Diddydoodles

Challenge 2 - 27th Jan

2012-01-27T01:44:00.000-08:00

Hello again Diddydoodlers!

The time has gone very quickly since our last challenge - thankyou so much to everyone who entered, we absolutely loved all your entries, you're all very talented indeed! We had great fun looking around all your blogs!

It was so hard to choose from the entries but we are only allowed to have 3 so our favourite entries from last time were Enola, Holly and Hope - great work everyone! We would love you all to join us as Guest Designers for our next challenge so could you please email Nikky and she will let you know what to do. You will also all get a little prize as a thankyou too!

This month it is Caitlin's turn to set our challenge and we would like you to make a Birthday Card for a 16 year old boy or girl! We can't wait to see what you make! The girls have made some fabulous cards, we hope you like them!

Darci...The background paper is printed from Pretty Sweet CD. The Polkadoodles 'Cupcake' was stamped in Memento ink onto Ultimate Graphic paper and then I coloured it in with Promarkers and Flexmarkers. Then it was die cut with Nestabilities Labels Twenty to make the topper. I added some ribbon around the middle and stuck on some buttons. The 16 was die cut from glitter card and stuck on top of some purple Bakers Twine.

Darci...This paper was printed from Pretty Sweet CD and the letters and number were printed from Back to Nature CD. I cut out the letters to make the bunting and threaded it onto purple Bakers Twine. I coloured in the 16 and stamped the greeting from Polkadoodles Sentiments stamp set, then I added some flower and butterfly gems and finished with pen 'stitching' around the card and bunting.

Tia...I stamped a cupcake and coloured it in using my mums promarkers. I added a jelly roll glitter pen over the "sprinkles" on the icing and a flower shape from Doodle Dewdrops. I then printed off the paper, circle and border, cut them down to size and glued. I then used number peel offs to get the right shape and size of numbers I wanted and then marked and coloured them with mums promarkers again. Mum is pleased with my first proper effort in making a card and I think I like it too...hope you like it too!

Caitlin...I decided to make a Sweet 16 bragbook. The idea of a bragbook is that it's about 6 x 6" big so you can carry it around in your bag and show people and tell them about the things in there. This is a really nice present to make for someone, especially friends who can carry it around at school then to show their friends! We all love getting cards but a book is something you're more likely to keep I think.

Robbyn (8) I used the Candy Doodles CD for my card. I covered a blank card with purple card and then printed out a paper from the CD. I then printed out the image and coloured it in with my pencils. I printed out the flowers and cut around them and then stuck them to the card. I finally added a special day peel off and a 16 sticker.

So we hope you like our challenge, didn't they all do well! They worked really hard on their projects to show you some great ideas! Our friends over at Jellypark Juniors also have some great challenges for you to enter too, so please drop in and say hello to them too!

All you have to do is enter the URL to your image on your blog using the Mr Linky below (please make sure you link to your image and not just to the blog or we won't be able to find the entry!). Closing date for entries is 25th Feb so see you then! We'll be back on Fri 2nd March with our next challenge!

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Challenge 1 - Thankyou!

2011-12-30T01:02:00.000-08:00

Hello Diddydoodlers!

Thankyou SO much for joining us here on our brand new Challenge Blog - we are so excited to be joining you!

Every month we will be posting a project challenge which will be open to anyone age 16 or under to enter - our Top 3 favourite entries will be asked to join us on the Design Team for another challenge and will receive a little prize too! Woohoo!

This month I asked my lovely team members Darci and Caitlin to make Thankyou cards - and they have come up with some gorgeous cards indeed! This is a great chance to thank all your family and friends for the lovely presents you received over Christmas so come on kids, join in with us and let's have some fun!

Darci (age 8)...
I printed up the pre coloured 3 panels of the peacock from the 'shake a tail feather' collection on the 'Back to Nature' CD Rom. This was cut out and each panel mounted onto silver mirri card. I used a Spellbinder Fancy label die cut and stamped Thank You onto it, then added some heart gems...

Caitlin (age 15)...I used the alphabet from the Sugar Birdies CD and cut out the letters after printing them on some nice shiny card. I added some bunting and backing papers which is from the All Around Everywhere CD and added the birdie from Sundae of Seasons. Then I just added ribbon to make this lovely little hanger. You could put this above your desk or your bed or hang it from a mantelpiece if you're giving it to someone.

I got a bit carried away with my thankyou's so I also made these cards too which I hope you like...

This one uses papers from the Shabby collection on Back to Nature and I just added a black and white image from Magical Winter (Nikky thinks this looks like me!)...

And I really like this tag - I added a "Thanks" which I cut from my Cricut machine and used the wellies from Double Sprinkles of Kraft. I added some of the flowers from Sundae of Seasons too...

And finally this is the pop-up flower card from Paper Boutique. The photo doesnt do this justice as it is very decoupaged and looks quite 3D in real life.

Nikky...Wow, Caitlin and Darci have put me to shame with their fab cards! I used a backing paper from Pretty Sweet CD and all the other elements are from Sundae of Seasons. I made some flowers by cutting some circles from felt and glueing a button in the middle. Then I drew the flower stalks onto the card by hand with a felt pen.

So there are our samples for this challenge - we hope you like them! Haven't Darci and Caitlin done really well! So now is your chance to enter too - you can make anything you like with a Thankyou theme using any product you wish, just add your photo to the Mr Linky below this post and we will choose our favourite 3, who will be asked to join as Guest Designers to the team for our March challenge!
Closing date for entries is 22nd January.

Don't forget to join us on 27th January for the results and details of our next challenge!
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Welcome to the Diddydoodles Challenge blog!

2011-12-09T05:17:00.000-08:00

Starting on 30th December, we will be setting you a little creative challenge each month and we REALLY hope you will join in the fun with us!

So many people make cards and scrapbook pages and they're all adults! So at Polkadoodles we decided to make a blog just for you kids! So now each month you can join in the fun and show us what you make - it can be anything, it doesn't have to be a card, just so long as you've followed the challenge rules (although we might bend the rules now and then if you make something really cool, so still enter!)...so come on kids, get your paintbrushes, paper and pens at the ready and we'll see you on 30th December for our first challenge!! (we're all hoping that by then we'll have loads of new crafty stash to play with that Father Christmas has brought us!!)

lots of crafty love from Darci, Caitlin and Tia xx