Week 24 - FRIDAY FREEBIE & Anything Goes Craft Challenge at Polkadoodles

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Welcome to a new challenge today...

ANYTHING GOES

Closes Noon, GMT, Friday 30 June. Winner will receive a $10 voucher to the Polkadoodles Digi Store. 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 ------->

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IT'S TIME FOR OUR FRIDAY FREEBIE!
ENTER CODE:
FRIDAY FREEBIE
at the checkout to get this fab free digi stamp! Yes, FREE!

 - but hurry, ends midnight today!   

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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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Now let's see what wonderful inspiration the Design Team have for you this week...The DT's twist on the challenge theme is Polka Dots...

Helen - Don't you just love Helga? This Hippo is just adorable and she's gone a bit dotty as she  just loves polka dots. You can find the big kahuna collection here at the store. I've teamed her up with some of those fab Polkadoodles dies to including one of the beautiful LDRS ones the Dainty Doily

Ruth:  Did you know that girly collections are not just for girly cards?!  I've used papers from Fredericka Mini CD collection and made a cute Father's Day card!  I've also added dotted liquid pearls and silver circle die cuts.

Shylaa - How cute is this Ula. Don't you hear the whispering of those lovely beauties.This stamp is from - Ula's life - Ula Don't listen.The gorgeous flowers are from the Horace & Boo Design sheet collection. Just outlined the card with hand drawn borders.Fuzzy the flowers from the design sheet and added pearl to its center.Adhered the fuzzy cut ula to the cardbase with foam tape.

Jacki - Hello for my make today I have used the beautiful Ula I love this image (inner Beauty )for my papers I have used various collections getting all the polka dots I could find lol (love them) the flowers are from the new release Lil' miss sunshine

Karon - I have used the lovely Lavender Tea Download collection for all of my card today.  All the papers are from this collection, including the flowers and the sentiment.  I love the colour palette in this collection, so calming.

Janet Craftica - Today I'm working on my planner again, this time I made a kit of dividers, using Polkadoodles design papers. I took all the polka dots papers I found on these kits #1#2 #3

which are part of the Li'l' Miss Sugarpops.  Using my electronic cutting machine program I created the dividers templates and added the papers as background color then added one of the images from the same KITS which you can find  HERE.  Finally I added a quote, printed, and cut everything getting as a result these lovely dividers for planners.

Carol - For today's make I am using Footballer from Work and Play 6. To add polka dots I used one of the background papers from the collection.I coloured my little soccer player with my copics.

Lisa - I picked some lovely polka dot papers from the Winnie in Wonderland Download Collection to make my card along with plenty of embellishments/design sheet elements from the same collection and the Winnie Wonderland digi stamp, which I printed on Kraft card and coloured with my alcohol markers. It wasn't until after I assembled the card I realised I had hidden all my polka dot papers! Some white acrylic paint to the rescue.....I added polka dots to Winnie's dress and some of the heart embellishments.

Lots of fabulous creations to inspire you.

Our Winner and Top 3 of our Anything Goes Challenge Weeks 22/23 will be announced next Friday.

Remember the challenge is

ANYTHING GOES

You can enter below : ) 

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 18 - Anything but Square - Polkadoodles Craft Challenge

Hellooo out there - it's Friday!!

Did you all have a fabulous week of craftiness?!

Before we get onto the inspiration for you this week.  A couple of things to

let you know about.

Firstly, that Twiggy and Toots is now available in the Polkadoodles Store.

Either as the CD or immediate download - yay!!

And just in case you hadn't seen - we have another fabulous new Work and Play release just out this week!
You can save 20% on this collection if you order before Wednesday 6th May, use coupon code WP112 at the checkout!!

Work & Play 11

The winners from our Pink and Pretty Challenge will be announced at the end of this post.

Our current challenge is Anything but Square

You can enter HERE

Don't forget you do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges.

Please only 2 entries per person - to make it fair. You can find the rules in the side bar over there ----->You have until Noon GMT, Friday May 8th to enter.

Now onto the fabulous Design Team Inspiration for you this week...

Scatty Jan Oh I soooo love this new collection Twiggy and Toots CD also as a download here - I have used a pre-coloured image , the papers, sentiment and elements are all from the collection - I truly adore the jigsaw pieces.

Asha - Great minds think alike! Jan and I are using the same CD, same image but two very different makes. Image, elements, embellishments and papers from the super cute, super versatile Twiggy and Toots CD. There is also a download version, if you want  immediate gratification!

Lou: Oh dear, real Twiggy and Toots fest here as yep, I used this fab collection too. I made my card shape by using one of the frames and a journal card to create my easel card. I have then used the same frame to create the stopper and the cute ballerina image.

Karon - I decided to use the Work and Play 10 - Country Life  collection for my card this week.  I made a spring fold card and the wonderful pre-coloured digi Egg Collecting, which is also available as a single digi download.  Everything on this card is from this wonderful collection.

Penny - When looking through my Polkadoodle kits, I saw the soccer ball image and I decided to run with it, with a CAS theme.  The sentiment is also in the WP6 kit.    Work and Play 6  has a variety of images including both a male and a female football player which are available as individual downloads too.   I cut my circular base on the cameo and decided to trace and cut the football and the sentiment from black vinyl, making the ball shine.   

Cheremane - I have used the truly stunning Eden Collection to make my inspiration for you today. You can also get the image that I have used which is  Eden Butterflies Digi  on her own as a single Digi Download, but trust me when you see the collection as a whole you will need it all. I have teamed the main image with the Sentiment papers & butterflies which are also from the Eden Cd. 

Agnieszka - hello, today I want to share with you a card in pink and purple. I love this colors combo ;) I used pre-coloured image from  CD: Work & Play 9 Love & Kisses - Full Download Bundle.   I also added papers, which I printed from Cherryblossom Lane collection. All collection are connected with others and you can combine together :) so you can create your own collection ;) TTo the end I added some flowers, butterflies, pearls ... and my card is ready. I hope you like it ;) Hugs. Happy crafting :)

Jane: I have joined in this week as I unfortunately couldn't play along last week. I have used Twiggy and Toots to create my card and placed the ballerina image in front of her house. I have added some die cut flowers to the front and inside of my card.

Gorgeous inspiration from the team!

Now lets announce our winner, from the Pink and Pretty Challenge as chosen by Random Org is......

# 66 Jackie C

Please email us here quoting PD18001wk15 to claim your prize. You have won a £5 voucher for Polkadoodles digi store!

Our Top 3 this week, as chosen by the Design Team are...

#26 - Sharon, Nellies Handmade Cards

#29 - Margaret Atkinson

#60 - Lorraine CM

Thanks to you all and congratulations. Don't forget to take your blinkies from the side bar.

Thanks to everyone for taking part in our challenges, we love coming to see your

fabulous creations.

Off you go - time to enter our current challenge Anything but Square

HERE.

Have a great week!

Week 13 - Use a Die - Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge

Happy Friday Everyone!! 
Firstly, make sure you check out the Polkadoodles store this weekend as we have a brand new release coming your which is just to die for! 

and if you use the code COUNTRY at the checkout you can save 15% until 31st March!

Its time for a brand new challenge - The theme is 

Use a Die
You can make anything you like -  maybe a card, a scrapbook layout of even home décor. You can use any products you like to enter as long as it follows the theme for this week
The rules are in the side bar over there ----->

Remember, you do not have to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges.

You have until 12 noon. GMT, Friday 10th April to enter.
Our Random Winner of this challenge will win a copy of our gorgeous 
OCTAVIA COLLECTION

Now let's see what the Design Team have been up to.

Naz -  The image I have used here is the Bride/Princess Color digi from the Work & Play Collection 9 - Love & Kisses - I have added some glitter accent and a pearl to the image for embellishment. All the papers I've used on this card are from the same collection. I've used some distress ink on the edges of the papers.I have finished off the card with a sentiment and a heart banner.

Jenny - I've used the pretty collection Cherry Blossom Lane for my card this week. We all use dies quite a lot so for this card I decided to go back to a bit of decoupage.  My die is a Tattered Lace one and is very useful. I hope you can come on over for a visit to see what I did to make this.

Ruth:  This was a special Birthday card for a Manchester City mad lady - I used the Work and Play Footballer Girl digi stamp and coloured her up with Promarkers.  The die used is the grass Sizzix die and I hand wrote the Birthday flag.

Anjie - The image and papers are from the Work and Play 6 CD. This is also available as a download HERE. Or you can just buy the Landlord digi image HERE. I've coloured him with my Graph'It Markers. I have used a Spellbinders die to cut the image out, a Marianne die for the clock and a Tattered Lace die for the bottle and the sentiment.

Bev here and his fortnight I've made a card is for my neighbour. Pretty Tuff is a fab resource for male cards. I used pencils to colour in Dylan, The papers and sentiment are all from the CD. The hb2u lettering is from another fab CD Cherryblossom Lane but coloured in with Graph'its to change the colour.

Susan ~ Happy Friday everyone and believe it or not I have used a die, but most of it is covered with embellishments. I have used the Stunning Eden  collection yet againI have used Graph'it Markers and Pencils to colour her.

Anita ~ Hello there today I brought to you paper from the sugarplum daisy collection and flowers from sundae of seasons and used the gorgeous piper with bunches and yes I used 1 die and coloured with alcohol markers.

Ria: For my card I used the Work and Play 8 collection Music. I coloured guitar girl with alcohol markers and enhanced her skin with pencils. The white dots are made with a white Molotow marker. The 2 red star dies are not from this collection everything else on my card is from the Music collection.

Claire C I've used lots of papers, embellies, flowers and butterflies from the gorgeous Octavia Moonfly collection (which you can get as a download here or on CD here). There are so many goodies in this collection I went into a bit of a printing frenzy so I didn't need to add much else, just a little lace and some die cut flourishes.

Jane: I have used "Amelia Contemplating" image from the Pretty Sweet collection (which is available as a digi download). Papers are from the Pretty Sweet CD. I have added a window die cut as my embellishment.

Wendy -  I've made a notelet set for this challenge. Inside the box are 4 mini cards, which have all been printed directly onto with colour co-ordinating papers from the Rose Budd Collection. The images on each notelet are pre-coloured and from the same collection, however each can be bought as an individual stamp aswell. here  Miss Rose, Miss Constance, Miss Harriet & Miss Hetty.

 

What stunning makes the team have made!

Remember, our the theme is 

Use a Die
You can make anything you like -  maybe a card, a scrapbook layout of even home décor. You can use any products you like to enter as long as it follows the theme for this week
The rules are in the side bar over there ----->

Remember, you do not have to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges.

You have until 12 noon. GMT, Friday 10th April to enter.
Our Random Winner of this challenge will win a copy of our gorgeous 
OCTAVIA COLLECTION

Looking forward to seeing all your wonderful creations again and thanks for joining us this week!

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Week 4 - Case It - Polkadoodles Challenge

Helloooo out there!  It's Friday!

Yay, the weekend is here and I hope you all get time to craft and enter our fabulous challenges.

This is Inspiration week here at Polkadoodles and the Design Team have

awesome creations to share with you.

Before we get to that though....

Have you all been drooling over the latest fabulous releases?.....

Work and Play 9 - Love and Kisses....Stunning OMG, Mega, Huge, Ginormous, 2XL Edition :-)

And the amazing Work and Play 8 - Music

With a plethora of amazing digis, papers, embellishments, cut files.

And as a special treat, this weekend you can save a huge 15% off in the digistore too to celebrate Nikky' birthday this week!  Just use Code BIRTHDAY in the instant checkout but hurry because this ends midnight GMT on 24/1/15

The winners of our Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge will be announced at the end of this post.

Our latest challenge is 
Case It and you can 
ENTER HERE!

We would like you to choose a project made either by yourself, or by someone else (the Design Team are happy for you to choose ours but of course you can case anyone you like so long as you have permission!)....the whole idea of this is to then use that project to create your own version, using it as inspiration (not copying!). It could be the colours, the design, the embellishment or die they used, the stamp, the layout, whatever it is you love about that make. 

You have until 12 noon, GMT, Friday 30 January 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 copy of our Work & Play 8 collection on download! Wow! And our top 3 Design Team favourites will all win a digi too! 

And now for the Design Team Inspiration and don't forget, check out who they

Cased too :-)

Ruth:  I've CASE'd Susan from back in August - the original post is here.  I've used the female horse rider from Work and Play 6 and coloured them with Promarkers.  The fence and grass are Sizzix die cuts and I made the rosette myself - numbers are Cuttlebug die cuts.

Ria: The card I case'd is from Anjie and you can find it here... For my card I used Maddy Shy and coloured her with Copic and Spectrum Noir markers and enhanced with pencils.The papers that I used are from the Work and Play 1 collection.  The dies that I used are the watercan and Happy Birthday sentiment dies by Tattered Lace.

Anita .... I have cased Ruth way back in July and you can find her card here ...

I have used Work and play collection 2 backing papers and gamer boy and he is also available as a digi image here, I coloured him using alcohol markers and I had a lot of fun and this is my make..

Anjie - I have chosen to CASE a card from the week 47 challenge HERE which was CAS. Now I love all the cards of course but 2 in particular stood out for me, I couldn't get it down to one as they are both very similar and both fab. The cards are by our lovely ladies Bev and Yvonne, and here is my take on it. I have used the fabby Phone/Texter guy image. He is also available on the Work & Play collection 7 which is available as a download or a CD. He of course is coloured with my Graph'It Markers.

Yvonne - Hi everyone, well once I realised I wasn't making a case, I really liked this challenge!! I kept coming back to a make that the lovely Lou made in our 'Tag You're It' Challenge.  You can see the original masterpiece here.  It is the most lovely delicate tag made using embellies and stuff from the gorgeous 'Winston Bear Collection'.  I made quite a large tag but I opted to put 'Etty Sewing' precoloured off of the Collection, however, you can also get her here as a digi image.  So I opted to use Etty and then I printed and cut heaps of the embellies, as Lou did but mostly different embellies and added them to the tag! The paper is also from the collection. All that I had to add was the lace and the gems.

Bev here and for this weeks challenge I climbed inside Cheremane's head ('Anything But Square' challenge back in October) I tried to leave it as I found it.... I loved this challenge as I've been struggling with my mojo since Christmas so putting my spin on an existing project was a great help and has helped ease me back in. I used the Guitar Girl image from the incredible new W&P 8 collection she's also available as a digi HERE. I coloured her with my Graph'it Markers (full details on my blog). The card base is just cut from Kraft card all the backing paper, bow, embellies and sentiment are from the CD . All I've added from my own crafty stash is embossed pink card. a black glittery peel off, distress ink and a gem.

Jenny here, for my case it card I've used a card made by Lou way back in May last year. She made a circular card with circular embellishments and that is what I've used for my inspiration. I have used the brand new collection W&P9 Love and Kisses it's a great collection and so easy to use.

Susan - I am using Caras lovely Tag from the Tag It challenge week 37 as my CASE It inspiration this week. I have used Papers and an image from the new Work & Play 8 collection  and printed everything on Ultimate Graph'it 160 gm paper

Frezja - hi all :) I have for you today Anna's card (clic) in frezja's version :)

I am using Rose Budd CD and Winston CD. I hope you like it :)

More picks on the blog :) 

Claire C - I've taken my inspiration from Lou's hoover card for our Anything but square challenge in October (you can find it here). I loved the way Lou had used household stuff to embellish her card and I also loved the idea using the embellishments on the CD as a base card, its so easy to do as you just enlarge the size of the image ! I've used images from Work and Play 8 to make this card and added an old CD and some bottletops to embellish the card. 

Aren't they just amazing!  Love all the fabulous interpretations this week.

Now without further ado - here is the winner, as chosen by random org, from our

 Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge

#23 - Vickie Odell

Please contact us here and quote PD4001wk1 to claim your prize.  

You have won a full Work and Play collection of your choice, worth over £10!

And now for our Top 3 as chosen by the Design Team

#28 - Plony

#35 - Laine

#74 - Srebrnolistka

Please make sure you all take your blinkies from the side bar. Congratulations to everyone.

Now it's over to you.  Our CASE IT challenge is open until Friday, Noon GMT, 30 January.

You can enter HERE.

Have a fabulous weekend everyone.