Merry Christmas!

Hello everyone - the UK Graph'It team are taking a little break over the Festive period so we would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your amazing creations and your support during 2015 - the team truly love looking through all your work and creations, your colouring and creativity blows us away every week!

We will be back on 8th January with our next challenge and last time's winners - so all that remains is for us all to wish you a very Merry Christmas and Healthy and Happy New Year!

See you in 2016! 

Merry Christmas! 

WK 49/50 - GOLD OR SILVER Craft Colouring Challenge by Graph'It Markers

Welcome back to Week 2 of our current challenge which is

Gold or Silver

and you can

ENTER HERE

You can interpret this challenge as you like - we have some colour palettes below for inspiration but basically anything including gold or silver 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. 

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

Closing date: We are taking a little break over Christmas, so we are extending our closing date for this challenge to Fri 25th December, the winners will be announced on our first post of the New Year which is on Fri 1st Jan!

Our Digi Sponsor this week is the fabulous Digital Delights, who have a fantastic selection of images for you to use, so head over and fill your shopping baskets!

Digital Delights by Louby Loo is your one stop shop for all your digital stamps, paper piecing and digital products which are instantly downloadable. 

There is a wide range of digital papers and cut files for all your crafting projects and their low prices reflect the belief that crafting should not only be fun but affordable too!!

Our prizes for this challenge are:
Prize 1: A $5 gift voucher for the Digital Delights store - TO WIN: - random winner chosen by random.org
Prize 2: - 2 images from the Stamping Boutique store - if the winner used a STAMPING BOUTIQUE or GLITTERBABE image they will receive 1 extra image of their choice making a total of 3 images....TO WIN: - random winner chosen by random.org
PRIZE 3: A set of Graph'It markers, Kindly donated and sponsored by the amazing store

TO WIN: - random UK winner chosen by random.org (we can only post to UK residents so if you wish to be included in this draw please state UK with your name to make it a little easier for us to select our random UK winner).....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 have also used these colour palettes for some inspiration this week...

Claire C - Claire C I loved colouring this cute little chap, he really makes me smile. Colours used: 

Penguin: 9909 9507 9505 9503 4105 4147

Beak and feet: 2180 1170 1150

Reds: 3180 5280 5220 5210

Greens 8190 8180 8160

Nikky....I havent had chance to put this little fella called Baby Snow onto a card yet but he was really great to colour. 
I didnt follow the gold and silver theme but I did try and follow this colour palette instead...

Now I have to admit I was really lazy this week - I printed him onto a really duff 80gsm copy paper which just happened to be in the printer and didnt realise till i came to colour him, but I didnt have much option by then so I had to just go with the duff paper and the feeling of dread, knowing how much my markers would bleed.

What happened next was a complete accident really - yes, honestly! I coloured up really quickly and as the paper was almost like blotting paper it soaked the ink so fast I realised that I was getting a bit of a watercoloured look completely unintentionally so I just went with it. I just added my blender to smooth out the blends back into the white paper and left it at that, but was super careful with the reds and made sure I coloured inside the lines - I've got so used to Graph'its not bleeding ever that it was a real shock to the system, I felt like I was colouring with some of my markers from the bad old days LOL.

I wanted to give a feeling of depth and temperature so I added a little blue shadow snowman behind him for a background effect and lots of snowflakes and some snowballs. When you colour snow it's important to pay more attention to the shadows to give yourself a feeling of depth otherwise it just looks one dimensional - make sure you get blue greys and some neutral greys involved in the shadows too....

Colours used: 7101, 7105, 7110 cheeks 4145

Red 5245, Green 8110, 8120, orange 3150

Grey 9400, 9404, Blue grey 9101, 9104

Lots of blender

Anjie...

The colours I have used are:

Elf skin: 4105, 4125, 4150, 3120

Bears: 1230, 1250, 1270 and Mix It fluid on my jumper and pressed on the bears.

Bunny and Mouse: 9500, 9501, 9502, 9503

Reds: 5210, 5215, 5220

So it's time for our Week 47/48 Winners!

Our prizes for this challenge are: 

PRIZE 1: a £10 gift voucher from Polkadoodles, our sponsor wk 47

TO WIN: - random winner chosen by random.org

#77 Norma - well done! email us quoting code GIw50001 to claim!

PRIZE 2: 2 digi images from All Dressed Up, our sponsor wk 48

TO WIN: - random winner chosen by random.org
#29 Bernadet  - Well done! email us quoting code GIw500002 to claim! 

PRIZE 3: A set of Graph'It markers

Goes to #55 Jackie C - well done please email us quoting code GIw50003

Well done to all our winners!

Remember, the current challenge is 

GOLD OR SILVER 

and you can

ENTER HERE

See you next week!

Wk 49 - Gold/Silver Craft Colouring Challenge at Graph'it markers with Stamping Boutique & Cult Pens

Welcome back to a brand new 2 week challenge here at Graph'It markers!

This week our challenge for you is

Gold or Silver

You can interpret this challenge as you like - we have some colour palettes below for inspiration but basically anything including gold or silver 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. 

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

Closing date: We are taking a little break over Christmas, so we are extending our closing date for this challenge to Fri 25th December, the winners will be announced on our first post of the New Year which is on Fri 1st Jan!

Our Digi Sponsor this week is the fabulous Stamping Boutique who have a fantastic selection of images for you to use, so head over and fill your shopping baskets!

Prize 1: - 2 images from the Stamping Boutique store - if the winner used a STAMPING BOUTIQUE or GLITTERBABE image they will receive 1 extra image of their choice making a total of 3 images

TO WIN: - random winner chosen by random.org

PRIZE 2:  A set of Graph'It markers 

Kindly donated and sponsored by the amazing store 

TO WIN: - random UK winner chosen by random.org (we can only post to UK residents so if you wish to be included in this draw please state UK with your name to make it a little easier for us to select our random UK winner)

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...

We have used these colour palettes to give us all a little extra inspiration...

Scatty Jan  I had great fun this week colouring up my lovely image, Its called On the mantle and is by Glitterbabe, you can find it in the store here . I loved adding lots of sparkle I just wish i could find an easier way to capture it on a photo 

The Colours used this time.....Green 9505, 8280, 8220

Red 3180, 5245, 5220, 5210.......White/Gold/Silve Shake It markers

Kevin I have had a go at using the darker colour palette this week to colour up this fun image which you can find here ....

Graph'It Markers used

Skin 4115.4155.4170.4175

Hair 1250.1280.3110.3125

Clothing 5270.5280.1270.1280.8160.8180

Boots 1270.1250

Gold Glitter shaker pen.

Scatty Jan Back with my second make for this week just helping out a lovely teamie and of course I got to colour this wonderfull image Smoochie Blowing Kisses that you can find here . I did not have time to follow the colour palettes so went with the challenge theme of Gold and Silver

Colours Used

4125, 4135, 4145, 4150, 3120

9107-9102

Gold/Siver Shake Markers



Great makes from the team!
We'll be back next week with last time's winners, more inspiration and goodies from our sponsors and we look forward to seeing all your gold and silver creations! 

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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!