Week 3 - 19 Jan - winter birthday

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As always our theme is
ANYTHING GOES

PRIZE: $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles Download Store.
TOP 3 DT FAVOURITES: Each will win a FREE digi stamp voucher for the store.
Closing date for entries: Fri 26th Jan, Noon. Max 2 entries per person, no backlinks.
You do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges, use any products you wish...
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The winners of Week 1 are at the end of this post.
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  Make sure you pop over to the Polkadoodles Store this week...

We have lots of new releases which have been going on for the last couple of weeks so don't miss them, you'll love them all!

                     

   

And make sure you also head over to the  DIGI CHOOSDAY CHALLENGE HERE and enter our Anything Goes Challenge there, too! More great prizes to be won!


Let's see what the Design Team have made for us this week!...

As always, Lots of fabulous creations to inspire you this week...

Helen - I can't get enough of these Little Monsters and thought they would make a fun Winter Birthday card as obviously a MOnster is not just for Christmas!! You can find them right here at the store. I've used 3 monster from the download collection and stacked them on top of each other before colouring them in. I then used some of the lush papers and die cut them with the new scenic landscapes die 


Ruth:  I've used Winnie Chic cutting die for the body, background hair, hairband, dress and present.  For the hair bow and shoes I used Miss Winnie cutting die and for the top layer of hair I used Winnie Ballerina cutting die - all of the dies are compatible and interchangeable with one another so endless possibilities!  I used the skin tone card from the card stock pack and the hair is card from my own stash along with glittery card and half pearls.

Anna - For this birthday card I used Horace & Boo collection.

I colored this beautiful digi with my Prismacolor and I attached it on a sheet of acetate ... in the back I created a landscape with a background present in the bundle.

Carol - I've made a birthday card featuring a wintery image and background paper from  Octavia Frosted Winter collection and added a sentiment from Winnies Sugar Sprinkles Sentiments collection. I really love how the Polkadoodles collections all work together, so you always have the perfect paper, image and sentiment for any occasion.



Lisa - I've used a gorgeous January image called Heart on Your Sleeve, coloured with copics.  The papers are from the Belle Papillon paper pad and the sentiment is a stamp from the fab Build Your Own Male Sentiments set.


Lisa - My winter birthday card using elements from Octavia Moonfly Big Kahuna Download Bundle. I have coloured the image with Copics, added some sparkle and finished with a little Crackle & Glossy Accents:



Shylaa - I have used image, sentiment and frame from Horace & Boo collection. The image is watercoloured using camel water colour cakes.

Vannessa - I used the Frosty Penguins image, papers and tree images from the Octavia Frosted Winter Collection to make a wintery birthday card. The sentiment is from the Winnie Sugar Sprinkles Springtime Collection as well. 

Now onto our Winner and Top 3 of our Week 1 challenge.....
(PLEASE NOTE - WINNERS WILL NOT BE REPLIED TO UNTIL AFTER 27TH JANUARY, PLEASE DO NOT KEEP EMAILING IF YOU DON'T RECEIVE A REPLY BACK DURING THIS TIME) 
Random Winners:
The Winner, chosen by Random Org, are.....
25 Cristina
Please email us HERE, quoting the following code PD0wk01001 to claim your prize of $10 worth of downloads from the digi store.
Claims must be received by 31/1/18, please refer to Challenge rules at top of blog.

Here is your Winners Badge to display on your blog...

Week 1 - Design Team's Favourite Top 3 in no particular order....

34 Ines

12 Mummylade

59 Sheryl

All 3 of you have WON A FREE DIGI STAMP!  

Please email us HERE, quoting the following code PDwk01123 to claim your download voucher from the digi store.

Claims must be received by 31/1/18, please refer to Challenge rules at top of blog. 

Congratulations to everyone.  We thank you all for taking part in our challenges.  We love coming to visit and seeing all your wonderful creations...

 We'll be back on Friday 26th January with a brand new challenge, but make sure you head over to the DIGI CHOOSDAY CHALLENGE HERE where you can also join in their weekly challenge too..

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Week 13 - Cream and Sugar Polkadoodles Crafting challenge

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Hello everyone - Happy Friday!

This week is inspiration week here at Polkadoodles for our 

Cream and Sugar
Challenge
You can enter it Here

So lovely creams, ivories, coffee and pink colours.
Remember you do not have to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges.
We only have a few little rules and they are over there in the side bar ---->
The winner of this challenge will receive a $10 gift certificate to the Polkadoodles download store.
You have until Noon, GMT, Friday 8th April to enter.

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

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

FEATHER IN MY CAP

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

Here are more fantastic creations from the team...

Ruth:  I've used the wonderful Twiggy and Toots collection for my card - all the papers and the pre coloured image (great for when you're in a rush!) are from the cd.  Ribbons and charm are from my stash and I've added some blue to the theme because my coffee is usually cold by the time I remember I have it!!

Katrina: I've used the gorgeous Octavia Moonfly CD for my card. I printed off the black & white version of 'Wistful' and coloured her in with alchohol markers. The sentiment and papers are all from the CD though I did adjust the colour on the dotty paper to make it cream coloured. The butterflies were cut from another of the papers and I drew on the antennae with a fineliner pen.

Bev here still in CAS mode. I printed Cake & Chocolate digi onto some cream linen cardstock and coloured her up using my pencils. The sentiment is also from the Winnie Sugar Sprinkles Collection

Anita- hi there this week for our challenge I coloured my first ever colouring page from the Florabunda colouring Cd Rom, I coloured this page with pencils and used up my Polkadoodles off cuts of papers from my last project .

Claire C I've been playing with some of the gorgeous 'Stamp Soup' stamps to make this card. The stamps I've used are from Lavender Tea and Lemonade Fizz, coloured with my Lyra Pencils. The wings of the dragonflies were stamped onto vellum.

Anjie - Of course the new Work and Play 12 collection is perfect for this challenge. I have used the coffee section but not used one of the Barista character images. I put the cup cake and the coffee together to make a topper out of them. More info and photos on my blog.

Don't forget, the challenge theme is

Cream and Sugar

You can enter it Here

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Now for the winners from our Spring Colours Challenge

The winner chosen at random by www.random.org is:

#61 - Neli

Please email us at sales@polkadoodles.co.uk quoting PD13001wk10 to claim your prize of $10  worth of downloads from the digi store! 
Here is your new Winners Badge to display on your blog:

And in no particular order the 

TOP THREE FAVOURITES 

chosen by the design team are:

# 71 - Norma
#19 - Mrs T
#59 - Lucy Patrick

Grab your brand spanking new badges below:

So, here are our first 

TOP 3 FEATHER IN MY CAP

winners - these are our Top 3 fave entries that used a Polkadoodles image

# 35- Billie A

# 59- Lucy Patrick

# 38 -Dianne

Well done Feathery friends! You have all been added to the league board with our first Feathers - so now you can put a Feather in Your Cap and use our Feather badge on your blogs! 

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! 

Congratulations everyone!  Don't forget  your winners badges .

Thanks to everyone who enters, we really enjoy coming to see your creations each week.

The current challenge theme is

Cream and Sugar

and you can enter Here

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 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 42 - Crafting Challenge at Polkadoodles - Use a Die Cut

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Bloomin' eck it's Friday again!
That can only mean one thing, time for us to share some Design Team inspiration with you all.
We are in week 2 of our challenge

Use a Die Cut

You can link up your entry HERE

The winners of our Favourite Card Shape challenge will be at the end of this post.
Before we get on to seeing what the Design Team have been up to, let's see what's in the store.

I expect you are all busy bees getting ready for Halloween, well there are some fabulous digi's
and download collections to be had.  No hanging about for that pesky postman either.

Check at the Polkadoodles bundles
HERE






Now let's get on with the show :-)

Asha - Instead of using die cuts to frame or mat, I've decided to create a scene with die cut clouds and grass with papers from W&P 10 Country Life. The star of the card is a sweet little cow from W&P 10 Country Life. I coloured her with my pencils, adhered a ticket tag the CD, inked the edges and my CAS card is done.

Scatty Jan - I have used the amazing Frosted Winter collection using the lovely Artic Wandering Star Octavia also available as a digi here and also the Ice Palace which is available here. I coloured up using Graph'It Markers and also using the silver shake it marker, I cut some flowers from the collection and coloured them up to match. I cut around the bauble using a die.

Jackie - I have been busy colouring up some of the great digis on Work and Play 5- Festive Hollybobs. This one is Hollybobs Skating Fun. The paper, sentiment and bow are also from this collection. I have used a Sizzlits die set for the snowflakes. Details on my blog.

Karon - I have made an easel card this week.  Using a pre-coloured digi with frame from the fabulous Octavia Frosted Winter collection.  She is also available as a black and white image for you to download and colour HERE.  I add some glitter and used my oval dies, to cut around the frames and sentiment.  Everything you see is from this fabulous collection.

Jenny - I have used a large die this week to cut the window on my card. I have used craft card and one of the pre-coloured digi's from the Octavia Frosted Winter collection. I wanted it to look like you were looking out onto a snowy scene, although I've used the coloured image you can get her on her own as a digi download here.

Jessie - I love tucking small die cuts and things in as layers on my cards and the banner on this is a great example of that! I used the Octavia Big Kahunna bundle for this card. the paper and the image all come from that collection! This image is so worth all the time put into colouring it! 

Ria - hmm what a horror to having to add diecuts... Who loves diecuts?? whahahah me of course so here is my card I used the scarecrow from the Autumn/Fall digistamp collection and coloured him with pencils and did his background in watercolours. The papers and sentiment are from the Serenity Collection... Dies are all from Tattered Lace Dies...

Aunty Sue - Wow how do I follow all this inspiration well hopefully this wont scare you away. I have used the Autumn/Fall Digi stamps with this brilliant Guy doesn't he look like he is ready for another drink and also the papers are from the Paper Heaven download 1 and the house and sentiment is from the sentiments pack all available from the shop HERE. My Dies are the corner die and the Railing in front of the house. The image has been coloured with my Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor Pencils. I do hope that he hasn't scared you off from joining us this week.

Wendy - For this weeks card, I've used a sentiment from the Picnix 3 Collection as the main focus and re-coloured in using Craft Artist. The Poinsettia's are also from the same collection. The die is a Tonic verso die, 'Birthday Wishes'.

WOW what fabulous Inspiration.  has it put you in the mood for crafting?!

Our winner (chosen by Random org) for our

Favourite Card Shape challenge is.....

#26 - Natasja

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

Please contact us HERE and quote PD42001Wk39 to claim your prize.

Our Top 4 this week, chosen by the DT, and 4 because we couldn't narrow it down :-)

are...

#6 - Wendy

#17 - Bettina

#44 - Jana K

#55 - Lucy Patrick

Don't forget to get you badges from the side bar.

Congratulations to everyone and thanks to everyone that takes part

in our challenges, we love coming to visit all your fabulous blogs.

Keep Crafting!

You can enter our

USE A DIE CUT challenge

HERE

See you next time.