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 11 - Anything Goes - Polkadoodles Paper Crafting Challenge

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It's Inspiration Week

for our Anything Goes Challenge

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 24 March to enter.

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

However, we do love seeing your fabulous makes 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 person - thank you x

Our Winner and Top 3 of our Anything Goes Challenge Weeks      

will be announced at the end of this post....

Now onto the fabulous inspiration from the Design Team.

Ruth:  I've gone with Work and Play Vol 12 and used various different elements from the design sheet plus a wooden stick and some die cut silver stars.  The Design sheets are great - print out, cut out the elements and then move them around for different combinations until you're happy with the layout!

Alysha ~ This week at Polkadoodles the DT are “Using a design sheet for our inspiration, here I have used Starfish and Sandcastles Design Sheet 11 hugs Aly xx

Helen - So excited this is the first time I've used Helga the Hippo, she's just adorable. I've used parts of two of the design sheets in the Helga Hippo collection that you can buy in pairs. Here's the ones I used http://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/helga-hippo-design-sheet-13-duo-download/. They're just so versatile and Helga is a must for any project. I made a stepper card from the design sheets and added a couple of those fabulous dies from Nikky. The cherry blossom branch to make the tree and the door to make a shed, which I used a paper from the Starfish and Sandcastles collection as its such groovy wood.

Karon - My eldest Daughter is just finishing her first year at college, to be a Veterinary Technician.  I couldn't resist using the Design sheet from the Work & Play 12 collection. You can buy the whole collection HERE or as a Mini Vet/Dog Groomer/Cat Grooming Bundle, where you get the female and male vets, and lots of other goodies too :-)  This Z fold card is to wish her luck in her 2nd Semester exams - and then she will be home for the summer months :-) Yay :-)

Pauline - I have created a card using a design sheet from the adorable Twiggy & Toots Collection.  I used the decoupage image - I love my fussy cutting.  The sentiment, papers and flowers all come from the collection.  I also used the largest of the Elegant Nest Dies and the Flower Flourish Die.

Lisa - I've made a card using one of the Helga design sheets that you can download from a set of two here.

Carol - Today I have used Design Sheet 4  from Winne Sugar Sprinkles collection.

CreativEle - I used one of 28 design sheet of HELGA collection for create this EASEL CARD.

Such fabulous creations.

Now onto our Winner and Top 3 of  our Anything Goes Weeks 8/9 Challenge

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

#28 - Nick

Please email us HERE, quoting the following code PD11001wk008,
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

#86 - Debra Miller 

#106 - Charlene

#108 - Anna

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 o visit and seeing all your wonderful creations.

Now it's over you.

You can enter our current

ANYTHING GOES CHALLENGE

HERE

Week 10 - Anything Goes - Polkadoodles Paper Crafting Challenge

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 Starting a New Challenge this week.

ANYTHING GOES

Closes Noon, GMT, Friday 24 March.            

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 ------->

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 a collection

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

Tina: I've used the design sheet "Work & Play No.12 / Scientist / Geek Girl" and built a small lab.

I made the test containers from toilet rolls and the lab table is on mini yarn rolls, which i have

silvered.

Anjie - For this card I have used design sheet 10 from the Winnie Starfish and Sandcastles collection. You can get the whole collection on download HERE. Or on CD HERE. And of course you can just buy individual bits if you wish HERE.

Claire C I've used one of the beautiful Design Sheets from the Belle Papillon collection and cut out lots of the gorgeous vintage tags to decorate my card. I couldn't resist adding some of Nikky's beautiful die cuts too, they are from Birdcage and Bird Doublet Die, Butterfly 1 Doublet Die along with Belle Papillon A5 Clear Stamps.

Scatty Jan - For my project this week I decorated a little box using one of the lovely Helga design sheets you can find the collection in the store here.

Michelle For my project I have used a Design sheet from the Helga Big Kahuna bundles  I have used Design Sheet 4 which you can also buy on its own happy crafting everyone.

Bev here and I've used Design Sheet 11 from Winnie Starfish/Sandcastles, There is just so much lushness crammed on a sheet. I couldn't decide what to put on & what to leave off!! All I added from my own crafty stash was 2 gemstones and a piece of raffia!

Lots of fabulous creations to inspire you.

Our Winner and Top 3 of our Anything Goes Challenge Weeks 8/9

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 4 - Anything Goes - Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge

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Starting a New Challenge this week.

ANYTHING GOES

Closes Noon, GMT, Friday 10 February 

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 a max of 2 entries per person - thank you.

Before we get to the challenge have you grabbed our adorable new kit yet? 14 beautifully cute new character stamps and a whole host of other printable yumminess! 
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SAVE 15%

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JUST ENTER THE CODE

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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.

 Jacki:For my card I have used design sheet 12 from the new Helga download I put the card together digitally in my MCS programme to create this really simple but pretty Retirement card using the different elements on the design sheet.

Ruth:  The Design sheets on each CD are such good value and you get sooooo much to work with! The hardest bit is trying to decide which elements to use!  I've gone for Work and Play 12 - Geek Scientist - you can buy the sheet on its own or if you want more, buy the download as you get each character with its own design sheet.  All I've added is some card candi, glitter glue and glossy accents!

Alysha ~ Hi there! This week as always is anything goes over at Polkadoodles Challenge Blog but DT have used a Design Sheet. I have used HELGA Polkadoodles new release for January, hope you love her as much as I do, hugs Aly xx

Helen - What better to combat those winter blues than a little bit of retail therapy. I've used the Dolly Daydream Girl Talk Download Collection which you can find right here, the card shape is a template from the collection and I've coloured up Dolly Daydream and attached her to the front of the card.

Lisa - I've used a designed sheet from the Winston Download Collection to create a masculine birthday card.

Karon - For my card this week I have used Design Sheet #11 from the Winnie Sugar Sprinkles collection.  You can also get just this Design Sheet #11 on its very own if you need a quick card to make.  All I have added is an embossed backing paper, everything else is from the Design Sheet.

Pauline - For my card I have used a design sheet from the Rose Budd Collection, the papers and sentiment are also from the collection.  I have inked the edges of everything and just added some ribbon and pearls.

Carol - I used a design sheet from the Winnie Starfish and Sandcastles collection electronic print/cut/trace download. I also used a backing paper from the Winnie Starfish and Sandcastles collection

creativEle  - I used a design sheet from the WINNIE FRUIT PUNCH BIG BUNDLE.  I created a three-dimensional paper imagining the front & back of a shoes store SHOPAHOLIC.

Lots of fabulous creations to inspire you.

Our Winner and Top 3 of our Anything Goes Challenge Weeks 2/3

will be announced next Friday.

Now it's over to you.

ANYTHING GOES

Please remember a maximum of 2 entries per person - thank you.

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 35 - Something beginning with F or Anything Goes - Polkadoodles Craft Challenge

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We are UBER excited today because...it's

Expires midnight Friday 2/9/16 EST

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So Kids are back in school and that can only mean one thing! More time to craft - yay! Anyways, we are in week 2 of our current challenge...
ANYTHING GOES
You can enter this current challenge HERE
You have until Noon, GMT, Friday 9th September to enter this challenge. We only have a few little rules to follow and they are over there in the side bar ----> You do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges.Our winners of our Weeks 32/33 Anything Goes Challenge and our Feather in my Cap winners for using PD Images (more details at the top in the tabs section) will be at the end of this post.

Now lets see what fabulous inspiration the Design team have for you - they had to use something beginning with F...

Alysha -   This week I have created a lovely simple card using the Lavender Tea CD, come and jion us I look forward to seeing your creations, hugs Aly xx

Helen - Anyone for chocolate? Of course, its always time for chocolate in my book and Winnie seems to agree with me, she's just about to tuck in to a great big bar.  I've chosen to use Mmmmm Chocolate from the Sugar Sprinkles collection.  I coloured her with Copics and used some embellies from the collection including the chocolate bar which I also put into My Craft Artist to mak a chocolatey backing paper.

Lisa - I'm getting ahead with my Chrimbo cards for this year and I have used the Twiggy & Toots Festive Fun Download Collection. I faded 2 of the mistletoe digis to pale grey, placed them in opposite corners and merged with the the sentiment, before printing onto white linen card. This has been mat and layered with Kraft card and papers also from the download. Some twine, pearls and a little pine cone to decorate.

Carol - Love love love the gorgeous floral papers from the Winnie Wonderland Paper Heaven 6 download. Here I've teamed them with one of my favourite Polkadoodles fairies - Serenity Princess. Adding a background layer created using an around the page punch, a triple bow and a white rose. So quick and easy!

Pauline - I have used a super image from the the Work and Play 12 collection called 'Fast Food' along with some of the matching papers and a sentiment - I just love the sentiment!  I printed him three times so that I could add some decoupage layers and also printed the fries and drink from the embellies section.

Ruth: I've coloured the cute Footballer digi with Promarkers and then made a background of football pitches with some green card.  The digis are so versatile and can be enlarged without image quality loss!

Karon - I have a gift that I made for my daughter Shannon, who is leaving this weekend for college. I loved using the Lemonade Fizz Collection to make this 12" by 12" canvas.  Everything is off the collection, the quote I found on the internet. I added some dimension to the flowers and the butterfly, by adding layers and some beads...

Wow - fabulous and inspiring inspiration by the team this week.

Now onto our Winner, Top 3 and Feathers in your Cap winners, for Anything Goes Week 32/33

Our winner (chosen by Random Org) is ....

#9 - Wendy

Please email us HERE quoting PD35001Wk32 ...You have won $10 worth of downloads from the Digi Store...

Our Top 3 4 and in no particular order, chosen by the Design Team are....

#16 - Sharon Gurnhill, #41 - Jana K,  # 60 - Vannessa,  #83 - Ane Lene

and finally, our Top 3 Feather in My Cap winners are...

#30 - Karen K, #34 - Megan, #47 - CarolG NZ

Well done everyone, don't forget to pick up the badges for your blogs :-)

Thanks to everyone that takes part in our challenges, we love coming to visit and seeing your fabulous inspiration. Now back over to you and our current challenge

ANYTHING GOES....You can enter 

HERE

Have a fabulous week.

Week 22 - Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge - For the Boys

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Happy Friday everyone!

1. Watch out over the weekend and make sure you're signed up for the Polkadoodles newsletter to get some exciting news later today! You do NOT want to miss it!
2. Our DT Call is still open so please send us your entries HERE
3. You can watch us on Create and Craft TV again on Tuesday at 2pm GMT - some gorgeous new releases so don't miss it!

We have a new challenge for you this fortnight and our theme is
One For the Boys
(this can be anything male, it doesnt have to be a specific male project, it can be male colours ie blues etc, just anything which depicts a masculine element)
 You have until Noon GMT, Friday 17th June, to enter this challenge. Our winner will receive a $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles Download Store. We only have a few little rules and they are over there in the side bar ----> You do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges, however, we are loving seeing all your makes with the Polkadoodles images. Remember if you use a Polkadoodles image, you could Win a Feather in your Cap, more details on this in the pages tab above.

Anyway, let's get on with the show and see what the wonderful Design Team have for your inspiration this week.

Anita   Hi it's me with a little make for one for the boys, today I thought I would work from a design sheet from the Work and play 11 collection  and a coordinating backing paper these papers are super lush.

Ruth:  I've gone way back to an earlier cd - Paper Boutique Vol 1.  I've used one of the Family Affair templates and printed off as A5 size; I've just added a faux running stitch, handwritten tag and some extra kraft stars.  Really easy and quick to make!

Bev: I decided to use one of the design sheets from Work & Play 7 and a couple of the complimentary backing papers. This week I opted for a 5x7 card and used one of my dies to give the front a different edge.

Anjie - I've used one of my all time fave male collections, which is Pretty Tuff. Whenever I have a male make to do this is my go to CD, even if I don't use an image for it the papers are just perfect for males of all ages! Now talking of papers did you know some of our collections have actual physical paper pads? No, well we do and Pretty Tuff is one of those. So if you don't want to print papers you can buy the paper pad HERE. More info and details on my blog.

Katrina: I've used the pre-coloured version of the fabulous science geek from the Work and Play 12 CD and made a 'molecule' with co-ordinating buttons and cocktail sticks.

Claire C I've used Cherry Blossom Lane, one of my all time favourites from Polkadoodles to make this card, The papers are all from the CD collectio which can be found here. The main image a clear stamp called Noah, you can find him here , I've stamped him on kraft card and coloured him with pencils.

Lovely creations to inspire you all with our One For The Boys challenge! 

Have a great weekend everyone. Thanks for sharing your creations with us, we love coming to visit and appreciate you taking part in our challenges.

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