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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Check out our latest releases!


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 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.
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!
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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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