Friday 26 June 2015

Week 26 - Frame It... Crafting Challenge at Polkadoodles

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Hello everyone it's Friday!!
Another week gone and here we are into Summer. Do you have any plans? We will all still be crafting away!.   Keep an eye out for some knew scrumptiousness coming soon, but In the meantime, treat yourself to some of the fabulous recent releases...


We are into Week 2 of our Frame it challenge
and you can ENTER HERE
and have some more wonderful inspiration from the Design Team.

The winners of our Father's Day/Anything Male challenge are at the end of this post.

Don't forget you do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges,
and please remember only 2 entries per person.
The rules are over there in the side bar ------>

Now lets take a look at the fabulous creations this week!...

Asha - It seems like I'm hooked on the Serenity Fairy collection. Everything you see on this card is from this CD. The digi image is called Serenity Princess and is available separately to download. I coloured her with Faber Castell Polychromos and a few embellies from my stash. Hop over to my blog and you'll see her in full.

Scatty Jan - For the Frame It challenge I decided to use 4 of the Oddellas, I love these there so much fun to colour up. I have used Oddella Bow, Oddella Bag, Oddella Twig and Oddella Heart. All coloured with Graph'It Markers. The photo film strip was cut out on my portrait.


Penny  - With a photo booth layout using the fabulous Twiggy and Toots pre-coloured images.  I imported the images into my Silhouette Cameo and cropped them down to create a photobooth layout.   The images being precoloured made this such a simple project.   I used glossy cardstock to make the images pop.   The background paper is also from the kit and it was really easy to colour match some elements to make it all come together.


Lou - I have used the scrummy Rose Budd collection to create my card. I only needed to print one elements sheet and one page full of flowers. My frame is very subtle as wanted the floral elements to stand out.

Karon - I have used 4 of the fabulous fairies from the Serenity collection for my Frame It.  I couldn't resist using them to make a 4 Season canvas.  I used for Spring - Serenity Fairy Kisses, for Summer -  Serenity Dancing, for Autumn - Serenity Earthstar, and finally for Winter - Serenity Joyful.  The rest of the bits and pieces are listed on my blog. else I will be here all day and you need to get crafting too :-)

Cheremane - I have used the stunning Octavia Moonfly collection to create my inspiration for you. Its the perfect collection if you adore fairy's but to be honest who dosen't love a Fairy. I have used Octavia Mooning Washing Day Digi as my main image which you can find Here. The papers, ribbon, flowers and sentiment are all from the Octavia collection, look at all that texture in those papers and that's exactly how they print, how fabulous is that.

Jenny - I've used the Serenity collection this time, but I've used a pre-coloured image as I was a bit pushed for time. You can also buy her on her own if you fancy a single digi she's called Serenity Fairy Cake.

Beautiful creations!

Now without further ado, lets announce our winner and Top 3
from our Father's Day/Anything Male challenge

Our winner (chosen by Random Org) is

#53 - Diane W
You have won a £10 download voucher for the store.
Please contact us HERE and quote PD26001Wk23 to claim you prize.

Our Top 3 chosen by the Design Team

#38 - Pirjoliini
#68 - Mimi
#80 - Meg

Well done everyone, and don't forget to take your blinkies from the side bar.

Now it's your turn to get busy crafting and enter our latest challenge


You can enter HERE.

Have a great week everyone :-)


Friday 19 June 2015

Week 25 - Frame It - Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge

Happy Friday Everyone!

Have you have all been visiting the Polkadoodles store lately? Nikky is constantly adding new loveliness for everyone, the latest release  really is not to be Missed!!



We have a new challenge for you and our theme is
Frame It
This could be a die cut frame, a metal frame, an embellishment frame - so long as it's a frame it fits!

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 3rd July to enter

Our random winner for this challenge will win $10 of downloads from the store!

We are very excited to also introduce some new faces to the team this week - we are honoured to have some Guest Designers joining us!
So please say a big hello to 
We are so chuffed and blessed to have these 3 talented crafters joining us for the next few weeks so make sure you pop over to their blogs and follow them for lots of inspiration!

Now lets take a look at the fabulous creations this week!...


Susan (GDT) . - For my Wall Plaque I have used The Game Keeper from Work & Play 10 - Country Life which you can find in the shop both as a Digi and also a CD which you can find in the shop here...The sentiment is a Freebie which you can download from the store. The frame is a chipboard ring painted with Mod Podge and Acrylic paint. I have used my Promarkers to colour the image and Distressed Inks, and various dies details can be found on my blog post...


Jessie (GDT) I used Oddella Bow, and the frame is very simple made with veneer paper and simple cut with my paper trimmer
Jackie GDT Altered canvas featuring Odella. Details for making this are on my blog

NazI have used two separate digis for my card, one dog/puppy and the other one chick, both are from WORK & PLAY 10 COUNTRY LIFE Collection.  I coloured the images with Copics and added some glossy accent to the dog's nose.  I used Nesting Ovals Kaisercraft Decorative Die to cut the patterned paper and then I placed my image under that, then I used the same die and the largest die together to create the orange border.  The sentiment I have used is also from Polkadoodles. to finish off my card I added few star diecuts.
Anita - Hi there today for my make for our frame it challenge I have used Cycling girl available here on the Work and play collection 4 this collection is devine with its co- ordinating papers and of course I popped her behind a frame.


Wendy - For this weeks card, I've used the idea of a taking an instant photo and using that as the pictures frame.The image is 'Fishing' is from Work & Play 7, but is also available as a digi here. I've printed on water colour card and coloured using Distress Markers. All the backing papers, sentiment and the 'Gone Fishing' sign are also all from the same collection.
Anjie - I have used the Serenity Princess image and coloured her in with my Graph'It Markers. You can buy the whole Serenity collection on a CD HERE which includes 10 images and oodles of other lushness! If you can't wait for a CD to arrive you can buy it as a download package HERE, or individually HERE. More details on my blog.
Claire C I've used this adorable image from the Serenity Collection, you can get the whole collection here as a download or here as a CD. The collection is full of beautiful images, papers, embellies and other goodies but if you prefer 'Serenity Resting' is available as a digi stamp here. I've coloured her with my Graph'It markers and used some of the lovely papers from Work and Play 5 Festive Hollybobs too.
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 Fathers Day/ Anything Male challenge next Friday.

Have a great week!
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Friday 12 June 2015

Week 24 - Fathers Day/Anything Male - Polkadoodles Challenge

Happy Friday Everyone!

Just take a looksie at what our Nikky has been up to this week


How amazing are these characters!!

Inspiration week here at Polkadoodles, for Week 2 of our 

Father's Day/Anything Male

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

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 Winner and top 3 for our challenge Girly But No Pink can be found at the bottom of this post

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

NazThe stamp I have used for this card is from TWIGGY AND TOOTS collection. 
I coloured the image with Copics and cut it out. Owl's party hat, balloons and the banner as well as the happy birthday sentiment are all from Polkadoodles Cherryblossom Lane
For the word DAD I used Kaisercraft Decorative Dies - Block Words.
I used some Wink of Stella glitter clear pen on the balloons, the hat and and the banner.
To finish off my card, I added few pearls for embellishment.
Claire C  I had a lovely evening colouring one of the gorgeous images from Twiggy and Toots with my Graph'It Markers. I adore this collection, you can find it here on CD or here as a download or if you prefer you can get the digi on its own too, its called Gone Fishing. I've added lots of lovely papers and embellies from the collection and as always Nikky has come up with a fabulous selection of sentiments too


Jenny - I have used an older collection for my card, I decided on a card for my friends grandson. I used one of the boys from the Pretty Tuff collection.  He isn't easily pleased and doesn't like too much fuss so hopefully he'll like this.

Wendy - So for my Fathers Day card, I've used elements from Work and Play 3, available as a CD rom or downloadable here. Both backing papers are from the Male Caravan section, with the check paper having been re-coloured in Craft Artist. The sentiment is also from this collection and I suspect originally susposed to match with the Doctors in the collection, but fits perfectly with my theme. The image is also available as a digi for you to colour here.




AnjieI have used the Skateborder image from the Work and Play 11 collection. The image is also available on it's own HERE. I have coloured him with my Prisma pencils. All the papers, embellies and borders are also from the same collection.

Anita - Hi there everyone today for my Fathers day / male make I have used the postman and co- ordinating papers from the Work and Play 4 Collection  , He is also available on his own Here, I have not coloured him this time round I used the pre coloured version it prints out a dream.
Our winner (chosen by Random Org) for our
Girly But No Pink challenge
93 - Andrea
You have won £5 voucher to spend  instore
Please contact us HERE and quote PD24001Wk21 to claim your prize.

Our Top 3, chosen by the Design Team,
60 - Jacee
74 - Jessie
79 - Gail L 
Well done and don't forget your badges

You can enter the Fathers Day / Anything Male challenge HERE

Friday 5 June 2015

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.

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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