Wk 5 Polkadoodles Challenge - Anything Goes/Oriental

Hi everyone welcome to another Polkadoodles challenge!

We hope you're having a great crafty week full of inspired makes and plentiful stash! :D

We have some exciting news today - the new Polkadoodles Digistore is now open on Etsy!

To celebrate you can get some great new digis over there and this range will be updated regularly so make sure you add us to your Treasury and follow us for updates! 

To celebrate you can get this gorgeous brand new digistamp by Nikky for just 22p!! YES!! 22p!!! 

Total bargain!! 

This is only at this price for a limited time so make sure you go and grab the bargains now! 

Just click the image to go to the new store!

So our challenge for you this week - as ever - is 

ANYTHING GOES

But as always we have challenged the Design Team to make anything 

Oriental 

this week. They are all LOVING the brand new Goes East collection as you can see and you can also grab that here too! We don't 'do' oriental here particularly because it can be so dark and overbearing but we are all in LOVE with this new collection! It's perfectly LUSH!

Remember - you don't have to use Polkadoodles products to enter the challenge and we choose a Random winner each week - this week you can 

win a copy of the fantastic Goes East collection which is worth £15!

You can see who won our last challenge at the bottom of this post but in the meantime to take you on your journey here's the inspiration for this week.....

Ruth: I've made a quick card using one of the images from the CD, coloured with Promarkers and then used an X Cut die as a template. The digi images are stunning and are wonderful to colour! And who wouldn't want such vibrant red hair!!

Zoe - I'm loving this new Dollie Daydream goes East, oriental collection. The papers and images are gorgeous so it was so easy to make this project. I used one of the papers which I cropped before adding the fab sentiment. I printed out the stunning character and coloured her with a mix of markers including the amazing Graph'It markers.  Simple matting and layering completed my card.

Scatty Jan This is such a fantastic CD Dollie Daydream goes East,  . I am adoring all the images , I just could not pick one image to work with - They are so very easy to colour. There are some really lush papers and stacks of fabby emblies. I have coloured up using promarkers xx

Claire C  I've been in my element colouring up all the gorgeous new images on the Dollie Daydream Goes East collection, the images are all stunning and there are so many beautiful backing papers and other goodies to choose from. I've coloured Dollie and the flowers with my Graph'It Markers and layered them up over one of the papers. 

Katie here and I must say that I love, love, love this new collection. Dollie Daydeam Goes East has beautiful Papers and a great range of images. My card is A5 and has a coloured image of Dollie and one of the backing papers all backed onto black card The fan is made with one of the monochrome

papers.  I loved playing with the colour in this collection, we all need a little colour after this grey winter! Enjoy and Happy Chinese New Year! This year is the year of the Horse. Keeeeeep Crafting!!

Shell-Wow I think this cd is gonna be a huge hit..I don't normally do oriental but Nikky has changed that. I adore Dottie like this. For my card I have used a paper from the cd and Dottie has been coloured with a mix of copics and promarkers..The pagoda has been cut on my cameo machine.

Anjie - I've always struggled with Oriental but this CD has totally changed my mind! I LOVE it, the images are beautiful, and the papers are to die for! The colours used in it are lush. The image, papers, flowers, sentiments and words are all from the fab Dollie Daydream Goes East CD. The image is coloured with Graph'It Markers. The fan is cut on my Cameo.

 

Susan -  I love Oriental so this new CD was right up my street ,and its young ,bright,fun and funky ,Nikky has really  gone to town on this collection. Dollie Daydream Goes East is a must have.

I used Graph'it markers to colour the image ,papers are from the CD and the Ginger Jar was cut on my Cameo.

Lizzie - I used these lovely Oriental flowers and sentiment from the new Dolly Daydream Goes East CD its a GORGEOUS CD !!For some reason I am in a CAS mood with my cards .....don't know why ... I haven't stopped with the glitter tho !! I glittered up all the flowers with my Stickles !!!

Rebekah - Well I think the girls have said it all regarding this stunning new Dolly goes East CD. There are so many fabulous elements. I have used papers, sentiments, image and butterflies all from the CD for my oriental card this time.

WOW!!! WHo knew Oriental could be this lovely! The team have done a great job this week!!!

So let's get to the winners from Week 3!

Chosen randomly by random. org our main winner is

*drumroll please*

No 21 CARLYANN 

Well done!! Email us here to claim your prize, you won £10 of downloads! 

Our Top 3 this week as voted by the Design Team are:

#23 Jackie

#38 Haththi

We also would like to give a special mention to #34 Lyla who entered the challenge is only 12 years old! Fantastic card Lyla, the whole team loved it so we wanted to give you a special mention!

Well done everyone - grab your blinkies from the sidebar! 

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REMEMBER -  We only allow TWO entries each to the challenge, so many of you are entering more and we don't count you! PLEASE DON'T! We feel bad eliminating you from the challenge but we have to keep the random draw fair for everyone!

Closing date for the challenge is Sunday 9th February at 12noon GMT and don't forget to link your actual blog post so we can come and visit you!

Rules: 

1. No backlinks

2. Please FOLLOW the challenge theme!

3. Maximum of 2 entries per person!

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Wk 3 Polkadoodles Challenge....Anything Goes/Girl Talk!

Happy Friday again and another challenge! 

This week we've all been super busy, we have some fabulous new things to show you really soon and it's very exciting! Firstly don't forget to watch Create and Craft on Tuesday 21st Jan at 1pm to see Nikky on the Graph'It show but you might also be able to catch a snippet of our latest collection too ; )....

This week as ever our challenge for all of you is 

Anything Goes

but if you can join in we have challenged the DT to go 

Girl Talk! Yes we are loving the girly theme so we're still in the zone this week!

The winner of this challenge will win Downloads to the value of £10 - woohooo!!! 

Make sure you get your entries in by Sun 26th at noon!

Remember you do NOT have to use our products 

(although obviously we would love it if you did)

Ruth:  I've gone very clean and simple this week - I've used the coloured digis from Dollie Daydream Girl Talk, printed them directly onto my cardstock and also added one of the sentiments.  The half pearls are from my stash.  Great quick and easy cards for when you're in a hurry!

Zoe - So we were asked to bring out our girlie side this week, and for me, that means shoes! I chose this gorgeous digi from the stunning new Dollie Daydream Girl Talk CD to make this calendar hanging. I printed out the images a number of times as I wanted to decoupage various sections and coloured each top part with a mix of markers. Simple matting and layering along with a calendar block and ribbon finished it all off.

Anjie - For my project this week I thought  it doesn't get more girly than fabulous shoes does it!

The image, papers and sentiment are from the fabulous new Dollie Daydream Girl Talk CD Collection. I have coloured the image with Graph 'It Markers. The flowers on the shoes are highlighted with Glitter Shake - Graph'It Markers. I've matted the papers onto black card to make the papers pop out more. I've made some rolled roses from the same papers and added a bow, some hat pins and die cut banners. 

Shell-Well what can I say about this new collection except that it super girlie, it's filled with shoes, bags and make up too...I picked my fave shoe digi and I left it plain and simple to show the shoes off. The image was coloured with copics and promarkers, and the papers were off the cd too

Scatty Jan One of my favourite themes Girly  and I love this new collection Dollie Daydream Girl Talk CD Collection. For my project I used the lovely Parfum bottle and made a shaped card. I decoupaged the bow and the heart and added some gems xx

Lizzie - Well don't all girls have to have their lippy ???? lol !! So I thought I would use one of the embellishments to make a card and bag with. Of course I used the new FABULOUS CD Dolly Daydream !! I took the lipstick image from the elements section into my graphics program 4 times. Lined them up and flipped two images so that the back has lipsticks too !! Cut it out, folded and then cut out another of the two front lipsticks so I could decoupage up. I printed and cut out a girlie, added her to the card along with a sentiment !

I then made a gift bag to match using a white bag and cutting it down !!

So loving this CD !!

Katie New Year New you, and what better way to begin with having a play with the Dollie Daydream Girl Talk CD ROM.  This is such a fab new CD I have really enjoyed playing with my girly side. I love mixed media and thought that I would do something a little different. I have fashioned my paper fan with wooden coffee stir sticks and the flowers are from the Build a Fleur flower section on the CD.  The digi stamp was coloured and cut out to put onto the fan, which can be hung on the wall or popped on an easel to display it. I love the CD and cannot wait to make more! Have fun and Keeeeeeeep Crafting xx

Lou: I have also used one of the girl images for my large tag. I was inspired by the sentiments on the Dolly Day Dream CD and this is what sparked me to make my tag. A bit of doodling and some handmade backgrounds using the papers and mediums, and my tag was finished.

 Rebekah - Gosh I just love girlie themes and the new Dolly daydream CD is perfect for all your girlie needs! Here I have made a card using papers and image from the new CD along with rolled rose flowers and sentiment also from the fab CD!!!

Susan This is my first  make for Polkadoodles DT and what a fabulous new CD to start with Dollie Daydream a real girly CD. I have used the papers to cover my project and make the flowers , toppers to embellish the inside and digis coloured with Graph'it Markers for the outside . there's lots more pictures on my blog

Claire C What could be more girly than shopping and who could resist popping in to this gorgeous little shop?? The new Girl Talk collection is crammed full of the most adorable images

I'm sure you'll agree this week's creations are STUNNING!!

Finally, our Random Winner from Week 1 is

No 2 KYM

Well done! Email us here to claim your prize!

Our Top 3 faves from Week 1 are:

#44 Meg

#47 Julie P

#53 Wenche

Well done everyone - grab your blinkies from the sidebar! 

Closing date for the challenge is Sunday 26th January at 12noon GMT and don't forget to link your actual blog post so we can come and visit you!

Rules: 

1. No backlinks

2. Please FOLLOW the challenge theme!

3. Maximum of 2 entries per person!

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Week 1 Challenge - Anything Goes!

Hi everyone, Happy New Year! 

We hope you all had an amazing time over the festive season and are now ready and raring to get stuck into a new challenge!

Firstly we have a bit of news for you....introducing our gorgeous brand new collection

Dollie Daydream's Girl Talk....

Gorgeous and girly and available to order now! 

If you're quick you can also save 15% in our sale before it ends! Just what the New Year ordered! 

We also have a little heads up for all you colouring fans out there - you can catch Nikky on Create and Craft TV on Tuesday next week with with another fabulous Graph'It show so if you love colouring make sure you check it out on Sky 671, Freeview 36 or you can watch online at www.createandcraft.tv.

This week we decided to give the Design Team a little break but we've asked them all to choose their own favourite make from 2013 - and boy do we have some great ones to show you here! AWESOME! 

Of course, as always for you at home our challenge is 

Anything Goes 

so we hope you all play along with us.
The winner of this challenge will receive £10 of downloads from the Polkadoodles store! Woohoo!

You can see last time's winners at the end of this post : )

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So let's see what the team have made this week! ....

Ruth:  I've gone all the way back to May 2013 to show you this, made with papers from the Fredericka cd that I've cut out and inked and the sentiment is from Cherryblossom Lane and I've also inked that too.

Lizzie - Gosh its so hard to choose a favourite as I LOVE all things Polka Doodles!!! Way back in April I made this card and gift box. I just loved them so much ! For the card I used the Stampies from the CD All Around and Everywhere. To make them large enough to make a card with I enlarged the view on them and used the printing option of current view. For the box I used the CD All around and Everywhere for the images. The paper I used from the CD Picknix 1. I just love how the words look like clouds!

Zoe - Choosing my fav was easy, I chose my santa wreath where I decided to set myself a task of using the digi images from the amazing Home For Christmas CD  to create a wreath. I chose the fabulous Poinsettia and the super santa. I took both into Serif Craft Artist and digitally manipulated the images - flipping to face the opposite way & changing sizes - positioning them around a rough circular shape. Once happy I printed it off and coloured every single image with a mix of markers including some Graph It markers. I chose more contemporary colours to match my home decor and once coloured I attached a ribbon."

Shell-Wow what a tough decision that was. I picked my super hero wall hanger as my fave make of 2013, I love it and Jake loved it too. I used papers from the Not for Girls CD 

Anjie Choosing my fave make from 2013 was a very hard job for me as I love all PD products! I eventually decided to go with these tags from October. I used the A Home for Christmas CD Collection  I cut out 3 tags in Kraft card and then printed some papers, embellishments and sentiments from the CD. I cut out three strips of papers for each tag and distressed the edges using distress ink. I glued the papers onto the tags and added some faux stitching with a white opaque pen. I then cut out all the embellishments and stuck them in place. I then used a distress ink on the sentiments and added them. I finished off the tags with some ribbon.

Claire C  It was hard to choose a favourite project as Nikky has released some amazing cds this year, anyway eventually I decided on this card made for our birthday girl challenge in August. The image is from Candy Doodles, I just love this CD! The image is coloured with Graph'It Markers

Rebekah - I actually had 2 favourite makes from 2013 but as one of them was the birthday card I made as the last make of the year...

it was only shown recently so I have chose the bunting I made with the Home for Christmas CD as well..

I used pre coloured images for my "NOEL" bunting and added hanging baubles, also pre coloured from the CD, from the bottom for added effect. 

Finally, our Random Winner from Week 50 is

No 7 Kendra

Well done! Email us here to claim your prize!

Our Top 3 faves from Week 50 are:

#10 Angelique

#15 Danielle C

#43 Valerie

Well done everyone - grab your blinkies from the sidebar! 

Closing date for the challenge is Sunday 12th January at 12noon GMT and don't forget to link your actual blog post so we can come and visit you!

Rules: 

1. No backlinks

2. Please FOLLOW the challenge theme!

3. Maximum of 2 entries per person!

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Wk 51....Anything Goes/Christmas Birthday Polkadoodles Challenge

Hi everyone, Happy Friday! This is our last post before Christmas so we would all like to wish you a huge and very 

Merry Christmas 

We hope you all have an amazing time over the festive season!

We also have a little heads up for all you colouring fans out there - you can catch Nikky on Create and Craft TV today at 11am with another Graph'It show so if you love colouring make sure you check it out on Sky 671, Freeview 36 or you can watch online at www.createandcraft.tv.

To celebrate this week we challenged the DT to make a 

Christmas Birthday card using the fantastic Picknix CD collections 

and they've done a great job! 

Of course, as always for you at home our challenge is 

Anything Goes 

so we hope you all play along with us.
The winner of this challenge will receive a copy of the fantastic Picknix 1 Collection which is just fabulous and worth £17.99.

You can see last time's winners at the end of this post : )

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So let's see what the team have made this week! ....

Claire C I've used some of the gorgeous papers from the Gingerbread Twist Cd and one of the lovely images from the Fredericka mini CD collection, I've coloured her with Graph'It Markers

Karon - It was my daughter's birthday at the end of November and I had to make a card off her Sister.  The images and paper are from the Studio 12 Picknix 2 CD, Gingerbread Twist.  The main sentiment I made up and typed in Word. The little ticket sentiment is from the Cherryblossom Lane CD.

Zoe - As I have a friend with a birthday on Christmas day this challenge was perfect for me! I used the gorgeous images from Studio 12 - Picknix Garden collection and I created this topper in Serif Craft Artist where I used digital brushes to add snow over the images. Once printed off I added some sparkle to enhance the winter feel of it, and some ribbon too. Simple matting and layering finished it all off.

Sally - Christmas Birthday Card - I used my favourite image from the Home for Christmas CD Rom and coloured her with my Graph'it markers. Adhered her to some background papers from my crafty stash if polkadoodle papers. Coloured a sentiment so it matched the colour scheme and there it is.

Asha - I made a birthday card with a Christmas flair. The papers are from PickNix 2 CD Gingerbread Twist and the image is from the "Angelberry" CD. I don't think this card needs too many embellishments. Some ribbon, a few bling and Crystal Stickles on the angel's wings and I'm done. This will do nicely for my friend whose birthday falls on Dec 27th. 

Alethea - I made this card in super quick time using papers, sentiment and images from the Picknix Collection 1 cd Rom.  I then added the ribbon and added the kindyglitz to the cupcake to finish it off!! Oh and I did a bit of sewing :)

Miria I made a Christmas birthday card for a male or maybe for a teacher. Paper and sentiments are from cd Studio 12 Picknix 2,the blackboard is from cd  Studio 12 - Picknix Garden collection . I just distressed the edges and added some die cut snowflakes.

Rebekah - It's my daughter's birthday tomorrow (when did I become a mother of a teenager?!) so I made this card, perfect for her, in pretty pinks and creams. The papers I have used are all from Picknix cd rom 1 from the All sewn up collection. My image is one of the cute Emma Canning digis at Polkadoodles and the cute leather effect ta is also from the Picknix CD, check out my blog for more details.

So there is the inspiration from the team this week - gorgeous Christmas Birthday cards all round!

WOW!

Finally, our Random Winner from Week 49 is

No 26 Elena

Well done! Email us here to claim your prize!

Our Top 3 faves from Week 49 are:

#8 Debbie S

#18 Suzi

#38 Kiki

Well done everyone - grab your blinkies from the sidebar! 

Merry Christmas to you for the festive season and we hope you get time to enter the challenge!

Closing date for the challenge is Sunday 29th December at 12noon GMT and don't forget to link your actual blog post so we can come and visit you!

Rules: 

1. No backlinks

2. Please FOLLOW the challenge theme!

3. Maximum of 3 entries per person!

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Week 49 - Polkadoodles challenge... Make a gift for Christmas

Welcome to another challenge everyone!

Just before we get to our weekly business - we've been wondering why we only had 2 entries to last week's challenge and I realised I'd confused things! Last week it looked like you had to follow our sketch but 
each week our challenges are now ANYTHING GOES with a little twist -
 so you can still enter the challenge with an Anything Goes make but we would love you to use 2 elements from the sketch if you can (this is optional!)...you can still enter the challenge here and we will extend the deadline until Tuesday for you to enter!!
Sorry for the confusion!!

Before we get to our theme and the inspiration, there is still time to enter our

DESIGN TEAM CALL!

We are looking for someone talented to join our fabulous team. 

If you love creating cards, journals, scrapping, whatever it might be, we would love to hear from you! This is open to both UK and International crafters. 

You must be: Committed for at least 6 months

BE able to use digital products and enjoy stamping and papercrafting

A regular BLOGGER and on Facebook and participate in social media promotions

You will be expected to post a minimum of every other week PLUS one tutorial per month. 

You will be required to comment and vote each week on a rota basis

Able to make physical samples for products to be shown on TV and in shows around the UK as & when required.

We will give you: Plenty of lovely stash to use and keep during your term

Exposure for your blog and your makes

A discount for the Polkadoodles store

Lots of fun and laughter along the way!

CLOSING DATE 15th December (please note: we cannot acknowledge all the emails but you will receive a reply no matter what the outcome once we have picked the team)...We look forward to receiving all your emails! x

So, let's announce last time's winners!...

So our randomly chosen winner for Week 47 is ..... number 5 Leona

Well done, email us to claim your prize!

In addition, the Design Team have picked their favourite Top 3 and these are:

No 5 Leona, No 13 Inger, and No 17 Jane

Well done everyone! Grab your blinkies from the sidebar!

Now onto the theme for this week which is:

Make a gift for Christmas

Although we set this challenge for the team, this week we've decided that 

you can enter ANYTHING GOES as a theme for Christmas.

Have a look at the fab samples from the Design Team.  Closing date for the challenge is Sunday 15th December at 12noon GMT and don't forget to link your actual blog post so we can come and visit you! 

Claire C I've made a pretty flower pin using printable canvas and one of the beautiful papers from Here Comes Christmas Cd, I loved the paper so much I printed some more off and used it to decorate a little gift box and a card. The image is also from the same cd, isn't she adorable? I've coloured her up with Graph'It Markers. I'll be back tomorrow with a quick tutorial on  how to make the flower pin 

Zoe - I've made a small gift card set using the gorgeous Home For Christmas collection. Many of my friends have younger children so this makes a perfect gift for them as they always send 'Auntie Zoe' a thank you card! I took papers and embellishments from the collection into Serif Craft Artist to design the note cards and to print paper to cover the box. I love recycling packaging & this box was perfect! I tied ribbon around the gift and finished it off by adding tickets from the cd tied on with twine.

Karon - I decided to make a gift for chocolates, so made this lovely 4-drawer easel card.  My papers and elements are from the A Home for Christmas CD collection.  The red polka dot paper is from Sundae of Seasons.  I inked up all the edges of all the layers, added some pop dots to add a little depth. And there you have a great "sweet" gift.

Sally - Our challenge this week is to make a gift.  So I thought it would be nice to make a box with Thank you cards in it.  I already had a template for this card box, I used two pieces of A4 cardstock for the box, drew around the template and cut it out and put the box together.  I then chose some backing papers and an image from The Angelberry CD Rom.  I matted and layered the Rudolf paper on red cardstock and covered the front, back and sides.  I then made 6 cards, same design but with different backing papers. I then used my peel off "thank you's" and matted and layered the Rudolf image.  There it is! What a nice gift to give someone!

Miria This is my take on the challenge: a quick and easy festive bookmark. I used paper and digis from A home for Christmas , the tickets are my fave from Picknix Collection 2 Gingerbread twist. I distressed them all and just added a ribbon. On picture two you can see how it works on the page.

Alethea- I am making fudge for the teachers presents this year and was too sure what to present it in, so I quickly made up this little bag!!! I used a border from the Angelberry CD Rom,  and a sentiment and pre-coloured image from the A Home for Christmas CD collection. I then just added the eyelets and ribbon!! Simple but perfect for what I wanted!!

Rebekah - Hi everyone! I chose to make a recipe book as my gift for Christmas. I have used papers and elements from the Here comes Christmas CD, this includes the cute gingerbread digi, the frame for my title and the tag on the side. Sometimes you just need a book to keep all those festive recipes in for this time of year!

Asha - I made this cute little purse with paper and a Santa digi element from the A Home For Christmas CD. Super simple to make and just the perfect size to house 3 succulent Mon Chéri chocolates - my kinda Christmas gift! Pop by my blog for measurements... chocolates not included!

   

Closing date for the challenge is Sunday 15th December at 12noon GMT and don't forget to link your actual blog post so we can come and visit you!

Rules: 

1. No backlinks

2. Please FOLLOW the challenge theme!

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