Wednesday, 8 July 2026

Challenge 7, week 2 - Anything Goes card making, craft, paper craft, scrapbook challenge

 Welcome to our current Card making, Craft, Papercraft Scrapbooking challenge...

As it's Digi Choosday that means you also get this amazing HUGE discount offer on selected crafty printable downloads in the Polkadoodles store until midnight!


Today's discount code is DC40 & will give you
40% Off!!!
SELECTED* DIGI STAMPS INCLUDING COLLECTIONS/BUNDLES
(*not valid in conjunction with any other offer, applies to certain products only, if your discount does not show in the cart it is not valid for that product.)

This challenge is 4 weekly - giving you 4 weeks to enter with $45 in prizes per month. You can enter up to 4 times, with 4 different projects. 

We will still post weekly inspiration from the team but the competition will remain open for 4 weeks. 

PRIZES:
• 1 x Random Prize (we will randomly select 1 winner, so everyone has a chance to win) : 
$20 voucher to spend in the Polkadoodles store, on anything you wish including physical products.
• 2 x $10 prizes : we will select our Top 2 favourite entries from across the 4 weeks.
•  The winners will be announced the week after the challenge closes, at the start of the next challenge
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So let's see what the Design Team have been making... 


Ana - Hello crafty friends! For this week’s Design Team theme, Christmas in July, I created a festive set of 12 Christmas gift tags and 12 coordinating note cards using the beautiful Poinsettia Wreath Bundle. And obviously, based on how much I was able to make, this gorgeous collection just made Christmas crafting so much fun! You can find my full tutorial here. I used the pretty poinsettia images, festive foliage, coordinating patterned papers, and sentiments to create a variety of designs while keeping everything beautifully coordinated. The tags were cut using my Cricut Maker and embellished with ribbons, trims, gem stickers, and twine for extra sparkle and texture. I also created simple note cards using the patterned papers and sentiments from the collection, then completed the set with handmade envelopes created using my envelope punch board. The Poinsettia Wreath Bundle is perfect for creating all kinds of Christmas projects, from cards and tags to gift packaging and holiday décor. The images and papers coordinate effortlessly, making it easy to create beautiful Christmas projects in no time.  I hope you’ve enjoyed today’s project! Be sure to join this week’s Digi Choosday challenge for your chance to win and share your creations with us.
You can also find me here:
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Happy crafting!



Eve - Hello crafty friends, for today's card I used my Scan and cut to cut out the adorable Bella Bear with lots of parcels pre coloured image. I mat and layered it onto some brown and white card to make it pop. Then I fussy cut and layered lots of elements with foam pads to add dimension. I added Glossy Accents and glitter pen to make it sparkle. The background paper is Christmas paper patterns 2 which I die cut with some stitched square dies. The sentiment is from Bella Bear Christmas greetings set.  Thanks for visiting and good luck if you enter Digi Choosday!



Paula - I really try to make a holiday card every week but Christmas in July is the perfect reset to remind me to get on it because December will be here quicker than I realize. Here I am starting with this very merry Santa card. I colored with alcohol markers and used a white acrylic marker for the snowfall. I love the bright colors and the whimsy for the holiday season.
Products used: Sentiment ; Papers 
I used Ohuhu markers - colors used: 0, 120, BG2, BG4, BG68 CGII00, C2, G7, NG06, R1,R3, R8, R18, Y2, Y3
Hope you like what I did! See you next time - I’d love to follow you on Socials, here’s mine if you’d like to give me a follow too!
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https://www.instagram.com/paulasstudiomi/
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Zel - I'm leaning into the "less is more" style with this Christmas in July card.With The trees and centerpiece ribbon from the Baked With Love Embellies digi set as my focal point.To make the digis color vibrant, I colored it with Ohuhu Alcohol markers, Then I took a random Christmas sentiment to make it more festive and adhere it under the tree.
Here are the measurements for cardbase and layers:
Card Base: Red cardstock (A2 size)
Layer 1: Red cardstock (4”x5” inches)
Layer 2: Black cardstock (4 3/8" x 5 1/4" inches)
Focal Point: Baked With Love - Embellies digis (the trees and ribbon), brought to life with Ohuhu alcohol markers for maximum vibrancy, grounded with a little strip of brown cardstock as it’s "soil."
To create the card:
Adhere your focal point to the first layer cardstock then add your sentiment. Once done, adhere your first layer cardstock to your second layer cardstock ( black cardstock ) and finally adhere them altogether to your A2 cardbase.
Products used:
Baked With Love - Embellies digital craft paper download - https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/baked-with-love-embellies-digital-craft-paper-download/
My Social Media :
https://www.instagram.com/sprinklewithcards/
https://www.facebook.com/springklewithcards

Wendy - Hello everyone wishing you a wonderful week and I hope the weather is being kind where you are. Our theme this week from Nikky was Christmas in July - really hard to get Christmassy in the Summer but it’s good for us crafters to get ahead! I decided to use the super sweet Gingerbread Cookie collection for my 6” square Criss Cross Star card as it’s definitely one of my favourites. The card base was created from a Kraft card blank, simply cutting away the bottom left and right corners. I chose pretty papers from the collection to layer onto the card base and the off cut triangles before adhering these to the card base to form the star shape. I decided to add a smaller strip of card at the bottom too to make the card more stable. I coloured the little Gingerbread Star Cookie with my promarkers before fussy cutting out along with some of the pre-coloured clipart which I used to decorate the card. The finishing touches was lots of glossy accents to the icing on the little gingerbreads icing.
I hope you like my card and will join in the fun in the blog challenge this week. Have a fantastic week. Love and crafty hugs x.
I would love it if you could follow me on social: https://olivefarmcrafts.blogspot.com/



Jane - Hello everyone. As Christmas is a mere 6 months away it’s time to get making those festive cards. There are so many wonderful Christmas collections in the Polkadoodles store that you really are spoilt for choice, but today I have decided to use the super cute PICKLES HEDGEHOG. This particular image is called CANDY CANE, and I coloured him with pencils on tan-toned paper. I used a die from the VINTAGE SNOWGLOBE DIE SET to make the shaped card and heat embossed a sentiment from the LET IT SNOW stamp set in gold.

Kathie - Good morning and welcome to all my crafty friends and welcome to another Digi Choosday. This fortnight our design team’s theme is Christmas in July. Isn’t that scary to think it’s less than 6 months to go before Christmas is here again. Where has 2026 gone too? We had free range with the colour palette. The design papers I chose were in the teals and aqua’s. It’s always handy to have extra Christmas cards on hand. This cute Polkadoodles image I chose is Candy Cane Gnome Festive Fun and this image comes black & white for you to colour. The design paper used was Set 2 Christmas Printable Digital Paper and the sentiment came from Christmas Greeting, Sentiment. The image was coloured with the following Copic Chio markers: C1, E000, E00, E02, E25, E31, E33, E37, E43, YG03, YG17, YG23, BG09, BG13, BG15, BG49 and a white gel pen. I look forward to commenting on whatever you make. Happy crafting everyone. You can find my complete instructions on my blog here https://kathiezkardz.blogspot.com/

Thanks so much team!! What lovely makes we have today!

We hope we've inspired you to enter the challenge - we'll be back next week with more inspiration for this one - good luck!

We'll be back next week with the winners of the last challenge!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter
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Wednesday, 1 July 2026

Challenge 7, week 1 - Anything Goes card making, craft, paper craft, scrapbook challenge

 Welcome to our current Card making, Craft, Papercraft Scrapbooking challenge...

As it's Digi Choosday that means you also get this amazing HUGE discount offer on selected crafty printable downloads in the Polkadoodles store until midnight!


Today's discount code is DC40 & will give you
40% Off!!!
SELECTED* DIGI STAMPS INCLUDING COLLECTIONS/BUNDLES
(*not valid in conjunction with any other offer, applies to certain products only, if your discount does not show in the cart it is not valid for that product.)

This challenge is 4 weekly - giving you 4 weeks to enter with $45 in prizes per month. You can enter up to 4 times, with 4 different projects. 

We will still post weekly inspiration from the team but the competition will remain open for 4 weeks. 

PRIZES:
• 1 x Random Prize (we will randomly select 1 winner, so everyone has a chance to win) : 
$20 voucher to spend in the Polkadoodles store, on anything you wish including physical products.
• 2 x $10 prizes : we will select our Top 2 favourite entries from across the 4 weeks.
•  The winners will be announced the week after the challenge closes, at the start of the next challenge
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So let's see what the Design Team have been making... 



Nat - Hi All, I fell in love with the Surprise! image from the Winnie Celebration 2 collection. I decided to play with the pre coloured image. These images are great for those lazy days where you want to play but not colour but also for those beginner colourists. You can add a little extra something to image if you wish, as they already have the ground work with lovely shading so you don't have to wonder what colour to use just the shade.Simply things like adding extra strokes to the hair or to a party hat can make it yours. I finished off with this great sentiment.
Prismacolor Pencils Used:
Brown - Dark Brown 946
Burnt Ochre 943
Red - Tuscan Red 937
Crimson Red 924
Blush Pink 928
Purple - Dioxazine Purple 132
Parma Violet 1008
Blue - Dioxazine Purple 132
Mediterranean Blue 1022
White / Grey
70% Cool Grey 1065
50% Cool Grey 1063
My Social Links:
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Kara - I made this cute 4x6 card following the prompt landscapes just by printing the By the coast digi stamp onto some coloured cardstock, adding some mats and layers and finishing with a sentiment.
I think this is a perfect idea for stash building for those quick cards and I had so much fun creating this full instructions are over on my social media and I'd love it if you'd like to pop over and say hi.

Nina - For this Slimline card, I was inspired by warm summer days and the simple joy of inviting friends out for an ice cream. I love meeting up for a sweet treat when the weather is hot, so I wanted to create a card that captures that feeling. To create the background, I arranged several ice lolly images randomly across the card panel and then colored them in soft pink and taupe tones. The combination creates a fresh and playful summer look while keeping the design clean and elegant.
Copic Colors Used: W3, W4, W5, RV34, R81
Products Used:
Winnie Starfish/Sandcastles - Ice Lolly/Ice Cream/Popsicle
Winnie Starfish/Sandcastles - Fab Ice Lolly/Popsicle
Winnie Starfish/Sandcastles - Ice Lolly 2/Popsicle 
Winnie Starfish/Sandcastles - Ice Lolly 3/Popsicle 
Coffee, Tea and Cake Greetings and Quotes
Coffee, Tea and Cake word art
To finish the card, I cut out the sentiments and adhered them to the front of the design.This is such a quick and easy way to create a personal invitation for an ice cream date with a friend. Hope you will stop by my Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/kreativzauber_by_nilu

Kim S - Hello crafty friends! I am back today with my latest Design Team project for Polkadoodles, and I am completely in love with how this sweet birthday card turned out. If you adore cute animals and soft pastel layers, this one is definitely for you. For this card, I had the absolute pleasure of working with the brand new Fluffy Friends collection. I chose to use one of the stunning pre-coloured digital stamps from the set called Peaches and Nibbles . Look at those sweet little faces! The pre-coloured images in this set are a total dream—the shading is already beautifully done, making it so quick and easy to create a show-stopping focal point. I decided to lean heavily into a bright, happy pastel palette to match the sweet energy of the kitten and mouse. I layered up several coordinating digital patterned papers from the collection, including a fun colourful plaid from Fluffy Friends paper pack 1 and a vibrant Happy Birthday text print which comes from the Party Time Birthday Celebration pack (which is one of my go to favs that i use quite a bit for digital paper choices)
To add lots of texture and dimension, I included:
A wavy blue card stock border to frame our fluffy friends.
Stitched banners and a textured pink stitched star to draw the eye across the card.
A delicate pink die-cut doily peeking out from the side for a touch of elegance.
A clean little Make a Wish sentiment tag tucked into the corner with a tiny pearl embellishment.
I just love how all the layers and textures nest together to create a cozy, dimensional little world for Peaches and Nibbles! And how easy it all came together using the pre-coloured digis that are available if you aren't into colouring or don't have the time.

Head over to the Polkadoodles shop to check out the new Fluffy Friends collection and grab Peaches and Nibbles or any of the other equally adorable pre-coloured or black and white images to choose from for your own stash.

Vicky - G’Day Crafty Friends, Today I’m sharing a simple & easy card created with the Collecting Flowers Lily Ladybug Ladybird Cute Digital Stamp . She has been collected with Copics and paired with the soft Lily Bug Ladybug Papers 2. A little ink blending, fussy cutting & a sentiment from the Lily Bug Ladybird messages finished the card off perfectly.
Copics –Skin – E30, E31, R30
Hair – E74, E77, E79
Hat/Cloak – C9, R85
Dress/Shoes – R83, R81
Flowers – Y13, Y15, E30
Leaves – YG03, YG06
Basket – C5, C7

My Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/vickywrightdesignsaustralia
My Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/vickywrightdesigns
My YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@vickywrightdesigns

Ana - Hello crafty friends! For this week’s Digi Choosday challenge, I created a cheerful landscape card featuring Sunshine Delight Cutest Winnie. I colored Winnie with Ohuhu alcohol markers and created a simple outdoor scene using die-cut clouds and grassy hills, finished with some ink blending using Distress Oxide in Stormy Sky. To add extra detail to the card, I used the cute rose digi stamps from the Winnie Sugar Sprinkles Bundle and a sweet You Are My Sunshine sentiment from Spring Tons of Love collection.

Tutorial: https://mycatandcrafts.blogspot.com/2026/07/polkadoodles-digi-choosday-project.html

I love how bright and happy this card turned out, with all the layers creating a fun little scene for Winnie. Don’t forget to join the Digi Choosday Challenge for your chance to play along and share your creations with us!
You can also follow me on social media for more crafty inspiration:
Instagram: @my.cat.and.crafts - www.instagram.com/my.cat.and.crafts
Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/my.cat.and.crafts
Blog - mycatandcrafts.blogspot.com

Thanks so much team!! What lovely makes we have today!

We hope we've inspired you to enter the challenge - we'll be back next week with more inspiration for this one - good luck!

 
We'll be back next week with the winners of the last challenge! 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!
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Wednesday, 24 June 2026

Challenge 6, week 4 - Anything Goes card making, craft, paper craft, scrapbook challenge

Welcome to our current Card making, Craft, Papercraft Scrapbooking challenge...

As it's Digi Choosday that means you also get this amazing HUGE discount offer on selected crafty printable downloads in the Polkadoodles store until midnight!

Today's discount code is DC40 & will give you
40% Off!!!
SELECTED* DIGI STAMPS INCLUDING COLLECTIONS/BUNDLES
(*not valid in conjunction with any other offer, applies to certain products only, if your discount does not show in the cart it is not valid for that product.)

This challenge is 4 weekly - giving you 4 weeks to enter with $45 in prizes per month. You can enter up to 4 times, with 4 different projects. 

We will still post weekly inspiration from the team but the competition will remain open for 4 weeks. 

PRIZES:
• 1 x Random Prize (we will randomly select 1 winner, so everyone has a chance to win) : 
$20 voucher to spend in the Polkadoodles store, on anything you wish including physical products.
• 2 x $10 prizes : we will select our Top 2 favourite entries from across the 4 weeks.
•  The winners will be announced the week after the challenge closes, at the start of the next challenge
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So let's see what the Design Team have been making... 


Ana - Hi Crafty friends! The new Fluffy Friends collection from Polkadoodles is finally here, and of course, I couldn’t wait to create with Peaches Cat! As a cat lover, this adorable character immediately stole my heart - because, well… cat! For today’s card, I paired Peaches Cat & Nibbles Mouse with layers of patterned papers and tag elements to create a fun dimensional design. One of my favorite things about this layout is how it turns patterned papers into embellishments, making it easy to add texture and interest without needing lots of extra supplies. The sweet Peaches Cat image is the perfect focal point and works beautifully with a variety of paper collections and embellishments - both from the Fluffy Friends collection and some from your personal stash. Be sure to check out the new Fluffy Friends release from Polkadoodles and discover all the adorable furry friends waiting to be crafted with!
Polkadoodles Digis used:
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Wendy - Hello everyone wishing you a wonderful crafty week. Today the team was asked to create a card with a shopping theme - I'm definitely not a lover of shopping at all - unless it's for stationery or those all important crafty goodies that is LOL. My cousin in the UK loves to shop, she can spend a whole day going from one shop to the next and the very sweet Rebel Shopping image reminds me of her so I decided to use the pre-coloured version for my card today. I wanted to make a special card for her birthday at the end of the year so have created a Stand and Pop card from lilac cardstock layered with fun papers from the Rebel Girl Collection . The pre-coloured Rebel Shopping image was printed out twice and cut out on my ScannCut before decoupaging elements for extra dimension. Next I created little shopping bags using the Wanda Collection - Ephemera bundle, in Canva adding fun shopping themed sentiments to each bag and a little thought bubble too from this Sentiment bundle. The finishing touches was some pink confetti scattered around the design for a super sparkly and very girly card.
I hope you like my card and will join in the fun in the blog challenge this week. Have a fantastic week. Love and crafty hugs x.
Other Products I used:
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Paula – I made this bright and fun card for a friend. A perfect card for my friend that I go to vintage and flea markets with in the summer months. There are always food and beverage carts and trucks and we enjoy them so much. I colored this with alcohol markers and added some sparkly sequins.
Products used:
I used Ohuhu markers - colours used: B02, BG4, BG68, BV26, G2, G34, GY1, GY7, GY43, R22, RP1, RV23, V22, Y06, Y07, Y2, YGY02,
Hope you like it! See you next time - I’d love to follow you on Socials, here’s mine if you’d like to give me a follow too!

Eve - Hi there crafty friends. It's time for another Polkadoodles Digi Choosday challenge and today's theme is shopping. I made a stepper card with the ever so cute Winnie Fruit Punch Shoes & Shopping download. After cutting out lots of elements I mounted them onto black card. I finished off my card with some black gems. I'm not sure if I have overdone it with today's card as it seems to have everything but the kitchen sink! A little too much do you think?! Thanks for visiting and good luck if you enter Digi Choosday!

Zel - It is so much fun creating a mixed media Memorydex card featuring Shopping Wanda! To create this card, I trimmed a piece of mixed media paper to 4x4 inches and used a Memorydex puncher to create the holes. Next, I grabbed a dotted stencil and spread texture paste over the card. Once the texture paste was dry, I sprayed the paper with pink Distress Oxide and used a random stamp on the background to add more interest. I then adhered Shopping Wanda and from Winnie Fruit Punch Embellies Bundle I chose the shopping pieces to go along with her.
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Maz - For my 'shopping' themed card today, I used Rebel Shopping digital download and coloured using Copic markers. I used Kraftcard as my base and created the background using Heavenly Circles Stencil. I used shopping bags from the Wanda Ephemera Bundle and enlarged them as a background for Rebel. I finished it off with a little jute twine bow.
All details are on my blog:




Jane - Hello everyone. This shopping themed card features Winnie Sunshine Delights Busy from the Winnie Sunshine Delights Top Banana Full Collection. I coloured Winnie with pencils after adding her and a sentiment to my chosen paper and printing her out. I do love a shaped card so I die-cut the design using a decorative nesting die set and then added lots of die-cut shopping bags to add to her ‘haul’. Very quick and simple. I also used Winnie Sunshine Delights Paper Pack 2 and the Winnie Sunshine Delights Sentiment Bundle.

Ana - Hi everyone! For this week’s Digi Choosday challenge Design Team theme of Shopping, I created these cute and practical magnetic shopping list notepads featuring Winnie! To decorate my notepads, I used two adorable Polkadoodles digi stamps: Sunshine Delight Busy and Busy Day Shopping - Winnie Fruit Punch. Since I couldn’t choose between them, I decided to use both! If you’ve been following my projects, you’d know that’s how I do it - make more than one project when I couldn’t choose between cute digis! I paired them with papers from the Plain Janes Wanda collection and Wanda Printable Digital Paper Patterns for additional design and color.
These magnetic notepads are perfect for keeping grocery lists handy on the fridge and would also make lovely gifts, craft fair items, or giveaway prizes.
We’d love to see what you create! Be sure to join Digi Choosday for your chance to play along and be inspired by the Design Team’s creations.
You can also follow me here:
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Kathie - Good morning and welcome to all my crafty friends and welcome to another Digi Choosday. This fortnight our design team’s theme is Shopping. Well most women like shopping. I’ve got to a stage in life, that I go shopping because I have to or I need something. There’s a difference between a need and a want. We had free range with the colour palette. I’ve made a birthday card, one for my supply as I always need a card for something. This is the first ever Winnie image I used from Polkadoodles. This cute Polkadoodles image is Sunshine Delight Shopping Bliss this image comes black & white for you to colour. The design paper used was Spring Into Easter Set 3 and Helga Hippo. The image was coloured with the following Copic Chio markers: C1, E000, E00, E02, E25, E33, E37, E43, RV02, RV04, RV10, YG03, YG06, V17, BG09, BG23, BG72, Y08 and a white gel pen. I look forward to commenting on whatever you make. Happy crafting everyone. You can find my complete instructions on my blog here.

Thanks so much team!! What lovely makes we have today!

We hope we've inspired you to enter the challenge - we'll be back next week with more inspiration for this one - good luck!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!
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