Week 14 - Anything Goes - Polkadoodles Paper Crafting Challenge

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Starting a New Challenge this week.

ANYTHING GOES

Closes Noon, GMT, Friday 21st April.           

Winner will receive a $10 voucher to the Polkadoodles Digi Store.

You do not need to use Polkadoodles Products to enter our challenges.

However, we do love seeing your fabulous creations with Polkadoodles images.

We only have a few little rules and they are over there in the side bar ------->

Please remember, only 2 entries per challenge - thank you x

Now let's see what wonderful inspiration the Design Team have for you this week.

The DT's twist on the challenge theme is Anything but a Square Card

and if you want to join in with that theme then go for it :-)

Tina - This time I made an Explosion Box and used the "Stick & Bones - Big Bundle".

Each area is 4 x 4 inch and the inhabitants I have colored with Polychromos. Much more photos and details you find on my Blog.

Scatty Jan - For my project this week I have made a saloon milk carton - I cut this on my portrait and was a lot of fun decorating up - I used the lovely images from Work & Play 3, that I coloured up using Graph'It Markers, You can also purchase the images seperately Cowboy as a digi image, also as a  clear stamp, and Cowgirl as a digi stamp - Lots more photo's on my blog.

Bev here with a cute 3D Birdhouse using Twiggy & Toots. I initially chose 7 printed 3 separate backing papers onto 300gsm card then turned them over and printed the templates onto the rear then simply cut them out and constructed the project and just for a little decoration I made some roses using the Flowers 1 Die set and added them to the roof.

Lou - I have used one of the design sheets from Winnie in Wonderland collection to create a circle rocker/stepper card. The only other embellishment added is a small piece of black lace ...

Michelle  - I have made a Twist and Pop Card and I have used Winnie In Wonderland Big Kahuna Bundle to make it. This was a lot of fun to make you can find the Video I used to make it on my blog.

Anjie - I have used left over bits of design sheet 1 from the ever so cute Sticks and Bone collection. I used the other bits for a make a few weeks ago. This is why it's always worth while saving the bits that are left over. I've placed the image and all the embellies on to 3D foam to make them pop. I've shaped and layered the flowers and added to the edge of the card.

Lots of fabulous creations to inspire you.

Our Winner and Top 3 of our Anything Goes Challenge Weeks 12/13
will be announced next Friday.

Now it's over to you.

ANYTHING GOES

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 11 - Anything Goes - Polkadoodles Paper Crafting Challenge

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It's Inspiration Week

for our Anything Goes Challenge

You can find it HERE

Our winner of the challenge will receive a $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles Download Store.

You have until Noon, GMT, Friday 24 March to enter.

You do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges.

However, we do love seeing your fabulous makes with Polkadoodles images.

We only have a few little rules and they are over there in the side bar ----->
Please remember only 2 entries per person - thank you x

Our Winner and Top 3 of our Anything Goes Challenge Weeks      

will be announced at the end of this post....

Now onto the fabulous inspiration from the Design Team.

Ruth:  I've gone with Work and Play Vol 12 and used various different elements from the design sheet plus a wooden stick and some die cut silver stars.  The Design sheets are great - print out, cut out the elements and then move them around for different combinations until you're happy with the layout!

Alysha ~ This week at Polkadoodles the DT are “Using a design sheet for our inspiration, here I have used Starfish and Sandcastles Design Sheet 11 hugs Aly xx

Helen - So excited this is the first time I've used Helga the Hippo, she's just adorable. I've used parts of two of the design sheets in the Helga Hippo collection that you can buy in pairs. Here's the ones I used http://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/helga-hippo-design-sheet-13-duo-download/. They're just so versatile and Helga is a must for any project. I made a stepper card from the design sheets and added a couple of those fabulous dies from Nikky. The cherry blossom branch to make the tree and the door to make a shed, which I used a paper from the Starfish and Sandcastles collection as its such groovy wood.

Karon - My eldest Daughter is just finishing her first year at college, to be a Veterinary Technician.  I couldn't resist using the Design sheet from the Work & Play 12 collection. You can buy the whole collection HERE or as a Mini Vet/Dog Groomer/Cat Grooming Bundle, where you get the female and male vets, and lots of other goodies too :-)  This Z fold card is to wish her luck in her 2nd Semester exams - and then she will be home for the summer months :-) Yay :-)

Pauline - I have created a card using a design sheet from the adorable Twiggy & Toots Collection.  I used the decoupage image - I love my fussy cutting.  The sentiment, papers and flowers all come from the collection.  I also used the largest of the Elegant Nest Dies and the Flower Flourish Die.

Lisa - I've made a card using one of the Helga design sheets that you can download from a set of two here.

Carol - Today I have used Design Sheet 4  from Winne Sugar Sprinkles collection.

CreativEle - I used one of 28 design sheet of HELGA collection for create this EASEL CARD.

Such fabulous creations.

Now onto our Winner and Top 3 of  our Anything Goes Weeks 8/9 Challenge

The Winner, chosen by Random Org, is.....

#28 - Nick

Please email us HERE, quoting the following code PD11001wk008,
to claim your prize of $10 worth of downloads

from the digi store.

Here is your Winners Badge to display on your blog...

Onto our Top 3, and in no particular order, chosen by the Design Team

#86 - Debra Miller 

#106 - Charlene

#108 - Anna

Here is the Top 3 Badge for your blogs...

Congratulations to everyone.  We thank you all for taking part in our challenges.

We love coming o visit and seeing all your wonderful creations.

Now it's over you.

You can enter our current

ANYTHING GOES CHALLENGE

HERE

Week 48 - Anything Goes - Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge

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Starting a New Challenge this week.

ANYTHING GOES

Closes Noon, GMT, Friday 16 December 2016            

Winner will receive a $10 voucher to the Polkadoodles Digi Store.

You do not need to use Polkadoodles Products to enter our challenges.

However, we do love seeing your fabulous creations with Polkadoodles images.

We only have a few little rules and they are over there in the side bar ------->

Now let's see what wonderful inspiration the Design Team have for you this week.

The DT's twist on the challenge theme is........

and if you want to join in with that theme then go for it :-)

Alysha - Its a BLUE Christmas for our DT theme this week and I have used one of my faves Twiggy and Toots CD to create this lovely festive card. Looking forward to seeing your entries. Hugs Aly xx

Helen - For my Blue Christmas I've gone monochromatic and used the fabby Candy Cane Elf from the Winnie Winterland collection you can find it right here  and some of those awesome new dies.

Jacki For my blue Christmas I have used papers from Winnie in Winterland & Baked with Love and the super cute snowman is a digi also from the Winnie collection which I have coloured using prisma and derwent colour soft pencils. 

Lisa - I've gone clean and simple for my card today. I have layered the Frosty Penguins image and sentiment directly over a backing paper from the Frosted Winter Octavia Digital Download and printed onto my alcohol marker card. I have coloured the image and then added shading around the image for a little depth. 

Pauline - I've used a fun image from Winnie in Winterland to create my blue Christmas card - don't be shocked, I've actually coloured my image for a change!  The papers are also from the Winnie in Winterland collection.

Carol - For my blue Christmas card this week, I've used papers, embellies and a sentiment from the Winnie Winterland collection. I created the snowflake paper layer with the embellies. I wanted to keep to a clean and simple card this week. To finish it off I added a button and bow from the Ephemera in the Rose budd collection, which I printed and cut out.  

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Elena - I used the sweet Winnie to make a special calendar for the new year.  It's name of this digi is Bearing Gifts and you can get it  HERE .

Karon - I have used the wonderful Festive Christmas collection for this quick card.  Just layering up some extra pieces, inking the edges and used a glitter pen to add some sparkle to the doves and heart.

Lots of fabulous creations to inspire you.

Our Winner and Top 3 of our Anything Goes Challenge Weeks 46/47
will be announced next Friday.

Now it's over to you.

ANYTHING GOES

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 30 - Anything Goes - Polkadoodles Craft Challenge

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Happy Friday everyone!
We have a new challenge for you this fortnight and our theme is
Anything Goes

 You have until Noon GMT, Friday 12th August, to enter this challenge. Our winner will receive a $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles Download Store. We only have a few little rules and they are over there in the side bar ----> You do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges, however, we are loving seeing all your makes with the Polkadoodles images. Remember if you use a Polkadoodles image, you could Win a Feather in your Cap, more details on this in the pages tab above.

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Anyway, let's get on with the show and see what the wonderful Design Team have for your inspiration this week...

Tracy - I made a rectangle/oval shaped card for this challenge. I used Paper, sentiment, and all cut outs you can see on this card from Winston Bear collection. Winston is raised over the layers giving him a real 3d look.

Katrina - For my rocker card I have used part of a sentiment, some papers and a digistamp from the fabulous Starfish and Sandcastles VIP XXL Collection. Rocco is coloured with Promarkers and I've added buttons and cloud die-cuts to finish.

Scatty Jan For my project this week I have used a little mixture . I have mainly used Winston Bear collection but also added a little of Picknix. I started with the scissors which is covered using papers from Winston , the scissors sit neatly on a little box which opens so handy for a treat. The tape measurse's , manaquin are from Picknix all other elements from Winston. I had a few bits left over so made a matching card 

Bev here with my idea for anything but square. I decided to use one of the embellies from Starfish & Sandcastles I took it into my graphics programme, duplicated it and made my card blank then decorated it with lots of other goodies from the collection. Don't you just love the sentiment?

Anjie - On my card I've used the Oceania Clear Stamp set. I used the Whale and Whale tail to stamp a background out. I then created some mats and layers and stamped onto watercolour card with a versamark ink pad and used a clear embossing powder. When I heat set the images I then whooshed over them with a blue paint from my Gansai Tambi Watercolours paints. I then raised those up with 3D foam and there you are, all done. A really quick and simple card to make.

Anita - Hi there this week I played with Winnie hello from the gorgeous Winnie in Wonderland collection coloured with alcohol markers, added lots of embellies  and the fabulous sentiment qoutes from the cd.

Michelle  For my project I have used the Twiggy and Toots Collection  I have also used Winnie Fruit Punch Collection for some of the papers. I have coloured the image with Copic markers. The card base was cut out on my silhouette cameo.

Claire C: I've made a door hanger for my project using the adorable Lily Bug Love, she's such a cutie and so much fun to colour! Papers are from the same collections and I've coloured the lovely Lily with my Graph'it Markers. Lily is available here as a cd or if you can't wait to start printing she's available as a download here. If you just want the digi, it's called Lily Bug Sending love and you can find her here.

Lou: I have used "Dancing Queen" as my focal image and then one of the digi embellishments, clapper board, to create my card base. Both are from the Winnie Fruit Punch collection 

Lovely creations to inspire you all with our Anything Goes challenge! 

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 13 - Cream and Sugar Polkadoodles Crafting challenge

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Hello everyone - Happy Friday!

This week is inspiration week here at Polkadoodles for our 

Cream and Sugar
Challenge
You can enter it Here

So lovely creams, ivories, coffee and pink colours.
Remember you do not have to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges.
We only have a few little rules and they are over there in the side bar ---->
The winner of this challenge will receive a $10 gift certificate to the Polkadoodles download store.
You have until Noon, GMT, Friday 8th April to enter.

JUST BEFORE WE GET TO THE CHALLENGE WE HAVE SOME OTHER NEWS...

We decided to make things a little more interesting around here so we are now introducing an extra Winners slot for our challenges every fortnight, called

FEATHER IN MY CAP

Basically we will be awarding Special Feathers to our favourite Top 3 entries that use a Polkadoodles image and you will be entered onto the Feathery League Board - this is so much fun, so check out the RULES on the tab at the top of the page HERE - you even get a Feathery badge if you're awarded a feather! You can find our first feather winners at the end of this post!

Here are more fantastic creations from the team...

Ruth:  I've used the wonderful Twiggy and Toots collection for my card - all the papers and the pre coloured image (great for when you're in a rush!) are from the cd.  Ribbons and charm are from my stash and I've added some blue to the theme because my coffee is usually cold by the time I remember I have it!!

Katrina: I've used the gorgeous Octavia Moonfly CD for my card. I printed off the black & white version of 'Wistful' and coloured her in with alchohol markers. The sentiment and papers are all from the CD though I did adjust the colour on the dotty paper to make it cream coloured. The butterflies were cut from another of the papers and I drew on the antennae with a fineliner pen.

Bev here still in CAS mode. I printed Cake & Chocolate digi onto some cream linen cardstock and coloured her up using my pencils. The sentiment is also from the Winnie Sugar Sprinkles Collection

Anita- hi there this week for our challenge I coloured my first ever colouring page from the Florabunda colouring Cd Rom, I coloured this page with pencils and used up my Polkadoodles off cuts of papers from my last project .

Claire C I've been playing with some of the gorgeous 'Stamp Soup' stamps to make this card. The stamps I've used are from Lavender Tea and Lemonade Fizz, coloured with my Lyra Pencils. The wings of the dragonflies were stamped onto vellum.

Anjie - Of course the new Work and Play 12 collection is perfect for this challenge. I have used the coffee section but not used one of the Barista character images. I put the cup cake and the coffee together to make a topper out of them. More info and photos on my blog.

Don't forget, the challenge theme is

Cream and Sugar

You can enter it Here

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Now for the winners from our Spring Colours Challenge

The winner chosen at random by www.random.org is:

#61 - Neli

Please email us at sales@polkadoodles.co.uk quoting PD13001wk10 to claim your prize of $10  worth of downloads from the digi store! 
Here is your new Winners Badge to display on your blog:

And in no particular order the 

TOP THREE FAVOURITES 

chosen by the design team are:

# 71 - Norma
#19 - Mrs T
#59 - Lucy Patrick

Grab your brand spanking new badges below:

So, here are our first 

TOP 3 FEATHER IN MY CAP

winners - these are our Top 3 fave entries that used a Polkadoodles image

# 35- Billie A

# 59- Lucy Patrick

# 38 -Dianne

Well done Feathery friends! You have all been added to the league board with our first Feathers - so now you can put a Feather in Your Cap and use our Feather badge on your blogs! 

Each week the league board will be updated so we can all keep track and at the end of the season our Winning Featherist will receive a special Polkadoodles prize! 

Congratulations everyone!  Don't forget  your winners badges .

Thanks to everyone who enters, we really enjoy coming to see your creations each week.

The current challenge theme is

Cream and Sugar

and you can enter Here

Week 43 - Crafting Challenge at Polkadoodles - Add Sparkle, Bling or Glitter

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'Tis Friday, well it is!

Can only mean one thing - another week has gone by in the blink of an eye.

Talking of blinking :-)

Our theme for this fortnight is

Add Sparkle, Bling or Glitter

The winner of this challenge will receive a $10 gift certificate

to the Polkadoodles Download store :-)

Before you take a look at what the Design Team have on
offer for you this week,  why not go and take a look at the
What's New section of the Polkadoodles Store.

Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more ;-)
Something totally awesome is waiting in the NEW section!! eeeek! We are SO excited!!! 

Ok now let's take a look at the Design Team inspiration for you.

Scatty Jan - For my card I have used the fantastic template from Twiggy and Toots collection I then used the uber cute little robin from Frosted Winter Collection. Also from that collection came the paper, and all the other elements. I cut some snow from white paper and glittered it up to finish.

Jackie - For my card this week I have continued to make good use of the brilliant collection of digi images in the Work and Play 5- Festive Hollybobs collection. It can be purchased as a cd or as a download and of course the digis can be purchased individually. The image here is Hollybobs Mistletoe Kiss. Details are on my blog.

Asha - I made a centre step card with image, paper and digital embellishments from the Angelberry Christmas CD. I coloured the Angel with Faber Castell Polychromos. You can also purchase the image as a separate download here - Angelberry Pressies. For that festive sparkle, I added bling, Stickles and sequins.

Jenny - For my card for the add some sparkle challenge is a big one! I used my Cameo to cut out the cards and it ended up with eight panels but I couldn't get them all on one picture. I edged all the pictures with glitter and also added glitter to the holly in the corners.  The images are all from the Octavia Frosted Winter Collection and I used the coloured ones for this.

Jessie - This challenge really stumped me, I use lots of basic things but glitter bling and all that is not a regular occurrence for me. So I started by blowing Odella with Bag up to fit a 5 1/4" x 3 7/8" panel to cover the entire front of my card, then I coloured her up with my Copic Markers. I decided that for my sparkle I would add some Wink of Stella in clear to the heart on her cheek as well as on her shirt (that is what the tiny white spots actually are.) Then when I finished that and matted it all and got the card built I remembered that Wink of Stella does not photograph well so I took one adhesive back rhinestone and adhered it to the heart on her shirt.

Ria -  For our Sparkle, Bling or Glitter challenge I choose this card with the pretty Serenity Stardust from the Serenity Collection. I coloured her with Pencils and added glitter(stickles) and I used my lovely glittery ribbon so love this I will cry my eyes out when it is all gone ;) hahaa well I hope you all join us .

Karon - I decided to make one final Halloween card for my challenge inspiration this week.  I used several of the new bundles for my creation.  Sentiment on the moon is from the Spooky Sentiments digi download, the papers are from the Halloween/Autumn Paper Heaven 1 download bundle, and everything else is from the Witchie Witchie 2013 download bundle :-)  I added glitter to the face pumpkin and the little bats :-)

Aunty Sue - Well when I think of Sparkle, Bling or Glitter and it is edging for Winter it just has to be a Christmas card. So what better than the fabulous Cd Octavia Frosted Winter. I have coloured my image with my Lyra Rembrandt Pencils and added snowflake embossing folder lots of Glitter card, gems and snowflake ribbon. A few dies to embellish and set the scene

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Wendy - For my glitter card, I've used one of the design sheets from Octavia Frosted Winter. I love these design sheets, they all have enough elements for at least 2-3 cards on a single sheet! I've teamed with some glittery pink card, lots and lots of Stickles and just a few Aurora Borealis stick on gems. Sparkle a plenty!

WOW - that should get you all inspired. So off you go and craft something amazing.

Then come back here and link it up to our challenge

Add Sparkle, Bling or Glitter

You have until Noon, GMT, Friday 6th November to enter.

Please remember only 2 entries per person.

And we only have a few little rules over there in the side bar ---->

Happy crafting everyone.

See you next week.

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