Karon - For my creation I used the wonderful Dollie Daydream Goes East collection.  The papers in this collection are gorgeous and I wanted to use just the papers.  I have layered up some of the paper to add dimension to the scene.  Then using one of the fans from from the collection, I shaped and then added a little pearl dot and some wonderful sentiment tickets.  Everything, bar the ribbon, is from this wonderful collection :-)

Ruth -  Kept it rather clean and simple this week - used the Serenity Moondust digi and added glitter here and there plus some half pearls.

  

Ria -  For my Fall entry I used this sweet Serenity Resting. I coloured her with pencils, The papers are from the Eden Collection and the sentiment is from the Serenity collection.

Jessie - I used the Autumn/Fall Digi stamp bundle and coloured up the barrel of baskets with my copic markers. I have been really into doing simple cards with lots of colouring and this is no exception. I used some burlap with colourless blender pen to create the background, then coloured the rest of the image. 

Aunty Sue - Hi well for my Inspirational card today I am sharing an Anniversary card using one of the Letters from the Adult Colouring Pages Bundel Alphabet 1 available in the shop HERE.  My colours have been done with Promarkers, Sparkle Gelly Roll Pens and also Gilding Flakes.  More details and pictures on my blog as this was so hard to catch the sparkle and also the colour of the flakes at the same time.

Wendy - For my autumn colours, I've gone with greens & browns and there's nothing more autumny than a gorgeous Scarecrow, This handsome gent can be found as part of this years Autumn/Fall bundle get it here, as are the little toadstools. The papers are also part of the complete collection, but can also be purchased as paper packs here.

Wonderful inspiration from the Design Team, don't you just love Autumn Colours!

Our Winner (chosen by random org) for our Add Sparkle, Bling or Glitter Challenge is...

#89 - Judith

You have won a $10 gift certificate to the Polkadoodles download store.

Please contact us HERE and quote PD46001Wk43 to claim your prize.

Out Top 4 as chosen by the Design Team -  you are making it so difficult for us to just choose a Top 3 :-) are....

#28 - Lynda

#29 - J Atterbury Creations

#55 - Erum

#77 - Sparkling Pink

Don't forget to grab your winners badges from the side bar!

Congratulations to everyone, thanks to everyone that takes part in our challenges, we always appreciate you taking part and we love to see all your work each week - Happy Crafting!

You can enter our current challenge

Autumn/Fall Colours

HERE