Friday 30 May 2014

Wk 22...Frills and Fancy - Graph'It Colouring Challenge

Happy Friday, all!
Welcome back to another great colouring challenge at Graph'It.

We're very excited today because we have our first Guest Designers Hazel and Kym
joining us this week! 
Each month we will be choosing 2 Guest designers so if you love your colouring and love Graph'Its and would like to be considered then email us here and we'll put you on our list - we are now considering August and September designers so be quick!

Our new challenge for you this week is a great one, you can get as creative as you wish with this! 
Frills and fancy!
There are no colour restrictions to this so you can show us your makes with frilly ribbons, lace, whatever you wish it to be, you don't have to colour frilly or fancy lol!
The Random Winner of this challenge will be announced on 21st June and you have until 14th June to enter so get your colouring boots on! as always, the winner will receive some Graph'it goodies and the team will choose their Top 3 favourites!

The Random winner of our Week 18/19 challenge 'Pinks' is
Well done! Email us here quoting code w22GI001 to claim your prize!x
The Design Team's Top 3 favourites are:
No 9 Shuly
No 27 Jennifer
No 21 Jane
Well done everyone - it was really hard to choose this week, there were loads of great entries! you're all too good! 

Let's head over to the team and see what goodies they have for us today: 

Susan -I have made an easel card this week for a change and gone a bit OTT .I wanted something Rich and Lush and that's what I got
The image is coloured with my amazing Graph'It markers - if you haven't tried them yet, take a tip from me, give them a go you wont be disappointed. Don't forget to try some Ultimate Graphic 160 gsm card too, Nikky's favourite for colouring, it works hand in hand with the GI's to give you that smooth blend.
These are the GI's I have used
Skin 4115 ,4155 ,4145
Hair 3210 ,3250 ,3255
Dress 5160 ,5245 ,5255 ,3140
Under Skirt 9400 ,9401,9402 ,9403
Gold Shake pen and White Shake pen

Claire C  Fancy frills was a good excuse to make a really girly card so I printed this lovely image out on Ultimate Graphic 160gsm card and coloured her with my Graph'It markers before going to town with lots of embellies and making some frills from lace and ribbon...
Colours used: Hair 3155, 3145, 1230,1210
Skin 4180, 4155, 4115, 4125 (blush 4135, 5115)
Pinks: 5135, 5124, 5115, 5110


Anjie - I have printed one of the papers from the Studio 12 CD-rom Picknix Collection 1 onto some card and made a box. I then printed the cupcake image from the same CD  onto some Ultimate Graphic 160gsm paper and coloured it with Graph'It Markers. I then cut some die cuts and stamped the sentiment and Butterfly from a Premium Crafts Brands stamp set. I used a Graph'It MIX'IT Palette and a blender pen to give the butterfly a water coloured look. I coloured the edges of all the die cuts with  Graph'It Markers.


The  Graph'It Markers I used were:

7240, 7220, 7210,
5120, 5115, 5110


Claire Boelema: I interpreted the theme slightly differently to my teamies. I decided my Frilly and Fancy would be the frilly, flouncy dress the image is wearing. I added a bit of lace,ribbon and glitter to add to the theme. I printed the image onto Ultimate Graphic Paper and coloured it with Graph'It markers. I added some pops of sparkle to the dress using the Silver Shake'It pen, which I dabbed at with my finger to give a more subtle shimmer.




Skin: 4110, 4115, 4120, 4145
Hair: 9100, 9501, 9504, 9506, 9909
Other Colours: 5220, 6110, 6175, 6190, 0000
Shake'It Silver Glitter Pen

Hazel Brown - Guest Designer....All of my colouring is done with Graph It markers with the exception of the green shades.

Kym....It is Kym here and I am delighted to appear here as Guest Designer for a couple of Graph’it challenges as I love my Graph’it pens. As soon as I saw this topic I wanted to do a summery theme. 

I have used my Polkadoodles Fredericka CD for the image and the backing papers. My colour scheme was mainly pink and brown/craft with a touch of yellow and orange thrown in. The Graph’it pen colours I have used are:
Skin - 4125, 4150, 4170, 5110 and 5120
Dress - 5120, 5110 and 5140
Flowers/Basket - 1150, 1170, 2110, 3210, 8150, 8280 and 8240
Hair - 3255, 3210 and 3245
Outlining of image - 7105.
What fantastic projects from all the designers this week, they always create magic don't they!

Don't forget - The Random Winner of this challenge will be announced on 21st June and you have until 14th June to enter so get your colouring boots on! as always, the winner will receive some Graph'it goodies and the team will choose their Top 3 favourites!
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Friday 23 May 2014

Wk 21...Oranges and Lemons Inspiration...Graph'It Colouring crazy challenge

Hi everyone and welcome back to Graph'It for another fabulous challenge and inspiration!

Before we get started we made a little boo boo last week and accidentally duplicated the same winners from the previous challenge Week 16/17 by accident (silly copy and paste and silly blogger for not saving properly LOL!) So we apologise for any confusion! 
So this week we have redrawn the challenge for week 16/17 and the 
Random Winner is
Well done! Email us here to claim your prize!
and the Design Team's top 3 is
Well done everyone! Some gorgeous creations were entered this week, thankyou! Grab your blinkies from the sidebar! 

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. 

Let's see what inspiration the Design Team have come up with this week for you!...
Claire C  I love yellow its one of my favourite colours and for this card I decided to have a play with creating a background with my markers. I just scribbled on acetate in shades of yellow and orange on acetate, spritzed with Mix it fluid and swooshed my card through, adding extra layers here and there. I also use my Graph'Its to colour the reverse of the acetate butterflies before I glittered them. All the stamps used are from the gorgeous new range of stamps that Nikky has designed for Premium Craft Brands

Colours used: Yellows 1140,1150,1180
Oranges 2120 2150 2180

Susan - These are colours I very rarely use but its made a nice change .
I have used an Image which was designed by our very own and very talented Nikky Hall for Tattered Lace Designs .I have used My Graph'It markers to colour the image which I stamped on Ultimate Graph'It 160 gsm ,this is totaly amazing card . All card is from my stash
The GI's I have used are Skin - 4115 ,4155 ,4145
Hair - 3120 ,3140 ,3160
Clothes - 2150 ,2160 ,2170 ,2180 ,1180 , White shake pen
Horse - 1150 ,1180 ,2180 ,3140 ,3160 ,Gold Shake pen

Claire Boelema - I've used my oranges and lemons to colour the sand and the sun in this little altered sardine can beach scene.
Colours used:
Female:7130, 7160, 5130, 9504, 9506, 4170, 4155, 4135
Male: 7130, 7160, 5240, 5245, 4170, 4155, 4145, 4175, White Shake It Marker
Sea: 7119, 7109, 7130, White Shake It Marker
Sand: 1150, 1170, 1180, 1250, 2110, 2150
Tin: 7109

So don't forget, 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. 
ENTER THE CHALLENGE HERE

We will be back next week - enjoy your bank holiday weekend and we look forward to seeing all your creations, thanks for joining us again - oh and don't forget we are looking for Guest Designers too! We have now filled our June/July slots but will be choosing August designers soon so if you'd like to be considered just email us using the link above! 

Friday 16 May 2014

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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Friday 9 May 2014

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

See you next week!

Friday 2 May 2014

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:
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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