Wk 17 - Using Greys Inspiration...Graph'It colouring challenge

Hello and Welcome back to some more amazing colour inspiration!

Before we get to this week's challenge we have to bring your attention to our

HUMONGOUS £200 Birthday Candy Giveaway 

which is on the post BELOW this one HERE. Make sure you grab the photo and post it in your sidebars and enter the Mr Linky to be in with a chance of winning over £200 of great stash!! Check it out HERE.

We are continuing our Week 16 challenge which is all about 

Using Greys

This can be in any way you like, either by colouring shadows, papers, colouring hair, clothing, whatever you wish, we just want to see you colour with some Greys on your project!

You can enter this challenge HERE

Don't forget, you don't have to use Graph'Its to enter our challenge, we accept entries which use ANY alcohol marker, no matter which brand!

You have until Friday 2nd May at noon GMT to enter and we will announce our Random Winner on Friday 9th May - the winner will receive some great Graph'It goodies worth £20! 

Claire Boelema - What a great challenge! Although I've added some pops of colour to the image, it has on the whole been coloured using Greys. I must confess to being a little worried that the image would look a little dull and flat but I think you'll agree that is far from that.

Water: Cool Grey 0 (9100), Cool Grey 1 (9101), Cool Grey 3 (9103), White Shake It Pen

Sky: Neutral Grey 1 (9501), Neutral Grey 4 (9504), Neutral Grey 6 (9506), Blender (0000)

Skin: Light Caramel (4170), Skin (4155), Powder (4135), Cotton (4115)

Boat: Smoke (3210), Lichen (3230), Havana (3245), Bronze (3250), Cigar (3255), Mocha (3280)

Figure/Flowers: Ghost (4125), Burgundy (5280), Aqua (6110), Lavender (6140), Bougainvillea (6170), Anise (8250), Military (8280)

Claire C  You can get some fab effects by using your greys with other colours in the Graph'It range - you can create different shades and tones by either mixing on your Mix'It palette or by laying down a layer of grey before your main colour. I've used green greys and blue greys to add depth and shade to the greens and turquoises on this image

Skin: 9203,9205,8260,8240,8220

Hair: 9104, 9103, 7270,7240,7220,

Flowers: 6140,6110,6130,5110,5115

I've also used the Silver Graph'It Shake pen for some sparkle and my Mix'it palette and blender pen

 

Susan -  The Image that I have used is from the fantastic CD

Dollie Daydream Goes East and coloured with Graph'it Markes , the papers are also on the CD

                                                                 Graph'it Markers used
                                                          Skin 4125 ,4115 ,4155 ,4170
                                                          Hair 3210 ,3250 ,3255 ,3270
                                                        Clothes 9201 ,9203 ,9205 ,9207

We are a little thin on the ground with our team this week but haven't the 2 Claire's done an awesome job for us!! Fabulous makes!

You can enter this challenge HERE

Remember, you have until Friday 2nd May at noon GMT to enter and we will announce our Random Winner on Friday 9th May - the winner will receive some great Graph'It goodies worth £20! And as always the team will pick their favourite Top 3 entries too! 

And don't forget to enter that Candy giveaway HERE!! 

See you next week!!

Wk 16 - Using Greys...Graph'It Marker Colouring Challenge

Happy Easter everyone and welcome to another Colouring challenge!
Don't forget, you don't have to use Graph'Its to enter our challenge, we accept entries which use ANY alcohol marker, no matter which brand!

Before we get to this week's challenge we have to bring your attention to our

HUMONGOUS £200 Birthday Candy Giveaway 

which is on the post BELOW this one HERE. Make sure you grab the photo and post it in your sidebars and enter the Mr Linky to be in with a chance of winning over £200 of great stash!! Check it out HERE.

Anyway, let's get to the challenge! 

We will announce Week 14 & 15 winners next week, but today we are challenging you to

USE GREYS

This can be in any way you like, either by colouring shadows, papers, colouring hair, clothing, whatever you wish, we just want to see you colour with some Greys on your project!

You have until Friday 2nd May at noon GMT to enter and we will announce our Random Winner on Friday 9th May - the winner will receive some great Graph'It goodies worth £20! 

Just a reminder - you still have time to enter our last challenge too, you can enter HERE

So let's head on over to the Design Team's amazing colouring creations this week!....

Zoe - I love the different greys you can get in the Graph It range, Green grey is fabulous for shading, backgrounds and, for me, it shouted school uniform!! So I coloured up this Some Odd Girl digi. I used the green greys to colour her skirt, bag, hair band and eyes. I also used them to create the soft dotted background. Combined with warm bold colours the green greys can become the new black!!

The Graph It's I used are -
Green Greys = 9201, 9203, 9205 & 9209
Skin = 4120, 4125, 4115, 4155, 3210, 4145, 4135 & 9503 (dark shadows)
Hair = 4170, 4175, 5215, 5220 & 6160

Cara
I love colouring in monochromatic and I also love colouring hair in lots of wild and different colours, the many varieties of Grey's in the Graph'it range are perfect for this.  I coloured the hair, eyes and lips of this lovely lady using the Green grays and then built up my card in matching colours to give a lovely monochromatic finish. I also used the Shake glitter market to add shimmer and the White pen to add the dots.

Graph'its used:
Skin: 4115, 4150,4155,3120,4135
Green Greys: 9201-9209
Blender
Glitter Shake Silver
Shake white pen

Anjie - The image and paper used on the blackboard are from the fabulous new Work & Play Collection 3.

The colours I have used are:

Skin: 4115, 4155, 4170, 4175, 4135

Hair: 1210, 1230, 3110, 3140, 3180

And the Green Greys for the clothes are: 9203, 9205, 9207

Absolutely LOVING the colouring this week, isn't it great! 

Remember, you have until Friday 2nd May at noon GMT to enter and we will announce our Random Winner on Friday 9th May - the winner will receive some great Graph'It goodies worth £20! And as always the team will pick their favourite Top 3 entries too! 

And don't forget to enter that Candy giveaway HERE!! 

See you next week!! 

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Wk 16 - £200 Birthday Candy Giveaway!!

Woooohoooo!! Happy Birthday to us!

Here at the Graph'It challenge we have our first birthday coming up in May so we thought it would be rude not to offer you all the opportunity to win a HUMONGOUS candy!!

We reckon there is well 

OVER £200 of goodies here!!

There are dies galore, CD's, stencils, Graph'It markers, paper packs, stamps, punches and tons and tons of goodies anyone would be very lucky to receive! 

All you need to do to win this fabulous stash is:

1. FOLLOW THIS BLOG

2. Take the PHOTO and pin it to your blog sidebar

3.  Link the photo to this post/blog 

4. Use Mr Linky BELOW (not in today's challenge post, it MUST be here!) and add your photo and link! 

PLEASE don't cheat because we will check these points if you are drawn as the winner and there is nothing worse than picking someone and then having to disqualify them because they didnt follow the rules! 

We will draw a lucky RANDOM winner on 30th May and ANYONE can enter, no matter where in the world you are based! 

Come on everyone, get pinning the pic and the link and we will see you back here on 30th May to announce the winner!! The winner will have 2 weeks to claim the prize and if it's unclaimed it will be given to another winner instead. GO GO GO and more importantly - GOOD LUCK!!!

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Wk 15 - Shadow Effects Graph'It Colouring Challenge

Hi everyone, welcome back to another Graph'it challenge day!
This week we have more inspiration for you on
Shadow Effects

Shadows can be one of the most useful effects no matter what you're colouring so I challenged the team to come up with the goods and boy, did they! 

Don't forget you can use ANY brand of alcohol marker to enter the challenge, just please follow our rules which are in the sidebar ---->

You have until Fri 18th April at noon GMT to enter this one and the winner will be announced on 25th April. Our random winner will receive some fabulous Graph'It Goodies! 


ENTER THIS CHALLENGE HERE

You can see the winners of our last challenge at the bottom of this post!

Zoe - I loved this challenge, adding depth to images with darker shadows is something I enjoy doing. I've created these bookmarks using a flower image from the gorgeous Dollie Goes East collection. I also added chipboard letters and a heart, all coloured with my Graph It's. I used a brown and a  green grey to add the extra shadows - my image shows the flowers coloured before I added the shadow then after and, of course, the finished project!

The Graph Its I used are -

Reds = 5210, 5215, 5220 & 5245.

Blues = 7125, 7130, 7170 & 7180.

Greens = 8220, 8260 & 8270.

Brown = 3190

Green Grey = 9209

Anjie - I have added shadows to where I think there would be folds in her top and skirts and around the image.

The colours I have used are:
Skin: 4115, 4125, 4120, 4115
Hair: 1210, 1230, 3110, 3140, 3180
Top: 7210, 7220, 7240
Skirt: 9110, 9102, 9103
Shadow: 9110, 9102

Cara

I love adding shadows to my images and I like to extend the shadowing around the image (I also tend to get carried away as I have done here and end up making a complete background out of my shadows). I like to use the same colours I have used withing my image to create my shadows as I think it can add an extra dimension to my finished project.

Colours used:

Skin: 4115,4150,4155,3120, 4135

Pink: 5180,5170,3280,3255

Brown: 3290,3280,3255,3245

Shadow around image: 5170, 3255,3245, 0000

Kevin I really enjoyed this challenge, as I really don't use shadow enough of my projects,I did get a bit carried away with the floor but I like the effect...

Graph'It markers used.

Skin.4115.4155.4170.4180.5120.

Hair.3140.3170.3180

Clothing.7155.7165.7170.7190.95019502.

Bear. 1180.1210.1270.1280.

shadows.9501.9201.1270.9403

Another week of great colouring techniques! 

Don't forget you can use ANY brand of alcohol marker to enter the challenge, just please follow our rules which are in the sidebar ---->

You have until Fri 18th April at noon GMT to enter this one and the winner will be announced on 25th April. Our random winner will receive some fabulous Graph'It Goodies! 

ENTER THIS CHALLENGE HERE

The Random Winner of our week 12 and 13 challenge Spring is
No 60 Hellen 
as picked by Random.org - well done, you've won Graph'It goodies! Please email us with code GIw15001 to claim your prize! 
and the Design Team's Top 3 are:
No 11 Lucy
No 65 Bev
and 43 Linda S

Wk 14 - Colouring Crazy challenge with Graph'it...shadow effects

Hey everyone welcome to another Colour Challenge!

We hope you managed to catch this week's Create and Craft show, it was another whirlwind hour with not enough time to show you everything I had planned but more and more people are joining the Graph'it bandwagon which is fantastic news that the word is spreading about these great markers. 

Don't forget if you have questions or need some help, ideas for colour combos and hints and tips to join us on our Facebook group HERE

where the team are always around to help you if you need it.

We are excited to announce that we have just found out we have another
Graph'It show on Create and Craft on 
Wednesday 9th April at 4pm 
where I will hopefully be showing you some great ideas and all the awesome samples from the team for inspiration! Create and Craft is on Sky 671 and Freeview 36 or you can watch online at www.createandcraft.tv or on TVCatchup.

I have a little tip for you this week which you might find useful...in fact, I've decided that each week I'm going to try and give you a little tip to using your Graph'Its which I find really useful, and hopefully you might too along the way.

So, my Nikky's Tip 1 this week is....

....if you find that you get a slight 'patchy' effect or a 'mottling' when you colour (this can happen with all the brands, not just Graph'It) it generally means that you're overworking the area and flooding a darker colour with a lighter one too much. As GI's are slightly more opaque than some of the other alcohol markers they actually MOVE the inks out of the way which helps to blend more easily, but because of that if you place a light colour into a darker one you can displace it and that can result in this effect if you overdo it. The key to avoiding this is to really make sure you have the right colour combo before you start. Don't forget that although the number system is sequential, the colours are currently more or less in PAIRS or THREES, so if you're having trouble blending, it's usually because you're missing a colour out somewhere. I see this issue quite frequently when I look at people's colouring in blogland and wherever it might be, and usually it occurs more with skintones, I think generally because we tend to concentrate so much on the skin we can overwork it slightly. I always used to find I had this issue when I used Copics too and it was generally for the same reason, I wasn't using the perfect colour combo and ended up trying too hard.
Obviously as the GI colour range is expanded more and more this will also help. It can actually be a bonus sometimes if you make a mistake - I personally find it so much easier to correct a colour error with Graph'Its than I ever have with any other brand which is something I found out this week when I was colouring a dark skintone which turned into a nightmare. I was determined I'd fix it and it took a while but I did, I was so impressed!

So - I hope this little tip has helped if you find you keep getting this or were wondering how to get around it and why it happens.  Anyway, enough babbling from me!

Let's get to this week's challenge...

Shadow Effects

Shadows can be one of the most useful effects no matter what you're colouring so I challenged the team to come up with the goods and boy, did they! 

Don't forget you can use ANY brand of alcohol marker to enter the challenge, just please follow our rules which are in the sidebar ---->

You have until Fri 18th April at noon GMT to enter this one and the winner will be announced on 25th April. Our random winner will receive some fabulous Graph'It Goodies! 

We don't have a winner to announce this week as we are a fortnightly challenge now but we'll be announcing the Winners from Week 11 next week so make sure you join us for the results and more inspiration for this challenge too.

Let's see what the Design team made...

Claire  I've used an image from the Polkadoodles CD 'Pretty Tuff', masked him to create the wall effect with a mask from Dutch Doobadoo and a little distress ink. I used my Graph'Its to add colour the bricks as well as colouring the focal image. My shadow effect was created using the tube from an old biro to blow at the brush end of my Graph'Its, it creates a really fun effect...

Colours used: Hair: 3190, 3250, 3245 and 1210

Skin 4180, 4155, 4115 and 4120

Reds: 5280, 5245,5220,5210

Jeans: 7125, 9104, 9102, 9100

Nikky...I love using shadows so I often have a play around at how I can change them and add more depth. I love this little Ballerina which you can get here and I wanted to make her sit against a wall while she tied her ballet pumps...

This photo isn't the best here as it looks really intense and is much more subtle in real life, but I created a double shadow to give the illusion of more depth and 2 light sources. I broke the shadow up a bit by adding tiny white dots with the Graph'It shake white marker.

I used: 

Hair 1210, 1230, 1250, 3110, 3125, 3150

Skin: 4110, 4115, 4155, 4170, 3110, 4145, 4135

Dress: 4145, 4135

Shadows/background: 9400, 9402, 9405, 9406, 4110, blender

 

 

Susan - .I have used papers ,image and sentiment from Work and Play1, this is an amazing collection and is available on CD and as Digi download ,and as always I have used my amazing Graph'it markers

 

 

 

These are the Graph'its I used

Skin 4125 ,4115 ,4155 ,4145 blush

Hat & Pants 9100 ,9101 ,9102 ,9103
T-Shirt 8110
Hair 3210 ,3270 ,3280 ,3290
Shading 9500 ,9501 ,9502

Drums Gold Shaker pen

So there's what we have for you this week! Just add your creation to Mr Linky below and don't forget you can enter twice, so pop back next week for some more inspiration!

You can use ANY brand of alcohol marker to enter the challenge, just please follow our rules which are in the sidebar.

You have until Fri 18th April at noon GMT to enter this one and the winner will be announced on 25th April. Our random winner will receive some fabulous Graph'It Goodies! 

See you next week!

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