wk 41 crafting challenge at Digi Choosday Feeling Sentimental

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Happy Choosday everyone.

You know what that means, yes it’s...

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Now onto the new challenge from us here at Digi Choosday...

This week the challenge is

Feeling sentimental.

So we want to see sentiments on your makes. You can use just a sentiment on it’s own, or a sentiment alongside an image, the choice is yours as long as there is a sentiment on there somewhere...

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 27th^th October 2015 

and the winners will be announced on 3^rd November 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 38 can be found at the bottom of this post.

So let’s see what the design team have made for us....
Helen -  I've used 'Spooky Witch' digi stamp, 'Spooky Sentiments' and 'Halloween/Autumn Paper Heaven 1' download.

Jane – Hi everyone! Not quite sure how ‘sentimental’ I was feeling when I made my project as I have gone a little ‘zombiefied’ this week!!  I LOVE Halloween and as it is just around the corner I made a shadow box card featuring the gorgeous ODDELLA BOW who, as you can see, is a rather messy eater(!!).  I also used elements from the new SPOOKY SENTIMENTS collection and papers from some of the awesome HALLOWEEN BUNDLES that can be found in the SHOP!    Have a lovely spooooky day! xxx

Julie -- I decided to really emphasize the sentimental feel of this challenge, and I used a sentiment as the focal point of my card. I used Nikky's Card Shape 2, an SVG file.  The sentiment, frame, and papers are all from the Rose Budd Craft Digital Download  Collection.  It's also available as a CD.  Here's to all of you, dear friends!

Monica.-For my sentimental make, I used a bunch of different products: papers from Halloween/Autumn Paper Heaven 1 and Halloween/Autumn Paper Heaven 2; the adorable sentiment and the potion bottle from Spooky Sentiments; and the lovely witch, tag and bat from Sundae of Seasons.

Emma - For my 'Feeling Sentimental' card I have used the awesomely spooky new Halloween collection. I have used the 'You're Spooky' sentiment as the main focus & have added the spooky house & skull banner that you can find it Here I have coloured up Dracula using Copics & you can find him Here. Both of the papers can be found in this fab bundle Here 

Tanya...For this week's challenge I've used lots of the lovely sentiment tickets from the Work & Play Love collection and papers from that collection too and I've zentangled one of the Icky Inks Oddella images called Oddella Heart available here.  Hope you like it. 

Wendy - I love this sentiment from the Octavia Moonfly collection and had a picture of my dog, Kayla, that suited it perfectly so decided to do a scrapbook page.This has been made 100% digitally using Craft Artist. The shadow of the fairies, which are the pre-coloured images from the same collection, have been changed to silhouettes, again using Craft Artist. All the embellies are also from the Octavia Moonfly. Several of these elements are available in smaller kits too on the Octavia page.

Aunty Sue- For my card I have used the fabulous Frosted Winter Octavia. I wanted to share some of the Embellishments and show how they can be a focal point. I have used the Candy Jar and added loads and loads of mini Ginger bread people inside. The cup is also an Embellishment I added some fluffy stuff for 3D effect. All the papers are from this CD too. The sentiment was my inspiration for this card and is the perfect Sentiment for these Embellishments dont you think! I just added some Ribbon, Lace and Pearls to finish.

Audrey, like Tanya, used a variety of different sentiments for my Feeling Sentimental creation.    All the sentiments I chose for today's creation are from the Witchie Witchie 2013 Download Bundle.  I also used 2 of the papers as well as the broom parking and graveyard embellies from the Witchie Witchie 2013 Download Bundle.  The image I chose this time is Witchie Skeleton Digi and the orange polka dot design paper is from the new Halloween/Autumn Paper Heaven 1.  I added a pumpkin die cut to round out the decorations on my card.

Anjie - I have chosen to focus just on a sentiment as I adore the one I have used and thought it deserved to be the main focus of my card. The fabulous sentiment and the papers I have used are all from the Serenity collection. You can find the sentiments on their own HERE, and the papers HERE.

Wow, who knew sentiments could be so inspiring! Great makes from the DT I’m sure you will agree....

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

Add your entry using the linky tool below.

Now for the winner and top three from week 38 Ribbon and Lace

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

# 4 Carol Gill 

Well done!

Please email us at sales@polkadoodles.co.uk quoting DCW038001 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:

# 8 Craftyanny 

# 16 Meg 

#5 Bonnie Garby 

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wk 40 Crafting Challenge at Digi Choosday Feeling Cold - Ice & Snow

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Happy Choosday everyone.

Before we get onto this weeks business we need to let you know that we have a DT call going on for permanent members of both Digi Choosday and Polkadoodles. Head over to the Polkadoodles blog HERE to check out all the info. You would be daft not to give it go, we look for people at all different levels of their crafting journeys and the PD family is such a fab bunch of folk to work with.

Now onto this weeks post!

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

Your discount code for this week is:

CHOOSDAY
which will save you 
33% off all downloads 
when you spend over £2.25 for 24 hours only
*EXPIRES MIDNIGHT GMT 06’10/15

Just enter the code in the shop HERE

Now onto the new challenge from us here at Digi Choosday.

This week the challenge is

Feeling cold, brrrrr!

That means we want you to create something that come across as cold. You can use an image that has snow or ice in it, you can add faux snow or ice to a project, or just use cold colours like blues and whites.

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 20th^th October 2015 

and the winners will be announced on 27th^th October 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 37 can be found at the bottom of this post.

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

 We have a new GDT joining us this week, she will be here for the whole of Ocober, how lucky are we!!! So let me introduce you to Helen Nile by showing you her make for us first.

Helen -  I've used paper from the 'Eden - Paper Heaven Plain Jane' download and a digi called 'Polar Bear' from the Octavia Frosted Winter collection. My style is CAS with layers.

Aunty Sue -Oh Cold Ice & Snow can only mean Winter so today I am bringing you a Concertina Fold Card using Octavia Frosted Winter CD. Dont you just love this CD for all those Frosty images. This has 2 pre coloured images on it The Ice Palace which has lots of added 3d gloss and also Hot Chocolate because you have to keep warm. The sentiment is also from the CD. All these can be purchased from the shop HERE. I have used lots of silver Mirri card and some Silver Organza ribbon to carry the theme of Cold 

Lynda: The new Frosted Winter collection is just perfect for this challenge.  The papers,embellishments and sentiment I used are all from this  CD or if you prefer you can also get  it as a instant download.  The digi stamp I used is called Ice Fishing and she can be bought separately here. Have Fun xx 

Jane – Hi everyone! For my take on the Ice and Snow theme I also used the must-have OCTAVIA FROSTED WINTER bundle.  I used the beautiful pre-coloured imagery that characterises this awesome collection to create an easel card. The gorgeous scene is FROSTED FOX and can also be purchased individually if you wish.  Have a lovely crafty day! xxx

 Julie -- snow and cold - it sounds like the perfect opportunity to take your 4-legged buddy sledding!  I used the Work & Play 5 Festive Hollybobs Digital Download or CD Rom collection for the darling gift bag and pre-printed Hollybobs Sleightime image.  You can buy the Hollybobs Sleightime image separately, but there's so much good stuff here, why would you want to? Happy crafting! 

Anjie - Everything I have used on this card can be found on the Octavia Frosted Winter collection. You can also buy this as a CD should you prefer HERE. Or as separates HERE. I made a shaped card out of the door embellishment and then cut out and added all the other bits and bobs. I have layered lots of them up to make it as 3D as possible. You can't see from the photo but I also printed everything onto linen card so it has more texture. You can see more on my blog.

Tanya

When I think of feeling cold (and ice and snow) I think of the colour blue and so this week I've used some of the blue papers featuring snowflakes, together with embellies and bows and sentiments from the Festive Hollybob collection available on Download and CD to cover these fab MDF reindeers and then just blinged them up with glitter and twine.  More photos on my blog.  

Emma - I have used Whale of a Time from the Frosted Winter collection that can be found as an individual digi Here. All of the papers & embellishments are from the full Frosted Winter Collection that can be found Here. I have fussily cut out all the embellishments & have added glamour dust to the trees for that bit of winter sparkle.

Monica- For me, cold and snow is not a reality. In Costa Rica, our coldest day could reach 16 °C and when that happens everybody is freezing... I know you ar laughing right now lol 

As most of my teannies, I thought Octavia Frosted Winter was perfect for this challenge, so 

I made box card with papers, elements, sentiments from that collection and the lovely Octavia Hot Chocolate.

Wendy - For this weeks card I've used a Snowman from Picnix 2 Gingerbread Twist, on the front and cut the edge. The backing paper is from the same collection as is the frame and sentiment. However, the sentiment comes in black, but I have recoloured it white and put on a black background for the blackboard effect.

Audrey used an image, sentiment and digi papers from the Work and Play 5 Festive Hollybobs Full Collection.  The image, Hollybobs Sleightime can also be purchased as a single digi HERE.  I choose my embellies from Octavia Frosted Winter Full Collection, I cut 2 out with scissors and the 3 button embellies are cut with stitched die.  I added Stickles to the image and the tree embellie.

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

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

Add your entry using the linky tool below.

Now for the winner and top three from week 37 monochromatic

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

# 10 Judy V 

Please email us at sales@polkadoodles.co.uk quoting DCW037001 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 Carol Gill 

# 16 Pauline 

#4 Julie P 

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wk 39 Crafting Challenge at Digi Choosday Use Something New

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

Your discount code for this week is:

CHOOSDAY
which will save you 
33% off all downloads 
when you spend over £2.25 for 24 hours only
*EXPIRES MIDNIGHT GMT 29/9/15

Just enter the code in the shop HERE

Now onto the new challenge from us here at Digi Choosday.

  

This week the challenge is

Something new.

That means we want you to use something that is new to you, it could be a new image you recently bought, a new paper pack, some new embellishments 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.

We give you two weeks to enter so that means the

CLOSING DATE IS 13^th October 2015 

and the winners will be announced on 20^th October 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 36 can be found at the bottom of this post.

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

Lynda: For my 'something new' I decided to use the latest collection, Frosted Winter. it's totally gorgeous!! It's available on CD or as a instant download. The papers I used, the sentiment and the gingerbread man are just the tip of the iceberg of what you get in this bundle. Have Fun xx

Scatty Jan how much fun did I have making my sleigh. I used The Frosted Winter collection - I used the pre coloured sleigh to start and cut several times so it would be sturdy. And then made a center piece to join them together (this was the hardest bit as I kept cutting the wrong size) I decorated the sleigh with flowers, sprigs ,garland robin , presents etc all from the collection and adding some glitter here and there. I used pre coloured Octavia Frosted Fox, also available as a B/W digi here. I added the pre coloured deers (also available as a B/W digi here) adding some red sparkles to one nose . Finished off adding some sweeties to the sleigh which I stuck tiny presents too

Jane – Hi everyone!  My something new is, like the other ladies, the fab new OCTAVIA FROSTED WINTER bundle and my wreath is made from the gorgeous pre-coloured baubles and foliage that can be found in this collection.  My other new item is the tiny lilac bows that I just HAD to treat myself to!! J Have a lovely crafty day! xxx

Emma - For my Something New I have made a stepper card & for me this is a very new sort of card for me. I have used Octavia Frosted Spines & Octavia Wandering Star who can be found as individual digi's Here & Here. I have coloured both up using Copic's & I have used some of the new pens that I have recently bought. All of the papers & embellishments are from the New Frosted Winter Collection Here where you can also find both of the images I have used along with the Polar Bear.

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Julie -- New, new, and new!  Lots of "new" for me today.  Isn't new grand?!?  I'm using papers and an image from the newly released Autumn/Halloween collections at Polkadoodles.  The image is from the Autumn/Fall 2015 digi download bundle (mono).  The colored version is available here.  The papers are all from the Halloween/Autumn Paper Heaven 1 & 2 Digital Downloads.  The sentiment is from the Twiggy and Toots Digital Download or CD Rom Paper Crafting Collection.  I'm also using newly purchased dies, and NEW Lyra Rembrandt  Polycolor Pencils.

Anjie - I have used the new Spooky Dracula image and sentiments. I have coloured the image and background with my Graph'It Markers. I have put the image in a new picture frame I picked up last week. We are having a Halloween party at our house this year so this will go on the wall as part of the decorations.

Monica- For my carousel card, I used a new collection Picknix 3 Nordic Winter, all papers, digis and words and swirls cutting files I used are from that collection. I also used a new laminator machine and a technique: foiling digis. I love how this foiling digis turn out.

Tanya

I’m back into the swing of crafting and creating since my holiday and this week have been playing with the ever so brand new Spooky Sentiments Bundle and the Halloween/Autumn Paper Heaven 1 Bundle  to make this week's card on a Halloween grungy theme.  Full details on my blog.

Audrey used a number of NEW items this time around.  First of all, my image Oddella Bow is new for me as I just got this image.  I colored her with my brand new pencils - not only have I not used these pencils before, I have never colored a full image with pencils before, so this was very new to me.  Finally, I made a new variation of a fold I have used in the past by altering the shape of the cut out in the middle.  Additional items used on my card are hearts from the Winston Deluxe Full Collection and the mushroom embellie is from Twiggy and Toots Digital Papercraft Collection and can also be found in the Twiggy and Toots Embellies Bundle.    Finally, my papers are from the girls papers found in the Work and Play 11 Digital Collection.

Aunty Sue - Well what else could I show you other than the amazing new CD Octivia Frosted Winter. How ever my new thing is the technique Altering this frame. I have used Chalk paint doing several layers and then rubbing Copper Gliding Wax on the raised edges to give a old feel. This was a very cheap white plastic frame. All this is to enhance this wonderful scene that I printed from the CD which you can purchase from the store HERE called Ice Queen & Unicorn. 

Wendy - For my pumpkin shaped card, I've used a pumpkin from the NEW Autumn 2015 collection, the image is the NEW Spooky Dracula and the small pumpkins and the sentiment are from the NEW 2015 Spooky Sentiments bundle.

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

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

Add your entry using the linky tool below.

Now for the winner and top three from week 36 Shaped card

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

# 9 Sarah-J W 

Please email us at sales@polkadoodles.co.uk quoting DCW036001 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 Tiziana B 

# 12 Wendy Batchen 

#13 Susan Kennedy 

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