Today is my design anniversary: exactly ten years ago today I opened my shop at The Lilypad! A whole decade of doodling – wow! It has been an amazing journey and I am so grateful to have been able to turn what started as a little side-line to my digital scrapbooking hobby into a full-time job. My sincere and heartfelt thanks to everyone who has supported me over the years and allowed me to carve a career for myself doing what I love – drawing and creating fun illustrations for scrapbookers, crafters and teachers! Thank you so very much.
To celebrate my anniversary, I am holding a contest and a giveaway! If you have followed me for a while you’ll be familiar with the Custom Doodle Contest, this year there’s also a Gift Certificate giveaway for you to enter, wherever you prefer to shop!
$25 Gift Certificate Giveaway
To enter the giveaway to win a $25 GC to your choice of either Kate Hadfield Designs, The Lilypad or Teachers Pay Teachers, simply browse through my doodles or clip art illustrations and decide on your favourite! Then come back here and leave a comment in the Rafflecopter box below letting me know which set you like the best. Maybe superheroes are your thing, or perhaps you’re more of a pirate fan or maybe you dream of lazy days soaking up the sun on a tropical beach – just pick your favourite pack and let me know!
There are a number of ways you can earn bonus entries (such as visiting my Facebook page or becoming a subscriber!) – see the Rafflecopter entry box for details.
The deadline for entries is 11.50pm EST 15th February 2017 and the winners will be contacted through the email used in the Rafflecopter (please check your entry carefully!) the following day. Good luck to everyone who enters!
CUSTOM DOODLE CONTEST
I look forward to this contest each year, and I especially look forward to hearing all your amazing ideas! While I am sadly no longer able to create all the custom sets I get asked for, I’m thrilled to be able to open up a custom slot for the winner of this contest. So even if you have a really wild and wacky idea for a doodle / clip art set please let me know by entering!
HOW TO ENTER:
- Just leave me a comment on this thread and let me know what themed doodle / clip art pack you would like me to create, feel free to leave as much detail as you need to describe your perfect set!
- The winners will be chosen by random and I will work with you to create the doodles / clip art of your choice.
- If someone else has already suggested the theme that you would like, please also leave a message with your suggestion – everyone who enters with the winning theme will receive the finished custom doodle pack for free!
- Deadline for entries is 11.59pm EST Tuesday 28th February 2017
- Only entries left here in the comments section will be entered into the draw, if you have any problems leaving a comment please contact me.
If you have previously been in touch and asked me to draw a specific theme for you, please feel free to also enter this contest. Winners will be contacted by Saturday 4th March and I will work on the winning doodle / clip art packs throughout March.
I’m looking forward to working with you to create your perfect set of doodles / clip art! Thank you for all your support over the last ten years and good luck to everyone who enters the contest or giveaway, here’s to the next ten years of doodling!
Free Digital Scrapbooking template | February challenge
Many thanks to everyone who commented and entered the contest! Emails have now been sent out to all the winners, watch this space to see the new doodles! ๐
I would love a school band kit. Not marching band, but symphony band. ๐ Thanks, and congrats on 10 years!
I have just entered the world of Bible journaling so would love some biblical images. Thank you!
Hi, I would love to have a theme park doodle
Congratulations. I’d like to see and would use a “children of the world” pack. Diverse images of children, peace signs, globe, flags, etc.
First of all congratulations ,hope you have many more years of happy designing. I would like an keep in touch kit. And just to be greedy a knit like all the everyday with more item’s,.thanks.
One more idea – I love the custom doodle samples you showed above! It would be fun if you offered some of them as mini-kits! I would love that cute moose and the adorable bird!!! You never know, things you designed for someone else might be of interest to all your fans. Thanks again!!!
Also, I’d love polar and artic animals for pages about Sea World – penguins (including babies!), polar bears, snowy owls, seals, walrus, orcas, etc. Cool! Thanks so much.
I always love your Christmas doodles – wreaths, decorated trees, swags (for a fence), decorated front doors, candles, etc. Just a lot of little Christmas elements that coordinate with all your other Christmas kits. Thanks for the chance!!!
I’d love a see a set about zoo and safari animals.
Happy Anniversary! รฐลธโขโ
I’d love a pets set- lots of pets and items necessary for caring for pets.
a 50’s kitchen theme or old diner like things
I would like to see a theme about High School Reunions. Old friends getting in touch once again.
The Family Tree doodle kit is like nothing else I have. It is my favorite if I were to win. Regardless, thank you for the chance and the fun contest. Thank you also for the wonderful kits and free doodles you create.
Our summer reading program is Architecture and Engineering. Maybe something with building, construction, drafting, blueprints. ?? Thank you. I love your work.
I’d like zoo/ safari animals!
I absolutely love all of your designs! Anything with European art is good, I adore horses ๐
I’d love a horseback riding kit.
I would love to see one about crafts like knitting and crochet and sewing room and so on ๐
I would love a Japan themed kit!
Congrats on 10 years!!!! I would love more on Amazon rain forest ~~~animals, habitat , food
I LOVE your doodles
I love all your creations. I was thinking a bunch of doodles depicting grandparents and what they do with their grandchildren. Baking, reading, walking, playing games, gardening, sharing I just think that would be great to have images of grandparents and grandchildren and families.
Would love to see you do Star Wars – I love your Wizardy kit – but would really love to see you do Star wars – old and new themes!!
I would love to see a clip art set of the different birds and animals of the Yucatan Peninsula Mexico !!!! I am on holidays there now and the birds, butterflies , iguanas etc are amazing .
I would love to see a series of country-related packages offered. Ex. Japan, France, Canada, etc. I would buy them up so fast! <3 your work…
I love all the art joodles. Maybe a giant pack that included the joddles (could love some desert ones — many types of cacti, etc.) and also matching joddle strips.
Thanks for the chance to win.
First of all, CONGRATS on 10 years! ๐ Secondly, I’d love a (school) music pack, like for band and orchestra. School concert (like a little “cafetorium,” as my DD’s school calls their stage that’s adjacent to the gym, or an actual cute little concert stage); instruments (PLEASE include a saxophone); music notes and/or bass and treble clefs; music stand; maybe sheet music (as an overlay or as a doodled element); washi tape; band director; and, of course, the students. ๐ I have an elementary-age child, but older kids or events (marching band, etc), would be cool too. ๐
oh wow…i adore your artwork…i think i fell in love with your work when i saw your woodland clip art :))))
and if i could with for just one more….i would have a really hard time …but zoo animals and family would be my top two picks!!!
thanks for the great chance.
cheers nora
I need stage and theatre stuff, too!
I’d love a kit all about flight with birds & airplanes & paper planes & balloons & hot air balloons & clouds. Etc! My sister & her husband are in the Air Force and are expecting their first baby this year & the nursery will have a flight theme & so of course my scrapping will want to head that way!
So many great ideas here already! My idea is for a Russia set, because it’s where I live, and although it gets a lot of bad press, it’s a beautiful country and a lovely place to live. Some suggestions for things to include: Russian flag, people in national costume, accordian, ‘ushanka’ (fur hat with ear flaps), ‘valenki’ (big felt boots, often decorated), ‘kokoshnik’ (traditional hat for ladies, which looks a bit like a crown), ‘platok’ (decorated shawl), amber jewellery, matryoshka dolls, church with onion domes, St Basil’s Cathedral, Winter Palace, Spasskaya Tower, Yuri Gagarin Monument, astronaut, rocket, Cheburashka and Gena the Crocodile, ‘izba’ (colourful, traditional wooden house), Lada (car), vodka, borsch, pickled cucumbers, baskets of mushrooms and berries, watermelon, ‘shashlik’ (meat kebabs) on a BBQ, pancakes, fireworks, snowflakes, ice skates, cross country skis, mittens…
I would love to see some Oriental themed doodles. I am looking for a more Japanese anime theme. Thanks for the chance!
Congrats on your anniversary! A village/home town kit would be lovely. Something to use with layouts that are out and about with shops, awnings, flower boxes, lamp post, a traffic signal, wrought iron fence, park bench, car park meter, fountain, street cart (flowers/fruit), a statue (?) and all the things you might see at your local town square. Thanks for your consideration!
Happy Anniversary! ๐ I would love to see a music doodle pack! Instruments, notes, kids playing instruments, etc… Fun with music!
Hi, I would love a pack about Mindfulness and Meditation.
I would love a pack with different types of frogs in different types of actions since I have a kindergarten class with the theme “frogs” ๐
like a reading frog, listening, writing, talking, a quiet frog, a helping frog, a friendly frog and so on ๐
I would love a kit comprising of different types of Corgis. My beloved fluffy Pembroke Corgi died last year and I can find no clip art of fluffies anywhere. My daughter now owns a fluffy Cardigan Corgi – a blue merle and he’s adorable. His colouring is so unusual. So there could be plenty of inspiration not only Pembroke and Cardigan Corgis, but also the fluffy versions too! (I could send you photographs… as you can imagine, as a proud corgi mum, I have many! ๐ )
I would love to see a kit that features dog agility – jumps, tunnels, etc.
I need to create some religious education products for my second graders, so I would love to see some Church related art: exterior and interior churches, stained glass windows, Bible, families praying together, First Communicant kids, etc.
I would love to see a science related doodle with telescopes, planets, spaceships, space suits, and some cute little aliens or space explorers.
We love vintage campers and traveling the USA in one. So, my choice would be vintage campers, RVs, campsites, Glamping! Thanks.
I would like to see a dart gun set…like Nerf guns. My kids also have a bow that shoots darts.
YAY!!! Happy Anniversary!!! I would love a hermit crab set, a sloth set or a squirrel set. I know those are random animals but I would love to see those done by YOU!!! You are amazing!!! Congrats again!
I would LOVE to see you draw a set of carnivorous plants like the Venus Flytraps, pitcher plants, butterworts, or sundews. Of course, you definitely have to have a fly, too! ๐
I mean, anything would be great. However, it would be awesome to have a set of historical clip art. You did such a great job on the British things. I would love one where it is a theme – Renaissance, Middle Ages, etc or even one that throughout time periods – like people in period costumes. Geography/cultural sets would be neat, too. Say a series of continent packs that focus more on cultural items from countries on the continents.
You’ve already heard mine ๐ I would love an Arabian nights themed one.
Love this idea, too!
Just always fall back on my grandkids! I’d love some word art about things kids say, do, funnies and serious and love. Day trips with grands; parks, beach, ice cream, etc.
I was lucky enough to win the bee keeper a few years ago. I’d love a beehive to go with my beekeeper ๐
Thanks and happy anniversary!
I’d love to see some more characters to go with Bible stories. For example: David and Goliath, David the shepherd boy, Jonah and the Whale, Joseph (coat of many colors, in the well, etc.), Noah and the ark, and Daniel in the lion’s den.
I would love to see a Pet Rock set.
I always ask for TEXAS ๐ The state outline overlaid with the flag (I can show you an example), a yellow rose, cowboy boots, cowboy hat, bluebonnets, Indian Paintbrush (a wildflower), cactus, an armadillo, a horned frog, the state flag, longhorn cattle, jalapenos, Texas sage (purple shrub), crape myrtle, etc, etc. ๐
I would love to see a golf-themed set. But kind of girly. . . . with golf equipment, golf course, “birdies”
Love all your work! Thank you .
Hi! First of all: Thank you for the opportunity and all your great artwork – I absolutely adore every clipart of you that I own!
I would love a family themed set (children, parents, babies, grandparents…) – but would be happy with a Royal family one as well. ๐
Wild animals would be lovely as well!
Awesome contest. I really hope I win. I’d love to see something specifically for the “snow dog” breeds. Alaskan Malamutes and Siberian Huskys .with sleds, and mushers and perhaps a few Eskimos and polar bears for good measure. Lol. Thank you for the chance!!!
Sundaes. Specifically for an ice cream sundae bar with waffles.
I am currently into digital Bible journaling, so anything that would help me with borders or Christian would be awesome.
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I need stage theater stuff for scrapping my daughters’ plays and other dramatic pursuits. Things like stage curtains, the stage, audience, costumes, lights, musical notes, . . . I wrote a thread about this at The Lilypad. In case my comment isn’t posting because I was trying to include a link I’ll describe the post so you can find it. My TLP name is michelepixels and I posted the thread titled “Designers: I have a request – theater” on Dec. 11, 2016.
Thank you!!! <3
I need stage theater stuff for scrapping my daughters’ plays and other dramatic pursuits. Things like stage curtains, the stage, audience, costumes, lights, musical notes, . . . I wrote a thread about this at The Lilypad: http://the-lilypad.com/forum/threads/designers-i-have-a-request-theater.45973/
Roller Derby … most kits don’t include this sport
I need stage theater themed digiscrap stuff, i.e. stage, curtains, tickets, costumes, characters, lights, music notes, marquee sign, scenery, word art (actor, actress, performance, show, director, maybe quotes from famous plays), audience, . . . I wrote a thread on The Lilypad about this here: http://the-lilypad.com/forum/threads/designers-i-have-a-request-theater.45973/
This is a great idea, too!
Me too! I have a bunch off high school plays/musicals to scrap -mine and siblings!
I would also love African animals, hippo, especially
I would love to see more zoo and safari animals. Thanks for the chance to win and good to everyone!
Pet themed – not just cats & dogs but lizards, snakes, insects, fish. My son keeps ‘not so cuddly’ pets and loves things like praying mantises and pac-man frogs.
I would love to see wild animals, not just elephants and lions, but also lemurs, monkeys, penguins, giraffes etc. Thanks for the chance to win and happy anniversary!
I always love a great amusement park theme. Roller coasters, Ferris wheel, carousel, spinny swings, bumper cars, games, etc. Thank you for the chance!
I love this idea.
More Art Journaling doodles!
As every year I ask for Italy ๐
I would love it if you could create doodles specific for New Zealand. I live there and nothing much at all is around.