wk 25 Crafting Challenge at Digi Choosday - Tag it!

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Happy Choosday again everyone!

Before we get onto this weeks challenge we have some new releases to share with you. The fabulous Nikky has only gone and drawn us some Fairytale characters! To say they are lush is an understatement, just look at them! 

GUEST DESIGNER CALL

Before we get onto this weeks challenge we need to let you know 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 lovely Louise Sims and Jenny Lowton joining us. 

We are also celebrating this week the fact that Wendy and Julie have been on the team with us a whole year! How they have put up with us is beyond me, maybe they are as mad as the rest of us?

Now onto this week's business.

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

Your discount code for this week is:

DCD236
and this will save you a
HUGE 20% 
off all downloads in the store until 25th June so make sure you don't miss this code, it's only valid for 48hours! 

Now onto the new challenge from us here at Digi Choosday. The challenge we have for you this week is to 
use a tag
You can make a tag, you can make a tag shaped card, you can make a card that has a tag on it, anything at all as long as it features a tag somewhere on it.

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 7^th July 2015 

and the winners will be announced on 14^th July 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 22 can be found at the bottom of this post.

So let’s see what the design team have made for us starting with the GDT's....

Lou: I have made a tag card from a DL card by just removing the corners. I think one of my favourite Polka Doodles paper collections comes from Dollie Goes East collection; so varied and versatile. I have used lots of the elements and sentiments to create my card. I did also sneak in a little tag too.

Jenny - Hi it's good to be joining you this week and I love tags but rarely use them so this challenge was perfect for me. I have used one of the lovely digi's from the Serenity collection and she is Serenity Resting you can find her here.

I have used some pencils and Graph'it pens and I think she really looks like she has been tangoed!

Anjie - I have made the tag out of some Kraft card and then the papers, embellies and sentiments are all from the fabulous Picknix 2 Gingerbread Twist collection. I have used the Tea Dye distress ink to darken the edges of everything and added some faux stitching onto the papers. The 2 Picknix collections are available as smaller downloads and some even as physical paper stacks, which are so strokeable! You can find them all HERE. More details on my blog.

Scatty Jan For my tag this week I have used Oddella Twig , how adorable is she!!  I have coloured her up with Graph'It Markers, trying a nice bright red hair, For my base paper for my tag I used Distressed Wood paper pack download, loving this paper it really is so versatile. I added some Dewdrops, ribbon, buttons, gems and a charm to finish

Tanya - I love making tags because they can be elaborately or simply decorated and it gives you a chance to use lots of the little embellishments you may have lying around in your craft room. I’ve decided to use the  Dollie Goes East collection and have used three of the coloured digis which I’ve resized in a graphics package and printed out and then used some of the lovely papers available on the collection with the flowers which I’ve resized as well to go onto some Kraft Card tags and finished them off with glitter, gems and ribbon and lace.  I’ve made these three tags so that they can be used as cards so I printed off three different envelopes (also on the collection) and they will be just great for the tags and are just the right size too.

Jane – Hi everyone!  Well I made a tag easel card for my project this week involving a total of 4 tags!! All the elements are part of the beautiful SERENITY COLLECTION which is a must-have for all you fairy lovers out there!! The gorgeous image, SERENITY PRINCESS, comes as part of this collection but can also be purchased separately!  Have a lovely crafty day! xxx

Monica.-For this week challenge, I chose a beautiful shaped tag and cut it different sizes to make a tag mini album. For my mini album I used the beautiful papers, embellisments, flowers and sentiment from Octavia Moonfly Collection.

Caz Hi everyone, for my Tag i have used the lovely Oddella Bow. Gone a bit different and coloured grey tones, using my Graph it  markers..Paper is from Distressed Wood Paper download. I've added couple of skull flourishes cut on portrait.

Yvonne - I HAD to use Oddella again because it has been tooooo long since I played with her! So I opted for Oddella Heart. Soooo sweet! You can see her here.  I used a scalloped heart nesting cutting file that I cut out three hearts of.  I used a backing paper from the Picknix Gingerbread Twist Collection, which you can see here.  Not just for Christmas! 

Wendy - Well seeing as it's my 1st anniversary this week for being on this fabby team, I gone all out and used not 1 but 4 images. (Greedy, I know!) I've used Octavia Bird in Hand on the front and the 3 other images on the tags inside are all from Octavia Moonfly. The papers and sentiments are all from this collection, however they can also be found in mini kits on the Octavia Collections page.

Emma - For my 'Tag it' card I have made a card that is a tag shape, i have used Oddella Fairy who can be found Here & have coloured up using my pencils. All of the papers are from the Work & Play 9 - Love & Kisses collection that can be found Here, the sentiment & flower are from another of the fab collections called Octavia Moonfly which can be found Here.

Julie - I decided to make a card using my Sizzix large tag die and some Kraft card, I am really into Kraft  at the moment. The perfect digi download to go with Kraft card has to be the delightful Twiggy and Toots full download collection (also available on CD) which I have used for the coloured images, digi bows, sentiment ticket and gorgeous dotty paper. The owl images are also available singly in the Digi Download Store  Hats Off Twiggy, Tea for Twooo, Dancing Queen

I just added some gingham ribbon through 2 tag holes and brown dotty organza ribbon through the other 2 holes.

Lynda: For this weeks challenge I decided to use the gorgeous Work & Play 11 Collection, it's available on a CD or as a digital collection.  The Skateboarding digi stamp is available to buy here.  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 22 Use Some Kraft Card

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

# 24 Vannessa 

Please email us at sales@polkadoodles.co.uk quoting DCW022001 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:

# 5 Party Sue 2 

# 22 Sarah-J W 

#24 Vannessa 

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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 23 Fathers day/Male - Digi Choosday Crafting Challenge

Happy Choosday everyone!

As it's a Digi Choosday that means one thing... DISCOUNT DAY! WHOOP WHOOOP!

Your special discount code today is 

UBDK57
and when you enter this at the checkout you will save 15% on all our 
FULL Download Collections 
(not individual digis).....Don't miss out, this offer expires on 14th June!

So make sure you go and grab a bargain now before it disappears! 

Make sure you do check in with us every Tuesday at 8am to grab your new codes - they are only listed here at Digi Choosday!

Now onto the new challenge...
our theme for you this week is 
Fathers day/Male

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 23rd June 2015 and the winners will be announced on 30^thJune 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 20 Add a Bow can be found at the bottom of this post.

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

Scatty Jan  For todays make I have used a design sheet from the Work and Play 11 collection also as a download collection here - I love using the design sheets exspecially for male cards as I find them hard to do and these sheets take away a lot of the thinking - All pre coloured too so a super quick card. All that was added to this one was an extra backing paper and the word laptop which you can find in the emblie section - I also added a small picture of work and play 11 onto the computer screen

Kate - Now I'm one of those who struggles and doesn't like making male cards, although I better get used to it as at the moment we have more boys in my family than girls. I decided this challenge would be the perfect time for me to make my husbands Fathers day card from our 2 furbabies, and there was no better image to use than the Gamekeeper from the Work & Play 10 collection. Full details are on my blog

Yvonne - Hello there! I loved loved loved colouring 'Skater Boy' from Work & Play 11 with my polychromos pencils for a sample for a recent Create & Craft show Nikky was on a few weeks ago, so thought I would share him with you today. The papers, sentiment and embellishment are all from the same collection which you can get as a digi download collection or as a CD-Rom. Alternatively you can get the single digi here.

Tanya ...For this week’s challenge I’ve used a total of three collections Work & Play 7  for the coloured digi, Work & Play 11 for the papers and Work & Play 9 Love Collection  for the scrabble tiles.  My simple card shows how versatile the coloured digis and papers are and that you don’t have to be an expert colourist (is that even a word….ha ha ha) to make an effective and beautiful card.  I’ve made it for my dad, so, shhhh….don’t tell him.

Dawn I have used Plumber. Mechanic digi stamp from the Work & Play 11 collection, This can also be bought as a separate digi stamp here. I have coloured it with Polychromo pencils & the paperrs used are also from the same collection. These are perfect for those always hard to do male cards.

Jane – Hi everyone!  For my Father’s Day card I used the super cute HOLIDAYS DIGI STAMP which reminds me of my dad when he was younger and how he used to sit in the garden with a knotted hanky on his head! This gorgeous image is also available as part of the WORK AND PLAY 3 BUNDLE.  I also used plenty of dies to create a tranquil outdoors scene.  Have a lovely crafty day! xxx

Monica - My project for this Father Day is a "Pocket protector slide card" for the Geek Dad (everybody has at least one in the family). I used Horace, that is also included on Cherryblossom Lane collection. The papers I used are from the same collection.

Julie - I decided to make a shaped card this week using Polkadoodles Winston Digi Download, this image is called Gone Fishing and is available, in outline only, singly in the Digi Download store HERE On the CD and in the download there is also a coloured version which is what I have used here. The spotty kraft paper, buttons, Gone Fishing sign and sentiment are also from the Winston digi download/CD, I used Gathered Twigs distress ink around the edges of the paper.

Wendy - For my box card, I've gone back a few collections to Work & Play 1 and used Handyman Dave, who is also available as an individual digi here. All the embellies & the sentiment are also from the same collection, as is the wood effect paper.

Emma - For my Father/Male card I have kept it pretty simple as i know the male of the spiecies doesn't like all the fiddly bits & bobs that us women like. I have coloured up the sweet little Karate Boy stamp that can be found Here, i have used one of the papers that go with the Work & Play 7 set that you can find in download form Here or in CD form Here.

Anjie - I have used the Handyman image from the Work and Play 11 download collection. The image is available on it's own HERE. I have used Prisma pencils to colour him. All the papers, embellies and borders are all from the same collection.

Great makes from everyone I’m sure you will agree.

Now for the winner and top three from week 20!

The winner chosen at random by www.random.org is:
# 8 -  Jennifer
Please email us at sales@polkadoodles.co.uk quoting DCW020001 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:

#14 -Frouwkje

#35- Maya

#41-Lucy

See you all next week!

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wk 21 Pretty in Purple - Digi Choosday Crafting Challenge

Happy Choosday everyone.

We hope you all had a lovely Bank Holiday weekend and hope you all got some lovely weather.

As it's a Digi Choosday that means one thing...
DISCOUNT DAY! WHOOP WHOOOP!
Your special discount code today is
DCTM1
and you can use this from 8am today till midnight to get 20% off all downloads on the website!

So make sure you go and grab a bargain now before it disappears! 

Make sure you do check in with us every Tuesday at 8am to grab your new codes - they are only listed here at Digi Choosday!

Before we get onto the challenge we have another new release to share with you.

It’s called Serenity and has some adorable images on and the papers are lush as always! You can find the full download collection HERE, and the CD HERE  
There is also a new mini download of Distressed Wood Papers which you can find HERE.

Now onto the new challenge from us here at Digi Choosday. The challenge we have for you this week is “Pretty In Purple” So we want to see lots of purple on your creations.

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 9^th June 2015 

and the winners will be announced on 16^thJune 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 18 can be found at the bottom of this post.

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

Scatty Jan  For todays Purple project I have used the Eden collection and coloured up Eden Fairy Wings also available as a digi here. I have coloured up using polychromos. The Paper used and all the elements are all from the lovely collection.

Monica The new "Work & Play 11 Collection" has the perfect papers, elements and characters to fulfill this challenge. I made a strech card with the lovely little skulls purple papers. To decor my card front, I used the perfect precoloured image "Female Skateboarding, Skateboarder" (I love all the shading and bright Nikky add to precoloured images). The little skulls and the skateboard are also included in the collection, as well as the grungy sentiment.

Dawn:  I have used Octavia Moonfly Friendly Hugs, which comes as part of the Octavia Moonfly CD here or a separate digital stamp here. The sentiment comes from Twiggy & Toots CD.

Tanya: So I'm back feeling refreshed after three weeks off and for this week's challenge I've opted to use one of the coloured digis from the Eden Collection called Eden Blossoms which I've printed off several times and decoupaged her and used some of the papers from the collection as well and the Scrabble Tiles from the Work & Play 9 Love & Kisses Collection.  

Lynda: I love making cards with my favorite colours :-) x The digi I used is called Poppy. isn't she pretty!  The flower embellishments and papers are all from the Cherry Blossom lane  collection which is available on CD here. Have fun xx 

Emma - For my Pretty in Purple card i have used the gorgeous Octavia Moonfly Unicorn who can be found Here, I have coloured her up using Copics & have added some liquid pearls. All of the papers & embellishments are from the Octavia Moonfly collection which can be found as a download Here or on CD Here.

Kate - I used the pretty pre-coloured Gymnast image from the Work & Play 11 Collection along with papers, sentiment, paper bow & flowers all from the same collection. I love the fact that everything in the Work & Play Collections all work so well with together and that you really don't need anything other than a card blank, glue & scissors in order to create something beautiful.

Julie - I decided to make a gift box, purple is my favourite colour so I really enjoyed this challenge.  It's a pizza box style box, made using one sheet A3 card.  The gorgeous image is called Cinders and it's from Work and Play 9 Love and Kisses download, also available on a CD and singly as an outline image HERE

The polka dot paper is from the same Download and the other purple pattermed paper is from Dollie Goes East Download/CD

 

 

Jane – Hi everyone!  So I went for a stepper card this week and for some inexplicable reason decided to colour my image, the gorgeously cool Kawaii, as a Zombie!!! Don’t ask! J The papers and sentiment come from the Dollie Daydream Goes East Bundle which contains the most beautiful papers imaginable. Enjoy your day! xxx

Wendy - For this weeks project I've digitally created the design and transferred it onto a candle. The pre-coloured image is from new Serenity collection, you can also get Serenity Joyful as a digi here. The sentiment is also from this collection, but again you can get the sentiment bundle on its own here. The background is made from one of Nikkys new Distressed Wood papers and I've recoloured it in purple using Craft Artist.

Yvonne - Hello there! For this challenge I have used Oddella Bow image, which you can get here.  I have coloured her with my polychromos pencils.  The papers I used are from the NEW Serenity Collection - which is just DREAMY!!!!

Anjie - I have used the female decorator, papers and embellies from the Work and Play 11 full download collection. You can also buy her as an individual digi HERE. I have used my Prismacolour pencils to colour this in.

Great makes from everyone I’m sure you will agree.

Add your entry using the linky tool below.

Now for the winner and top three from week 18 Anything Goes

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

# 37 Aunty Sue 

Please email us at sales@polkadoodles.co.uk quoting DCW018001 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:

# 55 Frouwkje

# 89 Mimi 

#98 Jo L 

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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