Wk 29 - Anything Goes Crafting Challenge

Welcome back to another new challenge...

Our lovely challenge is here to help inspire you to try out Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils - if you've never tried these amazingly lush pencils then check out all the links at the top of the page to find out more. They are top quality pencils which need minimum blending - if you're a Polychomo/Prisma fan you really need to check them out because we have all switched from those brands because we find Lyra's much faster to work with, easier to blend and superb colours and lightfastness that is superior to most of the others on the market - and they're an amazing price too!

Our challenge today is

ANYTHING GOES

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO USE OUR PRODUCTS TO ENTER

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

have coloured an image with ANY medium  (pencils, markers, inks, paints, whatever you like).

Remember you can only enter twice!
CLOSING DATE: SAT 8th October AT NOON GMT - WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON THE FOLLOWING POST....

CHECK OUT THE WINNERS OF OUR LAST CHALLENGE AT THE END OF THIS POST

This week we are sponsored by the lovely Polkadoodles store - check out their amazing range of products, from rubber and clear stamps to digis, downloads, cd's and more!

One lucky random winner will receive a $10 download voucher for the Polkadoodles store! 

So let's see what the lovely Design Team have made to inspire you this week!... Please also welcome the lovely Helen and the lovely Bev who have joined our DT, we're so happy to have them with us...

Helen I was a feeling a little prehistoric so decided to use one of the fabulous images from the 

Sticks and Bones Collection, this little cutie is Walk the Dinosaur Girl. Papers are from the collection to and some of my doggies bones. Of course every little dinosaur needs walkies.

Colours used

Skin 80, 82, 87, 02, 32, 01

Hair 92, 91, 70, 83, 02

Bone 97, 96, 95, 01

Outfit 15, 13, 09

Earrings 87, 83, 84, 06, 02, 01

Dinosaur 71, 58, 70, 84, 02, 01

Bev here with my first make for the team. I opted for Oddella Heart and used the tartan paper from my crafty stash as inspiration (skin: 32, 90, 87, 82, blush: 29, 31, hair: 84, 83, 82, 80, 76, 75, eyes: 71, 70, 68, clothing: 71, 70, 68, 26, boots: 21, 26, 95, 96, 97, heart/lips: 21, 26)

Scatty Jan I have used the lovely Daisyday stamp set for my card , I adore these stamps

Colours used

Gold Ochre , Lemon. medium Grey, Light Grey, White, Night Green. Aquamarine

Lou: I have used the Tropical Flowers Flamingo stamp set to create my aapperature card. I used the images to create the frame, cutting around the inside and outside.They were then layered on to a diecut background and acetate.

Colours used:

Flamingo: pink madder lake, medium flesh & rose madder lake

Palm leaves: emerald green, apple green & olive green

Lilies: Canary yellow, gold ochre, burnt carmine, light green & olive green

Colours used:

Open flower: cream, Indian red, light carmine & hookers green

Lilies: canary yellow, gold ochre & light carmine

Palm leaves: emerald green, apple green & olive green

Shadow: silver grey & medium grey

Jane - I have used one of the latest images in the Polkadoodles Shop, Cossack Russian Dancer 1, creating a Moscow inspired background with dies and using a beautiful starry paper from the Octavia Frosted Winter Collection too.

Colours used:

Skin: 76, 89, 30, 32 + 28

Hair: 99, 97, 96

Red: 92, 90, 18

Blue: 49, 48, 47

White/Grey: 97, 96, 95

What gorgeous colouring and projects we have for you this week, stunning! 

So onto our winners....
 

The random winner of our Wk 27  ATG challenge is....
18 Mindy Baxter

 - Well done! Please EMAIL HERE quoting code PCW002701 to claim your prize!

 Our Random Winner will receive $10 of downloads from Polkadoodles! 

The Design Team's Top 4 favourites are:
49 Heather 

47 Deanne

72 Monika

32 Cathy Lee

Well done everyone we all adored your creations! Thankyou to everyone who entered we always appreciate it and love browsing through all your makes x

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Wk 28 -Anything Goes - Crafty Sentiments

Welcome back to another new challenge...

Our lovely challenge is here to help inspire you to try out Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils - if you've never tried these amazingly lush pencils then check out all the links at the top of the page to find out more. They are top quality pencils which need minimum blending - if you're a Polychomo/Prisma fan you really need to check them out because we have all switched from those brands because we find Lyra's much faster to work with, easier to blend and superb colours and lightfastness that is superior to most of the others on the market - and they're an amazing price too!

Our challenge today is

ANYTHING GOES

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO USE OUR PRODUCTS TO ENTER

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

have coloured an image with ANY medium  (pencils, markers, inks, paints, whatever you like).

Remember you can only enter twice!
CLOSING DATE: SAT 24 September AT NOON GMT - WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON THE FOLLOWING POST....

CHECK OUT THE WINNERS OF OUR LAST CHALLENGE AT THE END OF THIS POST

This week we are sponsored by the lovely 

Our fabulous sponsor is giving away 3 images from their fabulous Shop so check them out!
So let's see what the lovely Design Team have made to inspire you this week!...

Scatty Jan  How cutie is this little lady -  Emmi Lou - Just me - You can find her in the store here

Colours used

Skin 32, 30, 76, 89

Hair 84, 05, 01, 75, 76
Pink 21, 24, 26, 23, 27
Green 53, 55

Jane - This little sweetheart is called Emmi Lou a Poppy for You and I attempted a spot of 'no-line' colouring with her.

Colours used: 

Skin: 80, 89, 31, 32 + 90

Hair: 99, 97, 96

Yellow: 13, 8, 7, 2

Red: 92, 90, 89

Gorgeous inspiration!

So onto our winners....
 

The random winner of our Wk 26  ATG challenge is....
57 Kathie

 - Well done! Please EMAIL HERE quoting code PCW002501 to claim your prize!

 Our Random Winner will receive3 images from Oddball Art

The Design Team's Top 3 favourites are:
37 Teresa
46 Kay Lin
61 Lucy Woods

Well done everyone we all adored your creations! Thankyou to everyone who entered we always appreciate it and love browsing through all your makes x

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Wk 26 Anything goes - Craft Colouring Challenge sponsored by Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils

Welcome back to another new challenge...

Our lovely challenge is here to help inspire you to try out Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils - if you've never tried these amazingly lush pencils then check out all the links at the top of the page to find out more. They are top quality pencils which need minimum blending - if you're a Polychomo/Prisma fan you really need to check them out because we have all switched from those brands because we find Lyra's much faster to work with, easier to blend and superb colours and lightfastness that is superior to most of the others on the market - and they're an amazing price too!

Our challenge today is

ANYTHING GOES

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO USE OUR PRODUCTS TO ENTER

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

have coloured an image with ANY medium  (pencils, markers, inks, paints, whatever you like).

Remember you can only enter twice!
CLOSING DATE: SAT 27 August AT NOON GMT - WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON THE FOLLOWING POST....

CHECK OUT THE WINNERS OF OUR LAST CHALLENGE AT THE END OF THIS POST

This week we are sponsored by the lovely Oddball Art Store - check out their amazing range of digis! Lizzy is kindly donating 3 digis to our random lucky winner for this challenge....

OK, let's see what the team have coloured for you this week!...

Nikky...I decided to go to the dark side this week and push myself into doing a darker skintone. Not the easiest thing in the world to achieve but I was quite pleased how this turned out in the end. The key with doing dark skin is you have to layer and layer and really mix your colours to get it right and there are tons and tons of different skintones to go for...an asian tone is very different to an american/caribbean kind of tone...this image is CASSIDEY....

I'm so bad at not writing my colours down but as the skin took a while and I wanted that to be my focus I didnt do much on the clothing and kept it mono, just using the Black pencil and white to blend.  

Skintone colours: 75,76, 82, black, 32

cheeks & warmer tones - Carmine red

hair - black, white pencil

Scatty Jan For my image this fortnight I used Birthday Jaz. Just love her huge glasses....

Colours used 

Skin 32, 30, 76, 89

Hair 84, 05, 01, 75, 76
Orange 83, 09, 13
Greys 97-99

Jane – I do love Oddball images and I have printed CASSIDEY twice, once 'normally' and once with very faint lines so that I could fill her with black pencil to create a ‘shadow’.

Colours used:

Skin: 76, 89, 30, 32 + 90

Purple: 41, 38, 36

Orange: 17, 15, 13, 9

Black/Grey: 99, 98, 97, 96

Lou: I have coloured up "Big Eyed Sassy Bianca" and once she was coloured, the sentiment just came to me ... she just reminded me of a dark haired patsy from AdFab !

Colours used:

Skin: light flesh, pink madder lake, light carmine

Hair: dark sepia, van dyck brown, raw umber & gold ochre

Dress: moss green, olive green, light violet, dark violet, aquamarine & black

Socks: black, light violet & dark violet

Shadow: silver grey, medium grey & dark grey

Gorgeous inspiration!  So onto our winners....
 

The random winner of our Wk 24 challenge is....

#1 Beebeebabs

 - Well done! Please EMAIL HERE quoting code PCW0026001 to claim your prize of 3 digis from Oddball Art!

The Design Team's Top 3 favourites are:

#15 Julie

#2 Deanne

#10 Lucy Woods

Well done everyone we all adored your creations! Thankyou to everyone who entered we always appreciate it and love browsing through all your makes x

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wk 24 - X = xanthic yellow/Anything Goes...Craft Colouring Challenge with Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils

Welcome back to another new challenge...

Our lovely challenge is here to help inspire you to try out Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils - if you've never tried these amazingly lush pencils then check out all the links at the top of the page to find out more. They are top quality pencils which need minimum blending - if you're a Polychomo/Prisma fan you really need to check them out because we have all switched from those brands because we find Lyra's much faster to work with, easier to blend and superb colours and lightfastness that is superior to most of the others on the market - and they're an amazing price too!

Our challenge today is

X = XANTHIC YELLOW/ANYTHING GOES

Yep, did you know Xanthic is actually a shade of yellow! 

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO USE OUR PRODUCTS TO ENTER

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

have coloured an image with ANY medium  (pencils, markers, inks, paints, whatever you like).

Remember you can only enter twice!
CLOSING DATE: SAT 30 JULY AT NOON GMT - WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON THE FOLLOWING POST....

CHECK OUT THE WINNERS OF OUR LAST CHALLENGE AT THE END OF THIS POST

This week we are sponsored by the lovely Oddball Art Store who are kindly donating 3 images to our random winner so make sure you check out all the lovely digis...

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

Scatty Jan  I used two lovely images this time from our sponsor Alex and Bianca  What good friends they make!I stamped the sentiment and the bubble background with stamps from Summertime . The splodges on the background are cut from my portrait coloured to match.

Colours used

Skin 32, 30, 76, 89

Hair 84, 05, 01, 75, 76
Yellows 04, 05, 06, 07, 08
Brown 76

Nikky...I didnt read the challenge properly so I went with the Anything Goes theme this week, doh me! Love this image which is called Bianca ...
Colours used: Skin: 82 Brown ochre, white, 76 Van Dyck Brown, cheeks 92 Indian Red
Hair: Grey 98, Black 99
Dress: Black 99, 24 Dk Carmine

Jane – I loved my image this week, what a gorgeous little girl (look at those eyelashes) and she is called BONNIE BOOKWORM.   I actually started out making a bookmark but things didn’t quite go to plan!! J

 

Colours used:

Skin: 92, 89, 31, 32

Hair/Yellows: 97, 9, 8, 7, 4
Pink: 24, 28, 29

Gorgeous inspiration!

So onto our winners....
 

The random winner of our Wk 22  = V challenge is....

#14 Shamita

 - Well done! Please EMAIL HERE quoting code PCW002401 to claim your prize!

 Our Random Winner will receive a $10 voucher to spend in the Polkadoodles store!

The Design Team's Top 3 favourites are:

#6 TMD

#19 Sementes

#30 Christine

Well done everyone we all adored your creations! Thankyou to everyone who entered we always appreciate it and love browsing through all your makes x

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wk 15 O = Opulent- Colouring Challenge with Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils

Welcome back to a new challenge.
O = OPULENT
Basically we want to see all your frills and fancies, whether it's opulent colours, lace, frills, whatever you like.

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

have coloured an image with ANY medium  (pencils, markers, inks, paints, whatever you like).

Remember you can only enter twice!
CLOSING DATE: SAT 26 March AT NOON GMT - WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON THE FOLLOWING POST....

This week we are very kindly sponsored by the fabulous store

and the winner of this challenge will receive a $10 voucher to spend on downloads - whoopeee!

This week the Design Team were challenged to use ONE COLOUR (monochrome) so let's see what they came up with...

Nikky...I used this lovely stamp, one of my favourites from the Polkadoodles store here....I stamped it on watercolour card (190gsm) and then just coloured it up, trying to restrict my colours. I normally detest yellow tones but my Lyras are changing my mind!

Colours used: 08, 07, 82, 13, black

Scatty Jan Ohhhhh loved colouring my image this week . I used the sweet image from Polkadoodles from Winnie Sugar Sprinkles Springtime . How cute is she!! She is called Happy Easter and you can find her in the store right here  . I added some fun elements from the collection too - I coloured up using every Grey that I could 

Colours used

72, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 195, - 199, 299

skin 30, 31, 32, 76

Graph'It shake it white

Jane – Hi everyone!  Have to admit that orange is not normally my ‘go-to’ colour but the Lyras have the most gorgeous shades in this tone so I just had to use them for my project this week! I have made an easel card using the gorgeous WINNIE HEALTHY EATING who is also available in the fab new collection WINNIE SUGAR SPRINKLES SPRINGTIME. Such a sweetie!! 

Colours used:

Skin: 90, 89, 31, 32 and 28 for cheeks

Hair: 99, 82, 87, 83, 85

Dark Orange: 15, 13, 9

            Light Orange/Yellow: 87, 83, 85

            Leaf: 67

          

 

  Cara   I used one of my fave collections for this challenge ....Winston bear is perfect for colouring in monochrome, and also perfect for the father's day card I made (i'm trying to get ahead) I used tones of brown/yellow  to give my card a sepia feel.

      

        Colours used: 75,76,80,82,83,39                

Wow, what gorgeous makes we have for you this week!

We will announce the winners of our last challenge, week 14 next time but here are the winners of Week 13...

Our Random winner who will receive  A $12 voucher to the store at A Day for Daisies is
#37 Cathy P - well done! Please email us here quoting code PCB001w to claim your prize

Design Team's Top 3 favourites: 
#2 Mirella
#24 Larissa
#46 Lucy
Well done everyone! Gorgeous makes thankyou for joining in!
We'll see you back here in 2 weeks with another challenge - thanks for joining us and we look forward to seeing your entries!

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