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

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

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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!
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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
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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

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