Wk 31 Inspired by florals - Craft Colouring Challenge at Graph'It - sponsored by Crafty Sentiments

Hey! Welcome back to another Friday frenzy of Colour here at Graph'It!

Today we start a fresh new challenge theme which is
Inspiring Floral Tones
So basically we just need to see your Florals and Floral Colour schemes on your makes - a really nice easy challenge anyone can join in, even if you're doing Christmas reds and greens!

Each week we are bringing you some wonderful colour palette themes to help inspire you...we are loving using these, it really pushes us all out of our comfort zones by making us use colours we wouldn't naturally choose for ourselves - so if you struggle to think of something different to do make sure you check them out each week - you can even save them to your PC to create your own colour library at your fingertips!

This week we are very lucky indeed to be sponsored by the lovely

So head over to their store and grab yourself some ace images to work with this week! 

You can use any colours or combos of them to fit the challenge!

You have until Friday 14th August to enter

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO USE OUR PRODUCTS TO ENTER - YOU CAN USE ANY COLOURING MEDIUM YOU WISH! 

PRIZE 1:  Random winner chosen by Random.org: Set of Graph'It markers

PRIZE 2:  The Design Team's favourite from the Top 3 will win 3 fabulous digis from Crafty Sentiments - How generous!  Whoop whoop! 

Before we get to the inspiration we are excited to announce that we have yet another new stockist for Graph'It, so you can now purchase your markers from 

CULT PENS who also ship International so if you're overseas it's a bonus!

The winner of our last challenge will be announced next week, but let's see what the team have made this week!...

Harriet with Lollipop - Claire

Lady Bird-Butterfly - Penni, Caroline

Henry - Yvonne

Caroline....My colour palette this week was just lovely, so bright and vibrant!...

The image I have used is Lady Bird-Butterfly - isn't she adorable?
and the colours I used are as follows:
face 4150, 4145, 4125, 4105
hair 1270, 1250 1230 1210, 3140
dress, 7220 7250, 7240, 7110 7105
flowers, 5130, 5110 2110, 2120 2150 5210
background, 7105, 8110
leaves 8220, 8210, 8260.

Yvonne -  Hello there! I had 'Henry' this time to colour - isn't he fabby!  My lovely friend and fellow team member Penni picked my palette for me today and she picked this:

From the palette I created this:

I used the following markers:

Skin: 4105, 4125, 3105, 3110

Hair: 3110, 3150, 3180

Top: 5250, 5270, 5280, 3270

Shorts: 8280, 8290, 3270

Shoes: 3210, 3245, 3255

Flower: 8250, 8160, 9502, 2105, 2110 Blender

Mix It Palette

Claire C I've used this adorable image,she's called Harriet with Lollipop and the beautiful colour palette I've used was chosen by my lovely teamie Yvonne....

   

here's a pic of the finished card

I've used the following markers:

Blues:7170, 7122,7120,7101, 9103

Pinks:5135,5125,5115

Greens: 8280,8250,8220

Hair: 3245, 1230,1210

Skin: 3105,3120, 4150,4125,4104 plus 4147

Blender and Mix it Palette

Penni - I've used Lady Bird Butterfly and my colour palette was chosen by Caroline.  I love it's bright colours.

Here's the card I made 

Here's a close-up of the image 

Graph'It Markers used 

Skin - 4120, 4155, 4115, 4145

Hair - 3110, 3120

Clothes - 5130, 7220, 7240

Flowers - 1110, 1140, 1150, 2150, 2120

Leaves - 8220, 8240

Wow! Great makes from the team and what lovely colour palette choices, too! 

So, remember the Challenge theme is

Inspired by Florals

and this can either be Flowers you use, papers or colours but the choice is yours!

Please just follow the rules at the top of the post - which are very few - we'll see you back here again next week!

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WK 30 - Colour Duos Craft Colouring Challenge at Graph'it sponsored by Kenny K

Welcome back to another Colouring challenge here at Graph'it. This week we are very lucky to be sponsored again by the fabulous

Head over to their shop and look at all the awesome digis they have for you! 

This is the 2nd week of our challenge and the theme is 

2 Colour Tones

ie Red and Blue, Green and Red etc etc - the choice is yours and you CAN use other colours, we'd just like to see a strong palette choice with 2 main colours, Pink and Purple would be a great one too!

YOU CAN ENTER THE CHALLENGE HERE

You can use any colours or combos of them to fit the challenge!
You have until Friday 31st July to enter

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO USE OUR PRODUCTS TO ENTER - YOU CAN USE ANY COLOURING MEDIUM YOU WISH! 

PRIZE 1:  Random winner chosen by Random.org: Set of Graph'It markers

PRIZE 2:  The Design Team's favourite from the Top 3 will win a fabulous digi bundle from Kenny K - How generous!  Whoop whoop! 

Before we get to the inspiration we are excited to announce that we have yet another new stockist for Graph'It, so you can now purchase your markers from 

CULT PENS who also ship International so if you're overseas it's a bonus!

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

Yvonne -  Hello there! I used the two tones of red and blue this week and played with the fun image of Toyboy Trouble.  I made an A5 card using papers from Polkadoodles Work & Play 8. Polka dots red and check blues. Classic.

 I used the following markers:

 Skin: 4105, 4125, 3105, 3110, 4145

Hair: 9100, 9102, 9103, 9105

Shorts & boots: 7122, 7130, 7165, 5215, 5220

Top: 5210, 5215, 5220, 5245

Mix It Palette

Caroline.... I used this great Safari guy  image over in the store. The theme for us is to use two tones so i have used browns and greens...

and I used this colour palette - perfect for this image!

Markers I used: skin 4150, 4145, 4125, 4135

hair 3130 3160 3140 3110 i also used the same colors on his boots and splodges on his coat.

coat 8210 8220 8260

Penni - I used Retro Selfie.  Here's my card, I loved using this image it was really great to colour and suits this weeks theme perfectly...

This is the colour palette I used....

I used the following Graph'It Markers

Skin - 4115, 4120, 4155

Cheeks - 4135, 4145

Lips - 5215, 5250

Hair - 3210, 3250, 3290

Shorts - 9303, 9304

Top, Shoes and Head Scarf - 7220, 7260 with Mix'It Palette 

Camera - 1280, 9404

Stool - 3110, 3125

Here's a close-up

Stunning makes from the team I'm sure you agree, I think they rocked this challenge!
So don't forget - 

The challenge this week is 

2 Colour Tones

YOU CAN ENTER THE CHALLENGE HERE

ie Red and Blue, Green and Red etc etc - the choice is yours and you CAN use other colours, we'd just like to see a strong palette choice with 2 main colours, Pink and Purple would be a great one too!

You can use any colours or combos of them to fit the challenge!
You have until Friday 31st July to enter

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO USE OUR PRODUCTS TO ENTER - YOU CAN USE ANY COLOURING MEDIUM YOU WISH! 

So let's get to last time's winners!

Our Random Winner from the Week 27/28 Challenge is

# 20 Lis M

Well done! You have won some Graph'It markers! Please contact us here to claim your prize quoting code GIw278001

The Design Team's Top 3 from the same week are

# 22 Eos

# 19 Lucy

# 21 Angelique

Well done # 21 Angelique! You are also a random winner from our Top 3 and have won some lovely digis from All Dressed Up! Please contact us here to claim your prize quoting code GIw278002

See You Next Week!

WK 29 - Colour Duos Craft Colouring Challenge at Graph'it sponsored by Kenny K

Welcome back to another week of colouring bliss here at Graph'It!

This week we are very lucky to be sponsored by the fabulous

Head over to their shop and look at all the awesome digis they have for you! 

The challenge this week is 

2 Colour Tones

ie Red and Blue, Green and Red etc etc - the choice is yours and you CAN use other colours, we'd just like to see a strong palette choice with 2 main colours, Pink and Purple would be a great one too!

You can use any colours or combos of them to fit the challenge!
You have until Friday 31st July to enter

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO USE OUR PRODUCTS TO ENTER - YOU CAN USE ANY COLOURING MEDIUM YOU WISH! 

PRIZE 1:  Random winner chosen by Random.org: Set of Graph'It markers

PRIZE 2:  The Design Team's favourite from the Top 3 will win a fabulous digi bundle from Kenny K - How generous!  Whoop whoop! 

Before we get to the inspiration we are excited to announce that we have yet another new stockist for Graph'It, so you can now purchase your markers from 

CULT PENS who also ship International so if you're overseas it's a bonus!

Nikky... As usual I forgot to check what the colour challenge was but luckily how I did this fits into the Greys and Browns haha! I absolutely loved this image when I saw it over on the Kenny K website so I just had to use it...it looked really complicated to colour but actually it wasn't, it's just because there's a lot of detail in the image to guide you.  I really wanted to achieve a strong metallic and fur feel to the image and to get contrasting metals such as steel and bronze or iron so that it suited her armour...

I couldnt find the right colour palette for my 'vision' so I coloured it in first and then made the palette below so you can see the palette more easily. I love how the Graph'It greys all work so perfectly, you'd think I'd put loads of colour into this image when in fact all I used were Greys, Brown and Skintones! I added the background foliage just with flicks of the same colours and made sure that I used lots of mid and dark greys to make it really atmospheric, finished with the Graph'It Shake white marker to add some highlights. Grounding your image with just a tiny amount of grass or a flick of a twig really makes  a massive difference, helps you create a scene and helps to ground the image so it's not just floating. I have to admit I love how this one turned out, she really tells a story and when I saw this palette below and the inspiration I just imagined her standing in all that mist in the photo having just slain some mystical creature lurking from the fog...

Unfortunately I forgot to write down the colours I used but it would have been something like this:

Skin: 4101, 4105, 4125, 4150, 3105, 3120, 3210

Clothing: Metallics - 9101-9109 Blue Greys

fur boots: 3210 - 3290

fur cloak: 4125, 4150, 3105

Scatty Jan What a fab colour challenge 2 tones - I went for bright colours Hot pinks and Turquoise I loved how they coloured together, I used the darker skin tones , adoring these. The image I used is the fantastic Tomboy which you can find here using the scrummy colour palette for my Inspiration

Graph'It Colours used

Skin  4125, 4135, 4145, 4150, 3120

Hair/Clothes 7270, 7260, 7250, 7240, 7220

Pinks 5170, 5160, 5150

caroline i have used  Warrior and used two tone blue greys and browns was a bit unsure at first until i got started then really enjoyed it. I have never really done an image like this one before and was a bit worried but it is great to be pushed out of our comfort zone so we know what we are capable of.

skin 4150 , 4145, 4135 4125
hair 3130, 3170, 3180, 1210, 3190
Armour 9106 9100 9100 9101 9102 9104
cloak and boots etc 1280, 1270, 1230, 1210 3130

Cara....I used the fantastic image for my card today, this is Princess Pia she is so bold and has loads of attitude so I thought I would team her with lovely bright colours.  I am loving the new colour pallet challenges too and I decided to team zesty lime with blue.

Skin: 3120,4170, 4155, 4125, 4115, 4135
Hair and Fur: Black, 3290,3270, 3250, 3210
Green: 8270, 8260, 8250, 8220
Blue: 7180, 7160, 7150, 7140, 7122, 7101

Yvonne - Hello there! I used Lady Victoria and used the following palette for inspiration for my two colour tones:

I made an A5 card and used papers from Polkadoodles Rose Budd Collection. I added two different laces and some paper flowers.  A doily and a distressed wooden heart for embellishments.

Skin: 4105, 4125, 3105, 3110, 4135, 4145, 5120

Hair: 9104, 9106, 9108, black

Clothes: 7101, 7105, 7109, 7110

Boots. Hat & Cloak: 3105, 3110, 3140, 3160

Staff: 9503, 9505
Mix It palette

Anjie - The image I have used is the stunning Retro Selfie! I have chosen to use Blues and Pinks and have used this colour palette.

And here is my make:

The Graph'It's I have used are:

Skin: 4105, 4125, 4150, 3120

Dress: 6155, 5255, 5230, 5160

Blues: 7160, 7150, 7140

Hair: 9102, 9103, 9104

Kevin The image I have used is called Safari Guy I chose to use Greens and Browns as my colours and here is the colour palette i base it on.

Graph'It markers used.

Skin 4105,4150,4155,4180,3105.

Hair 3210,3245,3250

Clothing 1270,1280,4110,8270,8280,8290

Boots 3110,3125.3150.

 Stunning makes from the team I'm sure you agree, I think they rocked this challenge!
So don't forget - 

The challenge this week is 

2 Colour Tones

ie Red and Blue, Green and Red etc etc - the choice is yours and you CAN use other colours, we'd just like to see a strong palette choice with 2 main colours, Pink and Purple would be a great one too!

You can use any colours or combos of them to fit the challenge!
You have until Friday 31st July to enter

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO USE OUR PRODUCTS TO ENTER - YOU CAN USE ANY COLOURING MEDIUM YOU WISH! 

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WK 28- Pink, Yellow or Orange - The Craft colouring challenge at Graph'It - sponsored by All Dressed Up

Welcome back to another week of colouring bliss here at Graph'It!

Don't forget you can use ANY colouring medium to enter, you do NOT have to use Graph'It markers! We're just here to show you how awesome they are ; )

This week we are very lucky to be sponsored by the fabulous

Here is a short bio about Wendy:

 Hi I am Wendy Burns I live in Nottingham UK with my husband and two children who have been the inspiration behind the characters, in particular my daughter who has kept me up-to-date with blogging and trends. I work predominantly within the textile children’s wear market, fashion and interiors. I trained as a textile designer and although my work is digital based, I love to retain that hand drawn /sewn feel which I hope comes across in my artwork. Digital stamps is a new challenge for me and the opportunity to work with the All Dressed Up Team and has been very exciting, in particular the creative way my characters have been given individual personalities by the designers . All Dressed Up is a newly launched blog with an enthusiastic team who are passionate about stamping. The coordinators Anne Lise and Bettina along with an amazing design team are also known as The Dressy Girls. We have a friendly Facebook page, regular blog posts, tutorials, challenges and freebies .The stamps can be purchased from the Etsy shop which is updated on a monthly basis. 

Head over to their shop and look at all the awesome digis they have for you! 

The challenge this week is 

SHADES OF PINK, YELLOW or ORANGE
Such gorgeous summer combos!

You can use any of those colours or combos of them to fit the challenge! 
You have until Friday 17th July to enter

ENTER HERE

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO USE OUR PRODUCTS TO ENTER - YOU CAN USE ANY COLOURING MEDIUM YOU WISH! 

PRIZE 1:  Random winner chosen by Random.org: Set of Graph'It markers

PRIZE 2:  The Design Team's favourite from the Top 3 will win 2 fantastic digital stamps from All Dressed Up! How generous!

Whoop whoop! 

Before we get to the inspiration we are excited to announce that we have yet another new stockist for Graph'It, so you can now purchase your markers from 

CULT PENS who also ship International so if you're overseas it's a bonus!

The winner of our last challenge will be announced at the bottom of this post so let's see this week's fabulous inspiration from the Graph'It UK Design Team...

Scatty Jan I have used the fabby image Love to Shop , using the colour palette for my inspiration . I loved how these colours clashed a little but still looked good together

The Graph'It Markers used are

Skin (left to right)

4180, 4155, 4115,4135

4125, 4120, 4135, 4145

4155, 4145, 4125, 4110,4170

Pinks 5245, 5160, 5250, 5230, 5270, 2170

Oranges 3120, 2150, 2110

Yellows 3250, 3245, 1280, 1180, 1150, 1110

Graph'It white shake it

Nikky...Adore this cute 3 little Summer Girls  created by Wendy Burns, it's SOOO cute! THis was a really hard image for me to colour because stupidly I printed it really small so the bodies were tiny and I could barely get a nib in there LOL! So I had to keep my colouring quite simple but the colour palette is one of my all time favourites because I adore aqua colours, aqua aqua aqua love love love drool drool drool LOL!! So the image to me was crying out for a little seasidey scene to accompany the cuties, they just looked like they should be paddling for me...

As there are 3 girls I decided to do 3 different skintones to give you some good combos to use...So, from left to right these are the colours: Hat girl:

Skin: 4105, 4125, 4150, 3105, 3120, 4145

Clothes: Hat: 7220, 7240, Grey brushliner for shadow, 5110 & 4110 for flower

Hair (I've left my oranges somewhere so I struggled to get the orange tones and I forgot to write them down but I think it was 1110, 2105, 2150, 1150

Dress: 5110, 5125, 5130, 5160

Middle girl: Skin: 4105, 4125, 4115, 4150

Hair: 1130, 1180, 1250, 2120

Bucket: 4170, 2120, 2150

Dress: 7140, 7220, 7145

Rubber Ring girl: Skin: 4101, 4105, 4110, 4120, 4145, 4135

Hair: 5110, 5125, 5130, 5160, Grey brushliner

Scarf: 7220, 7140, Grey brushliner

RIng: 2160, 4110

Bucket and Top: 1150, 1180, 3105

Sand: 4110, 4170

Sea: 7105, 7140, 7145, 7180 denim, 7220, 7240 Graph'It White Shake pen (blobs and smudges!)

Yvonne - For this week I got to play with 'Love to Shop' and I had fun with this image.I used the following palette for inspiration:

 

I used the following markers:

Girl with short ponytail:

Skin: 4125, 4150, 3110, 4145

Hair: 3110, 3140, 3160

T-shirt: 1110, 1180

Suit: 2105, 2110, 2120

Mix It palette

Girl with bun:

Skin: 33110, 3125, 3160

Dress: 5115, 5135, 5140

Hair: 3150, 3180, 3190, black

Mix It palette

Girl with Long ponytail:

Skin: 4105, 4125, 3110, 3105

Hair: 1210, 1230, 1270, 3125

Skirt: 1110, 1150, 1180

Top: 5110, 5120, 5130, 1150, 1180

Mix It palette

 Caroline I have used the image - 3 little Summer Girls  created by Wendy Burns....

girl 1. skin 4150, 4155, 4175

hair, 9909, 9102, 9104, 9508

dress and hat, 2180, 2150, 2120, 2110

girl 2, skin 4110, 4125, 4145

hair 2180, 2150, 2120

dress, 5130, 5120, 5110, bucket 1110, 1130

girl 3

skin, 4120, 4155, 4170

hair 1280, 3140, 3125, 1220

wring 1130, 1110, bucket 2110 

top 5150 and ribbon 

sea ive used 71005 and 7140 and the sand 4110 with a blender pen 

Penni - I used 'Love to Shop for my card....This is the colour palette I used for inspiration

And here's my card

Here's a close-up of the coloured image

I used the following Graph'It Markers:
Girl on the Left
Skin 4120, 4125, 4115
Hair - 1210, 1250, 1250
Clothes and Bag - 2110, 2160, 8210

Girl in the Middle
Skin - 4110, 4120, 4150
Hair - 3230, 3245, 3250
Clothes - 8220, 8210

Girl on the Right
Skin - 4125, 4155, 4170
Hair - 3110, 3125, 3140
Clothes and Bag - 2105, 2110
Shopping Bags - 9404, 9402, 9400

Kevin I have used this gorgeous 'Love to Shop' image, I have used this colour Palette as inspiration

Here is my card

Graph'It Markers used

Skins 3105,4105,4155.5120

Yellows 1130.1140.1170

Oranges 2110,2150,2160

Pinks 5110,5115,5125

Hairs,1270,3110,3125 9503,9905,9909.3190,3270.

Fabulous makes from the Team! Wow, rocking those colour schemes! 

Don't forget, the challenge is:

SHADES OF PINK, YELLOW or ORANGE

You can use any of those colours or combos of them to fit the challenge! 
You have until Friday 17th July to enter

ENTER HERE

The winners of our last challenge are:

Random winner chosen by Random.org is

#6 Christine

Well done! You've won a goody bag from Graph'It so please email us here to claim your prize quoting code GIW281

This week we have received so so many amazing entries with both great colouring and amazing card composition it's truly been so hard to choose, they were all seriously great so thankyou for taking time to enter. 
There simply had to be a Top FOUR this week 
(and it could have been a Top 10!) 
So well done to all of you and special mentions must go to:

# 4 Jane - WOW!! Just WOW!

Well done! You are the random winner  from the Top 4 for our Sponsor images from this challenge and have won 3 Lovely digis from East Wind, so please email us here to claim your prize quoting code GIW2802

# 1 Elena - amazing Colouring!

# 19 Andrea - WOW! SO much work!
#41 Amy - Beautiful colouring, loved your blending!

Well done! Don't forget to grab your winners badges from the sidebar and we will see you next week!