Week 8 Graph'It Colour challenge.... Colour denim

Welcome to another challenge!

Firstly, don't forget there is still time for you to enter our last Week 7 challenge from last week so make sure you get your entries in here.

Our challenge for you this week is

Colouring Denim

Remember you don't have to use Graph'It to enter but please follow the challenge rules which are in the sidebar for you. The winner of this challenge will receive some great Graph'It stash and you have until Friday 7th March at noon GMT to enter.

The winner of our Week 6 challenge is

Random Winner #7 Sue J

and the team's favourite Top 3 are:

#18 Angelique

#16 Deonna

#5 Karen

Well done everyone!! Email us here to claim your prize and don't forget to grab your blinkies! We will be asking someone from this month's entries to join us as a Guest Designer on our last post of February!

Anjie - The image, papers and sentiments are all from the Pretty Tuff CD Rom.  I've added faux stitching around the paper and sentiments and added some die cut banners from Tattered Lace.

Here is the image coloured with the same colours but using the Mix It Palette and a brush tipped blender pen

Doesn't it look different! I have to say I am very impressed with the Mix It Palette, I thought it was something I didn't need, how wrong was I!

The colours of the Graph'Its I have used are:

Skin: 4115, 4155, 4170, 4715

Denim: 7109, 7110, 7115

T-Shirt: 5210, 5215, 5220

Bear: 2105, 2110, 2120

Zoe - For this week's challenge I had a play with creating texture on clothes and in particular denims. Once I finished colouring my image, I sprayed some Mix It Fluid onto a textured towel. I then dabbed the cloth onto the coloured jean's, not rushing to allow the fluid to lift some of the colour and to leave the impression of the cloth.

The Graph It's I used are - 

Skin = 4115, 4120, 4125, 4135, 4150, 4155, 4170

Hair/shoes = 3190, 6160, 5140, 4150

T-shirt/bag = 7140, 7145, 9103

Denim = 9100, 9102, 9103, 9505, 7180

Nikky...I haven't had much time this week as I've been away at the UK Craft trade show at NEC but I really wanted to join in this challenge...

I used my Dollie Daydream digistamp and I'm a bit obsessed with colouring water at the moment as you might have guessed. Actually, if I'm honest this was the first and just about the only image that I had to hand last minute LOL! I absolutely adore Graph'It Cool Greys for colouring Denims and that's what I've used here with a very limited colour palette of only Greys (other than skintones).

The Graph'It colours I used are:

Skin: 4115, 4155, 4170, 4175, 4145

Jeans: Cool Greys 9101, 9102, 9103, 9105, 9106, 9905, 9909

Umbrella and background: Neutral Greys 9501, 9502, 9102

Blender

Fabulous Projects from the team! We'll be back next Friday with lots more inspiration for you so see you then - in the meantime don't forget to get your entries in to this one! :D

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2 August Week 6 - Jeans & Denim

Welcome to another great challenge! 

Last week we challenged you to colour Blonde Hair - but this week we challenge you to show us what you can do with colouring...

Jeans and Denim

You can use ANY brand of alcohol marker to enter our challenges!

Before we get to this week's inspiration and prizes, it's time to announce the winner of our Week 4 challenge which was Black Hair. We're so pleased to announce that our Top 2 entries are:

1. An

2. Lucy

We loved all your work and congratulations to An who won our fabulous prize of over £30 of Graph'It goodies!! Well done! Please email Nikky here to claim your prize and please grab your winners blinkies from the sidebar.

The winner of this week's challenge will win a fantastic prize - a 12 pack set of Graph'It Skintones from Premium Art Brands - so if you're dying to try these wonderful new markers make sure you're in it to win it!

Let's get to the great team inspiration this week...we decided to challenge denim and jeans because there are SO many different colour combinations and cool techniques for getting a great denim look and it's one of those things we get asked about all the time. Graph'It have some fantastic colours which are great for denim...the selection of blues is one of the best around and even the Cool Greys are stunning for stonewashed denim effects - go check out the colour palette. Before we get to the team inspiration, 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!

Simonne ... All my digi images and papers are from the Polkadoodles Bonbon Belles double CD and I used them to create a scene for my card. As I don't have the cool greys (...yet, lol!) I used the deepest aqua colour (peroleum 7290) with my Denim (7180) Graph'It marker to achieve a deep shadow for my jeans:

Graph'it Markers used:

Skin: 4155 4125 4115 4120 4135 4145 ... Hair: 3245 1280 1230 1210 4110 ... Jeans: 7290 7180 7115 7110 7105 ... Fence: 3250 3245 3210 ... Trunk: 3250 3245 ... Greens: 8260 8240 8220 0000 ... Purples: 6110 6120 6130 6140 6180 ... Turquoise: 7260 7240 7220 7210 ... Bird: 9503 9501 9500 0000

Cara
I've decided to go with a dark bleached denim look and I also followed the colours through into her hair (I do like to co-ordinate) but it does show that you don't need the full Graph'it Marker collection to colour a decent image - I basically used skin colours, a few greys and a few blues.

Graph'it Markers used:
Skin: 4125,4145,4155,4135
Clothes,hair and blue parts of weights : Black, 7180,7170,7160, 7130,7110
Grey's for weights: 9108, 9106, 9104

Kevin  I have used this gorgeous image from the Polka Doodles Pretty Sweet cd rom and went with the washed out jeans look.

Graph'It markers used.
Skin 4115. 4135. 4145. 4155. 4170
Hair 3190. 3150. 3125. 3110
Top & Shoes 1130. 1150. 1250. 2140
Jeans 7105. 7125. 7180

Debs

I wanted to achieve and older worn denim look so added Cool Greys as they have a lovely blue tinge to them and they blend so well with the other Blues.

Graph'It Markers used: 

Jeans - 7180, 7110, 7115, 9104, 9102

Tee - 1250, 2105, 1210

Hair - 3280, 3255, 2245, 1250

Grass - 8280, 8240, 8220

Skin - 4180, 4170, 4155, 4110, 5110

Cloudy Sky - 7105 & Blender

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

You have until  Sunday 11th August 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 16th August 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.

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