Week 24 Challenge - Male Theme

Welcome to another Polkadoodle challenge!  Even though the weather is rather naff at the moment, we hope that our samples and challenge will lift your spirits!

But before we go onto this week's challenge we need to announce the top three from Week 22 Challenge which was The Colour Purple.  The top three as chosen by the Design Team are:

1st Place - Sue Bearhouse - you win a download bundle- please use the code PD1W2422 to claim your prize
2nd Place - Ereti - you win a download bundle - please use the code PD2W2422
3rd Place - Lyndsay - you win a download bundle - please use the code PD3W2422

Congratulations to you all.  Please email Nikky and don't forget to quote your winners code - we cannot release prizes without it!  Blinkies are in the sidebar for you to grab.

We have a few little rules which makes our life a lot easier when we come visiting your blog:

1.  Please follow the challenge theme!
2.  Only enter your creation into a maximum of 10 challenges including Polkadoodles
3.  Please link your blog post and not your blog address with the linky tool - this saves us from searching your blog for your entry
4.  And please, no back-linking to previous posts - these will be disregarded from our top three voting
5.  If you have word verification on your blog it really does slow us down when leaving comments - please consider turning off word verification especially as the comment moderation has a spam section.

Right, onto the challenge for this week and the theme is:

Males

Please don't forget our rules and good luck - the challenge ends on Sunday 23 June at 12noon GMT!
Ruth:  I've gone for an old favourite - Paper Boutique Vol 1 and made the Dad card from the 'Family Affair' section.  I've opted for the A5 size pre printed - so all I've done is cut out, glue and add a faux stitch around the edges!

Margaret - always a difficult one for me but so much easier using the Pretty Tuff cd   it is full of great images both coloured and digi stamps and fabulous backing papers.  I have embossed the backing papers and distressed the edges using distress inks, the die cuts are spellbinders 

Pinky - I used the Pretty Tuff Cd, if you haven't got it go get it. Makes like much easier for those boy cards!
All papers, embellishments, boy image and sentiment came from the cd! I just added some red card and some punched out stars. I coloured the image using promarkers.

Lizzie - This was a very quick card sorry ladies, but if you pop to my blog you will understand why. I used the banners from the CD Cherry Blossom Lane added some text in my computer program

and cut it out layering onto white card. A quick CAS card !

Shell - For my project this week I found the most fab papers on the Not For Girls CD wow this cd is amazing and I don't know why I don't use it more - that will be changing as of now! So I decided to make a door hanger for my friends little boy who is super hero mad. His name and the super hero were cut on my cameo.

Kim - I've made a 'little boy' card which I think would be great for a toddler! I've used the CandyDoodles cd and used digi images and backing papers from the cd. I've coloured the images with promarkers and flexmarkers

JAN:  I used the fabulous 'Paper Boutique CD' for my project and made an 8x8" card. The backing paper and car template are both from the CD. I also printed the little guy from the 'Candy Doodles CD', coloured him with my Promarkers and then popped him in behind the wheel. A quick sentiment and a few stars to finish off.

Kitty - For my card i used the fabulous Pretty Tuff CD. All the elements (papers, image, sentiment etc) on this card apart from the twine of course are from the Pretty Tuff CD. Perfect for the guys in our lives!

Good luck with the challenge and don't forget our rules!  Deadline for entries is 12noon GMT on Sunday 23 June.

Week 22 Challenge - The Colour Purple

Welcome to another Polkadoodles challenge!

But before we go onto this week's challenge we need to announce the top three from Week 20 Challenge which was Spring Colours / Pastels.  Some really lovely creations were entered and the Design Team had a really hard time picking their top threebut there can only be three lucky winners and they are:

1st Place - Samantha - you win a Sugarplum Daisy cd  - please use the code PD1W2220 to claim your prize
2nd Place - Liv Solveig- you win a download bundle - please use the code PD2W2220
3rd Place - Eileen - you win a download bundle - please use the code PD3W2220

Congratulations to you all.  Please email Nikky and don't forget to quote your winners code - we cannot release prizes without it!  Blinkies are in the sidebar for you to grab.

We have a few little rules which makes our life a lot easier when we come visiting your blog:

1.  Please follow the challenge theme!
2.  Only enter your creation into a maximum of 10 challenges including Polkadoodles
3.  Please link your blog post and not your blog address with the linky tool - this saves us from searching your blog for your entry
4.  And please, no back-linking to previous posts - these will be disregarded from our top three voting
5.  If you have word verification on your blog it really does slow us down when leaving comments - please consider turning off word verification especially as the comment moderation has a spam section.

Right, onto the challenge for this week and the theme is:

The Colour Purple

A little bit of purple will not be enough - we want to see lots of the colour!  And please don't forget our rules and good luck - the challenge ends on Sunday 9 June at 12noon GMT! 

Ruth:  I've printed two papers as A5 size from the lovely Pretty Sweet cd, slightly distressed them with scissors before adding to a kraft card blank.  I've made the bunting with offcuts of paper and the sentiment stamp is from the Babsie Fairy Flutterby Stamp set.

Lou: For my card this week, I have to say I struggled with the colour scheme as it's not a colour I use predominately in my projects. After much agonising, I finally pulled myself together and my card then came together very quickly. The papers are from Cherry Blossom Lane CD and the scrummy cupcake is from Studio 12 Picknix collection 1 CD along with the matching ticket sentiment. I had to add another colour to the scheme and my cupcake was the "way in", hence the crochet flower I made too. I have even added purple crystal gems to the centre of my roses ribbon.

Margaret:  I have used one of the images from the Fredericka CD and matted and layered it using the papers from the same CD taken into my digital program and changed the colours.  Its so easy to do and you have an unlimited supply of backing papers - isn't that great!  The die cuts are Marianne dies and Spellbinders, isn't she a sweet image!

Anne - I've gone a bit CAS this week.  I was searching through my CD's when the chevron papers from Not For Girls jumped at me then I remembered that Pretty Tuff has this cool car on so printed that too and coloured it up with my copics. The arrow and 'GO' sign were cut with my cricut.  A little sentiment and the job was done. 

                              

Pinky - used items from Picknix Collection 1 - all sewn up. These included the sentiment, frame, papers spools and tape measure.  The ribbons and button are from my stash. I added some faux stitching to finish it off.

JAN:  This is my favourite colour and with all the yummy papers to choose from on the 'Sugarplum Daisy CD' I was spoiled for choice. I made a 6x6" card using two different papers from the CD and added a gorgeous image and sentiment from the 'Candy Doodles CD'.  The image is coloured with my Promarkers - I love her purple hair!

Lizzie - This week I made a pocket gift card. The tutorial I have done is here. I made a card that's a pocket gift card, under the flap is a little pocket to pop in some money, a voucher or a store gift card. I used all papers and images from the CD Sugar Plum Daisy.

Kim - For my card I've used the digi image 'Debutante' from the Fredericka cd collection - coloured with promarkers and flexmarkers.  I've made a gatefold card and the backing papers are from the Cherryblossom Lane cd. I've added die cut flowers using Marianne dies and leaves, with some gems and ribbon.

Shell- For my card this week I've used an image from the Fredricka Collection and papers from the Cherry Blossom Lane CD. I've used promarkers to colour my image and I made the shaped card blank using my cameo die cutting machine. 

Anjie For my card I have used a pre-coloured image and papers from the fabulously cute Cherryblossom Lane CD. The butterflies and flowers are also from the cd.

Please don't forget our rules especially the 10 maximum challenges including Polkadoodles!  Closing date for the challenge is Sunday 9 June at 12noon GMT.  Good luck!

Week 20 Challenge - Spring Colours / Pastels

Welcome to another Polkadoodles challenge!

But before we go onto this week's challenge we need to announce the top three from Week 18 Challenge which was Anything But A Card.  Some really lovely creations were entered but there can only be three lucky winners and they are:

1st Place - Lisa Jane - you win a Sugarplum Daisy cd  - please use the code PD1W2018 to claim your prize
2nd Place - Catherine - you win a download bundle - please use the code PD2W2018
3rd Place - Dawn Watson - you win a download bundle - please use the code PD32018

Congratulations to you all.  Please email Nikky and don't forget to quote your winners code - we cannot release prizes without it!  Blinkies are in the sidebar for you to grab.

We have a few little rules which makes our life a lot easier when we come visiting your blog:

1.  Please follow the challenge theme!
2.  Only enter your creation into a maximum of 10 challenges including Polkadoodles
3.  Please link your blog post and not your blog address with the linky tool - this saves us from searching your blog for your entry
4.  And please, no back-linking to previous posts - these will be disregarded from our top three voting
5.  If you have word verification on your blog it really does slow us down when leaving comments - please consider turning off word verification especially as the comment moderation has a spam section.

Right, onto the challenge for this week and the theme is:

Spring Colours / Pastels

Please don't forget our rules and good luck - the challenge ends on Sunday 26 May at 12noon GMT! 

Ruth:  I've made a calorie free cupcake with papers from the Fredericka cd!  The sentiment is from the Cherry Blossom Lane cd and I've inked it and then added it to the front of the cupcake with embroidery threads from my stash.

 
Lou: I wanted to use something different as my focal point on my card this week, so I decided to use the ticket sentiments from the Cherry Blossom Lane CD. I printed out the tickets and then fed them through my printer again with different pastel shaded papers from the same CD. I have layered some of the tickets to add depth. Finally I added a central strip of card, ribbon and pom poms and in the centre, I have added a layered topper with a further ticket and additional letter stickers. As a little extra (!), I have added some pastel coloured blooms.

Margaret - I have been dying to use some papers I printed out when I first got the cherryblossom lane CD so my card has been made up using papers from that cd and an image from candy doodles.  The flowers and corner are Marianne design dies and the circle is a spellbinder die a few pearls, and some pan pastels

Anjie - for my project this week I have decorated a bag. My beautiful Niece Daisy is expecting a baby in October and I am buying and stocking up on baby toiletries for her, well everyone always buys clothes so I like to buy things I know will be useful. So I have made this gift bag to give her them in.

The image and papers are from the fabulous Fredericka CD. If you like these images but don't like CD crafting you can now also buy them as digital downloads which you can find here or as pre-printed images in a pack. You can also buy the papers as a paper stack. You can find them all here. I have coloured the image with Graph It Markers and used chalks to create the background. The sentiment is a Studio 12 stamp which you can find here, isn't it just perfect for this! I've added some Marianne D die cuts and some lace from my stash.

Kim - I've made what I describe as a 'CrissCross Gift Card' using papers and topper from the Cherryblossom Lane cd.  I think it's a nice way to give a little gift or a voucher!  A tutorial for how I made this is on this blog! 

Pinky - made an 8x8 card using papers and sentiment from Cherryblossom Lane Cd. The butterfly is also from there and I have coloured it with promarkers and punched some tiny butterflies which I also coloured with promarkers and added some glitter. The ribbon is from my stash.

Lizzie - I decided to use this lovely paper from the  Cherry Blossom Lane CD to cover some boxes to make a desk tidy. I used a Punch to make the edges look pretty, and added some ribbon!

JAN:  I was inspired by our Dee on last week's Polkadoodles show and loved the project that she demonstrated - so here's my version using pretty 'Spring' colours. All the papers, image and sentiment are from the fab 'Sugarplum Daisy CD'. 

Shell-For my pretty pastel card  I have used papers and image from the Fredericka collection. the image is coloured with copics and I used a few dies to complete the card.

Anne -  I printed my paper from  Pen and Paper kit 5, to make the little gift bag and paper for the gift tag.

The cute honey bee and sentiment are from the Sugarplum Fairy CD.  Quick and simple:)

Good luck with the challenge and don't forget our rules - the challenge closes at noon GMT on Sunday 26 May!

   

Week 18 Challenge - Anything But A Card

Welcome to another Polkadoodles challenge!

But before we go onto this week's challenge we need to announce the top three from Week 16 Challenge which was a New Home theme.  Some really lovely creations were entered but there can only be three lucky winners and they are:

1st Place - Cass - you win a Sugarplum Daisy cd  - please use the code PD1W1816 to claim your prize
2nd Place - Heidi - you win a download bundle - please use the code PD2W1816
3rd Place - aNNie - you win a download bundle - please use the code PD3W1816

Congratulations to you all.  Please email Nikky and don't forget to quote your winners code - we cannot release prizes without it!  Blinkies are in the sidebar for you to grab.

We have a few little rules which makes our life a lot easier when we come visiting your blog:

1.  Please follow the challenge theme!
2.  Only enter your creation into a maximum of 10 challenges including Polkadoodles
3.  Please link your blog post and not your blog address with the linky tool - this saves us from searching your blog for your entry
4.  And please, no back-linking to previous posts - these will be disregarded from our top three voting
5.  If you have word verification on your blog it really does slow us down when leaving comments - please consider turning off word verification especially as the comment moderation has a spam section.

Right, onto the challenge for this week and the theme is:

Anything But A Card

Please don't forget our rules and good luck - the challenge ends on Sunday 12 May at 12noon GMT!
Shell- I have made something totally different for this weeks challenge, I made a key ring. To make it I used clay and pressed the butterfly stamp from the Bevvieboo stamp set. Once the clay set I covered it in pink and purple paint.

Ruth: I've made a little hanging plaque by using papers from Paper Boutique Vol 1 and a rather cute Emma Canning digi which I've coloured with Promarkers.  I've used Spellbinder Nestabilites for the shape, aded some doodling and some silver cord to the reverse and its all complete!

Lucy: for this challenge, I decided to do another journal page! I used the image from the Cherry Blossom Lane CD Rom, coloured with Pro Markers. The backing papers are from the Sugar Plum Daisy CD Rom. The papers torn in to pieces and stuck down with gel medium. The border is drawn with markers.

Margaret after a stay in a hotel near christmas I fell in love with the idea of door decorations and decided to do one for each room, and this is my first, using the incredible Polka Doodles cd  Creative Christmas I made a Holly Wreath.  Just cutting out lots of Holly and attaching to a gold covered circle then smothering it in red  doodle dewdrops.

Lizzie - I decided to make a Watering Can gift box! I made the one with the purple handles first to test the template. Oooh it was sooooooo easy to make. I used the beautiful paper from the CD Back to Nature It really didn't need anything else adding to it!

Then I decided to go wild and do one I could decorate with my dies ! This time  I used a beautiful blue paper with butterflies on. From the CD Cherry Blossom Lane The idea being it would look like the butterflies were flying in the sky to go with my "picture" I created around the can.

I used various Marianne dies to create the effect. Of course I had to use my Stickles to glitter up the butterflies and add gems for pizzaz !

Ok, I got inspired by making something other than a card and I so love the new Fredericka CD so I got playing and came up with this place card. I thought that I would try to use something I had in the house that was for another purpose. This is made from a Bulldog clip really used for clipping papers together!  I covered it in paper and cut out one of the pre-coloured images from the CD (re-sizing). I added some bling, tied some ribbon in a bow at the back of the place card (after all some-one sees the back!). For the name card I used a Spellbinder die cutting it out over a printed picture and name, used distress inks, added a butterfly and voila! VERY quick to make and so easy!

JAN:  I decided to make a little gift bag using papers and a cute little image and sentiment from the 'Sugarplum Daisy CD'.  Watch out for my tutorial which explains how to make this little bag from one piece of A4 paper.

Pinky - For my project I decided to make some little bootees and a tag. The papers I used came from  the Cherry Blossom cd. I printed both sides of the paper so the shoes would be lined. The image is from Fredericka cd and I coloured her with promarkers. The ribbon is from my stash.

Anne - I've a load of old and unloved CD's so thought I'd alter one of them. I started by loading the papers and images from Double Sprinkle of Craft into my graphics programme and created the little scene digitally.  Resized it to fit onto the CD and added a few more bits and pieces to give it some dimension.

                            

Kim - It's that time of year when I start to venture out into the garden again, so decided that I would alter a little cheap notepad and make it into a personalised garden notebook! I've used all papers from the Cherryblossom Lane cd  with some added distress inks. Then added embellishments printed and cut out from the cd with some added ribbons & buttons and die cut fence. And then added some wording to one of the tags on the cd. 

Lou: I decided to make a tag with my Studio 12 stamps and some papers from the Picknix Vol 1 CD. I have been itching to use "Art Girl" for ages and this challenge was just the kick I needed! I have stamped her, coloured with distress inks and then paper pieced her dress. I couldn't resist covering then in glossy accents.

So that's it!  Over to you now!  Good luck with the challenge - closing date is Sunday 12 May at 12noon GMT and please remember our rules!

Week 16 Challenge - New Home

Welcome to another Polkadoodle challenge!  From next week we will be bringing a new feature to the Polkadoodle and Studio 12 blog - each week a member of the Design Team will post a tutorial just before the challenge goes live and to make it easier for you to find them, there will be a new tab at the top of the page which will link directly to all our tutorials!  See how good we are to you!!  Watch out for the very first tutorial from next week!

Anyway!  Onto this weeks challenge!  But before we do that we need to announce the top three from Week 14 Challenge which was Pink and Brown.  Some really lovely creations were entered but there can only be three lucky winners and they are:

1st Place - Annie - you win an Emma Canning cd - Digi Stamp Heaven!  - please use the code PD1W1614 to claim your prize
2nd Place - Suzilou - you win an Emma Canning download - please use the code PD2W1614
3rd Place - Sharon G - you win an Emma Canning download - please use the code PD3W1614

Congratulations to you all.  Please email Nikky and don't forget to quote your winners code - we cannot release prizes without it!  Blinkies are in the sidebar for you to grab.

We have a few little rules which makes our life a lot easier when we come visiting your blog:

1.  Please follow the challenge theme!
2.  Only enter your creation into a maximum of 10 challenges including Polkadoodles
3.  Please link your blog post and not your blog address with the linky tool - this saves us from searching your blog for your entry
4.  And please, no back-linking to previous posts - these will be disregarded from our top three voting
5.  If you have word verification on your blog it really does slow us down when leaving comments - please consider turning off word verification especially as the comment moderation has a spam section.

Right, onto the challenge for this week and the theme is:

New Home

Please don't forget our rules and good luck - the challenge ends on Sunday 28 April at 12noon GMT! 

Ruth:  I decided not to make a card for this challenge and went for a welcome bottle theme!  I've made a posh bottle tag (I'm sure there is a proper description for it somewhere!) and used some Polkadoodle papers that I found in my stash and an image that I printed off nearly 4 years ago when Sugar Birdies was first released!  I've decoupaged the image, coloured the birdies and added stickles here and there.  And its all modeled on a bottle of bubble bath!

Lou: Here is my project using a plethera of Studio 12 stamps. I have stamped the images on to water colour card and then mounted on to felt. I then created a canvas with all the images, layering the houses up, creating clouds and paths from felt. Even the trees are stamped on to felt and then added ...

Lucy: For this challenge I decided to do a tag for my friend who has just moved. I sprayed the tag with Dylusion Inks and drew the border with marker pens. The image was stamped with the Be Neighbours clear stamps. The image, butterfly and flower were coloured with Pro Markers

Anjie: For this weeks challenge I have made a canvas. I have used images from the Studio 12 CD-rom.- Picknix Collection 1. I printed the background paper onto some printable canvas and glued it onto a cheap canvas I bought from one of those cheap shops. I then printed all the other elements onto printable canvas and glued them in place. I cut out the bunting and glued it on using silicone gel to give it a 3D effect.

JAN:  I made a 6x6" card for this week's challenge, using papers, image and lettering from the fabulous 'Sugarplum Daisy CD'. All layered up with a little kraft card and some polkadot organza ribbon.

Pinky - For this challenge I used the Picknix Collection 1 cd for the tree and the sentiment. The little house is a stamp from the Stamp Doodles range. I coloured it with promarkers and flex markers along with the grass. I 3d the house in front of the tree, machine stitched round the edges and punched some butterflies and coloured them with matching promarkers. I finished with a little bit of glitter on the tree blossoms.

Lizzie - This week I made a Card and a box!

First the card ..... I used the Stampies from the CD All Around and Everywhere. Both the houses and tree Stampies. To make them large enough to make a card with I enlarged the view on them and used the printing option of current view.

I used double sided foam to give dimension, I also cut out doors and window boxes to help the dimension.

Of course I had to glitter it up using my Stickles ! The doors, roofs, window boxes and bits of the trees all got glittered ! The fence is a Marianne die. I basically layered all of these onto a rectangle card!

Secondly I made a box!  Again I used foam to layer up the images from the CD All Around and Everywhere, the Marianne die for the fence, a Martha Stewart Punch for the edge of the lid. The tag and leaves on top were both made using Marianne dies. Flowers are Prima with gems added !!

Margaret:  I made an easel card for the challenge using an image from Sugarplum daisy CD and cut 3 images and decoupaged up the house the trees are from All around and Everywhere  The bunting is made from papers from the same cd and cut using spellbinders dies

Kim - I made a 'New Home' card using a variety of images that I 'merged' together from Picknix 1 cd-rom, with the scenery, tree house and then flowers. I printed off clouds and added them as raised embellies, and the signpost (with added wording). The backing paper is also from the Picknix1 cd and then added a diecut edge and ribbon and buttons from stash

Shell-For my card this week I've used the row of house's from the All around and everywhere cd, the papers are from the gingerbread twist cd (I think) I already had it printed out in my pile of papers. I then added a bit of ribbon and lace with a few pearls to finish.

Clare - This week I chose to use images and sentiments from Studio 12 Picknix Collection 1 CD. I made a large 8x8 card for my Niece who has just moved into her first home. I have kept it fairly simple as I know my Niece will frame this and put on one of her walls!!!! I have layered the tree and bird houses for dimension. I have added little embellishments from my stash and finished the image off with Stickles Glitter Glue and gems on the flowers.

Good luck with the challenge - the rules are at the start of this post and the deadline is Sunday 28 April at 12noon GMT.