wk 34 Crafting Challenge at Digi Choosday - Use 2 papers

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Happy Choosday everyone!

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

Your discount code for this week is:

DIGICHOOSDAY

Enter at the checkout and save a whopping 15% off downloads for 24hrs only (ends midnight today GMT)

Before we get onto the Design Teams inspiration for this week, have you seen the fantastic new release
Frosted Winter - Octavia

An absolutely stunning, must have collection - preorder now or buy on download

Now onto the new challenge...

Use 2 or more papers

We give you two weeks to enter so that means the

CLOSING DATE IS 8th September 2015 

and the winners will be announced on 15^th September 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 31 can be found at the bottom of this post.

So let’s see what the design team have made for us...
We are delighted to announce that Audrey is now part of out team so welcome to the team Audrey, we're thrilled to have you creating with our merry band of crafters!
If you would like to join us as a GDT please join in our challenge and add GDT after your name on your entry. Then send us an email to digichoosday@yahoo.com - we are always looking for great talent so you never know, next time it could be you! 

Sheena - For my 2nd GDT make I have used the fabulous Winston Collection.

Scatty Jan   Ohhhhh two papers , now this took me a while to think about as I adore all Nikky's papers but decided to go for The Serenity Collection. The image is Fairy Kisses , which I have coloured with pencils. Fairy Kisses is part of the collection or can be purchased as a single digi that you can find here. Finished off with a sprinkling of diamond stickles.

Emma - For my creation this week i have used the super cute Twiggy & Toots Umbrella, Rainy Days which can be found Here. I have coloured them up using Copics & they do look like the Little Owls that we have living in the barn. Both papers & embellishments have come from the full Twiggy & Toots collection which can be found Here.

Wendy - My two papers this week both come from the Work & Play 7, I just love purple! My image is the Karate girl from the same collection, but can also be purchased as an individual digi here.

Julie - Two papers?  It seems I snuck in three, printing my sentiment on a designer paper, also.  I can't help myself.  I like everything to be matchy, matchy.  This adorable, sleepy fairy is Serenity Stardust. She's colored with Copic markers. She is available individually here, but truly, the papers are so beautiful!  The Serenity Fairy Download collection is available here. There's even more papers to choose from than what I used here. Swoon!The sentiment is from the collection, too!  

Tanya...I’ve been colouring again and this time have used the Eden Collection (again!!) and the digi called Eden Window which I’ve coloured using Graph It pens and the papers I’ve used are from the collection as is the sentiment as well.  You can get the full collection HERE and the Eden Window digi singly is available HERE...

Aunty Sue-  So for my card I have used Serenity Joy and Sentiment (checkout that sentiment) from the Serenity Fairy Wishes download available Here. Now my 2 papers are not from this collection I thought i would mix it up with these fab papers from Twiggy & Toots available HERE. Image coloured with Promarkers and all other items from stash...

Audrey is first and foremost, so thrilled to have been invited to stay on the Digi Choosday DT!  For my creation this week, I made a bookmark card.   The right part detaches at the scored fold.   I combined one of the frames and one of the sentiments from Twiggy and Toots Owls Digital Collection for the front of the card and then used the image cupcake on pile of books, also from  Twiggy and Toots Owls Digital Collection or available separately HERE for the bookmark part of the card.  I also chose 2 of the papers from Twiggy and Toots Owls Digital Collection as my 2 Papers for this week's challenge....

Jane – Hi everyone!  So how to pick just 2 papers from all of Nikky’s stunning designs?!! Well I went to one of my all-time fave downloads for inspiration the wonderful WINSTON DELUXE FULL COLLECTION but choosing was really hard!! So in the end I went for a pink and green combo using this gorgeous image FREDERICKA DEBUTANTE. This card is already winging its way to my sister-in-law so I hope she likes it! Have a lovely crafty day! xxx

Lynda: Only using two papers is so hard when there's so many beautiful ones to digi choose from (see what I did there lol) I used the gorgeous Baby Boom collection this week,which is available was digital download here. The sentiment I used is from the new baby sentiments download bundle. Have Fun xx

Monica. For my project I chose two of the many stunning papers included on the new release Frosted Winter. The precoloured image and the decor elements are from the same collection. I`m in love with this new collection :o)

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

To enter just add your entry using the linky tool below.

Now for the winner and top three from week 31 Embellish It:

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

38 - Jo

Please email us at sales@polkadoodles.co.uk quoting DCW031001 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:

2 - Vannessa
29 - Maya 
39 - Claire C

Well done everyone and thanks for all the amazing entries, as ever! 

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wk 33 Crafting Challenge at Digi Choosday - All About The Men

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Happy Choosday everyone

We are delighted to announce that Aunty Sue  and Julie Odil liked us so much when we asked them to Guest Design for us they are now permanent teamies with us whoop whoop!! We are so excited to have them on board full time, so welcome to the team ladies! 

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

Your discount code for this week is:

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Enter at the checkout and 
SAVE A WHOPPING 25% ON ALL DOWNLOADS
FOR 24HOURS ONLY!
code expires midnight tonight GMT!

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

This week the challenge is

All About The Men.

So we want to see your male themed makes this week.

 The GDT’s joining us this week are Sheena McKee  and HippieAud. 

If you would like to join us as a GDT please join in our challenge and add GDT after your name on your entry. Then send us an email to digichoosday@yahoo.com

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 1^st September 2015 

and the winners will be announced on 8^th September 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 30 can be found at the bottom of this post.

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

Sheena - For my 1st GDT make I have used the fabulous Winston Collection. I have created lots of layers to add lots of focus.

Audrey -  I have chosen image from Work and Play Vol 11, Skateboarder. Image is colored with Copics. Design paper is from Boys paper in Work and Play Vol. 11 bundle. The skateboard and helmet are from the SVG files in the Work and Play Vol. 11 Bundle and I cut them out of Design paper from more design paper from the Boys paper. Sentiment also included in bundle and cut out of Boys paper. I also added a couple buttons from Bag 'O Buttons.

Scatty Jan  How could I actually resist another owl bag , this time with the focus on golf. I used the fantastic template from Twiggy and Toots Festive collection, adding all the elements and papers from Work and Play 11. The bag I resized to 65% , still a great size to hold a few goodies!

Anjie - This was a cheap MDF oval shape I bought at Summer Crafting and the letters are also MDF but I bought these when I was in New Zealand last year. I used some PVA glue and spread it all over the MDF and used papers from both the Twiggy and Toots everyday, and Twiggy and Toots Festive Fun  collections to cover the MDF. I then cut out some trees, buttons and the fence from the everyday collection and glued them in place. I then cut out some owls and made them 3D by adding a few layers. I also put two layers on two of the trees. I also added some faux stitching around the edges of the plaque and the letters. I added some hooks to the back of it and it is now hung on the wall in Nico's bedroom and he and his mum love it.

Tanya

Now a few weeks ago when we had our 'Use An Old Collection' challenge I created a teacher card using the female teacher from the Work & Play 3 Collection.  So with that in mind I've now created a male teacher card in exactly the same format but this time using the coloured office guy from Work & Play 2 to make a stepper style card.  I've used the embellishments and the paper from the Work & Play 3 Collection  to make the base of the card.  You can also get the office guy as a black and white digi for you to colour yourself.  

Wendy - I've been a bit frugal this week, when I printed last weeks backing papers from Work & Play 6, I had some left over so I've used it this week too! The Phone/Texter Guy is available on his own here or as part of the complete Work & Play 7 collection.

Jane – Hi everyone!  So for my ‘manly’ make this week I used the arresting (!) POLICEMAN PETE and elements from WORK AND PLAY 3 to create a little crime scene!  The fab brick paper is from WORK AND PLAY 4 and as you can see PETE has skilfully apprehended the perpetrator and saved the day!! Good man! Have a lovely crafty day! xxx

Julie -- this is a big day for me!  I was a guest designer the last two weeks here at Digi Choosday.  I begged and pleaded so much that this lovely group of ladies are letting me stay!  Oh my!  I'm very excited to be part of this fantastic team!  My card today is in honor of my husband.  He loves to ride bicycle.  His "fun" on the weekends is going out for long bike rides -- 50 to 75 miles.  I believe that translates to 100K in British, LOL.  I used Cycling Boy and papers from the Work & Play 4 Collection.

Monica.- For my project I found this lovely "Diver" that is included on Work & Play 4 Collection. The papers, swimming boys border and this beautiful sentiment are also included in the same collection.

Emma - For my boys card i have used the Guitar Boy from WP8 who can be found Here. All of the papers & embellishments are from the full Work & Play 8 collection that can be found Here, I have also used one of the cut files from the collection to do the Rock & Roll cut out.

Aunty Sue - Hi everyone for my card I have decided to use this fab scene from Work & Play 10 called Break Time and the stripe backing paper and sentiment is also from this collection. You can purchase the Cd as a download HERE  and you can also purchase the image which comes as black & white and also coloured HERE. I wanted to show amazing the coloured images are and what fab cards you can make. I printed 2 off and cut some of the elements out on the 2nd sheet to layer up in a decoupage style. I just added some twine to finish off.

Lynda: This week I used a digi stamp called Karate boy with papers and embellishment from the Work & Play 7 Collection. It's available on a CD or as a digital download.    You can also buy the digi stamp separately here.  The little scrabble tiles are from the Work & Play 9 Love & Kisses Collection Hope you have fun Lynda xx 

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 30 Animals

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

# 33 Patty Sue 

Please email us at sales@polkadoodles.co.uk quoting DCW030001 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:

# 48 Lisa J 

# 32 Katie Tate

#4 Donna Mundinger

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wk 32 Crafting Challenge at Digi Choosday - Punches/Die Cuts

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Happy Choosday everyone.

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

Your discount code for this week is:

SIZZLE
ENTER THE CODE AT THE CHECKOUT AND
Save 15%
on the whole digi store for 24 hours only!
(expires 12/8/15 8am, GMT)

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

This week the challenge is

Punches and/or dies.

So we want to see lots of punched shapes or die cuts on your makes. They can be any brand so have a look in those cupboards and drawers and hunt all those that haven’t used in ages and give them an outing.

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 25^th August 2015 

and the winners will be announced on 1^st September 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 29 can be found at the bottom of this post.

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

You know we have been asking for GDT’s to join us for a few challenges, well today we are joined again by the lovely Julie Odil and Audrey.

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

Julie - I'm back with my second GDT make for the team. I have used Odella Bow. I used Serenity papers . Odella ended up being a bit on the soft side.

Audrey - I chose Octavia Friendly Hugs for my image, papers and sentiment from Octavia Big Kahuna download. I used die cuts for image, sentiment and all the flowers which I cut from digi papers found in Octavia Big Kahuna set.

Scatty Jan  I have coloured up the lovely Serenity Princess for my card, My colouring was done using pencils - She really is cute, you can buy her as a single digi here, but I used the collection , which contains some lush papers , I love the lemon starry paper it suited the image perfectly - The collecton you can find here. Using a Flower punch and a leaf die and some added pearls to finish.

Anjie -  The cute image, little elf, and papers are from the Work and Play Festive Hollibobs Download Collection, which is also available as a CD

Wendy - For this weeks card, I've used Maddie Twirling Curls from the Pretty Sweet CD collection,  you can get Maddie as a digi download here. My die is the Just for You Pansy topper set and cut from papers from the Work & Play 6.

Monica - I have to be honest, I don´t use die cuts nor punches. I have used my money to buy a cutting machine and all my die cuts comes from my dearest "Cameo". But Nikki also thinks in us, the cutting files fans, and has created stunning files for us -as good as any die cut-. For my project I used the flourish corners and the birdcage cutting files included in the beautiful Eden Collection. The papers, bird and letters to make the sentiment, are also included in the same collection.

Tanya - I've been colouring again and really enjoyed working with this Oddella Twig Image and my Graph It Pens. I've used the papers from the Work & Play Love Collection which I mixed it up with Kraft card and twine and orange sparkly dome gems to match Oddella's hair.  The die I've used is the Tattered Lace Panorama Grass Large one.

Emma - For my card I have coloured up the lovely Octavia Moonfly Wistful who can be found Here. All of the papers & flowers are from the full Octavia Moonfly Collection that can be found Here

I have used quite a few dies that I had lying around but I didn't realized how bad a crafter I was until I found that I do not own any punches lol

Aunty Sue- Hi this week for my Punches and Diecuts Card I am using Work & Play 5 - Festive Hollibobs which you can find in the shop HERE as a download. Oh wow so much lovely Christmas images coloured and Digi with tons of embellishments and papers. My punches are round the page punch which I used on the Green backing and my Dies are the Tree and Santa and Raindeer. Image is coloured with promarkers.

Yvonne - Hello! This week I decided not to make a card and opted for a wee gift bag instead. I cut it out with my Silhouette using a paper from the Serenity Collection. Whilst I was there I also cut out Serenity Kisses. I used the pre-colored image which you can only get as part of the whole collection which is available as a Digi Download or as a CD-Rom.  

Jane – Hi everyone!  I love using punches and dies so this challenge was ideal for me! My make this week is a bauble hanger made using one of the gorgeous images from the fabulous TWIGGY AND TOOTS FESTIVE FUN COLLECTION! The image is called TWIGGY AND TOOTS TRIMMING THE TREE and is available to purchase separately if you wish but you really have to get the whole bundle! Just too many gorgeous things that you NEED!! Have a lovely crafty day! xxx

Lynda: I used the very beautiful Eden Collection for this weeks challenge it's available on a  CD or  as a download collection. The digi I used it called Eden Blossoms,she's so pretty, I used three die cuts to finish off the card, a tree on it side to made a flowery border, the leaves and the oval that frames Miss Blossom. Have Fun xx 

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 29 All About The Girl

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

# 60 Carol Gill 

Please email us at sales@polkadoodles.co.uk quoting DCW029001 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:

# 29 Tilly Trotter 

# 37 Bonnie T 

#68 Kinda Cute Cards 

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wk 31 Crafting Challenge at Digi Choosday - Embellish It

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Happy Choosday everyone!

Of course it’s Digi Choosday and you know what that means - discount day!!!!

Your discount code for this week is:

CHOOSDAY
but this lasts for 24 hours only so make sure you use it before you lose it!!
This will save you 10% across the whole of the download store! 

Now onto the new challenge!

Embellish It! 
So we want to see lots of lovely embellishments on your makes, whether they are shop bought ones, or hand made ones, even digital ones, we want to see them all.

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 18^th August 2015 and the winners will be announced on 25^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 28 can be found at the bottom of this post.

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

You know we have been asking for GDT’s to join us for a few challenges, well today we are joined by the lovely Julie Odil and Audrey (HippieAud).

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

Julie - This is my first make as a GDT for this team and I'm so happy to be here! I've taken up the violin again after nearly 30 years of not touching it, so I wanted to color this cutie Violin Girl. The free sentiment from the store worked perfectly with this, as did the music papers.

Audrey - This is also my first make for this DT and I too am so happy to be here! On my card I have used the Eden Blossoms Image. The papers and embellishments are also from the Eden Collection.

Scatty Jan For my Embelish it card I decided to use the wonderful Twiggy and Toots Festive collection. I love using this collection it really is so much fun and there really is stacks to use on it.  Everything on my card is from the collection all that was added was a sprinkling of Diamond stickles, a wee tiny cracker and a large pearl. If you love decorating your Christmas cards you just can not miss out on this collection, there really is something for everyone.

Anjie -  I decided to use this image that I have had coloured up for a while, it is the Gymnast or ribbon twirling girl. She is also available as part of the Work and Play 11 collection which you can get as a digi download or CD. I coloured her with my Prisma pencils when I had just got them for practice. The papers are also from the same collection as are the flowers and the borders.

Monica.-For my project, I´m using cutting files. The dress form and the sewing machine are from Picknix1-All Sewn Up Dowload bundle, as well as the patter paper and the sentiment. I just weld both cutting files. For the flowers, I used another cutting file "Flowers 3"; and for the vines and leaves, I used "Ivy 1". 

Wendy - For this weeks card, I've used the clock cutting file as the base card and just cut an extra hole through the centre to give an aperture. The birdhouse image is one of the digistamps from the Picnix - In the Garden collection, as are all the flowers, sign, flower pots and bugs, as well as the backing paper. You can also get this collection as part of the complete Picnix 1 and is combined with two other kits.

Jane – Hi everyone! A bit different from me this week as there is no image to colour!! Blimey! I decided to decorate and embellish an MDF shape to create a wall hanging using the super awesome WINSTON DELUXE FULL COLLECTION! I added mini buttons, Stickles and some die-cut swirls to finish the look!  Simple!! Have a lovely crafty day! xxx

Tanya - After having quite a big break from colouring I’ve been tempted back to it by the lovely Eden Collection and have used Eden Blossoms and have embellished a hard back plain looking note book.  I love my stationery and love note books and have quite a few of them, but none are as pretty as this.  I’ve used the black and white digi and coloured her with Graph It Pens and have used two lots of the papers and some butterflies from the collection and finished off the note book with some twine and glitter and glossy accents and some white Liquid Pearls.

Yvonne - Hello! For this weeks make I used Oddella Fairy from the Ickyinks Collection - you can view it here, or get Oddella Fairy here.  The papers are from the Serenity Collection, you can see the fabby dabby here. I picked these three papers from Bundle 1, which is available as a download in itself.  The embellishments are from Octavia Moonfly, you can see the whole range here.

Emma - For my Embellish it card I thought I would do a wedding card as I find these are the best for embellishing. I have used the super gorgeous Bride from the Love & Kisses collection, you can find her Here. All of the papers, embellishments & coach have all come from the full Love & Kisses collection that can be found Here.

Aunty Sue - For my Embellish it card I have used Serenity Blossom from Serenity Fairy Wishes which you can purchase as a digi HERE or the full download which has these fab papers I have used on it too HERE.I have embellished my card with Diecuts ,Flowers, Ribbon, and Pearls

Lynda: This week I used the gorgeous Picknix Collection 2: Gingerbread Twist, it's' available on a CD or as a download collection.I was so surprised to find this lovely Robin, it's perfect for traditional Christmas card. The paper and embellishments are all from this collection. I think the snowflake paper is going to be my goto paper this year. Have Fun xx

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 28 Use something Old....

The winner chosen at random by www.random.org is: # #22 Hazel 

Please email us at sales@polkadoodles.co.uk quoting DCW028001 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:

1 Lucy Patrick 

# 11 Tiziana B 

#23 Linda Kleman

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