Hello Friends. Welcome to DAY ONE of my 9th coloring challenge …. “The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge” OMG I can’t believe it’s DAY ONE!!! YIPEEE!! I am so excited you are here and that so many of you are taking the challenge. If this is your first time don’t be hard on yourself and jump in when time permits. If you have any questions about the coloring challenge you can refer to this post . If you want to get my posts in your mailbox you can sign up here or subscribe to my videos here.
Marcella from Power Poppy is such a beautiful illustrator … she defines what an artist is and she is incredibly inspiring! This bouquet is a new digi & it’s oooohhhh so fun to color. Click here if you have any questions about using a digital stamp and click here to purchase this digi stamp called, “Rose All Day” Isn’t it perfect for the coloring challenge and for 6 bucks it’s a steal! Thanks Marcy!
Often I am reminded that not everyone has a nice stash of copic markers or some of you are on the fence about making that kind of investment. Either way there are other alternatives and you can add color variations on your images with Sharpie markers or lesser quality markers.
I will be honest I am not keen on digi stamps because I have printer problems but, my printer worked today thank goodness lol. This beautiful image was printed on regular dull copy paper with a regular printer. It can be done! I might put this in a frame for my momma.
*** On another note … If you subscribe to my emails and my blog posts land in your “in box” I am having issues. It seems like my posts are arriving to you a day late. DANG! Until I get this figured out keep in mind you can visit my blog the old fashioned way. I will be posting daily so I wanted to give you a heads up.
This is the flip side of my coloring … kinda cool and abstract. What do you think? Check out what these lovely ladies from the Power Poppy design team has colored! Oh my! Kathy Jones, Christine Okken, Tosha Leyendekker ,Broni Holcombe, Jessie Banks, Nancy Sheads, Barbara Walker, Elizabeth Zaffarano
There are now 3 ways to share what you are coloring. If you want to join a community of coloring enthusiasts I recommend FaceBook or Instagram. Be sure to tag me and use the hashtag #thedailymarker30day. Kids & young adults use #thedailymarker30daykids.
The 3rd way is to link up to my blog to share your coloring. It will always be on todays post…DAY 1. each day I will link you back here to share your coloring.
*** The link up tool is at the very bottom of this post. ***
Thanks for your enthusiasm for the challenge and I hope you know that I am just as excited as you are. Thanks for your visit and I will see you tomorrow Hugs, Kathy
P.S. If you want to share the logo (at the top of the post) when writing your blog post or on Facebook etc. that would be lovely & so appreciated :).
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Gorgeous! So excited to follow along on another color challenge. Thanks for the inspiration!
Whooo hooo! Thanks for following along, again Dana! Happy coloring!
beautiful…love what you’ve done with the Rose All Day image!
Thank you so much, Amy!!!
Awesome coloring with sharpies!
I receive lots of emails a day late I notice, I don’t know why that is.
Gorgeous Kathy.
So Beautiful, do you know that I now print all my digi’s on regular old printer paper, I did it once by accident about 6 months ago, and hubby didn’t feel like changing the paper so I tried it, I was shocked at the experiement. I colored it with my copic’s and it turned out so cool, so I do it all the time now, only my digi’s thou.
I was pleasantly surprised, too Tracey!!! Thanks for the advice! I might have to do it more often now! LOL
So cool; love when you use just ANYTHING and make it work; always amazes me. I love the leaves with the green and so much white…I just LOVE IT!!
Aweeee thank you so much sweet, Michele! I always appreciate your kind words!
I love to use my fine point sharpies for my coloring books. Bueautiful Kathy. Hope to play all month. I just posted mine on instagram and hashtagged it!
Whoooo hoooo, Mary! Instagram is my personal favorite and you will get to see the love from the coloring community most on there! Thanks for participating and look forward to seeing your coloring!
Wow, Kathy! This is amazing. Such fabulous coloring, and to think it is done with Sharpies! You continue to amaze and inspire us. Thanks for hosting another 30 day challenge. Hope to be back often.
Oh Lynda, thank you for your sweet compliments! Happy you’re playing along again! Happy coloring!
Love how you show that inexpensive Sharpies & Bics can be used to color images!! I have some and am definitely going to try this!!
Yippee Patty! Be sure to add the #thedailymarker30day to your posts so we can see your work! Happy coloring!
I love that you did this. I did most of my first attempts with alcohol markers with these. The biggest issues–not enough very light shades. I did hear one blogger say to spend your money on the lightest shades in each color and save it on the darker and more vibrant shades. Who has hundreds of dollars to spend before you even know if you like this medium?? I think I might have spotted the “mistake,” but if it is, it’s barely noticable! Are you going to tell us? Thanks so much for day one!
Hahaha Bev – I cannot tell but I’m sure you found it! Thanks for your kind words as always! Have fun coloring!!
Happy Day 1!
I’m with you in all accounts. My printer does not like cardstock all the time, and honestly I still prefer stamps and markers. Power Poppy has gorgeous stamps! Thanks for doing another coloring challenge!
Thanks for participating again, Joyce! I agree – I love anything and everything Power Poppy – but there is nothing better than inking up a stamp and manually printing the image!!! Happy coloring!!
just stunning:)
Thank you so much, Dee!
Hai Kathy, so excited that it is day 1. I love your coloured image. I watched the video and took also a piece of copiepaper and printed an image. I have markers that cost almost nothing so I thought I would give them a try like you did. The paper is to thin I think, blending didn’t work, but it was a good experiment and I enjoyed the colouring despite that it didn’t work.
Thanks for today and looking forward to tomorrow.
After I post above I went through with experimenting and used first my Zigg CC brushes, that was quiet wet and I was scared that my printing lines would bleed, they came a little darker but I saw that write on time and stopped to go over theme.
Then I used my daughter’s old markers for kids and they worked with the yellow better than the alcohol markers but with the orange you don’t see the darker shade, probably I better had used a red one for the shading.
Yay Henriette! I’m so proud of you for trying so many things! I think it is so much fun to just play! Happy coloring and thank you for playing along with the coloring challenge again!
Oh wow!! I love your coloring on this digi. I am not keen on digi images either. I did get a laser printer BUT it does not love card stock!! Thank you for all the fabulous inspiration!!
I know what you mean about printers not liking cardstock. Try text weight typing paper and you might be surprised! I sure was! Happy coloring, Nora! Thanks for playing along with the coloring challenge again!
Seriously, you are THE master colorist!! Amazing how you use anything to color with and it is so beautiful!!!
Awe Carol, you’re making me blush! THANK YOU!
Who knew you could get such great results with Sharpies?! I used Bic markers before I bought Promarkers. They’re very similar to Sharpies, but I definitely was lacking in colors as well. I’m excited for another round of the 30 Day Challenge! Thank you for all you do!
Yay Avra – I’m so happy you’re playing along with the coloring challenge again! Happy coloring!
This is a gorgeous image. I have trouble with digital images as well, both with my printer and also knowing how to size them up or down. I am just not technical I guess. What a terrific idea to use sharpie, LePens, Bics, etc to show that you can get terrific results without having to have Copics, etc. This turned out just beautifully
Thank you so much for your sweet words, Maureen! Happy coloring!
Gorgeous!
You are the queen of coloring!
What a beautiful digital stamp! I’ve used Sharpies or Bic markers before and have gotten good results. This digi stamp is gorgeous.
Isn’t this image amazing, Sheri?!? I just love it! Happy coloring!!!
Wow what a wonderful day to come back home from California to start another 30 day coloring challenge Kathy. You don’t know how badly I needed this to cheer things up. We have had my husbands sister and father pass away within not even a month apart and then his battle buddy from afghanistan pass on Jan 3. So thank you so very very much dear I just love your work and your spunk.
Oh Bobbie I’m so sorry to hear this! I hope this challenge brightens your spirit! Thinking of you and your family!!!
So Pretty! I believe you could color with any medium that is not even a manufactured “medium”, like plant juices or shale rock or whatever. . . . you are so talented! On another note, I receive lots of emails a day late. Thought it might be a West Coast thing…who knows.
I don’t know how to hash tag on instagram. Who do I send it to? I’m too old for this. Lol
Hi Terri, Do you know how to share your photo on IG? If you do then you put this “hashtag” in the description #thedailymarker30day and I can find you. When you click on that hashtag you see what everyone else is coloring. Good luck 🙂
Yesss!! I need something to propel me back to the ole craft room! Loved your demonstration using sharpie markers (and whatever else is handy).
Thank you so much, Stacy!
Oh my, stunning however you are coloring so amazing anyways, but I never thought a sharpie could turn out so awesome!
Thanks so much for the inspiration. I don’t have copic markers but do have sharpies. I’m going to give them a try.
Whooo hoo! That’s the coloring spirit I love!!!! So happy you’re going to give them a try!!!
Stunning. I am so happy to see another of your videos. Thank you for the inspiration.
I am so excited you’re coloring challenge is starting up again! As you know, I love to color and have been doing lots of it, especially at Christmas for cards. I have plenty to post.
I love how you’re coloring came out and the backside too! When you said last year or the year before about the backside of you’re coloring pages I always checked mine and I had hardly anything on the back. Mine don’t look as cool as yours. You could use both and no one would know which was the front or back. Do you know what the back looks like? Those old fashioned greeting cards from the 50’s.
I have a lot of digi downloads and downloads from Pinterest and Dover. My printer is okay. When I use fancy paper with sparkles or shine it doesn’t show up in a scan. Glitter gel pens don’t show up as having glitter and some colors of my gel pens don’t show up at all, it looks like I didn’t color it. Someone told me that when you color something from a book, you should make a copy of the page. Once you color it, you can’t color it again. If you have a copy of the page, you can color it again. I wish I had known that before. With digi’s, you just keep using them over and over, you don’t need to do that.
I can’t wait to see what you do for the rest of the 30 day challenge because I am liking what you did on this page.
As you can see, I posted some cards. As you can probably also see, because I scanned them close to the edge, on your site they didn’t all show up and I couldn’t make them larger to show the whole card, I tried. I don’t have them anymore so I can’t rescan. Next time I won’t scan them so close to the edge then the whole card will come out like it did on my computer. As you can also see with a few cards they aren’t colored but I wanted to show them anyway. One card was a card that was to pretty to just toss so I repurposed it, added some embellishments and made a whole new card out of it. Isn’t it great that we can do that?
That’s such a cool idea, Gail! Happy coloring!
YOU ALWAYS HAVE GREATEST TUTORIALS TO SHARE!
HUGS
Oh thank you so so much, Fikreta!
You’ve done a wonderful job on this Kathy! This is what I’ve had to do over the years, using Sharpies! EXACTLY what you’ve done here! LOL I’ve used Copy Card Stock & it works the same with blending the colors of the Sharpies. 😉
Beautiful and amazing that you did it with Sharpies.
You make me want to be better!!
I was super excited to see you begin this challenge with Sharpies. Our daughter gave me a whole new set for Christmas and I hadn’t even used them yet so it was fun to break them out yesterday. Your coloring on this amazing stamp is gorgeous as usual. Thanks for another 30 day challenge, perfect timing with our very cold winter weather.
Thank you! I have a set of extra fine point Sharpies that I bought on sale from Staples(such a good deal that I couldn’t pass it up LOL), plus another collection of fine point Sharpies with many colors. I don’t have a printer right now ( it went to the recycle place for ornery printers ), but I have some images stamped out and on my desk that I can use to try the Sharpies. Plus, some other markers that can fill in colors. I’m not a Copic colorist because I have too many art supplies that are waiting to be used, and I don’t feel I need them! LOL! When has that stopped us before? Thanks for the inspiration and I try to color everyday!
Beautiful project and coloring. So awesome to use sharpies in some of your coloring. I now remember that from before.. still amazes me. . I am so glad the 30 day challenge is going on again.
I found so much inspiration in watching this video.
This is just awesome that you coloured the image with Sharpies! I do have Sharpies but have not used them for colouring purposes – you made them work beautifully! Just goes to show we don’t need expensive markers to colour – we can use what we have!
As always love your coloring Kathy! I am ecstatic there is another fun and inspirational color challenge, we missed the previous one due to hectic schedules and seriously we had to get ready for this one, we stamped a few images to have ready for whenever we had 5 minutes to color, is that crazy around here, finding 5 minutes when our hands aren’t frozen to be able To color for a bit, but we appreciate all you do! Have a wonderful day!
Thank you, Kathy, for another fun and encouraging challenge and lots of inspiration!! Hugs, Darnell