Wk 17 - SPRINGTIME Wk2...Polkadoodles Challenge

Hello everyone.  Hope you all had a fabulous Easter and didn't eat too much of that delicious chocolate.
Before we get to business, we have a little reminder for you - you can watch Nikky on Create and Craft TV on Tuesday 29th April with a brand new Dutch Doobadoo show! If you've never heard of Doobadoo it is a fantastic range of new products in the UK and Nikky will be showing us some gorgeous things we can do with it! So make sure you tune in or watch online on the Create and Craft website!

Here we are into week 2 of our Springtime Challenge

You have until noon GMT on Friday 2nd May to enter this one and we will announce the winner on 9th May. Dont forget you dont HAVE to use Polkadoodles products to enter the challenge, but please just make sure you follow our rules in the sidebar --->

You can enter your creations  HERE

The winners of our last challenge will be announced at the end of this post.

Don't forget the new Work and Play Collection 3 is available now and these collections are a fantastic, affordable way to build a whole library of characters for every occasion you could ever need!

Here is the fabulous DT inspiration for you this week....

Claire Boelema - This is what happens when you need emergency Easter cards! Once I'd done the Easter cards I decided that I'd make a few more cards for my card box. So here's a selection of really quick makes for all occasions using the super cute bird from the Candy Doodles CD

Lou: I have used Paper Boutique 3 and the flower cross, to create an Easter card for my M-i-L. The cross and flowers have been layered on to acetate, with another cross on the inside. Lots of layers added and a simple sentiment (created using rub ons).

Claire C ...I love Spring, after the dark days of winter is lovely to potter around in the garden and watch the birds. I've made a Spring themed easel card using a digistamp coloured with Graph'It Markers, papers and lots of embellishments from Sudio 12 Picknix Collection 1 Cd.

Karon - I decided to have a look back and some of the older CD's this week and decided to use the Sugar Birdies CD collection.  I made two cards, one a pyramid card, and not to waste the left overs I made an inverted pyramid card too.  Using one of the pre-coloured toppers and paper.  The sentiment tickets are from Dollie Daydream Goes East collection.

Fabulous makes this week, or what!? Wow!

The winner and Top 3 for our Week 14 and 15 Animal Magic challenge are...

Our Random winner chosen by Random Org is

#52 Sarah - J W

Well done!  Email us here quoting code PDw170001 to claim you prize, you won a copy

of our fabulous Work and Play Collection 1 - fabulous!

Our Favourite Top 3 chosen by the Design Team are

#51 Yogi

#86  Karen Foy

#35  Samih who is only 8 years old eveyone!

Congratulations to all our winners - don't forget to take your blinkies from the side bar.

You can enter your creations  HERE

Good luck everyone and get your creating heads on :-) 

We'll be back next week with some UBER exciting news, so don't miss it!!! 

Wk 15 - ANIMAL MAGIC wk 2...Polkadoodles Challenge

Friday already and that means challenge day! Woohoo!

This week we are looking at more 

Animal Magic 

inspiration for you!

And the team have come up with some great inspiration as always!

You have until 18th April at noon GMT to enter this challenge and the winner will 
receive a copy of our Work and Play 1 collection which is worth £10 so well worth 
entering this one! You don't have to use our products to enter so get making!

As this is our 2nd week of this challenge with more inspiration for you, please 

ENTER HERE

You can see the winners from our last challenge at the end of this post but just before we have a look at the Design Team's work this week, we have a fabulous Freebie for you! 

Nikky has been working with the fabulous team over at Tattered Lace to bring a new collection of stamps for her new character Tatty Twinkle! Tatty has gone down an absolute storm with sellout shows on Create and Craft, so as a special thankyou Tattered Lace are giving away a special set of Easter themed digis - woohoo! How generous!

Just click on the image below to go to the free download (IMPORTANT! Please make sure you choose the INSTANT checkout option with the GREEN BUTTONS!)

 and as if that wasn't enough, Nikky has also designed an extra freebie with 36 Easter
 themed papers to match! Bargain!! Again, click the image to get the free download!
Watch out for more Tatty Twinkle coming soon! 

So let's get to the gorgeous challenge inspiration!...

Scatty Jan - For my card today I have used the fantastic Pretty Tuff CD- this is brilliant if you get stuck for boy's cards, I use it tons. The bench, boy (David) and frog were all from the CD and so was the monkey paper that I used in the background and also paper pierced Davids shirt with it. The rest of David was coloured using Graphic Markers , David is also available as a digi on his own xx

Shell-I had a happy accident making this card, I was resizing the paper to print in my editing software then I added the image and it was a png file so it meant I could lay it over the patterned paper and still colour it with my markers..So i left it as it was, and just matted it with some brown cardstock, added some flowers and lace from my stash..I will be doing this again that's for sure. The image and papers are from the Cherry Blossom Lane CD

Bev here with Sally the snail, she's from All Around and Everywhere and can be found in the 'Get in Shape' section she was pretty easy to cut out and assemble too. I just added the backing sheet, glitter and sentiment.

Katie Happy Friday everyone. I love animals and yes they are magic. The wall hanging I made was with Cherry Blossom Lane Wedding sesson is coming and I thought that this would make a lovely cute keepsake for any happy couple.  Have fun and looking forward to seeing your makes on the blog. Keeeeeeeeep Crafting Katie DT xx

Anjie - I changed my mind quite a few times before I settled on using the Cherry blossom Lane CD Rom Collection as there are so many gorgeous animals on so many PD CD's. The image, papers, sentiment and trees are all from the CD. The die cut cupcake and tree are from Tattered Lace. I have coloured the image with my Graph'It Markers and given it a light spray with Graph'It fluid to give it a bit of texture.

Susan - This week I have done a very quick card from the fabulous CD Paper Boutique, its full of templates ,papers,3D projects and lots more. I have printed out the papers needed and cut them out, then decoupaged them - how simple is that? the two by two was a cutting file I made myself.

Lou - I have also used Paper Boutique 3 as my starting point and also a Dobadoo stencil (brick wall). I have gone for the adorable Hippo (Hippo Baffday) and also embossed all the bubble elements using 2 different dots folders for added dimension. Finally I added some Dobadoo buttoms and dewdrops for added bubble effect. 

Fantastic inspiration from the team, as ever! 

We can't wait to see what you all have for us with this challenge, so 

please ENTER HERE

The winners from Week 12 and 13 


Spring is in the Air theme...

WOW, we had SO many entries for this challenge so a huge thank you to you all for entering! 

Our random winner chosen by Random.org is

No 52 Veronica

Well done! Email us here quoting code PDw150001 to claim your prize, you won a copy of our Work and Play 1 collection, woohoo! 

....and the Design team's favourite top 3 are:

102 Judith

43 Nana Connie

92 Lena

Well done everyone! Thankyou all for entering and playing along with us, please grab your blinkies from the sidebar! 

You have until 18th April at noon GMT to enter and the winner will receive a copy of our 

Work and Play 1 collection which is worth £10 so well worth entering this one! 

You don't have to use our products to enter so get making!

See you next week for a brand new challenge!!

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Wk 14 - Animal Magic...Polkadoodles challenge

Hi everyone, welcome back to another Polkadoodles challenge!

Before we get down to business we have to give you a heads up for 3 hours of Nikky on Create and Craft TV next week - you can join her for 3 hours throughout the day at 8am, 1pm and 4pm so make sure you tune in!

So let's get to this week's challenge!

This week we are looking at

Animal Magic

And the team have come up with some great inspiration as always!

You have until 18th April at noon GMT to enter this challenge and the winner will receive a copy of our Work and Play 1 collection which is worth £10 so well worth entering this one! 

You don't have to use our products to enter so get making!

Before we get to their makes let's deal with our winners from last time! Our week 11 and 12 challenge was Mum's the word and we had some lovely entries!

Our random winner chosen by Random.org is

11 Lady E

Well done! Email us here quoting code PDw140001 to claim your prize, you won a copy of our Work & Play 1 collection, woohoo! 

....and the Design team's favourite top 3 are:

16 Witchyfingers

29 Sharon

15 Cheremane

Well done everyone! Thankyou all for entering and playing along with us, please grab your blinkies from the sidebar! 

So let's get to the challenge!...

Ruth: I've used the fab Paper Boutique Vol 3 to make my card - I cut out all the elements and layered them up how I wished, added some wobbly eyes and glossy accents to the nose. I've layered it up using foam pads for depth. A really great card to make and a wonderful cd too!

Claire C: This challenge was a great excuse to use one of my favourite cds, Cherryblossom Lane to create this 'bendy' card. The CD is on offer at the minute so don't miss it as such a bargain price! The background is one of the precoloured scenes from the Cd and I've coloured the images with my Graph'It markers.

JAN - I decided to go all yellow ready for Spring with my make today. I made a shaped card - all papers, images and sentiments are from the 'Sugarplum Daisy CD' with a few extra little embellies from my stash, including some honeycomb embossing peeking out at the bottom!

Karon -  It's so fun looking through the CD's and finding so many new things to play with.  I made a shaped card using the pre-coloured log and mushrooms, from the Double Sprinkles of Kraft CD  Then had to add the cute Happy Birthday Owl from the Sugar Birdies CD, which I coloured with pencils.  Added a little bit of bling to finish her off.

Kerrie - I had a good think for this Challenge and Chose to use 'Double Sprinkles of Kraft' CDrom this was my first ever Polksdoodles CDrom and still a firm Favourite of mine. I love the Owls on this CDrom but I also love the Pastel Colours mixed with the Kraft Card styles of papers etc aswell. I chose an Image and then had fun choosing Papers, Sentiment and Flowers in similar colour ways and then coloured the Image to match in with the colours I picked. I settle on making a shaped card after i chose the sentiment because its a similar shape. and I couldnt resist a jaunty angle xx

Fabulous makes from the team as always! Don't forget you have until 18th April at noon GMT to enter this challenge and the winner will receive a copy of our Work and Play 1 collection which is worth £10 so well worth entering this one! 

You don't have to use our products to enter so get making!

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Week 11...MUM's the WORD Polkadoodles Challenge Inspiration

Hi everyone, welcome to another Friday at Polkadoodles.
Today we are bringing you some additional inspiration for our current challenge from last week

Mum's the Word

Yep, we want to see all your Mother's Day/Mum projects!
Mother's Day is sneaking up on us here in the UK, but you don't have to do a Mother's Day card, it could be a card for your Mums birthday, or your Grandma.  Let's see what you come up with this time.

Remember you don't have to use one of our products to enter but we'd love it if you did and you have until 21st March to enter!

Don't forget Polkadoodles has a fantastic new collection available and shipping now which might also be great for this theme! It's an absolute snip at only £8.99!

You can also get these adorable characters as digis from the store too on instant download! 

The prize for this fortnights challenge, Mum's the Word, is a copy of this fantastic collection! Wow!

The winner and top 3 from our Week 8 Challenge Sugar and Spice, can be found at the end of this post.  

But first we have some wonderful DT creations for your inspiration.

Scatty Jan I loved making up my project this time - I used the very, very scrummy CD Bonbon Belles - I chose the character Georgia who I coloured with Graph'it Markers Apart from the pink card all the elements and papers used are from the CD - A little Distress ink used around the edges and also some detail sparkle in the center of some flowers - The card shape was cut on my portrait but everything else I cut out by hand xx

Katie Not long now till we have to tell our mothers how much we really love them. Be it your Grandma, Mum, Friend or someone whom you love very very much a great way to show them how much they mean to you is a handmade card. This is because not only have you thought about them but you have taken time to make them something special. This card was made with a cutting pattern on my electronic cutting machine.  I have used backing paper from Pic N Mix Cd  . The ticket is from the Cherry Blossom CD . Have fun and give love to all the mums out there. Keeeeeeeeep Crafting Katie DT xx

Bev here with my take on this weeks challenge. I've used a couple of Cd Roms this week. The backing paper, striped border and oval 'Mum' sentiment are from Dolly Daydream Girl Talk and Billie the gorgeous digi stamp is from Fredericka which I coloured in with Graph'it Markers the colours used are on my blog. A couple of die cuts and a bit of bling brings the whole thing together.

Anjie - I have used a real mash up of products on this card. I started with 3 pieces of chip board and covered them in paper from the Wonderland CD-Rom. I distressed the papers with a distress ink and added faux stitching using the Graph'It Shake WHITE pen, which is a great pen. As you can see the colour is really strong and goes on in one go! I then created some panels using the same CD and technique. The letters are from the Magical Winter 2 CD-rom which proves the CD isn't just for Christmas. I have added the letters onto die cuts. I then printed out embellishments from the Sundae of Seasons CD-Rom and again used distress ink on them. And finally I printed out the heart shaped doilies from the All Around & Everywhere CD rom and distressed them too. I slightly altered the colours of the letters and doilies in a graphic program (MCS) to go with the project. I hope this gives you some inspiration to have a look through your older CD's and dust them off.

Shell- For my card this week, I have used one of the older cd roms from Polkadoodles. I simply printed a topper of the Love & Cherish CD. The actual card took about 15 mins to make but I spent hours going over the cd and finding all the things I had forgotten about...I cut the MUM on my cameo then simply added a few gems and some ribbon.

Susan - What a lovely challenge ,Mothers Day .I have used papers and an image from one of the new collections Girl Talk which is available on CD or download ,its an amazing bundle of everything you could wish for.

Ruth: I've gone back to Paper Boutique Vol 3 for my card! I printed all the elements plus some extra flowers in A5, cut everything out and then layered it up. The butterflies are chipboard that I've coloured with Promarkers. Sentiment tag is handwritten.

So there's our inspiration this week!

Remember you have until 21st March at noon to enter this one

just add your project to the LINK HERE

Our Random Winner from Week 8 is

#37 Jo L

Well done Jo! You've won a goody bag worth £50!! Email us here to claim your prize!

The Design teams top 3 were:

#16 Suzi

#33 Julie P

#37 Jo

We look forward to seeing all your great creations as always and we'll see you here again next week!