Polkadoodles Challenge–Anything but a Square Card

Hi everyone, time for me to share some inspiration for the current Polkadoodles Challenge. All our challenges are

Anything Goes

while for an added challenge the DT's are creating anything but a Square card.

For my DT inspiration this week I have made a delightful Easter basket featuring Helga Sitting Pretty.

I made the basket using a 12x12 sheet of cardstock and then punched strips from another 12x12 sheet to make the handle and side decorations.

Now all that's left to do is to hide the chocolates ready for the hunt on Sunday morning!! Happy Easter everyone, hope you all get a chance to relax and enjoy the break.

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Polkadoodles Challenge - Something New

Hi everyone and welcome to another brand new Polkadoodles Challenge. All our challenges are

Anything Goes

while for an added challenge the DT's are featuring a something new in our creations.

I have used a really cute image from the Winston Bear collection - Winston Bear Celebrate and made a Happy New Year card - I think this image is just perfect for celebrating the New Year with friends. 

Here it is:

I printed the image using my Canon inkjet printer and then coloured it in with my copics. The colours I used are: E57, E55, E53, E51, E50, E47, E35, E33, E31, E30, E0000, BG0000, W00, Y26, Y23, Y21, Y00, YG67, YG63, YG61, G20, R21colourless blender ink.

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I then used an oval die cut to cut out the image and layered it onto a lace heart doily and some olive card. I cut out the card to match the shape of the doily. I tied a double bow and tucked it under a couple of wild rose flowers and attached it to the top corner.

Happy New Year !!!

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Polkadoodles challenge - Add Texture

Hi everyone and welcome to another brand new Polkadoodles Challenge. All our challenges are

Anything Goes

while for an added challenge the DT's are adding texture to our creations.

I have had another really busy week with work this week and I need to take a thank you gift to a friend who helped me out. I decided a pretty gift box with their favourite chocolates would be a fun gift. I also used a star shape, because they were a shining star in my week.

Here it is:

I started with some plain pale pink card and cut out the stars. Then I embossed one star using an starburst embossing folder. By cutting some strips and scoring and folding them before gluing them around the edge of the stars, I made a top and bottom for the box.

I wrapped some lace around the edge and added a cute topper from the Winnie Sugar Sprinkles Springtime Collection, along with some paper flowers and a button from the Winston Deluxe collection.

Here you can see the inside:

And one more look:

Happy stamping until next time...

Challenges entered:

C.R.A.F.T Challenges #376 - Anything Goes
Little Miss Muffet Challenges #144 - Anything Goes
Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge #146 - Anything but a Card

Polkadoodles elements from:

Polkadoodles challenge - Anything Goes

Hi everyone and welcome to another brand new Polkadoodles Challenge. Our theme for this challenge is 

Anything Goes

For my DT inspiration this week, I decided make a special chocolate sliding gift box. 

Here it is:

All the papers in my project came from the Winnie Fruit Punch Big Bundle. 

To make the flowers, I stamped the flowers, leaves and a sentiment from Daisydays SME in dark brown ink onto some of the patterned paper and then fussy cut them out. I then added a clear crystal button as the centre of each flower.

I used oval punches to make the gift tag, and then added a topper from the Winnie Sugar Sprinkles Springtime Collection.

When you pull up the bow, your special sweet treat slides out.

Happy stamping until next time...

Challenges entered:

Dream Valley Challenges - Challenge 137 - Buttons and Bows
Crafty Boots Challenges - Use a Stamp
The Crafters Cafe Challenge - Flowers
Craftyhazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge - August 2016

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Polkadoodles challenge - Summertime

Hi everyone and welcome to another brand new Polkadoodles Challenge. Our theme for this challenge is 

Summertime 

For my DT inspiration this week, I decided to use the gorgeous stamps from the Summertime and Daisydays collections. 

I stamped one of the Summertime flowers in gold over my red card as a background and then stamped the same image in red over some white card as a background. I then added a layer of summery orange vellum. I then stamped 2 butterflies and a flower and coloured them with copics, before fussy cutting them and adding them with a bright red bow.

The card is a sliding pop up card that I learnt to make in a class many years ago when I first started stamping.

Here is my card:

The copics I used are: Y12, Y14, Y15, Y35, Y38, R22, R24, R27, R89.

The best thing about these cards is they easily lay flat for folding:

And here is another side on view showing the pop-up:

Happy stamping until next time...

Challenges entered:

Crafty Girls Creations - Challenge 23 - Anything Goes

Crafting with an attitude - Challenge 17

Creative Moments - Challenge 97 

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Polkadoodles challenge - Birthday Celebrations

Hi everyone and welcome to another fabulous Polkadoodles challenge. Our new theme is 

Birthday Celebrations

For my DT inspiration this week, I have made a cake card, because really, what is a birthday celebration without cake. To decorate my cardboard cake, I used a background paper from Winnie Fruit Punch for the icing, added a die cut sentiment and then decorated the cake with some toppers from Winnie Sugar Sprinkles and of course the candle embellishments  which I found in the Winston Collection. I also added some pearls, a rose and some ribbon and bows.

Here is my card:

Oh by the way, did you see that Nikky has put out a call for our fabulous International DT team? This is your chance to come join one of the best DT's around and join in all our fun!! 

Challenges entered:

Cute Card Thursday Challenge 426 Food and/or drink!

Aud Sentiments Challenge #155 Anything Goes + A Sentiment

7 Kids College Fund Challenge Blog Challenge #152 Anything Goes

Polkadoodles elements all from:

 

    

Happy 7th birthday Polka Doodles

Happy 7th birthday Polka Doodles

As this anniversary is normally called the "7 year itch", the Polka Doodles team have embraced the prickly feeling by scratching that itch and mixing/scratching up some new images ... get the pun? Corny we know but the team have had great fun. So to embrace the “itchy scratch” the Polka Doodles team have thrown caution to the wind and “scratched up” a different kind of birthday celebration.


The birthday celebrations will be running for 2 weeks and each day someone from the Polka Doodles team will be sharing their “mixed/scratched up” image. It’s been all hush hush and secret squirrel too as no one knows who has been busy creating what and when they will be revealing their image... so the Polka Doodles team get to join in the fun too. To add an extra layer of itchy fun, everyone has also been colouring up the new “scratched/mixed up” images, (still not knowing who designed them) and they will be sharing via their blogs and on FaceBook.
We really have scratched things up ... new merged images, no one knows who created what and no one knows when they’ll be sharing them ...!

Please do take the opportunity to visit the Polka Doodles team and see their new digi images because you will find a discount code (or two) along your way that you can use in the Polka Doodles shop.

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So today I am joining the celebration with my scratched up creation...

I have used 3 old images and used them to create a brand new one:

Take 1 Woodland Log:

Add the very cute Amelia Braids:

And lastly, add a very cute kitten friend from the Witchie Witchie bundle::

So putting them all together and what did I make:

And so you can join in the fun too, I have a special discount code that will give you 20% off all individual downloads (Discount does not apply for collections).

CODE: BIRTHDAY20 (expires 17th May midnight GMT)

I coloured my merged image with Copics and the colours I used are:  E0000, E000, E00, E11, R20, log: E57, E55, E44, E42, E47, E41, shoes: C5, C7, C9, clouds: C00, C1, C2 sky: B000, B60, flowers: Y15, Y35  shirt: Y00, Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28, toadstools: R21, R24, R27, grass: G000, YG03, G40, G43, G46, jeans: B91, B93, B95, B99, hair: E33, E35, E37, E39 cat: C5, C3, C1

Hope you are joining in with our Birthday party :)

Make sure you keep an eye out for all my teamies special makes and images - it's bound to be a great celebration...

Challenges entered:

Di's Digi Designs, Flowers Everywhere Challenge

Star Stampz Challenge: Birthdays

Simply Papercraft Challenge 28

Polkadoodles challenge - Swirls and Flourishes

Hi everyone and welcome to another fabulous Polkadoodles challenge. Our new theme is 

Swirls and Flourishes

For my DT inspiration this week, I made an easel card with a very cute frame featuring A Gift, a sentiment, butterfly and background paper from from the Winnie Fruit Punch collection.  I printed all my elements on Copic Xpress-it cardstock and coloured my image with my copics. The swirls are from a Couture creations die, which I tinted with copics and embellished with flowers.

The copics I used are: skin: E0000, E000, E00, E11, E13, R20, dress, bow, sandles: R0000, R81, R83, R85, present: YG0000, YG41, YG45, G40, G43, G46, hair: E57, E55, E53, E51 swirls: G000, R000

Be sure to check out the challenge to see how you can win our new Feathery badge and all the fabulous inspiration from our awesome DT.

Supplies:

A Gift frame digi, Happy Birthday sentiment, presents tag topper, butterfly
and background paper -  Polkadoodles Winnie Fruit Punch Collection
Couture creations Floral swirl die, pink floral rhinestones

Challenges entered:

Whoopsi Daisy Challenge - Butterflies and Flowers challenge
Where the Heart is Challenge 8 - Sparkle and Bling/Anything Goes
Cupcake Inspirations - Challenge 356 (Pistachio, Blossom, Pink)

Polkadoodles elements all from:

Polkadoodles Challenge - Floral Frenzy

Hi everyone and welcome to another fabulous Polkadoodles challenge. Our new theme is 

Floral Frenzy

and we want to see your lovely creations featuring flowers. 

For my DT inspiration this week, I have used Polkadoodles flowers from the brand new Winnie Fruit Punch collection to make a topiary gift for a friend. I printed them on my Canon inkjet printer and then cut them out using my Silhouette Cameo. I layered the flowers and added a rhinestone centre:

I found the pattern for the topiary tree in the Silhouette store.

Here is a closer look at the fabulous flowers:

Be sure to check out the challenge to see how you can win our new Feathery badge and all the fabulous floral frenzy inspiration from our fabulous DT.

Challenges entered:

Decorate To Celebrate - Anything Goes Challenge #8




Freshly Brewed Challenge - 201614 Flowers

The Paper Shelter Challenge 244 - Flowers everywhere

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Polkadoodles Winnie Fruit Punch - One for You

Exciting news today, Polkadoodles is launching a fabulous new collection  - Winnie Fruit Punch.

Check out a special launch video from Nikky..

For my card I have made a bottle shaped easel card featuring a fabulously cute One for You, which I coloured with my copics. I decorated the bottle card with one of the fabulous papers from the collection, some butterflies and one of the gorgeous floral elements which I layered up the flower in different sizes.

Here she is:

I printed my image on Copic Xpress cardstock using my Canon Inkjet Printer and coloured in the image with my copics. The colours I used are: skin: E0000, E000, E00, E11, R20, hair: E57, E55, E53, E51, E99, dress, shoes and bow: RV10, RV21, RV23, RV25, C2, button: Y01, Y23,  drinks: BG0000, BG11, YG01, YG25, YG63, YG67, YG03, YG11, YG23, FYG2, Y02, Y38, Y19, Y17, Y15, Y13, R32, R39, RV25, RV23

Here is a closer look at the image:

Until next time, happy crafting...
Carol

Supplies:

Winnie Fruit Punch - One for You
White cardstock and patterned paper from the Winnie Fruit Punch Paper Heaven Bundle 2
Copics, double-sided tape,  Spellbinders Nestabilities Classic Scalloped Oval dies, Marianne design Creatables - Petra's Oval dies, SU Pink Pirouette 1/2" Seam binding ribbon, Pearls, lace and bling from my stash

Challenges:

I am entering my card in the following challenges:

•  In the Pink - Challenge 91 Dies and/or punches 
• Through the Purple Have - Challenge 98 Flowers
• Kitty Bee Designs - Aloha Friday Challenge #69 - Friendship
• PDE Linky Party - Challenge 117 Anything Goes

Polkadoodles Challenge - Cream and Sugar

Happy Easter everyone and welcome to another fabulous Polkadoodles challenge. Our new theme is 

Cream and Sugar

and we want to see your lovely creations in cream, ivory, coffee and pink colours. 

For my DT inspiration this week, I have used Polkadoodles images, papers and cut outs from 3 different collections. I just love the way Polkadoodles elements all work together so beautifully. Anyway, here is my card:

For my card I used some of the gorgeous papers from Winston and coffee tags from Barista Coffee/Cake bundle kit from the Work and Play 12 collection. I used my cameo to cut the tags out, so that was super easy.

For my main image I chose  Tea for Twoo, Tea Party from Twiggy & Toots. I printed Twiggy onto Cryogen card with my Canon ink jet printer and then coloured her in with my copics. The colours I used are:  W5, W3, W1, W00, E89, E87, E84, E81, R20, R85, R83, R81, Y28, Y26, Y23, Y21, YG03, R39, R89, R24, Y13, Y0000, R0000

Here is a closer look at the image, lots of flicking here for the feathers.

Hope you have a lovely Easter and enjoy your break with family and friends and find some time to fit in some crafty goodness along with some chocolate....

Be sure to check out the challenge to see how you can win our new Feathery badge.

Supplies:

Martha Stewart Punch Around The Page - French Scroll set

Cryogen White Card, SU Very Vanilla card, SU True Thyme card (retired)

Lace, SU Seam binding ribbon, teacup and teapot charms, pearls

Challenges entered:

Southern Girls Challenge - Nature - Enter Me

As you like it - Favourite Line on the Bingo Board
(fussy and fancy, lace, pearls - lots of lovely cut outs and layers to add interest and I love the lace edge from punching and the layer of lace to add another aspect and then pearls to add an extra dimension - all add up to fussy and fancy fun)

Digital Delights Monthly Challenge - Delightful Challenge #8

(because who doesn't love digital images...)

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