Hello crafters - welcome to a new craft challenge!
ANYTHING GOES – ANY CRAFT BRAND – EVERY CRAFTER WELCOME - WORLDWIDE
Cards • Papercraft • Scrapbooking • Mixed Media • Digital or Physical Crafting
This challenge is monthly - enter with $40 in prizes up for grabs!
You can enter up to 4 times, with 4 different projects.
PRIZES:
• 1 x Random Prize (we will randomly select 1 winner, so everyone has a chance to win) : $20 voucher to spend in the Polkadoodles store, on anything you wish including physical products.
• 2 x $10 prizes : we will select our Top 2 favourite entries from across the 4 weeks.
• The winners will be announced the week after the challenge closes, at the start of the next challenge
We appreciate you all entering and supporting this Card Making & Paper Craft scrapbook challenge challenge and all the other PD challenges, we truly love seeing your work every week and sharing your crafty passions!
This challenge blog is sponsored by Polkadoodles. The winners of the last challenge are at the end of this post. Thanks so much to all of you who entered!
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Make sure you check out all the gorgeous new items in the Polkadoodles store this month - there's amazing new dies, stamps and so much more!
Let's see what the team have been making this week...
Gorgeous handmade card idea for Autumn/Fall made by Julie...To create this October Birthday card, I started by printing one of the pretty background papers from the Hello Autumn Pretty Paper 2, then ran it through an embossing folder to add a little extra texture and depth before attaching it to my card base. I added a piece of colored cardstock, then printed my chosen sentiments from Everyday Greetings & Party Time Sentiments onto white cardstock and cut it with a banner die. After adding a simple gold twine bow, I popped the banner up with foam tape. The acorns and leaf from Autumn Fall Big Value Bundle were colored and cut out, with the leaf glued flat and the acorns added with foam tape for a little dimension. A few gold gemstones finished everything off with just the right amount of sparkle.
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Vicky - G’Day Crafty Friends! I’m sharing a very cute card created especially for the males in your lives. Santa in this cup is ever so cute but also cheeky at the same time. As I love chopping up my patterned paper, I selected two pieces from the Christmas paper patterns 2 - printable craft card making digital downloads that I thought would work well together, randomly chopped them, then arranged and adhered the pieces to coloured cardstock. The pre-coloured Santa image from Santa Cup Christmas Gingerbread Cookie Digi Stamp has been printed twice onto white cardstock before fussy cutting one of the images & popping it up over the first. The sentiment from the JOLLY SANTA Christmas greetings, sentiment printable stamp was printed, trimmed down and layered onto the same coloured cardstock, then popped up and added to the card. And don’t be scared to add a little embellishment to male cards - sometimes they need a little something extra too!
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Rachael here, sharing some cosy autumn vibes and the sweetest of hedgies! Did you know most of our digi images come precoloured? I find them super useful when I need a card in a hurry, but don't want to just 'print and go'. For this one, I used a precoloured image of this hedgehog from the Hello Autumn collection. I printed and fussy-cut. I made the background using a dotty stencil and some ink smooshing, then added a strip of torn vellum to finish. I then layered up the hedge with foam tape, and a sentiment. Isn't he adorable!
Ana - Hey crafty friends! 65 days until Christmas! The countdown is on, and I'm sharing another festive project for this week's Digi Choosday using the beautiful Christmas at the Cottage collection from Polkadoodles. For these cards, I used a selection of the Christmas at the Cottage clipart and ephemera and some embossing folders. The pre-colored elements make it easy to mix and match, so holiday crafting will be a breeze and at the same time, fulfilling after seeing your pretty cards and crafts!
To make these cards, I simply printed the digital elements, fussy cut the pieces, and layered everything onto card bases using foam adhesive for extra depth. This need was a fun and relaxing way to create multiple Christmas cards at once. If you'd like to see how I created these cards, you can find my step-by-step tutorial HERE - I hope these cards inspire you to start your own Christmas crafting!
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Renske - Hello everyone! For this autumn card, I used the Polkadoodles Apple Barrel Autumn Fall Fox digital stamp as the main focal point. I coloured Freddy and his apple barrel with my Ohuhu alcohol markers. To create a fun falling-leaves effect, I cropped the oak and oval leaves from the same digital stamp, printed them in different sizes and coloured them to match the original image. I created the warm background by blending Distress Inks onto white cardstock. To finish the card I used the “Oh happy day” sentiment from the Polkadoodles Gnome Men Sentiments set. I added the leaves at different heights with foam tape to give the card extra dimension and a playful autumn feel. Hope you like it. Happy Crafting.
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How to make cute Halloween/Autumn cupcake toppers using digital stamps - handmade by Eve...
Hi there, crafty friends! It’s time for another Digi Chooday Challenge, and today’s theme is Halloween Party. For my project, I decided to make some fun Halloween cake toppers. I chose to use the Fox Ghost digi stamp, Bear Dracula, Cute Ghost and Hedgehog Pumpkin, all of which are pre-coloured images, so they were really quick and easy to use. I also added some of the lovely sentiments from the Halloween Trick or Treat Greetings printables too. After printing and cutting out the images, I used various circle dies to cut them into neat circles. I then attached each one to a cocktail stick and finished them off with a little ribbon. They would be perfect for adding a fun Halloween touch to cupcakes or a party table! I hope you like my Halloween cake toppers, and good luck to everyone who enters the challenge!
Happy crafting! Eve x
How to create a fun Halloween party banner - handmade by Paula...
I love to make Halloween decorations for our Halloween party. I just prefer to have unique décor that you cannot find in all the popular stores. I made a haunted house themed banner to hang at the fireplace. Each panel has mica sprays on the background with each one with a different house and moon. Each house is printed and then cut from this collection – no coloring! I am really thrilled with how festive and beautiful it came out. To finish it off I used Distress Mica Stains in Fortune Teller, Harvest Moon, Jack o’Lantern, Burning Ember, Phantom Mist, Specimen Distress Oxide Inks in: Iced Spruce, Walnut Stain, Black Soot, Fossilized Amber. Hope you like it! See you next time - I’d love to follow you on Socials, here’s mine if you’d like to give me a follow too!
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How to make Handmade Halloween decorations using digital stamps - handmade by Kathie....
Good morning and welcome to all my crafty friends and another Digi Choosday! This fortnight our design team’s theme is Halloween Party. I really had to get me head around this, as Halloween when I grew up here in New Zealand wasn’t celebrated. Something that happened overseas which you saw on TV. When my boys were about 6 and 8 they did go off Trick & Treating with a friend's daughter who was about 14-15 at the time. I was worried sick while they were out, but I couldn’t get over the loot they brought home in their bags with them! The funny part about it was my two didn’t really like sweets, they enjoyed the small packets of crisps. They are now 27-25 and neither of them are big sweet eaters. I think my eldest son's wife makes up for both of them as she has a very sweet tooth. What do you make for a Halloween party, usually there are drinks so I made Halloween straws. The image I used was this CREEPY CREATURES BAT and I use a pre-coloured image, I don’t know why, as I added to the images and I fussy cut them out. This image also comes as a black & white image to colour yourself. I used GNOME TRICK OR TREAT HALLOWEEN PAPER - printable of course - and used the striped paper for the straws, which I rolled over a knitting needle, and used the chevron multi coloured paper for the badges. The wording I made up myself and printed it. The image was coloured with the following Copic Chio marker Black 100 and a white gel pen. I look forward to visiting your blogs soon. Happy crafting and Halloween everyone. You can find my complete instructions on my blog here.Kathie’z Kardz https://kathiezkardz.blogspot.com/
How to make beautifully cute and fun handmade Halloween cake toppers - handmade by Wendy...
Hello everyone, it's nearly Halloween and if you are planning on hosting a party then why not make some halloween cake toppers! It's a really quick and easy project. I have used the Hocus Pocus Collection for my scary cake toppers today - printing out several of the pre-coloured images such as these gorgeous Witches and fussy cutting them out. Next I used a fancy edged circular die to cut out 6 discs of black card and 6 smaller discs of purple and orange card, to create 6 topper bases. I then adhered the scary coloured images to the topper bases using foam tape. I added a little distress ink onto the sentiment style toppers to co-ordinate with the design. To create each cake topper I used hot glue to adhere pinchos sticks (Spanish Tapas sticks), onto the back of each topper. Finishing touches were metallic gelly roll pen and white gelly roll pen highlights and lots of lovely sparkly gems. The spooky cakes are actually shop bought Magdalena's, ( shh no one will ever know ) simply wrapped with a couple of pieces of lime green and orange metallic tissue paper, secured in place with yellow elastic bands. It doesn't have to be complicated to create a plate full of fun that would be perfect for any Halloween party. My biggest problem will be stopping my hubby eating them LOL I hope you like my Halloween project and will join in the fun in the blog challenge this week. Have a fantastic week. Love and crafty hugs x. I would love it if you could follow me on social: https://olivefarmcrafts.blogspot.com/
Maria - This week’s challenge theme is Food and Drink, and since I urgently needed a few birthday cards, it felt only natural to choose the best kind of food: birthday cake and muffins! The adorable treats come from the Big Birthday Surprise stamp set. I coloured them with alcohol markers and added highlights with a white gel pen to make everything pop.
Of course, I wanted to showcase the matching Birthday Fun paper as well, so I decided on a split triangle card design to really let those patterns shine. I stamped the sweet little bunting from the same stamp set onto the cardstock for extra detail. A sentiment from the set and a few Polka Dots 3D enamel dots embellishments as accents — and just like that, I ended up with two wonderfully cheerful cards guaranteed to make someone’s day. Crafty, colourful, and full of birthday joy! Products I used:
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Create a super cute Halloween Panda card using printable digital stamps - hand created by Jane...
Hello everyone. Halloween is fast approaching and I have used this gorgeous digi, BEAR DRACULA, for my project today. He is from the adorable HELLO AUTUMN collection, and I decided to use my Copics to colour him as a panda, those big black rings around his eyes seemed to suit the theme. I used some edging dies to cut around one of the backing papers from PRETTY PAPERS SET 1, and the black mat behind it, then fussy cut my image and placed him to stand on the pumpkin on the paper. I used a die from the SPOOKY PUMPKINS set (grab it, it’s on sale!) to cut out a sentiment from the HELLO AUTUMN GREETING BUNDLE and added a few tiny bat die-cuts to finish.
Hi everyone! For this week's challenge, I created a sweet and whimsical Artist Trading Card (ATC) featuring Witch with Cat digi stamp from Polkadoodles. Instead of the traditional Halloween colors, I reached for soft pinks and pastels to give this project a fun "Halloween... but not quite" feel! To add a little personality, I paired it with the "Please cancel my subscription to your issues" sentiment from the Wanda Messages and Quotes collection. I have to admit, I'm really loving this sentiment collection! The snarky quotes always make me laugh, and I think I might just start building my own little ATC collection featuring Wanda's hilarious sentiments. They seem perfect for these tiny pieces of art!
I finished the background with patterned paper from the Winnie Sunshine Delights collection, subtle script stamping, stenciling, and a few embellishments for extra texture and dimension.
Want to recreate this ATC? You can find my full step-by-step tutorial HERE.
I hope this little ATC inspires you to try a non-traditional color palette for your Halloween makes!
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Nat - Hello Everyone!! My card is using the Scorpio Digital stamp, I thought she was sooo gorgeous. I fell in love with her gorgeous hair, I'm not sure I could handle the brushing if it was my hair but I love her. I coloured with Copics, repeating the colour combination for unity. I used the Everyday Sentiment pack which has sooo many sentiments. One side is Christmas base and the other is Everyday sentiments and there is soo soo many in the pack.
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Skin - E13, E00 and E50
Hair - E57, E47 and E41
Teal - BG18, BG13 and BG11
Grey - C5, C3 and C1
Shoes - 110, C9, C7 and C5
Lavender - BV04, BV02 and BV00
Wood - E47, E57 and E43
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