Anything Goes International Craft Challenge 8, Week 5 – Polkadoodles Card Making & Papercraft Challenge

 ANYTHING GOES – ANY CRAFT BRAND – EVERY CRAFTER WELCOME - WORLDWIDE

Cards • Papercraft • Scrapbooking • Mixed Media • Digital or Physical Crafting

 Welcome to our current Card making, Craft, Papercraft Scrapbooking challenge...this challenge is open to any crafter, anywhere in the world. 

You do not have to use Polkadoodles products to enter - all entries are welcome!

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This challenge is Monthly - giving you a whole month to enter with 

$45 in prizes per month. 

You can enter up to 4 times, with 4 different projects. 

We will still post weekly inspiration from the team but the competition will remain open for 1 month.

Ready to get creative? We love seeing what you make, so this challenge is all about having fun, getting crafty and sharing your handmade projects with our lovely community. Whether you’re brand new to crafting or a long-time card maker, everyone is welcome — and because one of our prizes is chosen at random, everyone has a fair chance to win 🎉
You can enter any handmade project, in any style, using any theme — as long as it’s made by you. Cards, scrapbook pages, mixed media, tags… we want to see it all!
Even better? You can enter up to four times each month with four different projects, so don’t hold back!

🏆 Prize 1 – Random Winner
One lucky entry will be selected at random to win a $20 Polkadoodles store credit. Spend it on anything you like — yes, even physical products!
🏆 Prize 2 – Design Team Picks
Our team will also choose their top two favourite entries from across the four weeks.

Each of these winners will receive a $10 Polkadoodles store credit.

• (If you are outside the UK you will still need to pay any shipping/customs fees if you use your voucher on physical products)

That’s $40 in prizes every single month — just for doing what you love 💖

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This blog challenge is sponsored by Polkadoodles Crafts - check out the store and take a look at the

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Let's see the beautiful projects from the DT this week!

We asked the team to make an UNUSUAL CARD SHAPE this week...

Cute strawberry shaped unusual handmade card made by Renske - Hi everyone! For this challenge, we had to make an unusual card shape. ThisStrawberry Cream Cupcake digital stamp gave me the idea to make the whole card into a cupcake. I printed the digi onto regular printer paper first, cut it out and used it as a template on my card base. When tracing it, I left part of the cupcake over the fold so the card would still open properly. I then printed the digi again at the same size. I coloured it with my alcohol markers. On the front I added the “It’s your birthday!” sentiment from the Winnie Daisy Sentiments set. For the inside, I used “Have the sweetest day” from the Coffee Tea and Cake Sentiments set and added a smaller strawberry from the cupcake digi. I liked repeating the strawberry inside, as it gives you a little reminder of the front when you open the card. A few pink stamped hearts finished it off. Hope you like it. Happy Crafting! Hugs Renske
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Beautiful Unusual Vase of Flowers Card made by Enrica - Hello! For this week’s Unusual Shaped Cards theme I decided to make something a little different using the gorgeous Lilac Haze digital bundle. I created a pretty jar-shaped card and filled it with lots of the beautiful flowers from the collection, layering them up to create a lovely full bouquet.
I kept the colours soft and delicate with pale blue, lilac and white, then added lace, ribbon and one of the pretty sentiments to finish it off. I love how this turned out – it’s a card, but it could easily double as a little piece of home décor too!

Cute ladybird shaped card made by Revati - Hello again! To create this card, I started by printing the sweet Gardening Lili Ladybug Ladybird digi stamp on crisp white cardstock and fussy-cutting her using my Brother ScanNCut. I then colored the image using my Ohuhu Alcohol Markers. For a soft backdrop, I paired her with a subtle light blue pattern from the Spring into Easter digital paper pack. To give the design a unique silhouette, I die-cut the patterned paper using a decorative petal leaf die and layered it onto a slightly larger die-cut white base to create a crisp, fine border. I added the Enjoy the little things sentiment from the Winnie Daisy Greetings digi stamp set, and finished off the scene with a few tiny bumblebees borrowed from the Road Trip Car - Bee Buzzy Gnome digi stamp set for a fun extra detail!
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Pretty hexagonal decorated Christmas box handmade by Nelly - Hello again! Saturday comes around so quick! What are you all up to today?
For this weeks project I have made an unusual shaped card called a hexagon pop up card! You can find the details with how to make it HERE.
I used Polkadoodles pretty scallop dies, Christmas everyday sentiments and Abundant Holly die cuts to create the images. Around the hexagon shape at the bottom I cut images from the Sparkling Christmas paper and topper set

Pretty handmade circle card by Liz - I'm back with a Christmas themed project today, using some of the latest fabulous dies and stencil from Polkadoodles. I used some of the speckled egg distress oxide pad to go over the Winter Village Scene stencil on the base of my card, then in silver mirri cardstock I added the Sparkling wreath and stars dies,
houses from the Sweet glass dome/snowglobe dies and some winter type foliage from the Winter botanical bits dies too.

Thanks so much to the design team for their gorgeous inspiration this week!

Don't forget to join in our other challenges too -You could win more stash and as always our Challenges are **Anything Goes**

Click here to enter: Digi Choosday Blog

Click here to enter: Gem of a Challenge

Click here to enter: We Love 2 Create challenge

We will be back next week with more inspiration with the Design Team!

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Join our international card making challenge – everyone welcome!
🇳🇱 Kaarten maken challenge / kaarten challenge
🇩🇪 Karten basteln Challenge / Kartenchallenge
🇫🇷 Challenge carterie / création de cartes
🇮🇹 Challenge cardmaking / creazione di biglietti
🇪🇸 Reto de tarjetería / tarjetas hechas a mano
🇸🇪 Kortmakeri challenge / kortutmaning
🇳🇴 Kortlaging challenge / kortutfordring
🇩🇰 Kortlavning challenge / kortudfordring
🇫🇮 Korttiaskartelu challenge / korttihaaste

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Wk 37 - Anything Goes Card making and crafting challenge at Polkadoodles

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THE WINNERS OF OUR LAST CHALLENGE ARE AT THE END OF THIS POST

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Make sure you check them out, we have some great offers so don't miss them! Visit the store HERE!

Time to join the team & see what they've all been up to for this week's challenge, which is....

'My Favourite Thing About December'...

Nelly:  The best time about Christmas is presents right? Here I have used winnie-winter-celebration-digital-papercrafting-download/ and coloured her with alcohol markers, the poinsettia is a clear stamp called perfect-poinsettias-13-clear-polymer-stamps/ 

Merja: The design teams challenge was to do 'My favourite thing about December' so my first though was Christmas. But then I realized that Christmas isn't Christmas for me if there is no snow, so I decided to do snowman card. So I used Smiley Snowman stamp set and coloured the whole scene with shiny metallic watercolours. When it was dry I stamped text from Merry Little Christmas stamp set and added few snowflakes I made with Iced Winter Snowflake Tree Branches die (there is also some glitter on them).

Pam it wasn't hard for me to quickly answer 'Decorating the Tree!' as my favorite thing about December. I've selected Feeding the Birds from the Winnie White Christmas Collection. She is colored using Copic markers, then added to the hunter green mat with the decorative edge. I mounted her to the right side and added the vertical strip of holly & berries washi tape down the left side instead of a bow.  While here in South Carolina, we certainly wouldn't get this much snow, it's always fun to decorate a card with gel paste on the tree and ground and glittery Diamond Stickles on the fur of her coat and boots. I'd love to see how you would use this image on your card. 

Nunzia: I love when during the winter we can wear warm clothes like those from Bella Bear with lots of gifts. So I colored this cute digi with soft colours and I decorated the criss-cross card with a digi paper from Printable Papers 3 Winnie White Christmas. Inside a sentiment from Winnie Celebrations 1 Sentiments digi kit.

Ruth:  Kept the colours a little sugary but girly by using Winnie White Christmas digi and coloured with Promarkers and a bit of glitter the papers are from the Big Kahuna download and I've distressed them (cos my cutting a straight line wasn't that great!)  I've handwritten the sentiment and added half pearls here and there on the frame.  Organza ribbon is from the never ending stash!

EIVOR...My favorite thing is when the whole family decorates the Christmas tree. So when I saw the sweet stamp Winnie Angel Decorations up, I felt it was perfect. I used Polkadoodles Basic Squares dies to cut out a small square as a window. The sentiment is from Winne Celebrations 1 Sentiment.

Yolanda...I love sending and receiving postcards for Christmas. They are part of the decoration of my house during the whole month of December. So I hmade some envelopes using the Winnie Winter Bearing gifts and Winnie Winter Celebration digi stamps.I have decorated them with red baker twine and I have used a stamp die too.  Also the envelopes are decorated inside with Winnie White Christmas papers (collection 1 and collection 3).

Winners from Challenge 35

RANDOM WINNER - 3 DIGITAL STAMP DOWNLOADS:

#21 Lesley K

Well done!

TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE: Email us with the SKU & NAME or link of the THREE digital stamps you would like to receive up to your prize total.

Please email us HERE, quoting the following code PDWK370001 to claim your prize - Claims must be received by 17/09/21.

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 HERE ARE OUR TOP 3 FAVOURITE WINNERS...

1. Daniela

2. Maryann

34 Jackie C

TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE: Email us with the SKU & NAME or link of the ONE digital stamps you would like to receive.

Please email us HERE, quoting the following code PDWK37123 to claim your prize of 1 free digi download from the digi store - Claims must be received by 17/09/21.

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Congratulations to everyone!

Thanks for taking part in this challenge - we love visiting all your blogs and links!

Don't forget to join in our other challenges too -
You could win more stash and as always our Challenges are **Anything Goes**
Digi Choosday Blog
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Digi Choosday...Wk 7 - Christmas Cheer!

Hi everyone, time for another Digi Choosday challenge!

Firstly, let's get straight to our winners! 

The random winner of our Week 5 challenge, Craft, is

No 15, Soma! 

Congratulations Soma, email us here to claim your prize, you've won a download bundle!

Our Top 3 favourites for this week are: 

No 3 Mags, No 5 Deanne and No 12 Kym - well done, we loved all your work this week, feel free to grab your blinkies from the sidebar. 

So onto this week's challenge...

Christmas Cheer

We are well and truly in the Christmas shopping season now - all the trees are going up and it's starting to feel really festive everywhere, so show us your Crimbo makes!

You have until 12th December to enter and the winner will be announced on 17th December.

The winner of this challenge will win £5 of downloads from the store!

Before we forget, make sure you checkout the Polkadoodles store this week as there is a sale event with 15% off everything - a great opportunity to grab a bargain! 

DESIGN TEAM CALL!

We are looking for someone talented to join our fabulous team. 

If you love creating cards, journals, scrapping, whatever it might be, we would love to hear from you! This is open to both UK and International crafters. 

You must be: 

Committed for at least 6 months

Be able to use digital products and enjoy stamping and papercrafting

A regular BLOGGER and on Facebook and participate in social media promotions

You will be expected to post a minimum of every other week PLUS one tutorial per month. 

You will be required to comment and vote each week on a rota basis

Able to make physical samples for products to be shown on TV and in shows around the UK as and when required.

We will give you: 

Plenty of lovely stash to use and keep during your term

Exposure for your blog and your makes

A discount for the Polkadoodles store

Lots of fun and laughter along the way!

CLOSING DATE 10th December (please note: we cannot acknowledge all the emails but you will receive a reply no matter what the outcome once we have picked the team)...We look forward to receiving all your emails! x

Scatty Jan For todays project I have made a door hanger using - The Christmas Joy Download bundle Which I absolutly love  - there is so much on there it gives me lots of inspiration - This will hang proudly on my Granddaughters door handle  :-)

Zoe - This week's DT challenge made me think of shopping. The happiness of hearing Christmas songs in the shops and, if you're a bit daft like me, the enjoyment of trying on Christmas jumpers & accessories!! So I used the fun Emman Canning Deer Girl image and some papers from the Angelberry Collection. I took them into Serif Craft Artist Pro to create this double sided folded project. It's a list or reminder for when I go Christmas shopping to write down what I still need to buy! Once printed out, I coloured the digital image with a mix of markers including Graph It's.

Anjie - For my card this week I have used the Christmas Joy Download Bundle which is available as an instant download so you can get crafting straight away! This kit contains 13 coloured embellishments, 10 sentiments, 2 borders and 13 A4 backing papers. So is amazing value at just £3.99! 

 

Debbi - For this weeks challenge I have made a bottle gift tag using the Christmas Joy bundle, which also incorporates a little pocket to add a little extra gift...well it is Christmas :)

Sarah - I thought I'd try White on White this week, it's a lovely image and thought it didn't really need any papers distracting from it! The image is Angelberry Hugs, coloured with my ProMarkers and I then used various dies, embossing folders, glitter on her wings and some ribbon to finish the card.

Susan - This week it feels a lot like Christmas on Digi Choosday. The theme is Christmas Cheer and what could be better than a glass of pink champers (well one can dream) I have used Fredericka Debutante this week and coloured her with Graph'it markers and the papers are from Christmas Joy bundle. For the full list of what I used please pop over to my blog, Hugs and Happy Crafting xxx

Jo- For my project this week I used the Deer Girl digi from Emma Canning, coloured with my ProMarkers, and two of the more traditional papers from the Christmas Joy bundle. The sentiment comes with the Christmas Joy kit too! I had to add the jingle bell as it is pure Christmas cheer xx

Kevin For my project this week I have used this gorgeous Topper and papers from the Christmas Joy Download Bundle

Sally - Hi there.  Christmas Cheer is our challenge this week. So I thought I would use one of the Greetings from Here Comes Christmas CD Rom, backing paper from Home for Christmas CD Rom and part of Emma Canning's digi images Time for Tea.  I Printed off the sentiment and coloured the holly in, pan pastelled around the edge. Cut out the head and hands, coloured him in using Promarkers, attached him to the sentiment, matt and layered it on to a Spellbinder die cut and then adhered it to the backing paper.  There we have it.

So there's the inspiration for today! 

I'm sure you'll agree that they're all superb makes again this week, love love love all the work these guys have put in!

Remember you do NOT have to use our products (although obviously we would love it if you did) , just add your entry to Mr Linky below (you have until Tuesday 19th Nov to enter and the winner will be announced on our Week 6post Tues 26th Nov) and pinch our badge for your blog sidebar - we'll see you back here on Friday for our usual Polkadoodles challenge....

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Week 43 - Christmas Anything But A Card Polkadoodles and Studio 12 challenge

Happy Friday Doodlers!

Well it's been a REALLY busy week at Doodle Towers! We have 3 fantastic pieces of news for you....
1. We hope you all checked out the brand new Digi Choosday challenge (see here) .... gorgeous work from the team and don't forget that discount code! You still have time to enter and to use the code and we will be back on Tuesday with another fantastic challenge for you!

2. In addition, make sure you check the Polkadoodles site as we have some Terrifyingly good offers every day in our Trick or Treat week of discounts for you!

3. We'd also like to give you a heads up to a brand new venture which we know you will all LOVE - if you've started your Christmas shopping then this is a must-see, they're amazing!! We also have a very special discount code for you too - use DHD001 to save a special 10% off your first order!

So this week we challenge you to make anything 

Christmas

(we'd prefer it not to be a card but if you can't manage that then any Crimbo project will do! The winner of this challenge will win £30 of stamps from the Polkadoodles store!

The random winner of our Week 41 Halloween challenge is: 

Lucky 13, Denise! 

Well done Denise, you have won a £10 voucher to spend in the Polkadoodles store! 

Our Top 3 favourite entries are: 43 Elena, 44 Debbie, 16 Shell - well done everyone, pick your blinkies from the sidebar and Denise please email us here to claim your prize! 

So, let's get on with what the wonderfully talented Design team have been up to this week, you have until Sunday 3rd November to enter!......

Alethea - My head has not been in crafting lately and wasn't too sure what to make for this challenge but remembered I had a spare door hanger lying around  so I decorated that. I have used everything from the Home For Christmas CD. I printed some elements off separate so that I could give the hanger a bit of dimension and I just added a bit of kindyglitz and rock candy stickles for some sparkle!

Asha - Did you know that the Home For Christmas CD collection makes gift giving breeze? No?! You've come to the right place. About a week before Christmas I leave large home made festive cookies on my colleagues' workstations and to house these delights I painstakingly make little boxes from scratch. Not this year! Look what I found in the CD! A cookie box template...actually there are 3 and I chose this vintage looking one. All you have to do is print, glue and dress. It even comes with a sheet of embellishment. Yay! Extras from my stash: bling and ribbon - that's all. Here's to a hassle free Christmas!

Karon - I decided to use the pre-coloured images on the fabulous Home for Christmas CD.  All the images including the lovely background scene are in this wonderful collection. I first printed out the scene and secured this to an 8" x 10" artist board.  I then printed the houses out and add some foam dots to give them depth on the background scene.  Santa's sleigh and Rudolph is attached to some acetate to make it stand freely away from the background. The trees and church were printed and cut and I added glitter to them; after all what's Christmas without glitter :-)

Jo - When I saw the title of the challenge this week, I knew immediately what I wanted to make! A Christmas wreath using papers, embellishments and images from the Home for Christmas CD... and I just love how it turned out. I don't have a wreath hanging outside the house, but I do like nice decorated ones hanging indoors. With the images, I have flipped them around to face each other, printed them out and cut them leaving a small white border around the edges to give definition. I added some glitter glue to finish.

Lidia I made a Christmas wreath with Studio 12 stamps so I hope you Like this idea that can help you to decorate the Christmas Tree....

Miria  I made a milk box : it was so easy following the template from cd Paper Boutique I !
Paper and coloured digis are from fab  Home for Christmas CD Rom , the tickets are from Picknix Collection 2 Gingerbread Twist....

Sally - This weeks challenge - has been great fun as I have been making all kinds of gifts for a Craft Fair that we are having on base.  I was fortunate to find some wooden trays in a cheap store which I thought I could alter.  So, I painted the tray white then used papers, embellishments and digi images from the Home for Christmas CD Rom to decorate the tray.  It is an ideal size for a Cookie Tray to leave out for Santa on Christmas Eve....

Rebekah - Hi everyone for this challenge I have made an altered tin using some fab papers and elements from the Home for Christmas CD. I love the brown and blue colour scheme and both the cute gingerbread topper and the cute vintage style ticket sentiments are also from the CD.

Zoe - For this challenge I decided to set myself a task of using the digi images from the amazing Home For Christmas CD  to create a wreath. I chose the fabulous Poinsettia and the super santa. I took both into Serif Craft Artist and digitally manipulated the images - flipping to face the opposite way & changing sizes - positioning them around a rough circular shape. Once happy I printed it off and coloured every single image with a mix of markers including some Graph It markers. I chose more contemporary colours to match my home decor and once coloured I attached a ribbon.

Anjie 

It's not my turn for the challenge at Polka Doodles this week but I wanted to join in as I'm loving working with the A Home for Christmas CD Collection so thought I'd gate crash and join in!
The challenge is to  make anything but a card, and here is my project. I cut out 3 tags in Kraft card and then printed some papers, embellishments and sentiments from the CD. I cut out three strips of papers for each tag and distressed the edges using distress ink. I glued the papers onto the tags and added some faux stitching with a white opaque pen. I then cut out all the embellishments and stuck them in place. I then used a distress ink on the sentiments and added them. I finished off the tags with some ribbon.



Claire C I've used some of the adorable images on Home for Christmas to create some Christmas Tree Decorations. I gave the images a coat of glossy accents and layered them up over one of the gorgeous polkadot backing papers and popped them on some die cut bauble shapes.

Hopefully the DT have inspired you to make your project for this weeks challenge and we cannot wait for you to share it with us. Please use Mr Linky to add your details so we can come over and see your project in full.   Remember you have until Sunday 3rd November noon to enter this challenge and follow our rules:

1. No backlinks please!

2. Please follow the challenge! 

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Week 30 Challenge - Christmas In July

Hi everyone - hope you're ready for another challenge!

Before we go onto this week's challenge we need to announce the top three from Week 28 Challenge which was Summer Fun.  Some really fabulous creations were entered but there can only be three lucky winners and they are:

1st Place - Chris V - please use the code PD1W3028 to claim your prize
2nd Place - Norma - please use the code PD2W3028 to claim your prize
3rd Place - Cheryl Anne - please use the code PD3W3028 to claim your prize
  
Congratulations to you all - you have all won a copy of our latest collection Bonbon Belles which is worth £17.99!!!. Please all email Nikky and don't forget to quote your winner's code - we cannot release prizes without it!  Blinkies are in the sidebar for you to grab.

We have a few little rules which makes our life a lot easier when we come visiting your blog:
1.  Please follow the challenge theme!
2.  Only enter your creation into a maximum of 10 challenges including Polkadoodles
3.  Please link your blog post and not your blog address with the linky tool - this saves us from searching your blog for your entry
4.  And please, no back-linking to previous posts - these will be disregarded from our top three voting
5.  If you have word verification on your blog it really does slow us down when leaving comments - please consider turning off word verification especially as the comment moderation has a spam section.
 

Now for our challenge for this week and the theme chosen is:

Christmas in July! 

Yes, we cardmakers are already thinking of the festive season even though the heat is blistering here in the UK, so get your Christmas stash at the ready and show us your wares!  Our favourite top 3 entries for this challenge will each win a copy of our brand new Christmas collection, Angelberry Christmas, which is just adorable and is worth £11.99!

Lou: for my card, I designed my own mittens template to make a free standing swing card thingy (lol). All the paper, embellies and sentiment are from the Angelberry Christmas CD. When the card is "flat" it will fit in to an A5 envelope.

Kim - My Christmas in July card features a gorgeous digi and papers and sentiment all from the gorgeous 'Angelberry Christmas'!  I've coloured the digi with alcohol pens, added lots of glittery stuff, some ribbon, punched snowflakes and pearls.

Ruth:  It appears that I have broken with tradition this week and gone for the Studio 12 cd - Gingerbread Twist - probably because I was feeling rather peckish and these gingerbread people look scrummy to eat!  All papers and images are from the cd and I've added organza ribbon from my stash.

 JAN - I have made a central stepper card using paper and images from the brand new 'Angelberry Christmas' CD. I couldn't resist this little guy - can you see his shiny nose (with a little help from my glossy accents!)

Lizzie- For my card  I used a digi image from the new mini CD Angelberry Christmas I coloured her using promarkers. Papers are from the Gingerbread twist CD. I used my Stickles glitter glue to jazz up the Marianne die cuts of the stars and icicles. boy it sparkles this card !!! Added some gems and voila !!!

I also made this card using the pre-coloured image and embellies this is all from the Angelberry CD. I used the embellies to make banners !!!  Hope you like it !

Shell- For my card this week I have used the gorjuss new Angelberry Christmas cd. I cut a ice skate shape on my cameo, then added a little trim and a flower to finish

So there is our inspiration this week!
You have until 12 noon on Sunday 4th August to enter and good luck!

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