B Fri 29th Aug wk 35 - Florals/ Transparency challenge inspiration

Welcome back to another lovely colouring day at Graph'It!

Today we have to tell you to make sure you check out the Kit and Clowder site this weekend as there are lots of great things going on over there including a great colouring competition!

Also - make sure you check out the Polkadoodles blog every Tuesday for lots of fantastic colouring inspiration too - there's a new team in town!

So today we have more inspiration for you from the team for the 

Florals or Transparency

challenge

which you can ENTER HERE

So by transparent this can mean water, glass, reflections etc etc - you get the picture. 

And the Design Team have come up with some truly inspiring ideas again for us!! 

You can join in this challenge if you wish but we realise this might be a bit scary for some people so just choose which - or of course, both - themes you want to follow.

You have until Fri 5th September at noon GMT to enter and the winner will receive some Graph'It markers to try out!  Just remember to please follow our simple rules in the sidebar.  We'll be back next week with the winners from last time.

ENTER HERE

The winners of our last challenge are at the end of this post...

So let's get to the AMAZING ideas we have for you!...

Wendy - Hello lovely people.  I thought I would colour some transparent balloons for this weeks challenge.  Love working with the Graph'It markers.  Hope you like it....

Here is a list of the colours I used:-

Balloons - 1110  1130  1180  1210  1230  4145  7210  9501

Face - 4125  4135  4155  7140  5220  5240

Hair - 1230  3120  3150  3280  3290

Clothes - 2105  2110  6110  6130  4110  4120  7210  7220

Background - 9500  9502

Cara - I decided to colour lovely sparkly dragonfly wings for my project this week, I coloured the image behind the wings first using a shade lighter than normal then coloured the wings of the dragon fly over the top. My image is just under 2"x3" so i've added a close up for you to see a bit better.....

Graph'its used: 

Skin: 3120, 4155, 4150,4115, 4135 (blush)

Hair: 7165, 7160, 7150, 7140

Dragonfly: 6175, 6140, 6130, blender

White shake marker pen for veins in dragonfly wings.

Anjie  - I have used the old Pond Neighbours Clear Stamp from Polkadoodles, it may be old but I still love it. Watching Nikky colour this range of stamps was what go me hooked on colouring!

So the colours I used are:

The pond: 7210, 7220, 7240, blender and the silver glitter shake pen

I started at the edges with the darkest colour and worked into the centre with the lightest. I them went over the middle with the blender pen to take some colour out and add swirls. I then added the glitter over the top to make it shimmer.

The bridge and fence: 3110, 3210

House: 5110, 5120, 1210, 1230

Grass: 8110

Sky: 7105

Janet- I've used a new Image I found with some nice balloons to colour, I hope we are inspiring you to have a go at some transparent colouring I think balloons are a nice place to start.

The colours I've used are

Skin 4125, 4145,4120, Hair 1250,2105, 2130, 3130

Dress and Shoes 4145,4135,4175,1101,1130,1170,9503

Flower 8110,8120,8280

Balloons 8110,8120,8280,4135,5115,5120,1110,1130, 1230

I hope you like her.

Susan  ~ This is an amazing challenge and I just love it ! Transparent.  It's a little difficult to make out but it's the wings that are transparent .  I have used my Graph'it Markers to colour the image and then put Maimeri Glassy gel onto the wings with a small brush.

GI'S used Skin 4125,4115,4145,3210
                 Hair 5115,5110,5125,
                 Dress 6110,6120
                 Greens 8220,8250
                 wings7210,8110 ,silver, shake & white shake

Kevin I thought for this fun challenge I would colour some water I have used my Graph'it Markers and tried to get a ripple effect going.

Graph'It markers used

Skin 4120.4135.4155.4170.4180.

Hair 3110.3125.3170.

Sswim suit 2110.2105.7125.7130.9103.

Fish 1140.1170.2120.2150

Water 9101.9102.9501.9502  blender & silver glitter pen 

Gorgeous makes as always! 

You have until Fri 5th September at noon GMT to enter and the winner will receive some Graph'It markers to try out!  Just remember to please follow our simple rules in the sidebar.  We'll be back next week with the winners from last time.

ENTER HERE

The winners of our last challenge Fur are:

Our random winner chosen by Random.org is

No 17 Angelic Bad Girl

Well done! Please email us HERE quoting code wk32GI001 to claim your prize and include your snail mail address : ) 

and the Design Team's Top 3 favourites - gosh it was really hard to choose this week there were some fabulous entries!!  But we had to choose and they are: 

No 7 Marianne

No 19 Diane

No 12 Jane

Thankyou all so much for your entries, we really appreciate it and hope to see you again soon!

wk 34 ...Summer Florals OR Transparency Graph'It Colouring Challenge

Welcome back to a new colouring challenge with us today!

We like to push ourselves with techniques here at Graph'It and try to show you some of the awesome things you can achieve but we know some of you get a little scared by this LOL!

So today we have TWO challenges....

our easy challenge is

Summer Florals

but for the design team this week I challenged them to show us

Transparent effects

So by transparent this can mean water, glass, reflections etc etc - you get the picture. 

And boy o boy have they come up with some truly inspiring ideas for us!! 

You can join in this challenge if you wish but we realise this might be a bit scary for some people so just choose which - or of course, both - themes you want to follow.

You have until Fri 5th September at noon GMT to enter and the winner will receive some Graph'It markers to try out!  Just remember to please follow our simple rules in the sidebar.  We'll be back next week with the winners from last time.

So let's get to the AMAZING ideas we have for you!...

Penni :~ I really love creating with my Graph'It Markers, and this week's challenge was no exception,  I got my Magnolia Stamps out and did a bit of masking, sitting Tilda on the top of a large champagne glass...

Graph'It Markers used:  

Skin - 4120, 4125, 4155.  Cheeks 4135

Hair 0 1210, 1230, 1250, 3150

Clothes, Head Dress & Shoes - 7210, 7220, 7250

Glass - 9201 and Blender (0000)

Yvonne - Hi there everyone! Well i am back again and this week the challenge is 'transparency'. Must admit this one filled me with dread, however, an adorable image later and some great 'props' and a card (and hopefully inspiration) is born,  I used a new design from 'ArtbyMiran', the image is called 'Bookaholic' and I coloured her up with my Graph'It Markers. As always Graph'Its are so easy to use. I thought we may as well get ready for the new school year and with the aid of some fabulous embellishments from Polkadoodles 'Work & Play Collection 3'; I was able to add the blackboard and books. If you look closely at the blackboard, although I printed out the coloured image, I went over some elements with my Graph'Its to add emphasis.  Again highlighting how amazing Graph'It's are.  I added some glaze to the glasses for effect in keeping with this weeks theme.

The Graph'It Markers used were:

Skin: 4120, 4155, 3120

Hair: 1250, 3110, 3140, 3160

Blouse: 7105, 7110

Skirt & shoes: 7125, 7130, 7170

Jacket & Tie: 5210, 5220, 5245

Schoolbag: 5245, 5250, 5270

Blackboard 'enhancement': 5245, 5250, 5255, 3110, 3140, 3160

 

Claire C I've coloured water droplets with my Graph'It markers on this card. Graph'Its work so well with PanPastels I created a background with my pans and then used my Graph'Its to colour the water drops and the acetate butterflies. I added some white highlights to the water drops with my white Graph'It Shake Pen.The gorgeous stamps are all from Premium Craft Brands and were designed by our very own Nikky!!!

Colours used:

Turquoise drops: 7270,7240,7220,7210

Pink Drops: 5255,5125,5115,5110

Green drops: 8220, 8240,8280

Neutral greys: 9500,9503

Butterflies: 5255, 8240, 7270

Claire Boelema - I got a bit confused with this challenge and got it into my head that it was "glass" and so I coloured up a pair of sunnies - consequently my project actually has very limited transparency!

Colours used:

Skin - 4115, 4120,4125

Hair & Clothes - 9909, 9506, 9504

Lettering - 5245

WOW!! Some fantastic ideas here I'm sure you'll agree!!

You can join in this challenge if you wish but we realise this might be a bit scary for some people so just choose which - or of course, both - themes you want to follow.

You have until Fri 5th September at noon GMT to enter and the winner will receive some Graph'It markers to try out!  Just remember to please follow our simple rules in the sidebar.  We'll be back next week with the winners from last time.

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Wk 33 Furry Stuff......Graph'It Colouring Challenge

Welcome back to another colouring Friday with us here at Graph'It!

We are loving your entries so far for our Fur challenge - 

don't forget this can also include feathers, Christmas fur on clothing - whatever you want! 

You have until Fri 23rd August to enter and remember you do NOT have to use Graph'It to enter, but you do need to colour an image of some kind! 

We will use Random.org to pick a Random winner and as always the team will pick their favourite Top 3 - our winner will win some great Graph'It stash courtesy of Premium Art Brands here in the UK. 

ENTER THE CHALLENGE HERE

The winners from our last challenge are at the end of this post, so let's see what the Design Team have all been up to with this theme....

Yvonne - Hi there everyone, I cannot tell you how amazing it was to be told that I had been included in the Graph'It Design Team, but here I am and here is my first project for the team.  Now I have been a little bit naughty for my very first post, as I have smuggled in a sneak peak of an upcoming collection that is due to be released from Polkadoodles, his name is Winston and I just know that you are all going to love him as much as I do!

Graph'It Markers used:

Bear: 9400, 9401, 9402, 9403, 9403, 9404, 9405, 9406, 4115, 4155, 4170, 4180, 3110, 3140

Heart: 5210, 5220, 5245

Susan  Well here we are again with some new inspiration for the Graph'it Fur and Feathers challenge .I have used bits of leftover papers to make this card. The image is from Polkadoodles and I have used my GI's to colour this cute little bear ,There's an amazing tutorial on the Colouring Secrets with Nikky Hall DVD on how to create fur - a must have DVD with lots of hints, tips and techniques...

 .I have used Ultimate Graph'it paper

Graph'its used 9303 ,9304 ,9305 ,9307 ,9500 plus Mix'it fluid


Penni Hey everyone.  I'm so excited to be a member of the great team here at Graph'It Markers and I'm really looking forward to sharing my work with you.
Here's my first project.  I used an image from Polkadoodles.  To get the effect of fur, I coloured the bears first and, before colouring anything else, I got a clean flannel and sprayed it with some Mix It Fluid - I then dabbed it on the coloured areas of my image to created a textured effect.

Graph It Markers used:
Bears - 1210, 1230, 1250, 4120, 4125
Dress, Shoes, Bow Tie, Cumabund  - 5110, 5210, 5220, 5240
Underdress, Scarf - 910, 9102
Suit - 9500, 9502, 9505
Flowers - 5110, 5210, 5220, 5240
Leaves - 8120, 8150
Champagne - 4110

Claire C Now this was a real challenge for me as I don't often colour animal images but I had a lot of fun colouring this cute little squirrel. I used two techniques for his fur, for the long fur on his tail I used lots of different Graph'It shades and 'flicked' the colours to give the effect of fur. On his face I used a little scrap of towelling misted with Mix'it Fluid to create the effect of fur....

Colours used:

Fur: 3245, 328, 3180, 3150,3130, 3110..2140,2120,1230

Greens: 8280, 8260, 8240,8220

Reds: 5280, 5245,5220,5210 plus 6290

Yellows: 1280, 1250,1150,1130

Skin: 4180,4155,4115,4125 plus 4135/5115 blush

background:  7210,7220, 6110, 9502,9500

Janet Hines my first card is also a sneak peak and will be on sale soon

Colours Used

Bear 1210, 1230, 1250, 1270, 1280, 4110, 4120, 4145

Flower 8220, 8240, 8250, 5110, 5120, 5115, 5125, 1150, 1250

Ground 9203, 9205

WOW!! What fantastic effect we've shown you this week! Love them all!!

Our last challenge was Hot Colours

and our winner of £20 of Graph'It goodies, chosen by Random.org is

No 20 Marlene

Well done!

Email us HERE to claim your Lovely prize and quote code GIw33001w30 to claim your prize!

The Design Team's Top 3 are

No 26 Caroline

No 23 Michelle 

No 2 Sandie

Remember to grab your blinkies from the sidebar and we look forward to seeing your work again! 

Thanks so much to you all for entering - your creations and colouring were stunning and as always it was really hard to choose this week! 

ENTER THIS WEEK'S FUR CHALLENGE HERE

That's it for this week - see you next Friday for more inspiration!

Wk 32 - Furry Stuff!....Graph'It Colouring Challenge

Welcome back to a new Graph'It challenge!

Firstly, before we get down to the challenge business, we'd like to say a special big thankyou to everyone who applied for the DT call - we had so many fantastic colouring applications it really was vrey difficult to choose this time....but we appreciate all your applications and your support for the team and of course, Graph'It! 

So without further ado, we are ultra excited to welcome some fantastically talented new people to the team...

Penni Vickers

Wendy Foster

Janet Hines

Yvonne Leslie

Huge welcome ladies, we can't wait for you to join in the first challenge and bring us all your skills and learning along the Graph'It journey with the rest of us! ....

OK, so let's get on with the challenge! 

This week we are all about

FUR

Now this can be any kind of fur animal fur, Christmas fur, even feathers - whatever you wish !

You have until Fri 23rd August to enter and remember you do NOT have to use Graph'It to enter, but you do need to colour an image with alcohol markers of some kind! We will use Random.org to pick a Random winner and as always the team will pick their favourite Top 3 - our winner will win some great Graph'It stash courtesy of Premium Art Brands here in the UK. 

Anjie -  To give the fur some texture I sprayed a piece of velvet ribbon with Graph'It Mix It Fluid and pressed it over the fur.....

The colours I have used are:

Bear: 4110, 4150, 3210, 3140, 3150, 3160

Chair: 1210, 3110, 3120, 3125

Blues: 7145, 7160, 7165

Kevin

I loved this challenge as I don't really colour animals as much as I should, so enjoyed this.... The image is a sweet mouse stamp....

Graph'It markers used

Fur 4110..4145..4150..1180..1210..1280

Clothing 9101..5220..9500..8120..8130,8150.

Claire Boelema - I was really excited about this challenge as I love colouring images from nature and haven't done any for ages! I used a selection of the new Christmas stamps from Polka Doodles to create my little box card....

Graph'It markers used

2110, 2150, 5220, 3245, 3255, 1180, 9500, 9503, 9909, White Shake Marker

Wendy Foster - I've really enjoyed my first time using Graph'it markers. The image is a sneak peak and will be available soon

 Colours used:-

1210, 1230, 1250, 9102, 9103, 9104, 7220, 5215, 5220, 5240, 3190, 0000

What fantastic examples this week! 

Remember to enter this can be any kind of fur animal fur, Christmas fur, even feathers - whatever you wish !

You have until Fri 23rd August to enter - we'll be back next Friday to announce the winner of our last challenge, so we'll see you then! 

Happy Colouring!

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wk 31....Hot Colours - Graph'It colouring challenge

Hellooo and welcome back to the 2nd week of our challenge!

Hot Colours 

Now this challenge is all about Hot Colours so show us what you've got! 

This can basically include summer colours, any colour combo's which you think look really great together, the choice is yours.

You can ENTER HERE

But, I decided the team needed an extra challenge so this time I challenged everyone on the team to try an airbrushing technique...

We don't currently have an airbrush system within Graph'It (but we live in hope) but there are other things  you can do to get an airbrushed effect. Most systems are specific to a particular brand but you can achieve this look by simply using things you have around the house...the cheapest way and simplest way is to get an old biro or pen and empty it then hold it to the end of your marker and blow through the pen - you'll be amazed at the results! It takes a little practice to get the right angles and right amount of huff and puff but have a go - it's great fun and not as hard as you think!!

Before we get to the inspiration, let me remind you of the rules - you have until Friday 8th August to enter (noon GMT) and the RANDOM winner chosen will win some lovely Graph'It markers and goodies.  Simply follow the rules in the sidebar and remember you don't have to use Graph'It to enter.

So let's see what the Design Team did!...

Anjie - First of all I coloured the image up, which is from the new Work & Play Collection 6, as are the papers. Then I printed the image out again and fussy cut and created a mask to cover the image. Then I got to work with the biro case and created a muddy ground and a blue sky. I'm quite pleased with how the ground turned out as it looks like the horse is kicking up some mud!

The Graph'It Markers I used are:

Skin: 4125, 4150, 4145, 4135, 3210

Horse and Rider: 9400-9407

Sky: 7125

Mud: 3255

Cara I must admit I was i teeny bit scared of this challenge but once I got started I really enjoyed myself.  I started off cutting a mask on my Silhouette (Nikky stocks loads of masks and stencils here..)  I stamped my image and then created a mask before using my hand spritzer tool (yes I cheated a little lol) to spritz in the clouds, I used 3 different shades to try to add dimension.  I then masked off a border and used the same colours to frame the picture.

Graph'it Markers used:

Blues for Airbrushing, Hair and Shoes: 7290, 7240,7220

Skin: 3120, 4155,4150, 4115, 4135

Red: 9408,5245,5240

Monkey: 3255,3250,3245,3210, 4135


Kevin Well I have to say I enjoyed this challenge, I have not tried Airbrushing with a Bic pen before and it works well, only thing is I forgot about the hot colours. I airbrushed the Umbrella and the rain. and then used my image on a tag shaped card.

Graph'It Markers Used 
Airbrushing 7105..7210..7220..9100..9101
Skin  4150..4155..4180..4170
Clothing 5110..5120..7210..7220..7125

Wow - more fantastic inspiration!!

We are loving this technique!

Before we get to the winners from last time we just want to say a HUGE thanks to everyone who applied for the DT call which is now closed - we will be getting back to everyone very soon and will announce our new team shortly : )  exciting!

So onto last time's winners....

Our Random Winner from Week 28/29 Christmas Colours challenge is:

No 16 Katie Tate

Well done Katie! Please email us here quoting code wk31GI001 to claim your prize and don't forget to send us your snail mail address!

The Design Team's favourite Top 3 are: 

 Lisa S

Sue P

Lucy Patrick

well done everyone! Grab your blinkies from the sidebar and thanks so much for joining us, we loved seeing your work! 

So remember, this week's challenge is 

HOT COLOURS - 

This can basically include summer colours, any colour combo's which you think look really great together, the choice is yours.

You can ENTER HERE

See you next week!