Saturday, 15 August 2026

Challenge 8 - Anything Goes Card Making & Paper Craft Scrapbook challenge - Gem of a Challenge

 Hello crafters - welcome to a new challenge!


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!
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Let's see what the team have been making this week...

Ana - Hello crafty friends! This week’s Digi Choosday Design Team theme is “Get Organised for Christmas!” and I created a cute Christmas Essentials Mini Caddy to keep all my gift wrapping supplies together. It’s just the right size for glue, tape, Christmas tags, ribbons, and other festive essentials, making it easy to grab and bring wherever you’re wrapping presents.

To decorate my caddy, I used the super cute Candy Fun Christmas Gingerbread Cookie Digi Stamp, colored with Ohuhu markers, and paired it with the beautiful Gingerbread Holly Papers 2 collection from Polkadoodles.

If you’d like to recreate this project, head over to my blog where I share how I made it, along with all the details. I hope this project inspires you to get organised for the holiday season!
And be sure to follow me on social media for more crafty inspiration.
Instagram: @my.cat.and.crafts www.instagram.com/my.cat.and.crafts
Facebook: My Cat and Crafts https://www.facebook.com/my.cat.and.crafts



Enrica - Hi crafty friends! For my project this week I made a simple tag/bookmark coloring with Copic the sweet Cute Girl with glasses digital stamp and I turned out the laptop image from the Object Digital Stamp and Printable Clipart Pack in a cute blackboard. The ephemera is from Graduation school student Sentiments Quotes. The Main patterned paper is from the Student/School Little Dude set.
This collection is absolutely adorable! I'm trying to collect all the characters —they're all so cute!

Nat - Hello Everyone!! Hope you are all well. I picked the Snow Shopping- Winnie for my card today!. She is sooo gorgeous and combined her with a sentiment from the Christmas and Everyday Sentiment Strips pack. I have coloured her with Copics and added a little bit of sponging around the edges. I also added some matting with the Devine Hearts 6x6 Paper Pad that teamed with it perfectly!
Copics Used
Skin - E04, E01, E11 and E000
Hair - E35, E31 and E21
Yellow - YR68, YR04, Y15, Y13 and Y11
Snow - B32, B41 and B60
Brown - E59, E37 and E35
Carrot - YR68, YR04 and Y15
Green - YG67, YG17 and YG03
Snowman's yellow - YR16, Y38, Y35 and Y21
Blue - B99, B37, B34 and B31
Red - R29, R27 and R24

Hope you'll follow me on socials - Instagram https://www.instagram.com/natalieperrywalsh/


Nelly - I wish it was time for the children to go back to school but alas there’s still 3 weeks left ha ha ! For this project I created a notebook/journal it’s an essential item to have for the beginning of the new term isn’t it? I used Polkadoodles Rebel flower digi stamp and coloured her with markers, the design paper is Polkadoodles scrumptious sugar paper pack. I also used an old Polkadoodles stamp which is always my go to when I want to create a mixed media effect! I think this is rather cute, hope you like it!

Revati - Get ready to kick off the new school year with a little extra encouragement! For this fun back-to-school card, I featured the Cute Girl With Stationery Pens Pencils - Graduation School Student as my main focal point. I printed her onto heavyweight cardstock, cut her out seamlessly using my ScanNCut machine, and brought her to life with vibrant Ohuhu Alcohol Markers. To set the scene, I used the playful patterned paper from the Rocket Card Little Dude Bundle to create that awesome textured brick wall backdrop. Finally, I added a collection of inspiring sentiments using the Graduation School Students Sentiment Stamp set to cheer on the recipient with messages like HOORAY! and so the adventure continues. It’s the perfect way to send some love and motivation for the bright academic year ahead!
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Nikky - Hello everyone! This week we have lots of new releases in store including these lovely MDF stacker trees...they're designed to stack together in a block making a lovely decoration for a window, shelf or mantelpiece, but you can also use them on cards, decorate tags and gifts with them, string them up or make larger decorations too - so versatile! I loved decorating these I had so many ideas I could have done with texture pastes, glitter and stenciling and decoupage!
Just pop them out of the sheets. I love using Distress Oxides to decorate MDF - it's an acrylic base so it works really well and gives great coverage - and dries so much faster and better than paints! You can still distress the edges and use your stencil brushes too which makes it pretty much just like inking a piece of card!
For this set I just inked with Kitsch Flamingo and let it dry, then I dry brushed some white acrylic paint across, catching the edges to distress it and give them a scandi feel. I have 2 trees glued together here which was the 4 largest ones in the kit, but it still left me with another 12 to use on other projects! These are about 7" tall. I added gold paint to the 2nd one and then just added some die cuts. They're glued together so it makes a lovely chunky decoration like the ones you'd find in a home shop that would cost £10-£15!! Great gift and as you get so many trees in the pack you could easily sell these at craft fairs as well and actually make a profit! Shop the MDF stacker trees here and have a go...

Wendy - I hope the weather is being kind where you are and you are having a great week. I think Autumn is my favourite time of the year where I live as the colours around the mountains and in the garden are wonderful ans the high temperatures have started to subside ! What is your favourite season of the year ? I decided to use one of the perfect digital stamps from the Freddy Fox Collection today - what could be better than a super cute fox - this is Apple Barrel Fox, coloured with my Promarkers in Autumnal shades and then fussy cut out. I created an ink smooshed background using lots of orange and yellow distress inks on watercolour card and then added little stamped and stencilled details in distress oxides and gold acrylic paint. Next I chose a couple of the leafy papers from the collection adding strips of these below my inked panel with torn edges on each layer. I love the added texture this gives the design.
I had some little mushrooms from another project that I coloured with alcohol pens to coordinate and also stamped some extra leaves, adding this to the design.
The finishing touches for my card were sparkly gems and white Gelly roll pen highlights around the design
I hope you like my card and will join in the fun in the blog challenge this week. Have a fantastic week. Love and crafty hugs x.
Products I used
I would love it if you could follow me on social: https://olivefarmcrafts.blogspot.com/

Thanks so much to the team for their GORGEOUS inspiration this week!

We hope you'll share what you make with your Polkadoodles products on our Social Media!
Share in our Facebook group here...Join Nikky for our regular LIVESTREAM on Facebook, Insta and YouTube every Sunday at noon (UK time) if you love any of these projects!
So, just a reminder....
the challenge theme is ANYTHING GOES.

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Winners from Challenge 7 (there is no challenge 5 or 6)...
$20 RANDOM WINNER
$20 credit to spend in the Polkadoodles store!

Congratulations!

TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE:
PLEASE CONTACT US VIA THE WEBSITE CHATBOX, QUOTING THE FOLLOWING CODE PGWK7001 TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE. CLAIMS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 25/8/26.
(PLEASE NOTE - WINNERS WILL RECEIVE A REPLY WITHIN 28 DAYS, PLEASE DO NOT KEEP EMAILING IF YOU DON'T RECEIVE A REPLY BACK DURING THIS TIME)
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Our Top 2 favourite entries for this challenge who win a
$10 voucher to the Polkadoodles store are....


Congratulations!

TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE:
PLEASE CONTACT US VIA THE WEBSITE CHATBOX, QUOTING THE FOLLOWING CODE PGWK7012. CLAIMS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 25/8/26. (PLEASE NOTE - WINNERS WILL RECEIVE A REPLY WITHIN 28 DAYS, PLEASE DO NOT KEEP EMAILING IF YOU DON'T RECEIVE A REPLY BACK DURING THIS TIME)

Thanks so much for all your entries!
Please take our WINNERS & TOP 3 badges from the Sidebar

WE LOVED ALL YOUR CRAFTY PROJECTS, THANKS SO MUCH TO EVERYONE FOR ENTERING!

Don't forget to join in our other challenges too -You could win more stash and as always our Challenges are **Anything Goes**

Click here to enter: Digi Choosday Blog
Click here to enter: Polkadoodles Challenge (starts today!)
Click here to enter: We Love 2 Create challenge

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Friday, 10 July 2026

Challenge 7 - Anything Goes Card Making & Paper Craft Scrapbook challenge - Gem of a Challenge

Hello crafters - welcome to a new challenge!

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!
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NELLY I simply love colouring up little fishes, it’s something about how their personality bursts into life! So for this weeks project I have taken the fish digital stamp from Winnie starfish and sandcastles digi download and coloured with zig watercolours. A little stencilling in the background and textures using texture paste created the ocean feel. I also used The Scribble Heart dies and the Heavenly Circles stencil. I thought this card would work perfect for an anniversary card? What do you think?

Maria - Hello again! I’ve been wanting to try these wonderful Pretty Shutter Window dies for such a long time, and now I’ve finally got around to it! I’ve created this lovely card using them. Combined with the magical Adalene Craft Papers designer paper, it gives a beautifully romantic, dreamy view into the evening sky. I added a brickwork texture to the paper using a stencil and purple ink. The sentiment from the Everyday Sentiment Strips pack is the perfect finishing touch for this handmade thank‑you card.
Here's my social media:
Instagram
Facebook
YouTube
Eve - Hello crafty friends, for today's card I used my Scan and cut to cut out the adorable Bella Bear with lots of parcels pre coloured image. I mat and layered it onto some brown and white card to make it pop. Then I fussy cut and layered lots of elements with foam pads to add dimension. I added Glossy Accents and glitter pen to make it sparkle. The background paper is Christmas paper patterns 2 which I die cut with some stitched square dies. The sentiment is from Bella Bear Christmas greetings set.  Thanks for visiting and good luck if you enter Digi Choosday!


Robbie - Hello everyone! Who wouldn't love to see a mermaid? Well if you can't see one in real life you can create with them. I used various alcohol markers to color this underwater scene digistamp and Coral mermaid. Some blue ink was blended on the underwater scene panel to look like it is underwater. The Coral Mermaid paper made a great mat behind the scene. I shrunk the sentiment, printed, and then I cut it out. It was mounted on the same mat paper. The mermaid was fussy cut and then mounted on a spinner so she spins like she is swimming through the water. Who wouldn't smile when they open this card and the mermaid spins around!
Social Media Links
Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61583296004556
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/creationsinpaper/
Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/creationsinpaper/
You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@robbierubala

Julie - Hello! Today's project is simple and easy to create. I started by printing an Ocean/Sea themed sentiment from Winnie Starfish Sandcastle about 1/3 of the way down on a card front. There are many sentiments to choose from so pick one that suits the mood of your card. I then cut a piece of printable paper from Winnie Starfish Sandcastle, and cut it at 4 1/8 x 3 1/2. I cut the 4 1/4 side across into a wavy design and attached it to the bottom of the card front. I chose a couple of vibrant colored fish from the Winnie Starfish Sandcastle Embellies and printed them in different sizes. I added some glitter to the fish before adding them with some foam squares into the water. I drew in a few bubbles and added some pieces of coral cut from a random die. I finished the card off with a few sparkly blue gems to coordinate with the water. I added a small strip of the water paper cut in the same wavy design to the card inside with an additional sentiment. The card was quick, beautiful and sends out a fun, relaxing vibe! Give it a try!
Blog www.thepaperartist.ca
Instagram
Facebook

Thanks so much to the team for their GORGEOUS inspiration this week!

We hope you'll share what you make with your Polkadoodles products on our Social Media!
Share in our Facebook group here...Join Nikky for our regular LIVESTREAM on Facebook, Insta and YouTube every Sunday at noon (UK time) if you love any of these projects!
So, just a reminder....
the challenge theme is ANYTHING GOES.

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Winners from Challenge 4 (there is no challenge 5 or 6)...
$20 RANDOM WINNER
$20 credit to spend in the Polkadoodles store!

Congratulations!

TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE:
PLEASE CONTACT US VIA THE WEBSITE CHATBOX, QUOTING THE FOLLOWING CODE PGWK7001 TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE. CLAIMS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 28/7/26.
(PLEASE NOTE - WINNERS WILL RECEIVE A REPLY WITHIN 28 DAYS, PLEASE DO NOT KEEP EMAILING IF YOU DON'T RECEIVE A REPLY BACK DURING THIS TIME)
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Our Top 2 favourite entries for this challenge who win a
$10 voucher to the Polkadoodles store are....

Congratulations!

TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE:
PLEASE CONTACT US VIA THE WEBSITE CHATBOX, QUOTING THE FOLLOWING CODE PGWK7012. CLAIMS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 28/7/26. (PLEASE NOTE - WINNERS WILL RECEIVE A REPLY WITHIN 28 DAYS, PLEASE DO NOT KEEP EMAILING IF YOU DON'T RECEIVE A REPLY BACK DURING THIS TIME)

Thanks so much for all your entries!
Please take our WINNERS & TOP 3 badges from the Sidebar

WE LOVED ALL YOUR CRAFTY PROJECTS, THANKS SO MUCH TO EVERYONE FOR ENTERING!

Don't forget to join in our other challenges too -You could win more stash and as always our Challenges are **Anything Goes**

Click here to enter: Digi Choosday Blog
Click here to enter: Polkadoodles Challenge (starts today!)
Click here to enter: We Love 2 Create challenge
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You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Tuesday, 5 May 2026

Challenge 4 - Anything Goes Card Making & Paper Craft Scrapbook challenge - Gem of a Challenge

 Hello crafters - welcome to a new challenge!


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!
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We are delighted to welcome Robbie to the team this week - we're looking forward to sharing her lovely makes with you all and hope you'll all follow her (and the rest of the team) on social for a follow back too! Welcome, Robbie!

Robbie - Hello everyone, I have my first project to share with you. I am sharing a Mother's Day card using several digital products from Polkadoodles. The paper in the Blooms butterfly bundle was a pretty teal plaid and perfect for a feminine card. I used some alcohol markers to color the flower spray from Blooms 1 Flower bundle. The Spring Flower Mothers Day Friends greetings sentiments bundle had a fancy script sentiment. To finish my card I created a triple loop bow using some polka dot organdy ribbon from my stash.
Products used:
Blooms 1 Flower Bundle - https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/blooms-1-flower-bundle-digital-stamp-digistamp-for-cards-cardmaking-crafting-and-stickers/
Blooms Butterfly bundle - https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/blooms-butterfly-bundle-digital-stamp-digistamp-for-cards-cardmaking-crafting-and-stickers/
Spring Flower Mothers Day Friends greetings sentiments - https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/spring-flower-mothers-day-friends-greetings-sentiments-printable-digital-stamp-for-card-making-craft-scrapbooking-printable-stickers/
My Social Media Links:
Blog - https://creationsinpaper.com
Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61583296004556
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/creationsinpaper/
You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@robbierubala




Maria - Mother’s Day has already passed here in England, but it’s still coming up in my home country Germany – and my mum’s birthday is just around the corner as well. She’s a florist, so naturally she loves flowers. She’s usually a big fan of pink, but I think these soft pastel tones will make her happy too. The flowers from the Chamomile Flower Dies Set are just so adorable, don’t you think?
I coloured them using brushing pencils, just like I did with the leaves. The background was also created with the help of the pencils and the wonderful Happy Celebrations Stencil.
I’ve become a big fan of the Sentiment Strip Pack and used another lovely phrase from it here. And of course, the obligatory polka dots had to make an appearance again – both on the flowers and in the background!
Materials I used:
Happy Celebrations Emboss Ink Stencil: Happy Celebrations Emboss-ink Layering stencil for card making, crafts, scrapbooking - Polkadoodles card making, craft, scrapbooking supplies and digital stamp, svg, clipart printables
Chamomile flower dies: https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/search-magic.html?query=pd9085
Sentiment Strips: Christmas & Everyday Sentiment Strip Pack, 300gsm, A5/6x8" – 1225 Printed Greetings, Messages for Crafting, Card Making & Scrapbooking - Polkadoodles card making, craft, scrapbooking supplies and digital stamp, svg, clipart printables
Here´s my socialmedia:
https://www.instagram.com/stempelmariele?igsh=bzg1emRobmxsMWdp
https://www.facebook.com/share/16DYyAdSg1/
https://youtube.com/@stempelmariele?si=_HBi7-VDId3ZULNK


Taty - Hello creatives, today I share my DT inspiration for the Mother's Day theme. I created a greeting card for my mom, using the pre-colored image Waffle Cream Frosting Cupcake. The card is layered with two-tone blue cardstock, blue paper and digital paper featuring cupcakes from the collection Coffee Tea and Cake. I glued the cupcake image thickly and added glitter to the cream and the glossy accent to the wafer and the little pink bow. To embellish, I added small hearts by die-cutting paper cutouts of the digital pattern from the same collection Coffee Tea and Cake. Thanks to the fabulous pre-colored Polkaddodles collection, creating cards is quick and fun.
My social media: https://scrapperconpassione.blogspot.com/2026/05/dolce-per-mamma.html
Products used:
Cupcake digi: https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/waffle-cream-frosting-cupcake-precoloured-printable-craft-digital-stamp-download-with-free-svg-dxf-files/
https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/coffee-tea-and-cake-printable-cardmaking-craft-paper-patterns-download-bundle/

Renske - For this graduation card I created a fun interactive pocket slider design featuring the adorable Noodle Panda digital stamp. I coloured the panda with alcohol markers and built a soft blended background using Distress Ink for the sky and layered die cut grass for depth. The slider reveals a hidden sentiment, adding a playful surprise element to the card. I used patterned paper from the Gnome Men Celebrations collection together with sentiments from the Noodle Panda themed messages and Winnie Daisy Greetings set. This design is easy to adapt and works well for celebrating any graduation. Hope you like it. Happy Crafting.My Instagram: @renske.wishes.you
Facebook: Renske.wishes.you

Liz - I love to create different pieces of art – card making, mixed media etc – so I thought it was time I did an art journal page.I got this gorgeous stamp set from Nikky called Every Wish Stamp Set – I love it!! The flower heads are separate along with a stem stamp, so you can use as many or as few as you wish.I stamped the main larger flower, then used a mask to cover this so I could add the stem to look like it came from under the flower head. I used a mask on the other side too for the added flower head, leaves and squiggle.My background is created using Gelatos, Distress Crayon and a little acrylic ink, simply smooshing the colours to blend a little. I then went over with the Bubbleicious stencil with Antique Linen Distress Ink for a little added feature to the overall design. The small circles are another two stamps from the same stamp set.I finished off with a sentiment strip stamp set, which I then cut down into smaller pieces. I coloured the flowers, leaves etc with my watercolour pencils in matching tones to tie it all in.
Products used:


We're thrilled to welcome a new Design Team member with us today - please give a warm welcome to Paula! We look forward to showing you all her wonderful makes every week with the team!

Paula - I used this Cute Boy Graduation digi stamp to make a graduation card using graduation sentiments and words of encouragement as a background. The graduate is colored with Ohuhu alcohol markers. He flips to the right to allow the recipient to see all the heartfelt sentiments. The card then opens as a traditional side-fold card allowing the addition of a gift card or cash and a personal message.
Products used:

I used Ohuhu markers - colour used: CG2, E58,R2,R8,R18,R20, R22, WG3,Y2,Y42,YR312

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!


Thanks so much to the team for their GORGEOUS inspiration this week!

We hope you'll share what you make with your Polkadoodles products on our Social Media!
Share in our Facebook group here...Join Nikky for our regular LIVESTREAM on FacebookInsta and YouTube every Sunday at noon (UK time) if you love any of these projects!
So, just a reminder....
the challenge theme is ANYTHING GOES.
This is Challenge 2 and this challenge will end on 18th February 2025.
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Winners from Challenge 3...
$20 RANDOM WINNER
$20 credit to spend in the Polkadoodles store!

Congratulations!

TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE:
PLEASE CONTACT US VIA THE WEBSITE CHATBOX, QUOTING THE FOLLOWING CODE PGWK4001 TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE. CLAIMS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 14/5/26.
(PLEASE NOTE - WINNERS WILL RECEIVE A REPLY WITHIN 28 DAYS, PLEASE DO NOT KEEP EMAILING IF YOU DON'T RECEIVE A REPLY BACK DURING THIS TIME)
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Our Top 2 favourite entries for this challenge who win a
$10 voucher to the Polkadoodles store are....

Congratulations!

TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE:
PLEASE CONTACT US VIA THE WEBSITE CHATBOX, QUOTING THE FOLLOWING CODE PGWK4012. CLAIMS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 14/5/26. (PLEASE NOTE - WINNERS WILL RECEIVE A REPLY WITHIN 28 DAYS, PLEASE DO NOT KEEP EMAILING IF YOU DON'T RECEIVE A REPLY BACK DURING THIS TIME)

Thanks so much for all your entries!
Please take our WINNERS & TOP 3 badges from the Sidebar

WE LOVED ALL YOUR CRAFTY PROJECTS, THANKS SO MUCH TO EVERYONE FOR ENTERING!

Don't forget to join in our other challenges too -You could win more stash and as always our Challenges are **Anything Goes**

Click here to enter: Digi Choosday Blog
Click here to enter: Polkadoodles Challenge (starts today!)
Click here to enter: We Love 2 Create challenge
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You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter