Friday 29 May 2015

wk 22 - Pearls & Bling OR Cream & White - Colouring Challenge at Graph'It sponsored by Crafty Sentiments

Welcome back to more colouring inspiration from the Graph'it team!

This is the 2nd week of our challenge and we are again being very kindly sponsored by
Head over to their shop and look at all the awesome digis they have for you! 

The challenge this week is 

PEARLS & BLING

or

CREAM AND WHITE
You can use either of these themes to fit the challenge! 
You have until Friday 5th June to enter
You can enter the challenge HERE

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO USE OUR PRODUCTS TO ENTER - YOU CAN USE ANY COLOURING MEDIUM YOU WISH! 
PRIZE 1:  Random winner chosen by Random.org: Set of Graph'It markers
PRIZE 2:  The Design Team's favourite from the Top 3 will win 3 fantastic digital stamps from Crafty Sentiments! How generous!
Whoop whoop! 
The winner of our last challenge is at the bottom of this post but in the meantime let's see what the team have made this week....

Caroline - I have used Harriet - Fancy Dress. She is a little cutie and perfect for those little girls that like bling. I used a nestabilities frame as i thought it fitted the image perfectly.
graphits used
skin 4170, 4150, 4145, 4120
hair, 1280, 1230 ,1210, 1110
clothes and bag, 6140, 6130, 5130, 5120, 5110
added glamour dust to her dress for added bling

Yvonne - Hello! I am back and this week I got to play with this week I used Kaye - Thinking of You.  Now for those of you who were here last week, I made a scalloped easel card. It went a bit wrong. So this week I decided to do it again with the same papers and everything. Again I used the papers from the Polkadoodles Pretty Sweet Collection only this week I swapped the mat and layer around.   I added flowers and pearls for the finishing effect. 

 I used the following markers:

Skin: 1425, 1455, 1470, 1445
Hair; 1210, 1230, 1270
Dress: 9500, 9501, 1210, 1230 and blender


Claire C  I've coloured up the adorable image Benson Bear - Just for you. When I was little I had a gorgeous cream Teddy, he was really fluffy and had such a sad face lol. I've tried to use the same colours for this little cutie


Colours used:
Teddy: 9402,9400,3210,1210 plus 4147
Flower: 1140, 1180, 9502,9500 and 9

Penni - I chose to use the cute Benson Bear - Just for You too, he's just goregous.


Graph'It Markers Used

Bear - 3210, 3245, 4145 (I dabbed over this with some Mix'It Spray sprayed onto a face cloth, this gave the bear some texture.
Flower - Stem 8150.  Centre 2110, Petals 5110, 5130 blended on the Mix-It Palette.

Here's a close-up of the coloured image:


What great makes! 
You can enter the challenge HERE

The Random winner from Week 19 & 20 which was our Anything Square challenge sponsored by Oddball Art Stamps is
No 41 Maureen
Well done! You've won a pack of Graph'It markers! Email us here quoting ref GIw20001 to claim your prize

And the Design Team's favourite Top 3 are:
No 20 Bettina
No 59 Jane
No 26 Jackie C
and we had a tie this week so we have a 4th fave which is
No 8 kuni
Well done! Our random Top 3 winner chosen by Random.org as well is
No 59 Jane - well done!
and you've won 3 Oddball Art digis so please email us here quoting code GIw20002 to claim your prize!

Thanks so much to all of you that entered! See you next week!

Friday 22 May 2015

wk 21 - Pearls & Bling OR Cream & White - Colouring Challenge at Graph'It sponsored by Crafty Sentiments

Friday again and time for a brand new Colouring Challenge!

Don't forget you can use ANY colouring medium to enter, you do NOT have to use Graph'It markers! We're just here to show you how awesome they are ; )

This week we are very lucky to be sponsored by the fabulous
Head over to their shop and look at all the awesome digis they have for you! 

The challenge this week is 

PEARLS & BLING

or

CREAM AND WHITE
You can use either of these themes to fit the challenge! 
You have until Friday 5th June to enter, just add your entry to Mr Linky at the bottom of the post. 

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO USE OUR PRODUCTS TO ENTER - YOU CAN USE ANY COLOURING MEDIUM YOU WISH! 
PRIZE 1:  Random winner chosen by Random.org: Set of Graph'It markers
PRIZE 2:  The Design Team's favourite from the Top 3 will win 3 fantastic digital stamps from Crafty Sentiments! How generous!
Whoop whoop! 

The winner of our last challenge will be announced next week so let's see this week's fabulous inspiration from the Graph'It UK Design Team...

Caroline....This week i have used a cutie image called Benson Bear - Just for you. I have kept things very simple on this card and for the colouring - sometimes you just need a quick image and Graph'it is great for speed because it's so easy to get shade and tone just using a few pens. I used stickles added to flower for a bit of bling and also cut an extra flower and added a brad to the centre.....
Graph'its used:
bear: 3140, 3110 1230
flower: 5120, 51110

Scatty Jan I have used the lovely Harriet - Fancy Dress digi image for my card this week , how cute is she and so lovely to colour up. And the challenge Pearls and Bling just a lush combination, she really suits this challenge.. I love using the Graph'It pale pinks but this time dared myself to go brighter and I just Love the outcome.


The Graph'Its I have used are
Skin 4110, 4115, 4170, 4125
Hair 3125, 1280, 1270, 1230, 1210
Pinks 5180, 5160
Greys 9305, 9304, 9303
Graph'It Shake  white marker

      Kevin   I have used this gorgeous image from this weeks sponsor she is called Scilla Fairy....

Skin. 4120.4155.4170.4180.
Clothing. 5110.5115.5135.6130.
Flowers.5125.6110.6120.8125.8130.
Silver Glitter Shake pen from Graph'It.

Yvonne - Hello!  This challenge theme is 'Pearls & Bling' but because Nikky hates the idea of her Design Team being idle, she also challenged us to a colour challenge of 'Cream & White'. I was very lucky to get to play with 'Harriet's Fancy Dress', she is too cute! I decided to go mental and make a scalloped easel card, I am a square card girl so shaped cards usually make me queasy, but I wanted to try, so I did. :)  Without success unfortunately!!! The papers are from the Polkadoodles Pretty Sweet Collection.


Skin: 4125, 4155, 4170, 4135, 4145
Hair: 3110, 3140, 3160, 3180
Dress, hairband and shoes: 1210, 1230, 1270, 9500, 9501
Handbag: 9500, 9501, 1210, 1230


Anjie - I have used the Kaye - Thinking Of You image.

The Graph'It's I have used are;
Skin: 4120, 4125, 4135, 4145, 4150, 3210
Hair: 3210, 3245, 3250, 3290
Dress: 7140, 7145, 7150

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Friday 15 May 2015

Wk 20 - Anything Square Colouring challenge sponsored by Oddball art, Graph'It colouring challenge

Hello and welcome back to another Graph'It day!
This week we are again very lucky peeps to be sponsored by the lovely Lizzy Love over at Oddball Art Stamps - Lizzy is very kindly giving us a great prize for a lucky random winner of this challenge! Make sure you check out her store on Etsy here! 
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/OddballArtCo?ref=l2-shopheader-name

Again, our theme of the current challenge is

ANYTHING SQUARE
and you can

ENTER HERE!


This can be anything at all on your make, including a square card, so loads of room to enter and be within the rules for this one! 
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO USE OUR PRODUCTS TO ENTER - YOU CAN USE ANY COLOURING MEDIUM YOU WISH
You have until Fri 22nd May to enter. 
PRIZE: 3 fantastic Oddball Art digital stamps! Whoop whoop! 

The winner of our last challenge can be found at the end of this post, but let's see this week's fabulous inspiration from the Graph'It UK Design Team...

If you haven't joined us before, Graph'It are an amazing Alcohol based marker system which is comparable to the very best premium Alcohol markers available (no cheap versions here!). Graph'It have over 170 colours and are adding to the range all the time. The markers have fabulous rich, vibrant tones which make blending great and they will combine with your other markers too - we have colours that are not available in other markers including 2 whole sets of must-have Pink Greys and Green Greys! Check out the stockist list at the top of the page! 

Nikky...I've loved having Oddball Art as our sponsors - the images are fab and fun and just up my street! This week I coloured up this amazing Sweet Sai the Fairy image and she was great to colour! I love these images because you can really push yourself with some of the colour tones and it's nice to get into the darker richer colours for a change although I always seem to revert back to the amazing 72's as ever, what can I say? Creature of Habit!!...
Graph'Its used:
Skin: 4125, 4150, 4150 & 3120 mixed using Mix'It palette, 4135 outer cheeks and 4145 inner cheeks. (9402 added later as extra shadows under the hair and 9400 used as shadows around the eyes)
Hair: 9502 added on top of 9400, 9403, 9405, 9407, 9409
Clothing: 4125, 4150, 9400
Wings: 4125 (use this loads, can you tell?), 7220, 7240, 7260, 9406, 9408
Plus my faithful cannot be without Graph'It Shake White pen - THE best white pen ever!!

Scatty Jan  Loved colouring my image for this week - I used the lovely Girl with Glasses Paityn, how cute is she with her little glasses and yoyo. I kept the colours simple using the pinks and pink greys (which I love) i think they make a great combo - I found some perfect matching papers, so mounted onto a square card and punched a flower to match.

Graph'It Markers Used
Skin 4125, 4115, 4170, 4135
Hair 3245, 3230, 3210, 4110
Pinks 5125, 5120, 5115, 5110
Pink Greys 9305, 9304, 9303
White Shake it Marker

Caroline ....I have used the Sweet Sai the Fairy this week, i decided to keep it very simple and i seem to be in a purple and pink phase at the moment. I also decided to use squares in the background seeing as the theme is anything square.
Graph'its used are
skin 4150, 4150,4145,4120
hair and clothes 6140, 6130, 5110 9909 and blender pen, 
i used stickles on her wings

Yvonne - This week I used 'Girl with Glasses Paityn', she's so cute! I opted to use red and greens to colour her.
I used the following markers:
 Skin: 4120, 4155, 4170, 4145, 4135, 4175, 8240, 8260
Hair: 1250, 3110, 3120, 3140, 3160
Jumper: 5210, 5215, 5220, 5240, 8240, 8270, 1110, 1140
Jeans: 9100, 9102, 9103
Socks: 5125, 5220

  Kevin I have used this fun image called  Sweet Sai the Fairy from this weeks sponsor.

Skin 4110.4155.4170.4175.4180
Hair 9501.9503.9905.9909
Dress & stockings 4147.4175.4145
Wings & Shoes 8110.4147 & Silver glitter pen

Anjie - The image I have used is Brittanys first day.
The Graph'It Markers I have used are:
Skin: 4120, 4125, 4135, 4145, 4150, 3210
Greys: 9101, 9102, 9103, 9104
Purples: 6175, 6180
More details on my blog.

Great makes from the team - make sure you use some of those great Colour Combinations! 
So, remember the challenge is
ANYTHING SQUARE
and you can

ENTER HERE!

This can be anything at all on your make, including a square card, so loads of room to enter and be within the rules for this one! 
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO USE OUR PRODUCTS TO ENTER - YOU CAN USE ANY COLOURING MEDIUM YOU WISH. You have until Fri 22nd May to enter. 
PRIZE: 3 fantastic Oddball Art digital stamps! Whoop whoop! 

The Random Winner of our last challenge, Wk 17&18 Ribbons and Lace is

#21 Eileen 
Well done! You've won a pack of Graph'It markers! 
Please email us HERE to claim your prize and quote code GIw18001 in your email title please!

And the Design Team's Top 3 favourite makes are by:
Well done, you were randomly chosen from the Top 3 and you won $12 of digital stamps from the Sami Stamps store! Please email us HERE to claim your prize and quote code GIw18002 in your email title please! 
and we also LOVED 
Fabulous makes! Thankyou so much to all of you who entered, your makes blow us away every week, you give us such a hard time choosing our Top 3! 

We'll be back next week with a brand new challenge so we'll see you there! x

Friday 8 May 2015

Wk 19 - Anything Square - Graph'It Colouring Crafting Challenge sponsored by Oddball art

Welcome to a brand new Colouring challenge with us here at Graph'It!
We are terribly excited today to announce our 
newest sponsors Oddball Art
who have very kindly agreed to sponsor this challenge with an awesome prize for you all! 
 Oddball make some really cool 'alternative' images which you will just love - all quirky and funky and something for everyone, so make sure you check out their store by clicking the image below:
 
So onto this week's challenge!  Our theme for the next 2 weeks is....

Anything Square

This can be anything at all on your make, including a square card, so loads of room to enter and be within the rules for this one! You have until Fri 22nd May to enter. 
PRIZE: 3 fantastic Oddball Art digital stamps! Whoop whoop! 

We will announce the winner of our last challenge next week, so let's go and see what the team have made this week...

Nikky...I LOVED using this fab image called Brittanys First Day and I just love the Oddball images....such a great chance to use some colours you don't normally tend to pick in our everyday crafting girliness! LOL! I really wanted to do a 'Scene' (I think that's what the Young Things call it these days haha) ...
I have to admit she is wearing shades because of an eye boo-boo which basically was a result of too much faffing and hesitation when doing the specs! But I kinda like it in the end...sorry for the slightly blurry pic...papers are from Polkadoodles.
Graph'Its used: 
Skin: 4125, 4150, 3120, 3150, 9403 (Used Mix'It palette to mix 4150 and 3120), cheeks  lips 4145, 4135
Hair: 9402, 9404, 9406, 9408, 5255
Clothing, Glasses, Boots: 4125, selection of 9400's for shadows, 5255 red

Caroline....I have really enjoyed coloring this little cutie Girl with Glasses Paityn...
Graph'its used are:
skin 4170, 4150,4145, 4125, 4120
hair 3150, 3125, 3110, 1250
clothes 6140, 6130, 5130, 5120, 5110
I made a yoyo by gluing two buttons together and winding twine around the middle.

Yvonne - Hi everyone! I got to play with Brittanys First Day and I decided she had to be a goth girl! I coloured her with my Graph'It Markers and enhanced some areas of my colouring with my polychromos pencils. The papers used are from Polkadoodles.

The markers used are: Skin: 4125, 4155, 4170, 4145, 7125, 7170, 4147, 4135
Hair: 9102, 9104, 9106, 9108
Outfit & Boots: 9106, 9104, 9103, 5150, 5180, 
Book: 9504, 9505, 9501, 9500

Penni - I used Brittany's First Day too.  She's such a cutie.  

Graph'It Markers Used: Skin - 4120, 4115, 4145
Eyes - 7125,   Glasses - 9203
Lips - 5115,  Hair - 9404, 9402, 9400, 9406
Shorts - 9102, 9103,  Top - 5280, Boots - 9203


Claire C. I adore this gorgeous image, she's called Sweet Sai the Fairy!
I just love the pinks and greens in the Graph'It Range, here are the colours I used
Skin: 4180, 4155,4115,4125 plus 5115
Hair: 3245, 3255, 1230,1210
Pinks: 5130, 4147, 5115,5110 plus warm greys for shading
Greens: 8120, 8220, 8114
Blender pen and Mix'it Palette
WOW!! What stunning makes from the team!! We all really loved this week's challenge!

So all you have to do is enter your make on Mr Linky below - remember the theme is

Anything Square

This can be anything at all on your make, including a square card, so loads of room to enter and be within the rules for this one! You have until Fri 22nd May to enter. 
PRIZE: 3 fantastic Oddball Art digital stamps! Whoop whoop! 
See you next week! 
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Friday 1 May 2015

Wk 18 - Ribbons and Lace sponsored by Sami Stamps - Graph'It Colouring Challenge

Welcome back to Week 2 of our
Ribbons or Lace colouring challenge
(theme is for the card, not the coloured image)and you have until Friday 8th May to enter
You can enter any make which follows the challenge and uses colouring techniques (you don't have to use Graph'Its to enter). 
ENTER THE CHALLENGE HERE

YOU CAN USE ANY TYPE OF COLOURING MEDIUM TO ENTER .....
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! 
Our winners are chosen by Random.org.
Please remember you don't have to use our products to enter but please check our rules in the sidebar --->

This week our fab challenge is kindly sponsored by
Make sure you head to the store and snap up some lovely images! 

The winners from our last challenge are at the end of the post, but let's see what the team have made this week....

Caroline....I just love this Rose Bride image -  a real pleasure to colour and coming in handy as i needed a wedding card....
Graph'its used are
skin, 4170,4150,4145,4120.
hair,3125, 3110, 1250
dress 1230,1210 and blender pen
flowers 5120,5130

Yvonne - Hello! I got to play with 'Love Struck' this week and I love her! She was a joy to colour and was screaming out to be coloured in red! 
I used the following markers:
Skin: 4120, 4150, 4145
Hair: 3210, 3245, 3255
Everything else: 5210, 5215, 5220, 5245, 5280

Claire C I've used the beautiful Lily Bride for my card, she's such a fun image to colour!
Colours used: Hair 3245,1230,1210
Skin:4180,4155, 4115,4120
Dress/Veil:9402,9400, 4150, 4125
Flowers: 5110, 5115, 5255 plus 8220

Penni - I used a lovely image called Covered in Kitties, a perfect choice for me :) .....
Graph'It Markers used
Background - 7240, 8110, 5130
Skin - 4120, 4150, 4115
Hair - 1210, 1230, 1250
Jeans - 7110, 7115, 7105
Top - 5115, 5120
Cats - 2110, 1280, 2105 and 9505, 9504, 9502
Here's a close-up

Wow, what fabulous makes we have again this week!

Our winners from Week 15 & 16:
Our random winner chosen by Random.org to win a set of Graph'It markers is:
#62 Aunty Sue - well done! 
Please email us here to claim your prize, quoting code GIw181!

The winner of our Sponsored challenge is
#5 Caroline H 
and you have won 4 amazing digis from Sweetpea Stamps - please email us here and quote code GIw182 to claim your prize! 

And our Top 3 - so difficult to choose this week, there were truly some gorgeous entries but they are:
#21 Norma
#36 Coops
#49 Donna

Remember our challenge this week is to use Ribbons and Lace somewhere on your make and
you have until Friday 8th May to enter
You can enter any make which follows the challenge and uses colouring techniques (you don't have to use Graph'Its to enter). 

See you next week!