26th July Week 5 - Blonde Hair

Thanks for joining us for another great challenge! 

Last week we challenged you to colour Black Hair - so of course this week we challenge you to make a project and colour 

Blonde Hair

You can use ANY brand of alcohol marker to enter our challenges!

Before we get to this week's inspiration and prizes, it's time to announce the winner of our Week 3 challenge which was Candy Colours. We're so pleased to announce that our Top 2 entries are:

1. Jane Savage

2. Sue Bearhouse

We loved all your work and congratulations to Jane who won our fabulous prize of over £50 of Graph'It goodies!! Well done! Please email Nikky here to claim your prize and please grab your winners blinkies from the sidebar.

The winner of this week's challenge will win a fantastic prize worth over £30 which will include Graph'It markers and other stash from Premium Art Brands and Polkadoodles! 

Here is the fantastic inspiration our team have for you this week....we chose blonde hair as our theme because it can be a tricky combo to get right but with Graph'it markers we have one of the best selections of colours around which is perfect for colouring 'non yellow' blonde hair! ....

Faye....I sometimes find blondes difficult to colour, I end up with someone who looks like they have yellow hair, rather than blonde, so I really enjoyed the Challenge this week.

Carpet: 8280, 8270, 7290, Background: 7105, 7110, 0000, Skin: 4120, 4115, 4155, 4170, 4180, Hair:1210, 1230, 1280, 3110, White: 9100, 0000, Yellow: 1250, 2120, Orange: 2180, 3130, 3170, Turquoise: 7145, 7160

Suzi

I love how easy it is to get a great looking blonde hair using the Graph' It Markers, For this image I went for a honey blonde look using 

1250, 1280, 2105; Skin 4120, 4135, 4150; Top 2105, 2110; Cardi and Shoes 5130, 5150, 5160; Trousers 8250, 8260.

Karen

I have also gone for a darker blonde shade as well using 

1230 1250 and 1280. The image is from Polka Doodles and the rest of my colours are  SKIN 4120 4150 4155 4170 4145 BLUE 9102 9103 PINK 5115 5125 EYES 8110

Claire C

I've used the lovely mermaid image from the PolkaDoodle's BonBon Belles CD.

For her hair I've used 

3120, 1250, 1170, 1150 and 4110

Skin: 4180,4155,4115, 4145,4120 and 4110 

blues and greens:7180,7170,7176, 7150, 7140, 7125 and 8220, 8250 and 8280

So there is our inspiration from the fabulously talented Graph'It team this week!...

You have until  Sunday 4th August at noon GMT to enter below by adding your creation to Mr Linky below - don't forget you have the chance to win a fabulous prize! The winner of this challenge will be announced on Friday 9th August here on this blog. 
Please check our rules for all entries: 
1. All entries MUST follow the challenge theme. 2. Please link your blog post and not your blog address with the linky tool - this saves us from searching your blog for your entry.  3. No back-linking to previous posts - these will be disregarded from our voting.

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Blonde Hair Tutorial

Morning Everyone :)

Happy Friday Peeps, it's Faye here. Historically, I have found Blondes difficult to colour. It has taken me years to find colour combo's that I think look Blonde and not yellow, with other markers. But within weeks of playing with Graph'Its, I discovered one I'm really happy with, and I thought I'd share...

So, start with 1210...

Second, lay down 1230...

Then 1280 for the darker areas...

Next go back with 1210 again to fill in some of the white space and add texture to the hair...

Repeat with 1230 and 1280...

Finally add a small amount of 3110 for the darkest root and shadow areas...

Job done...

Hope you join us this week for our Blonde Challenge and don't forget you still have a few days to join our Black Hair Challenge...

19 July Week 4 - Black Hair

Thanks for joining us for another great challenge! 

This week we challenge you to make a project and colour

Black Hair

You can use ANY brand of alcohol marker to enter our challenges!

Before we get to this week's inspiration and prizes, it's time to announce the winner of our Week 2 challenge which was Bright and Bold. We're so pleased to announce that our Top 3 entries are:

1.  No 1, Scatty Jan

2. No 14, Sue Bearhouse

3. No 17, Lucy Patrick

We loved all your work and congratulations to Scatty Jan who won our fabulous prize of over £30 of goodies!! Well done! Please email Nikky here to claim your prize! Sue and Lucy - please feel free to grab your blinkies from the sidebar to add to your blogs!

The winner of the challenge this week will win a fantastic prize worth over £30 which will include Graph'It markers and other stash from Premium Art Brands and Polkadoodles!

You have until Sunday 28th July at noon GMT to enter below by adding your creation to Mr Linky below - don't forget you have the chance to win a fabulous prize! The winner of this challenge will be announced on Friday 2nd August here on this blog. Please check our rules for all entries.

Here is the fantastic inspiration our team have for you this week....

Cara...
As I don't have the full range of Greys I would usually use to colour black hair I decided to do something a little different ..... ombre hair!!!! Had I not had these wonderful markers I doubt I would have ever tried something like this, they really do make those normally challenging projects so much easier!

Simonne...
Although Graph'It have FIVE different sets of grey markers (Warm, Cool, Netural, Pink and Green Greys), I only have the Neutral Greys, so I used these to colour my black hair this week!  I also used Heather (with wings) digi stamp and Apple Lagoon papers from the *new* Polkadoodles Bonbon Belles double CD Collection.

Graph'it Markers used:
Skin: 4155 4115 4125 4120....Blush: 4135 Lips: 5120 Eyes: 8220....Hair: 9509 9507 9505 9303 9501....Jacket & Shoes: 7160 7150 7140....Trousers: 8110 7210 0000....White shading: 4110 0000....Wings: 8110 7210....Flowers 7160 7150 7140 7210 1210 8260 8220

Kevin...
I have used this adorable image from the Polkadoodles Candy Doodles CD Collection, on colouring the black hair I found I could do with another couple of lighter grey Graph'It markers.

Graph'It Markers used 

Skin 4155..4145..4115..4135..4180......Hair  9909..9905..9508..9505.......Dress 8110..8240..8130

Flowers,bird & grass 1110..2140..1130..1150

Debs

I like to add a base colour when doing black hair to give nice highlights so I opted for a blue grey then built up with the neutrals and finished the deepest areas with black..

Graph'It Markers used:
Hair - 9102, 9505, 9507, 9509, 9909.....Skin - 4180, 4170, 4155, 4110, 5110....Pinks - 5120, 5130, 5255......Turquoise - 720, 7260, 7240

So there you have our inspiration this week! 

You have until Sunday 28th July at noon GMT to enter below by adding your creation to Mr Linky below - don't forget you have the chance to win a fabulous prize! The winner of this challenge will be announced on Friday 2nd August here on this blog. Please check our rules for all entries.

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Easy Blending with your Mix'it Palette

Hi there, Claire  here with a quick tutorial to show you how you can use your Mix'it  Palette with your Graph'it markers to make blending loads easier. The Mix'It is a translucent surface that enables you to mix your Graph'It markers to blend beautifully and even to make new colours

 There are quite a few ways to use the Mix'it for example with the blender pen or to create totally new colours but today I'm just going to concentrate on blending with your markers I've used these colours and one of the lovely images from the Pretty Sweet CD from Polkadoodles.

I've used 5140 in the areas where the shade would be darkest

Next I've miixed 5140 with 5270 on the Mix'It and applied it with 5270. These pens are so juicy its almost like painting with this technique. Using the mix of ink I've gone around the coloured areas and extended in to the white space a little

Next I used 5270 on its own and then I've used the next shade 5120, mixing it with 5270 and again applying with the lighter shade extending a little further in to the white space.

Once again use the lighter shade 5120 on its own and then repeat the process using the lightest shade 5110 to apply the mix of inks 

Lastly, go over the entire area with 5110 to blend the colours. You may want to go in and add some depth to the darker areas

Finish colouring your image

and its ready to make your card

I hope you  enjoy using your Mix'It, you can clean it with your blender pen but I've had mine for about a year now and I never clean it. The colour looks as if its dried out but re-activates instantly with your blender pen so no need to worry about wasting ink 

Thanks for visiting, hope you're going to enter our Candy Colours Challenge, scroll down to see all the gorgeous projects from my teamies!

Claire xx

12 July Week 3 - Candy Colours

Thanks for joining us for another great challenge! Don't forget you have until Sunday to enter last week's challenge too and a chance to win some lovely stash! We've had some great feedback from you all about this fab new challenge blog and we're blown away by all your positive comments - thanks so much for joining us and spreading the Graph'It word!

So, it's been great weather here and this week we challenge you to make a project and colour it with your favourite

Candy Colours

Before we get to this week's inspiration and prizes, it's time to announce the winner of our first challenge which was New Beginnings. We're so pleased to announce that our Top 2 entries are:
1.  Leona
2. Kim

We loved all your work and congratulations to Leona who won our fabulous prize of over £50 of goodies!! Well done! Please email Nikky here to claim your prize!

The winner of this week's challenge will win a fantastic prize worth over £30 which will include Graph'It markers and other stash from Premium Art Brands and Polkadoodles! 

You can use ANY brand of alcohol marker to enter our challenges!

You have until  Sunday 21st July at noon GMT to enter below by adding your creation to Mr Linky below - don't forget you have the chance to win a fabulous prize! The winner of this challenge will be announced on Friday 26th July here on this blog. Please check our rules below to make sure you are counted within the entries!

In the meantime - if you are heading to Doncaster this weekend for the fabulous Summer Crafting show then make sure you call and see Nikky on the Polkadoodles stand - Nikky will be demoing Graph'It markers all weekend and showing you how amazing they are, together with all her favourite hints, tips and techniques! She has a whole lot of stock with her to show you so make sure you head over and say hello to her! 

Here is the fantastic inspiration our team have for you this week....

Faye... Rhubarb and Custard... 

I used to love going into the sweet shop for a quarter of Rhubarb and Custards. In fact, if I see an old fashioned sweet shop, I still go in for a quarter, reminds me of my youth!

 Markers Used... Ground; 4110, 3210, Background; 9100, 9102, Bear; 1210, 1230, 3245, Balloon; 1110, 1140, 1150, 1250, Hat; 5280, 3170, yellow as per balloon

Karen - Opal Fruits....

These colours really remind me of my favourite sweeties! Hope you love the colours too.... Markers used 5110 5115 6120 6140 4120 4115 4155 3120 2105  - Digi papers and sentiment Pretty Sweet CD Polkadoodles 

Suzi ....Marshmallows

I love Pink and White Marshmallows, all squishy and delicious, even better dipped in chocolate!!

I've used; Skin 4120, 4135, 4150, 4155;  Hair 3160, 3210, 3270; Socks and Sleeves 1210, 3210, 0000; Dress 5110, 5115, 5120.

Claire C.... liquorice allsorts ....

(the yummy blue and pink ones covered in little balls - love em)

I've used:  Dress 5270, 5140, 5120,5110;   Blouse: 9104, 7125, 7105;   Skin:4180, 4155, 4115, 4120 and 5110;   Hair: 3140, 2105, 1230 and 1150

So there is our inspiration for this week! We hope you love our theme and we look forward to seeing all your entries! Don't forget, some lucky person is going to win a whole lot of yummy colouring stash!! Closing date for entries is Sunday 21st July at noon GMT. In the meantime we'll see you again next Friday, but make sure you also signup to follow us as the team will be posting regular tutorials for you too - and you really don't want to miss them!

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5 July Week 2 - Birthday Bonanza challenge

Welcome to the second of our challenges here at Graph'It Challenge! This week we want you to join in our
Bright and Beautiful Birthday Bonanza!

Our team was challenged to use bright and bold happy colours this week and we'd like you to do the same - we want to see all your brightest and most cheerful colouring! 
You can use ANY brand of alcohol marker to enter our challenges!

The winner of this challenge will win a fantastic prize worth over £30 which will include Graph'It markers and lots of other stash fromPremium Art Brands and Polkadoodles! You have until  Sunday 14th July at noon GMT to enter below by adding your creation to Mr Linky below - don't forget you have the chance to win a fabulous prize! The winner of this challenge will be announced on Friday 19th July here on this blog. Please check our rules below for all entries.
Don't forget you still have until Sunday to enter our first challenge below this post - come on please enter, we'd love to see all your creations!

Here is the fantastic inspiration our team have for you this week....

Cara....I'm loving using my new Graph'It markers, it's so easy to get vibrant and bright colours with Graph'It, I love them! ....

Simonne....I wanted to use this great boys image this week - it's perfect for getting bold with colours!

Graph'it Markers used:
Skin: 4180 4155 4115 4120
Hair: 3290 3250 3245
Reds: 3180 5245 5220 5210 4135
Yellows: 3250 3245 1280 1180 1150 1110
Blues: 7180 7170 7125 7115 7105
Greys: 9505 9503 9501
Whites: 9501 9500 Blender
Greens: 9505 9280 8220

Debs.....I think bold colours are great for using with male themes...

Graph'It markers used:

Skin - 4110, 4155, 4170, 5110

Hair & Shoes - 3110, 3125, 3190, 3280

Reds - 5240,5245, 5280

Yellows - 1150, 1170, 1250

Turquoise - 7420, 7620, 7290

Sails & Ground - 9505, 9503, 9501 & blender



Kevin....I wanted to use colours which were a bit different to go with this image (this is Claude from Polkadoodles Pretty Tuff CD)...

Graph'It Markers used:

4115 4155 4135 5120 Skin

1250 3150 3125  Hair

   5140  5270 5245  Reds 

   7290 7210 7105  Blues  

8240  8280 Greens

9580 9403 Greys

And Blender 

Nikky...

I find it really easy to use bright and bold colours with Graph'It - in fact the rich and vibrant tones positively encourage me to be more adventurous with my colour choices, I've never used so many strong colours in my colouring but I totally love being pushed out of my comfort zone and I ADORE Graph'It markers! This image is from our new Bonbon Belles collection...

Graph'It markers used:

Skin: 4115, 4155, 4170, 4175, 4135

Hair: 9503, 9504, 9505, 9508 Neutral Greys, 9909 Black

Dress: 5115, 5120

Wings: 5120, 5130, 1180.... plus 5160 and 1180 mixed

Roses: 5115, 5120, 5130

Leaves: 8240, 8280

Blender

....So that's our inspiration for you this week- now it's your turn to get creating! You have until  Sunday 14th July at noon GMT to enter below - don't forget you have the chance to win a fabulous prize! The winner of this challenge will be announced on Friday 19th July.

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