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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!

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

Congratulations!

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Saturday, 7 March 2026

Challenge 3 - 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!



So let's see what the Design Team have been making this month...

Liz - It's my Sons Fiancee's Birthday today, she loves a handmade card and layers so I created this using some of the gorgeous chipboard, papers, Polkadots and flower dies from Polkadoodles,

I love this Daisy Daisy paper pack which is the base of my design, the chipboards are so lightweight they are fabulous used in cards as well as mixed media,

I love to create flowers from die cuts, and love to see how many different looks you can get from them,

The Celebrate die adds another little layer too, though I will admit it's been covered with the flower a bit, lol. Here's what else I used on this make:

• Love and kisses stamps • Pretty Flowers 1 dies • Flower flourish dies • Pretty frames and quotes chipboard •


Eve - I used Polkadoodles Lilac Haze watercolour flowers download and printed it 3 times so that I could fussy cut the flowers to add layers. I added some yellow glitter glue to the centres and layered them onto purple card. The background paper comes with the download as well as 6 other pretty papers. The flower image that I used is pre coloured but there is also a black and white image if you wish to colour it yourself. The sentiment is Spring Flower Mothers Day Friends greetings sentiments which I fussy cut and layered. The 'Mum' sentiment is from Mother's Day messages sentiments - again fussy cut and layered. The beautiful tag which I just had to buy after seeing Nikky on Hobbymaker TV channel is called Ribbon tag heart dies which I mounted and fussy cut onto purple card. Finally I added a Pretty Flower Flourish die with a brad for the centre and used my sewing machine to stitch around the edges of the card.



Kathie - Good morning and welcome to all my crafty friends and welcome to another Digi Choosday. It’s time for a new challenge for me once again. Our design team theme is Mother’s Day or a Mum’s birthday. We had free range with the colour palette which made me happy. I’ve made a birthday card for a special friend who loves the garden and tulips. I chose this image knowing full well she will love it. She has kept every card I’ve ever made for her. This wonderful Polkadoodles image is DLPD 9225 Butterfly Flowerpots this image comes black & white for you to colour as well as a coloured image and it also includes sentiments. The design paper used was DLPD 9391 Flower Wreath #8. The image was coloured with the following Copic Chio markers: 0, C0, C1, E11, E33, E35, RV02, RV13, W05, YG00, YG03, YG06, YG63 and a black gel pen. I look forward to commenting on whatever you make. Happy crafting everyone. You can find my complete instructions for this card on my blog here.


Jane Hi everyone! It was my Mum’s birthday last week, so I made her a card featuring thegorgeous elements from the PARTY TIME collection. I used this super cute PARTY BALLOON BUNNY RABBIT as the main image, then in Word I created a little scene around her with the elements from the PARTY BUNDLE. I used my favourite technique of printing my scene directly to the patterned paper, adding a shadow behind each image to give it some depth.

Zel - I Printed Helga hippo flowers and foliage and have it cut through my scan and cut machine to be mu focal point .For my layers I prepared a 4x5 green textured cardstock and a piece of 2x5 textured yellow card stock . For my card base an A4 white cardstock will do. I first adhere the green cardstock to my cardbase making sure that it is centered . I adhered the yellow cardstock on top of my green cardstock but this one is a little bit off centered. I also wanted to have layers of my focal point thats why I adhere the leaves on top of each other and added foam square to my flower and adhere it on top of my leaves. I added pearl embellishment to create a motherly look and for the final touch I adhered Sending Happiness sentiment from Winnie Sugar Sprinkles Sentiment. I used the Flowers and Foliage colour clipart for this project and Winnie Sugar Sprinkles quotes. Would love it if you could follow me on social:

Enrica - Hi crafty friends! I'm so happy to share with you my new inspiration project.This week the DT was asked to make a wallet and the requirement was to use a rabbit. I decided for the sweet Love You Cart Loads and the Bunnita Shopping digital stamp for the tag/gift on the insidePatterned papers are from the DIGI DEALS - Dahlia Flower 1 and the DIGI DEALS - Bella Bear Morning Coffee. In case you had any doubts... yes, I'm addicted to pink. It's a color I adore and it makes me feel good. And you? What color would you have done it in?


Judy - My inspiration project for this week is a Spring themed card. I am using Gill Bunny Rabbit Growing Sunflowers Digi as my focal. He is colored with Prismacolor Pencils and fussy cut. I adhered to white cardstock. A border at the top of the card uses one of the papers from Pretty Spring Printable Papers.The sentiment was printed and die cut with an oval die. I added handcut banners to complete my card design.



Wendy - Hiya everyone I hope that you are having a lovely week. Time for some more inspiration for our Digi Choosday challenge and today I have a pretty card to send someone special to tell them how much you love them. It's a Fence or Lattice style card and I thought it was perfect to showcase the wood panel papers and flowers in the Udderly Cute Collection. Its a really easy card to create and the measurements are on my blog if you want to know how I made it. The daisy ephemera, sentiment and the papersare all from the new collection. I finished off the card with lots of sparkly gems and clear sparkle pen for a special card. Love and crafty hugs Wendy x


Julie I had so much fun creating this Birthday Card. I wanted to create something pretty, with florals and touch of lace. I started with 2 digital papers from Rosebud collection, and added the lace pattern over the pattern to create a border on my card front in my editing program. Next I chose the greeting from Birthday Sentiments, I wanted it to sit pretty much in the mid section of the card —this sentiment worked perfectly and I really liked the font. I chose to add my florals from the Perfect Peony bundle, I added them to my digital workspace and moved them around, and overlapped them until I was happy with the arrangement. I printed 2 copies of this. On one copy I colored only the flower blossoms using Copic Markers- R22, R21, R20, then cut them out with scissors. On the 2nd copy I colored the leaves and stems -YG67, YG65, YG63. I used a random stencil to add some little dots in a coordinating ink color in 3 random places on the card front. Using foam tape I placed the cut out blossoms into place on the card front, this dimension absolutely made the flowers pop! I ink blended a piece of vellum paper in shades of green, and from it cut some leaves with a leaf die and tucked those in under the flower blossoms. I added sparkle to the florals using a glitter brush and added a few gems before attaching the card front to a card base. You really must try give this card a try, it is so beautiful in person. FYI: the florals on this card are actually more of a pink color - I’ll chalk it up to one of life’s many mysteries as to why my camera refused to capture that color. My Blog, Instagram, Facebook

Maria - Winter is slowly coming to an end, and with it comes the joy of fresh, soft colours that make us look forward to spring. I immediately picked up on this feeling in today’s project. For my mum’s birthday, I used the beautiful Timeless Rose craft paper – she loves pink, so it was simply perfect. To keep the design elegant and clean, I used lots of white. A delicate vellum wrap surrounds the card and features the gorgeous Celebrate sentiment along with the heart from the Heart Flourish die. When you open the card, a little surprise is revealed: a pop-up effect filled with the lovely images from the Birthday Celebrations set. I deliberately coloured the images using only Polychromos pencil no. 193 to achieve a very soft look, and added Glossy Accents for subtle shiny details. To finish off the card, I added hearts and tags from the Ribbon Tag Heart Dies and the Nested Heart Dies as well as lots of sparkling gems to bring everything together. I hope this card inspires you to start creating with fresh colours as we welcome spring. Here´s my Facebook & YouTube - hope you will follow!

ANA - For this week’s Digi Choosday DT prompt, we were to create something for Mother’s Day or Mom’s birthday. I decided to design something that could work for both occasions, a fun and thoughtful Do Not Disturb door hanger just for Mom’s special day! This project features the adorable Honeypie Sweet Flower Bouquet and Winnie Sunshine Delight Cheeky digi stamps, which I colored with alcohol markers for a bright and cheerful look. I paired them with a pretty pattern paper from the Happy Cactus Succulent collection for a fresh, bright, floral and happy background. To make it even easier for fellow crafters, I created a ready-to-use Design Space template for Cricut users (note: the digi stamps are not included here, you have to upload your preferred digi yourself). It’s a quick and versatile make that can be customized for either Mother’s Day or a birthday celebration, or just like me - both. If you’d like to see more of my crafty projects (and a few cat photos too), I’d love for you to follow me on my socials! Instagram: @my.cat.and.crafts Facebook: My Cat and Crafts


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 2...

$20 RANDOM WINNER
$20 credit to spend in the Polkadoodles store!



Congratulations!

TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE: