wk 30 Crafting Challenge at Digi Choosday - Animals

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Now onto the new challenge!

This week the theme is
Animals
It can be any animal you like and you can make anything you like, maybe a card, a scrapbook layout of even home décor. It could be an embellishment, ribbon, an animal print paper - whatever you like so long as there is an animal influence (including fish!)

You can use any products you like to enter as long as it follows the theme for this week. We don’t have many rules but check them out in the side bar if you need to.

We give you two weeks to enter so that means the

CLOSING DATE IS 11^th August 2015 

and the winners will be announced on 18^th August 2015.

PRIZES:

The random winner (chosen by Random.org) will receive £5 worth of downloads of your choice from the digi store!

The winner and top 3 for week 27 can be found at the bottom of this post.

You know we have been asking for GDT’s to join us for a few challenges, well today we are joined by again by the lovely Aunty Sue. If you would like to join us please add GDT after your name on your challenge entry.

So let’s see what the design team have made for us...

Aunty Sue - As soon as I saw the challenge I knew I had to use this fabulous Cow digital image. Available from the shop here along with the Black and white papers from Octavia Moonfly available here Image coloured with promarkers and edges of papers distressed.

Anjie - I have used the rather cute Wesley Rabbit image who you can find HERE. Or he is also available as part of the fabulous Cherryblossom Lane CD, which is where the papers I have used are from. I have coloured Wesley with my Prisma Pencils and added some buttons.

Scatty Jan Oh my days - an animal challenge just after the wonderful Twiggy and Toots Festive Fun release - Just knew immidiatly what I wanted to use. I started of using the owl bag template , I reduced the actual size to 65% it still made for a great size, and for those without a cutting machine I cut them by hand to see how easy they were, and they were great it was good to use scissors for a change. I started by making the Hen night Bride to be I called her Olga , all her papers and bits are from the Love and Kisses collection - I simply added some Lace for her dress and some netting for her veil and lots of diamond stickles . I loved her so much I went on to make her husband to be calling him Oswald again all the elements from Love and Kisses collection including his moustache!
(He also borrowed Santa's boots from Twiggy and Toots Festive Fun  ssshhhh). The papers I used on Oswald are from Octavia collection

Lynda:  Being a massive animal lover this challenge is perfect for me... I love these little mice!! I used a new digi called Cinders, she has some gorgeous fairy tale friends so check them out too. The sentiment and papers are from the Serenity Collection which is available on CD.  or as a digital download.

Jane – Hi everyone! A couple of weeks ago our lovely Scatty Jan used non-Christmas images to create some amazing Christmas tags that you can see here!  Incredible!! So being inspired by this, and to show the versatility of Nikky's awesome images, I decided to use OCTAVIA MOONFLY UNICORN to create a non-traditional Christmas card! The papers, sleigh and sentiment are all from the FESTIVE HOLLYBOBS COLLECTION and I made OCTAVIA into Santa’s Little Helper!! Either that or she is stealing all the pressies!!! Have a lovely crafty day! xxx J

Monica.-I´m in love with "Twiggy & Toots Festive Fun"!! I love owls, cookies and Christmas, so this can´t be any better. In my project I wanted to showcase those three elements. All the pattern papers, embellishments, letters to make the sentiment, digital stamp and cutting files for the cookies are included in this collection.

Tanya...Hello everybody.  I love all animals and this week have been playing with the template called Two By Two available on the Paper BoutiqueVolume 3 CD which I’ve mixed up with the cloud paper from the Octavia Moonfly bundle and a sentiment from the Baby Boom collection to make a cute baby card.

Yvonne - I used Octavia Best Friends image which you can get as a digi stamp.  I haven't coloured her before so this was new for me and I coloured her with my pencils. I made a simple 6x6 card using Polkadoodles papers.  The sentiment is from the Serenity Collection which you can get as a digi download or as a CD-Rom.

Wendy - I love these cute bees and anything with a toadstool for me is a must, so I chose this image from the Sugarplum Daisy CD. THe backing paper is from the same collection. The sentiment I chose fits perfectly and I love the chalkboard effect of it, you can find it s part of the Work & Play 10 - Country Life collection.

Emma - For my Animals project i have used the super cute Unicorn from the Octavia Moonfly collection. I have coloured her up using pencils & have added some sparkle to make her look more magical. All of the papers, embellishments & sentiment come from the Moonfly collection that can be found Here or on CD Here

Great makes from the DT - loving all their makes this week!
Add your entry using the linky tool below.
Now for the winner and top three from week 27 - Use some embossing
The winner chosen at random by www.random.org is:

# 45 Janice 

Please email us at sales@polkadoodles.co.uk quoting DCW027001 to claim your prize of £5 worth of downloads from the digi store!

And in no particular order the top three chosen by the design team are:

# 17 Carolyn 

# 35 Vannessa 

#38 Bettina 

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Thank you all so much for your entries, it means so much to us that you join us each week - see you next week!

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wk 29 Crafting Challenge at Digi Choosday - All About The Girl

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Happy Digi Choosday everyone!

Did you manage to catch the lovely Nikky Hall on Create and Craft on Friday with not one, but two fabulous new CD’s? If not then you can watch it on catch up HERE  for a few more days. Just look how lush the new CD’s are!

Twiggy and Toots Festive Fun 

Of course because it’s Digi Choosday it is also discount day!!!!

So today only you can use the code 
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when you pre-order either of these 2 great collections! But remember this lasts for 24hours only so be quick!

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Go pre-order them now so you don’t miss out!  

Now onto this week business. You know we have been asking for GDT’s to join us for a few challenges, well today we are joined by Aunty Sue who will be with us for two weeks, we are so pleased to have you with us Aunty Sue!! 

If you would like to join us please add GDT after your name on your challenge entry.

Now onto the new challenge from us here at Digi Choosday...

This week we are 
“All About The Girl”
So we want to see your girly makes.

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. We don’t have many rules but check them out in the side bar if you need to.

We give you two weeks to enter so that means the CLOSING DATE IS 4^th August 2015  and the winners will be announced on 11^th August 2015.

PRIZES: The random winner (chosen by Random.org) will receive £5 worth of downloads of your choice from the digi store! The winner and top 3 for week 26 can be found at the bottom of this post.

So let’s see what the design team have made for us...

Aunty Sue - I have made a card and gift bag/backpack to hold a gift card. My card features Oddella with bag Ickyink Art , Design papers are are all from Twiggy and Toots collection which you can purchase as a full cd/download or just the papers. The sentiment is also from this collection.

Yvonne - Hi there! I used Serenity again!!! Yes this time I used the precoloured image of Dancing from the main collection. You can get her as a digi here or drool over all the girls here.    I made a rocker card using the silhouette, using papers from the collection.  I added a few butterflies as embellies.

Jane – Hi everyone! My girly creation this week is a handbag card I cut from a plain 6x6 blank and decorated using gorgeous papers and embellies from the EDEN BIG KAHUNA BUNDLE!  The image is ODDELLA WITH BAG and she is part of a scrummy group of ladies called the ICKYINK ART COLLECTION. Have a lovely crafty day! xxx

Lynda: I love making girly projects so this weeks theme was right up my street! I use the gorgeous Twiggy and Toots collection. The papers, sentiment and embellishments are all on this CD or if you can't wait to start crafting then it's also available as an digital download.  Happy Crafting xx 

Monica.-For my girly girl project, I used the lovely owl bag cutting file from the newly released "Twiggy & Toots Festive Fun". To add the girly touch, I made it with papers, flowers and butterflies from Twiggy & Toots regular collection. I love how this turn out.

Tanya...This week I've decided to showcase the simplicity of Nikky’s collections and have gone for the coloured digis available on the Work & Play Country Life Collection.  This collection is available as a CD and a download collection and the dog walking digi is also available in black and white format on its own.  It’s ages since I made something with this collection so I’ve made something simple that can be recreated lots of times if you are into batch card making and need a quick make.  There’s no cutting or colouring involved this week from me…  shock horror !! 

Scatty Jan  For my make this week I have used the lovely Digi Image , Dollie Daydream Sleepyhead that you can find in the store here, along with the sentiment how fab is that! I have coloured using Graph'It markers  and using distress ink on the tag, The papers are from The Serenity Collection, a perfect match for the colours I used for colouring

Wendy - The image I've used this week is one I've anted to use since it released, Gym girl from Work & Play 11. She normally comes with a pretty ribbon on the end of her stick, but I snipped the wrong bit so replaced it with real ribbon, whoops! All four papers, the sentiment & flowers are also from the same collection.

Caz-For my girly project i have made a princess carriage favour box..I have used the cute Serenity Princess. Coloured with my graph its, and some glamour dust added..The sentiment i used on tag can be found in Serenity Fairy Wishes collection...Carriage its self was cut on my portrait, a file of my own..

Emma - For my Girly card this week i have used the gorgeous Serenity Fairy Cake who can be found Here or in the full collection Here. All the papers are from the Octavia Moonfly collection that can be found Here I love all of these collections as they all work so perfectly together.

Anjie - I have used the fab Red Riding Hood image. She is coloured with my Graph'It Markers and Prisma Pencils. The papers are from the Octavia Moonfly bundle, or you can get them separate HERE.

Great makes from the DT I’m sure you will agree.

Add your entry using the linky tool below.

Now for the winner and top three from week 26 Use some embossing....

The winner chosen at random by www.random.org is:

# 14 Cathy P  Cathy you also need to check your emails/messages re a GDT position.

Please email us at sales@polkadoodles.co.uk quoting DCW026001 to claim your prize of 5 worth of downloads from the digi store!

And in no particular order the top three chosen by the design team are:

# 4 Larissa

# 17 Sheena Mckee  Sheena, you also need to check your messages.

#19 Patricia A 

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wk 28 Crafting Challenge at Digi Choosday - Use an old Collection

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It's Digi Choosday Challenge Day!!

Just a quick reminder that we are looking for some Guest Designers to join us for a few weeks. To apply all we ask you to do is enter this weeks challenge and add GDT to your name in your link up. We are looking for people of varying skills so please don’t think you are not good enough. Come on, give it a go, what have you got to lose? It is a fabulous, friendly and supportive team to be a part of so if you love Nikky’s work and can make one card a week for two to four weeks then let us know!

In the mean time we have some guest designers joining us from Polkadoodles for a few weeks. Today we have the very talented Jenny Lowton, Naz Smith and Ria ZonneStraaltje joining us.

Watch us on Create & Craft TV

Friday 17th July at 10am...

This week the very talented Nikky Hall is on Create & Craft so don't forget to tune in on Friday - 

A sneak peek for you below!!

 Don't they look AMAZING!

Now onto this week business...

We have a Special Discount code for you to use this week - you can find it at the end of this post!

We are all living in the moment it seems now and we are always on the lookout for NEW but sometimes we forget that the old ones are the best! 
So yes, we decided this week the theme would be
 Something Old
You could use an old collection, or an old stamp that you have had for ages and haven't used in a while, a piece of old ribbon, an old button, anything you like....
Rummage through your older stash and you'll be surprised at what you forgot you had!!!! 
I think we are all guilty of that - aren't we!?

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. We don’t have many rules but check them out in the side bar if you need to.

CLOSING DATE IS 28^th July 2015 and the winners will be announced on 4^th August 2015.

PRIZES: The random winner (chosen by Random.org) will receive £5 worth of downloads of your choice from the digi store!

The winner and top 3 for week 25 can be found at the bottom of this post.

It's time to see what the design team have uncovered in their stash and see what they have made for us....

Ria-  Hi, I am jumping in as Guest this week and I used the Cherry Blossom Lane collection for my card. I coloured my image with pencils. I so adore the soft colours in this collection.
 

Naz - The stamp I decided to use for this project is called OCTAVIA BIRD IN THE HAND.

Some of the papers I have used for this card as well as the sentiment are also from Polkadoodles.

I absolutely adore this stamp "believe in all your dreams" - What a beautiful sentiment. I thought the sentiment fits well with the image.

Jenny - Hello there I'm here again as a guest on this great team. This challenge is to use an old collection so what else could I use but Dollie Goes East, one of my favourite collections.  I have used a pre-coloured image and three papers from the collection and just one sentiment, don't know how I restrained myself!

Scatty Jan  Ohhhh a lovely easy challenge for me as I love using bits and bobs from the older collections , I always find some right gems on them. I decided this time to use my most loved and treasured  Bonbon Belles, but using a character I had not used before (at least I dont think I have) Pirate Jack, I have coloured him with Graph'It Markers, and added glamour dust to his sword. The Boat was cut on my portrait adding some stickles for the water. The cute little fish, treasure chest, Octopus and balloon all from Bonbon Belles (added a touch of gold stickles to the chest)

Monica- For this project, I wanted to use an old collection but new to me. So I chose Baby Boom Bundle and a tree from Picknix 1 In the Garden. I used the stunning precoloured images from both collections.

Tanya - There are some absolutely fabby-do-dah collections in the Polkadoodles shop and it was really hard trying to choose one but this week as schools will be breaking up in the next week or so I’ve decided to use the teacher digi and the matching papers, embellishments and sentiments from Work& Play Collection 3 to make a teacher thank you card in a stepper style card.  More details can be found on my blog (and you still have time to enter my giveaway from last week’s post)

Caz  For my use old collection, I decided to use Baby Boom Bundle download. Everything I have used is from this collection, except card shape and words, which was cut on my silhouette portrait.

Lynda: It was so hard to pick an older collections to use this week, there all so amazing :-)  In the end I chose to use Work & Play 2. The papers (except the cloud paper) flower embellishments, sentiment and digi stamp are all from this collection It available as digital download or on a CD. Have fun xx 

Emma - For this challenge I have used Winston Bear Etty's New Dress that can be found Here, I have cut her out & decoupaged her. I have fussily cut out the flowers & embellishments which can all be found in the full Winston Collection Here as a download or Here on CD.

Yvonne - Hi everyone - I opted to use 'Amelia Roses' from the Pretty Sweet Collection. The image I used can be found here, or you can see the range of the Pretty Sweet girls here. You can also get it as a CD-Rom if you wish.  I made a step card and coloured Ameila with my polychromo pencils. The papers are from the Serenity Collection - I know they aren't old but I seem to be incapable of making anything that doesn't involve the Serenity Collection! 

 Jane - Hi everyone! The older collection that I chose to use is WORK AND PLAY 1 featuring the fabulously cute FIREMAN JIM who is also available in a clear stamp HERE if you prefer! I decorated a premade Kraft crate to make it look like a house on fire and so our lovely Jim is coming to the rescue!! Go Jim!! Have a lovely crafty day! xxx

Wendy - For this weeks old collection theme, I've gone back to the Pretty Tuff collection. The boy is available as a digi here and the door, sentiment & both papers are part of the CD collection. I've used Graph'Its to color both images.

Anjie - I've used the old but fabulous Picknix Gingerbread Twist Collection. This really is one of my fave collections! 

Excellent makes there from the DT don't you agree?

So all you need to do is to add your entry using the linky tool below.

Now for the winner and top three from week 25 Tag It! 

The winner chosen at random by www.random.org is:

# 8 Create With Joy

Please email us at sales@polkadoodles.co.uk quoting DCW025001 to claim your prize of a £5 of free downloads from the digi store!

And in no particular order the top three chosen by the design team are:

# 4 Sheena McKee

#3 Anet

#10 Julie O

Well done ladies! We all loved all the entries this week! Grab your blinkies from the side bar!
Thank you all so much for your entries, it means so much to us that you join us each week.

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and this will save you 25% off the Digi store for the next 24hours only! This expires at midnight tonight GMT so make sure you grab some stash while you can! 

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