Thursday, 11 June 2026

Challenge 4 - Craft, Card making & Scrapbooking mixed media challenge - Anything Goes

Welcome back to our Craft, Card making & Scrapbooking mixed media challenge!

We have some wonderful inspiration with some of our favourite projects from the past month from the team....

As always, the theme this month is
Anything Mixed Media/paper crafting Goes
You do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges, use any products you wish...

RANDOM WINNER PRIZE: $10 GIFT VOUCHER*
for the Polkadoodles store for our lucky winner, (chosen by random.org) - this voucher can be spent across the whole store, so you can use it on dies, stamps, papers, digis, whatever you wish...

Winners of our last challenge are at the bottom of this post...

Our sponsor for 2026 is Polkadoodles and you can check out all the wonderful selection of Polkadoodles goodies in the shop.

Check out the store and take a peek at the latest releases!



Let's see what the Design Team have created to get you inspired this month!...

Nikky - Hey everyone! Just stopping by with a little make I did on my last Livestream using our brand new MDF kit...
This great kit is packed with 21 XL pieces of MDF that you can decorate as you wish - whether it's making cards, home decor or journal pages and sublimation these pieces are designed by a papercrafter so they're sized for all the possible projects you'd like to make...all you have to do is decorate with inks, papers and get stamping!
This concertina tag book was made just by joining these 3 tags on the back with card and they fold up. I added pocket layers using inked up papers and added some die cuts. These are quite big tags, the tallest one is 5-6" so it makes a decent size and would be great for a grab book (remember those???) or to add to a gift or a card, they're all so versatile and there's a good range of sizes to get stuck into!


Liz - I love to make a card using a tag shape, so for my hubby's 70th Birthday I created this cute themed tag card, I love the Vintage ephemera stamp set, which I also used with the Sending Love stamp set. I used the All in the Numbers stamps for the finishing touches.


Maria - What a stunning bloom, right? This hydrangea from the Hydrangea Ribbon Stamp Matchables Set is an absolute dream to work with, and I really wanted to make it the star of the show. To do that, I decided to use the Spotlight technique. I started by stamping the image onto my white top layer using a stamping tool for perfect placement. Then, I stamped the image again onto a smaller piece of cardstock and colored only that portion with alcohol markers. To add some depth, I used a masking technique to blend some grey ink around the focal point. Once I layered the colored piece back onto the main panel in perfect alignment, I matted everything and adhered it to my card base. The Congratulations sentiment is from the Wedding Day Set—isn't that font just gorgeous? I think the final result is a very sophisticated card, perfect for a graduation celebration!
Here's my social media:
https://www.instagram.com/stempelmariele?igsh=bzg1emRobmxsMWdp
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https://youtube.com/@stempelmariele?si=_HBi7-VDId3ZULNK



Liz - Hi there! Today I've made Hubby's retirement sign for his man shed!! lol! I've used this great MDF board from the Altered Art Board and chipboard set which you can decorate to anything you wish, so I added lots of gardening elements from the SUMMER GARDEN collection which I really love. The tools and leaves are all from the gorgeous Green Fingers chipboard elements, along with these lush die cut leaves called leafy Fronds and I just layered some torn papers from the Not so plain kraft paper pack.
Products used:
PD8932 Garden Therapy outline dies
PD89311 Garden Therapy stamp set
PD9156 Not so plain kraft paper pack
PD8952 leafy Fronds dies
PD8998 Green Fingers chipboard elements
PD9106-7 Altered Art Board and chipboard set
I'd love to follow you on social media and hope you follow me too here:
https://www.instagram.com/lizmarsden123/


Sana - For fathers day i choose the halloween creepy cute bird digi stamp. I thought it looked soo cute it would go best for what i had in mind. Its funny and cute to give something like this for your dad. The pattern papers are also from the same halloween collection.


Liz - I felt in the mood for an art journal page again, so this time I played with a stencil and some texture paste. When dry, I used Gelatos and Distress Crayons for the colours, creating a more grungy look. I used the gorgeous Every Wish stamp set again, masking off to create a hidden flower peeking out behind the stem, then simply adding the butterfly stamp from the same set above. These were coloured with Distress pencils. I used the smaller stamps from the set to add a little interest here and there to finish the page. I love doing a grungy look now and again and love how different the stamp set looks depending on the colours and mixed media you use.
Products used:
Alphanumeric Stencil https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/alphanumeric-mixed-media-card-making-craft-stencil/
Every Wish stamp set https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/every-wish-in-the-world-pretty-flowers-clear-stamp-set/


Nelly - Hello lovely crafters! Today I made this interactive card using the All the Dirt stamp and die set. Firstly I stamped the images All the dirt and water coloured using my pens onto water coloured card. You can find the stamp and matching outline die collection Here - all the dirt, the design papers were taken from the work and play 4 digital collection. The inside sentiments was taken from all occasion stamp set. I hope you like it!


Liz - How cute is this MDF Daisy Dwelling? it is one of three in the pack, I will show the others later.
I decided to colour the project in acrylics, using beige and Taupe colours, you could of course colour it anyway you like, but I quite the Scandinavian look and the colours fit in with my room.




WINNERS FROM CHALLENGE 3
Thank you everyone who entered this challenge - we really loved looking round your blogs, you all left us some awesome work to look at and there were so many great projects it was SO hard to choose our winners this week!

OUR RANDOM $10 WINNER IS...
24 Kelly

Well done!
PRIZE: $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles Store to spend on anything you like including mixed media goodies, stamps, papers & anything else!....

To claim your prize please contact us via the Website Chat here, quoting 'L2C winner'.Please include this claim code L2CWK004 in your email and claim by 20 June 2026.Allow 28 working days for a reply please.

DESIGN TEAM TOP FAVOURITES:

Sorry, there's no prize but we all loved your creations! There were so many amazing entries this month to choose from, thankyou all!

32 GerJanne
6 Paper Whims
14 Birgit

Don't Forget to enter our other blogs too...All our challenges are Anything Goes!........
Find us here:
Digi Choosday Blog - starts Wednesdays, weekly
Polkadoodles Blog - starts Saturday, weekly
Gem of a Challenge - starts Saturday, monthly

Join Nikky for our regular LIVESTREAM on Facebook, Insta and YouTube every Sunday (UK time) if you need some inspiration!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter
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Tuesday, 5 May 2026

Challenge 3 - Craft, Card making & Scrapbooking mixed media challenge - Anything Goes

 Welcome back to our Craft, Card making & Scrapbooking mixed media challenge!

We have some wonderful inspiration with some of our favourite projects from the past month from the team....

As always, the theme this month is
Anything Mixed Media/paper crafting Goes
You do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges, use any products you wish...

RANDOM WINNER PRIZE: $10 GIFT VOUCHER*
for the Polkadoodles store for our lucky winner, (chosen by random.org) - this voucher can be spent across the whole store, so you can use it on dies, stamps, papers, digis, whatever you wish...

Winners of our last challenge are at the bottom of this post...

Our sponsor for 2026 is Polkadoodles and you can check out all the wonderful selection of Polkadoodles goodies in the shop.

Check out the store and take a peek at the latest releases!



Let's see what the Design Team have created to get you inspired this month!...

Natalia - Hello! I created this bright card using the Big Birthday Surprise stamps and the Starburst stencils for lots of lovely texture...

Liz - This cute MDF plaque/ sign can be decorated in so many ways, but for this project I used some shimmers from my stash, to keep a light look to it and to show the design already on it, I used the stamps from the Sending Love stamp set, as well as the matching die set, I love this little cutie mouse, so couldn't resist him peeking out between some plants, leaving some stamped directly on the base and some die cut to give different depths, after cutting out the taller flowers and using 3D foam to again add depth I highlighted the flower heads with some Sunbeam Shimmer stencil butter, I then added some tiny bits on the base to look like blossom off the flowers spreading in the breeze, The butterfly was coloured with copics and again die cut out, I then scored along the body so the wings lifted up, I finished it off with a sentiment from the Just A little Note stamp set.


 If your cards are feeling a bit flat lately… this is your sign to TURN UP THE COLOUR. Because this card? It’s not shy. It’s bold, it’s bright and it’s bursting with personality – exactly the kind of card that makes someone stop, smile and say “wow, you made this?!”

Let’s start with the background because it is doing some serious heavy lifting. By layering stencils and blending colour, you get instant depth and texture without adding loads of bulky layers. It gives you that rich, mixed media look but keeps everything nice and flat for posting – win win.

The clever bit here is letting the background shine instead of covering it up. Once you’ve got that colour and texture down, you really don’t need much else. Add a focal point, keep it clean, and let the design do its thing.

Those florals are the perfect finishing touch. Bright, bold and full of life, they bring that handmade charm we all love. And because they’re stamped and coloured, you can make them totally your own – go softer, go brighter, add sparkle… whatever your style is.

If you’ve got stencils in your stash that you’re not using much, try this. Layer them up. Play with colour. Be a bit braver with your combinations. You might be surprised how quickly you go from “meh” to “WOW I love this”.

If you enjoyed this idea, you’ll love mixing and matching other Polkadoodles stencils and stamps from the Hello Spring collection – they’re designed to work together so you can keep creating without overthinking it.

And if you make something inspired by this, don’t keep it to yourself… come and share it in the Polkadoodles Facebook group. It’s full of crafty inspiration and we LOVE seeing what you create.

Now go grab those stencils and get inky… your next favourite card is waiting. 🎨✨


Liz

Hi crafters! I started this project using some Lindy's Magicals onto the base of some smooth white card, then when dry I added some heat embossed stamping here and there using white embossing powder — this is great for adding texture. I then used another stamp to produce the random dots in black ink. I love the look of film strips, so I stamped this one and cut it out using my ScanNCut (you can of course fussy cut by hand), then I layered some hand fussy cut flowers which I had coloured with my alcohol markers, simply adding a stamped heart too. I used one of the sentiments from the sentiment strip stamp set to finish it off.

Products used:
Just a little note stamp set
https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/just-a-little-note-clear-stamps-craft-card-making-cutter-dies-wh/

Vintage Ephemera stamp set
https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/vintage-ephemera-clear-stamp-set/

Strip sentiment stamp set
https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/strip-sentiment-a5-6-x-8-panel-stamp-photopolymer-stamp-set-for-craft-card-making-scrapbooking/

My socials:
https://lizscreativecorner.blogspot.com/
https://www.facebook.com/liz.marsden.545
https://www.instagram.com/lizmarsden123/


ENRICA - Hi crafty friends! I made this cute tag to celebrate the arrival of spring by coloring the pretty Primrose digital stamp with Copic markers. I created my own background with metallic watercolors and Distress Ink, I then printed some elements from the Udderly Cute printable ephemera set, fussy cut and layered them to create charming details.
These are the products I used:
I really enjoy how it turned out, hope you like it too! Follow me:

Liz - I love the look of waxes used to create highlights on MDF and Chipboard pieces, so for this MDF Album cover I used some black gesso to add a base layer and covered with acrylic paints. After adhering the chipboard, I dabbed more of the acrylic colours here and there with a stencil brush, this creates added texture too, then I highlighted along the edges here and there with some Gold coloured wax. The leaf at the bottom of the album cover was created using two die cut leaves out of 300gsm cardstock, glued together, then placed on the base before colouring. The Chipboard Dragonfly is two seperate pieces of the same design I adhered together along the body so the wings could be slightly lifted. The flower in the centre chipboard frame has a die cut flower which I cut out of a thin tin can, glued in place and I added a Polkadot in the centre, then coloured over the top and highlighted with wax. Products used:
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WINNERS FROM CHALLENGE 2
Thank you everyone who entered this challenge - we really loved looking round your blogs, you all left us some awesome work to look at and there were so many great projects it was SO hard to choose our winners this week!

OUR RANDOM $10 WINNER IS...

22 Chana

Well done! 
PRIZE: $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles Store to spend on anything you like including mixed media goodies, stamps, papers & anything else!....

To claim your prize please contact us via the Website Chat here, quoting 'L2C winner'.Please include this claim code L2CWK003 in your email and claim by 20 May 2026.Allow 28 working days for a reply please.

DESIGN TEAM TOP FAVOURITES:Sorry, there's no prize but we all loved your creations! There were so many amazing entries this month to choose from, thankyou all!

35 Sandra

78 Diana

75 Danica

Don't Forget to enter our other blogs too...All our challenges are Anything Goes!........
Find us here:
Digi Choosday Blog - starts Wednesdays, weekly
Polkadoodles Blog - starts Saturday, weekly
Gem of a Challenge - starts Saturday, monthly

Join Nikky for our regular LIVESTREAM on Facebook, Insta and YouTube every Sunday (UK time) if you need some inspiration!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter
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