Week 23 - Father's Day/Anything Male - Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge

Hello!   Friday again!

Where has the year gone!  June already!

I hope you have all been visiting the Polkadoodles store lately.

Nikky is constantly adding new loveliness for everyone.

The latest release has been a real favourite with all you lovely people out there.

SERENITY

We have a new challenge for you for this fortnight

and our theme is

Father's Day/Anything Male

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 19 June to enter

Our random winner for this challenge will win a £10 download voucher for the store! 

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

Scatty Jan For todays make I have used a design sheet from the Work and Play 11 collection also as a download collection here - I love using the design sheets especially for male cards as I find them hard to do and these sheets take away a lot of the thinking - All pre coloured too so a super quick card. All that was added to this one was an extra backing paper from the collection

Asha: I made my manly card with digi images, patterned papers and ticket tags from the Work and Play 10 Country Life collection. The Gamekeeper is also available as a digi download. I did all my colouring with Faber Castell Polychromos.

Cheremane - Today I'm sharing a creation I've made from the great Work and Play 10 Country Life collection, I have used the pre-coloured image. You can download the GameKeeper Image Digi Here its the perfect male image and I've teamed it with the fab papers & sentiment also from the Collection. 

Karon - I have used the fabulous Winston collection for my card.  I adore this little bear and thought this was the perfect pre-coloured image to layer up.  I inked up all the edges of all the layers and then added 3 little button top brads to finish off.

Penny - with the awesome Work and Play 11 Golfer Image.  I layered up a digi paper onto a cameo cut file of a little bag that my kids will fill up with lollies for their dad.  The sentiment is spot on, again from Work and Play 11.  If anyone has met a golfer who won't appreciate this sentiment, let me know.

Agnieszka hello,  today I want to share with you  a male card. I used  Workand Play 10 Country Life collection, I have used the pre-coloured image, you can find GameKeeper Image Digi Here

I also printed and used  papers from CD.

Lou: I have used a pre-coloured design sheet "Gone Fishin' "from Work and Play 7 to create my card. It is a "sort of" gate fold card but each gate has a different theme and is smaller than a traditional gate fold card. The fishing image is also available separately in the digi shop HERE

So much wonderful 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.

We will announce the winner of our Girly but No Pink challenge next Friday.

Have a great 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.

Week 2 - Tic Tac Toe - Polkadoodles Challenge

Hi everyone.  How has your first week of the New Year gone?  We are all busy here with a new release and also some new members of the Design Team to introduce to you.

Firstly, lets start off with the fabulous new release of 

Work and Play 8 - Music.

An amazing collection of fabulous character digi's, papers, sentiments, embellishments

for you to get your teeth into.  It is available as a CD and also as an immediate download collection.

We would like to take this opportunity to introduce two fabulous new members of our Design Team

they are

Ria and Jane 

I am sure you will make them feel really welcome!

They are a great addition to our team and if you click on their names you can take a visit to their fabulous blogs.

Jane was so excited to be joining us, that she created this fabulous card as a big hello to the team and to all of you out there.  Isn't it gorgeous.  She has used the fabulous Piper with Bunches digi.

The winners of our last challenge from 2014

Christmas Reds and Blues will be announced at the end of this post.

Now onto this weeks fabulous inspiration from our Design Team.

To enter the challenge you can go HERE!

Don't forget you do not need to use Polka Doodles products to enter our challenges.  But please remember to follow the rules of there ---->

Scatty Jan For my Tic, Tac, Toe I have gone for the middle row - Image , Ribbon and Buttons - The lovely image is Maddie Twirling Curls -I printed her onto the lovely ultimate Graphic and  I have coloured her using Graph'It markers - I have paper pierced her hat using one of the papers from the Baby Boom collection

Ruth:  I've gone for something simple and used the bottom row - Embossing, Buttons and Polka Dots. I found some laser cut hearts (perfect for Valentine's Day!) in my stash when having a tidy up and teamed it with some hot red polka dot paper from Work and Play 5 - Festive Hollybobs.  Everything else is from my stash.

Karon - I decided to use the diagonal for my card - Sentiment, Ribbon, Polka dots.  I used the fabulous Work and Play 7 Collection for this card and just inked around the edges.  This karate girl is is from one of the design sheets and is a pre-coloured digi.

Asha - I made a Valentines's card for my young nieces using the image from the Sugar Birdies CD and sweet button paper from the Bonbon Belles Double CD. I've also thrown in the following: polka dot ribbon, dotted flower, diecut hearts, embossed heart, buttons and stitching. My design follows the right column (Diecut - Stitching - Polka Dots) or the middle column (Image - Ribbon - Buttons) or the bottom row ( Embossing - Buttons - Polka Dots) or the middle row (More Than 2 Layers - Ribbon - Stitching) or the bottom left to top right diagonal (Embossing - Ribbon - Diecut). Decisions ... decisions!

Jane - Really couldn't wait to get started as a new Design Team member and therefore here is my creation for this latest challenge.  I used the wonderful Amelia with Basket digi.

Anna -  This time I made a card in shades of violet for a Name Day, which as it turns out, is celebrated only in Poland. I prepared the card with paper from the Winston Deluxe Papercrafting Collection , using left row : Sentiment, More than 2 layers, Embossing or  the bottom left to top right diagonal row : Embossing, Ribbon, Die cut, or  the bottom row : Embossing, Buttons, Polka Dots. A layered card with die cut accessories, flowers and a string of pearls.

Lou:  I think I may have used more than one line when making my card ... well I just needed to make sure ...! I have used the line "sentiment, more than 2 layers, embossing". I have used Drummer Troy clear rubber stamp (now sold out) on my card, although he is available as a digi download and also can be found on the Work and Play 1 CD. 

Cheremane - Hi everyone and New Year Wishes to you all. For this challenge I went with straight down the middle of the grid, Image,Ribbon,Buttons. I have decided to use the Brand New

Work & Play 8 Cd. Wow wow its jammed packed and a major must and I couldn't wait to use it. I have used the Violin Girl which also comes as a Digi just on her own, I also used three of the papers and one of the sentiments from the CD. Be sure to take a look at the

 Brand New W&P 8 Collection over at the Shop.

Absolutely stunning creations!

Now onto the winners from our final challenge in 2014

Christmas Red's and Blues.

The Design Team had great pleasure in visiting you all and have chosen a Top 3 for this challenge.

You are all winners and have won a Work & Play download bundle worth £5 each.

#1 - Niki1 

#7 - Helen

#8 - Margaret A

Please contact us here and quote PD2001wk51 to claim your prize.

That's it for this week folks.  Have a fabulous one and don't forget to

enter our

Tic Tac Toe Challenge

HERE!

You have until 12 noon, GMT, Friday 16 January to enter.