Blog Hop Winners!

Its been a very busy week here but doesn't mean there isn't time to slip in and announce the winners from our Birthday Bloghop! Thanks so much to everyone who played along!

Winner of the Polkadot Door Prize Pack : DeniseB

"Beautiful layout! I love that sweet pic and all the great details you added!
I'm a new follower too! Thanks for the chance to win, and Happy Birthday to Polkadot Door!
DeniseB"

and a special congratulations to Janet Jacobson for winning the shop credit to Scrappin Patch for her fantastic layout based on the bloghop inspiration.

Congratulations ladies! Please email me at rebeccadenhollander (at) gmail dot com to confirm shipping details.

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Happy Birthday to the Polkadot Door!

Its our Blog-iversary!

We're so excited to be celebrating 2 years on the web, and in the spirit of celebration, we are having a bloghop where you'll find lots of prizes and inspiration along the way. Hurrah! 

 

A bloghop on the Polkadot Door wouldn't be complete without an inspiration challenge. We asked each one of some of our favourite friends throughout the world to create a project based on the above inspiration challenge.

Here's what Sarah created this adorable page using the Inspiration as a starting place.

• Plus, there's a chance to play along with us! Use the inspiration we gathered, link your entry back here on this blog post, and you could win a shop credit to Scrappin Patch.

• You have until May 10th to complete the hop and link up your sketch challenge entry below to be eligible for the hop prize!

• But that's not all! If you leave a comment on this post and become a follower of this blog you are eligible to win a this fantastic blog candy from us, The Polkadot Door! There is vintage song sheet paper, dictionary sheets, chipboard, buttons, ribbon, cardstock, patterned paper and a few surprises too!

Hop along with the lovely ladies below and have even more chances to win prizes as well as be inspired to use the inspiration before May 10th.

Dee Dee

Lisa

Rebecca

Cheryl

Geri

Megan

Scrappin Patch 

The Polkadot Door (You are Here) 

Thank you so much for hopping along with us for our 2nd blogiversary! I am thrilled to be in the company of these talented ladies and hope you'll find the hop fun and inspirational, as well as motivate you to play along with the inspiration.
 

Can't wait to see what you all make using the inspiration!

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Saying Good Bye

It hasn't been quite a year yet, but the Polkadot Door Challenges will not be continuing at this time. The blog will continue to operate as our personal blog, but at this time in our lives we feel that we need to concentrate our efforts to the people who are closest to us. We have enjoyed the challenges, feedback, and the new connections that have been made so much! Once life settles down and certain priorities are not so pressing we would like to continue with the Polkadot Door Inspiration challenges. Thank you to everyone for your comments, encouragement, and enthusiasm. We've been honored with all the interest this blog has garnered!

Sarah and Rebecca

P.S.  We will be announcing the winners from November's Blog Hop and Inspirational Challenge shortly.  We apologize for the delay and appreciate your patience. 

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{October} Inspirational Challenge Winner

As usual, all of the projects created based on this month's inspiration image were gorgeous!  It is amazing how the same image can inspire so many beautiful, but completely unique creations. It was difficult to choose a winner because we loved all the entries, but at the end of the day we decided to award the prize to Lisa because we could not get over how cute her little gnomes were!

We love how she incorporated so many elements from the inspiration image and added texture with the felt clouds and hats. Congratulations Lisa! Be sure to grab your badge.

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{October} Featured Designer

Our fabulous design team certainly delivered some amazing projects this month and I certainly could not have picked just one favorite!  Fortunately though it was not up to me - the blog hoppers voted and this month the designer with the winning project is

Amanda

 

Even though Amanda admits to being a bit stumped by the inspiration image, we think her layout perfectly reflects the spirit of challenge.  I especially love the cool blue background offset by the vibrant red accents, and the girls in her photo are even cuter than the gnomes!  Be sure to check out Amanda's blog Random Sweetness to see more of her beautiful work. 

Congratulations Amanda, you will receive the awesome papercrafting kit from Scrappydoodads. Please email Polkadotdoordesigns@gmail.com to collect your prize, and be sure to grab your badge.

We will be back in a few days to post the November Design Team and Challenge Winners!

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And the prize goes to...

The winner of the embellishment prize package from UmWowStudio is:

 

Lyneen,  October 2, 2011 11:15 AM

Are you serious... we have to pick just one... if that is the case... Amanda will get my vote as her LO reminds me of memories of my sister and me. That could be us in the picture. I also love Dee Dee's with the sweet little baby crawling through the frame... SO HARD TO CHOOSE! Thanks for a fabulous hop! 

Congratulations Lyneen!  Please email Polkadotdoordesigns@gmail.com to collect your prize.  Thank you everyone for playing along with our little hop.  We hope to see you all again next month!

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An Update

I was so excited to have professional photos taken of Oliver when he was just 11 days old.  I had visions of beautiful black and white photos of a peacefully sleeping baby in various adorable poses, close ups of tiny hands and feet... but he didn't exactly cooperate.  Instead of sleeping (which I am told is the norm for 11 day old babies) Oliver was bright eyed and alert the entire time.  I still got some really cute photos out of it, just not what I was expecting.

Oh well, I guess it was a good indication of what was to come.  Oliver is almost eleven weeks old now and bright eyed and alert is definitely an apt description for him. But I can't complain because he makes up for all his awake time during the day by sleeping 12+ hours a night.  Seriously.  I am sooooo lucky.  Now if only I could figure out how to get myself to bed on time so that I could get more than six hours myself...

Anyway, the purpose of this post was not to brag about my adorable little man, I was actually just stopping by to let all of you lovely readers know that the blog has not been abandoned, we've just been busy.  However, we are working on putting together October's challenge and trust me, you do not want to miss it.  Rebecca has put together a fabulous inspiration for us to work with, and we have some amazing prizes lined up!

Oh yeah, and stay tuned because *somebody* got married on Sept. 3 and I will be posting pictures of the most amazing wedding I have ever been to. 

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Polkadot Door Blog-iversary Party!

I hope you will forgive me when I confess that I am here without any paper creations. I've been very busy with some very exciting things that I am bursting to share with you all! This past week has been incredibley busy as we moved house ... again. It might be another week before I am posting regularly again so this is a perfect time to share some very exciting news.

May 7th the Polkadot Door turns one!

(happy birthday to us!)

To celebrate Sarah and I have some exciting plans in the works. We will be hosting a bloghop and inspiration challenge, and if it goes well, we would like to continue it every month! There are so many exciting sponsors lined up for the weekend that you really need to make sure you check it out. We've teamed up with some of our favourite designers and the inspiration of the day will blow your mind away!

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ICSketches Spring Bloghop!

If you just happened to find this post, please start at the beginning : ICSketches.

Welcome to the fourth stop in the Spring into ICSketches Blog Hop! The design team has provided some awesome inspiration as I'm sure you'll discover as you hop through the blogs. Remember to leave a comment on every blog, and then finish up at the ICSketches blog for a chance to win some amazing prizes.

ICSketches Challenge Blog
Susie
An
Rebecca 
^ You are here.
Debra
Dawn
Jessica
Nicola
 Stacy
Jill

There are prizes to be won at every stop along the way too and the Polkadot Door is no exception! I'll be giving away this little package to one lucky person who leaves a comment and becomes a follower (if you aren't one already). Its that simple.

and that's only my giveaway! We have so many fun sponsors lined up for this blog hop. Visit the ICsketches blog for a full list of the prizes. I'll be posting the winner of my blog candy on Friday the 22nd, so be sure to check back!

I had so much fun creating my card for this blog hop. We used Dawn's sketch #111 as our starting platform. I picked up this little donkey stamp last year already from Mejiens Designs. It was offered as a limited edition freebie, but its so cute I would gladly have paid for it. Free stuff is wonderful, but free stuff I love is even better. I've been trying to get into the habit of writing more thank-you notes lately. Its a good habit to get into and the more I look around, the more things to be thankful for I see.

The pictures are a little dark, I apologize. I was in such a hurry to take the pictures and put this post up that I decided not to wait for the batteries for my external flash unit to charge. I do things like that, because I'm sort of an inpatient person. :-)

The card came together really easily. Its simple, yet I love it. I raided my stash of vintage buttons and ribbon to come up with the different embellishments and coloured the donkey with my crayola pencil crayons. One of these days I've promised myself to either invest in better crayons, or maybe even copics. But for now that keeps getting put off because I seem to always find other uses for my money.

SUPPLIES

Misc Ribbon, floss, and buttons

Meijen Design Digi stamp

My Minds Eye Paper

Before I go, I have to share this picture with you. I had some crafting company last night and while they might not be on a design team or have a blog of their own, their cards certainly deserve a little recognition.

Have fun blog hopping!

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Heartache No One Sees Faith Blog Hop

The Paper Tree House is hosting yet another wonderful bloghop which I've been fortunate to be a part of. Unfortunately, with my parents being gone this week I didn't think ahead enough to have my post all ready to go when we were supposed to have it up, oops! But I don't want to break the hop so here's me apologizing for my forgetfulness and posting!

My Paper Tree House
Nana Campana 

Rebecca > you are here

Sueli Pinheiro

Kacee
Jessie
Selina
Arlene 

Natalie
Christel
Bonnie

Dolores

Monique
Kari
Tania

If you just randomly found this post, be sure to start from the very beginning, but if you came from Nana's site, then from here you continue on to Sueli Pinheiro.

Here's how the hop works:

Like last time we have some amazing prizes to share with you. In order to qualify for the grand prizes you need to leave a comment on every blog in the hop. Its that simple! For everyone who leaves a comment, and becomes a follower (if you aren't one already) on the Polkadot Door blog I will be giving away a package of goodies as well! So you have two chances to win some really fun stuff!

Now for the GRAND Prizes:
(be sure to leave a comment at the Paper Tree to qualify for this)
1 Year Subscription to SNR
$45 of Bella Blvd Product
Love Line from Echo Park
$25 gift certificate to The Paper Blossom Shop
and some extra goodies too!

Have fun hopping!

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