Week 28 - Summer...Crafting Challenge with Polkadoodles

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Happy Friday everyone!
We have a new challenge for you this fortnight and our theme is
Summertime
 You have until Noon GMT, Friday 29th july, 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 your Cap, more details on this in the pages tab above.

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

Helen -  Just love the Summertime, have we had any yet in the good old UK.  Well our Winnies has and she's enjoying a bit of time in the garden.  She's from the Winnie Fruit Punch collection which you can find on CD or as a download in the store.  I've coloured her with copics and used papers and embellies from the collection to make a scene.

Karon - Summertime, I always think of the beautiful flowers that adorn our gardens during summertime, as I live in Canada most of our gardens are under snow 5 months of the year!  I just had to use the beautiful collection Dollie Daydream Goes East Collection for my card this week.  I layered the flowers and added a sentiment panel to the centre and a little bow to finish off.

Shelagh - My Summertime project is a wedding horse-shoe, made with my Great-niece in mind who is an attendant at her Aunt's wedding, late summer.  Everything I used was from the Winnie Fruit Punch collection, 2 circle dies, ribbon and some self adhesive pearls.

Alysha - My summertime project is a card with the gorgeous Winnie from the recent release Starfish and Sandcastles.

Tammi has used the lovely Winnie Fruit Punch collection to make her sweet card....

Pauline This gorgeous image is from theWinnie Fruit Punch collection , I have used elements from the Design Sheets, Papers, Blooms and Embellies sections.

Carol Today I've been stamping with the fabulous Summertime and Daisydays stamp sets and made a fun pop up slider card in warm summery colours.

Lisa My Summertime make uses elements and papers from the Winnie Fruit Punch Collection in pretty summery colours. Instead of an image I've layered up the butterfly as the focal point along with the fabulous sentiment.

Lovely creations to inspire you all with our Summertime challenge! 

Have a great weekend everyone. Thanks for sharing your creations with us, we love coming to visit and appreciate you taking part in our challenges.

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Week 27 - Add Ribbon or Twine - Polkadoodles Crafting

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Happy Friday everyone.

It's inspiration week for our
Add Ribbon or Twine
challenge and you can enter Here
Our winner for the challenge will receive a $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles Download Store.
You have until Noon, GMT, Friday 15th July to enter.
You do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges, however, we do love
seeing your fabulous makes with Polkadoodles images.
We only have a few little rules and they are over there in the sidebar ----->
Remember if you use a Polkadoodles image you could win a Feather in your Cap, more details
on this in the pages tab above.

Our Winner, Top 3 and Feathers for our Die Cut Challenge
will be announced at the end of this post

  

Alysha This week I have 2 projects to show you using twine and ribbon. The first is a simple gift box I have added a stamped daisy on top from the Daisy Days Stamp Collection and some pretty papers.

The second is a card using the same set of stamps I have stamps daisies in a row and the background has been created using brusho's

  

Tammi Lynn -  Hello everyone.  So happy to be here, this is my first creation as part of the Polkadoodles Design team,  I have used Winnie Fruit Punch digi and paper, and pink paper from stash,  The image is colored with Copics. Used some dies, twine and dimensional foam squares to finish it off.

Helen - Here's our Winnie enjoying a little glass of something scrummy.  Sounds good to me on those long hot summer nights!! She's from the Winnie Fruit Punch Collection  which you can find on CD or as a download in the store. I have coloured her with Copics and used papers from the collection.

Karon - Ribbon or twine - I used ribbon :-)  I couldn't resist using the delightful Rose Budd Collection for my card this week.  I love all the elegance that comes with this collection.  The fabulous papers and gorgeous embellishments - I am never at a loss with this beautiful collection.

Shelagh - This week I have used the wonderful Winnie Fruit Punch for my creation, character, embellies, sentiment and word art. The paper is from the Winston collection.  A little bit of twine coloured with alcohol markers, some glitter and distress inks to finish off.

Carol - Here is my inspiration for the week using background paper and the gorgeous Winnie Wonderland Cheshire Cat from the Winnie in Wonderland collection. I coloured my image with copics. I added some twine around an oval of card and used it as a layer and then added some tea time trinkets from my stash, all tied together with more twine, hanging from a triple bow. 

Pauline - I'm so excited to have been invited to join the Polkadoodles Design team, thank you so much to Nikky and the team for asking me. For my first project I have used a Design Sheet and Papers from the Winston Delux Full Collection to create a masculine themed card. I printed the design sheet a couple of times so that I could add some extra layers of decoupage. I fussy cut the sentiment, sign and buttons and then added 3D Crystal Laquer to the buttons.

Lisa For my 'Add Ribbon or Twine' project I have used elements from the Winston Deluxe Full Collection. I printed the flowers, sentiment and papers onto white linen card and mat and layered with grey and lilac card. I wrapped the top panel with twine and lace. The cute Winston Bear Heartfelt has been coloured with alcohol markers and added to the card with fancy die cut oval. I've added a pearl heart and a ribbon bow and curled the petals and added some buttons for added dimension.

Fabulous inspiration by the Design Team.

Now onto the Winner and Top 3 of our Die Cuts Challenge.

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

16 -Lena

Please email us HERE quoting PD27001Wk24 to claim

your prize of a $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.

12 -Norma

19 - Gale

106 - Twisted Witch

And finally our

Top 3 Feather in My Cap winners are

7 - Nick

93 - Lucy

106 - Twisted Witch

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

which you can check all about on the pages tabs above.

Each week the league board will be updated, so we can all keep track and at 

the end of the season our Winning Featherist will receive a special Polkadoodles prize.

Here's the badge for your blogs....

Congratulations to everyone.  We thank you for taking part in our challenges.

We love coming to visit and seeing all your wonderful creations.

Now it's over to you!

Our current challenge

Add Ribbon or Twine

Here

Have a great week

Week 24 - Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge - Use a Die Cut

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Happy Friday everyone!

We have some rather exciting news to share with you today, but before we do....

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

Use a Die Cut
(You can use a manual or electronic machine)

Our winner of this challenge will receive a $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles Download Store.
You have until Noon, GMT, Friday 1st July to enter.
You do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges, however, we do love
seeing your fabulous makes with Polkadoodles images.
We only have a few little rules and they are over there in the side bar ----->
Remember if you use a Polkadoodles image you could win a Feather in your Cap, more details
on this in the pages tab above.

Anyways, let's get on with the news.
We have some wonderful ladies joining us here, at Polkadoodles, over the next few weeks.
We are forcing them breaking them in gently :-)

Please give a very warm welcome to the new members of our Design Team
and while you at it, why not go check out their amazing blogs!

Lisa - Crafting Belle

Helen - Helen's Crafty Shed

Pauline -  Crafting with Cotnob

Tammi Lynn - Crafty Gals Life

Tracy - Stamping All Seasons

Michelle - Cards by Keencrafter

Shelagh - Shelagh's Crafty Concepts

Lisa and Helen are diving in at the deep end and joining us today.

Why not check out their fabulous creations along with the

rest of the wonderful Design Team :-)

Lisa - Hi there, I am so excited to be here and joining the Polkadoodles Design Team.  For my first creation I have used the fabulous Winnie Fruit Punch Collection.  I have used papers, digi stamp and flowers from the collection, adding die cuts, pearls and alphas from my stash.  The digi stamp was coloured with alcohol markers and can also be found as an individual digi download Wishes Winnie. 

Helen -  Today is my first post here at the challenge blog ,so proud to be part of the big kahuna after my Inkies Pinkies colouring DT that I'm still doing!! I've chosen to use Winnie on her bee keeping duties from the fabulous Winnie Fruit Punch collection which you can find on CD or as a download in the store.   I've coloured her with copics and used papers and embellies from the collection.

Scatty Jan - I loved making this card up the papers are just stunningly delish . The paper is from Daisydays also the digi flowerpot that I have paper pierced and those lovely bee's. The flowers are also from the collection layered up to make them pop out of the flowerpot . The stems are stamped from the Daisyday stamps . The trowel and fork are electronic die cuts that I have cut in the same paper to match.    

Alysha - Happy Friday Polkadoodlers! This week I have created a lovely little card using papers and embellishments from Winnie in Wonderland, my very favorite collection at the moment. I have used a delightful little butterfly die and the little butterflies from inside the die. looking forward to seeing your creations. Hugs Aly xx

Karon - I too have used the fabulous new release Winnie in Wonderland.  I absolutely adore this white rabbit.  I have layerd up the papers - so that it looks like you are looking down a hole and there is white rabbit to chase that late birthday :-)  Everything is from this fabulous collection.

Claire C - I've also used the gorgeous new 'Winnie in Wonderland' collection to create my card. I've used a die cut word and die cuts to create the flowers too. The image has been coloured with my Lyra pencils.

Carol - Well I hope you are enjoying all this inspiration using the fabulous new "Winnie in Wonderland" collection.  I coudn't resist using the Winnie Wonderaland Horse to create my card today.  I used my die cut aroung my image which I coloured with my copics and also added some die cut butterflies.  The background paper is from the Rose Budd Collection.

Wow fabulous inspiration again this week for our

USE A DIE CUT challenge

We will announce the winners etc of our For the Boys challenge in next weeks post.

Now it's over to you.

Have a fabulous weekend.  Thanks for sharing your creations with us,

we love coming to visit and appreciate you taking part in our challenges.

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Week 23 - Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge - For the Boys

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Happy Friday everyone.

We are inspiration week for our
FOR THE BOYS
challenge and you can enter HERE

Our winner for the challenge will receive a $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles Download Store.
You have until Noon, GMT, Friday 17th June 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 sidebar ----->
Remember if you use a Polkadoodles image you could win a Feather in your Cap, more details
on this in the pages tab above.

Our Winner, Top 3 and Feathers for our Birthday Celebrations Challenge
will be announced at the end of this post

New releases galore at the moment.  Have you seen the latest.
Nikky has pulled out all the stops, we have several!

Stamping Made Easy
Have you ever wanted to stamp but were a little bit nervous?
Well now you can with help from Nikky
and two wonderful new combination collections

Summertime and Daisydays





And last but by no means least!
If you love all things Alice in Wonderland then you will love
our

Winnie in Wonderland



Why not pop along to the Polkadoodles store, you never know what you will find.
Also, while your there, sign up for the Polkadoodles Newsletter so you don't miss anything!

Anyways, lets see what the Design Team have for you this week.

Karon - Hmmm For the Boys eh!  I couldn't resist using a lovely pre-coloured scene from one of the envelopes in the Cherryblossom Lane collection.  I added some fencing and coloured the river with a grey pencil - to change it to a road :-)  Then added Horace as he is out for a country walk :-)

I have a second card to share with you this week - I have used the new release Winnie in Wonderland.  I love this rabbit!  Everything you see is from this collection and I have added layers to add dimension to the card.

Alysha - Well I will be kicking off my first challenge as a newbie DT with Polkadoodles with this lovely masculine card, I just love his cheeky demeanor and I have to say his little doggie is pretty darn cute too!  This card was created using the Pretty Tuff CD from Polkadoodles.  I hope you like my DT card for this challenge and will come on over to Polkadoodles Challenge Blog  and join in the fun with us, hugs Aly xx

Scatty Jan - Something a little different for me this week , Stamping!! After all these years of saying I couldn't stamp - I followed all the Underlay sheets on Summertime . I now adore stamping so much!

I used stamps from both the new collections for my little scene Summertime and Daisydays I used the stamps to make the fishing rod, fish , fish hook, bubbles and trees and also the sentiment. Trees and grass were coloured in watercolours, The sky was done in pastels and the water using Graph'It Markers along with mix it fluid and a dish cloth .

My second card this week I used the lovely beach hut digi from Summertime and coloured using Graph'It Markers - for the sky and sand I used pastels. The shell and the boat were made using a couple of leaf stamps from the stamps from Daisydays.

Carol - for my inspiration this week I have used some of the lovely pre-coloured elements from the Sticks and Bones collection to make a quick birthday card.

Fabulous inspiration by the Design Team.

Now onto the Winner and Top 3 of our Birthday Celebrations Challenge.

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

#49 - Saskia Pullen

Please email us HERE and quote PD23001Wk20 to claim you 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.

#1 - Dreja

#54 - Yogi

#80 - Jana K

Here's your Top 3 badge for your blogs......

And finally our

Top 3 Feather in My Cap winners are

#64 - Craftyfield

#70 - Billie A

#74 - Andrea Norris

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

which you can check all about on the pages tabs above.

Each week the league board will be updated, so we can all keep track and at 

the end of the season our Winning Featherist will receive a special Polkadoodles prize.

Here's the badge for your blogs....

Congratulations to everyone.  We thank you for taking part in our challenges.

We love coming to visit and seeing all your wonderful creations.

Now it's over to you!

Our current challenge

FOR THE BOYS

HERE

Have a fabulous week everyone.

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