Week 23 - Anything Goes - Polkadoodles Paper Crafting Challenge

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It's Inspiration Week and our challenge is
Anything Goes

You can find it HERE

Our winner of the challenge will receive a $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles Download Store.

You have until Noon, GMT, Friday 16th June to enter.

You do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges.

We only have a few little rules and they are over there in the side bar ----->

Our Winner and Top 3 of our Anything Goes Challenge Weeks 20/21 will be announced at the end of this post....
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We have LOTS of new download releases in the store right now, make sure you check them all out... Adorable! 

Check them all out here!

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We would like you to give a warm welcome to Shylaa and Janet, our newest members of the Polkadoodles Design Team....See their wonderful creations below and why not pop along to their fabulous blogs.

Now onto the fabulous inspiration from all of the Design Team.

Shylaa: It is always fun to have a friend to play in sunshine. I have created a scenic card using Horace & Boo collection. Created the background using stencils and adhered the precoloured digis to create playful scene.

Craftica Here! Sunshine Yellows was a very fun theme for me I love to work my planner every week with a different theme or color and I decide to use A design sheet from the online Polkadoodles STORE.  It was easy to print at home great colors and a lot of fun in one sheet.

I was able to decorate the complete week spread using a single design sheet, it has lots of images and you can get may ideas out of it, So I think probably will continue using these as there are lots of themes and colors!

Jacki  - Hello PD friends this challenge really got me thinking of sunny days especially with the weather we've been having I have used Daffodil Darling bud from the Darling Buds Collection. I have coloured her with polychromo pencils, keeping the card pretty CAS to keep the focus on the gorgeous image.

Helen - It's that time of year when you start to think about a bit of decorating and what better than some lovely sunshine yellow!! If you don't get the paint all over the carpet like me. Best to stick to some wallpapering like the fabulous Painter/Decorator image from the Work and Play 11 Collection. You can find it right here in the store http://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/work-play-11-download-digital-crafting-collection/....

Lisa - For today's make I have created a card using papers, dies and stamps from the Belle Papillon Papercraft Kit along with the Elegant Nest Dies....

Ruth:  I've made a cute pinwheel embellishment to sit on top of a gift box.  I've used papers from the Serenity download - making two large pinwheels and a small one, layering up and securing with a brad.

Carol - I've been so busy with a new job that I hardly have had time to get into my craft room, so today I made a quick shaped card using the pre-coloured Daffodil Darling Bud from the Darling Buds Collection - I love the sunshine yellows and it really brightens the wintery days we are having in Sydney this week.

Karon - I have used the wonderful Dollie Daydream Goes East collection for all the papers and the sentiment on my card today.  Then using the wonderful Polkadoodles Dies, Flower Flourish, Elegant Flourish, Flowers 2 Die and finally the Super Sprigs Die.  A little bit of inking around the edges and all done :-)

Such fabulous creations! Wow!

Now onto our Winner and Top 3 of  our Anything Goes Weeks 20/21 Challenge.....

The Winner, chosen by Random Org, is.....

#13 - Karen Neil

Please email us HERE, withing 14 days, quoting the following code PD23001wk20,
to claim your prize of $10 worth of downloads

from the digi store.

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

Onto our Top 3, and in no particular order, chosen by the Design Team

#48 - Christy Sugiarto

#71 - Sewe

#91 - Julie P 

Here is the Top 3 Badge for your blogs...

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

Now it's over you.....You can enter our current

ANYTHING GOES
CHALLENGE HERE

Week 16 - Anything Goes - Polkadoodles Paper Crafting Challenge

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Hello! We are starting a New Challenge this week...

ANYTHING GOES

Closes Noon, GMT, Friday 5 May. Winner will receive a $10 voucher to the Polkadoodles Digi Store.

You do not need to use Polkadoodles Products to enter our challenges, but we do love seeing your fabulous creations with Polkadoodles images.

We only have a few little rules and they are over there in the side bar ------->

Before we see what the Design Team have been up to, have you seen the latest Polkadoodles New Release?

Say hello to the Fabulous, super adorable and cutest new collection

Horace & Boo....

Aren't they totally adorable.  You can check out the Polkadoodles Gallery for the latest

creations by the Design Team using this wonderful collection HERE!

And why not pop along to our fabulous POLKADOODLES FACEBOOK GROUP, there

is always lots of daily inspiration to see and to get those creative juices flowing.

Now let's see what wonderful inspiration the Design Team have for you this week....

The DT's twist on the challenge theme is to use A Design Sheet from one of the collections,

and if you want to join in with that theme then go for it :-)

Jacki - For my cards this week I was spoiled for choice I had already designed my first card using Sticks and Bones DS 2  Then our lovely Nikky goes and releases the ubber cute Horace and Boo so I decided to use one of these as well, well who can resist! Both cards were super easy to make For the sticks and Bones I used a paper and image with greeting and attached them to my card blank using some bones as embellies. For my other this was just using just a topper from DS 2 and then using an embellishment (fishbowl) to finish.

Ruth:  I've used one of the design sheets from Work and Play Vol 12 plus added some buttons and black card from my stash.  Really nice and easy to use plus I can get two cards plus lots of extra elements from one sheet!

Helen - Feeling a bit pretty and delicate for this challenge, so I chose to use one of the beautiful design sheets from the Winnie Sugar Sprinkles collection for my project. I made a card with a little wrap around the front using one of the beautiful Elegant nest dies, so I have 2 photos to share with you the outside and the inside. You can find this beautiful sheet right here at the store http://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/digital-decoupage-design-sheets/?sort=newest&page=4 and the Elegant nest die right here http://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/elegant-nest-set-of-3-craft-cutting-dies/

Karon - I have used the delightful Helga Hippo Collection and one of the wonderful Design sheets from the collection (Design sheet 2-06 in the collection). This design sheet is also part of a Duo Design sheet download #9 if you only want to buy just a couple to make a card :-)  I have also used the Flower Flourish Die.  This card is just 4" by 4" and is to be part of a gift set.

Pauline - I decided to use a fun design sheet from the Work & Play 11 Collection to create my card, I printed the sheet twice so that I could add a decoupage layer and added some of the super papers and a sentiment from the collection.  There are two images, two sentiments and embellishments on each design sheet so I have enough left over to create another card.

Carol - so today I have made a super sweet card featuring Design Sheet 10 from the fabulous Horace and Boo collection.

Lisa - For my make I have used a design sheet from Work & Play 5 Festive Hollybobs Collection. I've teamed the elements with some patterned papers from the same collection and made a clean & simple Z fold Christmas card.

Lots of fabulous creations to inspire you....

Our Winner and Top 3 of our Anything Goes Challenge Weeks 14/15

will be announced next Friday.

Thanks so much for entering our challenges and sharing your creations with us.

We love coming to visit and seeing your inspiration.

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Week 12 - Anything Goes - Polkadoodles Paper Crafting Challenge

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Starting a New Challenge this week.

ANYTHING GOES

Closes Noon, GMT, Friday 7th April.           

Winner will receive a $10 voucher to the Polkadoodles Digi Store.

You do not need to use Polkadoodles Products to enter our challenges.

However, we do love seeing your fabulous creations with Polkadoodles images.

We only have a few little rules and they are over there in the side bar ------->

Please remember, only 2 entries per challenge - thank you x

Now let's see what wonderful inspiration the Design Team have for you this week.

The DT's twist on the challenge theme is to add some flowers.
and if you want to join in with that theme then go for it :-)

Ruth:  I made this card for a work colleague who was moving teams - she actually does look like the image!  I've used Work and Play Vol 11 for the image, papers and various elements plus the Bubbleicious Frame and flowers die.

Helen - I decided to reach for some real stamping so what better than those beautiful Daisydays stamps just so pretty. You can find them right HERE in the store. I had a messy playtime using brushos stamped my flowers and a butterfly on the top and cut them out and arranged them on some kraft card.

Alysha ~ This week our DT theme is Flowers here I have coloured in WINNIE SUGAR SPRINKLES SHARING IS CARING with Spectrum Noir Markers and added her to a background created in Craft Artist using items from DAISY DAYS CD ROM hugs Aly xx

Lisa - I have used papers and elements from the Belle Papillon Big Kahuna Download, along with an Elegant Flourish die cut. 

Karon - I am in the middle of making a little set of cards.  This card measures just 4" by 4".  I decided to add some glossy accents to the flower and the teeny butterfly.  I used Helga Hippo Collection and Design Sheet 5 from the collection, which can also be bought as part of  Design Sheet 3 Duo Download, if you prefer HERE :-)  I also added a flourish behind the flower, using the wonderful Flower Flourish Die.

Carol - I used the one of the very cute stamps from the Little Darlings range of Polkadoodles stamps, namely the Collectors edition boxed set: Winnie Sugar Blossoms Stamp and Paper kit, available for pre-order here. I stamped my image and then coloured her with Copics. I also used a background paper from the Winnie Fruit Punch Paper Heaven 2 collection.

Pauline - I have created a shabby chic style card using the beautiful Polkadoodles Belle Papillon Vintage CD Rom.  I used a topper from the Amazingness Collection, two Papers from the Paper Collection and a sentiment from the Sentiments & Alphas Collection.  I printed the topper several times so that I could add some decoupage layers.

creativEle - For this challenge I created a simple card using PRIMROSE digi, colored with my favorite pencils.

Lots of fabulous creations to inspire you.

Our Winner and Top 3 of our Anything Goes Challenge Weeks 10/11

will be announced next Friday.

Now it's over to you.

ANYTHING GOES

Thanks so much for entering our challenges and sharing your creations with us.

We love coming to visit and seeing your inspiration.

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Week 33 -Crafting Challenge at Polkadoodles - Use something NEW

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Happy Friday Everyone!
We have a new challenge for you and our theme is

Use something new

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 have until Noon, GMT, Friday 28th August to enter

Our random winner for this challenge will win 
 $10 of downloads from the store

Now lets take a look at the fabulous creations this week...

Ruth:  I'm making a start on my Christmas cards early and have made these three cuties for my three neices.  I've used the gingerbread image from the Twiggy and Toots Festive Fun cd - simply enlarged it without any quality issues and then added thick liquid pearls, a banner and half pearls.  I think the girls will like them!

Naz - For this project I  am using an image from Twiggy & Toots Festive Fun. I coloured this cute image using my Copic markers and decided to use lots of Christmas Colours for this project.

Dies I have used for this project are Die-Namics Dies-Vertical Stitched Strips, Nellie's Choice Multi Frame Dies-Star as well as Memory Box Dies - Cross Stitched Frame Borders.The sentiment I have used here is also from the same collection.

Anita - Hi there today for my use something new is the unique images drawn by nikky called "Iickyink Art". I have never seen images like this before so these has blown me away I have used Odella Bow. Backing papers I have used are from work and play 11 collection. I also I used a new die I have bought to add some dimension to background.

Bev: I have opted for A Nordic Christmas. It's just such a versatile collection I adore cutting, shaping and layering up the flowers!

Yvonne - I used the NEW Picknix Nordic Christmas Collection which you can get as a CD-Rom or as a Digi Download Collection.  I used the trees from the embellishment section and cut out 6 of them. I decoupaged them onto each other for some lift.  The papers are from the collection.

Claire C I was inspired by the lovely Claire B's gorgeous Robin canvas and decided to make a Santa canvas using the fabulous Santa digistamp from the Picknix Nordic Christmas Collection (avaiailable here on CD and here as a download

Wendy - Well what else could I use for 'Something New' but one of the newest collections, Twiggy & Toos Festive Fun, which is available as a CD here or get the complete collection as a download here. All items of my card are from this collection, including the scene in the background. The image is also part of this collection, but also available on its own here as a digi download.

Jenny - Use something new was the instruction so as it's coming to the time that I need to make lots of Christmas Cards I decided that the newest Twiggy and Toots was the collection to go for but for a change I decided to use the reindeer and make something a little different.

Anjie - So recently I bought some new stamps from Polkadoodles so thought I'd use those, they are the Can I live here? Mushroom house clear stamp set. They are so easy to use and give a clear and crisp stamp every time! Here is my make: 

More photos and details can be found on my blog.

Jackie- I have been playing with the digi collection Work and Play 5 "Festive Hollybobs" which was a new one for me to use . The printing and cutting out of images, paper and embellishments was also new to me but there was certainly a great range to choose from! Details for making up this card front are on my blog.

Jessie: I have recently got my hands on the wonderful Twiggy & Toots Festive Fun Collection and am head over heals for its! I coloured up Santa Owl with my Copics, all of the patterned papers and the embellishments (excluding the enamel dots) are from the collections. I love how saturated the colours are! 

Ria: My new is the Twiggy and Toots Festive Fun collection. I did not use this gorgeouss paper and the super fun calender yet so perfect time for this challenge...

Such great inspiration.

Can't wait to see what you come up with, we love visiting your blogs 

to take a look see at your wonderful creations.

Remember only 2 entries per person please.

Have a great week!

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Week 32 - Crafting Challenge at Polkadoodles - FOLDS

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Happy Friday Everyone!

Inspiration week here at Polkadoodles, for Week 2 of our challenge

FOLDS

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 14th August to enter

Our Winner and top 3 for our challenge Two or more papers  can be found at the bottom of this post

Now lets take a look at the fabulous creations from our Design Team.

Naz - This beautiful digi I have used here SERENITY BLOSSOM is from SERENITY FAIRY WISHES Set which includes 10 black and white digital stamps, 10 coloured digital stamps,textured papers as well as 26 Sentiments. Amazing value!
The sentiment I have used for this project is from the same stamp set. Have a look on my blog to see more about what dies etc I used...

Anjie - I have made a side stepper card which has 5 folds on it. I have used the beautiful Octavia Thinking image and papers from the Octavia Moonfly collection. the flowers, butterfly, bird and jewels are also from the same collection. I have coloured Octavia with my Graph'It Markers.

Ria - For this challenge I made a card with 3 hills and 2 valleys. SSTT don't tell but I used my favourite Twiggy and Toots collection again for my card hahahaha This image is called Rainy Day...

and I coloured it with pencils and white dots are made with a white molotow marker.

Ruth:  I've made a stepper card and converted it into a number of layers - using the Work and Play 3 download for the man relaxing and the caravan.  I've used Promarkers to colour then added my own handwritten banners plus the bunting.

                                           

Jackie - I have been having fun with the great digi images from the Twiggy and Toots CD Collection...so many to choose from! I made a really simple card today with more than one fold that allowed a range of layers of patterned papers to be visible. Details for colouring the image are on my blog. Now...which image will I colour next??

                                     

Bev here with my inspiration. I used the very useful Work and Play 11 to make my brothers birthday card there is a quick tutorial on how to make the card on my blog. I just love that there are both boy and girl options on these collections.

Wendy - I've made a criss-cross card for this weeks challenge. The image is Odella Bow from the Ickyinks collection. The backing paper is from the Rose Budd Collection and has been recoloured in Craft Artist, as have been the flowers, which can be found in the Eden collection - Blooming Heaven.

Jenny - I thought I'd show you a card fold I was reminded of quite recently, this is made from an A4 sheet of card. I've used Octavia Collection for this card with two backing papers, one digi and a sentiment. There are more pictures over on my blog.

Claire C: I've made a Cascade card using papers, sentiment and embellies from Picnix 3 Nordic Winter. Omg I just love this collections, its jam packed with so many gorgeous goodies!! You can find it here

Yvonne - When 'Twiggy and Toots Festive Fun' was on Create & Craft TV I had made a few samples for the show, but one of my samples was too big for me to post which in a way I was very happy with as I love it and now I get to keep it for Christmas!  I made a pinwheel decoration using papers from the Collection and then folded the papers back accordion style, gluing the ends together.  I printed the image and cut it out twice on my Silhouette Portrait. I then glittered the poor thing within an inch of it's life!!!  The mistletoe and snowflakes are embellishments from the collection.

Jessie - I have fallen in love with Winston Bear, this week I used Winston Gone Fishing. I made 2 card bases for this one is a 5 1/2" square card base but the front flap is cut to a width of only 2 3/4", the second card base is a 4 1/2" square card I adhered the smaller card centered to the back panel of the large card opening backwards there are magnets under the striped patterned paper and under Winston to make sure the card will remain closed the area to write is inside of the smaller of card. 

Anita - Today for the more than 1 fold challenge, I have used a centre stepper design this week. I have also used the wonderful Winston Collection there is oodles in this collection I went with a design sheet which had all that is needed to make a beautiful card. Such gorgeous papers and embellishments to be found for any occasion.

 Our winner (chosen by Random Org) for our Two or more papers Challenge

1 - Meg

You have won $10 of downloads from the store

Please contact us HERE and quote PD32001Wk29 to claim your prize.

Our Top 3, chosen by the Design Team,

5 - Jana

44 - Norma

67  -Beatriz 

Well done and don't forget your badges

You can enter the More than one fold challenge HERE

See you all next week!