Week 3 - Case It - Polkadoodles Challenge

Hello and Happy Friday!

We hope you have all had a fabulous week.

Firstly, have you all seen the next new release.  Well, why not?!  LOL!

I think Nikky didn't take much time off over Christmas, as this is the second new release this year!

Take a look at the beautiful Work & Play 9 - Love and Kisses

This collection is an XXL collection meaning you get 16, yes 16!! different digistamps included, in addition to the masses of other stuff too! wow!

Perfect for Weddings. Anniversaries, Engagements, Hen Parties this is one amazing

collection, 16 yep 16 character digis, we can't believe it!!  Amazing papers, design sheets, embellishments.

This stunning collection has it all!

And now without further ado, lets get onto this weeks challenge....

CASE IT!

We would like you to choose a project made either by yourself, or by someone else (the Design Team are happy for you to choose ours but of course you can case anyone you like so long as you have permission!)....the whole idea of this is to then use that project to create your own version, using it as inspiration (not copying!). It could be the colours, the design, the embellishment or die they used, the stamp, the layout, whatever it is you love about that make. 

You have until 12 noon, GMT, Friday 30 January to enter.

You don't have to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges.

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

The random winner of this challenge will receive a copy of our Work & Play 8 collection on download! Wow! And our top 3 Design Team favourites will all win a digi too! 

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

Scatty Jan - For my case it project , I have used the colours Red/Beige from Yvonne's first post for Polkadoodles back in June , You can find it here  - I have used the lovely image Violin Girl from Work and Play 8, the paper and violins and Music sheet also from the collection - Violin Girl is also available as a digi you can find her here - I have coloured her using Graph'It Markers

Asha - I'm channelling my inner Anjie with this card made entirely from a design sheet from the über adorable Winston CD. It had all I needed to complete the project. And I also tried my hand at decoupage - a technique I've never attempted before. My CASE inspiration made it's debut in September last year PD challenge #39. I finished my project with some blue ribbon and few droppings of liquid pearls.

Leah - I am using Anita's lovely card from the Tic-Tac-Toe challenge as my CASE It inspiration this week.  I love the black and white digital papers and the pop of color in the colored image :)  I used the Dollie Daydream - Ready for Rain digital image and digital papers from the Dollie Daydream - Girl Talk Collection :)  I made her into a twisted easel card and had a lot of fun with it!  Hope to see you again soon on the challenge blog!  You can see more photos and information about this project by clicking my name...it's the link to my blog :)

Karon - I decided to case one of Asha's makes from August last year - you can find it here.  I love the stitching that she always adds to her cards - and loved making the pinwheel background.  All the elements for my card are from the fabulous new Work and Play 8 - Music CD.

Lou: I have cased Anna's beautiful heart card (found here) as it was just the inspiration I needed to make an anniversary card. I have used the Picknix Collection; specifically the "In the Garden" kit. Full details can be found on my blog.

Cheremane - Seeing its so cold outside I looked to Scatty Jan to CASE as she made a fab pop up card back in August when it was nice and warm. I've used the fabulous Work & Play 8 Cd - Music you can also get the Characters as single Digi's which is fab.

Melanie - I've cased the lovely Anna for this card, I adore her layered style and gorgeous attention to detail. I tried to emulate the layout of her lovely make for the recycling challenge back in November, which used the Rose Budd collection in frosty tones of blue and lilac. For this card I went for a more springtime look and feel, using papers from the Picknix collection. I really enjoyed making it!

Don't forget to go take a peek at their teamies cards to see where they got their inspiration from.

Our Tic Tac Toe challenge winners will be announced next Friday.

So, have a look at some past creations on Polkadoodles and get into your craft rooms.

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

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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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Wk 10 - Digi Queens

Welcome back to another Digi Queens day of inspiration.

Before we head to see what the team are making for us this week, make sure you check out our fab new collection

Work and Play 7....

Let's see what the team have for you this week...

Victoria - Hi everyone, this week I've used the footballer from the Work and Play 6 Collection.  He's just perfect to pop on a card for all those budding football stars!!

Click on this link to buy this digi now!

I coloured the image with Promarkers, here are my colour combinations: hair - primrose, buttercup, pastel yellow; skin - almond, blush, sunkissed pink, coral; clothes - cool grey 1, purple, ruby, cool aqua; grass - forest green, pine.

Hi Anita here today I have chosen a super cutie called  Emily party she was so fun to colour with my promarker's and add a little sparkle too perfect for a princess. I teamed the image up with my new addiction of digital papers from Dollie daydream girl talk selection

I coloured using my promarker's and these are what I used ,
Hair: burnt sienna, raw sienna, oatmeal. skin: almond, blush, oatmeal ,soft peach, dusky rose, pastel pink. pinks : tropical pink, rose pink, pink carnation, pink mittens. Greens: mint green, soft green, pastel green, yellows :ginger, amber, gold, pastel yellow. also used a white posca pen and a wink of castella clear.

Emilly Party

Girl Talk

Jackie here, with another one of Nikkys fabulous creations.  I have used the digi image, Etty Bear Sewing, and coloured wiith Copics.

The copics I used are. B0000, B000, B01, B02,, B05.  R81, R20. E30, E31, E33, E35, E37. C1, C3.

Lizzy- I have made a slider pop-up card to share with you all this week.  I used one of the characters and a sentiment from my favorite collection, Work and Play Collection 5 Festive Hollybobs.  This is Hollybobs Presents.

You can find Hollybobs Presents and the sentiment in the complete Festive Hollybobs Collection or she can be purchased as a single digi as well. They can be found here...

I colored her with my Graph'it Markers.  Here are the color combos I used:

skin: 4125, 4115, 4155, 3120

hair: 1210, 1230, 1270

blue: 7109, 7110, 7115, 7119

green: 8240, 8260, 8270

red: 5215, 5240, 5270

Pami here with my card for this week.  Today I decided to use one of the gorgeous images from Dollie Daydream Goes East.  She is called Elegance.  I also used papers from the Full Collection which are just beautiful.  

You can get the digi here:

You can get the Full Collection here:

I coloured with Copics and here are the colours I used:
Skin - E000, E00, E21, E11, E04, R20
Hair - W9, W7, W5, W3
Clothes - R89, R39, R85, R83, R81

Hello everyone, it's Leah's turn now, lol.  This week I used Nikky's fabulous "Shannon" digi.  I LOVE this image, it reminds me so much of my childhood on the beaches of British Columbia.  We used to camp near the beach, and as kids my sister and I would collect seashells and sand dollars :)  Starfish were harder to come by :)

You can find this sweet image here on the Polka Doodles website:

I colored "Shannon" with my Prismacolor Premiere pencils in the following colors:
Hair - PC1084, 941, 947
Skin - PC927, 939
Dress - PC1092, 1031, 102I 9
Shell - PC1018, 1080, 1095
Starfish - PC940, 943
Flowers - PC1095, 1018

What great makes!

Don't forget to pop over to Digi Choosday today where we have some exciting news - in the meantime we'll be back on Friday with more Polkadoodles loveliness too!

Wk 8 - The Digi Queens Colouring Inspiration

Welcome back to another day with the Digi Queens!

Before we head to see the colouring inspiration from the team this week, we have some fabulous news for you...

We're feeling a little generous this week so 

enter the following code at the digi checkout to save 20% 

on all digis in the store (expires midnight 27/10 GMT)

DQ211220

If you are not a member of our Facebook group here make sure you pop over and join us as we have loads of great fun stuff going on and little freebies and discounts so it's well worth joining us! 

Have fun! 

Let's see what the team have made for us this week!

Anita here today! To get us in the mood for Ho Ho Ho I have chosen the papers and gorgeous image Presents from the Work and Play 5 Hollybobs Collection...

 

Work and play cd5 Holybobs Collection

I coloured using promarkers and these are the colours:

Hair : Burnt sienna, Raw sienna, Oatmeal. Skin : Almond, Blush, Oatmeal, Soft peach, Dusky Rose, Pastel Pink. Reds : Burgundy, Crimson, poppy, lipstick red. Greens: Holly, Pine, Forest green.

For the added sparkle wink of castella clear sparkle.

Victoria here with my Christmas inspiration for you!  I've used Santa and papers from the Festive Hollybobs collection to make my card this week!

You can get the digi stamp here:

I coloured this image using ProMarkers - Santa's suit: Lipstick Red, Berry Red, Crimson; boots: Cool Grey 3,4,5 and black; bag: Tan, Cinnamon, Burnt Sienna; holly: Apple, Forest Green, Pine; fur and beard: Warm Grey 1 and 2.

Pami here with my make with a Christmas theme and I am so pleased its Christmas as I love the Festive Hollybobs!  I have used Hollybobs Mistletoe as my image and teamed him up with papers which are all from the Work and Play 5 Festive Hollybobs

You can get the digi here:

I coloured with copies and here are the colours I used:  Skin - E000, E00, E21, E11, E04, R20; Hair - E29, E25, E21; Clothes - B99, B97, B95, B93, R59, R46, R29, R21, W1-W9.

Jackie here .. and my Christmas theme card also.  I have used Little Elf and papers from the Work and Play 5 CD  Festive Hollybobs Collection. 

You can get the CD here and the digi on its own here

I have coloured the image with copics. Skin E00, E11, E13, R20. clothes, BG000, BG01, BG02, BG09. C1, C3, C5, C7., G20 and G24.

Leah here with my Christmas make this week.  I used the Hollybobs Mailbox digital stamp, along with papers and sentiments from the Work & Play 5 Collection - Festive Hollybobs :)  This piece is actually an envelope mini, but I can't show you all of it here...you'll have to check out my blog to see it all!

You can find the Festive Hollybobs Collection here:

I colored this fun image with my Prismacolor Premiere pencils in the following colors:
Hat/scarf/holly leaves - PC912, 1096, 908
Hair - PC1083, 944, 946
Skin - PV927, 939
Mitts/jacket/boots - PC1084, 941, 947
Skirt/tights - PC903, 1100, 901, 1065
Holly berries - PC1031, 1081, 1095, 938
Snow - PC1059
Mailbox - PC924, 925, 937
Shading around elements - PC946

Lizzy-  Hello crafty peeps!  I would like to share my very girly christmas card with you all today using the Hollybobs Skater.   I  have wanted to use this little sweetie from the first moment I saw her. She is available as a digi, a clear stamp, and is in the complete Work and Play Collection 5 Festive Hollybobs also.

You can find the Hollybobs Skater digi HERE,  and the clear stamp HERE, 

and the complete Festive Hollybobs Collection HERE

I colored her with my Graph'it Markers. Here are my color combinations used:

skin: 4125, 4155, 4180, 3120/ 4135

hair: 2105, 3110, 3170, 3180

pink: 5125, 5160, 5150, 5180

grey: 9100, 9101, 9102, 9103

green: 8110, 8120, 8280, 8290

red: 5215, 5240, 5270

opaque white and silver Shake Pen

Wow!! Love all the inspiration from the team!! Make sure you pop over and see the Digi Choosday gang because they have yet MORE inspiration for you today! 

We'll see you back here Friday for another fab Polkadoodles challenge! 

xxx