wk 7 - Spring/Greens....Graph'It Colouring challenge

Welcome back to another Colouring Challenge from Graph'It!

We hope you checked out our little colour clinic on the GI Facebook group last weekend and we'll let you know when the next one is happening too! If you want some more info on Graph'It and haven't joined the group you need to get joining now, there is so much inspiration and tips and advice for you all...

So our newest challenge starting today is

Spring Greens

We want to see anything that fits either
SPRING or GREEN
 inspired so this theme is really versatile for you to enter!
We also have a new twist for you!
We have a lovely freebie image for you below which you can right-click and save - now we would love you to use this in your challenge make but this is OPTIONAL! 
So if you don't want to use it you don't have to!
REMEMBER - YOU CAN USE ANY TYPE OF COLOURING MEDIUM TO ENTER THE CHALLENGE, PENCILS, ANY ALCOHOL MARKERS, INKS, DISTRESS INKS, PAINT, WHATEVER YOU WANT TO USE, SO LONG AS IT'S COLOURED/PAINTED BY YOU THAT IS FINE! 

You have until 27th Feb and the winners will be announced the following week!

Our winner is chosen by Random.org and will win a pack of Graph'It markers whoop whoop!

AND our Top 3 will also win a free digi stamp by our sponsor Polkadoodles!

Please remember you don't have to use our products to enter but please check our rules in the sidebar --->
Here is your freebie....(just right click and save to your pooter)

We also have some fabulous news to share because Scatty Jan and Caroline Woodhall have been joining us as Guest Designers the last few weeks and they've done such a mega job they will now be joining the team permanently!! Whoop! So welcome Jan and Caroline, we're so thrilled to have you with us!!

So let's see what the team have made!

Our new Designer Caroline has made this fabulous creation....

Graph'Its used: skin, 4150, 4145, 4125 4120

hair 3140, 3110, 1250 and 8220
clothes 8280, 8260, 8220, 1130, 1110 
boots, 3140,3110
used pan pastels turquoise around image

Scatty Jan - Our new Designer Jan had great fun with her greens this week....

Graph'It colours used:

skin - 4115/4155/4170/6150/4145

Hair - 3245/3210/4110
Greens - 8260/8250/8240/8220

Susan -  Its all about Spring and Green well that's my interpretation of the challenge .
I have used an Octavia image and coloured her with my Fantastic Graph'it Markers
and a little Colour soft pencils both are available here .

GI'S Used 

Skin  4125 ,4115 ,4145 3210

Clothes 4145,4175 -1110 ,8210 ,8280 the last 2 I mixed together with the Mix pallet

Mushroom 9401 ,9402 ,9403 4145 ,4175

                                             Mixit pallet and White Shake pen

Yvonne - Hello everyone, well greens are not my usual colours that I go for, so for this challenge, I was out of my colouring comfort zone. However, reliable wonderful markers to the rescue! I opted to go for green backing papers and coloured her scarf and jeans green.

 Markers used are as follows:

Skin:  4120, 4155, 4170, 4145

Hair:  3210, 3250, 3270, 3290

Jeans: 8115, 8120, 8125

Top:  2105, 2110, 2120, 2140, 9502, blender

Scarf: 8115, 8120, 8125

Flower:  4145, 4147, 4135, 8210, 8125

Penni - I decided to go a little out of my comfort zone this time and chose a botanical image from Paper Garden Project.

Graph'It Markers Used
Leaves - 8110, 8240, 8250, 0000
Flowers - 8110, 9500, 9501
Ground - 9303, 8110, 8240, 0000


Gorgeous makes from the team yet again!
don't forget you have until 27th Feb to enter - just add your make to Mr Linky below. We will be back next week with more inspiration for the theme and to announce last time's winners! Thanks for joining us x

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A Fri 6th Feb Jan wk 6 Amethyst Inspiration

Pheweee... Friday already and time for more inspiration!

Before we get to the challenge, just a little heads up about a Facebook event we have on this Sunday at 6pm GMT on the Graph'It Marker group...

I'd love to be able to do more tutorials and video help but the truth is I really struggle for time and the right light etc etc, so starting Sunday every couple of weeks I will host an hour long colour clinic for anyone who loves their Graph'Its (and of course anyone else can come along too!)...so you can upload photos of your Graph'it makes and I will try and offer some constructive critique to help you - and everyone else who attends - to improve their skillsets with these fab alcohol markers. If you're a bit shy, don't worry, you can still take part and I will private message your critique if it makes you feel better. This isn't about finding fault and being criticised, it's about trying to offer my experience and suggestions that will hopefully be helpful and assist you to improve with your general colouring but particularly with our beloved Graph'Its. So if you want to take part pop in and join us on the group, which is HERE...

So let's get on with business today!

Our current challenge
Amethyst
is still continuing for another week and you can
ENTER HERE

This basically translates into any tones of purple and lilac so show us all your makes! (the whole project doesnt have to be purple, just part of it ; ) )

As always our random winner will be lucky enough to receive some Graph'It goodies and we will choose our top 3 favourites too - we might even ask you to Guest Design for us in February!

You have until Friday 13th Feb to enter this challenge, please just follow our rules in the sidebar - you DO NOT have to use Graph'It markers to enter, you can use any colouring medium.

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

Yvonne - Hello there everyone!! Well I love this challenge theme as I love the colour purple so I couldn't be happier. For some bizarre reason I decided to push my limits (again) and use an image that really requires a lot of effort! I was immensely pleased with how this turned out though, so no complaints!

Skin:  4120, 4155, 4170

Hair: 1210, 1230, 1270, 3110

Dress & Shoes: 6130, 6140, 6165

Susan -  Well its Friday again ,and here is my mid challenge inspiration.  The image I have used is from Polkadoodles  Octavia  collection .She is coloured with my amazing Graph'it markers in beautiful shades of Amethyst....

GI used

Hair 1210 ,1230 ,3150 ,3210

Skin 4115 ,4155, 4147,4175

Dress ,6180 ,06175 toned down with 9500 and blender

                                                            White Graph'it Shake pen

Nikky...I haven't managed to make a card for you but I wanted to share this make which fits into the Amethyst hair colours. I am a bit anti-purples for no good reason other than that I dont seem to gravitate towards them like some of the other colour sets, but I have to say the GI purples are pretty lush...

I really couldnt decide what colours to use on this other than I wanted purple hair so if I did this again I admit it would be completely different lol....

For the hair I used: 6120, 6130, 6140, 6170, 6180 and the new Velvet which is just so lush and adds a warm touch where you don't quite want a dark black but a grey isn't dark enough. I havent tried it yet but this should also work well with your Pink Greys.

Skin: 4115, 4125, 4170, 3210, 4145 and 4135 cheeks

Unicorn: Glass, 7220, 7240, 7240 mixed with 7145, tail and mane 5125, 5130, 5150, 5170

For the background I really don't like this at all but once I started I had to carry on - Green Grey 3, 5 and 7 with lots of blender around the edges to fade out the vignette but I have to admit I'd do this very differently and it didn't help that my Green Grey 3 started to run out! My Top Tip for you when this happens: use your Mix'It palette and spread as much colour on as you can then pick it up from there with your blender pen - it helps to eek out the ink more and lets you blend it out naturally, hopefully before you run out completely!

I then finished off with lots of sparkles by using my Graph'It Shake White pen which I cannot live without. 

Penni - I chose to use a fabulous image from Slinky Tart called Keeley

Here's a close up of the coloured image:

Graph'It Markers used:

Skin - 4115, 4120, 4125, 4155

Eyes - 8110

Hair - 3210, 3245, 3250

Clothes - 6120, 6130, 6140, 6175

Claire C I've used shades of blue and purple to get the tones I wanted for this card, with the Mix'It Palette and blender pen its soooooo easy to mix your markers

Colours Used: 

Skin: 4180. 4155, 4115, 4120 plus 4147

Greens: 

Purples: 6190, 6170, 6130, 7170,7130

Greens: 8115,8125,8140

Plus Mix it Palette and Blender pen

More fabulous inspiration as always from the team! 

So it's time to announce the winners from our Week 3/4 challenge Crisp & White....

Our Random Winner chosen by Random.org is 
#3 Ellie

Well done! Please email us HERE with your snail mail address quoting code GIw6001 so we can mail out your prize!

The Design Team's Top 3 from the same challenge are:

#1 Aunty Sue
#9 Mags
#8 Andrea

You have all won a digi from our Sponsor Polkadoodles so please email us HERE quoting code GIw6003 to claim your digi prize! Well done!

Well done everyone and thankyou for your entries as always! 

We'll be back next week with more inspiration for you!

wk 5 - February Birthstone - Amethyst...Graph'It Colouring Craft Challenge

Welcome back to another fabulous colouring challenge here at Graph'It.

As we go into another month (how fast is this year going already!), we are looking at Birthstone colours, so we want to see your inspiration for February which is 

Amethyst

This basically translates into any tones of purple and lilac so show us all your makes! (the whole project doesnt have to be purple, just part of it ; ) )

As always our random winner will be lucky enough to receive some Graph'It goodies and we will choose our top 3 favourites too - we might even ask you to Guest Design for us in February!

You have until Friday 13th Feb to enter this challenge, please just follow our rules in the sidebar - you DO NOT have to use Graph'It markers to enter, you can use any colouring medium.

Before we see what the team have made for you, we just wanted to give you a heads up that Polkadoodles are having a Design Team call and are looking for some fab colourers and cardmakers so head over HERE and check it out! 

Over the next few weeks we will be showcasing some lovely talented Guest Designers with us so without further ado let's introduce....

Caroline Woodhall....Caroline is a regular entry here with us at Graph'It and she loves her markers so we just had to ask her to join us for a few weeks to bring her special style and inspiration! 

Great job Caroline, we love it! 

Graph'It markers used: 

skin 4170, 4155, 4145, 4115

dress 6170, 6140,6130,6110, 5130,5120,5110

hair 1250, 1150, 1130, 1110.

Kevin I love all the purples & Lilacs in the Graph'It Marker range so I really enjoyed this challenge.

Graph'It markers used

Skin 4120,4155,4170,4180

Hair 3110,3125,3150

Butterflies 6110,6140,6175 1280,2105,2120

We're also very excited to welcome another great colouring talent to the team to Guest Design for us too....Introducing Scatty Jan of course!....

Jan - I am sooooooo excited to be a GDT for the team and what a fabulous first challenge a colour challenge.

Markers I have used

Skin 4115,4155,4170,6150,4145

Dress/Hairband/Shoes 6190,6185,6180,6175

Hair 3290, 3250, 3210, 4110

Anjie -  Here is my make for this challenge.

The colours I have used are:
Skin; 4125, 4150, 4135, 4145, 3120
Horse: 1250, 1230, 1210
Saddle: 6120, 6110
Dress: 6170, 6130

Janet - I used an image of Lilac flowers an image that suits this challenge so well.

Graph'It Markers used

Flowers - 6110, 6130, 6140, 6175

Leaves - 8270 8280, 8290

What stunning makes this week and some lovely ideas for those Purple and Amethyst colour combinations which is what it's all about!

We'd love to see your entries - we'll be back next week with more inspiration and also the winners of our last challenge so we'll see you then!

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wk 4 - Crisp and White....Graph'It Colouring Crazy challenge

Welcome back it's Friday again and that means

GET YOUR MARKERS OUT!!!

Yes, time to get colouring again!

Just before we get to this week's challenge, we have some exciting news for you all....

if you love using your Graph'It markers and would like to join us for a
Guest Designer spot with us
please email us here...
we are opening this up on an ongoing basis and it is open to GDT's worldwide who can help us show what Graph'it markers are all about.
You will receive some goodies for helping out with us but you will need to have your own Graph'It stash to use as well as this will be a short-term guest spot. 

Today we are looking at more inspiration for our current challenge which started last week....

Crisp and White

Which translates into anything that has a clean and simple kind of feel - or it could also be frosty and white, it could be icing, clouds, anything that gives you a clean and fresh impression! 

You don't have to use Graph'Its to enter this colouring challenge you can use any markers you wish but our Random winner will receive a set of lovely Graph'It markers to try out for themselves!

You have until 30th January to enter this challenge so we are looking forward to seeing what you colour up for us! 

Our sponsor for the challenge is Polkadoodles so the Design Team's top 3 favourite entries will all win a great digistamp to colour too! 

ENTER THE CHALLENGE HERE

Let's see what the Design team have made for more inspiration this week!

Lizzy- I have always wanted a white coat like this one!  

Graph'it color combos used: 

skin: 4125, 4115, 4170, 3120/ 4145 4135

hair: 1210, 1230, 1270, 3125

red: 5110, 5120, 5140, 5170

white: 3110, 7101, blender

brown: 3120, 3125, 3140, 3180

Anjie - I've gone with creating a white dress and white trainers. I've kept the rest of the image quite simple as well. 

The Graph'It Markers I have used are:

Skin: 4125, 4150, 4135, 4145, 3210, 3120

Hair: 9100, 9102, 9103, 9104

Violin: 5110, 5115 

Dress and shoes shadows: 9201

Kevin  I have done a tea cup and saucer and a hat in white....

Graph'It Markers used

Skin 4120.4155,4170.5120

Clothing and flowers. 4147,4145,4135,4175,8110,8115

Cup & Hat 9500,9501,9502

Janet I found this quite a hard one to be honest, I hope you like it.

Graph'it markers used

Face - 5110, 5120, 5125

Leaves and Ground - 8210, 8220, 8270, 8190

Flower - 7101, 7140, 7145

White Shaker pen

Stunning creations from the team and some really super ideas on Crisp and White for you to use as inspiration!

So it's time to announce the winners from our Week 1/2 challenge Shiny & New....

Our Random Winner chosen by Random.org is 

#1 Scatty Jan

Well done! Please email us your snail mail address so we can mail out your prize!

The Design Team's Top 3 from the same challenge are:

#11 Andrea
#22 Coops
#3 Jane

Well done everyone and thankyou for your entries as always - VERY hard for us to only choose 3 this week we loved them all! Please email us so we can send your digi prize! x

We'll be back next week with more inspiration for you!

wk 3 - Crisp and White - Graph'It Colouring Crazy Challenge

Friday already and welcome back to another great colouring challenge!

Today we are looking at

Crisp and White

Which translates into anything that has a clean and simple kind of feel - or it could also be frosty and white, it could be icing, clouds, anything that gives you a clean and fresh impression! 

You don't have to use Graph'Its to enter this colouring challenge you can use any markers you wish but our Random winner will receive a set of lovely Graph'It markers to try out for themselves!

You have until 30th January to enter this challenge so we are looking forward to seeing what you colour up for us! 

Our sponsor for the challenge is Polkadoodles so the Design Team's top 3 favourite entries will all win a great digistamp to colour too! 

Let's see what the Design team have made!

Yvonne - Hi everyone! Well here we are with a fresh new challenge and mid January what better theme than 'Crisp & Bright'!? I made a simple 6x6 card and opted to have the main focus on the image and well..............my colouring 'skills'. There's no escaping them with a close up image like this, is there! Lol! It took a while but I am happy with the results. It is strangely relaxing to watch these amazing markers work for you and blend so well together, makes me look better than I am to be honest! I did smudge a wee bit into some snowflakes but using the Graph'It Marker White Shaker pen, you would never know! Whoo hoo!

The markers I used are:

 Skin: 4120, 4155, 4170, 4135, 4145 - eyes; 7110, 7115, 3110 & 3140 for the 'eyeshadow'

Hair: 3110, 3140, 3150, 3160, 3180
Hat, Scarf & Mitts: 7210, 7220, 7240, 7250, 7270
Coat: 7125, 7130, 7160

Claire C I found this challenge a wee bit scary to start with but the greys in the Graph'It range are fabulous for creating different shades so I've tried to create some different 'whites' in my card....

Here's a close up of the image

Colours used: Skin 4180, 4155, 4115, 4120

Blues: 7125, 9102, 9100

Greens: 8260, 8220

Lilies: 9402, 9400, 1210. 4110

Dress: 9103, 9101, 7101

Wings: 9203, 9201, 7210, 7220

Susan - I just love this challenge , once I got my head around it ! At first I thought White !! colouring white !! ekk! but you dont have to, just as long as you use white somewhere,well this is how I see it, could be wrong. I feel so privileged to have got my hands on one of the NEW!!!!!! digi stamps from our sponsors Polkadoodles this week - Work & Play 9 Love and Kisses.

I have tried to use mainly white for my embellishments ,didn't realize how many shades of white there are! I have coloured  her with my amazing Graph'it Markers and a touch of Inktense (used dry) & coloursoft  Pencils...  They really do make a great team ,working so well together....

Graph'it Markers

Skin -4150,4115,4145

Hair -4110,1210,3210

Dress -7101,7125,5132

White Shake

Silver Shake

Penni - My first thought for white was Wedding, so I decided to colour this lovely image...

Here's a close up of the coloured image - more details of where you can find her on my blog...

Graph'It Markers Used

Skin- 4115, 4120, 4125, 4155

Hair - 3210, 3245 

Eyes - 7210

Lips - 5135

Dress - 9500, 9501, 9503

Flowers - 5135

Leaves - 8240

Dress & Gloves - 9500, 9501, 9503 (I also added some Glamour Dust)

Stunning projects as always from the team! Wow! Who knew white could be so great!

We will be back next week with more inspiration and the winners of our last challenge!

See you then! 

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Shiny & New Inspiration...Graph'It marker Colouring Crazy Challenge

Welcome back to our Friday Inspiration!

This is the 2nd week of our challenge

Shiny and New

This can include anything where you've created anything with a highlight or shine to it OR it could include some new stash that you use - so totally open really! 

Remember you CAN USE ANY MARKER to enter and you have until 16th January to enter! Our Random winner will receive some Graph'It Markers as a lovely prize! 

We also have some extra news on prizes for you - Polkadoodles will also sponsor the Design Team's Top 3 favourites this week so it's an opportunity to win yourselves some lovely digis (and if you represent a Digi site we are also open to other sponsors so please contact us here if you wish to sponsor us with digis)

You can 

ENTER THE CHALLENGE HERE

You can see our last winner's below this post but let's see what yummy colouring the team have for us today! 

Yvonne - Hi everyone and Happy New Year to you all! I interpreted this challenge as new as in new home or baby and I opted for a new baby image.  I made a standard A5 card with some soft backing papers, lace and paper flowers.

The markers I have used are as follows:

Skin:  4120, 4155, 4170, 4145, 4135, 4175 (lips)
Hair:  3110, 3140, 3150, 3180
Dress:  9100, 9102, 9103, 7105, 7115
Shawl:  4120, 4150, 4180
Baby:  4120, 4155, 3110, 3150, 3180

Claire C I've used a new image and lots of the gorgeous new Graph'It markers to create my card

Colours used: 

Hair: 3245 1230, 1210

Skin: 4180,4155, 4115, 4120 plus 4147 blush

Dress: 4135, 4145, 4147, 4125

Cardigan: 8250, 8215, 8110

Wings: 9103, 9100, 7101 plus Silver Graph'It Shake pen

 Susan - Here is a little bit of inspiration from me for the Shiny & New Graph'it Challenge.

My inspiration came from the amazing NEW ! Work & Play 8 collection , I have used Papers cutting files and these adorable Digi stamp all from this Shiny and New collection and of course the star of the show My Amazing Graph'it Markers

Graph'it Markers used

Skin - 4125 ,4145 ,4145 ,3210

Hair - Girl 3210 ,4110 -White Shake pen

Boy ,3250 ,3270 ,3290

Clothes - Girl 1230 ,1270 ,1280

Boy 1230 ,1270 ,280

3210 ,3280 ,3290

Penni - I have used a new digi image on my card.  I bought it to make some Christmas Cards, but I never managed to find time to colour it!!

Here's a close up of the coloured image 

Graph'It Markers used:
Bear - 9100
Fox - 3110, 3130
Skin - 4125
Hair - 3245, 3110
Boots - 9205
Clothes - 5215 , 5220

So it's time to announce the winners from our Week 50/51 challenge Festive Wishes....

Our Random Winner chosen by Random.org is
No 22 Carole Pollard

Well done! Please email us your snail mail address so we can mail out your prize!

We normally choose 3 for The Design Team's Top 3 from the same challenge but this week there were so many lovely entries we had to choose 4 and we could easily have had a Top 10 so massive thanks to everyone who entered, all your makes are superb!

So our 4 winners, who all win a Polkadoodles digi for your troubles are:

No 24 Elena
No 26 Margreet
No 6 Sharon
and No 40 Ingrid

Well done! Please email us so we can email out your digi prize!

Well done everyone and thankyou for your entries as always! 

We'll be back next week with more inspiration for you!

Week 1 - ....Shiny and new - Graph'it Colouring Crazy challenge

Welcome back and a Happy New Year to all our followers and bloggers!

We all hope you had an amazing Christmas and New Year and send our best wishes to you all for the year ahead!

So onto our first challenge of the year!

Shiny and New

This can include anything where you've created anything with a highlight or shine to it OR it could include some new stash that you use - so totally open really! 

Remember you CAN USE ANY MARKER to enter and you have until 16th January to enter! Our Random winner will receive some Graph'It Markers as a lovely prize! 

We also have some extra news on prizes for you - Polkadoodles will also sponsor the Design Team's Top 3 favourites this week so it's an opportunity to win yourselves some lovely digis (and if you represent a Digi site we are also open to other sponsors so please contact us here if you wish to sponsor us with digis)

Let's see what the team have made for you!....

Lizzy-  I thought these bubbles were just perfect for "shiny"!  This is my first attempt with no-line coloring.....

Graph'it color combos used: 

skin: 4125, 4115, 4170, 3120/ 4145, 4135

hair: 1210, 2105, 2120, 3130, 3180

pink: 4147, 4135, 5130, 5255

orange: 4155, 4175, 2160

blue: 7101, 9502, 7220

shoes: 9401, 9403, 9405

bubbles: 7101, 8115, 7220

white and silver Shake Pen

Anjie - I suppose that can be interpreted in a few ways but I saw it as a chance to use some shiny new stash that I got recently! And here is my make:

The Graph'It Markers I have used are:

Hair: 6180, 6185, 6190

Coat: 6110, 6120

Clock: 7101, 7105, 1210, 3230

Trousers/Shoes: 7109, 7110, 7115

Kevin  one of my Nephews got his first car, which he thinks is all shiny and New so my card is for him with his new red beetle car.

The Graph'It Markers I have used.

Skin 4120,4155,4170,5120.

Hair 3100,3150,3180.

clothing 8130,8140,8150,9100,9101,9105

Car 5220,5240,5245,9501,9503,7101,1150,1170.

What gorgeous makes to start off the New Year!

We went a little adrift and forgot to announce the winners from our Week 48/49 challenge 2 COLOURS! OOPS!!
So without further ado....

Our Random Winner chosen by Random.org is
No 10 Jane
Well done! Please email us your snail mail address so we can mail out your prize!

The Design Team's Top 3 from the same challenge are:
No 15 Carole
No 19 Coops
No 10 Jane

Well done everyone and apologies for keeping you waiting!

We'll be back next week with more inspiration for you next week along with our last winners! See You next week!
We can't wait to see your entries - just add your links below (please check our rules in the sidebar!) x

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