wk 9 Shabby Chic/ Vintage Romance - Graph'It Colouring Challenge

Happy Friday and welcome to the Graph'It Colouring Challenge!

Today our challenge for you all is 

Shabby Chic/ Vintage Romance

We want to see anything that fits the theme and this theme is really versatile for you to enter!
We also have a new twist for you!

YOU CAN USE ANY TYPE OF COLOURING MEDIUM 

TO ENTER THE CHALLENGE - PENCILS, ANY ALCOHOL MARKERS, INKS, DISTRESS INKS, PAINT, WHATEVER YOU WANT TO USE, SO LONG AS IT'S COLOURED/PAINTED BY YOU THAT IS FINE! 

You have until 13th March to enter and the winners will be announced the following week!

Our winner is chosen by Random.org and will win a pack of Graph'It markers whoop whoop!

AND our Top 3 will also win a free digi stamp by this week's blog sponsor Polkadoodles!

Please remember you don't have to use our products to enter but please check our rules in the sidebar --->

We will announce the winners of our last challenge next week, but in the meantime, let's see what the team have made for us! 

Anjie - I used this lovely Polkadoodles image from the Love & Kisses collection - this is the Vicar on her way to the marriage ceremony! Too cute! ....

The Graph'Its I have used are:

Skin: 4125, 4150, 4135, 4145, 3210, 3120

Hair: 3150, 3160, 3180, 3190

Clothes: 9101, 9102, 9103, 9106
More details can be found on my blog by clicking on my name.

Scatty Jan I have used the lovely Cupid from Love and kisses collection from Polkadoodles....

The Graph'Its used are

Skin - 4115/4155/4170/6150/4145
Hair - 3245/3210/4110
Red - 5240/5220
Grey - 9305/9304/9303

Caroline  I have used this image off the Polkadoodles Love and kisses cd, plus backing papers and sentiment.....

Graph'its used
 skin - 4150, 4145, 4125, 4120, 4170
hair, - 1150, 1130, 1110, 3270, 3250, 3245
clothes -, 5130, 5120, 5110, 7180, 7130, 7125, 9102, 9100
boots - 3270, 3245, 9506,9502, 

Kevin I have made a fun card for this challenge.....

Graph;It markers used

Skin 4120.4155.4170.4180

hair 1270.1280.3110.3125

girls clothing 4145.5120.5115.5110.6120

Boys clothing 7101.7125.7130.8110.8120

Wings Silver Glitter pen

Nikky....I havent' coloured properly for ages but I have been dying to do this really cute couple....

I love to colour in monotones or soft colours, just my personal choice....unfortunately I messed up and placed a marker on the boys face which had some Permanent Red Pan pastel on it - eeek!! DISASTER! It's called Permanent for a reason and went right across his mouth so I had to work really hard to try and get most of it out but it meant his face got a little patchy and marked....grrrr! But it happens to the best of us and I wanted to show that you don't always have to throw things away...I will actually make him grow a beard to hide it when I put this on a card LOL! ....

Graph'Its used: Skin 4125, 4150, 3210, 3245

Hair: 3210, 3230, 3245, 3255, 3270, 3290

Suit: 9100, 9102, 9104

Dress: 4125, 3210, 4175 lots of blender

Janet - My card this week says it all simply LOVE

Graph'it markers used

Reds - 5220, 5215, 5220, 5245, 5260

Blues - 7105, 7119, 7125, 7175

Greys - 9303, 9304, 9305, 9500, 9502

Skin - 4120, 4125, 4145

Hair - 1230, 1270, 2105, 2110

Yellow - 1110, 1140, 1150, 1180, 4110

Claire C I love to colour flowers so I really enjoyed colouring this image with my trusty Graph'Its

Lovely creations from the team!

We will be back next week with last time's winners but in the meantime don't forget you have until 13th March to enter this great challenge and you can use ANY MEDIUM to enter!
See you next time!

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wk 8 Spring Greens Inspiration - Graph'It Colouring Craft Challenge

Welcome back to another lovely colouring challenge!

Today starts our inspiration post for the 2nd week of the current challenge which is:

Spring Greens

and you can enter the challenge here

We want to see anything that fits either
SPRING or GREEN
 inspired so this theme is really versatile for you to enter!
We also have a new twist for you!
We have a lovely freebie image for you below which you can right-click and save - now we would love you to use this in your challenge make but this is OPTIONAL!  

Click the link above to enter and get your freebie digi!
So if you don't want to use it you don't have to!
YOU CAN USE ANY TYPE OF COLOURING MEDIUM 

TO ENTER THE CHALLENGE - PENCILS, ANY ALCOHOL MARKERS, INKS, DISTRESS INKS, PAINT, WHATEVER YOU WANT TO USE, SO LONG AS IT'S COLOURED/PAINTED BY YOU THAT IS FINE! 

You have until 27th Feb and the winners will be announced the following week!

Our winner is chosen by Random.org and will win a pack of Graph'It markers whoop whoop!

AND our Top 3 will also win a free digi stamp by our sponsor Polkadoodles!

Please remember you don't have to use our products to enter but please check our rules in the sidebar --->

The winners of our last challenge are at the end of this post but let's see what the team have made this week!....

Anjie ......I used this Octavia Rose Garden digi stamp which you can find her as a digi here or why not get the full collections here!! This image was perfect for this challenge : ) 

The Colours of the Graph'It Markers I have used are:

Skin: 4125, 4150, 4135, 4145, 3210, 3120

Hair: 3210, 3245, 3250, 3290

Dress: 7210, 7220, 7240

Flowers: 8130, 8140, 8150, 5110, 5115

Wings: 5115 & Silver Shake pen.

Claire C I love the greens in the Graph'It range, and as the pens blend so beautifully you can mix it up by using other colours too, the greys work a treat but I've used shades of yellow for this adorable little beauty. She's called Octavia MoonflyWistful and you can find her as a digi here or why not get the full collections here!!

Here's a close up of the image:

colours used:

Skin: 4180, 4155,4115, 4125 plus 4135/4147 blush

Hair: 3234, 1230,1210

Toadstool: 3160, 5280, 5245, 5230, 5210 plus warm greys

Greens: 8280, 8260, 8220, 8125, plus yellows 1130, 1110

Blender pen and Mix'It palette

Kevin I love Spring time and the fresh colours, I love the fresh greens that are only available in the Graph'It marker range, the image I have used is from Polkadoodles isn't she a perfect spring image.

Graph'It Markers used

Skin.4120.4155.4170.4180

Hair.1270.1280.3110.3120

Clothing and plants 2105.2110.2120.1210.

8240.8250.8260 8125

Janet - I've used a Polkadoodles image from Octavia. I love Unicorns.

Graph'it colours used

Greens - 8210, 8220, 8250, 8260

Greys - 9400, 9100

Yellow - 117

What lovely ways to show some Green inspiration - don't forget it doesnt HAVE to be green, it can be any spring colour you like!

So it's time to announce the winners from our Week 5/6 challenge Amethyst....

Our Random Winner chosen by Random.org is
#6 Suzie

Well done! Please email us your snail mail address so we can mail out your prize, you've won a set of Graph'It markers!

The Design Team's Top 3 from the same challenge are:

3 Coops
9 Amy
8 Jane

Well done everyone and thankyou for your entries as always! 

We'll be back next week with more inspiration for you!

wk 7 - Spring/Greens....Graph'It Colouring challenge

Welcome back to another Colouring Challenge from Graph'It!

We hope you checked out our little colour clinic on the GI Facebook group last weekend and we'll let you know when the next one is happening too! If you want some more info on Graph'It and haven't joined the group you need to get joining now, there is so much inspiration and tips and advice for you all...

So our newest challenge starting today is

Spring Greens

We want to see anything that fits either
SPRING or GREEN
 inspired so this theme is really versatile for you to enter!
We also have a new twist for you!
We have a lovely freebie image for you below which you can right-click and save - now we would love you to use this in your challenge make but this is OPTIONAL! 
So if you don't want to use it you don't have to!
REMEMBER - YOU CAN USE ANY TYPE OF COLOURING MEDIUM TO ENTER THE CHALLENGE, PENCILS, ANY ALCOHOL MARKERS, INKS, DISTRESS INKS, PAINT, WHATEVER YOU WANT TO USE, SO LONG AS IT'S COLOURED/PAINTED BY YOU THAT IS FINE! 

You have until 27th Feb and the winners will be announced the following week!

Our winner is chosen by Random.org and will win a pack of Graph'It markers whoop whoop!

AND our Top 3 will also win a free digi stamp by our sponsor Polkadoodles!

Please remember you don't have to use our products to enter but please check our rules in the sidebar --->
Here is your freebie....(just right click and save to your pooter)

We also have some fabulous news to share because Scatty Jan and Caroline Woodhall have been joining us as Guest Designers the last few weeks and they've done such a mega job they will now be joining the team permanently!! Whoop! So welcome Jan and Caroline, we're so thrilled to have you with us!!

So let's see what the team have made!

Our new Designer Caroline has made this fabulous creation....

Graph'Its used: skin, 4150, 4145, 4125 4120

hair 3140, 3110, 1250 and 8220
clothes 8280, 8260, 8220, 1130, 1110 
boots, 3140,3110
used pan pastels turquoise around image

Scatty Jan - Our new Designer Jan had great fun with her greens this week....

Graph'It colours used:

skin - 4115/4155/4170/6150/4145

Hair - 3245/3210/4110
Greens - 8260/8250/8240/8220

Susan -  Its all about Spring and Green well that's my interpretation of the challenge .
I have used an Octavia image and coloured her with my Fantastic Graph'it Markers
and a little Colour soft pencils both are available here .

GI'S Used 

Skin  4125 ,4115 ,4145 3210

Clothes 4145,4175 -1110 ,8210 ,8280 the last 2 I mixed together with the Mix pallet

Mushroom 9401 ,9402 ,9403 4145 ,4175

                                             Mixit pallet and White Shake pen

Yvonne - Hello everyone, well greens are not my usual colours that I go for, so for this challenge, I was out of my colouring comfort zone. However, reliable wonderful markers to the rescue! I opted to go for green backing papers and coloured her scarf and jeans green.

 Markers used are as follows:

Skin:  4120, 4155, 4170, 4145

Hair:  3210, 3250, 3270, 3290

Jeans: 8115, 8120, 8125

Top:  2105, 2110, 2120, 2140, 9502, blender

Scarf: 8115, 8120, 8125

Flower:  4145, 4147, 4135, 8210, 8125

Penni - I decided to go a little out of my comfort zone this time and chose a botanical image from Paper Garden Project.

Graph'It Markers Used
Leaves - 8110, 8240, 8250, 0000
Flowers - 8110, 9500, 9501
Ground - 9303, 8110, 8240, 0000


Gorgeous makes from the team yet again!
don't forget you have until 27th Feb to enter - just add your make to Mr Linky below. We will be back next week with more inspiration for the theme and to announce last time's winners! Thanks for joining us x

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A Fri 6th Feb Jan wk 6 Amethyst Inspiration

Pheweee... Friday already and time for more inspiration!

Before we get to the challenge, just a little heads up about a Facebook event we have on this Sunday at 6pm GMT on the Graph'It Marker group...

I'd love to be able to do more tutorials and video help but the truth is I really struggle for time and the right light etc etc, so starting Sunday every couple of weeks I will host an hour long colour clinic for anyone who loves their Graph'Its (and of course anyone else can come along too!)...so you can upload photos of your Graph'it makes and I will try and offer some constructive critique to help you - and everyone else who attends - to improve their skillsets with these fab alcohol markers. If you're a bit shy, don't worry, you can still take part and I will private message your critique if it makes you feel better. This isn't about finding fault and being criticised, it's about trying to offer my experience and suggestions that will hopefully be helpful and assist you to improve with your general colouring but particularly with our beloved Graph'Its. So if you want to take part pop in and join us on the group, which is HERE...

So let's get on with business today!

Our current challenge
Amethyst
is still continuing for another week and you can
ENTER HERE

This basically translates into any tones of purple and lilac so show us all your makes! (the whole project doesnt have to be purple, just part of it ; ) )

As always our random winner will be lucky enough to receive some Graph'It goodies and we will choose our top 3 favourites too - we might even ask you to Guest Design for us in February!

You have until Friday 13th Feb to enter this challenge, please just follow our rules in the sidebar - you DO NOT have to use Graph'It markers to enter, you can use any colouring medium.

So let's see what the team have made for you this week:

Yvonne - Hello there everyone!! Well I love this challenge theme as I love the colour purple so I couldn't be happier. For some bizarre reason I decided to push my limits (again) and use an image that really requires a lot of effort! I was immensely pleased with how this turned out though, so no complaints!

Skin:  4120, 4155, 4170

Hair: 1210, 1230, 1270, 3110

Dress & Shoes: 6130, 6140, 6165

Susan -  Well its Friday again ,and here is my mid challenge inspiration.  The image I have used is from Polkadoodles  Octavia  collection .She is coloured with my amazing Graph'it markers in beautiful shades of Amethyst....

GI used

Hair 1210 ,1230 ,3150 ,3210

Skin 4115 ,4155, 4147,4175

Dress ,6180 ,06175 toned down with 9500 and blender

                                                            White Graph'it Shake pen

Nikky...I haven't managed to make a card for you but I wanted to share this make which fits into the Amethyst hair colours. I am a bit anti-purples for no good reason other than that I dont seem to gravitate towards them like some of the other colour sets, but I have to say the GI purples are pretty lush...

I really couldnt decide what colours to use on this other than I wanted purple hair so if I did this again I admit it would be completely different lol....

For the hair I used: 6120, 6130, 6140, 6170, 6180 and the new Velvet which is just so lush and adds a warm touch where you don't quite want a dark black but a grey isn't dark enough. I havent tried it yet but this should also work well with your Pink Greys.

Skin: 4115, 4125, 4170, 3210, 4145 and 4135 cheeks

Unicorn: Glass, 7220, 7240, 7240 mixed with 7145, tail and mane 5125, 5130, 5150, 5170

For the background I really don't like this at all but once I started I had to carry on - Green Grey 3, 5 and 7 with lots of blender around the edges to fade out the vignette but I have to admit I'd do this very differently and it didn't help that my Green Grey 3 started to run out! My Top Tip for you when this happens: use your Mix'It palette and spread as much colour on as you can then pick it up from there with your blender pen - it helps to eek out the ink more and lets you blend it out naturally, hopefully before you run out completely!

I then finished off with lots of sparkles by using my Graph'It Shake White pen which I cannot live without. 

Penni - I chose to use a fabulous image from Slinky Tart called Keeley

Here's a close up of the coloured image:

Graph'It Markers used:

Skin - 4115, 4120, 4125, 4155

Eyes - 8110

Hair - 3210, 3245, 3250

Clothes - 6120, 6130, 6140, 6175

Claire C I've used shades of blue and purple to get the tones I wanted for this card, with the Mix'It Palette and blender pen its soooooo easy to mix your markers

Colours Used: 

Skin: 4180. 4155, 4115, 4120 plus 4147

Greens: 

Purples: 6190, 6170, 6130, 7170,7130

Greens: 8115,8125,8140

Plus Mix it Palette and Blender pen

More fabulous inspiration as always from the team! 

So it's time to announce the winners from our Week 3/4 challenge Crisp & White....

Our Random Winner chosen by Random.org is 
#3 Ellie

Well done! Please email us HERE with your snail mail address quoting code GIw6001 so we can mail out your prize!

The Design Team's Top 3 from the same challenge are:

#1 Aunty Sue
#9 Mags
#8 Andrea

You have all won a digi from our Sponsor Polkadoodles so please email us HERE quoting code GIw6003 to claim your digi prize! Well done!

Well done everyone and thankyou for your entries as always! 

We'll be back next week with more inspiration for you!