Merry Christmas!

Hello everyone - the Pencil Case team are taking a little break over the Festive period so we would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your amazing creations and your support during 2015 - the team truly love looking through all your work and creations, your colouring and creativity blows us away every week!

We will be back on 2nd January with our next challenge and last time's winners - so all that remains is for us all to wish you a very Merry Christmas and Healthy and Happy New Year!

See you in 2016! 

Merry Christmas! 

Challenge 8 ....H = Heartfelt Pencil Colouring Challenge with Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils

Hello, welcome back to a new challenge today! 

Remember that you can see lots of shows on Hochanda  TV showcasing Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils so make sure you watch out for them in the schedules....

So this week H = Heartfelt...

This challenge can be interpreted as you wish - it could be hearts, angels, heartfelt Christmas, a Heartfelt sentiment, blessings - it's entirely up to you and is a nice generic theme to follow

You can enter the challenge with ANY project you like as long as you 

coloured it with ANY medium  

(pencils, markers, inks, paints, whatever you like).

Remember you can only enter twice!
CLOSING DATE: SAT 19 DEC AT NOON GMT - WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON THE FOLLOWING POST....

This week we are very kindly joined by one of our favourite sponsors, the fabulous POLKADOODLES store....

Prize 1: You can win a $10 voucher for digital stamps from our sponsor,  - we will choose a winner via Random.org

Prize 2: We also have some Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils to give away - to win this you need to be in the UK so please add UK next to your name in your entry - if you're in the UK and don't add it after your name we won't count you in the draw and you could miss out.  Again we will choose a winner via Random.org

So let's see what the team have made this week! ....

Nikky...hmm I've completely forgotten to write down the colours I used on this image but I had fun with a lot of the ones in my tin LOL! I know it's the aqua blues and Wine, magenta and the strong pinks, I had a lot of fun! I wanted to create a background effect for this too - she's not a Christmas Fairy at all but just by adding the baubles in the background she is transformed froma  vampire fairy to a Xmas Angel I think. You can get the image here which is Oddella Fairy

To make the baubles and the background I just gently coloured some circles and built in shadow and highlights then used (I think) yellow ochre for the fairy lights, together with my Graph'It Shake white marker....

Scatty Jan, I used one of the wonderful colouring pages from Colour Therapy 2 - Inspiring Foilage that you can find here, popped onto one of the fabulous calendar pages

Colours used

Venetian Red, Indian Red, Cinnamon

Medium Grey, Dark Grey, light warm grey

Cara - I also chose to use an image from the Colour Therapy 2 collection  . I turned my image into a lovely calendar!

I was in such a rush to colour this up I completely forgot to note down my colours but I can tell you I used almost all of the colours in my tin!

Jane – Hello!  So I have also decided to showcase one of Nikky’s amazing Colour Therapy designs and I have chosen to use a page from COLOUR THERAPY CLUB - MONTH 1.

I think this shows that you do not have to colour the complete design if you find this a little daunting.  By using dies to spotlight on area and leave another blank I have not had to colour the entire page!!  And saved myself a bit of time! J

Colours used:

            Blues: 58, 55, 54

            Pinks: 33, 93, 35

            Yellows: 87, 83, 85

            Black: 99, 97               

So it's time to announce last time's winners!....

Our Week 6 challenge ends today so make sure you got your entry in - we'll announce the winner next time on 19th December.

So our Challenge 6 winners F = Fierce are:
Top 3 Favourites by the team:
#13 Maya

#19 Carrie

#3 Mimi

Random winner: Prize 1: a great digi bundle for the Sponsor's Nikki Burnette digi store,

#4 ANNIE  - well done! Email us HERE quoting code: PCW8001 to claim your prize please

Random UK winner:  Prize 2: We also have some Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils to give away...#11 Sheila  - well done! Email us HERE quoting code: PCW8002 to claim your prize please

Thankyou all for entering - we really appreciate you taking the time to join in with us and it's a joy to see your lovely creations each time! See you for the next challenge and don't forget to come and play with us on Social Media!

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Wk7 - G = Green Pencil Colouring Challenge with Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils

Hello, welcome back to a new challenge today! 

Remember that you can see lots of shows on Hochanda  TV showcasing Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils so make sure you watch out for them in the schedules....

So this week G = green...

(you can combine with other colours so long as you have some green)

This can be interpreted as you wish but we want to see some lovely colour combos from everyone - show us your favourites! 

You can enter the challenge with ANY project you like as long as you 

coloured it with ANY medium  (pencils, markers, inks, paints, whatever you like).

Remember you can only enter twice!
CLOSING DATE: SAT 5 DEC AT NOON GMT - WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON THE FOLLOWING POST....

This week we are very kindly joined by one of our favourite sponsors, the wonderful Digital Papercraft store....

Prize 1: You can win 3 lovely digis from our sponsor,  - we will choose a winner via Random.org

Prize 2: We also have some Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils to give away - to win this you need to be in the UK so please add UK next to your name in your entry - if you're in the UK and don't add it after your name we won't count you in the draw and you could miss out.  Again we will choose a winner via Random.org

So let's see what the team have made this week! 

Scatty Jan Ohhhh such a cute image , I loved colouring Little Hattie up , You can find her in the store here along with lots more cuteness. Now I am not a huge Green colour fan , but once I got going I loved it - it could even become my new fav colour to go to!

The colours I used

Skin  - Light & Dark Flesh, Purple, Indian Red , Raw Umber

Hair - Indian Red, Burnt Ochre, Van D Brown

Greens - Light, Apple, Moss, Sap, Grey, 

Jane – Hello! I had fun this week colouring up this cute little guy, available HERE, using him as a topper for a bookmark. Greens are not my usual go to palette but I do like how this turned out!!

Colours used:

Skin: 92, 89, 31

Hair: 80, 87, 83, 85

            Shirt & Boots: 75, 67, 68, 70

            Shorts & Socks: 73, 74, 72

Cara - I couldn't wait to colour up this cute little pirate, he looks great in his green's! I do love working with greens and now I am a lucky girl with the whole set of pencils I was spoilt for choice with the selection of green shades!

Colour's used:

Skin: 87,89,90

Green's: 62,63

Browns: 65,67

Susan - Its all green for go this week so don't forget to come  and join in the challenge !!!   I have used is Martha coloured with my amazing Lyra RP pencils .Once again I haven't used lots of colours

Pencils I used

Skin-32 ,89

Hair-89,76

Green-68

Dress-89,90

Nikky...I've not had much time this week but this was also the first real foray into the green section of my Lyra Rembrandt tin LOL, so it was quite exciting mixing them all up! I had a jolly green time in the end just playing around - problem is as usual I forgot to write the numbers down but basically I mixed a bit of everything together! My favourite green is by far and away Veridian but it's more of a bluey green really but I have to use it somewhere! The dress was cedar I think...

The face is brown ochre with some cinnamon.  You can get the Little Hattie image here...

Lovely makes from the team as always - we look forward to seeing your entries!

So time for our winners!....

Our Week 6 challenge ends today so make sure you got your entry in - we'll announce the winner next time.

So our Challenge 5 winners E = Eerie are:
Top 3 Favourites by the team:

#8 TINDALOO

#6 DEONNA B

#14 ISOBEL

Random winner: Prize 1: a great digi bundle for the Sponsor's ODDBALL ART digi store,

#11 PAPER WHIMS  - well done! Email us HERE quoting code: PCW7001 to claim your prize please

Random UK winner:  Prize 2: We also have some Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils to give away...

#4 TERESA - well done! Email us HERE quoting code: PCW7002 to claim your prize please

Thankyou all for entering - we really appreciate you taking the time to join in with us and it's a joy to see your lovely creations each time! See you for the next challenge and don't forget to come and play with us on Social Media!

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Wk 6...F = Fierce Pencil Colouring Challenge with Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils

Hello everyone, welcome back to a new challenge today! The weeks are flying by here, our 6th challenge already, wow! 

Remember that you can see lots of shows on Hochanda  TV showcasing Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils so make sure you watch out for them in the schedules....

So this week we are on F = FIERCE...

and by Fierce we mean fiercely good colour combinations! 

This can be interpreted as you wish but we want to see some lovely colour combos from everyone - show us your favourites! 

You can enter the challenge with ANY project you like as long as you 

coloured it with ANY medium  (pencils, markers, inks, paints, whatever you like).

Remember you can only enter twice!
CLOSING DATE: SAT 20 NOV AT NOON GMT - WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON THE FOLLOWING POST....

This week we are very kindly joined by one of our favourite sponsors, the wonderful

Nikki has some amazing art to colour so make sure you pop over and snoop in the Store!

Prize 1: You can win 3 lovely digis from the Nikki Burnette store,  - we will choose a winner via Random.org

Prize 2: We also have some Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils to give away - to win this you need to be in the UK so please add UK next to your name in your entry - if you're in the UK and don't add it after your name we won't count you in the draw and you could miss out.  Again we will choose a winner via Random.org

Just one last bit of news to share today - we are very delighted to welcome a brand new member to the team to share her awesome colouring with you, so welcome to Jane Savage!....

Jane – Hello, just sneaking in as the newest (and definitely most excited) member of the awesome Pencil Case team!! So proud, astonished and extremely grateful to be here!! Ok so my FUNKY make features the gorgeous PRISCILLA and my take on our theme seems to have taken a rainbow turn!!  These pencils have such an incredible range of colours (I am proud to be the possessor of the 72 piece tin) that it seemed rude not to use as many of the shades as possible!! xxx

Colours used (there’s lots so you’d better make a cuppa!):

Skin: 92, 89, 31 - Hair: 59, 63, 7 – Moon: 82, 83, 27, 9

            Reds: 21, 18 - Yellows: 9, 7 - Greens: 59, 63 – Blues: 51, 47

            Purples: 38, 39 – Oranges: 15, 13 – Blacks: 99, 98, 96

Background: 37, 38, 39 & 59, 63, 62  Oh and white too!

SUSAN - I love this image by Nikky Burnette she is called Wings and is available here...Looking forward to seeing your entries...So don't forget ! YOU HAVE TO BE IN IT TO WIN IT !!!!!

Lyra pencils I have used used - Hair -02,76   Skin 32,30,89,76  Dress & Wings 34,53
More on my blog....

Scatty Jan I had lots of fun with funky colours this week - I got to colour up the lovely Aurella , you can find her in the store here . She really is stunning . It was nice to colour with colours I do not normally pick....

Colours I used

Skin - Light Flesh/Dark Flesh, Purple/ Indian Red

Hair - Van D Brown/Raw Umber/ Brown Ochre

Blues Aquamarine/ Night Green / Peacock Blue

Oranges - Light Orange/ Dark Orange/ Orange Yellow

Greens - Light Green/ Sap Green/ Moss Green

Yellow -  Ochre/Light Ochre

               
    


Nikky...I chose this PRISCILLA image which is quite Halloweeny but I wanted to colour her up in a non Halloween way which was a little tricky, but this is one of my favourite colour combo's of all time, I just love the retro feel of these colours. Sorry but I didnt get chance to make up a card...

Colours used: Turquoise, Veridian (dress)

Skin: Brown Ochre, light skin, sepia

Greys & Black for stonework etc

Reds = Vermillion

Blues = Peacock

Window = Gold Ochre, Canary yellow, Vermillion, White pencil

Cara I chose the image Without Wings and decided to go completely out there with a fierce colour clashing combination!! I made the skin quite dark otherwise she would have been completely washed out by the bold colours!

Colours used:

Blue: 47,48,51

Orange: 76,21,17,15

Yellow: 87,13,9,8

Hair: 80,82,83

Lou: I chose the image Esmeralda for this challenge and in attempt to try something new with a background, (which subsequently didn't work out), had to go back to the drawing board. I have chose 70's inspired clashing colours for my image.

Skin: gold ochre, brown ochre, venetian red and prussian blue

Hair: light orange, dark orange, prussian blue and dark sepia

Time for our winners!
Our Week 5 challenge ends today so make sure you got your entry in - we'll announce the winner next time.

So our Challenge 4 winners D = Dark are:
Top 3 Favourites by the team:
#15 Maya
#7 Larissa
#39 TMD

Random winner: Prize 1: a great digi bundle for the Sponsor's Melonheadz digi store,

#14 Maureen Scott - well done! Email us HERE quoting code: PCW6001 to claim your prize please

Random UK winner:  Prize 2: We also have some Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils to give away...

#32 Marlene - well done! Email us HERE quoting code: PCW6002 to claim your prize please

Thankyou all for entering - we really appreciate you taking the time to join in with us and it's a joy to see your lovely creations each time! See you for the next challenge and don't forget to come and play with us on Social Media!
 

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Wk5 ....E = Eerie Colours Craft Colouring challenge with Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils and Oddball Art Stamps

Welcome back to another great challenge here at the Pencil Case where we adore our lovely Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils!

You can enter the challenge with ANY project you like as long as you 

coloured it with ANY medium 

(pencils, markers, inks, paints, whatever you like) 

Our new challenge for you today is

E = EERIE Colours

think Halloween/Autumn colours!

You can only enter twice!
CLOSING DATE: SAT 7 NOV AT NOON GMT - WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON THE FOLLOWING POST

This week we are very excited and thrilled to be sponsored by Oddball Art - we adore these images, they're the cute side of weird and so great for teenagers and anyone into anything dark so perfect for this challenge - head over to the shop below and fill your boots with some lovely images!...

Store

Prize 1: You can win 3 lovely digis from the Oddball Art digi store, who are our sponsors for this week - we will choose a winner via Random.org

Prize 2: We also have some Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils to give away - to win this you need to be in the UK so please add UK next to your name in your entry - if you're in the UK and don't add it after your name we won't count you in the draw and you could miss out.  Again we will choose a winner via Random.org

So let's see what the Design Team have made this week - remember to check in on the Hochanda TV schedule listings for the colouring shows as you'll find Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils featured alongside lots of Colouring Book shows... 

Scatty Jan Wow I loved my image this week Sally Sadness you can find her in the store here. I think she really suited the Eerie colours theme. She is really cute . Enjoyed colouring her in something different for me.Also liking the darker colours I always seem to reach for lighter colours first.

Colours Used

Purples 034/039

Greys 299/197/198/097

Greens 070/074

Reds 090/091

Nikky...Oddball images are so my cup of tea! This is Sally Sadness - poor Sal! She's so miserable bless her little woolly tights, I love her! I coloured this with my Lyras and then last minute put her onto a canvas...she's a little splodgy and splattered because I oversprayed by making a wash with my PanPastels too but I actually really like her a bit distressed it just adds more to her character I think - see more over on my blog how I did this....

Unfortunately I was too dim to write down the colours I used because as usual I got enthralled in the colouring lol...sorry!

Cara ....This week I got to play with the image Clarissa and I adore her! As she had the stitching on her face I decided to give her green skin a bit like Frankenstein!  To give my image a darker look I coloured it all in Greys first and then went over with my other colours, I did the same with the sky too!...

Colours used:

Light, medium and dark grey and black for the whole image and then the following added over

Sky: 44, 48, 37

Skin: 68, 70

Pumpkin: 9, 15, 17

hair and socks: 37

Yvonne...Unfortunately Yvonne can't post with us today but she had coloured her Leopard Print Punk Fairy image up ready to make on a card so we've added it so you can see the lovely image and colouring...you can get the image here Leopard Print Punk Fairy....

Susan Well the nights are drawing in, its cold and eerie outside, so here is my Eerie Card for The Eerie colour challenge. I just love this image of Clarissa from our sponsors Oddball Art.

Colours Used

Hair ,41,99,95

Skin ,70,68,74

Dress,41,

Pumpkin ,87,89,76

Background, 179,198,41 plus some distressed ink

So that's your amazing inspiration from the team this week!

Time to announce the winners from week 3: 
C= Creepy/Autumn Colours, CLOSING DATE: SAT 10 OCT 

Prize 1: You can some great digis for the Sponsor Star Stampz digi store, who are our sponsors for week 3 - our winner chose via Random.org is

#25 Anne

Well done! Please email HERE to claim your prize and quote code PC001 to claim

Prize 2: We also have a set of 12 Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils to give away - to win this you need to be in the UK so those of you who added UK next to your name in your entry were added to a list and our winner chosen via Random.org is

#1 Vanessa

Well done! Please email HERE to claim your prize and quote code PC002 to claim

The Design Team's Top 3 favourites are:

# 17 TMD

# 13 Ronda

# 10 Kt Fit Kitty

Great work everyone! We've really enjoyed seeing all your amazing entries for this challenge, thanks so much for joining us and we'd love to see you join us over on our Facebook page HERE too! 

See you all next time! 

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WK 4....D = Darks (Halloween/Autumn) - Lyra Rembrandt Polycolours challenge blog

Hi everyone! Welcome back to our brand new challenge this week!

Before we get to business have you seen the amazing Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils on Hochanda TV yet? 

Watch out for the colouring shows as these amazing pencils are making regular appearances and are selling fast - plus you can pick up some hints and tips...if you want to learn all the best techniques and get real-time input from our UK Brand Educator and the Design Team though, make sure you come and join us on Facebook where we can help you with any questions and where we're all posting regularly with you on our pencil journey! 

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We are sponsored by the very cute and lovely Melonheadz for this challenge - if you havent seen their store before make sure you pop over, there are some mega cute image sets on sale, we've had a hoot using these designs! 

Our new challenge for you today is

D = 

Dark Colours 
- think Halloween/Autumn colours!

So you can enter the challenge with ANY project you like as long as you coloured it with a medium (pencils, markers, inks, paints, whatever you like) - our only other rule is that you can only enter twice!
CLOSING DATE: SAT 24 OCT AT NOON GMT - WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON THE FOLLOWING POST

Prize 1: You can a great digi bundle for the Sponsor's Melonheadz digi store, who are our sponsors for this week - we will choose a winner via Random.org

Prize 2: We also have some Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils to give away - to win this you need to be in the UK so please add UK next to your name in your entry - if you're in the UK and don't add it after your name we won't count you in the draw and you could miss out.  Again we will choose a winner via Random.org

So let's see what the Design Team have made this week! 

Scatty Jan Ohhh think darks was a bit tricky for me I soooo wanted to add some lights in. I used the lovely Witches clothes Line bundle adding in a few cut spiders/ bats/web/grass and gravestone.  I added in a few bubbles to the cauldron and to give some background 

The colours I used are

Purples 033/034/035

Greens 073/074/075

Greys 097/098/199

Blues 049/050/051

Orange 009/013/015

Skin 030/032/076/094

White 001

Yvonne - Hello there! I am on holiday but still had time to play with this fab bundle from Melonheadz called  Halloween String Beans and these are so much fun! I loved colouring these up.  I opted to make a stepped step card - as I thought their long legs would lend themselves well to the stepped card.   I used papers from the Polkadoodles Halloween Papers bundle 1 and 2, the pumpkins and sentiment is from this too, you can see the range here.  All the colour combos and close ups of the images are on my blog!

Susan - The images I have used are from the Feelin Witchy Bundle I had so much fun playing with these images....

 these are the pencils I have used

Skin - 32 ,31 ,30

Hair - 75

Greens - 68 , 67, 70 ,71

Burnt Ochre ,87

Delft Blue ,41

Nikky...It can be a bit tricky when you think 'Darks' but you can actually achieve this quite easily - really it just means contrast, if you get really good contrast between light and dark this will make your image really pop and the darks then become much darker without really being too hard to achieve. Optical illusion!
I adored this image from our lovely sponsor Melonheadz...this was from the Wizards Bundle here - they supply you with a bundle with little supporting elements so I pulled them all together in Word and just made my own little scene....I should probably have gone much darker but I really wanted to get a nice glow effect going on...

Colours I used are (sorry this might not be 100% as I forgot to write them down!)
Skin: 82 Brown Ochre, Umber, Light Carmine
Clothes: 55 Night Green, Violet
Cauldron & Cat: Black with a little Violet added
Bubbles: Night green, Veridien, Violet, Gold ochre
Background: Gold ochre, light carmine
White 01 to blend

Cara....I used the Halloween Stuff bundle by Melonheadz, I absolutely adored working wit the images, I combined two of the Zombie images, I think they are adorable and a bit like me and my husband.  I used my browns for shading on this card as I wanted the colours to look quite dirty ... as zombies do of course!

Pencils used:

Skin: 68,73,76

Browns: 75,76

Orange: 13,15,17,76

Blue: 44,51,Black

Challenge 3 is still open for entries until NOON GMT today, 10th October and can be found on the post below so chance for a last minute entry if you missed it last time!! 

So it's time to announce the winners of our 2nd challenge 

B = Bright

Wow! so many entries again - thanks to everyone who entered!

We have 2 prizes....

Prize 1 =  a $12 voucher for the Sponsor's digi store, chosen via Random.org

#8 VIC

Well done! Please email us here and quote code PC0021 to claim your prize!

Prize 2 = We also have a set of 12 Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils to give away to a Random UK  winner via Random.org

#28 Vanessa

Well done! Please email us here and quote code PC0022 to claim your prize!

And the Design Team's Top 3 favourite entries are:

#28 Vanessa

#12 Christine

#22 Claire

It was SO hard to choose our favourites this time there were some stunningly creative entries and some awesome colouring skills going on - thankyou all so so much for joining us and entering and we would love you all to come and join us on our Facebook group too! 

PLEASE PLEASE remember to add UK with your entry on your name if you want to be considered for our pencils prize - this can only be sent to UK entries and if you dont have UK with your name you won't be in the random draw! I know there were loads of you there who were UK but to keep it fair we have to stick to the rules so please remember to add UK so you don't miss out on the chance of a great prize. 

Thanks to all of you who entered - we look forward to seeing all the entries for our next challenge and we'll be back again next week! 

Make sure you pop over to our Facebook page here!! 

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