week 5 Crafting challenge at Digi Choosday Not a Card

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Have you caught the bug yet?  Lily Bug Love is an ever so pretty girl and the collection is pretty and fresh and includes toppers and embellishments for you to just colour, print and cut. But it’s not all about the characters, it’s about the florals and the springtime pretties too.  Over 200 printables found on the mini collection which features four gorgeous Lily bug Love character stamps in colour and black and white ready for you to colour, and some little itty bitty collections for all price pockets. 

Go check it out HERE

And don’t forget about the raaawwwr fun collection called Sticks & Bones available HERE

Now onto the new challenge today...

Not A Card

So we want to see your makes that are not a card.  Maybe you could make a gift tag, a box, a picture, a candle, a scrapbook layout or 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 side bar if you need to.

We give you two weeks to enter so that means the CLOSING DATE IS 16^th February 2016 and the winners will be announced on 23^rd February 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 2 can be found at the bottom of this post.

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

Jane – Hello! So using the uber gorgeous brand new collection from Nikky LILY BUG LOVE I decorated a birdcage tea-light holder.  I've added is a small picture tutorial to go with this and further details, with words!, can be found on my blog!  Have a happy crafty day! xxx

Gail - No decision for me this week, with the Not A Card theme, it just had to be a tag! I couldn't resist using the every so adorable and lush new collect Lily Bug Love, you can get the full collection on CD-Rom here or as a Digital Download here. Isn't Lily Bug fabulous, just love her, I can see so many ways to use this collection for my crafty makes.

Lynda  I have used the Sticks & Bones collection available as a download and a CD version to make a gift box.  More details can be found on my blog.

Anjie -  I have used different collections to create this. The embellies are from the Twiggy and Toots collection. And the paper and flowers are from the Eden collection. I've shaped all the flowers with a ball tool and added some pearls to the centres of them. More details on my blog.

Julie --  The nursing home where I work has 24 4th grade pen pals visiting in a couple weeks.  I need treat bags!  The newest Polkadoodles collection is perfect for 4th grade pen pals! This preprinted image, frame, digital paper, and sentiment are all part of the Sticks & Bones Digital Download Collection.  It's also available in CD.  The only thing I added was the pre-made treat bag and the glimmer tape.  Fun!  Only 23 more to go and I'll have this project done.  Woohoo!

Monica.- I love all the dimension of shadow boxes, so for this week I chose to use the adorable Sticks & Bones to create a shadow box with one of its lovely characters. I used a pre coloured image because I love it´s bright colors and the perfect shading. All the papers, elements and sentiment are from this lovely collection, that is full of possibilities to create the perfect prehistoric scene.

Fiona - For my not a card make this week I have used  work and play 9  Love and Kisses  I have made a gift box ideal as a wedding gift box. I have used a pre-coloured image called wedding Car,  the papers and sentiment are from this great collection I have also used a punch to stamp flowers from the gorgeous papers on the CD.

Helen - my 'not a card' project is a very simple little Post-It Note holder.  These are really quick and simple to make but they've been really popular with the ladies at both the craft classes I teach.  I've printed off one of the pages from the Adult Colouring Pages Bundle 1 which is here on the Polkadoodles website.  I cut a section of the page and coloured it with Promarkers.  The label on the front of the pad is computer generated and I used paper from the 'Serenity Fairy Wishes Download' which is here.  Inside I added some more of the paper and a nice pink Post-It pad.

Aunty Sue - Now with all the lovely New collections Nikky has just brought out I couldnt resist making a Tag with the Brand New Lily Bug. I have used a Pre coloured image from the collection and all the elements and papers are all found in it. You can purchase Lily Bug from the shop as a Cd and also a Download for those that cant wait to play HERE

Audrey once again chose images, sentiments, embellies and papers from Sticks and Bones Full Download Collection.  I made a coaster set with the images Ferocious Friends/Dinosaur and Mammoth Friends/Dinosaur.  I also used sentiments which can be found all together in Sticks & Bones Dinosaur Sentiments Bundle as well as in the Full Collection.  Flowers are also from the full collection as well as Sticks and Bones Flowers/Foliage Bundle.  I sure hope you like it, I know you will love this new bundle!! 

Tanya for this week's not a card challenge I've made some bookmarks from the feather adult colouring page available in the Colour Therapy Club 3B collection.  I've used two different types of pens to colour them to make them look pastel and bright and cut round them.  More details on my blog.

Great makes from the DT as always - so let's see what you can bring to this great challenge...

Add your entry using the linky tool below.

Now for the winner and top three from Week 2 Cool Blue Challenge

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

# 14 Paper Whims

Please email us at sales@polkadoodles.co.uk quoting DCW002001 to claim your prize of £5

And in no particular order the top three chosen by the design team are:
# 23 Lucy Patrick
# 3 Victoria Rowson
#8 Paper Whims

Grab your blinkies from the top 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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wk 25 Anything but a square card...Digi Choosday challenge

Happy Digi Choosday everyone!

Welcome back to another fabulous Digi Choosday Challenge!

Before we get started, we are UBER excited to unveil some lovely new team members who we are thrilled to have on board with the team!!  We just know you are going to love their projects, they are very talented indeed and we are already loving everything they've made for us, they fit into our team like a glove!.......So, we are very excited to say a massive big warm welcome to:

Vicky Fortier

Julie Jenner

Sharon Smith

and Wendy Russell

Big welcome to you all ladies!!

We have another great
Digi Choosday code
 for you today which you can use right up to midnight on 30th June, so grab yourself some digis HERE 
and save a massive 15% in the store this week!
Enter code DC15007 
at the checkout!

And now onto the challenge:

The challenge we have set for this week is

Not A Square Card

We would like to see you make some kind of shaped projects this week which could be something easy like a stepper card or something more complicated - it's up to you! 

You have until 8^th July to enter and the winner will be announced on 15^th July, so lots of time to get your entry in. All we ask is that you follow the simple rules that can be found in the side bar.

The winner will receive 3 free digi images from the (Digi Store).

You can see the winners from our last challenge at the end of this post.

Now, let's See What the Team have made for us!

Scatty Jan For my not a square card this week I have used the Work and Play 4 collection. I used the van as a template for my card and used the characters - Post man and Post lady . I also used a sentiment from the collection and also used one of the many backing papers for the inside.Coloured up with Graph'It Markers.

Anjie - To get the shape of the card I have used the Dutch Doobadoo Shape Art 3 which is my new favourite thing to use! And at only £4.49 it's a must. How much does it cost to buy pre-made shaped cards? You would save the cost of this in no time! The image is from Emma Canning and is called 3 Scoops. I have coloured her with my Graph'It Markers and then used the DD shape art again to cut her out. The papers, flowers, butterfly and bow are from the new Rose Budd Papercrafting CD which is just fabulous! I have used a distress ink around the edges of everything and a little Frantage around the image.

Sharon - Oh my, am I excited to join everyone on this design team and use PolkaDoodles' Digi-World Downloadables.   As this is my first challenge I thought I would honor Nikky by using the Nikky digi-stamp bundle. The image - Nikky has been coloured with Spectrum Noirs with glossy accents used on her glasses. The card is a Silhouette template cut on my machine. The papers are from the bundle and the sentiment has been taken from the candy words section of Candy Doodles Collectors edition CD.



Julie....I am so excited to be on this team, and I love the theme for this challenge, its one of my favourites!

I love the variety of digi products for sale in the digi section of the store and the fact you don't have to wait for them as they are an instant download.
My card with matching gift box has been made using the following Polkadoodles products, the gorgeous image, coloured with Copics is called  Dollie Daydream Birthday, the sentiment is from the following bundle Celebrational Sentiments Download Bundle, Papers can be found here Emma Canning Brown/green/white papers .All the flowers I have used are from Back to Nature Flowers Embellies download bundle, which I then cut out and shaped

Crafting Vicky - What a way to start up in the team... an anything but square card!!!  Man that's so hard for me... lol but well there's fabulous digis and papers to work with so the inspiration came!  I used for mine the great image Charlotte.  And then 2 different DP one from the fab Daisy Paper bundle that I recolored using my word Microsoft application in pale blue and Boy's Hoot Download Bundle.  The sentiment is from Celebrational sentiments Download bundle.

Wendy - For my first card as part of the Digi Choosday DT, I haven't actually done a card! The template for the exploding box is here for free! I've used The Happy Couple from Emma Canning and coloured with Graph'It Markers. The papers are in Emma Canning Blue/Teal bundle and Rose papers bundle, which I have recoloured in Craft Artist, as I have for the flowers from Pretty Little Things & Back to Nature. Finally I added recoloured sentiments from the Marriage bundle. 

Yvonne - This week I decided to make something different - well it is different for me! I decided to make a bookmark and I found a bookmark template on one of my craft programs. I opted for one of the papers from the Louise Digi Bundle, the papers that are included with the image are truly very pretty and I have been desperate to use them. I decided to decorate my bookmark with flowers (obviously), and for these I couldn't resist dipping into the Rose Budd Collection CD-Rom as I wanted to use the pansies. The sentiment is from Dollie Goes East Collection which you can get either as a CD-Rom or as a digi download.  I thought I would show you front and back and I hope you like it!

Susan - This week I have used an empty tissue roll, cut it in half to make a slider gift card (link for tutorial on my blog)....The papers and the image are from Dollie Daydream Girl Talk.

I had to shrink the image to fit ,wow!  couldn't have done this with a stamp, that's the great thing about Digis you can make them any size. This is a must have for your collection.... She is coloured with my Graph'it markers ,I have the brush nibs in mine ,just amazing. And everything is printed out on Ultimate Graphic 160 gms  Yes the same card I use for my digi stamps and my Graph'it markers....

Patty - This week I decided to make a Small favor or gift box, which was so easy to make from just one sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 CS.  I opted for one of the papers from the Pretty Sweet Collection, that paper it was perfect to combine it with the green CS, the owl is from Sugar Birdies CD , I used my prismacolor pencils to color it and love the outcome!, I use ribbon to decorate my box. The sentiment is from one set laying around on my desk not sure who's company.

Wow, some stunning makes this week I'm sure you'll all agree! Our new teamies have done a great job and of course our longstanding members are always awesome too! thanks for all your makes ladies!

And now for the winners from the week 22 challenge, 
All About The Men

The winner chosen at random was 
#16 Beth

please email us at sales@polkadoodles.co.uk quoting DCwk25001wk22 to claim your prize of a 3 free digis.

And the top 3 chosen by the team were:

#5 Margaret A

#12 Nick

#38 Mandy Paper Panda 

Grab your badges from the side bar ladies - thankyou so much for joining us, we appreciate your support!

See you all next week have a great crafty week!

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wk 24...In the Pink - Digi Choosday Challenge

Happy Digi Choosday everyone!

Before we get to the challenge this week, we have a fabulous 
Digi Choosday Special 
for you!
Enter Code

DC176030
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This code is valid until 22 June at midnight! Whoop Whoop!
Make the most of it while you can!

The challenge we have set for this week is

In The Pink

You can  make anything you like, a card, a tag, a box, mixed media projects, whatever takes your fancy. As long as it has pink as the main focus. You don't need to use any of our products to enter, we just ask you to follow the rules in our sidebar.

You have until 1^st July to enter and the winner will be announced on 8^th July, so lots of time to get your entry in. 

The winner will receive 3 free digi images from the (Digi Store)

And now for the winners from the week 21 challenge, All About The Men

 The winner chosen at random was #27 Jen Leeflang

please email us at sales@polkadoodles.co.uk quoting DCW21001 to claim your prize of a 3 free digis.

And the top 3 chosen by the DT were:

#5 Margaret A

 #7  Nadja Robbins

 #18 Jackie C

Grab your badges from the side bar. Congratulations everyone, thanks for all your entries and we hope you enjoy your freebies! 

Anjie - For my card I have used the Girls Hoot Download Bundle. Everything on the card is from the bundle. The large flowers are from the edges of the sentiment. I have cropped them off and blown them up to the size I wanted. Because all the elements are high quality you don't lost the focus when you blow them up in size. I have used a Dutch Doobadoo Shape Art to create the card shape and mats and layers. These are so easy to cut out and MUCH cheaper than buy the very large dies. To make the fabulous papers pop I have outlined the edges of them with a black pen.

Scatty Jan Whoooohooooo I loves Pink!! I have used the lovely Lou from the fab Digi Bundle you can find here Not only do you get the fabby Lou digi but a heap of papers too!!! I coloured Lou in with Graph'It Markers using a little gold on her glasses and then some glossy accents over them. xx

Yvonne - Well I love pink, it's one of my favs alongside purple, sooooo what is better than a theme for 'in the pink' with a touch of purple! I used the fab bundle 'Nikky' from the Polkadoodles store. The papers are from the same bundle and I coloured the image with my Graph'It Markers. I decided to try the dotty background for our Nikky, and I quite like it..........I also used some pink tone pan pastel to soften the white. I used some of my dies to cut the flowers which are from the same papers as the backing papers, a little spotty ribbon, job done! :)

Susan.....In the Pink - well I certainly am I just love Pink it's one of my favourite colours!  I have used some papers from Sugar Plum Daisy  left from a project I did last week, they are so pretty  and the image is from Work n Play 2, the little Ballerina she is just adorable. I have used my Graph'It markers to colour her and added some die cuts and paper flowers from my stash.  Just can't wait to see all your amazing entries!....

Patty - For my card I have used the image from Emma Canning Color me Happy Digi. All the papers are from my PolkaDoodles / DigiChoosday clutter on my desk from Pretty Tuff collection and  Cherryblossom Lane the sentiment is from Stamp Doodles set accent the card with the small pink button with the brown and white twine. I made this very pink girly card to send it to a friend. 

Wow, what beautiful makes we have this week, as always!! 

You have until 1^st July to enter and the winner will be announced on 8^th July, so lots of time to get your entry in. 

The winner will receive 3 free digi images from the (Digi Store)

See you next week when we will have some VERY exciting news!!

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wk 23...Use 2 Papers - Digi Choosday Challenge

Happy Choosday everyone!

We hope you have all had a good week and are ready for a new challenge!

Before we get onto the challenge, here is a last minute reminder that you can see the fabulous Nikky Hall on our screens on Create & Craft at 10am this morning with the swooningly delicious new CD Rose Budd...

The challenge we have set for this week is

To use use 2 real papers.

By that we mean papers from a paper stack, not ones you have printed out from a CD or digitally.

We are doing this challenge to show you that you can mix and match digital media with real life media

 So this challenge can be for any theme you like as long as you use those “real” papers.

You have until 24^th June to enter and the winner will be announced on 1^st July, so lots of time to get your entry in. All we ask is that you follow the simple rules that can be found in the side bar.

The winner will receive 3 free digi images from the (Digi Store)

And now for the winners from the week 20 challenge, Holiday Fun/Day Out

The winner chosen at random was #6 Pia

please email us at sales@polkadoodles.co.uk quoting DCW20001 to claim your prize of a free digi bundle worth £5.

And the top 3 chosen by the DT who will receive a free digi each were:

#3 Desire Fourie   Email us at the address above quoting DCW20002

#8 J Atterbury Email us at the address above quoting DCW20003

#9 Caz (Bunny) Email us at the address above quoting DCW20004

And grab your badges from the side bar.

Now let's See What the Team have made for us!

Scatty Jan For my card this week I have used the lovely Caravanner girl from Work and Play 3 collection  I have coloured her with Graph'It Marrkers. The two papers that I chose to use are from the paper pack Websters Pages- Best Friends collection I wanted zesty colours so I went for Lemon and Lime  xx

Yvonne - Use two physical papers, is the theme for this week, well, I have a bit of a manic thing about backing papers so I was spoilt for choice!! Now I know we all love Nikky's CD Roms, but do you know there are actual paper pads too? So I decided to use two papers from one of the Paper Pick pads, you can find them here, I used papers from the Fredericka Paper Pick Pad.  I chose to use the new Emma Canning digistamp - You're My Cup Of Tea - love this! I cut him out with a Tattered Lace die, then a little bit of dotty ribbon and some pearls - voila! 

Susan - For my challenge card this week I have used Debutante from the Fredericka Collection and coloured her with my Graph'It markers .I haven't used digi papers, instead I have added some of My Minds Eye Lush 2 collection ,it is beautiful Flocked paper.Hope you stop by my blog to take a look, just click on Susan

Patty - I have chosen one of the cute digis Dollie Daydream Goes East: Lili Digi  I used copics to colored her... I love her outfit in purple and the combination with the yellow is just perfect! the black stripes and the pink - hot magenta were papers from my stash and I used the satin yellow ribbon to make the bow and two pearl to embellish it.

Jo- I have chosen one of the gorgeous digis that were recently released as part of the Polkadoodles birthday celebrations, I used one from the Ruth bundle. I think this is such a fab image and have wanted to colour it for ages. I picked some colours from the Kaisercraft papers I used to colour my image in with so it all co-ordinated and added some vellum bunting to embellish it.

Anjie - On my make this week the image is by Emma Canning and is called BBQ and is coloured with my Graph'It Markers. For the shape of the card and the papers I have used the Dutch Doobadoo Shape art 4. The papers are from Dovecraft and are called Curiosity Corner. The railings and lamp post are both from Dutch Doobadoo

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