wk 25 Anything but a square card...Digi Choosday challenge

Happy Digi Choosday everyone!

Welcome back to another fabulous Digi Choosday Challenge!

Before we get started, we are UBER excited to unveil some lovely new team members who we are thrilled to have on board with the team!!  We just know you are going to love their projects, they are very talented indeed and we are already loving everything they've made for us, they fit into our team like a glove!.......So, we are very excited to say a massive big warm welcome to:

Vicky Fortier

Julie Jenner

Sharon Smith

and Wendy Russell

Big welcome to you all ladies!!

We have another great
Digi Choosday code
 for you today which you can use right up to midnight on 30th June, so grab yourself some digis HERE 
and save a massive 15% in the store this week!
Enter code DC15007 
at the checkout!

And now onto the challenge:

The challenge we have set for this week is

Not A Square Card

We would like to see you make some kind of shaped projects this week which could be something easy like a stepper card or something more complicated - it's up to you! 

You have until 8^th July to enter and the winner will be announced on 15^th July, so lots of time to get your entry in. All we ask is that you follow the simple rules that can be found in the side bar.

The winner will receive 3 free digi images from the (Digi Store).

You can see the winners from our last challenge at the end of this post.

Now, let's See What the Team have made for us!

Scatty Jan For my not a square card this week I have used the Work and Play 4 collection. I used the van as a template for my card and used the characters - Post man and Post lady . I also used a sentiment from the collection and also used one of the many backing papers for the inside.Coloured up with Graph'It Markers.

Anjie - To get the shape of the card I have used the Dutch Doobadoo Shape Art 3 which is my new favourite thing to use! And at only £4.49 it's a must. How much does it cost to buy pre-made shaped cards? You would save the cost of this in no time! The image is from Emma Canning and is called 3 Scoops. I have coloured her with my Graph'It Markers and then used the DD shape art again to cut her out. The papers, flowers, butterfly and bow are from the new Rose Budd Papercrafting CD which is just fabulous! I have used a distress ink around the edges of everything and a little Frantage around the image.

Sharon - Oh my, am I excited to join everyone on this design team and use PolkaDoodles' Digi-World Downloadables.   As this is my first challenge I thought I would honor Nikky by using the Nikky digi-stamp bundle. The image - Nikky has been coloured with Spectrum Noirs with glossy accents used on her glasses. The card is a Silhouette template cut on my machine. The papers are from the bundle and the sentiment has been taken from the candy words section of Candy Doodles Collectors edition CD.



Julie....I am so excited to be on this team, and I love the theme for this challenge, its one of my favourites!

I love the variety of digi products for sale in the digi section of the store and the fact you don't have to wait for them as they are an instant download.
My card with matching gift box has been made using the following Polkadoodles products, the gorgeous image, coloured with Copics is called  Dollie Daydream Birthday, the sentiment is from the following bundle Celebrational Sentiments Download Bundle, Papers can be found here Emma Canning Brown/green/white papers .All the flowers I have used are from Back to Nature Flowers Embellies download bundle, which I then cut out and shaped

Crafting Vicky - What a way to start up in the team... an anything but square card!!!  Man that's so hard for me... lol but well there's fabulous digis and papers to work with so the inspiration came!  I used for mine the great image Charlotte.  And then 2 different DP one from the fab Daisy Paper bundle that I recolored using my word Microsoft application in pale blue and Boy's Hoot Download Bundle.  The sentiment is from Celebrational sentiments Download bundle.

Wendy - For my first card as part of the Digi Choosday DT, I haven't actually done a card! The template for the exploding box is here for free! I've used The Happy Couple from Emma Canning and coloured with Graph'It Markers. The papers are in Emma Canning Blue/Teal bundle and Rose papers bundle, which I have recoloured in Craft Artist, as I have for the flowers from Pretty Little Things & Back to Nature. Finally I added recoloured sentiments from the Marriage bundle. 

Yvonne - This week I decided to make something different - well it is different for me! I decided to make a bookmark and I found a bookmark template on one of my craft programs. I opted for one of the papers from the Louise Digi Bundle, the papers that are included with the image are truly very pretty and I have been desperate to use them. I decided to decorate my bookmark with flowers (obviously), and for these I couldn't resist dipping into the Rose Budd Collection CD-Rom as I wanted to use the pansies. The sentiment is from Dollie Goes East Collection which you can get either as a CD-Rom or as a digi download.  I thought I would show you front and back and I hope you like it!

Susan - This week I have used an empty tissue roll, cut it in half to make a slider gift card (link for tutorial on my blog)....The papers and the image are from Dollie Daydream Girl Talk.

I had to shrink the image to fit ,wow!  couldn't have done this with a stamp, that's the great thing about Digis you can make them any size. This is a must have for your collection.... She is coloured with my Graph'it markers ,I have the brush nibs in mine ,just amazing. And everything is printed out on Ultimate Graphic 160 gms  Yes the same card I use for my digi stamps and my Graph'it markers....

Patty - This week I decided to make a Small favor or gift box, which was so easy to make from just one sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 CS.  I opted for one of the papers from the Pretty Sweet Collection, that paper it was perfect to combine it with the green CS, the owl is from Sugar Birdies CD , I used my prismacolor pencils to color it and love the outcome!, I use ribbon to decorate my box. The sentiment is from one set laying around on my desk not sure who's company.

Wow, some stunning makes this week I'm sure you'll all agree! Our new teamies have done a great job and of course our longstanding members are always awesome too! thanks for all your makes ladies!

And now for the winners from the week 22 challenge, 
All About The Men

The winner chosen at random was 
#16 Beth

please email us at sales@polkadoodles.co.uk quoting DCwk25001wk22 to claim your prize of a 3 free digis.

And the top 3 chosen by the team were:

#5 Margaret A

#12 Nick

#38 Mandy Paper Panda 

Grab your badges from the side bar ladies - thankyou so much for joining us, we appreciate your support!

See you all next week have a great crafty week!

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wk 24...In the Pink - Digi Choosday Challenge

Happy Digi Choosday everyone!

Before we get to the challenge this week, we have a fabulous 
Digi Choosday Special 
for you!
Enter Code

DC176030
at the Digital checkout and you will save a 
HUGE 30% 
on all digi purchases!!
This code is valid until 22 June at midnight! Whoop Whoop!
Make the most of it while you can!

The challenge we have set for this week is

In The Pink

You can  make anything you like, a card, a tag, a box, mixed media projects, whatever takes your fancy. As long as it has pink as the main focus. You don't need to use any of our products to enter, we just ask you to follow the rules in our sidebar.

You have until 1^st July to enter and the winner will be announced on 8^th July, so lots of time to get your entry in. 

The winner will receive 3 free digi images from the (Digi Store)

And now for the winners from the week 21 challenge, All About The Men

 The winner chosen at random was #27 Jen Leeflang

please email us at sales@polkadoodles.co.uk quoting DCW21001 to claim your prize of a 3 free digis.

And the top 3 chosen by the DT were:

#5 Margaret A

 #7  Nadja Robbins

 #18 Jackie C

Grab your badges from the side bar. Congratulations everyone, thanks for all your entries and we hope you enjoy your freebies! 

Anjie - For my card I have used the Girls Hoot Download Bundle. Everything on the card is from the bundle. The large flowers are from the edges of the sentiment. I have cropped them off and blown them up to the size I wanted. Because all the elements are high quality you don't lost the focus when you blow them up in size. I have used a Dutch Doobadoo Shape Art to create the card shape and mats and layers. These are so easy to cut out and MUCH cheaper than buy the very large dies. To make the fabulous papers pop I have outlined the edges of them with a black pen.

Scatty Jan Whoooohooooo I loves Pink!! I have used the lovely Lou from the fab Digi Bundle you can find here Not only do you get the fabby Lou digi but a heap of papers too!!! I coloured Lou in with Graph'It Markers using a little gold on her glasses and then some glossy accents over them. xx

Yvonne - Well I love pink, it's one of my favs alongside purple, sooooo what is better than a theme for 'in the pink' with a touch of purple! I used the fab bundle 'Nikky' from the Polkadoodles store. The papers are from the same bundle and I coloured the image with my Graph'It Markers. I decided to try the dotty background for our Nikky, and I quite like it..........I also used some pink tone pan pastel to soften the white. I used some of my dies to cut the flowers which are from the same papers as the backing papers, a little spotty ribbon, job done! :)

Susan.....In the Pink - well I certainly am I just love Pink it's one of my favourite colours!  I have used some papers from Sugar Plum Daisy  left from a project I did last week, they are so pretty  and the image is from Work n Play 2, the little Ballerina she is just adorable. I have used my Graph'It markers to colour her and added some die cuts and paper flowers from my stash.  Just can't wait to see all your amazing entries!....

Patty - For my card I have used the image from Emma Canning Color me Happy Digi. All the papers are from my PolkaDoodles / DigiChoosday clutter on my desk from Pretty Tuff collection and  Cherryblossom Lane the sentiment is from Stamp Doodles set accent the card with the small pink button with the brown and white twine. I made this very pink girly card to send it to a friend. 

Wow, what beautiful makes we have this week, as always!! 

You have until 1^st July to enter and the winner will be announced on 8^th July, so lots of time to get your entry in. 

The winner will receive 3 free digi images from the (Digi Store)

See you next week when we will have some VERY exciting news!!

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wk 23...Use 2 Papers - Digi Choosday Challenge

Happy Choosday everyone!

We hope you have all had a good week and are ready for a new challenge!

Before we get onto the challenge, here is a last minute reminder that you can see the fabulous Nikky Hall on our screens on Create & Craft at 10am this morning with the swooningly delicious new CD Rose Budd...

The challenge we have set for this week is

To use use 2 real papers.

By that we mean papers from a paper stack, not ones you have printed out from a CD or digitally.

We are doing this challenge to show you that you can mix and match digital media with real life media

 So this challenge can be for any theme you like as long as you use those “real” papers.

You have until 24^th June to enter and the winner will be announced on 1^st July, so lots of time to get your entry in. All we ask is that you follow the simple rules that can be found in the side bar.

The winner will receive 3 free digi images from the (Digi Store)

And now for the winners from the week 20 challenge, Holiday Fun/Day Out

The winner chosen at random was #6 Pia

please email us at sales@polkadoodles.co.uk quoting DCW20001 to claim your prize of a free digi bundle worth £5.

And the top 3 chosen by the DT who will receive a free digi each were:

#3 Desire Fourie   Email us at the address above quoting DCW20002

#8 J Atterbury Email us at the address above quoting DCW20003

#9 Caz (Bunny) Email us at the address above quoting DCW20004

And grab your badges from the side bar.

Now let's See What the Team have made for us!

Scatty Jan For my card this week I have used the lovely Caravanner girl from Work and Play 3 collection  I have coloured her with Graph'It Marrkers. The two papers that I chose to use are from the paper pack Websters Pages- Best Friends collection I wanted zesty colours so I went for Lemon and Lime  xx

Yvonne - Use two physical papers, is the theme for this week, well, I have a bit of a manic thing about backing papers so I was spoilt for choice!! Now I know we all love Nikky's CD Roms, but do you know there are actual paper pads too? So I decided to use two papers from one of the Paper Pick pads, you can find them here, I used papers from the Fredericka Paper Pick Pad.  I chose to use the new Emma Canning digistamp - You're My Cup Of Tea - love this! I cut him out with a Tattered Lace die, then a little bit of dotty ribbon and some pearls - voila! 

Susan - For my challenge card this week I have used Debutante from the Fredericka Collection and coloured her with my Graph'It markers .I haven't used digi papers, instead I have added some of My Minds Eye Lush 2 collection ,it is beautiful Flocked paper.Hope you stop by my blog to take a look, just click on Susan

Patty - I have chosen one of the cute digis Dollie Daydream Goes East: Lili Digi  I used copics to colored her... I love her outfit in purple and the combination with the yellow is just perfect! the black stripes and the pink - hot magenta were papers from my stash and I used the satin yellow ribbon to make the bow and two pearl to embellish it.

Jo- I have chosen one of the gorgeous digis that were recently released as part of the Polkadoodles birthday celebrations, I used one from the Ruth bundle. I think this is such a fab image and have wanted to colour it for ages. I picked some colours from the Kaisercraft papers I used to colour my image in with so it all co-ordinated and added some vellum bunting to embellish it.

Anjie - On my make this week the image is by Emma Canning and is called BBQ and is coloured with my Graph'It Markers. For the shape of the card and the papers I have used the Dutch Doobadoo Shape art 4. The papers are from Dovecraft and are called Curiosity Corner. The railings and lamp post are both from Dutch Doobadoo

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wk 22...All About The Men Digi Choosday challenge

Happy Choosday everyone!

We hope you have all had a good week and are ready for a new challenge!

Before we get to this week's theme here's something you might be interested in:

The challenge we have set for this week is

All About The Men....

It can be for Fathers day, for your brother, well, any male for any occasion.

We are really looking forward to seeing your creations.

You have until 17^th June to enter and the winner will be announced on 24^th June so lots of time to get your entry in. All we ask is that you follow the simple rules that can be found in the side bar.

The winner will receive 3 free digi images from the (Digi Store)

But first we need to tell you about our new launch!

Ohhhh Mr Darcy!!!

We’ve gone all vintage and been inspired by Jane Austen to bring you this

gorgeous collection which features the most beautiful characters and Shabby Chic vintage papers which are superb for scrapbooking and all your hybrid projects too - you will love it!!

And now for the winners from the week 19 challenge, Embellish It

The winner chosen at random was #43 Mags
please email us HERE to claim your prize, quoting code DC22001

And the top 3 chosen by the DT were:

#7Kerry M

#18 Gail L

#27 Cara

Well done everyone!

 Grab your badges from the side bar.

 Now let's See What the Team have made for us!....

Scatty Jan  I love these work and Play collections - this time I have used the little Handy Girl from collection 1, I love her hair and tried a red colour combo that I had not tried before. The paper is also from Collection 1 and fits perfectly. I made a liitle gift box perfect for Fathers day. I have used scrummy Graph'It Markers to colour xx

Anjie - The image, papers, embellishments are from the new CD in the Work & Play series, number 4. The postcard stamp which works great with this is from Premium Craft Brands.

The image is coloured with Graph'It Markers.

Zoe - This challenge allowed me to make a birthday card for a family friend who turns 16 this week. I chose this fabulous Drummer Troy image from the Work & Play collection 1. because he loves his music. I added some music paper and washi tape from my stash. I colour Troy with my Graph It markers and used the Graph It Shake silver and white pens in the background.

Yvonne - Hello everyone! For this week I have used the image Train Guard Tim who is a separate image from the Work & Play Collection 3  which is available in Polkadoodles Digiworld Downloadables or as a CD-Rom.  Train Guard Tim is coloured with my Graph'It Markers.  The embellishments of the trains and the gate and the papers are all from the same collection as are the two sentiment tickets. I used a Doobadoo Star which you can get here.

Susan I have used Work n Play 4 this week available on CD and coming soon to the Digi store.  I enlarged and printed the bowl to make the card base then printed extra embellies so that I could add some depth to the card and of course my little digi man is coloured with my Graph'It markers which I just couldn't live with out ,they are amazing...I print all my Digis to colour with my GI's,  also my papers and just about everything I use for my Paper crafting I print onto Ultimate Graphic 160 gsm paper.

Patty- The image, papers, embellishments are from the Pretty Tuff CD I made this cute boyish card for a friend of my son on his birthday... He is such a sweetheart! Added the green small buttons.  The image is coloured with my Prismacolor pencils which I love!

Jo- I used a cute Emma Canning digi for my card this week, Love Boy, and I coloured him sepia trying to keep the card fairly monotone. Unfortunately I had a glitter mishap trying to embellish the love heart so I had to improvise and make a kraft card heart for the boy to carry. I have used brown spotty papers from the Christmas Joy bundle and extra embellishments from Sugar boys collection.

Fantastic inspiration yet again from the team! 

Don't forget, you have until 17^th June to enter and the winner will be announced on 24^th June so lots of time to get your entry in. All we ask is that you follow the simple rules that can be found in the side bar.

The winner will receive 3 free digi images from the (Digi Store) - we look forward to seeing your entries! 

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