Challenge #9 - Anything Goes Mixed Media Creative Challenge at We Love 2 Create at Polkadoodles

WELCOME TO A NEW CHALLENGE!

As always, the theme this month is  

Anything Mixed Media Goes

Closing date for entries: 25th September, Noon. 

You do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges, use any products you wish... 

RANDOM WINNER PRIZE: $10 gift voucher from Polkadoodles 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, whatever you wish...

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

Our sponsor for 2019 is Polkadoodles and you can check out all the wonderful selection of Polkadoodles goodies in the shop.  
Make sure you check out the POLKADOODLES store below, they have lots of fab new products in store perfect for all you mixed media lovers out there, make sure you check them all out! ...Some of their mixed media products are amazing!

Irre: Hello everyone. New challenge. And today I'm sharing an art journal page.

For this one, I used ink sprays and played with the background with stencils and stamps.

As the focal point, I had a lot of fun by using some tree dies together with flower stamps. To both trees and flowers, I did some doodling too with a white pen.

I'm really pleased with the result.  Love to see your creations!

Polkadoodles products used: 
Accents Stencil, 6x6"

Flower Doodles creative craft stencil, 6x6"

Flower Collage Stamp set (DL size)

Honey Daisy Stamp Set

Vintage Text Stamp Set

Birds together Stamp Set

Doodle Dragonfly Stamp Set

Round the Houses Stamp Set

Iced Winter Snowflake Tree Branches - Craft Cutting Die

Sentimentals paper pack, 6x6"

Jane - I have decorated a page in my A6 art journal again this month.  I used my gel press, lots of accent stamps and a stencil to create the background...

...this gorgeous lady and dragonfly were coloured with watercolours.

Polkadoodles Products Used:

Stamps

Forever Special Angel

Time to Get Funky

Time to Bloom

Stencil

Pretty Butterfly

Terry: I have made a Autumn butterfly card, lots of distress ink colors on my background and topped with Gesso, the background has been worked on with the Texture Galore, Honey Daisy and Vintage Text Stampsets. The Doodle Borders stampset is used all around my card. I embossed the butterflies and colored them too, a bit of shimmer on them and sentiments from the sentiments pad.

The products that I have used are:

Vintage Text Stampset

Doodle Borders Stampset

Texture Gallore Stampset

Papillon Stampset

Honey Daisy Stampset

Sentimentals

Eulanda - I made this canvas which is not my usual thing, if you want to find out more you can see here...I used the Pretty Butterfly stencil with some white gesso & the Ula "Be Yourself" clear stamp set, which is available from Polkadoodles stockists world-wide. 

She just screamed mixed media so I first colored her using my Prismacolor pencil crayons and then added some texture images from the Textures Galore stamp set.  

I also added and colored in the Great Outdoors sun using distress inks.  Oh and there is a similar image in the store with a few great sentiments as well as more fabulous Ula images. My papers are from the Bright & Beautiful and Sweet Tweet 6" x 6" craft paper packs. On this side of the canvas I used the Unicorns & Rainbows and Winter Accents 6" x 6" stencils for the big stars and small patterned stars.  You can find out more about my process over on my blog here...

Lou: I decided to make an inky style card paying no real attention to my colouring splodging & splattering the water colour inks. I've mixed the floral images from the Pretty Perfect & Brighter with You stamp sets. I created the background using the frames from the Perfect Wishes sentiment & Frames stamp set, colouring as per the flowers and then further splatts added with white gesso. As a finishing touch, I've added a few sequins.

Polkadoodles products used:

Pretty Perfect clear stamps

Brighter with You clear stamps

Perfect Wishes sentiment & Frames stamps

Water colour smooth Bristol board

Gorgeous projects as always! 

WINNERS FROM CHALLENGE 8
Thank you everyone who entered this challenge - we really loved looking round your blogs, you all left us some awesome work to look at!

Our Random winner is:

#36 Grandma Bonnie

Well done!
PRIZE: $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles Store.
To claim your prize please email Polkadoodles, quoting 'Love 2 Create winner'.

Please include this claim code L2Cwk9001 in your email and allow 14 working days for a reply please.

Every month you blow us away with some outstanding entries! These are some that really made us oooohh and aaaahhh - thankyou all for your amazing creativity, you're just awesome!

SO here are a few favourites you all need to take a look at if you didnt already!

#54 Margarita

#46 Suzette

52 Ike

A big thank you to everyone who entered last month's challenge and winners, plus Top 3, will be announced on the next challenge.
Don't Forget to enter our other blogs too...

All our challenges are Anything Goes!...
You could win some Polkadoodles Goodies and as always our Challenges are**Anything Goes**.....Find us here:
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Polkadoodles Blog
Gem of a Challenge

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Challenge # 5 - Anything Goes Mixed Media Creative Challenge at We Love 2 Create at Polkadoodles

WELCOME TO A NEW CHALLENGE

As always, the theme this month is  
Anything Creative Mixed Media Goes

Our sponsor for 2019 is Polkadoodles and you can check out all the wonderful selection of Polkadoodles goodies in the shop.

Closing date for entries: 24th May, Noon. 

Max 2 entries per person, no backlinks.
You do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges, use any products you wish... 

RANDOM WINNER PRIZE: $10 gift voucher from Polkadoodles 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, whatever you wish...

PLEASE REMEMBER - ONLY 2 ENTRIES PER PERSON!

Make sure you check out the POLKADOODLES store below, they have lots of fab new products in store perfect for all you mixed media lovers out there, make sure you check them all out! 

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

So let's see what loveliness the Design Team have made for us this month...

Corry This time I have made a card with this lovely stamp Pip Monster Costume Onesie


For the background I have used distress ink and sprinkled it with water. After that I used delicate doodles-clear-stamp on the background and colored the Pip monster with zig markers.

The Polkadoodles products that I worked with are
pip-monster-costume-onesie
delicate-doodles-clear-stamp

Jane - I have created a card with one of the fabulous new stencils and silhouette stamps. I have used a really textured watercolour paper and inked with Distress Oxides.

Polkadoodles Goodies Used:
Graceful Flower Girl 2 Polymer Stamps
Graceful Flower Girl 3 Polymer Stamps
Magical Corner Polymer Stamps
Textures Galore Polymer Stamps
Magical Grasses Stencil
Ribbon/Gift Frames & Corners Die Set

Terry: I have created a simple card this time with lots of fabulous clearstamp sets from Polkadoodles, love the flowers and colored them with aquacolors. The flower on the bottom of the card has been curled up to give it a 3D effect. After I stamped the flowers, I stamped some hearts on the card and colored them with half the waterpaint and with the Sparkle Pen from Spectrum Noir Last but not least I placed the sentiment.



The Polkadoodles products that I worked with are:
Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pens
Perfect Wishes Clear Stamp Set
Pretty Perfect Clear Stamp Set
Every Wish in the World Clear Stamp Set

Lou Sims: I have made a mini art book using lots of elements from the Creative Doodles Collection coloured with water colour acrylic inks ...

Front cover

Book opened



Polkadoodles products used:
Creative Doodles Collection
Colour Me card stock complete collection
Textures Galore Stamp Set
Funky Alphabet A5 clear stamp set
Making Faces stamp set
Daler Rowney Acrylic inks

Nikky...I wanted to share with you this super cute little A6 pocket book thingy I made using products from our new Making Faces collection which is part of my new Foundations range... 

 There's a closure which is held with magnets I inserted under the front cover so it has that really satisfying magnetic snap - am I the only one who cant stop closing that kind of thing? lol, open, close, open, close, open close....
The weird shaped stripey closure arm with the flower attached is actually just one of the doodles cut straight from the cardstock sheet (bottom right) - the card is 350gsm so really nice and heavy and perfect for book making...

 I inked up the inside with a mixture of different inkpads and followed the doodle lines on the same sheet to create 2 curved pockets which I glued in. I fussy cut some of the extra bits on the sheet to make embellies and just glued those in after I inked them up a bit...

 ...and then finally I Stamped the girls face and assembled the body clothes and doodled some curly hair onto her. I adore those specs, so cool and funky! I really love this little book it only took about an hour to make but there's something about it I really love, probably the stripes because I'm a spotty stripey girl (as my wardrobe will tell you).
I used:

Making Faces collection 

Gorgeous projects as always! Thanks team, you're awesome!

WINNERS FROM CHALLENGE 4
Thankyou everyone who entered this challenge - we really loved looking round your blogs, you all left us some awesome work to look at!

Our Random winner chosen by Random.org is:#70 Bharati
Well done!
PRIZE: $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles Store.
To claim your prize please email Polkadoodles, quoting 'Love 2 Create winner' in the subject bar. Please include this claim code L2Cwk4001 in your email and allow 14 working days for a reply please.
TOP DT FAVOURITES
We really could NOT only pick 3 this week there were some outstanding entries!
We have so many beautiful entries each month we've decided to SHOWCASE a few of our favourites for you below each month - these are some that really made us oooohh and aaaahhh - thankyou all for your amazing creativity, you're just awesome!


SO here are a few favourites you all need to take a look at if you didnt already!
#38 Paper Beauty - WOW!!

#57 Tammy

#60 Preksha

#70 Bharati

A big thank you to everyone who entered last month's challenge and winners, plus Top 3, will be announced on the next challenge.

Just in case you have missed any winners posts, previous winners, Top 3 and GDT's can be found on our 'Winners Page' at the top of the blog.To enter just add your entry below in Mr Linky below!

We would love you to join us as GDT on Love 2 Create Challenges, just add email us HERE if you'd like to join in the fun!

Don't Forget to play along with our other teams too! All our challenges are Anything Goes!...
You could win some Polkadoodles Goodies and as always our Challenges are
**Anything Goes**

Find us here:
Digi Choosday Blog
Polkadoodles Blog
Gem of a Challenge

The Love 2 Create team can't wait to see what you have created this month - see you next time!

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Challenge #15 - Anything goes at Love 2 Create Challenges

Welcome back to another challenge! Wow, December already, where did that come from??

As always, the theme this month is  
Anything Creative Mixed Media Goes
You don't have to use Polkadoodles products to enter the challenge.
The challenge closes 31st December so there's loads of time to play along.

Our sponsor for 2018 is Polkadoodles and you can check out all the wonderful selection of Polkadoodles goodies in the shop below.

PRIZE: $10 gift voucher 
from Polkadoodles 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, whatever you wish...
make sure you check out their store below, they have lots of fab products including stamps, dies, papers, digis and much more...

Now let's check out the inspiration from our talented design team...

Corry  I made a christmas card for your inspiration....

I used the beautiful stamp winterflurries from Polkadoodles.  I stamped the swirl with embossing ink and powder.   Then I stamped and masked the christmasballs.After that, I stamped the trees and added some accents here and there...

The stamp I used is winterflurries...

Jan ~ For my project today I have altered this cheapy frame, It started life out being white, I used black Gesso on it (at this stage my hubby asked why I did'nt just buy a black frame!!!) I used  a little Bronze Guilding wax over. On some black card stock I stamped using Distress inks. I finished off making some stars I used texture paste through a stencil , the used black gesso and again finishing off with guilding wax....

Polkadoodles Goodies used

Believe in Angels Stencil Collection

Flower Power 2 Stamp Set

Believe in Angels Clear Stamp Set

Black Gesso

Jane - I have made a card this time using paste, paint, watercolours and two adorable gnomes!!

Polkadoodles Essential Shopping

Gnome Men Ho Ho Ho Clear Polymer Stamp Set

Winter/Christmas Landscapes 6 x 6 Stencil

Accents 6 x 6 Stencil

Terry For this month's challenge I have worked with bright colors, I played with different colors for the background and stamped with Distress Inks. I wanted to create a flowerarrangement with different clearstampsets. One of them is the Stamp Soup Regal Peacock, this set is really wonderfull to create your own flowers. On top of the flowers I have played with Accents to give the flowers a bit of 3D effect. Last but not least I placed the Sending Special Wished sentiment. 

The products that I worked with are:

Honey Daisy Clear Stamp Set

Stamp Soup Regal Peacock Large A5 Stampset

Belle Papillon A5 Large Clear Stamp Set

Lou Sims: I have used a selection of Polkadoodles 'Believe in Angels' stamps & stencils -which is a huge collection - recently launched on Hochanda to create a stampbord photo frame. Stamps sets used: Flower Power 1 & Forever Special Angel alongside the 'Unicorn & Rainbows' stencils . A step by step tutorial can be found on my blog along with matching photos.

WINNERS FROM CHALLENGE 14
Thankyou everyone who entered this challenge - we really loved looking round your blogs, you all left us some awesome work to look at!

Our Random winner chosen by Random.org is:

31 Maria

Well done!

PRIZE: $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles Store.
  To claim your prize please email Polkadoodles, quoting 'Love 2 Create winner' in the subject bar. Please include this claim code L2Cwk13001 in your email and allow 14 working days for a reply please.

TOP DT FAVOURITES

We really could NOT only pick 3 this week there were some outstanding entries! SO here are a few favourites you all need to take a look at if you didnt already!

20 Meeta

31 Maria

52 Angela Felix the cat

8 Veana R

10 Repolainen

25 Harriet

A big thank you to everyone who entered last month's challenge and winners, plus Top 3, will be announced on the next challenge.  Just in case you have missed any winners posts, previous winners, Top 3 and GDT's can be found on our 'Winners Page' at the top of the blog.

Just add your entry below in Mr Linky below!

We would love you to join us as GDT on Love 2 Create Challenges, just add email us HERE if you'd like to join in the fun!. 
The Love 2 Create team can't wait to see what you have created this month and we'd just like to thank you for entering our challenges during 2018.  

This is the last challenge of the year - wow! But we will be back as normal on 6th January so have an amazing Xmas and New Year!

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