Week 10 - Ribbons and Lace - Polkadoodles Challenge

Hello everyone!  It's Friday!

Have you got any plans for the weekend?

No?!

Then why not take a look at the fabulous new realease!

Out this week and available now!!

Either by CD or

immediate download if you don't want to can't wait for the postman!

This is EDEN

Stunning new collection.  You will love Nikky's amazing art work in this collection, so beautiful!

You have to check out all the bundles too.  Maybe you just want the papers, the digis, even individual digis are available  HERE

Anyway, so it's inspiration week for our 

Ribbons and Lace Challenge

which started last week and you can enter 

HERE

You have until 12 noon, GMT, Friday 13th March 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 download of the Love and Kisses Collection which includes 16, YES, 16!!! Digital stamps, whoop whoop!! Well worth entering for this one so make sure you don't miss it!!

The winners of our All Things Kraft Challenge will be announced at the end of this post.

Now onto this weeks beautiful inspiration from our Design Team.....

Dawn:   I have used a precoloured image from Work & Play 9 Love & Kisses, which can be purchased  here or the full CD set here & mirror imaged it to show 2 brides as I have a friend whose daughter is marrying her  partner  later this year. The papers are from the same CD as well, as is the sentiment & champagne bottle & glasses. More details on my blog.

Asha: I was in a super girly girl mood when I reached out for the adorable Pretty Sweet Mini CD collection. Calling it Mini is an understatement! This CD is packed with the prettiest, sweetest, most darling images and papers. I used little Maddie as my focal image and she was a delight to colour with my Graph'It markers. Maddie with Present is also available as a single download digistamp. 

Scatty Jan - I decided to make a shaped card for this challenge - I made this sweet little baby card - The Pink checked paper is from Cherryblossom Lane collection. Added in some lace, Ribbon and a little Bow. I then added on little Etty from the Winston collection CD, which is also available as download,an also Etty as a digi that you can find here. layered up to give a little depth.

Ashley Lydia- I decided to make a very girly card using the fabulous princess and carriage from the Work & Play 9 Love & Kisses which you can find here. I made a glitter frame for dimension, and added some flowers that I dyed with chalk to match the purple and pink theme as well as some adorable hearts from the embellies of the WP9 collection. The princess is pre-colored but I added some vibrancy using my markers, its a great idea to go over the colors and practice your coloring skills =) 

Cheremane - I have used the fabulous Work & Play 9 Love & Kisses Cd you can also get the Bride & Groom as a Digi download Here. I adore Ribbons & lace so this was a very easy challenge for me. I printed the papers and distressed the edges with Milled Lavender distress ink, I used a lace edge punch on one of the papers, I die cut the pre-coloured digi image and distressed inked it before removing from the die to get a shadow. Finally added Ribbon Lace, flowers pearls and heart charm and a touch of glitter to the brides dress to finish. Pop on over to the Polkadoodles Shop as you will find everything for all your crafting needs and wants all in the one place.

Karon - I decided to use the wonderful Rose Budd Papercraftng Cd collection.  Everything on the card is from this fabulous collection, except the real bit of lace down the left side and the pearl dot on the ribbon.  Even the lace underneath the lace (lol) is off the CD.  Inked the edges and added a little dimension to the flowers with foam pads.

Christine I used Saucy Wedding Night   digi, I colored her with Spectrum Noir Markers and colored pencils.  The fold is one I found on Pinterest.  I used the cut files from the Work And Play 9-Love and Kisses Collection, and the papers from this wonderful set. I added some ribbon and lace on the folds of my card. 

Agnieszka - hello Crafters :) Today I want to share with you my card, which I prepared as an inspiration for Ribbons and Lace.  I  used pre-coloured image from Work & Play 9 Love & Kisses - Full Download Bundle.  As I love a lot of embellishments on my cards - it was a pleasure created this card. I added a big ribbon bow in purple, paper and fabric lace, a few flowers, cristals and dies cut - my card is ready, hugs.

Anna -  This time, I made an Easter card again, in shades of violet, with lace, ribbons, eggs and flowers. The card is made from paper from the Winston collection CD , more pics on my blog .

Lou: I have used one paper and oodles of embellies from the Octavia CD/download to create my card for this challenge. I had a great time fussy cutting all the pieces; it was so relaxing and rewarding. More photos can be found on my blog ...

Fabulous inspiration!

Now onto our winner, as drawn by Random Org, from our All Things Kraft Challenge.

#13 - Cass

You have won a £10 voucher to the Polkadoodles Digi Download Store, 

to claim your prize, please contact us HERE and quote PD10001wk7

Our Top 3 as chosen by the Design Team are

#32 - Lisa S

#33 - Rosina

#36 - zetkaArt

You have all won a free digi in the Digi Download Store,

to claim your prize, please contact us HERE and quote PD10002wk7

Well done everyone and congratulations.

Don't forget to take the blinkies from the sidebar too :-)

And remember to take part in our

Ribbons and Lace Challenge

HERE

Week 44 - Recycle It - Polkadoodles Challenge

Happy Friday Everyone!
Before we get to the challenge we have a brand new release here this week and it's fabulous as ever...
Welcome to Work & Play 7!! You can order this here now:

Today we start a brand new challenge

Recycle It!
You can Recycle anything you wish - and this can be something as simple as reusing a bit of ribbon!

You have until Friday 14th November  noon GMT to enter. Just please follow the rules in the sidebar. You don't have to use our products to enter!
THE WINNER OF THIS CHALLENGE WILL RECEIVE A COPY OF THIS BRAND NEW COLLECTION WHICH IS WORTH £11.99!

Soooo let's see what the team have created for us...

Katie - So what have we all to recycle and update. I have used an old Pen and note holder peg that looked like this

So I used Pretty Tuff CD ROM to make this organiser for a boys desk. Here is the finished project. I cannot wait to see what you all come up with. Have fun and Keeeeeeeeeeeep Crafting Katie DT xx

Sandie - Wow what a challenge!  For my Recycle It make I used an old photo frame, and used the old fashioned decoupage technique to make a Christmas Count Down Chalk Board!  I used the glorious paper from Festive Hollybobs collection (available as a CD or as a complete digi download collection!) and then I added some of the gorgeous embellishments from the collection too.  I really hope you enjoy my project and if you click on my name and hop over to my blog I have added the full details of how I made it :D  Happy Crafting, Sandie xxx



Anjie -  I've done a few of those word picture for people lately and I take the mount out as I don't use it. So I have a few of these mounts and so thought I would use one of those.

I started by going around the outside with a black marker and then adding a piece of pink card. I then printed out some papers from the Pretty Sweet CD and used the pink one on the mount and the blue one to cut a border and place on the mount. I then coloured in the sweet Amelia Braids image using my Graph'It Markers. I cut out a fence from a Marriane die to sit Amelia on, and the bird house and bird. More details on my blog

Yvonne -Well I was a but stumped for this challenge but my lovely fellow teamies reminded me that I didn't need to overthink this theme. I had a rummage through a few drawers and in my bedside cabinet I found this.

I have no idea what it is or where I got it from, but I thought to myself, I can use this, I'm going to call it gauze ribbon.  I didn't want to make a card for this, so I decided to dig out the tissue paper and make a candle. I simply printed the coloured image from 'Work & Play; Festiv Hollibobs' which is available as a CD-Rom, a digi download collection. If you like the image, she is available as a single digi image or as a rubber stamp.  Once printed onto tissue paper, I cut round the image, laid it onto the candle, wrapped some greaseproof paper round it and used my heat gun.  I then wrapped my found ribbon round the candle and then overlaid some satin red ribbon on top.  I quickly cut a ponsietta out, sprayed it with glitter spray and glued it on.

...and then I found out what it was - it is May Arts Web ribbon from Polkadoodles HERE!! LOL!

Susan - I just could'nt think what to recycle ! anyway I found a tub of yummy Orange biscuits so I made a cup-pa  sat down and ate the lot and this is what I was left with and now the fun begins ...!

 I used papers and embellishments from the Festive Hollybobs CD (now available as a download) and the adorable button embellishments and tiny pompom trim are fromThe Polkadoodles Shop.  This is the end product and lots more close-up pictures on my blog....

Sue: This weeks challenge is recycle. I chose to recycle a book as I have always wanted to try one of these. I took an old book and folded all the pages in half then I cover the cover with backing papers  and distressed the. I then decorated it with flowers and tags  and a bow all using the papers from       Winston  and then I added Etty Bear from same cd....

Bev here with my recycled project I picked up an el cheapo clock and gave it a Polkadoodles makeover.....Before....

.....I coloured a digi of Piper with my Graph'it Markers to make the clock face. Details on my blog. 

I used my distress inks on the edges of all papers & doilies and cut different sizes to add interest to the clock frame. The papers and flowers are from the oh so versatile Winston CD Rom its also available as a digital download HERE

After.....

I think it's certainly brightened up an otherwise rather dull and boring looking clock. I can't wait to see what you all come up with this fortnight.

Jenny here with my project for this recycled challenge. I have used one of the famous IKEA mirrors and made it into a Christmas mirror for my friends granddaughter.

I have used the Festive Hollybobs for the project with one of Nikky's chalkboard stamps. I printed out the backing papers and covered the frame with them. I was going to include the Santa digi  but after getting this far decided he wasn't really needed.  The snow is done with a coarse texture gel and sprinkled with glitter but it doesn't show in the picture, there are more details on my blog.

Frezja - Hi all Kasia here :) Recycling is my middle name so I'm happy and I will show you my mini album made from toilet paper rolls.... :)

Nothing throws ahahah :) Tutorial on how to do this mini can be found on my blog here.

I have used lovely paper from Winston CD :) and the roses from Rose Budd CD

Have a nice day all, :)

WOW!  Fantastic creations from the Design Team this week.

Hope it inspires you to Recycle something and join our challenge

Can't wait to see what you are all creating.

Please do not forget, there are a maximum of 2 entries per person.

Have a fabulous week everyone.

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Wk 6 - The Digi Queens Colouring Inspiration

Hello to all you colouring Queens out there! 

Welcome back to another day of fab inspiration from the team...

Before we do make sure you check out Kit and Clowder on Facebook this week as there is a very cool colouring competition going on that you can all enter!
Also, make sure you pop over to the Digi Choosday blog as we have a new Design Team Call going on! 

So without further ado, let's see what the team have made this week!

Hi there!! Anita here today I have chosen to use the fabulous football boy from the work and play collection 6 and papers from Pretty sweet collection collection ...I coloured him using promarkers. What a fab image for a boys card from young to old ...

Colours used : Hair Sandstone, caramel, cinnamon, Satin. Skin: Almond, Blush, Oatmeal, Soft peach, Dusky Rose,Pastel Pink. Blues: midnight blue, Cornflower blue, Denim  blue, Pastel blue. Greys: Cool Grey 1, Cool Grey 2.

You can get the Footballer digi here....

Hi Colleen here, I have used the fabulous Hollybobs Mistletoe, I used papers and embellishments from my stash. He is super cute and so much fun to colour!...

He is coloured with Copic Markers and the colours are as follows:

Hair - E79, E77, E74, E71, E70

Skin - E04, E11, E21, E00, E000

Hat - W3, W1, W0, W00 and YG97, YG95, YG93,YG91

Jacket - YG97, YG95, YG93,YG91

Pants and Shoes - W7, W5, W3, W1, W0,W00

Mistletoe - YG67, YG65, YG61 and R46, R35, R32

Get the cute digi here...

These weeks are just flying by!!  It's Victoria here with my latest Polkadoodles card - I've used the Rugby Player digital stamp (also available on the Work and Play 6 CD) to make a birthday card for a young rugby fan.  I coloured the image using ProMarkers, then inked a cloudy background with Distress Inks and popped him in some grass to complete the scene.  

ProMarkers used: 

Clothes: Lipstick Red, Berry Red, Crimson, Cool Grey 3,4,5

Skin: Almond, Blush, Sunkissed Pink, Coral

Ball: Cool Grey 1, 2, Blender

Hair: Primrose, Buttercup, Tan

Leah Tees - Wow, week 6 already!  These weeks are flying by so fast!  And here is my card for week 6 :)  I used the Piper digistamp; she is so sweet....

          

I colored her with my Prismacolor Premiere pencils and also used digital papers from the Rosebuds and Pretty Sweet Collections which you can find here.

The following list includes the colors I used for this image:

Hair - PC1034, PC941, PC 943, PC 947

Skin - PC927, PC928, PC939

Shirt - PC993, PC994, PC995

Dress - PC1079, PC1101, PC901

Tights - PC1060, PC1065, PC1067, PC938

Get the digi here...

Hi everyone, Pam here with my make for you this week.  I coloured up Luna for the Kit and Clowder hair competition the other week and have now made her up into a card.  I have gone for a CAS style card this week to show off the gorgeous image.  The sentiment is from the Dollie Daydream Goes East collection which is available as a download or on a CD....

Here she is in closer detail

You can get her here:

Copic colours used:  Skin - E000, E00, E21, E11, E04, R20; Hair - G99, YG67, YG63, YG03; Clothes - RV99, RV95, RV93, RV91

Jackie here... and great minds think alike, ;) I too have used Luna this week. 

Copics to colour.  Skin E00, E11, E04, E000, R21.  Hair E11,E13, E15, E17 , E18. Lilacs. V000, V00, V04, E06. Green  YG00, YG03 and YG06.  The gorge paper is from the Pretty Sweet CD.

Lizzy- Hello crazy colour friends!  I have managed to snot my way through a card for you all this week!  I have used Friends from the Winston Collection for this one. My sentiment is from the Girl Talk Collection from Dolly Daydream, and the striped paper is from the Pretty Sweet CD.

I colored this using my Graph'it Markers.  Here are my color combos used:

fur: 4110, 3210, 3245, 3255

light pink: 5115, 5120, 5125

dark pink: 5125, 5160, 5180, 6160

mushrooms: 4110, 4125, 3210, 3245

I flicked in the grass with 8290, 8280, 8120, 8110

outline: 9101, 9100

Fabulous makes and lovely colouring again for you this week! 

Before you disappear, don't forget to pop over to the 

Digi Choosday blog 

and see what the team have for you over there, there's more inspiration than you can poke a stick at and fab prizes up for grabs too! 

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

xx

Week 39 - It's a Sketch - Polkadoodles Challenge

Hello to everyone out there and it's Happy Friday!

 We are here this week with our wonderful inspiration from the design team.

Have you checked out the Polkadoodles store lots of new items have been added this week
Take a Peek Here

The theme of this week is still 

It's a Sketch

and you can
enter the challenge

Here

Do not forget that it is not necessary for the use of products Polkadoodles to enter challenges

but make sure you follow the rules in the sidebar ---- & gt;

You have until noon GMT Friday, October 3rd to enter.

The winner of the Week 36/37- Tag You're It is at the bottom of this post.

Now, for the inspiration from the design team this week....

Anjie - Everything on my card is from the adorable Winston CD, isn't he just the most handsome bear you have ever seen!!!! I have added faux stitching around the edge of the papers and hearts as it goes so well with the papers. I have used a pre-coloured image this week to show you just how fabulous they are if you can't or don't want to colour.

Sandie - It's fabulous to be here again and offer you my DT mid-challenge inspiration for our sketch challenge.  I have to say that when I saw it was a sketch I hid under a cushion!  I am the type of crafter that starts of doing one thing and then ends up with my make mutating into something else so working to a sketch was a little scary!  But, I gave it a go lol.  I have used the fabulous Amelia Roses

 who is available on digi download on her own (OR with the others that fall in your basket!) and as a full CD on the Pretty Sweet CD. She is coloured with my Graph'it Marker pens and for the eagle eyed the bunting is a cut file from Winston  the amazing new collection we can't put down!  Check out my blog for more details and here is my interpretation - happy crafting, Sandie x

 Jenny - Hi again and it's time to share my card for the mid-challenge inspiration. now I don't mind using a sketch and find that when you are struggling they are a good starting point. This one is so lovely that I used it as it is and didn't need to change the layout around.
I have used papers from the fabulous Winston cd as I already had some printed and I thought they worked well, I have also used one of the Pretty Sweet girls and this is Piper she is available as a single digi or you can get a cd with her and her friends on.  I added a few stitch lines around some of the layers and added a flower cut from one of my dies. There are more details on my blog.

Bev here with my take on the sketch, as you can see I took it all 'As is' but had a great time ageing and distressing the papers. Winston is my inspiration but as you can see you don't necessarily need to use the characters to produce an end product. I'm seriously addicted to printing off, shaping and building up the flowers from this awesome CD.

  

Susan - Well here we are here with some mid challenge inspiration  .
I have used the adorable Etty from the New CD Winston ,also papers and embellishments .I have coloured her with my Graph'it markers then used my Prisma Pencil's to add a bit of extra shading also distressed most of the card with my distress inks.

Yvonne - Hi everyone - I am here with some inspiration for the sketch challenge. I opted to use everything Winston which you can get from the new collection, check it out here. As the sketch is hearts, I opted to use Winston holding a heart, the hearts on the card are from the collection as are the papers, the wee flowers are from the collection too. The sentiment is actually from the Pretty Sweet Collection.

Katie - This was a great challenge, it is so interesting when you have the same sketch to see what everyone else comes up with. I used Work and Play 6 Background Papers and some bling. I cannot wait to see what you come up with. Have fun and Keeeeeeeeeeep Crafting xx

Claire C I've used one of my favourite images from Festive Hollybobs for this card, isn't she adorable?? I've coloured her up with Graph'It markers ad layered her up over kraft cardstock. The gorgeous bp, paper bow and the supercute ticket sentiment are all from Festive Hollybobs too

Frezja - Hello all :) Today I have for you an example how to use collections Festive Hollybobs in the way NO Christmas....... Let's say a little Christmas a lot of sketch..:)

I love such unusual project :) More foto you can find on my blog :)

Have a nice day :)

Fabulous and stunning DT creations to inspire you!

The winner (chosen by random org) for our last challenge, 

Tag you're It

29 - Karen

You've won

a digital bundle from the Polkadoodles store.

Please email us  here  and to claim your prize and quote PDw39001wk36

The Top 3 this week, chosen by the Design Team are

11 Tajanna

35 Donna

38 Maroeska

Congratulations to all, thanks for your participation and do not forget to claim your blinkies from the sidebar.

It's a Sketch

You can enter here

Please do not forget, there are a maximum of 2 entries per person.

Have a fabulous week everyone.