Wk 20...Oranges and Lemons Graph'It Colouring Challenge

Welcome back to another fabulous Colouring Challenge!

We are selecting our Guest Designers for June so if you'd love to be considered please email Nikky HERE giving a short reason why you'd love to be involved and what markers you use together with your blog link and we'll put you in the hat for consideration!

So today, our challenge for the team is

Warm Colours/Oranges and Lemons

and for you guys at home to make it easy you can choose either of these options so show us your wares! 

Remember it doesnt mean you have to colour with oranges and lemons but we just want to see that somewhere on your make! You can use ANY colouring medium you like!

Our random winner which will be chosen after 31st May will receive some lush Graph'It goodies! 

Just add your blog link to Mr Linky below!

You have until 31st May to enter this challenge and we will announce the winner and Top 3 on 7th June here. 

The winner of Challenge 18/19 which closes today at noon will be announced here next week so make sure you call in for more great inspiration too, but in the meantime let's head over and see what the team have made with this week's theme!...

Zoe - Well this was a challenge as these are not colours I tend to use, and I found I only have one orange in my collection. But worry not - I used my warm browns! So the girl is from Candy Doodles Collection from Polkadoodles. I layered the image on a mix of orange and yellow card, adding a couple of brads and some washi tape.

The Graph It's I used are - 

Skin = 4120, 4115, 4155, 3120 & 4135

Hair = 3120, 3125, 3150, 3170 & 3190

Jeans = 9100, 9102, 9103, 9105 & 7180

Yellows = 1130, 1150 & 2120

Oranges = 1250, 2170, 3130 & 3170

Background = Neutral greys

Cara....I loved this challenge, it's not very often I use Orange or Yellow in my designs so this was a lovely change and i'm sure I will be using it more often, the oranges in the GI range are so rich I love them. I used this amazing image from the Dollie Daydream Goes East CDrom, the papers, sentiment and even the shaped card template came from there too!

Graph'its used:
Skin: 3120, 4155, 4150, 4115, 4135
Hair: 9503, 9505, 9507, 9509, 9909
Deep orange: 2160, 2170, 2180
Lighter orange: 2110, 2120, 2140

Kevin This is a good challenge for me as it made me use some colours I don't often use, I have had a go at a twisted easel card and used the shaker glitter embosser pens.

Graph'its used:

Skin. 4120..4135..4155..4170

Hair.1180..1210..1250..1280

Clothing.1130..1140..1170..2110..2105 & blender

Silver & Gold shaker pens.

Anjie The image, embellishments, sentiments and the papers are from the fabulous Work & Play Collection 4 which is now available.

The Graph'Its I have used to colour him are:
Skin: 4115, 3120, 4155, 4145, 4135
Oranges: 2110, 2120, 2130
Yellows: 1110, 1130, 1150, 1170, 1180

Gorgeous inspiration! Who knew you could do so much with Yellows and Oranges? Fab!
So today, our challenge is
Warm Colours/Oranges and Lemons
and for you guys at home to make it easy you can choose either of these options so show us your wares! Remember it doesnt mean you have to colour with oranges and lemons but we just want to see that somewhere on your make! You can use ANY colouring medium you like!

Our random winner which will be chosen after 31st May will receive some lush Graph'It goodies!
Just add your blog link to Mr Linky below!
You have until 31st May to enter this challenge and we will announce the winner and Top 3 on 7th June here.

The winner of Challenge 18/19 which closes today at noon will be announced here next week so make sure you call in for more great inspiration too! 

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Wk 19 - Let's Go Pink Graph'It Colour Crazy Challenge

Hi everyone, who's ready for some more colouring? We are!

Today is our inspiration week for the last challenge which is

Let's Go Pink

You can enter this challenge HERE!

We want to see all your pink projects (of course) and you have until Fri 16th May at noon GMT to enter this challenge - remember you don't have to use our products to enter but we do want to see some colouring!

The Random winner of this challenge will be announced on 23rd May and will receive some great Graph'It goodies and as always we will choose our favourite Top 3!

We are also looking for Guest Designers so if you would like to be considered as a Guest please type GDT on your Linky and each month we will choose someone to join us! 

Don't forget you can also still enter our big blog candy too, just click the image to enter

You can see the winners of our last challenge at the bottom of the post! Let's see what the team have for us this week!...

Cara
This week I decided to make a bottle tag using the fab template from the Doobadoo range (you can use the same template to make a door hanger too) I also used the laser art butterflies which I coloured with my markers. I used my pink grays for this challenge along with one of the darker pinks in the range to give me a darker more shaded look.  I also used the pink grays and blender to colour my background.

Graph'it markers used:
Skin: 4115,4150,4155,3120,4135
Dress, Hair, Wings, Background and flowers: 5255,9303,9304,9305,9306,9307

Anjie - The image and papers are from the 5th Birthday celebration blog hop over at Polkadoodles. You have until the 30th May to join in the blog hop and grab yourself £11 worth of freebies and the chance to win a massive blog candy worth £100. So as soon as you've finished here get yourself over there and join us.

The Graph'Its I have used to colour this image are:

Skin: 4115, 4145, 4155, 3120, 4135

Pinks: 5150, 5170, 5180 & 5110, 5120, 5125, 5130

Zoe - So this week I coloured up a Saturated Canary image - I wanted to make a page in my Smash book for personal reasons and it suited what I wanted to achieve for now. I also used my Graph It's to help colour coordinate my mats and layers. My pink card wasn't quite the right shade, so I just went over it. I added a few die cuts to embellish including the hearts from Doobadoo which I also coloured black.

Graph It's I used are - 

Skin = 4115, 4120, 4135, 4155 + 9404

Hair = 2105, 3110, 3125 + 3140

Pink = 5210, 5130 + 5255

Green = 8220 + 8260

Neutral Greys (Trousers) = 9500, 9501 + 9502

Green Greys (background dots) = 9201, 9203 + 9205

Kevin For my card this week I have used a sweet Bestie image from Sherri Baldy, the hearts are Laser cuts from Doobadoo I have coloured them with Graph It's to match my image.

 

Graph'It markers used

Skin,4115..4135..4155..4170

Eyes 7140..7130

Hair,7240..7220..7210

Clothing,5110..5115..5120..7210..7220..7240

Great projects and colouring as always!

Don't forget - you have until Fri 16th May at noon GMT to enter this challenge - remember you don't have to use our products to enter but we do want to see some colouring!
The Random winner of this challenge will be announced on 23rd May and will receive some great Graph'It goodies and as always we will choose our favourite Top 3!

The Random Winner of our Week 16/17 challenge 'Shadows' is

 No 5 Hayley - you won some lovely Graph'It goodies! 

And our favourite Top 3 are:

10 Shazza
16 Jane
19 Mandy

Well done! EMAIL us here to claim your prize! And a big thankyou for all your entries!

See you next week!

Wk 18...Let's Go Pink - Graph'It Markers Colouring challenge

Happy Friday everyone!

Just before we get to today's challenge we have to tell you to tune into Create and Craft TV on 8th May for another fabulous Graph'It TV show with Nikky! If you can't watch on Sky 671, Freeview 36 you can watch online at www.createandcraft.tv both live during the show and online after the show on catchup so don't worry about missing it!

Also, don't forget we have our fantastic Blog Candy up for grabs - you can win £200 of stash HERE!! 

Today's challenge is all about

Pink, Pink, Pink!

We want to see all your pink projects (of course) and you have until Fri 16th May at noon GMT to enter this challenge - remember you don't have to use our products to enter but we do want to see some colouring!
The Random winner of this challenge will be announced on 23rd May and will receive some great Graph'It goodies and as always we will choose our favourite Top 3!

We are also looking for Guest Designers so if you would like to be considered as a Guest please type GDT on your Linky and each month we will choose someone to join us! 

You can see the winners of our last challenge at the bottom of the post! Let's see what the team have for us this week!...

Claire C I've coloured up one of the adorable images from the Polkadoodles Work & Play collection 3....

Colours used: Hair 3190, 3150,3145, 1230

Skin 4180,4175,4145, 4115,4125

Pinks: 5130,5125,5120,5110

Neutral Greys, Mix'It palette and blender pen

Claire Boelema - I've used the cowgirl from Polka Doodles Work & Play 3 Collection this week and have used lots of yummy Doobadoo fabric and laser cuts for embellishments....

Colours used:: Hair 1110,1270, 3245
Skin 4170, 4155, 4135, 4115
Clothes/Embellishments 5130, 5115, 5110

Susan ...This week I have used papers and an image from Work and Play 3.

Graph'its used Skin .4110,4115,4155,4145
                        Hair .1210,1230,3210
                        Clothes .5115,5110,9500

Nikky....I cheated a little bit but I have coloured my image in pinks but they're very subtle!

I've used this great image and papers which you can get FREE if you take part in my Hop over on my blog today so make sure you check it out HERE. I've used lots of Tattered Lace die-cuts on this make too which I am in love with right now.

Graph'It Colours used:
Skin: 4110, 4115, 4155, 4170, 3110, 4145, 4135
Hair: 3150, 3170, 3180, 3190
Clothes: 4145, 4135, 4115, 5101

Great projects and colouring as always!

Don't forget - you have until Fri 16th May at noon GMT to enter this challenge - remember you don't have to use our products to enter but we do want to see some colouring!
The Random winner of this challenge will be announced on 23rd May and will receive some great Graph'It goodies and as always we will choose our favourite Top 3!

The Random Winner of our Week 14/15 challenge 'Shadows' is

 No 5 Hayley - you won some lovely Graph'It goodies! 

And our favourite Top 3 are:

10 Shazza
16 Jane
19 Mandy

Well done! EMAIL us here to claim your prize! And a big thankyou for all your entries!

See you next week!

We are also looking for Guest Designers so if you would like to be considered as a Guest please type GDT on your Linky and each month we will choose someone to join us! 

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Wk 17 - Using Greys Inspiration...Graph'It colouring challenge

Hello and Welcome back to some more amazing colour inspiration!

Before we get to this week's challenge we have to bring your attention to our

HUMONGOUS £200 Birthday Candy Giveaway 

which is on the post BELOW this one HERE. Make sure you grab the photo and post it in your sidebars and enter the Mr Linky to be in with a chance of winning over £200 of great stash!! Check it out HERE.

We are continuing our Week 16 challenge which is all about 

Using Greys

This can be in any way you like, either by colouring shadows, papers, colouring hair, clothing, whatever you wish, we just want to see you colour with some Greys on your project!

You can enter this challenge HERE

Don't forget, you don't have to use Graph'Its to enter our challenge, we accept entries which use ANY alcohol marker, no matter which brand!

You have until Friday 2nd May at noon GMT to enter and we will announce our Random Winner on Friday 9th May - the winner will receive some great Graph'It goodies worth £20! 

Claire Boelema - What a great challenge! Although I've added some pops of colour to the image, it has on the whole been coloured using Greys. I must confess to being a little worried that the image would look a little dull and flat but I think you'll agree that is far from that.

Water: Cool Grey 0 (9100), Cool Grey 1 (9101), Cool Grey 3 (9103), White Shake It Pen

Sky: Neutral Grey 1 (9501), Neutral Grey 4 (9504), Neutral Grey 6 (9506), Blender (0000)

Skin: Light Caramel (4170), Skin (4155), Powder (4135), Cotton (4115)

Boat: Smoke (3210), Lichen (3230), Havana (3245), Bronze (3250), Cigar (3255), Mocha (3280)

Figure/Flowers: Ghost (4125), Burgundy (5280), Aqua (6110), Lavender (6140), Bougainvillea (6170), Anise (8250), Military (8280)

Claire C  You can get some fab effects by using your greys with other colours in the Graph'It range - you can create different shades and tones by either mixing on your Mix'It palette or by laying down a layer of grey before your main colour. I've used green greys and blue greys to add depth and shade to the greens and turquoises on this image

Skin: 9203,9205,8260,8240,8220

Hair: 9104, 9103, 7270,7240,7220,

Flowers: 6140,6110,6130,5110,5115

I've also used the Silver Graph'It Shake pen for some sparkle and my Mix'it palette and blender pen

 

Susan -  The Image that I have used is from the fantastic CD

Dollie Daydream Goes East and coloured with Graph'it Markes , the papers are also on the CD

                                                                 Graph'it Markers used
                                                          Skin 4125 ,4115 ,4155 ,4170
                                                          Hair 3210 ,3250 ,3255 ,3270
                                                        Clothes 9201 ,9203 ,9205 ,9207

We are a little thin on the ground with our team this week but haven't the 2 Claire's done an awesome job for us!! Fabulous makes!

You can enter this challenge HERE

Remember, you have until Friday 2nd May at noon GMT to enter and we will announce our Random Winner on Friday 9th May - the winner will receive some great Graph'It goodies worth £20! And as always the team will pick their favourite Top 3 entries too! 

And don't forget to enter that Candy giveaway HERE!! 

See you next week!!

Wk 16 - Using Greys...Graph'It Marker Colouring Challenge

Happy Easter everyone and welcome to another Colouring challenge!
Don't forget, you don't have to use Graph'Its to enter our challenge, we accept entries which use ANY alcohol marker, no matter which brand!

Before we get to this week's challenge we have to bring your attention to our

HUMONGOUS £200 Birthday Candy Giveaway 

which is on the post BELOW this one HERE. Make sure you grab the photo and post it in your sidebars and enter the Mr Linky to be in with a chance of winning over £200 of great stash!! Check it out HERE.

Anyway, let's get to the challenge! 

We will announce Week 14 & 15 winners next week, but today we are challenging you to

USE GREYS

This can be in any way you like, either by colouring shadows, papers, colouring hair, clothing, whatever you wish, we just want to see you colour with some Greys on your project!

You have until Friday 2nd May at noon GMT to enter and we will announce our Random Winner on Friday 9th May - the winner will receive some great Graph'It goodies worth £20! 

Just a reminder - you still have time to enter our last challenge too, you can enter HERE

So let's head on over to the Design Team's amazing colouring creations this week!....

Zoe - I love the different greys you can get in the Graph It range, Green grey is fabulous for shading, backgrounds and, for me, it shouted school uniform!! So I coloured up this Some Odd Girl digi. I used the green greys to colour her skirt, bag, hair band and eyes. I also used them to create the soft dotted background. Combined with warm bold colours the green greys can become the new black!!

The Graph It's I used are -
Green Greys = 9201, 9203, 9205 & 9209
Skin = 4120, 4125, 4115, 4155, 3210, 4145, 4135 & 9503 (dark shadows)
Hair = 4170, 4175, 5215, 5220 & 6160

Cara
I love colouring in monochromatic and I also love colouring hair in lots of wild and different colours, the many varieties of Grey's in the Graph'it range are perfect for this.  I coloured the hair, eyes and lips of this lovely lady using the Green grays and then built up my card in matching colours to give a lovely monochromatic finish. I also used the Shake glitter market to add shimmer and the White pen to add the dots.

Graph'its used:
Skin: 4115, 4150,4155,3120,4135
Green Greys: 9201-9209
Blender
Glitter Shake Silver
Shake white pen

Anjie - The image and paper used on the blackboard are from the fabulous new Work & Play Collection 3.

The colours I have used are:

Skin: 4115, 4155, 4170, 4175, 4135

Hair: 1210, 1230, 3110, 3140, 3180

And the Green Greys for the clothes are: 9203, 9205, 9207

Absolutely LOVING the colouring this week, isn't it great! 

Remember, you have until Friday 2nd May at noon GMT to enter and we will announce our Random Winner on Friday 9th May - the winner will receive some great Graph'It goodies worth £20! And as always the team will pick their favourite Top 3 entries too! 

And don't forget to enter that Candy giveaway HERE!! 

See you next week!! 

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Wk 16 - £200 Birthday Candy Giveaway!!

Woooohoooo!! Happy Birthday to us!

Here at the Graph'It challenge we have our first birthday coming up in May so we thought it would be rude not to offer you all the opportunity to win a HUMONGOUS candy!!

We reckon there is well 

OVER £200 of goodies here!!

There are dies galore, CD's, stencils, Graph'It markers, paper packs, stamps, punches and tons and tons of goodies anyone would be very lucky to receive! 

All you need to do to win this fabulous stash is:

1. FOLLOW THIS BLOG

2. Take the PHOTO and pin it to your blog sidebar

3.  Link the photo to this post/blog 

4. Use Mr Linky BELOW (not in today's challenge post, it MUST be here!) and add your photo and link! 

PLEASE don't cheat because we will check these points if you are drawn as the winner and there is nothing worse than picking someone and then having to disqualify them because they didnt follow the rules! 

We will draw a lucky RANDOM winner on 30th May and ANYONE can enter, no matter where in the world you are based! 

Come on everyone, get pinning the pic and the link and we will see you back here on 30th May to announce the winner!! The winner will have 2 weeks to claim the prize and if it's unclaimed it will be given to another winner instead. GO GO GO and more importantly - GOOD LUCK!!!

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Wk 15 - Shadow Effects Graph'It Colouring Challenge

Hi everyone, welcome back to another Graph'it challenge day!
This week we have more inspiration for you on
Shadow Effects

Shadows can be one of the most useful effects no matter what you're colouring so I challenged the team to come up with the goods and boy, did they! 

Don't forget you can use ANY brand of alcohol marker to enter the challenge, just please follow our rules which are in the sidebar ---->

You have until Fri 18th April at noon GMT to enter this one and the winner will be announced on 25th April. Our random winner will receive some fabulous Graph'It Goodies! 


ENTER THIS CHALLENGE HERE

You can see the winners of our last challenge at the bottom of this post!

Zoe - I loved this challenge, adding depth to images with darker shadows is something I enjoy doing. I've created these bookmarks using a flower image from the gorgeous Dollie Goes East collection. I also added chipboard letters and a heart, all coloured with my Graph It's. I used a brown and a  green grey to add the extra shadows - my image shows the flowers coloured before I added the shadow then after and, of course, the finished project!

The Graph Its I used are -

Reds = 5210, 5215, 5220 & 5245.

Blues = 7125, 7130, 7170 & 7180.

Greens = 8220, 8260 & 8270.

Brown = 3190

Green Grey = 9209

Anjie - I have added shadows to where I think there would be folds in her top and skirts and around the image.

The colours I have used are:
Skin: 4115, 4125, 4120, 4115
Hair: 1210, 1230, 3110, 3140, 3180
Top: 7210, 7220, 7240
Skirt: 9110, 9102, 9103
Shadow: 9110, 9102

Cara

I love adding shadows to my images and I like to extend the shadowing around the image (I also tend to get carried away as I have done here and end up making a complete background out of my shadows). I like to use the same colours I have used withing my image to create my shadows as I think it can add an extra dimension to my finished project.

Colours used:

Skin: 4115,4150,4155,3120, 4135

Pink: 5180,5170,3280,3255

Brown: 3290,3280,3255,3245

Shadow around image: 5170, 3255,3245, 0000

Kevin I really enjoyed this challenge, as I really don't use shadow enough of my projects,I did get a bit carried away with the floor but I like the effect...

Graph'It markers used.

Skin.4115.4155.4170.4180.5120.

Hair.3140.3170.3180

Clothing.7155.7165.7170.7190.95019502.

Bear. 1180.1210.1270.1280.

shadows.9501.9201.1270.9403

Another week of great colouring techniques! 

Don't forget you can use ANY brand of alcohol marker to enter the challenge, just please follow our rules which are in the sidebar ---->

You have until Fri 18th April at noon GMT to enter this one and the winner will be announced on 25th April. Our random winner will receive some fabulous Graph'It Goodies! 

ENTER THIS CHALLENGE HERE

The Random Winner of our week 12 and 13 challenge Spring is
No 60 Hellen 
as picked by Random.org - well done, you've won Graph'It goodies! Please email us with code GIw15001 to claim your prize! 
and the Design Team's Top 3 are:
No 11 Lucy
No 65 Bev
and 43 Linda S

Wk 14 - Colouring Crazy challenge with Graph'it...shadow effects

Hey everyone welcome to another Colour Challenge!

We hope you managed to catch this week's Create and Craft show, it was another whirlwind hour with not enough time to show you everything I had planned but more and more people are joining the Graph'it bandwagon which is fantastic news that the word is spreading about these great markers. 

Don't forget if you have questions or need some help, ideas for colour combos and hints and tips to join us on our Facebook group HERE

where the team are always around to help you if you need it.

We are excited to announce that we have just found out we have another
Graph'It show on Create and Craft on 
Wednesday 9th April at 4pm 
where I will hopefully be showing you some great ideas and all the awesome samples from the team for inspiration! Create and Craft is on Sky 671 and Freeview 36 or you can watch online at www.createandcraft.tv or on TVCatchup.

I have a little tip for you this week which you might find useful...in fact, I've decided that each week I'm going to try and give you a little tip to using your Graph'Its which I find really useful, and hopefully you might too along the way.

So, my Nikky's Tip 1 this week is....

....if you find that you get a slight 'patchy' effect or a 'mottling' when you colour (this can happen with all the brands, not just Graph'It) it generally means that you're overworking the area and flooding a darker colour with a lighter one too much. As GI's are slightly more opaque than some of the other alcohol markers they actually MOVE the inks out of the way which helps to blend more easily, but because of that if you place a light colour into a darker one you can displace it and that can result in this effect if you overdo it. The key to avoiding this is to really make sure you have the right colour combo before you start. Don't forget that although the number system is sequential, the colours are currently more or less in PAIRS or THREES, so if you're having trouble blending, it's usually because you're missing a colour out somewhere. I see this issue quite frequently when I look at people's colouring in blogland and wherever it might be, and usually it occurs more with skintones, I think generally because we tend to concentrate so much on the skin we can overwork it slightly. I always used to find I had this issue when I used Copics too and it was generally for the same reason, I wasn't using the perfect colour combo and ended up trying too hard.
Obviously as the GI colour range is expanded more and more this will also help. It can actually be a bonus sometimes if you make a mistake - I personally find it so much easier to correct a colour error with Graph'Its than I ever have with any other brand which is something I found out this week when I was colouring a dark skintone which turned into a nightmare. I was determined I'd fix it and it took a while but I did, I was so impressed!

So - I hope this little tip has helped if you find you keep getting this or were wondering how to get around it and why it happens.  Anyway, enough babbling from me!

Let's get to this week's challenge...

Shadow Effects

Shadows can be one of the most useful effects no matter what you're colouring so I challenged the team to come up with the goods and boy, did they! 

Don't forget you can use ANY brand of alcohol marker to enter the challenge, just please follow our rules which are in the sidebar ---->

You have until Fri 18th April at noon GMT to enter this one and the winner will be announced on 25th April. Our random winner will receive some fabulous Graph'It Goodies! 

We don't have a winner to announce this week as we are a fortnightly challenge now but we'll be announcing the Winners from Week 11 next week so make sure you join us for the results and more inspiration for this challenge too.

Let's see what the Design team made...

Claire  I've used an image from the Polkadoodles CD 'Pretty Tuff', masked him to create the wall effect with a mask from Dutch Doobadoo and a little distress ink. I used my Graph'Its to add colour the bricks as well as colouring the focal image. My shadow effect was created using the tube from an old biro to blow at the brush end of my Graph'Its, it creates a really fun effect...

Colours used: Hair: 3190, 3250, 3245 and 1210

Skin 4180, 4155, 4115 and 4120

Reds: 5280, 5245,5220,5210

Jeans: 7125, 9104, 9102, 9100

Nikky...I love using shadows so I often have a play around at how I can change them and add more depth. I love this little Ballerina which you can get here and I wanted to make her sit against a wall while she tied her ballet pumps...

This photo isn't the best here as it looks really intense and is much more subtle in real life, but I created a double shadow to give the illusion of more depth and 2 light sources. I broke the shadow up a bit by adding tiny white dots with the Graph'It shake white marker.

I used: 

Hair 1210, 1230, 1250, 3110, 3125, 3150

Skin: 4110, 4115, 4155, 4170, 3110, 4145, 4135

Dress: 4145, 4135

Shadows/background: 9400, 9402, 9405, 9406, 4110, blender

 

 

Susan - .I have used papers ,image and sentiment from Work and Play1, this is an amazing collection and is available on CD and as Digi download ,and as always I have used my amazing Graph'it markers

 

 

 

These are the Graph'its I used

Skin 4125 ,4115 ,4155 ,4145 blush

Hat & Pants 9100 ,9101 ,9102 ,9103
T-Shirt 8110
Hair 3210 ,3270 ,3280 ,3290
Shading 9500 ,9501 ,9502

Drums Gold Shaker pen

So there's what we have for you this week! Just add your creation to Mr Linky below and don't forget you can enter twice, so pop back next week for some more inspiration!

You can use ANY brand of alcohol marker to enter the challenge, just please follow our rules which are in the sidebar.

You have until Fri 18th April at noon GMT to enter this one and the winner will be announced on 25th April. Our random winner will receive some fabulous Graph'It Goodies! 

See you next week!

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Wk 13 - Springtime Pastels - Graph'It Colour Crazy challenge inspiration

Hi everyone and welcome to another Friday of colour Inspiration! 

Before we get to the challenge we have some TV news - you can catch a brand new

Graph'It colouring show on Create and Craft TV on

Monday 31st March at 9am with Nikky

A great opportunity to get loads of hints and tips on colouring (no matter what markers you use!) from Nikky and a chance to really see Graph'Its in action to make your own mind up if they're as good as we say they are! Don't miss it!! 

Our Week 12 & 13 challenge is 

Springtime Pastels

You have until 4th April at noon GMT to enter this challenge and our Random Winner will receive a pack of Graph'Its to try! The Design Team will also choose their favourite Top 3 and we will announce the winner on 11th April.

This week we are announcing our Week 10 Male theme winner...

Chosen by Random.org our winner is

No 20 Diane

Well done Diane!! Please email us using code GIWK130001 to claim your prize HERE

The Design Team's favourite Top 3 are:

#4 Sue

#7 Lucy

#25 Jane

Well done everyone, we loved your makes this week! 

So let's get over to the Inspiration for the challenge - to enter this challenge

CLICK HERE and add your thumbnail to Mr Linky - 

don't forget we have that great prize to go for!

Claire I've used one of the gorgeous new images from the Polkadoodles Work and Play 1 Collection, I love this glamorous singer!

Colours used: hair 3180, 3250, 3245,1230

Skin 4180, 4155, 4115, 4120 and 5110

Dress: 5110, 5115, 6140, 6130

Susan -This week I have used one of these cute stamps designed by Nikky Hall. She is from a collection called Tatty Twinkle and was a sell out range of stamps on Create and Craft this week - watch out for more Tatty Twinkle shows coming soon!...

 GI's used Hair 3210 ,3245 ,3255 ,3270

Skin 4125 ,4115 ,4155 ,4145 ,9401

Dress 7125 ,7130 ,1210 ,1230 

More gorgeous inspiration from the Team! 

To enter this challenge:

CLICK HERE and add your thumbnail to Mr Linky - 

don't forget we have that great prize to go for!

You have until 4th April at noon GMT to enter this challenge and our Random Winner will receive a pack of Graph'Its to try! The Design Team will also choose their favourite Top 3 and we will announce the winner on 11th April. See you next week!

Wk 12 Springtime pastels... Graph'It Colour challenge

Hello and welcome back to another Graph'It Colour challenge!

Spring is a-coming here in the UK, the flowers are all springing forth with their glorious colours so this week we have challenged the team to use a 

Springtime Pastels

theme
You have until 4th April at noon GMT to enter this challenge and our Random Winner will receive a pack of Graph'Its to try! The Design Team will also choose their favourite Top 3 and we will announce the winner on 11th April.

When you look at the Graph'it Colour chart it can appear that because the colours are so very vibrant and rich, that there aren't any pastel tones, but this is very far from the truth. Pastels are very often represented by wishy washy pale colour tones which don't make much impact but by keeping the depth of the pigments so rich Graph'it have some lovely pastels to offer us. Try 5110, 5115, 6130 just for a start.

This week we don't have a winner to announce as we are now a fortnightly challenge but will announce our Week 10 winner next Friday. You can still enter that challenge HERE if you're very quick and get your entry in today!

Watch out for news of another Graph'It show coming up on Create and Craft at the end of March - we'll have more news on that for you next week : )

So, without further ado, let's get the DT inspiration!...

Anjie...The image and sentiment is Dollie Daydream - Sleepyhead Digistamp, which is also available in the Polkadoodles Etsy store.  I have made rolled roses from the same papers and added some die cuts. 

The Graph'It Markers I have used are:

Skin: 4115, 4155, 4170, 4175

Clothes: 6110, 6120, 6140

Pinks: 5110, 5115, 5125

Zoe - I really enjoyed this challenge as I usually colour bright, bold colours so I had to rein myself in to colour pastels! I used this pretty girl character from Candy Doodles collection.   I created a simple white background using the fabulous fence & lanterns from the Doobadoo range as well as some pastel coloured flowers, gems & Candi from my stash. I also used my blender with all combinations to lighten and blend where necessary.

The Graph It colours I used are -

Skin = 4120, 4135, 4145, 4150 & 3120, Hair = 4150, 5140, 6160 & 3190

Shoes = 5115, 5120 & 5130, Jeans = 9100, 9102, 9103 & 9105

Top/hairband = 4110 & 1210, Dress: 6140,6120,6110,5110
Hair: 3180, 3150,3145, 1230, Skin: 4180, 4145, 4115, 4124 

Cara...I decided to use my mix it pallet for this challenge to help me achieve a soft watercolour effect to my image. I stamped my image on Watercolour card which worked really well with the blender which I used to "paint with". It also helped having the Brush nib on the blender pen.  I was a little scared to use this technique before but now I've taken the plunge I really love it and will be using it more often!

Graph'it's used:

Skin: 4175, 4170, 4135

Hair: 3820, 3255

Pink: 5120, 4135

Blue: 7130, 9120

Green: 8290,8280,8260

Mix it pallet and blender pen.

So there's your inspiration from the team - gorgeous as always! Don't forget to please follow our rules in the sidebar which are very simple and easy. Thanks for joining us and we'll see you next week! x

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Wk 11 Graph'It Colour challenge....Male Colours Week 2

Hi everyone, welcome to another day at the best colour challenge around!

This is our 2nd week looking at the challenge theme of

Male Colours

and we have lots more inspiration for you this week from the team.

Remember you don't have to use Graph'It to enter but please follow the challenge rules which are in the sidebar for you and you must be a follower to win that random prize. 

The winner of this challenge will receive some great Graph'It stash and you have until Friday 21st March at noon GMT to enter. 

The Random Winner of our Week 8 Challenge which was Colouring Denim is 

No 2 SHAZZA 

- well done! Email us here to claim your prize!

The Design Team's Top 3 are:

#9 Coldwaters, #11 Lucy and #7 Coops

Well done everyone, thanks so much for joining us 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 in April.

So let's see what the Design Team have for you in the way of extra inspiration with Male colours this week - and don't forget to drop by next week for a brand new challenge!...

Kevin I have made a Rocker card  using this fabulous Drummer boy image from the New Polkadoodles Work & Play 1 Cd Rom but you can also get this as a digi too here. The images in this collection are fun and lovely to colour too.

Graph'It Markers used

Skin 4110..4150..4170..4180

Hair 3130..3150..3170

Clothing 9101..9102..7125..8280..8270..8240..9503..9501..9505

Drum kit 9501..9503..1250..1210..1140

Zoe  - So for this card, I used my Graph It's to create some of the background as well as colour the main image. The image is Emma Canning - Web surfing which is perfect for those boys young & old! I used inks to start the background but then used my Graph It's through a stencil to build depth. I added extra accents from my stash.

The Graph It's I used are - 

Skin = 4125, 4115, 4155 & 3210

Hair = 3125, 3150, 3170 & 3290

Laptop/background = 9100, 9102, 9103 & 9105

So there we have some extra inspiration for this great theme - don't forget you don't need to use our products to enter but you MUST follow our rules and be a follower of our blog to be considered for that random prize! 

To enter pop over to last week's post HERE and add your link!

We will see you back here next week for a brand new challenge !