Wk 20 - Anything Goes - Craft Colouring Challenge sponsored by Graph'It Markers

Welcome back to this week's new challenge! 

Our challenge for you today is

ANYTHING GOES

Closing date: Fri 2nd Sept, winners announced on 9th Sept.

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.

The winners of our last challenge are at the bottom of this post....

This week we are sponsored by one of our favourite stores, Polkadoodles

They have some amazing images so make sure you check out the store! Our lovely sponsors are kindly donating 3 images to one lucky winner. 

We also have a set of lovely Graph'It markers** to give away to one UK winner randomly selected - so please add UK next to your entry so we can find you easily in the entries

 (**there must be at least 6 UK entries for this prize to be allocated otherwise this prize is null and void)

So let's get to this week's inspiration!

Scatty Jan For my project this week I have made a trio of book marks using the lovely Meribelle from our fab sponsor this fortnight. I love colouring her up she is so pretty. The images I have used are Swishy Tail, Meribelle and Rock It....

The colours I used are 

Skin 4101 4120 4155 4180

Reds 3180 5245 5220 5210

Orange 2180 2150 2140

Greens 8260 8250 8220

Blue 7120

Greys 9104-9101

Anjie - I've used the beach house stamp from the Tropical Oceans clear stamp set. I chose to make a CAS card to show off the image more, and here it is.

The colours I have used are:

5115, 5120

3110, 3120

Sky 7101

Ground 1230

And I have used the Mix'It Palette to pick up the darker colours with the lighter marker, and the blender pen to pick up the sky and ground.

Claire C I've made a mixed media canvas using one of the gorgeous digi stamps from the Winnie in Wonderland Collection  (you can find it here as a CD or here as a download).

Colours used:

Skin: 3230, 4115, 4110, 4105 plus 4147

Hair: 3180, 5280, 5140, 5125, 5120, 5110

Dress: red as above, plus 1270, 2105, 3230, 1230,1210

Nikky...I used this lovely Mirabelle Mermaid image called Swimming Around from Polkadoodles. I decided to turn her upside down as if she was floating around in the ocean...

 

The colours I used were:

Skin: 4101, 4115, 4125, 4150, 4170, 4180, 3105, 3110, cheeks 4135, 4145

Pinks: 5110, 5125, 5130, 5160, 5180

For extra shading in the pink areas 3210 smoke (I often use this for shade, it has a nice warm tone without being too dark, I find it works with almost any colour)

Ocean - 8210, 8220, 8230 and lots of bender and Graph'It Mixing palette (my 8210 ran out halfway through so I had to do a lot of palette mixing to finish my background) 

White Graph'it Shake pen for dots and Mix'It fluid for larger bubbles.  See more on my blog HERE

Wow! 

I think the team have really rocked their colouring this week! 

Our winners from Week 18 are:

Random Winner chosen by Random.org
#53 Spiral Creativity
Well done! You've won a $12 Gift card for the Day for Daisies store, our sponsor from week 18.  Please email us here quoting code GIw18001 to claim your prize!

The random UK winner of our Graph'It prize is #2 Julie Reed - Please email us here quoting code GIw18002 to claim your prize!

The Design Team's Top 3 - wow, so many entries, we loved all of them so thankyou all so much for entering! 

#12 Norma

#1 Rora

#48 Elena

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

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Wk 19 - Anything Goes - Craft Colouring Challenge

Welcome back to this week's new challenge! 

Our challenge for you today is

ANYTHING GOES

Closing date: Fri 19TH AUG, winners announced on 26th Aug.

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.

The winners of our last challenge are at the bottom of this post....

This week we are sponsored by one of our favourite stores,

One lucky random winner will receive a  $6.00 Gift Certificate , but in the meantime you need to go check out their goodies they have in the Store

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)

Before we get to the inspiration this week, we need to announce our special CANDY WINNER

Chosen at random the recipient of this lush candy is

Andrea aka KandA - Andrea well done and lucky you! Email us here to claim please!

So let's get to this week's inspiration!

Joining us this fortnight from our lovely sponsor DT is Janice, You can visit her great blog here. Janice used the lovely image Jr Hatter Belle that you can find in the store right here - Thank you Janice for joining in with us....

Nikky...This week I've used this great Sonny Honeycloud My Way image from Little Miss Muffet, click the link to get her in the store, this one was a really nice image to colour. 

Colours I used are:

Skin: 4101, 4120, 4125, 4155, 4180

Clothes 9100,9101,9102, 9104, 9107

Hair - Graph'it Ultrafine black pen .003 as my image was so small it was ridiculous to attempt to colour the hair with anything else!

Anjie ...I got to play with the cute Sonny Honeycloud My Way image, and here it is. I loved colouring this image....

The colours I used are:

Skin: 4120, 4120, 4150, 3120

Blues: 7140, 7150, 7160

Pinks: 5110, 5115, 5120

Scatty Jan  I got to colour up the wonderful Serana, You can find her in the store right here. What a pretty little miss she is.

Colours used

Skin 4150, 4145, 4125, 3120

Pink 5110, 5115, 5120

Grey 9507 - 9504

White Shake it Graph'It

Claire C I've also coloured the beautiful Serana, she's adorable!

Colours used:

Hair: 3180, 3150, 3125, 3105 plus 4110
Skin: 3105, 3230, 4150, 4115, 4105 plus 4135/4147
Greens: 8280, 8245,8220,8210
Pinks: 5125. 4135. 4145, 4125

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

Our winners from Week 17 are:
Random Winner chosen by Random.org
#3 Monika
Well done! You've won digis from our sponsor Patties Creations

Please email us here quoting code GIw17001 to claim your prize!

The Design Team's Top 3 - we didnt have many entries for this one but we loved all of them so thankyou all so much for entering! 

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

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Wk 18 - Anything Goes - Craft Colouring challenge

Welcome back to a new challenge! 

Our challenge for you today is

ANYTHING GOES

Closing date: Fri 5TH AUG, winners announced on 12th Aug.

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.

The winners of our last challenge are at the bottom of this post....

This week we are sponsored by the fabulous store

Our random winner of this challenge will receive a $12 Gift card for the Day for Daisies store

- they have some great images so head over to the Shop.

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)

Make sure you check out our blog candy HERE

So let's go and see what the Design Team have made - the DT have used these colours as inspiration

Nikky...Gold and silver snowman? Tricky! ...
But not really if you take advantage of all the white space and really keep to a few colour tones to keep it simple.
My image is Mr Snowman here. I used 9500,9501, 9502, 9503, 9505 for the silver and the snowman and the snow itself, and 1210, 1230, 1250, 3150 for the gold. PLUS my Graph'It Shake white pen which is a real musthave for me, i can't live without this pen, in fact I have about 10 lol. I'd have liked a little more shimmer and shine on his coat and tie and I wish now in retrospect I'd used a Warm or pink grey over the gold as it would have made it more bronze but he's looking cool in his gold finery I think.

Scatty Jan I love Christmas although the day I chose to make my tag it was so very hot and sunny it did not seem right. For my tag I used the cute image Candy Elf B, you can find him in the store right here. After I had coloured up I gave my tag a little spray of iridescent sparkle in real life it really has come alive

Colours used

2130 , 1230, 4110, 1210

9505

4150, 4125, 4145, 3120

Claire C i've also used Candy Elf B and used my favourite Christmas colour combo

Colours used:

Skin: 3105, 4150, 4115, 4105

Reds: 3150, 5280, 5245, 5125, 5210

Blues: 9103, 7170,, 7130, 7122, 7120

plus neutral greys

Anjie - I got to use Dressed Up for Christmas.

The colours I used are:

8130, 8140, 8150, 9203 1270, 1280 5210 Gold Graph'It Shake pen.

Gorgeous makes and colouring from the team - so let's get to our winners!...

Our winners from Week 16 are:
Random Winner 1 chosen by Random.org

#26 Maryvonne (WOW!) 

Well done! You've won a voucher to spend at digis from the fantastic Oddball Art! 

Please email us here quoting code GIw18001 to claim your prize!

Random UK Winner 2 chosen by Random.org
#21 Anita
Well done! You've won a set of Graph'It markers from our sponsors

Please email us here quoting code GIw18002 to claim your prize!

The Design Team's Top 3 favourites are:

#21 Anita

#19 Cicci

#17 Jessica Lin

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

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Wk 5 - Pink & White Craft Colouring Challenge with Graph'It markers and Polkadoodles

Welcome back to a brand new challenge here at Graph'It Markers.

Today our challenge for you all is

Pink & White

You can interpret this challenge as you like - we have some colour palettes below for inspiration but basically anything including pink/white 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 19th February.

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

This week we are sponsored by the fabulous people at

Who have an amazing array of images, digis and colouring pages for you to colour, make sure you check them out HERE.

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

PRIZE 1: $10 of downloads 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...

we used these palettes for inspiration...

Nikky...I used the Polkadoodles Lilybug collection for this cute card - such a lovely image to colour and perfect for pink and white...

Colours used: skin: 4110, 4125, 4105, 3105, 4145, 4135

Wings, heart and all the pinks: 5280, 5160, 4125, 4130, 4145, 4105 plus the blender and mix'it palette to blend in the darker pinks.

Hair: 3120, 3130, 3150, 3180

Claire C I've used this supercute image from the new Polkadoodles Sticks and Bones collection. She's called 'Birthday Rock' and you can find her here as a digi stamp or you can get the whole collection here. 

I used the second colour palette and gave her lots of sparkle using my Gold Graph'It Shake pen although you can't see it too well in the photo. 

Colours used:

Hair: 3245, 3230, 1230, 1210

Skin: 3105, 4150, 4125, 4105

Pinks: 5125, 4135, 5115

plus Blender Pen, Mix it Palette and Gold Graph'it Shake pen

Scatty Jan 

I could not resist joining in with this weeks challenge , what a complete match made in heaven Polkadoodles and Pink/white .I decided on a tag. I used the lovely digi Dinosaur 2 you can find her in the store right here or as a whole download collecteion here. I wanted to keep to a right girly theme so borrowed the lovely pink papers from the Winston collection

The colours I used are

5135, 5125, 5115

also using the Graph'It shake White

Gorgeous colouring and creations from the team, as always of course with lovely Graph'It Markers!

Don't forget, the challenge is

Pink & White

You can interpret this challenge as you like - we have some colour palettes below for inspiration but basically anything including pink/white 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 19th February.

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

We look forward to seeing all your lovely entries - we'll be back next week with more inspiration for this challenge and a load of new makes and ideas plus our winners from last time, so go get colouring now!

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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!

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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