Week 18 - Anything but Square - Polkadoodles Craft Challenge

Hellooo out there - it's Friday!!

Did you all have a fabulous week of craftiness?!

Before we get onto the inspiration for you this week.  A couple of things to

let you know about.

Firstly, that Twiggy and Toots is now available in the Polkadoodles Store.

Either as the CD or immediate download - yay!!

And just in case you hadn't seen - we have another fabulous new Work and Play release just out this week!
You can save 20% on this collection if you order before Wednesday 6th May, use coupon code WP112 at the checkout!!

Work & Play 11

The winners from our Pink and Pretty Challenge will be announced at the end of this post.

Our current challenge is Anything but Square

You can enter HERE

Don't forget you do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges.

Please only 2 entries per person - to make it fair. You can find the rules in the side bar over there ----->You have until Noon GMT, Friday May 8th to enter.

Now onto the fabulous Design Team Inspiration for you this week...

Scatty Jan Oh I soooo love this new collection Twiggy and Toots CD also as a download here - I have used a pre-coloured image , the papers, sentiment and elements are all from the collection - I truly adore the jigsaw pieces.

Asha - Great minds think alike! Jan and I are using the same CD, same image but two very different makes. Image, elements, embellishments and papers from the super cute, super versatile Twiggy and Toots CD. There is also a download version, if you want  immediate gratification!

Lou: Oh dear, real Twiggy and Toots fest here as yep, I used this fab collection too. I made my card shape by using one of the frames and a journal card to create my easel card. I have then used the same frame to create the stopper and the cute ballerina image.

Karon - I decided to use the Work and Play 10 - Country Life  collection for my card this week.  I made a spring fold card and the wonderful pre-coloured digi Egg Collecting, which is also available as a single digi download.  Everything on this card is from this wonderful collection.

Penny - When looking through my Polkadoodle kits, I saw the soccer ball image and I decided to run with it, with a CAS theme.  The sentiment is also in the WP6 kit.    Work and Play 6  has a variety of images including both a male and a female football player which are available as individual downloads too.   I cut my circular base on the cameo and decided to trace and cut the football and the sentiment from black vinyl, making the ball shine.   

Cheremane - I have used the truly stunning Eden Collection to make my inspiration for you today. You can also get the image that I have used which is  Eden Butterflies Digi  on her own as a single Digi Download, but trust me when you see the collection as a whole you will need it all. I have teamed the main image with the Sentiment papers & butterflies which are also from the Eden Cd. 

Agnieszka - hello, today I want to share with you a card in pink and purple. I love this colors combo ;) I used pre-coloured image from  CD: Work & Play 9 Love & Kisses - Full Download Bundle.   I also added papers, which I printed from Cherryblossom Lane collection. All collection are connected with others and you can combine together :) so you can create your own collection ;) TTo the end I added some flowers, butterflies, pearls ... and my card is ready. I hope you like it ;) Hugs. Happy crafting :)

Jane: I have joined in this week as I unfortunately couldn't play along last week. I have used Twiggy and Toots to create my card and placed the ballerina image in front of her house. I have added some die cut flowers to the front and inside of my card.

Gorgeous inspiration from the team!

Now lets announce our winner, from the Pink and Pretty Challenge as chosen by Random Org is......

# 66 Jackie C

Please email us here quoting PD18001wk15 to claim your prize. You have won a £5 voucher for Polkadoodles digi store!

Our Top 3 this week, as chosen by the Design Team are...

#26 - Sharon, Nellies Handmade Cards

#29 - Margaret Atkinson

#60 - Lorraine CM

Thanks to you all and congratulations. Don't forget to take your blinkies from the side bar.

Thanks to everyone for taking part in our challenges, we love coming to see your

fabulous creations.

Off you go - time to enter our current challenge Anything but Square

HERE.

Have a great week!

Week 16 - Pink and Pretty Polkadoodles Challenge

Happy Friday Everyone 

Welcome to our Inspiration post but before we get there....

Did you manage to catch the fabulous Nikky Hall on Create & Craft on Monday? If not head over to the Create & Craft website and watch the show on catch up. It was a fabulous show and a great new CD on that you will not want to miss!

Winners of our Use a Die challenge can be found at the bottom of this post

We are mid -way through our Pink and Pretty Challenge you can find it here

Don't forget, you do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenge.

The rules are in the side bar over there ----->
Our Random Prize winner for this challenge will win a £5 voucher for the brand new website!

You have until 12 noon. GMT, Friday 24th April to enter.

Now, lets see what the DT have for you.....

Naz -  The image I have used for this card is from Polkadoodles CherryBlossom Lane called Noah.
I colored Noah with Copic markers and added some Wink of Stella clear glitter pen to the sail of the boat. Also added some glitter gel to the dots on the umbrella. I then added some Tim Holtz distress ink to the edges of the papers. The sentiments that I have used on this card are also from Cherryblossom collection.  I finished off my card by adding some tiny star glitter diecuts.

Jane: I love my fur babies x 4. I have used to create. Copic Markers my favourite Medium. Kaisecraft Card stock Rose & Ballet. & Kaisercraft Design Paper.  I have used mix Media to complete with scraps of design paper on her Jacket and Scarf.

Ruth:  I've gone clean and simple this week and quick as well!  I printed the pre-coloured Dollie from the Dollie Daydream cd directly onto the cardstock; the sentiment is from the same cd.  A little bit of doodling around the edges and some half pearls and a card in a hurry is complete!

Jenny - I've always promised myself to be more organised so I have made a start with the 

Work and Play 9 Love and Kisses, I printed out some of the papers and then thought the little lady would work well so here is the result.  More details on my blog.

Bev here I opted for a circular easel card and used the beautiful Eden Collection for my inspiration. I absolutely adore this digi and was in my element colouring her in with my prisma pencils. The flourish is a  cutting file, papers, sentiment and flowers are all part of this wonderful collection too!

Ria-  Hi, I am showing you my card with the cute Twiggy and Toots collection that is released earlier this week. I coloured this cute owl with my alcohol markers and cut the flowers and the leaves with my silhouette cameo. I used a doily border punch and grass punch for extra decorations.

Anjie - The image, papers, embellishments and sentiment are all from the Work and Play 10, Country Life, digi download collection. This is also available as a CD HERE or as smaller download bundles HERE. More details and the markers I have used can be found on my blog.

Claire C  This challenge theme was a great excuse to colour up one of the gorgeous images from Octavia Moonfly collection which is available either as a CD here, an individual digi here or   download the full collection here. I've coloured the image with Graph'It markers and just added ribbon, pearls and a flower from my stash.

Wendy - For my pink & pretty card, I've used backing papers and one of the images from the Octavia Moonfly CD, that was on Create & Craft earlier in the week. Octavia herself is also available as a digi download here. I've used my Graph'it markers to colour Octavia and to colour paper to make my own flowers in complementing colours.

Anita - for my pink and pretty creation , I have chosen to use Ballerina and work and play 9 love and kisses backing papers and flowers,

 I coloured using alcohol markers.

Our winner (chosen by Random Org) for our last challenge

Use a Die is....

61 - Andrea

Please contact us HERE and quote PD16001Wk13

You have won a copy of our gorgeous 

OCTAVIA DOWNLOAD COLLECTION

Our Top 3 this week, chosen by the Design Team are

27 - Norma

89 - Suzi

140 - Sharon

Thanks and congrats to you all, don't forget to take you blinkies from the side bar.

Thanks to all those that take part in all our challenges, we love coming to visit and seeing

all your wonderful creations and inspiration.

Don't forget our current challenge

 Pink and Pretty  you can find it here

Week 13 - Use a Die - Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge

Happy Friday Everyone!! 
Firstly, make sure you check out the Polkadoodles store this weekend as we have a brand new release coming your which is just to die for! 

and if you use the code COUNTRY at the checkout you can save 15% until 31st March!

Its time for a brand new challenge - The theme is 

Use a Die
You can make anything you like -  maybe a card, a scrapbook layout of even home décor. You can use any products you like to enter as long as it follows the theme for this week
The rules are in the side bar over there ----->

Remember, you do not have to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges.

You have until 12 noon. GMT, Friday 10th April to enter.
Our Random Winner of this challenge will win a copy of our gorgeous 
OCTAVIA COLLECTION

Now let's see what the Design Team have been up to.

Naz -  The image I have used here is the Bride/Princess Color digi from the Work & Play Collection 9 - Love & Kisses - I have added some glitter accent and a pearl to the image for embellishment. All the papers I've used on this card are from the same collection. I've used some distress ink on the edges of the papers.I have finished off the card with a sentiment and a heart banner.

Jenny - I've used the pretty collection Cherry Blossom Lane for my card this week. We all use dies quite a lot so for this card I decided to go back to a bit of decoupage.  My die is a Tattered Lace one and is very useful. I hope you can come on over for a visit to see what I did to make this.

Ruth:  This was a special Birthday card for a Manchester City mad lady - I used the Work and Play Footballer Girl digi stamp and coloured her up with Promarkers.  The die used is the grass Sizzix die and I hand wrote the Birthday flag.

Anjie - The image and papers are from the Work and Play 6 CD. This is also available as a download HERE. Or you can just buy the Landlord digi image HERE. I've coloured him with my Graph'It Markers. I have used a Spellbinders die to cut the image out, a Marianne die for the clock and a Tattered Lace die for the bottle and the sentiment.

Bev here and his fortnight I've made a card is for my neighbour. Pretty Tuff is a fab resource for male cards. I used pencils to colour in Dylan, The papers and sentiment are all from the CD. The hb2u lettering is from another fab CD Cherryblossom Lane but coloured in with Graph'its to change the colour.

Susan ~ Happy Friday everyone and believe it or not I have used a die, but most of it is covered with embellishments. I have used the Stunning Eden  collection yet againI have used Graph'it Markers and Pencils to colour her.

Anita ~ Hello there today I brought to you paper from the sugarplum daisy collection and flowers from sundae of seasons and used the gorgeous piper with bunches and yes I used 1 die and coloured with alcohol markers.

Ria: For my card I used the Work and Play 8 collection Music. I coloured guitar girl with alcohol markers and enhanced her skin with pencils. The white dots are made with a white Molotow marker. The 2 red star dies are not from this collection everything else on my card is from the Music collection.

Claire C I've used lots of papers, embellies, flowers and butterflies from the gorgeous Octavia Moonfly collection (which you can get as a download here or on CD here). There are so many goodies in this collection I went into a bit of a printing frenzy so I didn't need to add much else, just a little lace and some die cut flourishes.

Jane: I have used "Amelia Contemplating" image from the Pretty Sweet collection (which is available as a digi download). Papers are from the Pretty Sweet CD. I have added a window die cut as my embellishment.

Wendy -  I've made a notelet set for this challenge. Inside the box are 4 mini cards, which have all been printed directly onto with colour co-ordinating papers from the Rose Budd Collection. The images on each notelet are pre-coloured and from the same collection, however each can be bought as an individual stamp aswell. here  Miss Rose, Miss Constance, Miss Harriet & Miss Hetty.

 

What stunning makes the team have made!

Remember, our the theme is 

Use a Die
You can make anything you like -  maybe a card, a scrapbook layout of even home décor. You can use any products you like to enter as long as it follows the theme for this week
The rules are in the side bar over there ----->

Remember, you do not have to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges.

You have until 12 noon. GMT, Friday 10th April to enter.
Our Random Winner of this challenge will win a copy of our gorgeous 
OCTAVIA COLLECTION

Looking forward to seeing all your wonderful creations again and thanks for joining us this week!

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Week 2 - Tic Tac Toe - Polkadoodles Challenge

Hi everyone.  How has your first week of the New Year gone?  We are all busy here with a new release and also some new members of the Design Team to introduce to you.

Firstly, lets start off with the fabulous new release of 

Work and Play 8 - Music.

An amazing collection of fabulous character digi's, papers, sentiments, embellishments

for you to get your teeth into.  It is available as a CD and also as an immediate download collection.

We would like to take this opportunity to introduce two fabulous new members of our Design Team

they are

Ria and Jane 

I am sure you will make them feel really welcome!

They are a great addition to our team and if you click on their names you can take a visit to their fabulous blogs.

Jane was so excited to be joining us, that she created this fabulous card as a big hello to the team and to all of you out there.  Isn't it gorgeous.  She has used the fabulous Piper with Bunches digi.

The winners of our last challenge from 2014

Christmas Reds and Blues will be announced at the end of this post.

Now onto this weeks fabulous inspiration from our Design Team.

To enter the challenge you can go HERE!

Don't forget you do not need to use Polka Doodles products to enter our challenges.  But please remember to follow the rules of there ---->

Scatty Jan For my Tic, Tac, Toe I have gone for the middle row - Image , Ribbon and Buttons - The lovely image is Maddie Twirling Curls -I printed her onto the lovely ultimate Graphic and  I have coloured her using Graph'It markers - I have paper pierced her hat using one of the papers from the Baby Boom collection

Ruth:  I've gone for something simple and used the bottom row - Embossing, Buttons and Polka Dots. I found some laser cut hearts (perfect for Valentine's Day!) in my stash when having a tidy up and teamed it with some hot red polka dot paper from Work and Play 5 - Festive Hollybobs.  Everything else is from my stash.

Karon - I decided to use the diagonal for my card - Sentiment, Ribbon, Polka dots.  I used the fabulous Work and Play 7 Collection for this card and just inked around the edges.  This karate girl is is from one of the design sheets and is a pre-coloured digi.

Asha - I made a Valentines's card for my young nieces using the image from the Sugar Birdies CD and sweet button paper from the Bonbon Belles Double CD. I've also thrown in the following: polka dot ribbon, dotted flower, diecut hearts, embossed heart, buttons and stitching. My design follows the right column (Diecut - Stitching - Polka Dots) or the middle column (Image - Ribbon - Buttons) or the bottom row ( Embossing - Buttons - Polka Dots) or the middle row (More Than 2 Layers - Ribbon - Stitching) or the bottom left to top right diagonal (Embossing - Ribbon - Diecut). Decisions ... decisions!

Jane - Really couldn't wait to get started as a new Design Team member and therefore here is my creation for this latest challenge.  I used the wonderful Amelia with Basket digi.

Anna -  This time I made a card in shades of violet for a Name Day, which as it turns out, is celebrated only in Poland. I prepared the card with paper from the Winston Deluxe Papercrafting Collection , using left row : Sentiment, More than 2 layers, Embossing or  the bottom left to top right diagonal row : Embossing, Ribbon, Die cut, or  the bottom row : Embossing, Buttons, Polka Dots. A layered card with die cut accessories, flowers and a string of pearls.

Lou:  I think I may have used more than one line when making my card ... well I just needed to make sure ...! I have used the line "sentiment, more than 2 layers, embossing". I have used Drummer Troy clear rubber stamp (now sold out) on my card, although he is available as a digi download and also can be found on the Work and Play 1 CD. 

Cheremane - Hi everyone and New Year Wishes to you all. For this challenge I went with straight down the middle of the grid, Image,Ribbon,Buttons. I have decided to use the Brand New

Work & Play 8 Cd. Wow wow its jammed packed and a major must and I couldn't wait to use it. I have used the Violin Girl which also comes as a Digi just on her own, I also used three of the papers and one of the sentiments from the CD. Be sure to take a look at the

 Brand New W&P 8 Collection over at the Shop.

Absolutely stunning creations!

Now onto the winners from our final challenge in 2014

Christmas Red's and Blues.

The Design Team had great pleasure in visiting you all and have chosen a Top 3 for this challenge.

You are all winners and have won a Work & Play download bundle worth £5 each.

#1 - Niki1 

#7 - Helen

#8 - Margaret A

Please contact us here and quote PD2001wk51 to claim your prize.

That's it for this week folks.  Have a fabulous one and don't forget to

enter our

Tic Tac Toe Challenge

HERE!

You have until 12 noon, GMT, Friday 16 January to enter.