Wednesday, 11 November 2026

Anything Goes International Craft Challenge 11, Week 3 – Digi Choosday Card Making & Papercraft Challenge

  ANYTHING GOES – ANY CRAFT BRAND – EVERY CRAFTER WELCOME - WORLDWIDE

Cards • Papercraft • Scrapbooking • Mixed Media • Digital or Physical Crafting

 Welcome to our current Card making, Craft, Papercraft Scrapbooking challenge...this challenge is open to any crafter, anywhere in the world. You do not have to use Polkadoodles products to enter - all entries are welcome!

••• ••• •••

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 DC35 & will give you
35% 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.
• (If you are outside the UK you will still need to pay any shipping/customs fees if you use your voucher on physical products)
•  The winners will be announced the week after the challenge closes, at the start of the next challenge

Don't miss this brand new release - it's SOOO cute!


Let's see the beautiful projects from the DT this week!

Kathie - Good morning, my crafty friends, and welcome to another Digi Choosday. This fortnight, our design team’s theme is Winter Animals, and I decided to create a Christmas card featuring Pickles Hedgehog and friends. Here in New Zealand, Christmas falls during summer. As a small child, I remember receiving Christmas cards showing snowy scenes and carol singers wrapped up in their winter woollies and looking really cold and we had fans cooling the house. I couldn’t understand why they looked so different from our Christmas and snow on the pavements. I was about four or five when I started asking Mum questions. She explained that when we were enjoying summer in the Southern Hemisphere, the Northern Hemisphere was having winter and when winter arrived for us, it was summer for them. That was quite a lot to get my little head around at such a young age. I used this very cute Polkadoodles image Pickles Hedgehog Snowy Birds. We don’t have Robins here in New Zealand. I always loved seeing them on Christmas cards, nor do we have Squirrels or Snakes. I also used Bella Bear Beary Christmas Set 2 Design Papers and this bundle for the Christmas Greetings. This image is available black & white for you to colour, and it’s also available pre coloured to purchase. I used very traditional colours. The image was coloured with the following Copic Chio markers: C0, C1, W3, W5, YR15, RV10, R27 R29, R45, R59, G05, G07, E02, E08, E33, E35, E59, E95 a black and white gel pens. I was happy how Pickles turned out and I hope you’ve started making your Christmas cards. I look forward to visiting your blogs soon. Happy crafting everyone. You can find my complete instructions on my blog here.


Jane Hello everyone. With Christmas not too far away it is easy to forget that we can have winter birthdays to celebrate too so that is the subject of my circle card today. This gorgeous image is called BEAR & MOUSE SCARF, and I have coloured with Copics after printing onto PERFECT STAMPING AND PRINTING CARD. I used a large circle die to cut around the digi allowing ample space around it to be able to fussy cut the top half and tear away the bottom half, so it looked as if they were standing on a snowy ground. I then used the same size circle as I had used for the image to cut out my backing paper that came from HELLO AUTUMN PRETTY PAPERS SET 5. I created a circle card blank from kraft card and so used kraft card to cut out a couple of trees as well. The pre-coloured sentiment is from the HELLO AUTUMN GREETINGS BUNDLE and after adhering to the top of the card I added some paper-punched snowflakes and dots to finish.

Eve - Hi everyone! For today's card, we were asked to make a card with a pocket, so I decided to use the adorable Bella Bear Christmas Shopping and create a gift card holder for a birthday.As Bella Bear is pre-coloured, I didn't need to get my ProMarkers out this time! I simply printed her out and cut her out using my ScanNCut machine. I then added a narrow mint green border to help her stand out before mounting her onto white card die-cut with a wonky stitch die.The gift card sits inside a pocket made using the Udderly Cute Love digital papers. I also used one of these papers for the pink polka dot background. The pretty white bow comes from the Christmas Cracker Craft Cutting Die Set.The sentiment is from the 109 Winter/Christmas/Birthday Greetings Sentiments – Theo Penguin collection.
To finish off my card, I added some ribbon, gems, machine stitching around the edges and some corner punches. I hope you like it!

Ana - Hello! Today I'm sharing another autumn card featuring Hedgehog Falling Leaves Hello Autumn Colour Digi Stamp from the Hello Autumn Collection! I paired this with the coordinating Hello Autumn Pattern Papers Set A and the "Make It Magical" sentiment for a cheerful card full of autumn magic. I created this project using a card sketch as my inspiration and made a few fun changes to suit the design. If you'd like to see the sketch I used and read more about how this card came together, be sure to visit my blog for all the details: Don't forget to explore the beautiful Hello Autumn Collection and join Digi Choosday! We’d love to see your creations!
For more paper crafting inspiration, come and follow me:
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Facebook: My Cat and Crafts https://www.facebook.com/my.cat.and.crafts
Blog: mycatandcrafts.blogspot.com
Happy crafting!

Paula – I made this darling winter card perfect for that friend who loves to read all winter long. It includes a penguin bookmark that mysteriously fits perfectly inside of the shirt pocket on the front of the card. Once the bookmark is pulled out of the pocket, a funny message is revealed! Hopefully, it makes your friend laugh every time they turn the page of their book. I used this cute Theo Penguin with earmuffs digi, along with these greetings from the same digi set, plus papers from this lovely Mabel collection.  Ink: Distress Oxide in Broken China 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!
https://paulasstudio.blogspot.com/2026/10/winter-card-hiding-bookmark-with.html
https://www.facebook.com/paulasstudiomi
https://www.instagram.com/paulasstudiomi/
https://paulasstudio.blogspot.com/

So many great creative ideas this week - we hope you will all try some of these, we'd love you to share on Socials with us and stop by our blogs to say hello so we can follow you back too...

Thanks so much to the Design Team for their amazing creations!

Join our international card making challenge – everyone welcome!
🇳🇱 Kaarten maken challenge / kaarten challenge
🇩🇪 Karten basteln Challenge / Kartenchallenge
🇫🇷 Challenge carterie / création de cartes
🇮🇹 Challenge cardmaking / creazione di biglietti
🇪🇸 Reto de tarjetería / tarjetas hechas a mano
🇸🇪 Kortmakeri challenge / kortutmaning
🇳🇴 Kortlaging challenge / kortutfordring
🇩🇰 Kortlavning challenge / kortudfordring
🇫🇮 Korttiaskartelu challenge / korttihaaste

We hope we've inspired you to enter the challenge - we'll be back next week with more inspiration for this one - ENTER BELOW:

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter
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Wednesday, 4 November 2026

Anything Goes International Craft Challenge 11, Week 2 – Digi Choosday Card Making & Papercraft Challenge

  ANYTHING GOES – ANY CRAFT BRAND – EVERY CRAFTER WELCOME - WORLDWIDE

Cards • Papercraft • Scrapbooking • Mixed Media • Digital or Physical Crafting

 Welcome to our current Card making, Craft, Papercraft Scrapbooking challenge...this challenge is open to any crafter, anywhere in the world. You do not have to use Polkadoodles products to enter - all entries are welcome!

••• ••• •••

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 DC35 & will give you
35% 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.
• (If you are outside the UK you will still need to pay any shipping/customs fees if you use your voucher on physical products)
•  The winners will be announced the week after the challenge closes, at the start of the next challenge


Let's see the beautiful projects from the DT this week!




KIM - Hi everyone and welcome to another Digi Choosday challenge! Today I’m sharing a sweet festive Christmas project featuring the adorable pre-coloured gingerbread ephemera clipart from the new Christmas at the Cottage release that just dropped. recently. I loved working with the pre-coloured digital images-they make assembling quick holiday cards so easy while keeping everything bright and cheerful. I printed out the pre-coloured ginger girl and boy clipart and carefully fussy cut around the images, leaving a semi neat white margin. To make them sparkle I added a bit of Stickles glitter glue to glam up their details. For the background arch behind the gingerbread pair, I die cut an arch shaped panel which I embossed with a snowflake embossing folder. To make them sparkle snowflakes pop and add texture I smoothed Glitter Kiss paste over the raised snowflakes for a stunning frosty shimmer.
I die cut and 25 December using one of the new Christmas die sets from the Sparkling Christmas release.  Digital paper used: Jolly Santa pack 1 and Theo Penguin pack 2 . Finally I added some Bakers Twine and red gems to finish off this festive Christmas card.
We’d love to see what you created this week. Link up your crafty makes on the Blog and check out all the amazing inspire from the rest of the Design Team. Thank you for stopping by today, and happy crafting.

Ana - I've been on a bit of a technique kick lately! I first wanted to play with mixed media, and this week I had the urge to make an easel card. So today I'm sharing an easel card featuring once again, Winnie Autumn Wishes collection! I love, love the Winnie images, especially the crafting and happy mail themed digi stamps, they're just perfect for us crafty people! For this card, I went all-out Winnie Autumn Wishes from this Crafting Autumn Digi Stamp to pattern papers to sentiments. This card is surprisingly quick and easy to make. It starts with a simple scored card base, then a folded panel layered with patterned papers is attached to create the easel effect. Add your colored Winnie image, pop up the sentiment with foam tape, and you've got a fun interactive card!If you'd like to recreate this card, I've shared the full step-by-step tutorial with all the measurements over on my blog, so be sure to pop over and check it out HERE. I'd also love for you to follow me for more crafty inspiration! You can find me on my blog and across my social media channels, where I share cards, scrapbook layouts, mini albums, tutorials, and plenty more paper crafting projects.Happy crafting!
Instagram: @my.cat.and.crafts www.instagram.com/my.cat.and.crafts
Facebook: My Cat and Crafts https://www.facebook.com/my.cat.and.crafts
Blog: mycatandcrafts.blogspot.com



Natalie - Hello Everyone, I hope you are well. I had a play with Honolulu B Ohuhu markers in the pastel collection. I need more of a play as I like more contrast so it turned out quite bright but I also liked it. It was something different but more play needs to happen ... such a shame...;) I used the Baked With Love - Stocking Filler Digi stamp and sized it quite big. 
Colouring Info:
Ohuhu Markers Honolulu 48 pastel
White - CG01 Cloud Grey and 0 Blender marker
Red - R24 (Copic) and R27
Green - YG17(Copic), G47 and G34
Gingerbread man - Started with CG24 and YGY02 and YGY13
Later changed to E92, Y69 and CG24
Purple - V14, V22 and B21
Yellow - E26, Y45 and Y02
Gingerbread Trim - V14 and RV25
Sign - BG310 and G34

Blog link: https://cherishedcards.blogspot.com/2026/10/polkadoodles-crafts-digi-choosday.html
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/natalieperrywalsh/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100026671784259
Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM4USie0u1w5sAiOWOsKYcw



Vicky - G’Day Crafty Friends, I have a simple & easy Red & Green Christmas card to share with you today. The best thing about digi products, you can change them out to any occasion you want, Christmas, Birthdays, etc & colour them to suit that occasion as I’ve done with the Pretty Poinsettia Flower Holly Digital Stamp which has been coloured with Copic Markers. I’ve teamed the flower with a piece from the Work & Play 10 Collection – Paper Haven Digital Craft Download Bundle which has been randomly chopped into 4 pieces before being adhered to a piece of white cardstock. The sentiment is from the Pretty Poinsettia Flower Holly Digital Stamp.
Copic Markers –Petals – R27, R24, R22
Leaves – G29, G24
Blog – www.vicky-wright.com
FB - https://www.facebook.com/vickywrightdesignsaustralia
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/vickywrightdesigns
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@vickywrightdesigns
Have a crafty day!

So many great creative ideas this week - we hope you will all try some of these, we'd love you to share on Socials with us and stop by our blogs to say hello so we can follow you back too...

Thanks so much to the Design Team for their amazing creations!

Join our international card making challenge – everyone welcome!
🇳🇱 Kaarten maken challenge / kaarten challenge
🇩🇪 Karten basteln Challenge / Kartenchallenge
🇫🇷 Challenge carterie / création de cartes
🇮🇹 Challenge cardmaking / creazione di biglietti
🇪🇸 Reto de tarjetería / tarjetas hechas a mano
🇸🇪 Kortmakeri challenge / kortutmaning
🇳🇴 Kortlaging challenge / kortutfordring
🇩🇰 Kortlavning challenge / kortudfordring
🇫🇮 Korttiaskartelu challenge / korttihaaste

We hope we've inspired you to enter the challenge - we'll be back next week with more inspiration for this one - ENTER BELOW:

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter
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Wednesday, 28 October 2026

Anything Goes International Craft Challenge 11, Week 1 – Digi Choosday Card Making & Papercraft Challenge

 ANYTHING GOES – ANY CRAFT BRAND – EVERY CRAFTER WELCOME - WORLDWIDE

Cards • Papercraft • Scrapbooking • Mixed Media • Digital or Physical Crafting

 Welcome to our current Card making, Craft, Papercraft Scrapbooking challenge...this challenge is open to any crafter, anywhere in the world. You do not have to use Polkadoodles products to enter - all entries are welcome!

••• ••• •••

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.
• (If you are outside the UK you will still need to pay any shipping/customs fees if you use your voucher on physical products)
•  The winners will be announced the week after the challenge closes, at the start of the next challenge


Let's see the beautiful projects from the DT this week!


EVE - Hi everyone! It’s Digi Choosday time again, and this week’s DT theme is Halloween Party!
For my project this week, I decided to make something a little different and created a Halloween wreath. I printed the 40 Cute Autumn Fall Clipart Bundle pre-coloured digital download and then cut all the images out using my ScanNCut machine. I attached the images to a simple wicker wreath (from the Works) and added some battery fairy lights (also from The Works) to give it a little extra sparkle. 
For the sentiments, I used designs from the 160 Hello Autumn Greetings collection. I printed them out and attached them to a selection of punched circles before adding them to the wreath. I finished off my wreath by adding some fake greenery (although the brown berries look like Maltesers!!) and a couple of velvet ribbon bows. I’m really pleased with how it turned out, and it was lovely to make something a little different from my usual cards. Thanks so much for stopping by and taking a look at my project.

Paula – I host a monthly craft night with friends and each month has a theme. October is Halloween and I set up a hot beverage station for tea, cocoa, and coffee. A perfect selection of beverages for the season with some extra attention to detail. I make little signs for my log stand each month and I chose Pumpkin Spices o it can be used for the entire Autumn season. My guests love to check out all the little surprises they may find. I used the Creepy printable papers and ephemera to make this project.
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!
https://www.facebook.com/paulasstudiomi
https://www.instagram.com/paulasstudiomi/
https://paulasstudio.blogspot.com/

Ana - Hello, crafty friends! I'm excited to share another card featuring another cute Polkadoodles Hello Autumn character, the super adorable Hedgehog Witch! I matched this digi with a card designed with strips of coordinating Hello Autumn Pattern Papers Set A. I once again used a card sketch as the inspiration for this design and added a few personal touches to make it my own. If you'd like to see the sketch I used and learn more about how I created this card, be sure to visit my blog for all the details!Don't forget to explore the Hello Autumn Collection and join the latest Digi Choosday Challenge. We'd love to see what you create!

For more crafty inspiration, come and follow me:

Instagram: @my.cat.and.crafts www.instagram.com/my.cat.and.crafts
Facebook: My Cat and Crafts https://www.facebook.com/my.cat.and.crafts
Blog: mycatandcrafts.blogspot.com
Happy crafting!

Kathie - Good morning and welcome to all my crafty friends and welcome to another Digi Choosday. This fortnight our design team’s theme is Halloween but not a card. I knew I had to put my thinking cap on for this project, for someone who has never ever been to a Halloween party it was a hard one. I thought of my son’s birthday parties over the years and I always had treat bags for all their friends when they left. The boys go sweets and a Matchbox Vehicle and the girls got sweets, bangles, pretty pens and rubbers that had a perfume and a note pad. This is where my idea for a handmade treat bag came from for Halloween. Today I’ve used these very cute Polkadoodles images from Creepy Creatures, Mummy Dress Up Costume and Bat. This image comes black & white for you to colour, and it’s also available pre coloured to purchase. Both images that I used were pre-coloured. I feel guilty that I didn’t colour these myself but as I’m super busy at present like all of us I decided on pre-coloured images which I printed and fussy cut them by hand. The treat bag was made from Halloween Trick or Treat printable paper and fastened with a black satin ribbon and bow. I look forward to visiting your blogs soon. Happy crafting everyone. You can find my complete instructions on my blog here.
Kathie’z Kardz https://kathiezkardz.blogspot.com/
Products I used: 
Creepy Creatures Bat
Mummy Dress Up Costume
Gnome Trick or Treat Halloween Printable Papers

Jane - Hello everyone. I have made a cute little treat bag this time using elements from the fabulous HELLO AUTUMN collection. The main image is called TRICK OR TREAT BEAR & BUNNY, and it is so beautifully pre-coloured that I didn’t even try to colour it myself (saves a bit of time too). I used Word to place the coloured image onto one of the amazing AUTUMN BACKGROUND SCENES and added a light shadow around it. I decided that this cute couple should be up to magical mayhem in the woods so added the bubbling cauldron image from the AUTUMN CLIP ART COLLECTION and inserted a sentiment from the GREETINGS BUNDLE that I recoloured to white so it would stand out in the background. Once printed I tore around my little scene and added it to a gift bag with some cobweb dies and a potion bottle and spell book also from the AUTUMN CLIP ART COLLECTION.

Wendy - Hello everyone I hope the week is going well. Are you all ready to celebrate Halloween ? Perhaps you are going trick to treating or maybe hosting a Halloween party? How about a little spooky crafting for the night...I have made a fun Halloween door hanger/sign that was super easy and quick to create. I started off with a piece of packaging card, it's the type that has a corrugated centre and carefully ripped away the top paper layer in sections to expose the card below. Then I covered the front and back of the cardboard with black gesso. Next I fastened strips of patterned paper from the Creepy Creatures collection onto the cardboard, adding small pieces of gauze in between the layers of paper. I used some large alphabet dies to cut out the letters from gold glitter card and adhered these across the sign in a wonky style, using foam tape for some and glue on others to give different heights. I printed out two of the cute coloured pumpkins from the clipart bundle and one of the spooky sentiments, fussy cutting these out and adhering to the sign, adding a little orange distress ink to the sentiment. Finishing touches for my sign were black card die cut splats, covered with black sparkle, splattering a black sparkle over the sign, glossy accents to the pumpkins googly eyes and black gems.
I hope you like my Halloween project and will join in the fun in the blog challenge this week. Have a fantastic week and Happy Halloween 
Love and Crafty hugs from Wendy
Products I used:
Creepy Creatures Papers - paper bundle 1c
Creepy Creatures Papers - paper bundle 1b
Creepy Creatures Papers - coloured clipart bundle
I would love it if you could follow me on social: https://olivefarmcrafts.blogspot.com/

Wow, so many great Halloween ideas this week - we hope you will all try some of these, we'd love you to share on Socials with us and stop by our blogs to say hello so we can follow you back too...

Thanks so much to the Design Team for their amazing creations!

WINNERS - CHALLENGE 10
PRIZES: 
1 x Random winner of a $20 voucher 

The winner is:

 Congratulations! You won a $25 credit to spend in the Polkadoodles store, on anything you wish including physical products.
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE:
Please contact us via the website CHAT on the homepage quoting DCW10001 to claim your prize before 16 Nov 2026...(If you do not already have an account registered at www.polkadoodles.com please register so we can issue a credit to your account - if you pre-register it will save time arranging your credit). 
Allow 28 days for a response to your claim, please do not keep emailing, your claim will be dealt with as soon as possible.

Top 2 DT Favourite winners
2 x Winners of a $10 voucher

The winners are:


HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE:
Please contact us via the website CHAT on the homepage quoting DCW10012 to claim your prize before 16 Nov 2026...(If you do not already have an account registered at www.polkadoodles.com please register so we can issue a credit to your account - if you pre-register it will save time arranging your credit). 
Allow 28 days for a response to your claim, please do not keep emailing, your claim will be dealt with as soon as possible.

Join our international card making challenge – everyone welcome!
🇳🇱 Kaarten maken challenge / kaarten challenge
🇩🇪 Karten basteln Challenge / Kartenchallenge
🇫🇷 Challenge carterie / création de cartes
🇮🇹 Challenge cardmaking / creazione di biglietti
🇪🇸 Reto de tarjetería / tarjetas hechas a mano
🇸🇪 Kortmakeri challenge / kortutmaning
🇳🇴 Kortlaging challenge / kortutfordring
🇩🇰 Kortlavning challenge / kortudfordring
🇫🇮 Korttiaskartelu challenge / korttihaaste

We hope we've inspired you to enter the challenge - we'll be back next week with more inspiration for this one - ENTER BELOW:

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter
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