Digi Choosday Cardmaking & Crafting Challenge

Tuesday, 8 March 2016

Week 10 - Easter/Flowers Challenge - Crafting Challenge at Digi Choosday

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Happy Choosday everyone

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Don't forget Easter is just around the corner and we're on a mission to get everyone sprucing up their homes and gifts this Easter and back into making some lovely Easter cards too!

Our Winnie Sugar Sprinkles is the perfect collection to do just this and is one of our fastest selling collections EVER - totally adorable images for any age and for the whole year round!

Available on both CD and downloads, She’s absolutely perfect for all your spring makes and for Easter, Mums, Sisters and Best Friends too.

Buy Winnie HERE and have the download on your desk ready and crafting your Easter makes in minutes!

AND don't forget about the brand new Work & Play 12 Collection You can buy this uber jam packed collection and all the other embellies and black and white digis right HERE

Now onto the new challenge....

EASTER/FLOWERS

So we want to see your makes that involve Easter AND/OR FLOWERS and what it means to you. It could be an Easter Egg or something religious like a cross or just the humble daffodil flower that are in abundance over the Easter period…whatever you like as long as it is themed around Easter time. 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. CLOSING DATE IS 22nd March 2016 and the winners will be announced on 29th March 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 7 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 Gail...

Gail - Happy Easter everyone, for this weeks challenge I have used the adorable Winnie Sugar Sprinkles collection, the full collection is available as a digital download or on CD. I created a lovely inky background but I gone soft and sweet for this make and I'm sharing a tutorial on how I created the card ON MY BLOG HERE so please have a look and leave me some love if you like it...

Lynda: This week I used the lovely Winnie sugar sprinkles springtime collection, it's just perfect for Easter Cards. The card base is made from a frame, I imported it from the CD into my cameo to cut it out. I then used a number of the flower and other embellishments to decorate my card. Hope you like it Lynda xx

Fiona - This week for Easter I have used the fantastic Winnie Sugar Sprinkles Springtime Collection. I decided to use a digital stamp and colour it myself. The embellishments and the paper can also be found on this fantastic cd. The images and papers are so adorable and I can't get enough of these images. There is something for everyone.

Jane – Hello! Ooooh the DT are TOTALLY in love with the new WINNIE SUGAR SPRINKLES SPRINGTIME bundle! My Easter stepper card features lots of the pre-coloured lovelies from this awesome collection. The colours and characters are soooo gorgeous you will adore it! Have a lovely crafty day! xxx

Tanya Hello everybody. For this week's challenge I've used the Winnie Sugar Sprinkles collection just like some of my team mates. Great minds think alike! I've made a wreath from a cardboard circle and twine and used the embellie flowers, eggs and chickens on the bottom section of the wreath and finished it off with pearls, glitter and one of the sentiments on the collection. The collection can be bought on CD or on Download and in little itty bitty collections and single black and white digis too. Just head on over here for all the collection.

Audrey chose Easter egg embellies from Winnie Sugar Sprinkles Springtime download bundle. You can find out how I made this with some instructions over on my blog - Sure hope you like it!

Monica- In my country, Easter is more about faith than bunnies or colourful eggs. I want to show that in this week make. I found everything I needed on the lovely precoloured images from Winnie Sugar Sprinkles collection. I took the alpha from Cherryblossom Lane collection. There is also a great church template on the Paper Boutique CD series if you need one!

Helen - it looks like a case of great minds thinking alike this week as I've also used the Winnie Sugar Sprinkles collection! I've used one of the images, some of the paper, a sentiment and some die cut elements to decorate a gift bag. The dark brown die cut egg is supposed to represent chocolate!

Great makes from the DT I’m sure you will agree.

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Now for the Winner and Top three from Week 7 Animals/Insects Challenge
The winner chosen at random by www.random.org is:
# 36 Hazel
Please email us at sales@polkadoodles.co.uk quoting DCW07001 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:
#3 Cicci Vid Pennan
#25 Lynda
#26 Astrid
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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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Tuesday, 1 March 2016

Week 9 - Ladies, Ladies, Ladies! Crafting Challenge at Digi Choosday

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Happy Choosday everyone!

It’s Digi Choosday and you know what that means, yes it’s

Your discount code for this week is:

CHOOSDAY
which will save you
30% off selected digital stamp downloads
A great chance to pick up all those extra little digistamps you've missed this month! when you spend over £2.25 for today only
*EXPIRES MIDNIGHT GMT 01/03/2016

Just enter the code in the shop HERE

We hope you've been keeping your eye on the website because there's a brand new collection available now on CD and download in full collections and also in mini collections as well as single black and white digis for you to colour yourself. She is called

WINNIE SUGAR SPRINKLES

and she's just absolutely perfect for all your spring makes and for Easter, chocolate, Mums, Sisters and Best friends too. You can see her HERE

AND Don't forget about the brand new Work & Play 12 Collection that debuted for the first time on Create & Craft last week. You can buy this uber jam packed collection and all the other embellies and black and white digis right HERE

Now onto the new challenge....

Ladies Ladies Ladies!!!

Now in the UK Mother’s Day is celebrated next Sunday, the 6^th March so we want to see all your makes for the special person in your life, your mum, or somebody who is a mum to you, or any other project for a lady. 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 15^th March 2016 and the winners will be announced on 22^nd March. 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 6 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 great tutorial by Helen....

Helen - I've made a little gift wallet using a pre-coloured digi stamp, paper and a sentiment from the brand new 'Winnie Sugar Sprinkles' collection available here as a download and here as a CD.

1. Cut card measuring 12 cm by 29.5cm and with the longest side facing you, score at 12cm, 13.5cm, 25.5cm and 26cm. Fold in to a purse shape. Decorate the front of the wallet and the flap using contrasting plain paper and patterned paper as shown below:

2. Print out a digi (I've used a pre-coloured version) and die cut into a circle. Mat on to a contrasting coloured die cut circle and stick on the front of the wallet, making sure you stick it at the bottom of the panel so the flap doesn't cover the image when the wallet is closed. Print out a sentiment, mat on to contrasting paper and attach to the flap of the wallet:

3. Cut two pieces of card measuring 12cm by 8cm. With the shorter edge in front of you, score at 2cm, 4cm and 6cm and concertina fold. Put double sided tape on the two outside panels of the concertina fold and attach one side to the inside of the wallet. Remove the tape from the other side and fold the wallet together to attach the two sides together.

4. Tie a piece of ribbon to one side of the image to close the wallet - it can be slipped on and off rather than being untied each time the wallet is opened. Finish with self adhesive pearls as shown in the photo at the top of this tutorial.

Fiona - This week for my make I have used something from the new collection Work and Play 12 I have used the Barista Coffee/cake bundle set. That is available seperately. The kit is so perfect as It has everything you need. I so loved this when it was on Create and Craft so of course I had to have it. Everything on the card Is in the bundle set.

Jane – Hello! I decided to make a centre stepper Mother’s Day card which features the gorgeous CINDERS and papers and elements from the EDEN BIG KAHUNA DOWNLOAD. Nikky has created some gorgeous fairytale ladies, all of which you can find HERE. Have a lovely crafty day! xxx

Monica- For my Mother´s Day make, I altered a bottle mixing two different papers from Eden Collection, then used a huge flower as a focal point and finally added some elements, all included in this collection.

Lynda: How could I not use the beautiful Winnie sugar sprinkles springtime collection. for this weeks challenge it's adorable!! The digi stamp I used is available here. I finished my design off with some of the pretty butterfly and bunny rabbit elements that are also included :-) xx

Gail - For my Mothers Day challenge project, I created a card using the brand new Winnie Sugar Sprinkles collection from Polkadoodles. I got out a fav medium of mine, Brushos, to create a bold & bright background for the gorgeous floral image from the Winnie collection. It's a a fairly simple make, printing the flowers onto acetate and then attaching it to the Brusho background.

Tanya For my make this week I've used the fabulous Twiggy & Toots collection to make a pink themed card for my lovely mum. It's her favourite colour and she loves owls too, so they're just the best combinations ever. I've made a box style card and you can see more photos on my blog. Everything apart from the ribbon and twine can be found on the collection. I've just added a bit of my own text to the heart embellie on the front of the box card.

Audrey used another coloring page this week, choosing a page from Adult Coloring Pages Bundle 5 for my background and then I merged Serenity Joyful Digi Stamp into the center of the page using Gimp. I added sentiments and embellies (flowers, butterflies, bird and mushrooms) from Twiggy and Toots Owl Full Download Collection. I found this chicken wire frame at my local craft shop and thought it would make a perfect Mother's Day gift for my mom because she can hang it on the wall and look at it all year long. Hope you like it!

Great makes from the DT I’m sure you will agree.

Now for the winner and top three from week 6 All You Need Is Love....

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

# 14 Karen Hibberd

Please email us at sales@polkadoodles.co.uk quoting DCW006001 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:

# 20 Lucy Patrick

#18 Norma

#22 AJ

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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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Tuesday, 23 February 2016

W 8 - The Colour Green and/or Nature...Crafting Challenge at Digi Choosday

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Happy Choosday everyone!

Firstly, don't forget to tune into Create and Craft TV today to see Nikky live on TV at 1pm launching a brand new unseen collection! Don't miss it, you will love it!

WATCH IT ONLINE HERE

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OK, so it’s Digi Choosday and you know what that means, yes it’s DISCOUNT DAY!!!!

Your discount code for this week is:

UL776M8L50JO

which will save you
25% off all individual downloads**
when you spend over £2.25 for today only
*EXPIRES MIDNIGHT GMT 23/02/2016

Just enter the code in the shop HERE

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Have you seen the new tab at the top of our blog?

Each week our fab DT have been treating you to a pictorial tutorial so now you can view them all under one tab at any time you chose.

Did you also know that we have our very own dedicated Instagram account?

Each week six fabulous DT makes from Digi Choosday & Polkadoodles will appear at random on the IG account. You can find our IG account by searching for polkadoodles_crafters.

We’d love all of you to visit us and show us some crafting love.

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Now onto the new challenge....

Green/Nature

There is inspiration all around us in nature, whether it be flowers or trees or the wildlife we see in our daily life so we want your makes this week to show your love of nature or in fact the colour green (as in leaves, grass, fields etc). 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.

CLOSING DATE IS 8^th March 2016, winners will be announced on 15^th March 2016

PRIZES: 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 5 can be found at the bottom of this post.

So let’s see what the design team have made for us.
We're kicking off the week with a fab tutorial from Fiona...

Fiona - This week I have been asked to do a tutorial for the challenge I have used for my make a pre-coloured design sheet from the Stick and bones Collection design Sheet 2 and have made a box card.

First of all I made a box from a template.

I then filled the box with some shredded green paper. I then printed off a few copies of the design sheets. Add backing paper to the front and side added the toppers and then started adding the bones embellishments and sentiments. More details of the tutorial can be found on my blog. Here is the finished make.

Anjie - Once again I've used the fab Sticks and Bones collection for my make. I've coloured the image with my pens and fussy cut some embellies and used 2 papers from the collection on this card. I printed one of the papers onto card as I wanted to use some of the elements on it for embellies so they tiny torties are from the paper as are the tiny word arts. I just LOVE the trees on this collection, I would love to sit under one reading a good book.

Julie - I am having a great time using the new Polkadoodles Sticks & Bones Collection, so I used it again today to make a card for my BFF. My 'Green' themed card uses Walk the Dinosaur (colored with Copic markers), papers, and a pre-colored sentiment from the Sticks & Bones Collection. It's available in CD or Digital Download.

Jane – Hello! My green card features the gorgeous ROSE BUDD COLLECTION where you will find all the elements I have used (well apart from the ribbon). The very elegant young lady, MISS CHARLOTTE, is also available separately as a clear stamp if you wish. This gorgeous, Regency inspired bundle is currently on offer in the Create and Craft Magazine as a CD-Rom so all of you C&C members go check it out!! Have a happy crafty day! xxx

Monica- In my country, I have green and nature surrounded me 12 months a year, so I´m very familiar with it. For my make I used one of my favorites Polkadoodles collection "Cherryblossom Lane".

Audrey chose to alter a book binder for her coloring combo pages. I used Adult Coloring Pages Bundle Alphabet 1. I used GIMP to make my cover page title and then colored n all the letters and nature elements with my Copics. I added bows from Work and Play 9 Love and Kisses Download Collection and air brushed butterfly wooden embellies with my Copics and then added to the bows.

Lynda: I just love the new Sticks & Bones Collection so that's what I chose to use this week. Other than the white card I used to make the card base everything you see is included when you but this massive bundle, from the pretty papers to the embellishments. The digi stamp I used is called smile-photograph-dinosaur. Have Fun xx

Aunty Sue - Hi for this Green/Nature challenge I have have gone with the colour and our Work and Play Country Life collection available not only as a Cd but as a download so you can play straight away. You can find it in the shop CD here & Download here the sentiment is from Feel the Music Collection available Here

Gail - . I really love using beautiful fonts & quotes, I found the perfect quote and image on the Picknix In The Garden bundle. The Picknix In The Garden bundles is available as a digital download here, however, for the best value and more awesome images there's the Picknix 1 Bundle available, which has 3 yummy collections in one bundle including In The Garden as a digital download here or on CD-Rom here. I was in an inky and messy mood when I started the challenge card, so I got the acrylic ink sprays out to create the background but the fabulous quote and florals are from the Picknix In The Garden bundle.

Helen - I've used a digi, sentiment and one of the papers from The Serenity Collection together with a paper from the Lily Bug Love Collection. I've combined the colour green and also the nature theme and have made a circular card for a change

Tanya So for this week's challenge I've used one of the Colour Therapy Club pages to make a very large A3 sized card. I've coloured the page with my Lyra Aqua pens and added touches of Wink of Stella Silver Glitter and a little bit of striped zentangle on the word LOVE and some white spots with a White Shake Graph It pen. There's more detailed photos on my blog

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 5 Not A Card Challenge

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

# 7 Larissa

Please email us at sales@polkadoodles.co.uk quoting DCW005001 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:

# 1 Norma

# 11 Jana K

# 14 Leslie Turner

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

Tuesday, 16 February 2016

Week 7 -Animals & Insects - Crafting Challenge at Digi Choosday

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Happy Choosday everyone!

It’s Digi Choosday and you know what that means, yes it’s DISCOUNT DAY!!!!

Your discount code for this week is:

Hello40
which will save you
40% - yes, a massive 40%!!!
off all single digi downloads (not collections)
when you spend over £2.25 for today only
*EXPIRES MIDNIGHT GMT 16/02/2016

Just enter the code in the shop HERE

Have you tried our raaawwwr fun collection called Sticks & Bones available HERE....

And watch out for us on Create and Craft TV on Tuesday 23rd February to showcase you some lovely brand new goodies to die for!...

Now onto the new challenge

Animals & Insects

This is your chance to make something featuring maybe your favourite animal or insect, be it a cat, dog, bird, rabbit or butterfly.
We want to see your makes featuring the cute to the not so cute and maybe a card, a scrapbook layout of even home décor so long as it features an animal or an insect. 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 the 1^st March 2016 and the winners will be announced on the 8^th March 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 4 can be found at the bottom of this post.

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

Out of the box technique tutorial by Lynda....

You will need: Digi Image, Pencil, Scissors, Die cutting Shape

Die cutting Machine, such as a Bigshot or Grand Calibur....

1) Choose an image (I used the beautiful Lily from the Lily Lady bug collection. You can find her here. 2) Place your metal die shape over the image. 3) Using a pencil mark inside the die (I used a circle) above and below the area(s) you want to leave outside of the die shape. It should look like this.....

TIP!! If you also mark right the way round the outside of the die shape you can use this as a guideline when your replacing the die to put through the machine later.

4)Take a pair of scissors and from the edge of your paper or card cut just over the line you drew

5) Put the die
shape back over the image, leaving the bit your don't want cutting over the die.

6) Run through a die cutting machine.

Hope you enjoyed my first ever tutorial. Don't forget this collection is available on a CD or as a instant download.

Anjie - Everything on my make is from the Sticks and Stones collection. I have coloured them image with my pens and simply matted and layered some of the papers and added faux stitching around the edges. I then added a few embellies and thought it looked good as it was so I decided to leave it at that. Quite CAS for me for a change lately.

Julie -- Animals & Insects! This sounds like the perfect time for the new Lily Bug Love collection! I colored Lily Bug Love Heart Balloon with Copic markers. The sentiment and backing papers are all part of the Lily Bug Love full collection, available in CD or digital download. I love this new collection!

Monica-For this week make, I chose a lovely dinosaur couple from Sticks & Bones collection. Using the colorful volcano, I made a volcano shaped gift box. The volcano, the palm trees, the heart shaped rock, the sentiment and, of course, the lovely dinos, all are included in this adorable collection.

Fiona - For this weeks make I have used different collections for my mdf bird house. I have used a image called I have used Lil Bug Love Heart Balloon digi stamp The birds are from Candy Doodles Collection Edition the backing sheet is from Sugar Plum Daisy

Jane – Hello! I just adore Nikky’s new STICKS AND BONES COLLECTION there are so many gorgeous goodies in it, and this has to be one of my favourite images called FEROCIOUS FRIENDS. Isn’t that sabretooth tiger just AWESOME!!! I coloured with pencils and gave the card a whole ‘ripped up’ look!! Well just check out those claws!! J Have a happy crafty day! xxx

Aunty Sue - Hi well with all Nikkys fabulous new releases which to use for this challenge. Sorry I just love our Lily Bug and just had to go there again this week. I have used a Digi image printed twice available here , along with some of the fabulous paper available Here. I printed the lady bug out twice so I could lay one on top with the wings lifted off the page. There are always so many gems hidden in Nikkys collections. The Valentine and Hi is also in this collection part of the element available here. You purchase the whole collection either as a download or a cd here in the shop.

Gail - Animals & Insects, it had to be Lily Bug!! Loving this new collection from Nikky, cute but not too sickly sweet, does that make sense?? The Lily Bug Love collection is available on CD-Rom or for the less patience crafter the instant download is also available.

Audrey chose to use Hats Off Twiggy and Toots image, which you can find in the Twiggy and Toots Owl Download Collection. I also used one of the tunnel card templates from Twiggy and Toots Owl Download Collection - it comes with all the panels, papers and embellies needed to make this card. I colored the image, cut out with scissors and put it on the front of the card. Sentiment can be found in Twiggy and Toots Owl Download Collection as well. Sure hope you like it!

Front of card

inside

Helen - I've used elements from the new 'Lily Bug' collection and have tried combining some of them digitally for a change. I've merged a pre-coloured digi with one of the frames, added a sentiment and also two of the flowers. Then I've added two of the papers and some black paper and gems to finish my card. The collection is available here as a CD and here as a download.

Tanya For this week's challenge I've used the sabre tooth tiger from the Sticks and Bones collection which you can get in the full collection available on CD and download or on its own in the black and white version to colour yourself. Using Graph It Markers to colour it and then using the sentiments and flowers and frame and papers from the collection too. Finished off with some satin wire edged animal print ribbon.