Friday 25 August 2017

Wk34 - Anything Goes Craft Challenge at Polkadoodles

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HAPPY FRIDAY!
OUR NEW CHALLENGE TODAY AS ALWAYS IS

ANYTHING GOES
PRIZE: $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles Download Store.
Closes Fri 25th August, Noon.
You do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges, use any products you wish...

We have lots and lots of new items in the Polkadoodles store, so make sure you go and check them out - our latest Stamp of The Month for September is a real must-have and we are already running low on Christmas stamps so don't miss them!
http://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/
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Do you follow our Digi Choosday challenge each Tuesday?  

Make sure you check out the challenge here as you might be able to enter here too and the team would love to see your entries!
DIGI CHOOSDAY CHALLENGE - CLICK HERE

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KIDS SUMMER HOLIDAY CHALLENGE

Are you entertaining the kids and looking for some fun things to do this summer?

Come and join in our Kids challenge on Facebook!


We have a lovely competition to keep the kids crafting alongside you with some goody bag prizes for them to win, so head over and join us - it's all very casual and relaxed and anyone can join in!

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Now let's see what wonderful inspiration the Design Team have for you this week....
the Design Team's spin on the challenge is to inspire you with some Hot Colours...

Tina Today I have a card for you, which I created with the ingenious stamp set Stamp Soup and watercolors. From many parts of the plant you can create diverse flowers, but also animals and other patterns. It is always exciting what you can create with it. I love this stamp set and still have to play around a lot with it, to find out all possibilities.
Scatty Jan For my project this week I have made a matching card and tag, Using the lovely stamp sets~Belle Papillon and Bella Fleur The backround was done using Panpastels and a few stencils
Angie - Ohhhhh what fun I had colouring up these gorgeous stockings in Hot Colours using my Copic markers! I have used the Winnie Winterland Bundle again with the black & white image being Digi #11. Both sentiments are in the Sentiments file and are on sheets #04 and #09.
That gorgeous Candy Cane paper is from the Papers file and is #12 and can be found here also in Paper Haven 3.

Michelle Love this little hippo Helga I coloured her up with Prisma Pencils I used the Helga Collection for my project  I used one of the black and white images and I also used the one of the gorgeous papers from this collection I also used a Polkadoodles die.
BevI used Ula Be A Princess coloured up with my Prisma pencils & combined it with the oh so useful Ula's Life  to make a pretty little cover for an otherwise boring notebook.

Anjie - To make this I've used the Tropical Paradise Flamingo Clear Stamp set. Lots more details and close up photos on my blog.

Claire C I've used some of the beautiful butterfly  and flower stamps from Belle Papillon and Bella Fleur stamp sets. I embossed the butterflies and flowers with black embossing powder and painted using yellow and hot pink watercolour paints. A few paint spatters and a doodled border and the card was finished.

As always, Lots of fabulous creations to inspire you this week...
Our Winner and Top 3 of our last challenge will be announced next Friday.

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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Friday 18 August 2017

Wk 33 - Anything Goes Craft challenge at Polkadoodles

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Happy Friday! Our current
Anything Goes Challenge is HERE
so make sure you get your entries in, there is still time!

PRIZE: $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles Download Store.
Closes Fri 25th August, Noon.
You do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges, use any products you wish!

Winner and Top 3 of our last Challenge will be announced at the end of this post....

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Do you follow our Digi Choosday challenge each Tuesday?
 Make sure you check out the challenge here as you might be able to enter here too and the team would love to see your entries!
DIGI CHOOSDAY CHALLENGE - CLICK HERE 

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KIDS SUMMER HOLIDAY CHALLENGE

Are you entertaining the kids and looking for some fun things to do this summer?

Come and join in our Kids challenge on Facebook!


We have a lovely competition to keep the kids crafting alongside you with some goody bag prizes for them to win, so head over and join us - it's all very casual and relaxed and anyone can join in!

oOo--oOo--oOo

 We have lots and lots of new items in the Polkadoodles store, so make sure you go and check them out - our latest Stamp of The Month for September is a real must-have and we are already running low on Christmas stamps so don't miss them!
http://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/

Now onto the fabulous inspiration from the Design Team - their theme for this challenge is holidays but you do not need to follow this theme to enter the challenge...
    Tina This time I tested a new card shape: Magic Reveal Spinner Card. 2 images are placed on top of each other and the first image moves as you rotate under the bottom image. Then you can see the second image. I used different images and papers for my card from Winnie Starfish & Sandcastle Vip Bundle and colored with Polychromos. More details and photos to the card shape you can find on my Blog. 


    Scatty Jan For my project this week I have mainly used the lovely collection Winnie Starfish and Sandcastles, I have made a pocket page mini album. I loved using all the delish papers, this really was a labour of love , there is lots more info and stacks more pics on my blog...

    Anjie - I've also used the Winnie Starfish and Sandcastles collection to make it, well just the lighthouse digi which you can buy in a smaller collection here. Or even on it's own here. Lots more details on my blog.
    Angie J - I've made a Journal Page using Ula's Life Collection. I have coloured up Ula Don't Listen black & white image with my Copic Markers, and used one of the sentiments from Ula Sparkle.
    I have created my own background papers in my Art Journal.
    Michelle I have made a card using Twiggy and Toots image from the Twiggy and Toots collection which I coloured with prismacolor pencils and I also used the Starfish and Sandcastle Collection for the paper and pre coloured embellishments...
    Bev here with my cool creation for a summer themed card. I kept it CAS using Winnie Starfish & Sancastles....
    Lou: I decided to use the Tropical Oceans and Tropical Underworld clear stamp sets to create my card. I've also used the Cherry Blossom Branch die to create my seaweed. More photos etc, can be found on my blog.
    Claire C Ive used one of the supercute images from Work and Play 4 to make this beach themed card.  You can find the full collection here or you can get Swimming Girl as a digi stamp here. I've coloured the image with pencils and used PanPastels to crete the background

    Great inspiration, we love this week's makes, so much fun!

    Now onto our Winner and Top 3 of our Anything Goes Week 30/31 Challenge....
    Claims must be received by 28/8/17, please refer to Challenge rules at top of blog.
    The Winner, chosen by Random Org, is.....
    Please email us HERE, quoting the following code PD01001wk3031 to claim your prize of $10 worth of downloads from the digi store.
    Here is your Winners Badge to display on your blog...
    Grab our Winners Blinkie!

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

    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.

    You can enter our current
    See you next week for a brand new challenge!

    Friday 11 August 2017

    Wk 32 - Anything Goes Crafting Challenge at Polkadoodles

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    HAPPY FRIDAY!
    OUR NEW CHALLENGE TODAY AS ALWAYS IS
    ANYTHING GOES           

    PRIZE: $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles Download Store.
    Closes Fri 25th August, Noon.
    You do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges, use any products you wish!
    We have lots and lots of new items in the Polkadoodles store, so make sure you go and check them out - our latest Stamp of The Month for September is a real must-have and we are already running low on Christmas stamps so don't miss them!
    http://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/

    Now let's see what wonderful inspiration the Design Team have for you this week....
    The DT's twist on the challenge theme is Summertime/Holidays....

    Jacki Well we haven't had much of a summer here in the UK so this was a great distraction to the cold lol. I have gone for something completely different today and made a little Winnie in a bottle. Using image and embellishments all from the Starfish and sandcastles download
    Ruth:  Who doesn't like a cold and fruity ice lolly?  Made using one of the images from Winnie Starfish and Sandcastles - easy to enlarge and I've added it to the card blank with foam pads for depth.  The hundreds and thousands have been added as seed beads from my stash and I've handwritten the tag sentiment.
    Helen - Ooow that holiday time is here and what better way to celebrate than with some Winnie Starfish and Sandcastles. You can find the big kahuna collection right here at the store. I used My Craft Artist to merge some embellies and a digi that I then coloured with copic to make a little holiday time picture.

    Norma, I always dream to be a mermaid,  I love to be in the beach and I can stay all day long there, so maybe I was in my other life, lol.  So thinking of that I made this card with the beautiful Mermaid dolphin that I colored with my Copic markers and add some embellishments that I have in my stash.
    Carol For todays make I used Sea Horse from the Winnie Starfish and Sandcastles collection, and coloured it in with my copics. I used a background paper and sentiment from the same collection.
    Lisa - For my make I have gone for a different take on Summertime! I love my garden and it's full of pretty flowers at this time of year, so I used the Regal Peacock Stamp Set to create a Summer Garden Picture.
    Shylaa I have used the design sheets from Horace & Boo collection for making this card. Created the background by distress inks and the sentiment is also from Horace & boo collections...


    Jan Craftica ....Today for my Christmas journal page I used Oddella with wings ....I Loved Her! I colored her with Faber Castell Polychromos with the digi printed on a smooth paper. I added some snow embellishments as I decided to color her only with cold colors.
    Fantastic creations this week, we hope you're inspired! Just add your entry to the Mr Linky below!
    Our Winner and Top 3 of our last challenge will be announced next Friday.
    Thanks so much for entering our challenges and sharing your creations with us, we love coming to visit and seeing your inspiration.

    Don't forget you can also enter our 
    DIGI CHOOSDAY CHALLENGE for ANYTHING GOES
    too - you can find it
    HERE
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    Friday 4 August 2017

    Week 31 - Anything Goes Craft Challenge at Polkadoodles

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    Hi everyone!.. It's Inspiration Week for our
    Anything Goes Challenge which you can 
    enter HERE
    Closes Noon, GMT, Friday 11th August.          
    Our random winner will receive a $10/£7.50 voucher for the Polkadoodles Digi Store.
    You do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges.
    Our Winner and Top 3 of our last Challenge will be announced at the end of this post....
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    Do you follow our Digi Choosday challenge each Tuesday? Make sure you check out the challenge here as you might be able to enter here too and the team would love to see your entries!
    DIGI CHOOSDAY CHALLENGE - CLICK HERE 

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    KIDS SUMMER HOLIDAY CHALLENGE
    Are you entertaining the kids and looking for some fun things to do this summer?
    Come and join in our Kids challenge on Facebook!
    We have a lovely competition to keep the kids crafting alongside you with some goody bag prizes for them to win, so head over and join us - it's all very casual and relaxed and anyone can join in!
    oOo--oOo--oOo

    Make sure you visit the Polkadoodles store this week to see all the lovely new goodies in store, including new Stamps and Paper Pads and more! Lush! 

    Now onto this week's fabulous inspiration from the Design Team...

    Helen - We're still celebrating Christmas this week so I've used another of those fabulous templates on the Twiggy & Toots Festive Fun Collection to make this Christmas House card. I added two of the pre-coloured images of Twiggy and Toots and added a little copics to them to. Such fun and easy card to make you'll love them. Check them out at the store right here


    Ruth:  I've made a cute Christmas card using one of the new clear stamps in store - Christmas Robin Cuddles.  Coloured with Aquamarkers and watercolour pencils.  I've then used random things I found in my stash to finish the card off (amazing what I find when I'm having a tidy up!)
    Norma, This year I decide to prepare my December Daily in advance, that way I will have enough time to finish it during this year.  For the cover and for the dividers I use the designer sheets from Winnie winterland
    Jan Craftica Using the Christmas Clear Stamps I made two cards...This card is called a Tri-fold each of the layers has some space so you can add something to it and as you open you discover something each time, I was able to add several images and sentiments to them!
    Carol - Today I made a candy cane shaped tag and decorated it with papers, sentiment and Hollybobs Mistletoe character all from Work and Play 5 - Festive Hollybobs collection. Topped it off with a bright red bow.
    Lisa - I have a very simple card using just the coloured Stamp of  Month for August which you can still order HERE...

    Jacki  ...For my card today I have used the Nordic Pic n Mix 3  taking 3 of the baubles from the embellishment section and printing off straight t my card along with the sentiment (also from the collection). I then printed the baubles off again and glittered after cutting out and attached with 3D foam for a quick but stylish card....
     Shylaa...I Made this card from Floral foliage printable bundle from Horace & boo collection....


    As always, great inspiration and makes from the team to inspire you this week.

    So let's get to our winners from last time....
    Claims must be received by 14/8/17, please refer to Challenge rules at top of blog.
    Winner of challenge 28/29, chosen by Random.org is
    Congratulations!
    Please email us HERE, quoting the following code PD30001wk28, to claim your prize of $10 worth of downloads from the digi store.

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

    Grab our Winners Blinkie!

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



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


    Congratulations to everyone.  We thank you all for taking part in our challenges, your entries were superb this week! So many talented crafters out there, it's a joy to see your wonderful creations and we love coming to visit and seeing all your wonderful blogs!

    Now it's over you.....You can enter our current