Wk 48 - 'Christmas' Craft Colouring Challenge at Graph'it markers with All Dressed Up & Cult Pens

Welcome back to the 2nd week of our current challenge which is

Christmas

and you can ENTER HERE

You can interpret this challenge as you like - we have some colour palettes below for inspiration but basically any Christmas make can be entered!

You can enter ANY kind of make you like, whatever colours you like and your project can be anything you want, it's up to you. 

Closing date: Fri 4th December, the winners will be announced 11th December

You can use any colouring medium you like to enter, you don't have to use our products!

We are delighted to be sponsored by

 - There are some wonderful images in the All Dressed Up shop so make sure you check out the Store!!

We have some great prizes again for you this week...

PRIZE 1: 2 digi images from All Dressed Up, our sponsor this week

TO WIN: - random winner chosen by random.org

PRIZE 2:  A set of Graph'It markers 

Kindly donated and sponsored by the amazing store 

Cult Pens have a fantastic Graph'It Promotion on at the moment, 3 for 2  HERE so head over there and grab some bargains - you can get a FREE tutorial DVD!!

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

The team were challenged to add sparkle and also use one of these great colour palettes!...

Scatty Jan Totally loved my image this week , perfect for a girly Christmas card, so I went for the pinky/purple palette. My image Happy Christmas little Star, you can find  in the store here - I used the biro method for the background but alas my mask slipped a little.

The colours I used are

Skin 4145, 4135, 4125, 4150, 3120

Hair  3120, 3250, 3245

Pinks 5125, 5110, 5115

Purples 6175, 6180, 6185, 6130, 6120, 6110

Silver Shake'It

Kevin I really enjoyed colouring up this little cutie, you can find her here I have added a lot of sparkle to my card, I loved this colour palette.

Graph'It markers used
Skin 4105.4155.4170.4115.5120.
Hair 3110.3125.3150.
Clothing 7210.7220.7240 & Silver shaker pen.

Cara - I also used the image Happy Christmas Little Star - she is totally adorable, and now I have to make two more or my girls will argue over her! I decided on the pinks and purples too but also added some green greys into the mix, i've never used them before and I think I am hooked!

Colour's used:

Skin: 3105,4155,4135

Green Greys, Neutral Greys

Purples: 6175,6140,6130,6125

Wow, such gorgeous makes from the team! So don't forget, the theme of this challenge is

Christmas

and you can ENTER HERE

So it's time for the last challenge winners - here is the week 45/46 winning entries:

The Design Team's Top 3 favourite entries for this challenge are:

#19 Gale

#29 Katrin

#30 Lilibet

PRIZE 1: a $5 gift voucher from Digital Delights, our sponsor from week 45-  

TO WIN: - random winner chosen by random.org

THE WINNER IS: #36 Bits and Pieces

Well done! Please email us HERE quoting code GIw456001 to claim your prize

PRIZE 2: a $10 gift voucher from Make It Crafty Store, our sponsor of week 46 

TO WIN: - random winner chosen by random.org

THE WINNER IS: #Craftdee Donna

Well done! Please email us HERE quoting code GIw456002 to claim your prize

PRIZE 3:  A set of Graph'It markers Kindly donated and sponsored by the amazing store 

THE WINNER CHOSEN BY RANDOM.ORG IS:  #9 Sheryl

Well done! Please email us HERE quoting code GIw456003 to claim your prize

Well done to all our winners and Top 3 - thanks once again for your entries and amazing work, we'll be back next week with a brand new challenge for you!

Wk47 - Christmas colours - Craft Colouring challenge with Graph'It and Polkadoodles

Welcome back to another lovely week of colouring heaven!

This week our challenge for you is

Christmas

You can interpret this challenge as you like - we have some colour palettes below for inspiration but basically any Christmas make can be entered!

You can enter ANY kind of make you like, whatever colours you like and your project can be anything you want, it's up to you. 

Closing date: Fri 4th December, the winners will be announced 11th December

You can use any colouring medium you like to enter, you don't have to use our products!

We are delighted to be sponsored by the fabulous Polkadoodles this week - head over to the store to see all the fabulous goodies on offer here including colouring pages and digi stamps and clear stamps so a whole ton of stuff to get your pens out with! 

We have some great prizes for you this week...

PRIZE 1: a £10 gift voucher from Polkadoodles, our sponsor this week

TO WIN: - random winner chosen by random.org

PRIZE 2:  A set of Graph'It markers 

Cult Pens have a fantastic Graph'It Promotion on at the moment, 3 for 2  HERE so head over there and grab some bargains - you can get a FREE tutorial DVD!!

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

The team were challenged to add sparkle and also use one of these great colour palettes!...

Anjie - The image is from the Work & Play 5 collection, Festive Hollybobs. I have kept it simple by just using an embossed background....

The GI's I have used are:

Skin: 4125, 4150, 3120, 4145

Purples: 6190, 6180, 6140

Greens: 7240, 7220, 7210

Greys: 9104, 9103, 9102

Claire C I love to colour Nikky's gorgeous images so this challenge was a great excuse to colour this beautiful image from Octavia Frosted Winter Collection. Its called Polar Family and you can find it here as a digi or you can get the whole collection here (at a real bargain price too!) I've used the pine cone colour palette but printed it out at work and the colours were totally different as you can see lol

Colours used:
Skin: 3105, 4150, 4125, 4104
Polar Bears: 4105, 4150, 9503, 9501, 9500
Snow: 9205. 9203, 7210 plus Silver Graph'It Shake pen
Sky: 9201, 7250,7240,7220, 7210 plus green greys, Blender Pen, White and Silver Graph'It Shake pens
Clothes: 7280, 7250,7240, 7220,7210 plus green greys for fur
Hair: 3245, 1230, 1210

To create clouds colour a rough cloud shape with your lightest grey (I used the green greys) and then add a bit of depth with a couple of darker greys. Add highlights by dotting a little ink from the White Graph'it Shake pen on my craft mat and dabbing it on with my finger...

Nikky...I had to try and remember the colour palettes from my teeny brain and I completely misinterpreted them but never mind...I wanted to keep the colours on this one really light and soft...
apologies this is completely out of focus but I was really struggling with the light and just after I photographed this I then used it for another project which has changed it completely so I couldn't retake the pic...

Which brings me on to backgrounds...they can completely transform your colouring...this is the same image 30 mins later after I added her to a journal page and used Pan Pastels and stamps to create a background for her...you'd think it was a completely different image but I did nothing whatsoever to the image other than tear it out, glue it down and then sweep colour around it, the image itself is unchanged...

The image is from Polkadoodles Ickyink range available here.
Graph'It colours used:
skin: 4124, 4145 cheeks, 4150, 3105
hair: 7220, neutral grey 2, 4, 6, 8
clothes: 4145, 4135, 4105
Graph'It silver and gold glitter Shake, White Graph'It Shake

Great makes from the team!
We'll be back next week with last time's winners and we look forward to seeing all your Christmas creations! 

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Wk46 - Xmas Sparkles Craft Colouring challenge at Graph'It

Welcome back to the 2nd week of our latest challenge!

Before we forget, are you managing to catch all the latest Graph'it colouring shows on Hochanda TV - make sure you keep checking the schedules as there are lots of shows that keep being scheduled in...

This week our challenge for you is

Christmas Sparkle

and you can ENTER HERE...

You can interpret this challenge as you like - we have some colour palettes below for inspiration but basically any Christmas make with a little sparkle can be entered!

You can enter ANY kind of make you like, whatever colours you like and your project can be anything you want, it's up to you. 

Closing date: Fri 20th November, the winners will be announced 27th November

You can use any colouring medium you like to enter, you don't have to use our products!

This week we are as delighted as ever that our Sponsor is the wonderful store at 

Make sure you check out the amazing Make It Crafty Store and if you enter the challenge you could win some lovely images!

We have some great prizes for you this week...

PRIZE 1: a $10 gift voucher from Make It Crafty Store, our sponsor this week

TO WIN: - random winner chosen by random.org

PRIZE 2:  A set of Graph'It markers 

Kindly donated and sponsored by the amazing store 

Cult Pens have a fantastic Graph'It Promotion on at the moment, 3 for 2  HERE so head over there and grab some bargains - you can get a FREE tutorial DVD!!

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

The team were challenged to add sparkle and also use one of these great colour palettes!...

   

Scatty Jan   Wooohooooo am not normally here on Team A but so glad I joined in this week as I loved the colour Palettes and of course the scrummy image that I got to colour in Kids build snowman You can find the image here Total cuteness - I went for the more turquoisey/beigy palette. How much fun are they having? Rosy cheeks was a must!

The Colours I used 

Skin 3120, 4135,4145, 4125, 4150

Snowman 9100 - 9104 Blender

Blues 7140, 7150, 7145, 7155

Browns 3210, 3245, 3250

Silver Shake'It

Claire C  I've coloured this fabulous quirky little scene, it's called Christmas Town and you can find it here. I kind of lost the plot a bit with my colour swatch although I did use the colours I had to add some yellow as I was playing with a my White Shake pen to create a glow round the lights and the smoke effect - I just blobbed on a good bit of ink and used my finger to smudge it. I left it white for the smoke but went over in yellow around the lights....

Here's a list of the colours used:
Sky 6190,6185,7180,7170,7165,7150,7140, Mix'It Fluid plus White and Silver Shake pens
Other Colours used: 8270,8245, 5160,5220,  1140, 1110, 9500, 9501, 9502, 4150, 4155.

I used texture paste to add some 'snow' and then used my Silver Sparkle pen with a waterbrush to add a frosty shimmer although it doesn't show up too well on the photo

Nikky...Well as usual it's disorganised.com for me but I had this palette stored in my virtual mind when I cane to colour up this stunning image from our sponsors which you can get HERE....

I'm really struggling with some bad neck, shoulder and back pain at the moment (yes, caused by way too much colouring, surprise surprise!), so I'm trying to restrict myself to only colouring for an hour, I honestly can't take much more but man o man it makes you stop faffing about and just get on with it LOL...I think this was actually 1.5hrs in the end if i'm truthful and I'd have liked to spend more time on the shading really, I didnt get so much light and shade on Santa as I'd have normally done. But I really thought the richness of this colour palette worked for this image and it's nice to see Santa dressed a bit different - after all he kinda looks like a steampunk Santa lol!....I wanted it to look like he was taking a break so I added lots of snow onto him where it had begun to settle (I think I went a little OTT in the end haha)...and then I realised I didnt do any sparkles but my idea was the snow was sparkling on the rooftop LOL *wink wink*....

Colours I used:

Skin: 4105, 4125, 4150, 3105

Hat/Leggings - greens 3150, 3160, 3180

Coat: 7155, 7165, 7180, 7280, 6155

Reds: 5240, 2170, 6155

Sky: 6155, 6160 plus dots made with blender pen

Snow roof: 4110, 7105, 7220

Snow: Graph'It Shake white marker

More great makes from the team!

So remember, the challenge is

Christmas Sparkle

and you can ENTER HERE...

You can interpret this challenge as you like - we have some colour palettes below for inspiration but basically any Christmas make with a little sparkle can be entered!

You can enter ANY kind of make you like, whatever colours you like and your project can be anything you want, it's up to you. 

Closing date: Fri 20th November, the winners will be announced 27th November

You can use any colouring medium you like to enter, you don't have to use our products!

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So it's time for the last challenge winners - here is the week 43/44 winning entries:

The Design Team's Top 3 favourite entries for this challenge are:

#39 Zora

#24 Annette

#41 Rora

PRIZE 1: 3 lovely digi images from ODDBALL ART, our sponsor of week 43, TO WIN: - random winner chosen by random.org

THE WINNER IS: #20 Nick

Well done! Please email us HERE quoting code GIw43001 to claim your prize

PRIZE 2: 2 lovely digi images from STAMPING BOUTIQUE, our sponsor of week 44 - *IF YOU USE A STAMPING BOUTIQUE/GLITTERBABE IMAGE FOR THE CHALLENGE YOU COULD WIN AN EXTRA IMAGE*

THE WINNER IS: #2 Colleen

Well done! Please email us HERE quoting code GIw43002 to claim your prize

PRIZE 3:  A set of Graph'It markers Kindly donated and sponsored by the amazing store 

THE WINNER CHOSEN BY RANDOM.ORG IS: 

#16 Karen P

Well done! Please email us HERE quoting code GIw41003 to claim your prize

Well done to all our winners and Top 3 - thanks once again for your entries and amazing work, we'll be back next week with a brand new challenge for you!

Wk45 - 'Xmas Sparkles' Craft Colouring challenge at Graph'it sponsored by Digital Delights/Cult Pens

Welcome back to a brand new 2 week challenge!

This week our challenge for you is

Christmas Sparkle

You can interpret this challenge as you like - we have some colour palettes below for inspiration but basically any Christmas make with a little sparkle can be entered!

You can enter ANY kind of make you like, whatever colours you like and your project can be anything you want, it's up to you. 

Closing date: Fri 20th November, the winners will be announced 27th November

You can use any colouring medium you like to enter, you don't have to use our products!

Our Digi Sponsor this week is the fabulous Digital Delights!...

Digital Delights by Louby Loo is your one stop shop for all your digital stamps, paper piecing and digital products which are instantly downloadable. We also have a wide range of digital papers and cut files for all your crafting projects. Our low prices reflect our belief that crafting should not only be fun but affordable too!! Why wait for snail mail? Start creating with our instant downloads today. 

Let me know if you need anything else ....Hugs, Wendy (aka Louby Loo)

We have some great prizes for you this week...

PRIZE 1: a $5 gift voucher from Digital Delights, our sponsor this week

TO WIN: - random winner chosen by random.org

PRIZE 2:  A set of Graph'It markers 

Kindly donated and sponsored by the amazing store 

Cult Pens have a fantastic Graph'It Promotion on at the moment, 3 for 2  HERE so head over there and grab some bargains - you can get a FREE tutorial DVD!!

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

The team were challenged to add sparkle and also use one of these great colour palettes!...

Scatty Jan The other day my Granddaughter got her first kitty - she has always been cat mad , when I was chatting to her  I asked her what she wanted for christmas - her reply * Anything Grandma your presents are always lovely but my cat would like , toys, some nice biscuits the list went on* - as soon as i got my lovely image from Digital Delights I knew I had to do it in the colours of her cat and made a gift tag for her Christmas treats! My lovely image is Chimney Cat how cute !!  I actually used a fine liner in my darkest Grey , I don't use them very often but am getting used to them. Fot the white background I used a dotty embossing folder and then coloured in the dots using my Silver Shake'it It love the effect soooooo sparkly in real life....

The Colours i used are

Cool Greys 9201 - 9204

Greens 8160 8180 8190

Reds 3180 5245 5210 5220

White Shake'It marker

Gold/ Silver Shake'It markers

Cara  For my image this week I decided to go with the darker colour palette as gingerbread biscuits at Christmas make me think of warm cosy nights drinking hot chocolate! The image is called Candy Wreath Natasha.  I added gold shake marker to the image and all of the edges of my papers and even the flowers, you've got to have sparkle at Christmas and the shake markers are perfect!

Colour's used:

Brown: 3250,3245,3210

Red: 5260, 5250, 5220

Green: 8290, 8280, 8260

White and shadows: Neutral greys

Nikky...I started using the left hand colour palette but in the end I think I covered both, purely by accident LOL. I wish I could plan my colouring better but I just go with the flow and I dont always end up with where I meant to finish off.

My aim with this was to  do a glitter effect without actually using a glitter product so I hope I achieved it, I just literally used red and green markers to create dots then applied my white Graphit Shake to highlight more dots and sparkles. I have to confess that the dark background was actually added with Pan Pastels as it was an afterthought just to give me a bit of a glow...

Colours used: Mouse - 4120, 4145 & 4125 for cheeks and skin and nose, 7101, 7109 for shade

Red 5240, Green 8180, Hat = 8150, 8160, 8180

7101, 7109, 9504

2180 Mimosa for the middle of the sparkles

Graph'it shake white marker

Kevin I enjoyed colouring this sweet fun image and tried to make it look as if he was sitting in a wooden bucket of sweets...

Graph'It markers used
Mouse 1270.1280.4115,4147.4180
Hat 8280.8290
Sweets 5240.5280 silver shaker pen
Wooden Bowl 1280.3110.3125 Silver shaker pen.

Great makes from the team!
We'll be back next week with last time's winners and we look forward to seeing all your sparkly creations! 

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