Week 40 Challenge - Autumn Crafting, Polkadoodles and Studio 12

Happy Friday everyone!

Before we get to this week's challenge we have an important announcement to make....

Design Team Call!

...we are looking for someone who ADORES using Digi images to join our fantastic new Design Team! So if you are a digi geek like the rest of us here then please email us to apply. You MUST have an active blog and be able to commit to one project a week. We don't care what brand of marker you currently use or if you love to use watercolours or anything else - we just need someone who loves using digi stamps and is able to meet the commitment which will be a minimum of 4 months term. Closing date is 12th October so don't miss this - we have a great team and you will love to be part of it! Send us your blog link and a short bio about yourself and why you'd like to be on the team and why we should pick you - this call is for a BRAND NEW CHALLENGE which will be here on the Polkadoodles and Studio 12 challenge blog on a Tuesday and the team is separate to Polkadoodles and Studio 12. We already have some amazing talent signed up but we need 2 more people to make up the team!

Ok, let's get to the inspiration for this week's challenge - our theme is.... Autumn!

The winner of this challenge will win a £10 voucher to spend in the Polkadoodles store!

As explained last week we have tweaked our challenge rules and we are now picking a RANDOM WINNER each week to get one of our great prizes! We're doing this as a massive thanks to you all for entering each week and we think it's much fairer that everyone gets an equal chance to win some lovely goodies, so from now on, if you enter then you're in the draw! We will still choose our favourite top 3 as well and they will receive a little prize too. IN ADDITION, you can now enter as many challenges as you wish and are no longer restricted to 10!

So our randomly chosen winner for Week 38 is ..... No. 8, Cazzy

Well done, email us to claim your prize!

In addition, the Design Team have picked their favourite Top 3 which are:

No 5, Julie P....No 2 Kate Kennedy and No 22, Sue Bearhouse

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Ruth - I've decided to make a little scene with a tiny canvas and I've used one of the main pre-coloured images from Bonbon Belles along with the toadstools from Sundae of Seasons.  I printed the toadstool sheet to a quarter of the normal size so that they would be small enough for the scene.  The bunting is made with two cocktail sticks and I coloured some offcuts of card with Promarkers to match the colour scheme!

 
 Shell - For my card this week I have used papers from the Bonbon Belles CD and the image is from the Sundae of Season CD, I cut some spooky shapes to make a little scene on my cameo then I put it all together inking the edges of the papers to define it a little. I always think of Halloween at Autumn time so went with a Halloween card.

JAN - I used a multitude of images from both the 'Sundae of Seasons CD' and the 'Bonbon Belles CD' to create my Autumn scene, together with some cut out fallen leaves for extra embellishments. I inked in the sky behind the scene with distress inks and as we have had such nice weather into the beginning of Autumn this year, I even added some sunshine too!

Anjie For my card I have used papers, images and embellishments from the Bonbon Belles Double CD Collection and from the Sundae of Seasons CD-Rom. I created a background in a graphic program and added some shadows to give depth. I also cut some leaves out separately to add some 3D embellishments to the card.

Lizzie - I made a gift bag with an Autumnal scene on the front. I used a paper from Bonbon Belles for the background, adding houses, characters, brown leaves and fences from the same CD. The apple trees and pumpkins came from Sundae of Seasons. I love Autumn ! I used a die to make the shape of my bag. I used my distress inks around the edges, glittered up the houses with my Stickles, and then added ribbon for the handles. The main part of the bag is a white paper Kraft bag. I just cut it down to fit inside my die cuts ! It was hard to photograph so I have put two pics here for you.

   

Bev.....  OOOOhh, Autumn my favourite time of year I think, especially the sunny days and the changing colour of the leaves. I used the gorgeous scarecrow digi from Sundae Of Seasons along with the sunflowers which I coloured with my alcohol markers. The fences are from Bonbon Belles this time I printed off the ready coloured images. I laid out my scene on a quick Pan Pastels background then matted and layered it up onto an 8x8 card.

Lucy: For this challenge I used Bonbon Belles and Sundae of Seasons CD Roms. I used the leaves and toadstools from the Sundae of Seasons and the fairy from Bonbon Belles. I apologise for the blurry picture! My puppy chewed the cable for my camera! So I had to take this on my phone! Luckily, Nikky's products are sooo good they even look good blurry! ;) 

Kim - I've used BonBon Belles cd for the images - which I've merged together to make a little scene (just love that cute little fox!).  The papers are also from the cd, with some added twine, a button from stash and some Spellbinder die cut leaves.

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 13th October noon to enter this challenge.

Don't forget to enter our Design Team Call! 

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Studio 12: altered notebook !

Hi all! Miria here with a new project for Studio 12.
Today I've altered a notebook! My sister likes cooking, she's so good at cake design so I made her a recipe book where she can takes notes.
I adhered some corrugated cardstock to the cover and found easily all the images I needed on the Welcome Home section of the endless inspiring cd Studio 12 Picknix Collection 1, cut them out, distressed and sticked with 3d foam pads. I added a sentiment from the same cd and the word "Recipes" made with die cut letters.
Ready! Here some pictures...

Thank you for attention, have a nice Sunday ( here in Italy we're having heavy rain) :)
Hugs, Miria

Week 39 - More Than One Fold

Wow, what a busy week it has been in Polka Doodles towers and lots still happening! Have you visited the new You Tube PD channel? There are many video tutorials already on there and more to follow shortly. You can find the Polka Doodles You Tube channel HERE

As explained last week we have tweaked our challenge rules and from last weeks challenge onwards we shall be picking a RANDOM WINNER each week to get one of our great prizes! WOOHOO!! We're doing this as a massive thanks to you all for entering each week and we think it's much fairer that everyone gets an equal chance to win some lovely goodies, no matter how great your technique for colouring is! So from now on, if you enter then you're in the draw! We will still choose our favourite top 3 as well and they will receive a little prize too. IN ADDITION, you can now enter as many challenges as you wish and are no longer restricted to 10!

So our randomly chosen winner for Week 37 is ..... 

ERIN from Elfie's Sparkle and Dust

and you win the brand new Christmas Collection, "Home for Christmas"... please email Nikky quoting the following code   PD1W39a37  to claim your prize.

The DTs top 3 for Week 37s challenge are as follows:

Lis - M, Ciska and Mimi

Please email Nikky quoting code PDTOP3W37 to claim your download prize.


Okay, lets move on to this weeks challenge theme which is called ...

"More than one fold"

and the randomly chosen challenge winner will win all of the BRAND NEW Halloween download kits ..... Witchie, Witchie and Witchie Journalling cards ... WOW!

 

So to wet your creative juices, here is what the DT made using this weeks theme:-

Sally - Oh I love this new Home for Christmas CD Rom.  There is so much to chose from and all the images/characters and papers are lush!  I have done a gate fold card today, first time I have done this type of card, but I think it turned out ok.  I used one of the digi images and coloured her first with Promarkers and Graph'it markers, then picked the backing papers. Cut out the centre of the card with a Spellbinders die, I backed the front/back sides with the backing papers, dangled her on a piece of ribbon and added a holly embellishment. for the front I added a heart and two of the little houses and a sentiment.

Zoe - I really enjoyed this challenge, I've made a card that I've not created before & that is an easel base card with a fold-back card on the top! I used the fabulous Home For Christmas collection - printing off papers, decoupage and lots of gorgeous embellishments. It was easy to do once I got my head around putting the 2 card types together. I finished it off with a touch of sparkle & glossy accents.

Claire C I've used images and papers from the gorgeous Angelberry Christmas for my card. The angel was coloured with Graph'It Markers and I used lots of the precoloured images to decorate the card

Karon - Couldn't wait to make this diamond fold card and I had so much fun that I am sharing a tutorial this week, check below the challenge post to see how it's made.  I used the Home for Christmas CD - we are all in love with this latest collection.  I decided to use the decoupage sheets to make up the two little Eskimos, I added a little stardust gel pen and some white gel pen to their cheeks and I inked around all the edges of the papers, which are also from this amazing CD, as well as the sentiment squares.  So much fun, that I had to make two; I think these could also make fabulous place cards for a Christmas table.  What do you think :-)

Asha - I used the adorable Angelberry Christmas CD to make this variation on a square tri-fold card. And to step up the festivity I added sheer ribbon, liquid pearls and bling.

Alethea - I decided I wanted to try something new this week and  saw this  modified tri-shutter card so thought I'd give it a go! Everything I used on my card is from the Angelberry cd collection then I just added the heart charms, and kindyglitz everywhere.

 

Miria I made a door decoration just for a change. I used paper, bow and sentiments from very inspiring new CD, Home for Christmas . I die cut them all and kept together with brads. You can see it open and folded.

Rebekah

Hi everyone today I have made a criss cross card using the Angelberry Christmas CD. My papers are all from the CD, as is my little bingo card, the sentiment and trees inside and of course the stunning digi stamp on the front which I coloured with pencils, check out my Blog for more details!

inside..

Lidia Hi! Everyone and for this Challenge I Made a simple Card whit a Christmas Tree made whit squares and the Tea Bag Technique and a Beautiful Angelberry Pressies Digistamp so I Hope you Liked, the papers are from the Sundae of Seasons CD-Rom Collection.

Hopefully the DT have inspired you to make your project for this weeks challenge and we can not 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 6th October noon to enter this challenge.



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