Week 17 - Things With Wings - Crafting Challenge at Digi Choosday

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Happy Choosday everyone!

Your discount code for this week is:

SAVE30

which will save you 30% off
selected INDIVIDUAL (NOT COLLECTIONS) digi stamp downloads when you spend over £2.25 for today only *EXPIRES 26/4/2016

Just enter the code in the shop HERE 

The fabulous Nikky Hall will be on your TV tomorrow at 10am on Create & Craft TV in the UK, so make sure you remember to set your telly box to record the show as it'll be another show you won't want to miss (we promise you!!).  She has a lot instore to show you for what we think will be another fabulous sell out show featuring wonderful demos from Nikky and samples from the Design Team too. 

You can view the show online right HERE  for seven days following the show if you miss it first time round….but we’re sure you won’t do that!!  And in the meantime here’s a quick reminder about where you can get the latest Winnie collections…

WINNIE FRUIT PUNCH available HERE 

and WINNIE SUGAR SPRINKLES available HERE

                                                                                                           

Now onto the new challenge:

Things With Wings

We would like to see you make lovely card or a scrapbook layout, a gift or even a piece of home décor that includes something with wings… such as a bird, butterfly, bee, fairy, plane… 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 top bar if you need to.

We give you two weeks to enter so that means the CLOSING DATE  IS 10th May 2016

and the winners will be announced on 17th May 2016.
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 14 can be found at the bottom of this post.

So let’s see what the design team have made for us... and we're starting off with a tutorial from Hippi....

Audrey - For my creation today I chose Eden Fairy Wings which can be purchased as a single image or in the Eden Download Collection Big Kahuna Bundle.  Image is colored with Copics, I used a technique known as feathering to combine 2 colors on her wings.  I have a tutorial on how to achieve this effect on my blog.  I then cut out using an offset border on my Cameo. I have also included a detailed explanation how I accomplished this cut on my blog.  I made a pencil holder this time around.  I have additional photos on my blog with all the pencils in the holder, but wanted a better view of my image here.   I chose papers and embellies from  Winnie Fruit Punch Big Bundle Download to finish off my Things with Wings creation, sure hope you like it.  Hugs:)

Anjie - I've used the oh so cute Lily Bug Love collection. I've used a pre-coloured image but you can also get her in black and white for you to colour in  HERE. The papers and embellies are also from the same collection. I've used a distress tool to slightly distress the edges of the card and paper layers, and mounted the image and the embellies onto 3D foam. More photos on my blog.

Jane – Hello! I have made a wall hanger today using some of the uber scrumptious embellishments from the LAVENDER TEA collection! I adore this download it uses my all-time fave colour combo! Deeeelish!! Have a lovely crafty day! xxx

Monica- For this make, I used the puzzle pieces included on Twiggy & Toots regular collection to make a frame for the lovely precoloured Toots digi and finally added a beautiful and wise sentiment.

Fiona - This week for my design team make I have used the fabulous lily love bug digital stamp lily bug heart balloon  I have also used backing paper and embellishments from the fantastic winnie fruit punch cd  I so love these collections and its great how you can use different kits together.

Tanya - This week I've made a shadow box with an opening for the bees from the Winnie Fruit Punch Collection which is available HERE on download and HERE on CD.  The papers and the flowers and the sentiment used are also from the collection.  More details can be found on my blog.

 

Great makes from the DT I’m sure you will agree, we have some great ideas for you this week!

Winner Week 14 Anything Goes Challenge

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

# 50 Vannessa

Please email us at sales@polkadoodles.co.uk  quoting DCW014001 to claim your prize of £5 worth of downloads from the digi store!   Grab your Badge from the top of the page to display on your blog.

 Top 3 Design Team Favourites:
#46 Jana K, #50  Vannessa, #51 Carrie Sheridan

THIS WEEK'S FEATHER IN A CAP GOES TO:

#38 Mrs T
#66 Carole J
these are our Top 2 fave entries that used a Polkadoodles image   

Well done Feathery friends! You have all been added to the Feathery league board - so now you can put a Feather in Your Cap and use our Feather badge on your blogs! 

Each week the league board will be updated so we can all keep track and at the end of the season our Winning Featherist will receive a special Polkadoodles prize! 

Thank you all so much for your entries, it means so much to us that you join us each week.

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Week 16 - Tic Tac Toe Challenge - Crafting Challenge at Digi Choosday

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Happy Choosday everyone, it’s 

Your discount code for this week is:

CHOOSDAY30

which will save you 30% off
INDIVIDUAL STAMP downloads (not bundles)

when you spend over £2.25 for 24 hours only (expires 7am GMT 20/4/16)
Just enter the code in the shop HERE

Our latest release WINNIE FRUIT PUNCH is available HERE and WINNIE SUGAR SPRINKLES available HERE....

                                                           

Now onto the new challenge...

 Tic Tac Toe

We want to see your makes that use any 3 or more of the following items from the grid below....

 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 top bar if you need to.

We give you two weeks to enter so that means the CLOSING DATE IS 3^rd May 2016

and the winners will be announced on 10th May 2016
PRIZE: 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 13 can be found at the bottom of this post.

So let’s see what the design team have made for us AND we're starting off with a tutorial by Jane....

Jane – Hello! My tutorial today shows how I made this shaped card.  Pop over to my blog to see how I did it! To decorate I have used the gorgeous LEMONADE FIZZ which has the most beautiful colour palette. My Tic Tac Toe line is the diagonal one…Wings – Nature – Sentiment.  Have a lovely crafty day! xxx

Anjie - I've used the fab Winnie Fruit Punch collection again, and that cute fat Bee I'm in love with! I fussy cut the Bees, the sentiment and flowers and leaf. I used a clear Wink Of Stella pen on the Bees wings to make them sparkle, you can just about see it on the photo. 

Monica.-For my tic tac toe make, I will go for the bottom horizontal line. And I´m using the lovely Octavia Moonfly Collection that is full of flowers and butterflies... just what I need :o)

Tanya - So for this week's tic tac toe challenge I've used the vertical column Sentiment, Flower, Lace to make my bright butterfly card from the Winnie Fruit Punch Collection.  The flowers and sentiment are from the collection too.  You can find details of what I coloured the butterfly with on my blog.

Audrey went with the column on the far right as well using Sentiment, Lace, Flower from tic tac toe board.  I chose all my elements from Winnie Fruit Punch Big Bundle Download - my image, paper, embellies, frame and sentiment.  Make sure you pop on over to my blog for the details on how I made my card.

 inside of card

Fiona - This week for the tic tac toe challenge I have made a tag for my make I decided to use the diagonal line wings, sentiment and nature. I have used the fantastic winnie fruit punch cd  and various different embellishments from it. The cd is marvellous for all crafting needs. More details on my blog.

 Gail - For the Tic Tac Toe challenge,  I chose the line with wings, tag and flowers so the Lavender Tea Stamp Soup CD-Rom seemed the perfect choice for this project.

Great makes from the DT I’m sure you will agree, we have some great ideas for you this week!

WINNER WEEK 13 SPRING COLOURS:

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

# 29 Bettina - congratulations!

Please email us at sales@polkadoodles.co.uk quoting DCW013001 to claim your prize of £5 worth of downloads from the digi store!    Grab your Winners Badge from the tab at the top of the page to display on your blog:

TOP 3 DESIGN TEAM FAVOURITES ARE:

# 29 Bettina

# 40 Susan Kennedy

# 14 Carol Gill

Grab your badge from the Winners Badges tab at the top of the page! 

This week the FEATHER IN THE CAP AWARD goes to:

#25 Lucy Patrick

#34 Jeanette Hurst (Facebook Entry number 1)

these are our Top 2 fave entries that used a Polkadoodles image!

Well done Feathery friends! 
You have all been added to the Feathery league board - so now you can put a Feather in Your Cap and use our Feather badge on your blogs! 

Each week the league board will be updated so we can all keep track and at the end of the season our Winning Featherist will receive a special Polkadoodles prize! 

Thank you all so much for your entries, it means so much to us that you join us each week.

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Wk 15 - Emboss It - Crafting Challenge at Digi Choosday

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Happy Choosday everyone.

It’s Digi Choosday and you know what that means....

Your discount code for this week is:

UL776M8L12

which will save you 25% off selected digi stamp downloads 

when you spend over £2.25 for today only *EXPIRES 12/04/2016

Just enter the code in the shop HERE

Our latest release WINNIE FRUIT PUNCH is available HERE and WINNIE SUGAR SPRINKLES available HERE

This week the challenge is ....
 Embossing – Dry or Heat Embossed

We want to see any of your crafting creations that include either heat or dry embossing or maybe both.  How about using a new embossing folder you’ve not used before or some of that lovely sparkly embossing powder you’ve got in your stash to make a lovely card or a scrapbook layout, a gift or even a piece of 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 top bar if you need to.

We give you two weeks to enter so that means the CLOSING DATE IS 26th April 2016 and the winners will be announced on 3^rd May 2016

PRIZE: 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 12 can be found at the bottom of this post.

So let’s see what the design team have made for us, starting off with a tutorial by Monica...

Monica.- This week is my turn to make the tutorial. To achieve this challenge theme, I´m making an aluminum foil embossed background colour with alcohol inks. And this is how I did it:

Once the background was dry, I made a tag with one of the jewels included on Eden Collection. The beutiful digi, paper and sentiment are also included in this collection.

Anjie - I've chosen to use dry embossing. I cut this card out and then used the A5 Honeycomb Tattered Lace die to emboss the background of the card.  I printed lots and lots of embellies from the fabulous new Winnie Fruit Punch collection and I spent a very enjoyable hour or so fussy cutting all the bits out. I glued the honeycomb border on and put all the rest of the bits onto 3D foam to give some dimension to them. More pics and details on my blog.

Here is a close up so you can see the embossed background, and get a closer look at that cute Bee!

Gail - I'm continuing with my art journal and created a page using images from the Lavender Tea Stamp Soup collection, the butterfly and quote are from the digital collection but I also used the Stamp Soup stamp sets, Lavender Tea and Lemonade Fizz, in the background too. I used embossing paste and stencils to create the texture in the background, more info over on my blog.

Jane – Hello! There is both wet and dry embossing on my make today, hope you can see it! J  I have used the newly released and oh so gorgeous WINNIE FRUIT PUNCH!  Have a lovely crafty day! 

Fiona - Hi everyone this weeks challenge is wet or dry embossing. For this weeks make I have used a precoloured image from the fantastic Winnie fruit Punch cd she is such an adorable character. Papers and embellishments all available on the cd.

Tanya   Hello everybody.  This week I've used some heat embossing with some frontage powders over the top of some Pan Pastel Stencilling and combined it with some flowers from the Lemonade Fizz collection.  More details and close up photos on my blog.

Audrey chose image, papers are flowers plus 2 birds from one of the design sheets from the Winnie Fruit Punch big bundle download collection and sentiment from one of the design sheets found in Winnie Sugar Sprinkles Springtime full download collection  to create this gift bag.  I used both dry and heat embossing.  All other details available on my blog.  Hugs!

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 12 Flower Frenzy Challenge

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

# 9 Pat K

Please email us at sales@polkadoodles.co.uk quoting DCW012001 to claim your prize of £5 worth of downloads from the digi store!   Here is your new Winners Badge to display on your blog:

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

# 35  Bernadet

# 37 Carol J

#4 Marjeta

Here is your Top 3 badge to display on your blog:

TOP 3 FAVOURITE FEATHER CHOICES

These are our Top 3 fave entries that used a Polkadoodles image   

#35 Bernadet

#39 Lucy

#37 Carole

Well done Feathery friends! You have all been added to the Feathery league board - so now you can put a Feather in Your Cap and use our Feather badge on your blogs! 

Each week the league board will be updated so we can all keep track and at the end of the season our Winning Featherist will receive a special Polkadoodles prize! Thank you all so much for your entries, it means so much to us that you join us each week.

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Week 14 - Anything Goes - Crafting Challenge at Digi Choosday

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Happy Choosday everyone.

It’s Digi Choosday and you know what that means....

Your discount code for this week is:

UL776M8L50JO

which will save you 25% off selected digi stamp downloads 

when you spend over £2.25 for today only *EXPIRES 5/4/2016

Just enter the code in the shop HERE

We hope you were around at the weekend to join in the launch party for the brand new Winnie Fruit Punch Collection.  The design team had such fun sharing their new makes with you all to inspire you and get your creative juices flowing and we cant wait for you to share your makes with us.  Nikky has pulled out all the stops to bring you more of Winnie's adventures and this time she's been shopping and dancing and climbing trees and lots of other cute things.  The collection is available as a download full collection and on CD and lots of little collections too.  The digis, toppers and embellishments are ready for you to just colour, print and cut.  Seriously cute!!
You can check her out right HERE

And don't forget about the new Stamp Soup Collections  - Lavender Tea and Lemonade Fizz and the co-ordinating CD’s .  The Stamp Soup and CD collections are now on pre-order on the website so hurry and bag yours now before they all go whoosh again!!  You can also buy the CD’s on their own for each collection and there are also downloadable versions available too.

All the details are HERE

JUST BEFORE WE GET TO THE CHALLENGE WE'RE ONTO OUR THIRD WEEK OF MAKING THINGS A LITTLE MORE INTERESTING FOR YOU WITH OUR EXTRA CHALLENGE EVERY WEEK CALLED
FEATHER IN MY CAP
Basically we will be awarding Special Feathers to our favourite Top 3 entries that use a Polkadoodles image and you will be entered onto the Feathery League Board - this is so fun, so check out the RULES on the tab at the top of the page HERE - you even get a Feathery badge if you're awarded a feather!

Now onto the new challenge from us here at Digi Choosday.
This week the challenge we have set is
Anything Goes
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 top bar if you need to.

We give you two weeks to enter so that means the CLOSING DATE IS 19th April 2016

and the winners will be announced on 26^th April 2016. 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 11 can be found at the bottom of this post.

So let’s see what the design team have made for us and we're starting off with a tutorial from Fiona...

Fiona - Hi Everyone for todays make I have made a box card using the fantastic Winnie Sugar sprinkles cd and some of the gorgeous toppers available on this wonderful cd.  I so adore this wonderful character. I have also been asked to do a tutorial for this week with full details on my blog.

Tanya - Hello everybody.  For this week's challenge I've used the Lemonade Fizz Collection which is available on CD and download HERE and HERE to make a 21st birthday card for one of my friends.  She deserved something pretty and special and so I've decoupaged the flowers either side of a beautiful photograph of her.  More photos and details on my blog.

Audrey chose Barista Coffee/Cake digi image, which can be found in Work and Play Volume 12 Big Kahuna Digital Collection, and made a chocolate bar wrapper.  I chose papers, frame and 2 sentiments from Winnie Sugar Sprinkles Springtime Download Collection.  Sure hope you like it - full details re: my project are available on my blog.

Monica- For my make I used the colorful strawberry pot included  on the brand new Winnie Fruit Punch collection to make a shaped card. 3d some of the leaves and strawberries, added some 3d butterflies. For the focal point I used one of the gorgeous precoloured toppers and finally one of the banners with "happy birthday" sentiment.

Gail - This week I've created a page in my A5 art journal. I used one of my fav digi stamps

Oddella with handbag part of the Ickyink collection and the fabulous sentiment is from the Stamp Soup Lemonade Fizz CD-Rom. I also used the Stamp Soup stamp sets, Lavender Tea and Lemonade Fizz in the background.

Jane – Hello! Did you manage to join us for the Facebook launch party of Nikky’s brand new collection WINNIE FRUIT PUNCH?   If you didn’t you missed some amazing projects from the design team but don’t worry you can see them all in the Gallery. I made a rocker card this week using this gorgeous new bundle and it really is a must-have! Have a lovely crafty day! xxx 

Lynda: How could I not use the brand new collection, Winnie Fruit Punch, it's so stunning. I love the fact you can buy it on a CD or you can download it to use right away. I made a label for some honey that I was putting in a gift basket :-) 

Anjie- 

I've used the fabulous Lavender Tea download collection again. I've printed one of the images onto water colour card and used my Kuretake Gansai Tambi water colour paints to colour it in. Then I've simply matted and layered onto coordinating card and added a border with a fine liner pen. 

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 11 Thinking Of You Challenge

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

# 13 Sunshinepen

Please email us at sales@polkadoodles.co.uk quoting DCW011001 to claim your prize of £5 worth of downloads from the digi store!   Here Is your new Winners Badge to display on your blog:

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

# 7 Maxibelle Studio

# 2 Billie A

#5 bitsand pieces

So, here is our third TOP 3 FAVOURITE FEATHER CHOICES 

these are our Top 3 fave entries that used a Polkadoodles image   

#7 Maxibelle Studio

#2 Billie A

#16  Carole J

Well done Feathery friends! You have all been added to the league board with our first Feathers - so now you can put a Feather in Your Cap and use our Feather badge on your blogs! 

Each week the league board will be updated so we can all keep track and at the end of the season our Winning Featherist will receive a special Polkadoodles prize! 

Thank you all so much for your entries, it means so much to us that you join us each week.

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