Challenge 9 - Anything Goes Card Making & Paper Craft Scrapbook challenge - Gem of a Challenge

 Hello crafters - welcome to a new challenge!

This challenge is monthly - 4 weeks to enter with $40 in prizes per month. 

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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Have you seen all our latest new releases? 

So let's get to the Design Team inspiration this week!

Kim S - Today I'm excited to share the three tags I created using the brand new the Buzzy Bee Gnomes Big Kahuna digital download set. I chose 3 of the pre-coloured images which makes creating and crafting so much easier. All the hard work is done for you and is absolutely adorable and so much fun to work with. For these tags, I really leaned into the charming bee and floral elements, combining them with some sweet sentiments. I love how versatile this digital set is, allowing for so many creative possibilities. Especially when using the pre-coloured images. 

Ana - Layers of love in every pocket! I designed this pretty tag pocket card with my Cricut and filled it with Polkadoodles Happy Cactus Succulent printable papers, floral embellies, pearl sticks, and soft ribbons. The star of the show? A pretty hand-colored digi stamp, Natures Beauty Girl brought to life with markers - popping perfectly against the subtle background. Sweet, soft, and totally handmade with heart! Instagram: @my.cat.and.crafts Facebook: My Cat and Crafts

Rachael - Hello crafters! Have you seen the new Graduation release? It is so stinking cute!! School may have broken up in most places now but this great bundle can be used for other things like New Job, promotions, Driving test and anything else where congratulations arr in order, I just love it! You get great papers and extra bits in the bundle like these books and apples and the ephemera is amazing, it's great if you're a scrapbooker too! Hope you liek this card, I think it turned out really cute...

Kaye - For this challenge, how about an interactive scrapbook layout? Using the Bee Buzzy Flower Digital Stamp and the Flower Rebel Girl both colored with Ohuhu Markers. Cutting out a mason jar and adding a tag for that extra flair. For the water, we just made an upcycled crinkle paper out of tissue paper from a local store and either you insert your photo inside the mason jar or outside, I'm sure this will be a guaranteed hit! My Instagram: @kayeskraftivitee_

Ana - Made this sweet Mini Album with Tags using Polkadoodles Happy Succulent Cactus Printable Papers and a sentiment from the Honeypie Greetings pack. I designed the cut file in Cricut Design Space, added solid cardstock for the base and tags, and finished it off with a polkadot ribbon. Quick, cute, and perfect for photos or a fun card! Instagram: @my.cat.and.crafts Facebook: My Cat and Crafts

Terri - I adore colouring this type of theme and decided to make a fun fold card and have the Swimming Coral Mermaid(and a turtle) “floating” on acetate strips. For this you need thick acetate or product packaging. It’s easy to create this style of card base and create it to whatever dimensions you like. Mine is 6x4 1/2 and I started with a 7 "pre-bought card base and then I cut a piece of thick white card stock to 6x4 1/2”. I scored and folded the piece of card every 1 1/2”, so that I had 2 “mountains" to adhere my floating elements too. With the 7” card base I turned it so it was top folding and trimmed it with my guillotine so it was 7x4 1/4, then trimmed the back to 6” tall and left the extra 1” on the front to be scored and folded to be a glue tab to attach my accordion folded card piece on to.

Before printing my mermaid and the background scene, I measured the size of the mermaid so it would fit nicely into the scene, flipped it vertically in Open Office (free version of Word) and copied and pasted so I had 3 mermaids on my horizontal paper sheet. With the ocean background I kept the page in vertical orientation and resized it it 4 1/2 inches wide. I then added a copy underneath but again flipped it horizontally, so that the two scenes, when adhered to the mountain folds of the card base, would look different and create a nice little pocket of ocean for Coral to float in. I also coloured more sand on the scene nearest the back so it would appear slightly taller too.

I used an ocean themed sheet of paper from Coral Mermaid the paper set to mimic water in the background. As the colours in this sheet were a lovely ocean blue and a very pale blue pattern, I made gentle flicks alternating two Copics BG11 and BG32, to make it more cohesive with the scene as I had used those colour when colouring up my scene.

I used a very versatile sentiment from the Coral Mermaid Quotes pack making this card suitable for everything from Birthday's to Graduations to New Jobs!

There are waay too many Copic colours used to list, but I will list those used on the mermaid: skin- E53, E51, E00, R02 & R11 (would usually be E50 for my lightest skin tone but my marker needed refilling); Top & flowers - RV63, V04 & V17; Tail - BG000, BG11, BG32, BG13, BG49, BG09, BV00, V04.

A top tip for you when colouring a scene is to ensure that you use a colour several times, as it helps the scene look more cohesive. This is why I added the two BG colours used in her tail onto the blue paper background.

Thanks for reading my essay (I will have a blog soon and can direct you there for all of the details and process photos lol) and I hope you like my fancy fold Mermaid card. Crafty hugs and I will see you again soon for more crafty inspiration, Terri xx

Nina - I created two floral tags in a romantic shabby chic style. The delicate designs feature two different kinds of poppies from the  Blooms 6 Poppy Flower Bundle digistamp set  colored in soft rose and warm greige tones. The  sentiments °•May your Day Blossom with Happiness •° and °•blooming Beautiful •° are from the °•Spring Flower Mothers Day Friends Greetings Sentiments•° set.

Rachael - Hello again! I can't stop using the new Graduation release? so I had to make this cute card, it's great for just saying congrats and marking those extra occasions they might have through the year...

Great inspiration from the team this week, thanks everyone for your hard work! We hope you'll share what you make with your Polkadoodles products on our Social Media! Share in our Facebook group here...

So, just a reminder....

the challenge theme is

ANYTHING GOES.

This is Challenge 9, and this challenge will end on 28th August 2025. Winners will be announced 30 Aug.

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Winners from Challenge 8...

$20 RANDOM WINNER 

$20 credit to spend in the Polkadoodles store!

37 Yvonne

Congratulations! 

TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE: 

PLEASE CONTACT US VIA THE WEBSITE, QUOTING THE FOLLOWING CODE PGWK09001 TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE. CLAIMS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 19/8/25.

(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)

Our Top 2 favourite entries for this challenge who win a 

$10 voucher to the Polkadoodles store are....

10 Sharon

58 Cheiro

Congratulations! 

TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE: 

PLEASE CONTACT US VIA THE WEBSITE, QUOTING THE FOLLOWING CODE PGWK0912 TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE. CLAIMS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 19/8/25.

(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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