Wk 3 Graph'It challenge...Anything Goes/Spring Lilacs

Hello!! Friday challenge again, crikey time flies!

We have some exciting news to come soon so keep joining us so you don't miss out, but also get Tuesday the 21st January at 1pm in your diaries as Nikky will be on Create and Craft TV again with yet another great show full of lovely products! You'll love it! 

This week as ever our challenge for all of you is 

Anything Goes

but if you can join in we have challenged the DT to get inspired ready for Spring 

(we know it's a bit early but we live in hope!....with

Spring Lilacs

This challenge is inspired by this card which Nikky made as a demo on Create and Craft before Christmas using the Set 1 colours which she selected for us all...a lot of you have been asking to see this card again because you loved the Ombre Hair technique so here it is...and if you want to see how she made this make sure you check into the show on Tuesday ; )

The winner of this challenge will win fab Graph'It stash - woohooo!!! 

Make sure you get your entries in by Sun 26th January at noon!

Remember you do NOT have to use Graph'It markers to enter!!!

(although obviously we would love it if you did)

Have you joined our Facebook group yet? If not, get over there, we have a fantastic competition on the go with 3 chances to win!....

https://www.facebook.com/groups/GraphItMarkers/

The Design Team all hang out here and post and help with hints, tips and advice so make sure you come and join us! For instance, don't forget that you can combine Graph'It with your other brand of alcohol markers and they will all work together brilliantly!

You can see who won our last challenge at the end of this post but

let's see what the team have for us this week!....

Debbie
I loved the colours for the challenge this week and i think this cute little plum digi image suits them great!

Colours used:

Skin 4115, 4120, 4125, 4155, 4145

Hair, 3110, 3140, 3250, 4150

Dress, 6175, 6130, 6140- 1110, 1130, 1150

Watering can, 9505, 9503, 9501

Grass, 8220, 8260, 8270

Susan - Spring Lilacs one of my favourite seasons and colours...

I just adore this image and I have wanted to colour it for ages but it was a bit challenging for me , but its only an image on a piece of paper and this is my end result.

 

Colours Used:

Hair : 1210 ,3210

Skin : 4115 ,4155 ,4170

Dress : 6120 ,6130 ,6140 ,6170 ,6175

Background : 9500  Blender pen and Shake Silver

Kevin I like lilac colours so this was an easy one for me this is a vintage image but she is so pretty in Lilac.

Colours used:

Skin 4110,4135,4170,4160, 5120

Hair 3180,3140,3125

Clothing 6110,6120,6130,6140

 Our random Winner from Week 52(28) as chosen by Random.org is....

#7 Sharon G - well done! 

You've won £30 of Graph'It goodies!

Email us here to claim your prize!

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

#19 Coops, #9 Nicole, #24 Nicole Setter

Well done everyone, your makes were stunning! 

The 3 of you have also won this week so please Email us here to claim your prizes - you've all won £5 of free digis from Polkadoodles!

Grab your blinkies from the sidebar and thanks for entering!

Remember you do NOT have to use our products (although obviously we would love it if you did) , just add your entry to Mr Linky below and pinch our badge for your blog sidebar - we'll see you back here on Friday for our usual Polkadoodles challenge....

Rules: 

1. No backlinks

2. Please FOLLOW the challenge theme!

3. ONLY 2 ENTRIES PER PERSON ALLOWED to make it fair for the random winner!

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Wk 28 Graph'It Marker Challenge....Chocolate Heaven/tones of brown

Hi everyone! Happy New Year!!!

We hope you had a lovely Christmas and are ready and raring to go  with a brand new Challenge!

We have some exciting news this week - we are delighted to welcome Susan Imeson to the Graph'It Design Team...Susan makes the most gorgeous cards and we're so thrilled she's joined us to play!

Nikky will also be back on Create and Craft TV this Tuesday 7th Jan at 1pm with another Graph'It TV show so we hope you can either join her live on Sky 671, Freeview 36 or watch online here 

if you can't get the channel on your TV - and ssssshhhhh!!!!.... if you bought Nikky's last Colour Set No 1 which she handpicked as a starter set there might be a new one perfect for you to co-ordinate with that...we are really trying to help you build your collection in an easy way without duplicating colours and making it affordable...it's kinda a no-brainer!

Before we get to this week’s theme, we have the winners of Week 26 to announce. 

Thank you to all of you who shared your creations with us. We loved visiting your blogs to see your fabulous projects.

So without further ado, the randomly chosen winner of our 

Anything Goes/Pink Pattern challenge is as chosen by Random.org....

#14 Lisa S

Congratulations Lisa! We loved your creation and loved it more because you joined in our theme! 

Please email us here to claim your prize!

And our Top 3 favourites are

#15 Coops, #11 Vic and #2 Lucy

Well done everyone!! Don’t forget to grab your blinkies from the sidebar.

So onto our new challenge!

Our theme this week as always is 
ANYTHING GOES
But as ever we like to make the DT work a little harder and our challenge for them is 

Tones of Brown

You can get some fabulous tones using Browns and within the Graph'It collection there is a fantastic array of chocolatey colours which we all use constantly....We'd love you to try this challenge too!

You have until 12noon (GMT) on Sunday 12th of January to play along – simply follow the theme and add your challenge entry to Mr Linky at the end of this post. 

Remember - you can use ANY brand of alcohol marker to enter the challenge!

The winner will win £30 worth of Graph'It goodies to see in the New Year plus our Top 3 favourites that join in the Design Team Challenge of Colouring with Browns will also win Free Digis to the value of £5 too - woohoo!!...

Here are our fabulous DT’s creations …

Simonne ... I have never made an all brown card before, but I have to say I am really pleased with how it turned out:

Graph'it Markers used:
Skin: 4180 4155 4115 4125 4120
Lips: 5140
Blush: 4135 4145 4150
Hair: 3290 3250 3245 3210 4110
Coat, bow & boots: 3245 1230 4110
Tights: 3290 3250 3245 3210
Mittens, skirt & scarf: 3210 4100 0000

Debbie... This was a challenge in itself to just use one colour but I think i might have pulled it off, I have used the gorgeous Fredericka Debutante Digistamp .

Graph'it Markers used:

Skin 4115,4120,4125,4155,4145,4150

Hair, 3110,3140,3250,4150.

Dress, 3140,3250,3270,3290

Kevin I enjoyed this Challenge using browns was fun, the image I have used is from Saturated Canary called My Valentine.

Graph'it Markers used:
Skin 4150,4155,4170,4180,5120
Eyes 7125,7105
Hair 3180,3150,3140,3125
Clothing 3140,3150,3180,1270,1280,2120

Susan This is my first make for the Design Team so I am a little bit nervous, Brown is a colour that I don't use very often, but this is what I came up with..... 

 

Colours Used

Dress 3110, 3120, 3149, 3160, 3180

Hair 3255, 3270, 3280, 3290

Skin 4115, 4155, 4170, 4145 for blush

Also Blender pen and Shake Glitter Gold

We have one change to our rules - you can only enter a maximum of 2 times to make it fair for everyone to be in with a chance and to be in our Top 3 you need to follow the challenge theme! 
The winner will be announced here on the GI blog on Friday 17th of January and will win £30 worth of Graph'It goodies to see in the New Year plus our Top 3 favourites that join in the Design Team Challenge of Colouring with Browns will also win Free Digis to the value of £5 too - woohoo!!...
Add your entry to Mr Linky below and Good Luck everyone!

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Wk 22 Dark skintones

Hey Graph'It fans! Hope you're all looking forward to a fabulous weekend filled with lots of colouring - this week we have a great challenge for you, but first we have some exciting news!

We have a new Graph'It show on

Create and Craft TV on Thurs 28th Nov 

at noon (time subject to change) 

with Nikky, showing us all some great hints and tips and lots of lovely NEW products too! Exciting! Make sure you tune into the show which is on Sky 671 or Freeview 36 or you can also watch online at www.createandcraft.tv

Before we get to this week's inspiration and prizes, it's time to announce the winner of last week's challenge. We use a RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR so that everyone has an equal chance of winning. IN ADDITION we also pick a Top 3 and may ask one of those people each month to join us as a Guest Designer. So here is today's winner chosen by our random number generator this week:

No 10 Donna....Congratulations Donna!

You win a great prize of £30 of Graph'It goodies, woohoo!

We also like to choose a Top 3 faves of the week so this week the Design Team have picked (in no particular order)....

No 3 Dee, No 6 Julie and No 9 Denyse

Well done to all of you!

Please email Nikky here to claim your prize and please grab your blinkies from the sidebar.

The winner of this week's challenge will win a fantastic prize of Graph'It goodies!

Remember - you can use ANY brand of alcohol marker to enter our challenges!

This week we decided to stretch the team's imagination and skills a little and gave them a toughie…we regularly receive emails from people asking how to colour different skin tones so this week 

we asked the team to colour 

Dark Skintones

Now we'd love you to have a go at this challenge too - go on, PLEASE try and have a go! 

It's not as hard as you think! 

We know this one is a little scary so as usual, you can enter an Anything Goes make in the challenge but there will be extra brownie points if you join in and brownie points for anyone who 
shows us how to colour Black Hair!

So let's get to the great team creations this week…

Remember to join our Facebook group too, Graph'It Markers UK, where we have daily inspiration and share some of our favourite makes & hints and tips every day, it's a great place to be and we have some exciting news to share very soon!....

Cara...When I saw the theme for this challenge my first thoughts were EEEEEK! but i'm actually pleased I tried colouring darker skin tones now, and while it's far from perfect I now have a starting point to work on.  Go on give it a try!!

Graph'its used:
Skin: 3230,3210,4150,4120,4135
Dress and accessories: 5120,5140,5220
Shoes and hair: 3290,3280,3270,3245

Debbie
Well I am going to admit this challenge really scared me! I have never ever attempted Dark skintones but I have to say I am really pleased at how my card turned out ….

Graph'its used:
Skin: 3120, 3140, 3250 Hair: 9505, 9507, 9509
Coat & Hat: 5280, 5250,5245. Gloves & Scarf: 8270, 8280,8150.
Boots: 3120, 3140, 3290, 4150.

Kevin
I have enjoyed this challenge, because it isn't very often I use dark skin tones, so it was nice to try out different skin colour combos.The image I have used it from the Polkadoodles Fredericka Cd rom.

Graph'It Markers used.
Skin 4120,4170,4180,3125,5120
Hair 9909, 9905,9501,9107
Clothing,5220,5240.5270,9905,9508,9501.

Simonne ...Slightly scary challenge, lol, but hopefully I've managed to achieve it! I decided to go for a very deep skin tone for my card.

Graph'it Markers used:
Skin: 3190 3160 3140 3120 4110
Hair: 9409 3290 3270 3250 3210
Outfit:1280 1150 1140 (yellow) 2130 2180 2160 (orange)
Tree trunk: 3250 3245
Leaves: 3230 3280 8220

So there is our inspiration from the fabulously talented Graph'It team this week!…

You have until  Sunday 29th November at noon GMT to enter below by adding your creation to Mr Linky below - don't forget you have the chance to win a fabulous prize! 
The winner of this challenge will be announced on Friday 6th December here on this blog. 

Please check our rules for all entries: 

1. All entries MUST follow the challenge theme. 2. Please link your blog post and not your blog address with the linky tool - this saves us from searching your blog for your entry.  3. No back-linking to previous posts - these will be disregarded from our voting.4. Please ensure you follow the challenge theme!

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Wk 20 Furry Friends

Friday again! Where do these weeks fly off to?


We have to give you a little heads up this week - Nikky will be on Create and Craft TV at 2pm this Sunday 10th November - she's not demonstrating Graph'It markers but will have the glorious brand new Graph'It GLITTER Shake markers to show you! These are GORGEOUS! Make sure you tune in to see them and see their lushness! 

So onto this week's business....our theme this week is....

FURRY FRIENDS!

The team were all asked to make sure they had a Furry Friend in their make this week -  You guys at home can either follow the theme for some fun OR 

we will let YOU enter 'Anything Goes' this week (but we'd love you to try the challenge of course!)...

The winner of this week's challenge will receive a 6 pack of Graph'It markers to play with so you need to be in it to win it!.....

Our Random winner from Week 18 is No.21 Fiona - 

congratulations Fi! 

You won a pack of 6 Graph'It markers and a Mix'It blending palette -  please email us here to claim your prize!

Our Top 3 entries for this challenge were 8 KBrandy4, 17 Tracey , 

and 9 Suzie so well done ladies, don't forget to grab your blinkies!

So let's get on over to the Design Team's Inspiration this week, we have some gorgeous makes to show you, as usual!...

Debbie ... Today is my first challenge here on the blog and I'm over the moon to be joining the Amazing Graph'It Marker DT, For my card today I have coloured the cute little lamb with curly fur.

Graph'it Markers used:
Skin 4115, 4120, 4125, 4155, 4145   Hair 3110, 4120, 4150
Dress 7105, 7109, 7125   Holly 8270, 8280, 5250
Lamb 9501, 9503, 9505, 4145   Donkey 3110,3120, 3140, 4150
Blanket 7130, 7119,7180
Crib 3110, 3120, 3140, 3250   Straw 1150, 1250

Cara ... When I colour fur I use my markers to create little dots to give texture and to blend the colours. I used my pink grey's to colour this cute little fuzzy owl. I also used the gorgeous new Graph'It Shake Glitter pens to colour my die-cuts and add a little sparkle!

Graph'it Markers used:
Skin: 4175, 4155, 4150, 4135, 4125, 4115
Hair: 9307, 5250, 5230, 5215, 5210
Owl: 9307, 9305, 9304, 9303

Simonne ... I am trying to make a dent in the huge pile of Christmas cards I need to make this year, so I inked up this cute Christmas Mouse for my furry friends challenge card this week.  I used the Neutral greys to colour him and used my white opaque pen to add some highlights to the fur.

Graph'it Markers used:
Mouse Fur: 9507 9505 9503 9501 9500 (plus white opaque pen)
Cheeks: 4145 4135   Ear & Tail: 4135 4150 4125 4120
Red: 3180 5250 5220 5210 4145
Gold: 2130 1280 1230 1210

Kevin
When colouring fur I like to use dots and dashes to give a textured look to the fur, this little bear is coloured with a mix of little browns & cream.

Graph'It Markers Used
Fur 1210..1270..1280..2105
Cheeks 5110.
Hat and Scarf 7105..7115..7125
Blender

So there is our inspiration from the fabulously talented Graph'It team this week!...

You have until  Sunday 17th November at noon GMT to enter below by adding your creation to Mr Linky below - don't forget you have the chance to win a fabulous prize! 
The winner of this challenge will be announced on Friday 8th November here on this blog. 

Please check our rules for all entries: 

1. All entries MUST follow the challenge theme. 2. Please link your blog post and not your blog address with the linky tool - this saves us from searching your blog for your entry.  3. No back-linking to previous posts - these will be disregarded from our voting.4. Please ensure you follow the challenge theme!

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