Wk15 - Sweet as Candy - Craft Colouring Challenge sponsored by Graph'It Markers

Welcome back to a new challenge and we have a new look blog with a new URL and name so make sure you bookmark this one not the old one! 

Our challenge for you today isSweet as CandySo show us ANY of the lovely colours from these two palettes in your makes ....

Closing date: Fri 24th June

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

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.

This week we are sponsored by the amazing 

so head over to the store and grab some goodies. Our lucky Random winner will receive gorgeous Molly Harrison images!

We also have a set of lovely Graph'It markers** to give away to one UK winner randomly selected (**there must be at least 5 UK entries for this prize to be allocated otherwise this prize is null and void)

The winners of our last challenge can be found at the end of this post, but let's see what the team have made this week....

Scatty Jan Oh yummy Swwet as candy, I just love candy and so enjoyed this weeks challenge . I used the lovely image Worry from our amazing sponsor and you can find her in the shop right here - I think I used a mixture of the colour palettes the colouring is more the first one but the starry backing paper is definatly the second 

The colours I used are 

Skin - 3120, 4125, 4115, 4150, 4145

Pinks - 5120, 5110, 5115

Green - 8120, 8110, 8115

Blue 7120, 7220

Yellow - 1130, 1140, 1110

Orange  - 2015

White Shake'It Marker

Anjie -  I got to use the cute Spring Bliss image which you can find HERE.

 The colours are:

Skin: 4120, 4125, 4150, 3210

Pinks: 5130, 5115, 5110

Greens: 8125, 8115, 7220, 7210

Blender and Mix'It palette 

Claire C I've also coloured up Spring Bliss from Molly Harrison, love this image she's such a cutie!

here's a list of the colours I've used:

Skin: 3105, 4150, 4125, 4105

Hair: 3245, 3255, 1230, 1210

Blues: 7130, 7120

Pinks: 4135, 5125, 5115

Greens: 8125, 8120, 8110

Cara I also used the stunning image Worry, I love her.  I used the 2nd colour palette but used a bit of artistic licence to darken the colour and I teamed them with black to darken the overall look of the card.

Colours used:

skin: 6140, 3120,3105,4155,4135

Blue: 7290,7270,7250,7240

Pink:5180,5160

Wow! What stunning colouring with beautiful images from our sponsor this week!

Our winners from Week 13 are:
Random Winner chosen by Random.org
#3 Rora
Well done! You've won a voucher to spend at our Sponsor Little Miss Muffet

Please email us here quoting code GIw134001 to claim your prize!

The Design Team's Top 3 favourites are:

#2 Kathie

#7 Elena F 

#4 Marianne

Thankyou all so much for joining in with us - we love seeing your makes and appreciate your support!

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Wk 41/42 Autumn/Xmas Colours - Craft Colouring challenge with Graph'It and Little Miss Muffet

Welcome back to another Colour Challenge!

It's the 2nd week of our current challenge which is

Autumn/Christmas Colours

You can ENTER HERE

and this week we're bringing you lots more fabulous inspiration.

We are uber excited this week because we are kindly sponsored by the very lovely

Make sure you check out their fabulous Store!!

You can enter ANY kind of make you like into the challenge, whatever colours you like from either an autumn or a christmas colour palette and your project can be anything you want, it's up to you. 

Closing date: Fri 23rd October, the winners will be announced 30th October

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

We have some great prizes for our current challenge so don't miss out on 3 different chances to win!

PRIZE 1: A $6 Gift Certificate for the LITTLE MISS MUFFET Store!

TO WIN: - random winner

PRIZE 2: 3 lovely digi images from ODDBALL ART, our sponsor last week

TO WIN: - random winner from the Design Team's Top 3 favourites, chosen by random.org

PRIZE 3:  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!!

Our catchup Winners Post can be found at the bottom of this post...

So remember, it's the 2nd week of our current challenge 

Autumn/Christmas Colours

You can ENTER HERE

For our Team Challenge (You DO NOT have to do this to enter but if you want to that's very cool!) this week I've made the team also put their Rosalie images ON something, ie a wall etc so I've been super mean and made them work extra hard. I also challenged the team to use these 2 colour palettes...tee hee I'm so cruel!....

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

Barbara...We are very excited that Barbara from Little Miss Muffet is joining in with our challenge - what a super duper card! Thanks Barbara! Make sure you head over to her blog for more information and to grab this great image!

Nikky....I almost forgot to upload my make this week but I didnt want to miss out colouring this lovely image - she's called Polkadot Pals Rosalie and you can find her here and this cute little fella is Chester Monkey who is just adorable here...I actually took 2 images and combined them together to make a great new one because I was greedy and wanted to colour them both haha!
As soon as I saw this lovely Rosalie image I knew exactly what I wanted to do...

Colours used: Skin: 4105, 4125, 4150, 3105, cheeks 4135, 4145

Hair: 2105, 2130, 3110, 3130, 3160

Clothes: 5140, 6150, 6155, 4125

Monkey: 4105, 4125, 4150, 3105, cheeks 4135, 4145, 3110, 3120, 3125

Wall: 4110, 9400, 9304

Wall tunnel: 4110, 4125, 4150, 9400, 9403, 9404

Anjie - Now I got totally carried away with my colouring and forgot all about the colour chart, oooops! But I was kinda pleased with how my image turned out so after a sit on the norty step I was allowed to use it, phew! So here it is.

The colours I used on this image are:

Chester: 3120, 3140, 3160, mix it fluid.

Cracker: 7140, 7150, 7160, 7115, 7110, 7109

I used the mix it fluid on some velvet to give Chester some texture.

Claire C I've made a Halloween card using this supercute image, she's called Polkadot Pals Rosalie and you can find her here. I've sat her on a pumpkin digi from Polkadoodles Autumn Fall Digi bundle and created a background with my Graph'It markers....

Colours used:

Skin 3105,4150,4125,4147,4105

Hair: 3180, 3170,3150,3125,1230

Clothes: 3180,3280,3155,3145, 1270,1250,1140,5140,5120,5110

Pumpkins: 3180,3130,2160,215,8270

Background:9909, 2160  and Silver shake pen applied with Mix'it Fluid and a paint brush

Scatty Jan  Happy Friday :-) I am not normally here on Team A , but I really could not resist colouring up the very sweet Chester , you can find him in the store right here, This one is Cracker Chester but there are a few Chesters to check out. I used the colour palette for my inspiration , loving the reds and golds..... I thought he looked as if he really was up to mischief so placed him swinging from the bauble . The bauble and background that I used are from Twiggy  & Toots festive fun you can find here...

The colours I used are

Reds - 3180/5245/5220/5210

Browns - 3250/3255/3245/3210

and Gold shake pen (lots of)

Yvonne - Hello there! I was given Polka Dot Pals Rosie to play with and she was sooooooo cute! Despite the challenge being Autumn/Christmas colours, I thought she would look nice in a summery setting. So I decided to place her on a wall/dyke.

I coloured Rosie with the following markers:

Skin: 4105, 4125, 3105, 4145 and mix it palette
Hair: 3105, 3110, 3140, 3160
Top: 1210, 1230, 1270 band: 5220, 5250, gold shaker pen
Trousers: 5220, 5245, 5260, 5270, 1230, 1270
Shoes & Bow the same.
Wall: 9500, 9501, 9502, 9503
Sky: 9100, 9102, 7101, 7105
Grass: 8220, 8240, 8270, 8160

Wow! Fab colouring this week!! Some great ways to use those oranges and browns!

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So let's get onto the last lot of winners....

We had a little booboo and got a bit mixed up with weeks over the past month so it's taken a couple of weeks and a few headaches to work this out LOL...In the end as we'd got out of synch and clearly some of you were confused too, we've decided to add the missing weeks and winners together into one big pot to make it really fair.

So we have combined Week 38, 39 and 40 as there were only 6 entries over all 3 weeks and because of this we havent chosen a Design Team Top 3 - thankyou to everyone who did enter and again apologies if we confused you - we confused ourselves too!.... 

PRIZE 1: 3 digi images from Nikki Burnette, our sponsor 

TO WIN: - random winner from the Design Team's Top 3 favourites, chosen by random.org

WINNER: AUNTY SUE

WELL DONE! Please email us here to claim your prize quoting code GIw4142001P
PRIZE 2: A set of Graph'It markers

Kindly donated and sponsored by 

WINNER: AJ - WELL DONE! Please email us here to claim your prize quoting code GIw4142002P

Prize 3: $10 of digis from Polkadoodles, our sponsor

WINNER: LUCY WOODS

WELL DONE! Please email us here to claim your prize quoting code GIw4142003P

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So please remember

It's the 2nd week of our current Wk 40/41 challenge which is

Autumn/Christmas Colours

You can ENTER HERE

See you next week!

Wk 34 - Palette/Anything Goes - Colouring Challenge at Graph'It markers sponsored by Kenny K

Welcome Back! ...This week we are kindly sponsored by the wonderful digi store

So make sure you check out all the amazing images in store from them!

THE CHALLENGE RULES FOR THIS WEEK:
We would love you to include ONE of the colours below in your entry, BUT it's not essential, if you can't do it then Anything Goes! 

Such a different set of colours you wouldnt ordinarily think of putting together but as you can see from the feathers  - nature knows best - ALWAYS!
The Design Team had to use this palette this week - as it's so different I was really intrigued to see how it pulls together with an image!
You have until 28th August to enter the challenge and winners will be announced the following week.

We have some extra great prizes for you this week! Whoop Whoop!
PRIZE 1: $20 gift certificate to Kenny K's amazing store
TO WIN: - random winner chosen by random.org

PRIZE 2: Pack of 12 Graph'It Markers
TO WIN: You MUST FOLLOW the Kenny K blog come back and add KK to your name on your Entry and you will be added to the draw - we will check that you followed the blog so no cheating! A random winner will be chosen that has KK next to their name and followed the rules!

PRIZE 3: Pack of 12 Graph'It Markers
TO WIN: You MUST FOLLOW this blog and leave a comment on each of the DT's blogs using the links along with their images below - we will check our random winner has followed the rules so don't try to cheat LOL!

ENTER THE CHALLENGE HERE

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!

We are also looking for a couple of Guest designers to join us here at Graph'It so if you love your Graph'It markers and would love to join in with us simply add GDT after your name when you enter on Mr Linky! 

So let's get to the inspiration....

Nikky....I chose the colour palette for this theme but I think I ended up deviating a little as I was trying to colour it from memory - clearly didnt work LOL! 

I loved this image although it was really detailed to colour with all the armoury....

 I didnt intend making a background for this at all but I somehow ended up with a mark on the base of the image so it had to be disguised. I decided as she was obviously a Secret agent waiting to pounce that she would be hiding in the wispy fog...this then ended up as steamy/foggy bubbles LOL..

 ..but we're all allowed a little creative licence, right....
To make the bubbles I coloured the base with 6109 and the background/sky with Glass and then usign the dropper, added drops of Mix'It Fluid to create the bubbles - the fluid disperses the colour beneath from the centre until it evaporates. I added some blue 6140 and some Orchid around the edges and kept swirling the circles with a blender until I was happy with it.   The fog/steam is created by smudging the Graph'It Shake White marker across the image with your finger.

 I was having a bad day and I actually got a mystery shadow under the right eye along the noseline which had to be disguised so I added some extra 4135 to her cheeks to blend it all in with the result that she is a lot more shadowed than intended but I quite like her this way...just wanted to show you that even the worst disaster you can usually get around somehow...

Colours I used:

Reds: 5210, 5215

Yellows: 2110, 2150, 2170, 2180, 9400

Blues: 6140, 6115, 6119

Green: Bamboo and Yellow 2150 mixed to create a mossy green as per the palette

Bubbles - Glass, 6140, Orchid, Blender, Mixing Fluid

Caroline.....I have used Delores D'ammage which can be found here, love this image it's great to colour....

 The color palette works great with these Kenny K images as they really take they bright vibrant colors.

skin 4150, 4145, 4135, 4125, 4105
hair 5215, 5230, 5210 plus gold shaker pen
clothes 7270, 7120, 7145
boots 8280, 8245, 8220, 1280
The background was made by using an embossing folder then using the same colors used color the digi i colored the triangles but then went over them with the blender pen to give them a shabby appearance as didnt want them to uniform and perfect.

Yvonne -  I got to play with Brianna Blaster for this challenge and I have never ventured into colouring something like this before, but I loved it! She took me ages to colour but I loved it. I have never done 'ombre' colouring before either and of course left it to last so I am very very grateful it worked!  I was really pleased with how she turned out. 

I used the following markers:

Markers used are as follows:

Skin: 4105, 4125, 3105, 3110

Hair:  3105, 3110, 3150

Hat, Gloves and Boots: 8245, 8280, 8290

Arm Bands: 2120, 2140

Gun/Blaster: 7280, 7290

Blaster Pack: 2106, 2180, 2130

Cloak: 7290, 7280, 8290, 8280, 2180, 2160

Claire C I loved colouring this fun image and I adore the colour palette Nikky has chosen for us this week!  Once I'd coloured the image I masked him and used the tube from a biro to blow ink from my Graph'Its to create a background. I doodled around the edges and then I was very brave and wrote the sentiment lol

Here's a close up, I've added some dots to the background with  white and silver Graph'It Shake Pens and used the silver pen to give his specs some shine.

Colours used:

Skin: 3155.3145.3125.3105

Hair: 9905,9506,9502

Blues: 7170,7160,7130,7122, 7270,7240

Greens: 8280,8245,8240,8220

Oranges: 2140,2120,2110

Penni - I used Jayne Jettpack which can be found here.  I loved the colour palette Nikky chose and it suits this image perfectly. Here's the card I made....

I used the following Graph'It Markers

Skin - 4120, 4115, 4155, 4170
Cheeks - 4135, 4145
Lips - 5215
Hair - 3110, 3125, 3140
Clothes - Blues - 7119, 7115
Reds - 5210, 5215
Gold - 1250, 1280

Here's a close-up

Stunning makes from the team this week!

We'll be back next week with more inspiration for you and last time's winners but don't forget
The Challenge theme is to use one of the colours in the palette OR Anything Goes - the choice is yours!

ENTER THE CHALLENGE HERE

Ok, so it's time to announce our winners from week 31/32 Florals sponsored by Crafty Sentiments
Our random winner for a prize of Graph'It markers is
# 1 Denyse
Well done! Please email us here and quote code GIw3434001

Our Top 3 chosen by the Design Team are
#11 Julie G
#22 Lou Sims - such a great technique!
#13 Lucy

Our Random Digi Prize winner is
#17 Katie
Well done Katie! You've won 3 fabulous digis from Crafty Sentiments - How generous!  Whoop whoop! email us here and quote code GIw34002 to claim please!

See you next time!

WK 26.. Pink and Pretty Craft Colouring Challenge at Graph'It Markers sponsored by East Wind

Welcome back to another week of Colouring inspiration for you all! 
It is our 2nd week of our theme for
Pink and Pretty
and you can ENTER HERE
here at the Graph'It colouring challenge and again we are sponsored by the fabulous East Wind ....

Make sure you check out the amazing shop for some goodies! 

You can enter anything that fits the theme and you have until Friday 3rd 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: A random winner from The Design Team's Top 3 will win 3 wonderful digi stamps from our fab Sponsor's store this week - how generous!

So let's see what the team have made and what colours we were inspired by this week...

Nikky...I don't normally go bright with my pinks so I decided to try and go much more vibrant this week so this stunning front door was my inspiration (there is actually a house I pass every day from work which has the whole exterior painted and decorated like this, it's awesome but you know the neighbours just hate it LOL!)....

This image was fab to colour in but I made the mistake of printing it HUGE (like almost A4 FGS!) for some reason and I had to colour her up there and then so couldnt wait to reprint it at a normal size. Colouring big is great for practicing strokes and where to add light and shade, but when you have a large expanse of skirt like this it made the blending SO hard LOL! Not recommended if you're in a hurry and I actually messed it up a little so my blending isn't great on this but hey ho!

Now we have a couple more Skintone colours which have recently been released they slot right in to help make skin blending soooo much easier!

Graph'It markers used:
Skin: 4105, 4125, 4150, 3105, 3120, 4145, 4135 cheeks
Pinks: 5110, 5125, 5135, 5150, 5160, 5170
Greys: Graph'It waterbased brushliner
Graph'It Shake White pen

Caroline....I love this image which is Baby Aurora and I used the following colour palette for inspiration:

I have used graph'it markers:

skin 4170, 4150, 4145, 4120
hair 3110, 1280, 1270, 1230
bedding, 5130, 5120, 5110, 1210
pj's 1150, 1130, 1110
bear 1210 and blender pen
i also used a sakura gelly roll pen

Penni - The image I've used is called Aurora Daisy....I chose this colour palette for my inspiration

Here's the card I made 

And here's a close-up of the coloured image 

Graph'It Markers Used...
Skin - 4120, 4115, 4155
Cheeks - 4135, 4145
Lips - 4135
Eyes - 7120
Hair - 3140, 3125, 3110
Dress - 7120, 7210
5125, 5130, 5115

Claire C Eeek i've been colouring the same image as Nikky, now thats a bit scary lol. I've teamed my pinks up with grey for my card this week....

Colours used: 

Hair: 3170, 3245, 3125, 3105, 1210

Skin: 3105, 3230, 4150, 4125,4105

Pinks: 5125, 5115, 5110

Greys, 936, 9303, 9402,, 9401

plus Mix'it palette blender pen and Graph'it Silver shake pen

Yvonne - I used Pink Babydoll this week and I used this colour palette for inspiration:

It's just so pretty and was perfect inspiration for my colour choices this week (not to mention the black boots and shorts!) I used the following markers:

Skin:  4105, 4125, 3105, 4145, 4135
Hair: 3110, 3140, 3160 (fine liner)
Babydoll: 4147, 4135, 4175, 5210
Shorts & Boots: 9504, 9506, 9508, black
Background: 9100, 9102, 7105, 4135, blender
plus Mix It Palette

More great inspiration for you again for the theme!

The winners from our last challenge now....

Our random winner chosen by Random.org is 

#7 Tip Top

Well done - you've won a set of Graph'It markers - please email us here quoting code GIw26001 to claim your prize!

Our Top 3 chosen by the team this week are:

#18 Donna

#11 Elena

#4 Jane

Well done everyone! Your makes were all amazing and it was really hard to choose this week! 

Our 2nd prizewinner from our Top 3 who gets a $12 voucher from the Di's Digis store this week is

#11 Elena - well done! 

please email us here quoting code GIw26002 to claim your prize!

See you next week! 

Remember our current challenge is

Pink and Pretty

and you can ENTER HERE