Week 4 - Case It - Polkadoodles Challenge

Helloooo out there!  It's Friday!

Yay, the weekend is here and I hope you all get time to craft and enter our fabulous challenges.

This is Inspiration week here at Polkadoodles and the Design Team have

awesome creations to share with you.

Before we get to that though....

Have you all been drooling over the latest fabulous releases?.....

Work and Play 9 - Love and Kisses....Stunning OMG, Mega, Huge, Ginormous, 2XL Edition :-)

And the amazing Work and Play 8 - Music

With a plethora of amazing digis, papers, embellishments, cut files.

And as a special treat, this weekend you can save a huge 15% off in the digistore too to celebrate Nikky' birthday this week!  Just use Code BIRTHDAY in the instant checkout but hurry because this ends midnight GMT on 24/1/15

The winners of our Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge will be announced at the end of this post.

Our latest challenge is 
Case It and you can 
ENTER HERE!

We would like you to choose a project made either by yourself, or by someone else (the Design Team are happy for you to choose ours but of course you can case anyone you like so long as you have permission!)....the whole idea of this is to then use that project to create your own version, using it as inspiration (not copying!). It could be the colours, the design, the embellishment or die they used, the stamp, the layout, whatever it is you love about that make. 

You have until 12 noon, GMT, Friday 30 January to enter.

You don't have to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges.

The rules are in the side bar over there ------>

The random winner of this challenge will receive a copy of our Work & Play 8 collection on download! Wow! And our top 3 Design Team favourites will all win a digi too! 

And now for the Design Team Inspiration and don't forget, check out who they

Cased too :-)

Ruth:  I've CASE'd Susan from back in August - the original post is here.  I've used the female horse rider from Work and Play 6 and coloured them with Promarkers.  The fence and grass are Sizzix die cuts and I made the rosette myself - numbers are Cuttlebug die cuts.

Ria: The card I case'd is from Anjie and you can find it here... For my card I used Maddy Shy and coloured her with Copic and Spectrum Noir markers and enhanced with pencils.The papers that I used are from the Work and Play 1 collection.  The dies that I used are the watercan and Happy Birthday sentiment dies by Tattered Lace.

Anita .... I have cased Ruth way back in July and you can find her card here ...

I have used Work and play collection 2 backing papers and gamer boy and he is also available as a digi image here, I coloured him using alcohol markers and I had a lot of fun and this is my make..

Anjie - I have chosen to CASE a card from the week 47 challenge HERE which was CAS. Now I love all the cards of course but 2 in particular stood out for me, I couldn't get it down to one as they are both very similar and both fab. The cards are by our lovely ladies Bev and Yvonne, and here is my take on it. I have used the fabby Phone/Texter guy image. He is also available on the Work & Play collection 7 which is available as a download or a CD. He of course is coloured with my Graph'It Markers.

Yvonne - Hi everyone, well once I realised I wasn't making a case, I really liked this challenge!! I kept coming back to a make that the lovely Lou made in our 'Tag You're It' Challenge.  You can see the original masterpiece here.  It is the most lovely delicate tag made using embellies and stuff from the gorgeous 'Winston Bear Collection'.  I made quite a large tag but I opted to put 'Etty Sewing' precoloured off of the Collection, however, you can also get her here as a digi image.  So I opted to use Etty and then I printed and cut heaps of the embellies, as Lou did but mostly different embellies and added them to the tag! The paper is also from the collection. All that I had to add was the lace and the gems.

Bev here and for this weeks challenge I climbed inside Cheremane's head ('Anything But Square' challenge back in October) I tried to leave it as I found it.... I loved this challenge as I've been struggling with my mojo since Christmas so putting my spin on an existing project was a great help and has helped ease me back in. I used the Guitar Girl image from the incredible new W&P 8 collection she's also available as a digi HERE. I coloured her with my Graph'it Markers (full details on my blog). The card base is just cut from Kraft card all the backing paper, bow, embellies and sentiment are from the CD . All I've added from my own crafty stash is embossed pink card. a black glittery peel off, distress ink and a gem.

Jenny here, for my case it card I've used a card made by Lou way back in May last year. She made a circular card with circular embellishments and that is what I've used for my inspiration. I have used the brand new collection W&P9 Love and Kisses it's a great collection and so easy to use.

Susan - I am using Caras lovely Tag from the Tag It challenge week 37 as my CASE It inspiration this week. I have used Papers and an image from the new Work & Play 8 collection  and printed everything on Ultimate Graph'it 160 gm paper

Frezja - hi all :) I have for you today Anna's card (clic) in frezja's version :)

I am using Rose Budd CD and Winston CD. I hope you like it :)

More picks on the blog :) 

Claire C - I've taken my inspiration from Lou's hoover card for our Anything but square challenge in October (you can find it here). I loved the way Lou had used household stuff to embellish her card and I also loved the idea using the embellishments on the CD as a base card, its so easy to do as you just enlarge the size of the image ! I've used images from Work and Play 8 to make this card and added an old CD and some bottletops to embellish the card. 

Aren't they just amazing!  Love all the fabulous interpretations this week.

Now without further ado - here is the winner, as chosen by random org, from our

 Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge

#23 - Vickie Odell

Please contact us here and quote PD4001wk1 to claim your prize.  

You have won a full Work and Play collection of your choice, worth over £10!

And now for our Top 3 as chosen by the Design Team

#28 - Plony

#35 - Laine

#74 - Srebrnolistka

Please make sure you all take your blinkies from the side bar. Congratulations to everyone.

Now it's over to you.  Our CASE IT challenge is open until Friday, Noon GMT, 30 January.

You can enter HERE.

Have a fabulous weekend everyone.

Week 1 - Tic Tac Toe -Polkadoodles Challenge

We hope you all had a fantastic Christmas and would like to take this opportunity to wish you all

A Happy New Year

Our first Challenge this year is

Tic Tac Toe

Choose any line and away you go....

If you don't understand what you need to do with this challenge just choose a line and show us a make which incorporates ANY of those elements (2 out of 3 is ok)...

You have until Friday 16th January to enter at noon GMT. Just please follow the rules in the sidebar. You don't have to use our products to enter! Our Random Winner will receive a special prize of a full Work and Play collection of their own choice which will be worth over £10!

Sooo let's see what fantastic inspiration the team have created for us..

Bev here, I've opted for the left hand column, I chose the Dottie Goes East CD Rom for my inspiration, there are some beautiful papers on this disc basically I just had a little tweak in my graphics programme added a bit of embossing, ink and glitter and came up with a pretty little card.

Jenny here with my card for the Tic, tac, toe challenge.I have used the diagonal line which has given me Embossing, ribbon and die cut and this is what I've come up with.  I have used one of the fabulous Octavia Digis and taken my backing paper from the Dollie Girl Talk cd , come on over to my blog and I'll tell you what I did.

Anjie  I have chosen the left hand vertical line so my make had to include, a die cut, stitching and polka dots and here is my make.

I have used the Octavia Bird in Hand digi from the store, and she is coloured with my Graph'It markers. The papers I have used are from the fabulous Dollie Daydream Girl Talk collection which is available as a CD or a digital download! The die cut sentiment is from Tattered Lace and the stamped and die cut flowers are from Sizzix. As you can see I chose to use faux stitching on this make.

Claire C I've managed a 'full house' and used all the elements in my card, I think I got a bit carried away lol.

I've used one of the gorgeous images from the Winston Deluxe Papercrafting Collection, coloured with Graph'It markers. The cute little ticket sentiments are from Work and Play Collection 3. I have to confess I've forgotten which cd the papers are from as whenever Nikky comes up with a new collection I always have a printing frenzy so my new years resolution is to use some of it up!!

Yvonne - Hi there, for my line, I went diaganol from left to right, which was Sentiment, Ribbon and Polka dots. I also managed a die cut and some dry embossing!

I opted to use the beautiful Rose Budd Collection which you can get as a CD-Rom or download as a complete digi collection.  I picked one of the papers that has swirls and polka dots on it, the sentiment is from the same collection. I added a little bit of lace and some polka dot ribbon.  I die cut the sentiment using a Spellbinder die and went over it with a pink pan pastel.  I added some flowers and pearls to finish off. 

Susan - well its lovely to be back after the festive holidays ,hope your all well and ready to start crafting .For the Polkadoodle challenge Tick Tack Toe I have used - Sentiment ,Die cuts ,More than 2 ,Ribbons ,Button , Polkadots and an Image from Fredericka CD
I also got a bit carried away and didn't know when to stop

Anita hi everyone happy new year to all ...  Today I have used the vertical middle line of the tic tac toe challenge I have used piper with bunches available as a digi stamp and the backing paper is from pretty sweet papers cd rom

Frezja - hello :) I did my card using the line : more than 2 layers, ribbon, stitching faux :))

I love the roses..... so Rose Budd Collection  is perfect for me :)

Stunning creations this week and lots of inspiration for our

Tic Tac Toe

Remember you have until 16th January to enter!

We'll announce last time's winners next week so we hope to see lots of entries for this one!

See you next week!

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Week 50 - Secret Santa (part 2)...Polkadoodles challenge

We've gone all "Secret Santa" here at Polka Doodles and this is week 2 of our challenge. 

We wanted to make our last challenges of 2014 a little bit different with the festive season looming.

You can find the Challenge Here

Each of the DT has made a card for someone else on the DT but nobody knows who is making for whom ... hee, hee, hee.

So the challenge this fortnight is ...

"Who would you make a Secret Santa card for and why?"

This special Secret Santa will last for 2 weeks so you have until 18th December to enter - if you're canny you could win 3 digis and we will also have 3 fabulous overall prize winners chosen at random, each of whom will receive a copy of one of our amazing Collections worth at least £10.99 each!

Link up to the challenge using Mr Linky below ...... now you don't necessarily have to make a card or project for this challenge but you could do a short post instead sharing your Secret Santa (crush/hero/heroine etc etc). Link up to your post as normal and use the photo of your secret crush Santa in Mr Linky. If you do make a project, link as per normal.

NOW as an added bit of fun, visit each DT blog and have a guess, using the clues, as to whom they may have made their project for .... leave a comment on their blog with your idea and you could be in with the chance of winning a prize of a wonderful Polka Doodles digi image. We will randomly chose 3 DT blogs (names in a hat thing) and then randomly chose a comment from each blog and the winning comment will each receive a Polka Doodles digi image.

The winners of our Nordic Challenge Weeks 48 are at the end of this post!

So let's see who has made what this week .....

Kasia -I'm glad really that I can take part in this fun. So funny and secred... ciiiiiiii :) so, I used CD Festive Hollybobs and I did my card :)
Does not show the whole photo card in order not to mess up surprises... ciiii.....:)
But who will receive these card? Can you say that:
first clues:  Englishwoman but does not live in the UK
more clues you can find on my blog ..:P ^^
Have a great day all! :)

Claire C  How exciting, we all love a surprise don't we?? For my Secret Santa card I've used Festive Hollybobs for my card starting with the gorgeous red polkadot backing paper and adding lots of precoloured images (liberally glittered for some Christmas sparkle lol) The main image is one of the digis from the collection, coloured with my Graph'It markers. Here's a peek at the main image, pop over to my blog to see the finished card and of course find some clues too :-)

My first clue is...... my Secret Santa Teamie enjoys cycling!!

Bev I've used the brilliant Poinsettia Stamp set, stamped it out a few times for the layers and coloured it with my Graph'it Markers then shaped the petals,  glued the layers together with silicone and added a bit of glitter glue to the centres. The backing paper is from Work & Play Festive Hollybobs. I added a scalloped, embossed, contrasting semi circle to the top of the card wrapped some festive bakers twine around it and stamped out my greeting onto a tag, inking the edges.

The first clue is...... This needs to be sent via air mail....

Susan - Well isn't this exiting ! Secret Santa . I have used a digi from one of my favourite collections   the amazing Rose Budd ,I just love the elegance and era of this CD.I must apologies for the Picture ,I have use pearled card stock and cant get rid of the shine .
And now for  My first clue to my Secret Santa.has a nick name. For more clues please visit my blog,

Yvonne  - Hi there, well this was HARD! Making the card was nice and easy, relaxing even - the secret santa clues............................well..........!!!  Like the rest of the team I used Work & Play Festive Hollibobs, which you can also get as an instant download collection.  The image is coloured with my Graph'It Markers, the papers and embellies are from the collection.

The first clue is.........................this lady lives by the seaside but is not originally from there.

Jenny  Hi there, isn't it exciting trying to guess who is getting each of the secret Santa cards, I hope you're joining in.  Here is a little of my card but you'll have to come over to my blog to see the rest and get all the clues.  I've used the fabulous Festive Hollybobs for my card and now you can get it either on a cd or as an instant download so what are you waitng for?

My first clue is this lady is very black and white!

Anita here and has fun this week with the secret santa challenge hope your joining the fun... I have used this awesome digi which is available on here comes christmas cd rom ..
I coloured using alcohol markers for more details pop across to my blog :)

My first clue is this lady Has long Hair

The "Secret Santa" challenge will end on THURSDAY 18th DECEMBER at midnight (GMT) and winners will be announced on FRIDAY 19th DECEMBER. along with the challenge winner.

You will get all the clues and loads more info on all the blogs so make sure you pop in and see all the team and leave comments to be in with a chance of winning their digistamps - we're keeping it secret who has the key to the digis so you have to enter on everyone in case you miss out LOL!!

Link to the challenge is Here

Our winner as chosen by Random Org for our Nordic Challenge

26 - Chanya

Please email us here to claim you prize, quoting PD50001wk48

Our Top 3 this week, as chosen by the DT, 

you all made such fabulous creations it was really difficult.

16- Norma
18-Lindacrea
22-Mandy

Congratulations to everyone, don't forget to take your blinkies from the sidebar.

Week 47 - Clean and Simple - Polkadoodles Challenge

Hello to everyone out there and it's Happy Friday!

 We are here this week with our wonderful inspiration from the design team.

If you missed the latest Polkadoodles show on Create and Craft TV yesterday you can still
WATCH IT HERE 
for a limited time - definitely worth watching for some inspiration!

The theme of this week is still 

Clean and Simple

and you can
enter the challenge

Here

Do not forget that it is not necessary for the use of products Polkadoodles to enter challenges

but make sure you follow the rules in the sidebar ---- & gt;

You have until noon GMT Friday, November 28th to enter.

The winner of the Week 44/45 - Recycle It is at the bottom of this post.

Now, for the inspiration from the Polkadoodles team this week....

Sandie - I adored the theme for this challenge, CAS, as I seemed to have gone embellishment crazy over the past few weeks and this made a fabulous change :D  I used the super DIY Dave image who can be found in Work and Play 1 CD collection, but also as a Full collection Digital Download and as a Clear Stamp! (just how fabulous is Polkadoodles!  Nikky sure looks after us crafters).  I have coloured him with my Graph'it Marker Pens and added a few 3D touches (an idea first used by our very own Claire Boelema :D So I need to shhh up now and show you my make....

Bev here with my CAS creation, I used the Hollybobs Santa Digistamp, scaled it to the required size in my graphics program me and added my text in the opposite corner printed off then coloured with my Graph'it Markers. I just adore this little fella.

Ashley- For this challeng I used the Bows from the  Festive  Hollybobs  collection. I copied them into my Paint and made each one 80% the size of the first so that they would gradually decrease in size =) Who knew one element could be so much fun! I also cut out the stem and star from the tree in the same  Hollybobs  collection =) If you have any questions feel free to visit my blog and ask =)

Yvonne - For this challenge I used 'Miss Millicent' from the gorgeous 'Rose Budd' Collection, which you can get as a digi download collection or as a CD-Rom. You can also get her as a clear stamp.  I coloured her with my Graph'It Markers - pop over to my blog for details. 

Anita - Hi there this has to be one of the hardest cards to do CAS wow the urge too embellish was unreal lol. Today I have used Winston Bear Heart of Gold, which you can get as a digi download collection or as a CD-Rom. I coloured her using Alcohol Markers - For more info visit my blog.

Jenny - Here is my card for the CAS challenge, I have used Festive Holybobs which you can find here. It's a great cd and download and it's one I'll be using for a few years to come. Pop over to my blog and see more details.

Susan - Well for those of you that know me I don't do CAS ,so for the first time ever this is my take on CAS.  I have used  the beautiful Octavia Friendly Hugs Digi printed on water colour paper and coloured with my New Derwent Inktense Pencils .This is my first attempt at using them and boy do I love them .

Frezja - what a challange! For me almost no work to do because I like a lot of details.. 

I try and try and try and this is the effect.. :) I used sentimental from Pretty Sweet mini CD

The winner (chosen by random org) for our last challenge, 

44/45 Recycle it is......

25 - Sandra

You have won a copy of the brand new Work and Play 7 Collection

Please email us here to claim your prize and quote PDw47001wk 44

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

20 - Barbara

22 - Pamelli

23 - Rupa

Congratulations to all, thanks for your participation and do not forget to claim your blinkies from the sidebar.

Remember, our challenge is 

Clean and Simple

You can enter here

Please do not forget, there are a maximum of 2 entries per person.

Have a fabulous week everyone.

Week 44 - Recycle It - Polkadoodles Challenge

Happy Friday Everyone!
Before we get to the challenge we have a brand new release here this week and it's fabulous as ever...
Welcome to Work & Play 7!! You can order this here now:

Today we start a brand new challenge

Recycle It!
You can Recycle anything you wish - and this can be something as simple as reusing a bit of ribbon!

You have until Friday 14th November  noon GMT to enter. Just please follow the rules in the sidebar. You don't have to use our products to enter!
THE WINNER OF THIS CHALLENGE WILL RECEIVE A COPY OF THIS BRAND NEW COLLECTION WHICH IS WORTH £11.99!

Soooo let's see what the team have created for us...

Katie - So what have we all to recycle and update. I have used an old Pen and note holder peg that looked like this

So I used Pretty Tuff CD ROM to make this organiser for a boys desk. Here is the finished project. I cannot wait to see what you all come up with. Have fun and Keeeeeeeeeeeep Crafting Katie DT xx

Sandie - Wow what a challenge!  For my Recycle It make I used an old photo frame, and used the old fashioned decoupage technique to make a Christmas Count Down Chalk Board!  I used the glorious paper from Festive Hollybobs collection (available as a CD or as a complete digi download collection!) and then I added some of the gorgeous embellishments from the collection too.  I really hope you enjoy my project and if you click on my name and hop over to my blog I have added the full details of how I made it :D  Happy Crafting, Sandie xxx



Anjie -  I've done a few of those word picture for people lately and I take the mount out as I don't use it. So I have a few of these mounts and so thought I would use one of those.

I started by going around the outside with a black marker and then adding a piece of pink card. I then printed out some papers from the Pretty Sweet CD and used the pink one on the mount and the blue one to cut a border and place on the mount. I then coloured in the sweet Amelia Braids image using my Graph'It Markers. I cut out a fence from a Marriane die to sit Amelia on, and the bird house and bird. More details on my blog

Yvonne -Well I was a but stumped for this challenge but my lovely fellow teamies reminded me that I didn't need to overthink this theme. I had a rummage through a few drawers and in my bedside cabinet I found this.

I have no idea what it is or where I got it from, but I thought to myself, I can use this, I'm going to call it gauze ribbon.  I didn't want to make a card for this, so I decided to dig out the tissue paper and make a candle. I simply printed the coloured image from 'Work & Play; Festiv Hollibobs' which is available as a CD-Rom, a digi download collection. If you like the image, she is available as a single digi image or as a rubber stamp.  Once printed onto tissue paper, I cut round the image, laid it onto the candle, wrapped some greaseproof paper round it and used my heat gun.  I then wrapped my found ribbon round the candle and then overlaid some satin red ribbon on top.  I quickly cut a ponsietta out, sprayed it with glitter spray and glued it on.

...and then I found out what it was - it is May Arts Web ribbon from Polkadoodles HERE!! LOL!

Susan - I just could'nt think what to recycle ! anyway I found a tub of yummy Orange biscuits so I made a cup-pa  sat down and ate the lot and this is what I was left with and now the fun begins ...!

 I used papers and embellishments from the Festive Hollybobs CD (now available as a download) and the adorable button embellishments and tiny pompom trim are fromThe Polkadoodles Shop.  This is the end product and lots more close-up pictures on my blog....

Sue: This weeks challenge is recycle. I chose to recycle a book as I have always wanted to try one of these. I took an old book and folded all the pages in half then I cover the cover with backing papers  and distressed the. I then decorated it with flowers and tags  and a bow all using the papers from       Winston  and then I added Etty Bear from same cd....

Bev here with my recycled project I picked up an el cheapo clock and gave it a Polkadoodles makeover.....Before....

.....I coloured a digi of Piper with my Graph'it Markers to make the clock face. Details on my blog. 

I used my distress inks on the edges of all papers & doilies and cut different sizes to add interest to the clock frame. The papers and flowers are from the oh so versatile Winston CD Rom its also available as a digital download HERE

After.....

I think it's certainly brightened up an otherwise rather dull and boring looking clock. I can't wait to see what you all come up with this fortnight.

Jenny here with my project for this recycled challenge. I have used one of the famous IKEA mirrors and made it into a Christmas mirror for my friends granddaughter.

I have used the Festive Hollybobs for the project with one of Nikky's chalkboard stamps. I printed out the backing papers and covered the frame with them. I was going to include the Santa digi  but after getting this far decided he wasn't really needed.  The snow is done with a coarse texture gel and sprinkled with glitter but it doesn't show in the picture, there are more details on my blog.

Frezja - Hi all Kasia here :) Recycling is my middle name so I'm happy and I will show you my mini album made from toilet paper rolls.... :)

Nothing throws ahahah :) Tutorial on how to do this mini can be found on my blog here.

I have used lovely paper from Winston CD :) and the roses from Rose Budd CD

Have a nice day all, :)

WOW!  Fantastic creations from the Design Team this week.

Hope it inspires you to Recycle something and join our challenge

Can't wait to see what you are all creating.

Please do not forget, there are a maximum of 2 entries per person.

Have a fabulous week everyone.

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