wk 36 Crafting Challenge at Digi Choosday - Shaped Card

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Happy Choosday everyone!

Make sure you tune in to Create and Craft TV today at 10.00 am to see our lovely Nikky with some fabulous inspiration, samples and ideas!
You can watch on Sky 674, Freeview 36, Freesat 813, Virgin 748
or online HERE

Of course because it’s Digi Choosday it is also 

Your discount code for this week is:
DC258S
Which will give you a massive 25% off digis today - shop here now

Now onto the new challenge...

Not a Square!

You can enter any project which uses a shape which is not a square! Your actual card can be square but we'd like to see you using some different mat and layer shapes where possible - with a little artistic licence of course! 

CLOSING DATE IS 22nd September 2015 

and the winners will be announced on 29th 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 33 can be found at the bottom of this post.

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

Anjie -  I have used a TL die to create the shape of the card. The papers, embellies and sentiment are all from the fab Home For Christmas collection. There are some truly stunning papers on this CD. The image, Ralph, is coloured with my Graph'It Markers and I have given him some texture with the Mix It Fluid and some velvet ribbon. More photos and details on my blog.

Julie -- I absolutely LOVE shaped cards, so this was such a fun challenge for me!  I used one of the great shaped cards found in the Polkadoodles store. This is Elegant Card 2 SVG Cutting File, cut out on my Silhouette.  The image is Seashore Shannon, colored with Copic markers.  I used papers from the Kath Walking the Dog Digital Download.  The sentiment is from the Twiggy and Toots Digital Download Collection. 

Tanya  My inspiration for this week’s challenge comes from the actual shape of the digi itself.  She is called Serenity Resting and is available on the Serenity collection HERE and separately as a black and white digi on her own. HERE.  I've coloured her with Graph It pens available HERE on Ultimate Graphic paper available HERE...

Scatty Jan For my shaped card i had lots of fun playing with the Work and Play 11. I have coloured the images using Pencils , and used the lovely cut files and emblies to decorate my stepper card. The images are also available as singles Male can be found  here and Female can be found here. love these images they really are fun...

Hi, my shaped card this week is made from a  Christmas Pudding cut file found on the Twiggy and Toots Festive fun collection. It's available on a CD or as a digital download. I embossed the icing and added some gems for the berries, finishing it off by using a sentiment from this collection. Have fun!

Monica.-My project for this funny challenge is a tree shaped card made with trees, papers, elements and digi from Twiggy & Toots regular collection.

Emma - For my shaped card all the elements I have used are from the Frosted Winter Collection, I have used the mug from the embellishments folder for the base of my card. I have coloured up Ice Queen & she can be found as an individual digi Here. All of the embellishments are from the full collection that can be Here....

Audrey I chose to do an Igloo for my shaped card.  I used the precolored Igloo from Octavia Frosted Winter Digital Download Collection.  I combined the 2 igloos using Gimp, flipping the 2nd one so they were back to back and joined them together so when I cut them out they would be attached in the center.  I then cut them out with scissors and added Stickles.  I chose papers, sentiment, heart and flowers also from Octavia Frosted Winter Digital Download Collection.  Papers,heart and flowers are cut with scissors, I added the sentiment to the paper using Word and cut with Sue Wilson die.  I chose my image Hot Chocolate from Octavia Frosted Winter Digital Download Collection as well, and you can also find her as a single image HERE.  She is colored with Copics, cut out with scissors and Stickles added.

Front of card

 Inside of card

Aunty Sue- For my Shaped Card I have gone with a Stepper Card. I have chosen this fab image from the CD Work & Play 10 Country Life available here she is called Foraging Mushrooms and you can buy her on her own here  The papers are from this Cd and also the Tree and Bow and Sentiments. I have colored her with my new Lyra Rembrandt Pencils. 

Dies i have used are Die-namics and Joy  with a few pearls as accents.

Wendy - I've chosen this week to use one of the pre-coloured images from Octavia Moonfly, just as a reminder you don't always need to hand colour if you don't have time! However, if you do have time to colour, the digi stanp of Octavia Rose Garden is also available on her own here. The backing paper on the mounted tiles are also from the same collection.

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 33 All about the men

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

4- Dorothy

Please email us at sales@polkadoodles.co.uk quoting DCW033001 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:

12- Barb
17-Kerri
37-Cecilia

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Thank you all so much for your entries, it means so much to us that you join us each week - we can't wait to see what you have for us on this challenge! See you next time!

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wk 35 Crafting Challenge at Digi Choosday - In the pink

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Happy Choosday everyone!

Of course because it’s Digi Choosday it is also 

Your discount code for this week is:

DC30
This code will save you a MASSIVE
30% OFF 
ALL DIGITAL STAMPS FOR 24HOURS
(expires 8am Weds 2/9/15)

Now onto the new challenge...

In The Pink

We give you two weeks to enter so that means the

CLOSING DATE IS 15th September 2015 

and the winners will be announced on 22nd 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 32 can be found at the bottom of this post.

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

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! 

Scatty Jan Ohhh I just loves a bit of Pink - This week I used the lovely Tea-Pot template to make my card, Suitable card shape for many occasions I think, you can find it in the store here . The image I used is one from the Serenity collection - You can also buy her as an individual digi, she is called Serenity Fairy Cake and you can find her here. I have used coloured pencils to colour and added some lace, beads and a flower to finish

Wendy - For this weeks challenge, I'm actually on my holidays, so what better image to use than the girl Swimmer form Work & Play 4, you can buy her as an individual digi here. I've used a sentiment form the same collection and the two papers are from Work & Play 3.....

Julie - PINK! It's not my favorite color, so I mixed in some coordinating shades.  It's still pretty in pink though, don't you think?  The image, the papers and the sentiment are all from the Rose Budd Craft Download Collection. You can find Rose Budd as a clear stamp here.  She is colored with Copic markers.....

Tanya....I’ve been colouring yet again and just adore the pink range of Graph It pens and so using the Drummer Girl from Work & Play Feel The Music collection I’ve coloured her up and using three of the papers from the collection and the music clef and the word ‘MUSIC’ I’ve made this week’s card.  The collection can be bought as a CD and a download and the drummer girl can be bought as a single black and white digi too.

Lynda: This week I got to use my favourite colour yay!! I decided to base my card on an digi stamp I found in the Picknix 1: Home Grown which is available as a download here. The papers and gorgeous embellishments I used are also from this collection. You can also buy it on a CD  Have Fun.

Aunty Sue - Oooh if your a girlie girl you just got to love Pink. For my card I went CAS just matting my image with Pearl card stock. I have used Oddella Bow - Inkyink Art available to download here. The sentiment is from the Twiggy & Toots download  here.  Image coloured with promarkers and spectrums and a few pencils. Just edges the side with a punch , a few gems and some faux stitching. I think CAS really shows off this character as I cant see her being Fussy can you!

Monica.-Scrapbook is my first love in paper crafting. This week I chose to make a scrapbook page about Jimena, my niece, our family football fan and player. To make this I use the footballer girl, sentiment and papers included in Work & Play 6 Collection.

Audrey had lots of fun with many different digital elements this week.  I inadvertently made another card with a detachable bookmark - this time you just remove the brad at the top.  For my image, I used GIMP editing program to combine Amelia Braids digi with Luna digi and Fence digi, which I got from Twiggy and Toots Owl Digital Collection, but it can also be purchased as a single image HERE.  I colored the image with Copics.  I added Digital Papers from Work and Play 3 Digital Collection - the Stars and Birds/Flowers papers are in the Girls Cowboy papers in this collection.  The diamond designer digi paper is from Work and Play 1 Digital Collection under Female DIY papers.  I chose the sentiment, which I think is perfect for the image, from Work and Play 9 Love and Kisses Collection.  Sure hope you like it!!

Jane – Hi everyone!  I do love pink especially teamed with black so that is what I have used on my project this week.  I coloured up the beautiful ODDELLA HEART  who is part of the awesome ICKYINK ART COLLECTION where there are 5 gorgeous ladies to collect.  I also used one of the girly papers and a sentiment from WORKAND PLAY 9 and one of the papers from WORKAND PLAY 10.  Have a lovely crafty day! xxx

Emma - For my In the Pink card i have used the gorgeous Luna who can be found here. Pink isn't one of my fav colours as I was never a girly girl growing up, more into dungarees & getting muddy.  Both of the papers I have used are from the baby boom collection that can be found here. 

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 32 Punches/Dies

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

19- Gale

Please email us at sales@polkadoodles.co.uk quoting DCW032001 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:

18 - Bonnie
37 - Lynda
28 - Donna

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

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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:

DC5287J

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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