Week 34 - Something Beginning with F or Anything Goes - Polkadoodles Craft Challenge

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Our new challenge is
Anything Goes
 or 
Something beginning with F
The choice is yours.....

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 9th September to enter this challenge.

The winner of this challenge will receive a $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles download store.


Now let's see the inspiration for the challenge...

Scatty Jan hmmmm something beginning F had to be flowers for me. My friend is celebrating her 70th birthday so I wanted to make something a little special. I chose the lovely lantern template from The Lavender Tea collection. It looks quite red in the photo's but its a really deep pink in real life.  I wanted to match the flowers in so I decorated using Lemonade Fizz collection, I think they work perfectly together. All that was added to finish were some pearls, a few fern dies and a battery operated candle.....Lots more photos and info on my blog xx

Tracy - Well for this challenge I decided to do a birthday card for my nephew so I picked a precoloured image from Winston Bear Collection holding a cake..."Food". Again lots of layering as I find fussy cutting a joy and I inked the edges to make images "pop" out

Katrina - Well, they're so pretty (and apparently all the rage at the moment), so it had to be F for Flamingo. The digi stamp is from the Winnie in Wonderland CD and I've coloured it in with pink and purple sparkle pens. The gorgeous backing paper is from the same CD and for the greeting I used one of the stamps from the Daisydays set.

Anita - Hi everyone so for my F'S I used Flowers, Frame, Fancy, Frugal i used a selection of papers from Rose Budd collection which has oodles of papers on, my sentiment qoute from the work and play 10 collection - country life i had fun this week.

Claire C What a fun challenge! My 'F' is frosty and I've used lots of bits and bobs from the gorgeous ' Octavia Frosted Winter' collection which you can find here as a CD or here as a download. I always make my 0wn jar of 'frost' for wintery cards by mixing up different grades of glitter, mica flakes and anything else in my craft stash that looks a bit frosty.

Michelle Wow all as I could think of for something beginning with F was yummy food lol. So I used The VIP XXL Starfish and Sandcastle Collection because it had so many yummy foods to use. I have made a bendy Card and I have only used things from the collection to decorate it hope you all like it.

Bev here with a bright and vibrant card using one sheet (yes you heard right) of the flower stacks from one of the older collections, Back to Nature. the sentiment used is from Magic Garden....

Anjie - Now I really pushed the boat out with this one as on my card I have a Flamingo, some Feathers, some Flowers and some Foliage! Do you think that's enough F's? To make this card I have used the lush Tropical Paradise Flamingo stamp set. The Flamingo you can get as a digi download on it's own HERE. I needed to add some Foliage in there so decided to use the leaf from the Lemonade Fizz stamp set. Lots more info on my blog.

Lovely creations to inspire you all with our Anything Goes or Something beginning with F challenge! 

Our winners of our Anything Goes challenge 32/33 and our Feather in my Cap winners for using PD images (more details on this up top in the tabs section), will be announced next Friday.

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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Week 29 - Sketch & Stamping

It's Friday again! And the weeks are disappearing fast - Christmas is just a whisker away! This week (whilst Nikky is busily unpacking from being on Ideal World / Create and Craft yesterday - did you see the launch of Back to Nature? I hope you did because it is a fantastic cd and it should be on every crafters list for Santa!)

Before I go any further, I need to announce the winners from Week 27 which was to use a sketch and the colour brown. Some entrants had to be discounted as the specific challenge criteria hadn't been followed (it is important!) but without further ado:

First Place: Biscuit Lid

Second Place: Fliss

Third Place: Cornish Mist

Congratulations to you all! Please contact Nikky for further details!

This week, Nikky challenged the Design Team to use a scalloped edge card, sectioned as the sketch below and also to stamp in half of the squares. A little bit different, but the Design Team rose to the challenge and below you can see their creations.

If you want more detail on how each DT member created their example, just click on their name and you'll be taken to their blog.

This challenge (week 29) is open until Sunday 13 December at 12noon GMT and there will be a Polkadoodle prize for the winner with blinkies for the runner ups!

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Boni has used the polar bear from Jingle Jangle Christmas plus the sentiment and has stamped snowflakes using the rubber Jingle Jangle stamps. Nice touch with the ribbon to break up the squares!

A winter owl from Claire with lots of wonderful doodling! The snowflake stamps are from the Jingle Jangle rubber stamp collection and are really detailed and look so real! The owl at the top of the card is taken from Sugar Birdies and has been coloured with sakura pens.

Kerry has used lots of fine glitter to make this a Winter Wonderland! Papers are from Jingle Jangle Christmas and she's used the rubber Christmas stamps to add detail in the little 'windows'.

Now Krista has been cheeky and added some extra rows onto her creation to make a calendar clipboard for each month of the year! Now we completely forgive her as it is stunning! Papers are from Jingle Jangle Christmas plus the little snowman at the top corner.
This is such a striking card from Kris who has used papers from Sugar Birdies with Polly from Candy Doodles. The flowers have been stamped with the Candy Doodles rubber stamps and coloured with Prismas and OMS. Do like the little ladybird in the centre and the oodles of doodles!

Another winter wonderland scene this time from Lou who has used Christmas trees from Jingle Jangle and then added the snowflake rubber stamps. She's layered the window look with strips of card and I wish I could write like that!

For my example, I've used papers from the new cd Back To Nature and weaved / layered the strips together to form the sections on the sketch. The owls are also from Back To Nature and they are decoupaged. A little bit of glitter glue on the girly owl and swirly bits from the Candy Doodles rubber stamps.


So don't forget - you have until Sunday 13 December at 12noon GMT to enter - please use the sketch shown and stamp in at least half of the squares to be in with a chance of winning! You can use any product you have in your stash but we would love to see you use Polkadoodle products!

Good luck!