Hello Friends. Welcome to DAY ONE of the 10th 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 again! Thank YOU and thank you all for your comments and enthusiasm!
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.
Often I am aware 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. Believe it or not you can achieve shading & depth on your images with Sharpie markers or Bic markers. The sky is the limit right?
Today’s coloring is with Bic & Sharpie markers. I used one Copic marker to see if how it works with the other brands and the Copic marker was compatible with what I was using for the pink leaves.
Marcella from Power Poppy is such a beautiful illustrator … she defines what an artist is plus she is incredibly inspiring! This new background stamp swoon!
Many of you have asked what paper I use. I only use 110lb cardstock because I feel it absorbs the color better & I love the feel of a heavier paper. For my ink choice I still enjoy using the tried and true Memento ink when stamping. If your ink pad isn’t stamping dark you might want a refill & it should last you a long time.
Since so many of you have taken the challenge before and for this go round I encourage you to stretch yourself and create some art with your coloring. Use a beautiful background stamp, a coloring book page or stamp a bunch of flowers to create a background like I did in this post. Even if it’s takes a week you will be happy to see your art come together before your eyes. A trip to the store for some inexpensive frames gives your work even more importance. Adding art like this would be great on a collage wall or on a book shelf etc. You get the idea lol. (this is the frame I used)
(By the way I am giving this away more on that later)
This background stamp is called, “Big Sexy Leaves” and it’s oh so fun to color. The smaller blue leaves and the center pink/orange leaves were altered and in the video you can see how I did that.
Since this is the first day I want to make mention of something that I think is very important … our posture! When coloring take pause and think if you can lift your gaze and straighten you back. Using a clip board helps you prop up your project so you aren’t bending over. If you want something for your desk I found this on eBay many years ago now I just need to remember to pull it out.
GIVEAWAY!! I thought it might be nice to give away my framed “Big Sexy Leaves” and if you are interested all you need to do is leave a comment on this blog post. I will be having many giveaways this month. The first weeks giveaways will be announced on Sunday the 10th.
On to coloring and I can not wait to see what you all are coloring. Woo Hoo!!
There are 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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Beautiful coloring! I love your color choices. I have so missed you videos! Thank you for inspiring.
Awww thank YOU MJ that warms my heart. 🙂
This is gorgeous! I am looking forward to joining this challenge. Thank you for the inspiration.
Yay so happy you are joining Brenna!!!
I have Sharpies and Bics! I’ve been putting off learning alcohol painting because I don’t have Copics. I don’t need them to start! Thank you for this demo, Kathy!
Yay Sandy that’s why I used them. When coloring use lots of lines & it’s super fun. 🙂
Yay, it’s day 1! I’ve long been following along on the challenges from the wings. Hope to put ink to paper and play along this time. Stunning piece Kathy, love the vibrant and fun color choices.
Oh Dana so happy you are taking those wings off or rather just jumping in and thank YOU. 🙂
Yay! I was looking forward to your 10th 30 days coloring! Thank you so much for doing this Kathy! I enjoy it so much. I don’t own Copics so now I’m determined to use my Sharpies. I love, love your coloring! TFS
Awww thanks Loly and so happy you were looking forward to the challenge. Sharpies work! Yay 🙂
Just watched the video… Loved it and the image. Great first project and great idea to color sections of a bigger project. I created a couple of scene card fronts to color during my lunch hour for the challenge.
Sounds like you are ready Mary woo hoo and thanks for the sweet compliment. 🙂
So fun!!
PowerPoppy stamps are sometimes really intimidating, since they seem to have so much detail at first glance; however, if you break it up, as you said, it is doable. You make it look so easy! I am going to work on some of my more detailed background stamps, which, up until now, have been relegated to some kind of heat embossing over an ink blending or watercolor technique.
Thanks for the inspiration!
Hi Enna I am glad I gave you a nudge. Can you believe I never heat emboss when coloring I feel like it’s restricting. 🙂 and oh thank Y OU!
This year I will try to do the challenge, enjoy it and perform my coloring. Nice to follow it !
Three cheers for trying Marie! Just color more that normal and that’s a success!
I am so glad to have come across your challenge.. if .
it is the right motivator for me to get better. Though I don’t have copics.. I’ll join in with my stash of water based makers.
Oh Ishani I hope it works for you. It’s amazing how taking a little you time is good for your soul. Any medium is perfect. 🙂
Am through the third day.. wow.. how happy I am with no compulsion to finish it! I started coloring my forgotten stamps, my son joined me the second day too! Thanks to YOU, I know what I need to improve and am trying!
This year I will try to follow and do the colour challenge to enjpoy and perform my coloring !!
Enjoy and perform coloring Marie! Oh I love the sound of that. Just enjoy what you are doing. So happy you are giving it a try 🙂
What a beautiful stamp and even more beautiful colouring! This is my first Colouring Challenge (all the way in Western Australia). Thank you Kathy, for being so inspiring. I’m off to colour now!
Western Australia Woo Hoo and welcome Gabi!! Thanks for the kind compliments and have fun coloring 🙂
I can’t wait to get started today on this new 30 day challenge! Loved watching your video and those Big Sexy Leaves. Thank you Kathy for your inspiration!
Thanks sooo much Mary!! Don’t you just love the name too lol. Have fun coloring 🙂
I’ve been thinking about making art pieces instead of cards recently – my card stash is so big, I really don’t need to make any more “just in case” cards! I shall be joining in with the challenge again, though I’m going to try using some of my lesser used mediums as well as my trusty Copics this time.
Yay Sarah! We are on the same page about art pieces! I am glad you know any medium is wonderful 🙂
Yeyyyy, hello Day 1, hello all!
Let the coloring party begin Beatrix! 🙂
I just love the inspiration that you share. …thank you! This piece with the leaves is beautiful!
Aww Shari thanks so much 🙂
Oh yay! It’s time! I hope I can participate more this time than before, but we’ll see how life goes. LOL Thank you for encouraging us to frame our art. I like that idea. Your inspiration piece is gorgeous! I look forward to watching the video. Thanks for all that you do for us and for the coloring community!
Thanks Jeanne you are so sweet! If you color more than normal that’s a success so do what you can and enjoy it lol. 🙂
Such a beautiful work of colorful art! I love Power Poppy stamps but I get intimidated when I see all those details to color, eek! I love your idea of working on the same piece a bit each day. Thanks for another awesome video and your continued crafty and colorful inspiration.
Hi Melissa, The details in the image are like a guide and I believe make it easier to color. Maybe start with a digital image first? Thanks for the compliments 🙂
Kathy I think it’s amazing what you can do with Sharpies, and the least expensive little marker [who cares what ink they hold!]
Would I ever love to display this gorgeous number in my home … I don’t see a signature – be sure you autograph it, please!
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Thanks Michele and good idea I must do that. Let the coloring begin 🙂
I’m thrilled to win this wonderful prize, Kathy!!! YAY… and thanks TONS!
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Just watched your video. I may give this challenge a try. I color some, but not everyday. I am going to look into creating a large piece that could be framed. Great idea! Your leaves are very pretty. Off to look at Sharpies today. They could be fun and fill a gap in my colors.
Thanks for the compliments Lisa and for watching the video. Give it a try you can’t loose anything … it’s only a gain in my book and you can color when it works for you. 🙂
Happy to be here, again! Love the name of that stamp.. Big Sexy Leaves:)
Yay happy you’re here again, too! Happy coloring!!!
Love your colours … I would love to know what made you paint the leaves blue!
Hi Janet … I would too lol. I guess I was going for something different 🙂 and thank YOU
As always Kathy beautiful colouring! This stamp is gorgeous and it makes a perfect print to be framed! Love this! I also love your choice of colours and you amaze me with these sharpies !! Woo hoo here we go again with this wonderful challenge xx
Awww Tracy you are such a sweetheart thank YOU. Woo hooooo 🙂
Absolutely gorgeous! I can’t believe you get those results from sharpies and bics. I love how you framed it.
Thanks sooo much Dina!! 🙂
As always Kathy beautiful colouring! This stamp is gorgeous and it makes a perfect print to be framed! Love this! I also love your choice of colours and you amaze me with these sharpies !! Woo hoo here we go again with this wonderful challenge xxx
Thank you Tracy!!!
Such a great coloring ! Thanks foe sharing and for the video too
Yay for another 30 day colouring challenge! Your panel looks amazing, Kathy, and I love that stamp!
Marianne x
Awe thanks so much!
Beautiful! And thank you for the reminder to “sit up straight”.
LOL thank YOU Deann!
Yay! ❤️
Hi Kathy. Thank you for the great video. I have wanted to see coloring with less expensive alcohol markers so I can try teaching my students. That Power Poppy stamp is beautiful. Thanks for introducing me to Marcella’s beautiful work.
Isn’t Marcella so talented?!? I’m glad you found he and love her, as I do! Happy coloring!
Colored, this is very lovely, but I was really surprised by how nice I thought it was with just the background colored!
I was so excited and prepared for my first try at this challenge, oh happy 10 th birthday . BUT my osteoarthritis in my spine did a few funny things and I ended up in hospital with two bulging discs to add to my condition. So I’m making a very gentle start to this and hoping like mad I get less pain so I can really give it a push as I’ve looked forward to this since last time I watched you. Your image was amazing, you make it look so easy and you put me at ease that I don’t have a huge collected of anything. Please put me into the chance to win your work. Off to try something and wishing everyone the best x
WOW Kathy, this IS gorgeous and you are right, Marcella is a fantastic artist. Her images are amazing!
WOO HOO, I am off to colour…
Yippeeeee! Happy coloring!
Who a gorgeous image and your art is amazing! Love what you can do with Sharpies.
Thank you so much, sweet Cathy!
Wonderful coloring as always and love how you showed that Bic or Sharpies is an alternative color medium.
I am so excited about this challenge! The kids are out of school so I am able to make a little more time for coloring. I agree with the clipboard! I just ordered the rotating clip board from Totally-Tiffany and it arrives today. I love the stamp you used today. It turned out beautiful!
Whoo hooo Kari! Happy you’re playing along with the challenge! Happy coloring!
wow what a great stamp set – love these bold leaves – your project is just gorgeous and I am going to buy some pics to do create these fun colored panels – thanks for the ideas:)
WOW, Kathy, you continue to amaze me. I can’t believe you did that with Bics and Sharpies! It is gorgeous. And what a beautiful drawing (as always!), Marcella!
Thanks so much, C! Marcy does create beautiful drawings! I love them all!
WooHoo! All geared up and ready to go, Kathy! This will be a great month! Love those leaves and NEED those “Big Sexy Leaves.” 🙂
Hahaha Jean – I bet a few of you NEED THEM! Happy coloring!
I would love to win your framed Big Sexy Leaves. Thanks for the chance to win.
I cannot believe this is already the 10th coloring challenge! So happy to participate and looking forward to all the art you will be posting!
Whoo hooo, Dot! Crazy it’s the 10th already!!! Look forward to seeing your creations! Thanks for being here through all the challenges!!!
Beautiful as always Kathy!
Thank you
Oh my Kathy, I could just watch you color all day long! What a fabulous piece of art you created. Now I kinda wish I had a piece like this to work on for the challenge. Maybe next time! I have all my images all stamped out and cut ready to be colored to join you on this challenge! Happy 10th Anniversary, it is truly amazing how you have spread your love of coloring to the world 🙂
Whoo hooo you’re so prepared! Hope the first week of the challenge has gone well! Happy coloring!
Woo Hoo!!!! Another fun month!
This is so beautiful. The colors just drew me in. Kathy, you rock.
Beautiful, Kathy! I love your gorgeous coloring & awesome projects! I’m going to try coloring every day this month as I have not been doing that & I need the relaxation it brings a lot right now! Thanks for all the wonderful inspiration.
Gorgeous coloring as always–I do use Sharpies and Bic markers and find they are fun too! Of course I’m in again for this challenge, don’t have much prepped but I have some images that I purchased that were meant to be colored. Thanks also for discussing posture, as a PT I think that is extremely important! I often sit in my recliner with my clipboard on my knees while I’m relaxing and coloring.
Yay Sheri, thanks for joining the challenge again! Whooo hooo you’re a PT! Happy coloring!
Gorgeous colouring!!! Thanks for showing us that you don’t have to have all the expensive tools to colour! I have a few Copics but I have lots of Sharpie and Bic markers which means I can expand my colour choices. I’m so looking forward to another colouring challenge so thanks for hosting!
Yay Carla! Thanks for joining another challenge! Have fun coloring!
It’s lots of fun watching you color, but even more fun to do it myself! I am practicing with my new Polychromos pencils, which (for me) are easier to blend than the Prismacolor pencils. Your lovely piece of art would look glorious on my mantle! Thanks so much for all your coloring inspiration.
Awe yay Carol! I’m happy you’re playing along! Happy coloring!
Gorgeous. Love that Kathy uses multiple pen types here. Really inspiring….I want to give this a try. Power Poppy does it again with another showstopper stamp image. Enjoyed the peek inside the craft room as well…oh, to be that organized!
Thank you for hosting another 30 day challenge. I absolutely love the Big Sexy Leaves stamp and found this post and video so educational and inspirational. I guess because I have a healthy stash of Copics I never thought about using Bics and Sharpies so look forward to branching out a little and your hint of using a clipboard is much appreciated. I look forward to more learning and inspiration as the challenge progresses. Thannks again.
Awe Peg thank you! Your sweet words warm my heart! I’m so happy you’re enjoying the challenge!
Woohoo! How exciting, it’s day one!!! I can’t wait to participate, even if just a bit , I have loved this experience since the beginning! Thank you so much for organising this, Kathy, and for being such an inspiration!
Thanks for all of these great tips.
I always TRY to use good posture, especially when I’m on the computer. I will now try to remember it while I’m coloring 🙂 This card is lovely, I have always enjoyed your “I can’t stop myself” style 😉
As always, absolutely stunning coloring! I so appreciate your coloring challenges, Kathy, and your willingness to share your talent. Your encouragement is an inspiration. Thanks again for all you do.
SO excited for the coloring challenge! Your coloring is always amazing.
So excited for this challenge round, and the fact that i get to finish it off WITH you on the road trip! On one hand cant WAIT to see you again..but on the other i’m bound and determined not to wish time away and to work on my coloring (and spend the first of the summer making good memories). Love these big leaves from marci…need to break out some of my purchases from the Power Poppy road show event!
Yes, finally whe started, …..let the fun begin( LOL)! I had so much plans for this challenge but I have overloading my wrist, don’t ask how I don’t know. So I may colour a very short while each day and I started already on a gorgeous image. I will post my “work in progress”.
Because I am colouring with my pencils it takes longer than with markers, ink or paint and I recognized the tip of the clipboard right away I put a folded towel underneath when colouring on my desk, so I can colour in each angel I want by folding or unfolding the towel.
Your image is a great stamp and I love the bright colours you used.
Thanks Kathy and until tomorrow.
Love your coloring, Kathy! I hope to be able to participate for the first time. I am coloring a PB image at the moment; love using Tombow markers. Would love to win this beautiful piece from you!!
This is my first time doing this challenge. I’m hoping it will get me to relax and use things out of those bags!
You have a unique style and makes you standout with your coloring. I love your colors and white pen additions. You never disappointment. Thank you.
Wow! I am blown away by the masterpiece that you created with Sharpies and Bics. The little details that you add make so much difference. So excited to be participating!
Awe thanks so much Irene
Great coloring & I love the stamp. Enjoyed the video too!
This is Gorgeous!!! Love all of the bold colors!!! Thanks!!
Thank you soooo much
Beautiful coloring! I can’t wait to see everyone’s creations for this challenge!!
What a fun idea! I got inspired and found as many Sharpies in my house as possible and colored some leaf die cuts with them. It wasn’t a horrible looking card either. Thank you for your videos and inspiration!
Amazing coloring love it. I need this wall.art for.my scraproom . Thanks for the chance to win.
Love you sweet Patri
I love watching you color! I don’t know how much I can actually finish this time, but I do know I will need to take some time to chill with my watercolors or my watercolor pencils. We are trying to get two houses fixed up to sell and then find something to buy that will work to combine households or at least be closer together. It’s been pushing me to the limit, and I also have been dealing with health issues. So…even a small project, or a piece of one, is a great stress reducer. And…it makes me feel productive when I have to stop working to rest. I am looking forward to the inspiration and the fun of the next month! Thank you.
Congratulations 10th year.. I am so happy to play along. I love your color choice for these gorgeous leaves. I love how you recreated the details on the leaves to give more interest. So awesome.
Wonderfull colouring and so sweet of you to give away this gorgeous colouring, lots of hugs Marion
Kathy! I think this piece is incredible and would love to have your Big Sexy Leaves on my wall! I’m so excited for this challenge and hope to color as much as I can. Thanks for everything!
I’ve been so busy getting everything ready for vacation next week that I almost forgot that today is June 1st! Thanks for hosting this challenge and for encouraging us to watch our posture!
Beautiful coloring! Those are some big sexy leaves. This is my first experience with your marker challenge so looking forward to seeing all the inspiration.
I love your framed artwork and would love to display it in my home. I look forward to your challenge and all the inspiration this month.
Really looking forward to the challenge this time around. Each time, I start out with good intentions but then life gets in the way. This time, I’m going to make a real effort, even if it’s just a few minutes a day for me time!
I would be so thrilled to have your art in my craft room! I am diggin’ the name of this stamp set, Big Sexy Leaves, so funny! Thank you for inspiring me with your coloring and creativity.
Thank you for sharing the inspiration to use Sharpies/Bic. Thoroughly enjoyed your video.
I was so excited for this new 30 day Color Challenge to begin! Your first project is a real masterpiece and will be displayed proudly in the lucky winners home.
I thought the name of this stamp was too fun!!! Doesn’t Marcella have the greatest sense of humor? I love what you’ve done here. I only would love it more if it was yardage to make a fun blouse. You nailed it…
Your coloring is always so amazing! Looking forward to seeing all the great coloring during this 30 Day Coloring Challenge.
WOW!!! Amazing coloring, Kathy! Thanks for the aweome video. I really need to use my Copics more. I’m so intimidated by them. So looking forward to participating as much as I can in your 10th Color Challenge!! Thank you for doing this!
I’m thrilled to be joining your 30 day challenge, especially since meeting you and Marcella in St Louis. Thank you for sharing all your wonderful tips!
Thanks for the ease in which you make this challenge. It is never as overwhelming as I thought it would be!
Awesome, Kathy! Congrats on the 10th milestone. Thanks for inspiring & for such kindess! I’m off to color now. Cheers!
Such a beautiful image and your coloring of it is stunning! Great tips in the video – especially love “knockers up”!
Congratulations on 10! Such beautiful work, as always. What made you think to do those circles inside the leaves? I wish that my brain would think of things like that and see outside of “the usul” patterns.
**I loved hearing that you had the game on in the back… GO CAPS!
Happy June! Looking forward to seeing the coloring challenge entries!
I look forward to participating in this challenge. Might miss a couple of days because of our move later this month but I will try. Thanks for doing this.
Oh I would swoon to have an original Kathy Racoosin piece of artwork!
Kathy- Yay! I’m so excited the challenge is on! Congratulations on the 10th one, and thank you for encouraging and inspiring us all, year after year. I recently re-introduced coloring to my 20-year old daughter – young, new, single mom, with stresses to correspond- as a way she can relax, unwind, and tap her creative side after my grandson’s asleep. We’ve managed to have several color and chat sessions together, which has helped us, too. And now, tonite, I introduced her to the challenge! She’s as inspired as I always am, and I look forward to regular “color-time” with her over the course of the challenge (and hopefully beyond). Thanks so much for sharing your many talents and thoughtfulness in realizing we aren’t all able to buy a big stash of copics. I so appreciate the message of working with what you have (on many levels) and knowing you can still create beautiful things. Hugs and appreciation being sent your way.
Wow! I’m excited to start my first coloring challenge and am so inspired by everything you share. Love the tip about framing up our own art, I’ve started doing that in my craft room and love it so far!
So pretty. Wonderful choice of colors.
I’m excited to be joining in for the very first time. I love seeing everyone’s amazing creations. Your colouring is an inspiration ❤️
Love those big sexy leaves! Splendid coloring! Thank you for sharing your talents!
You’ve been blessed with amazing coloring talents no matter what the medium! You also have a gift of encouragement for us to jump right in to create! Love these challenges and love those sexy leaves!
Who would have thought that leaves could look so good. Kathy, your color choices amaze me!
Well here we are another year along, I cant believe that this is the tenth colouring challenge. I love each and every one. The challenge to colour every day and trying new things and seeing so many wonderful new ideas. Most of all, all the amazing work you have put into each and every Challenge has been appreciated more than any of us could ever say Kathy.
We are off and running!!!!! Your leaf project is gorgeous!!!!!
Yay! I am so excited for this challenge. I hardly make time to sit and color just for fun so this is perfect to push me to do it more often. Love the way you colored these leaves! they look amazing, who would have thought that you could achieve such beauty with just sharpies
This just blew me away when I saw the quick video over on Instagram! It’s incredible what you are able to achieve with markers that just about anyone has access to. Can’t wait to find time to play along this month! Thank you for the tips on posture – always important, especially when it comes to coloring.
Am so excited to be taking part again, although will miss next week as away with my daughters school. My go to colouring medium is Zig Brush markers but I have a few copics and really must practice with them.
I loved this first project, Kathy. Goes to show you don’t need fancy supplies to create something beautiful! Thanks for the chance to put this beauty on display in my craft room wall and for another awesome challenge! 🙂 x
I am so excited for this 30 day color challenge. I joined in a few days last summer, but I am going to try my best to at least do something everyday for the 10th Anniversary. Woohoo
Thank you so much for doing these challenges. I learn so much by watching you work. This piece is incredibly beautiful.
I have heard of the daily marker 30 day challenge but was so intimidated to color that I always skipped it. This year though, I am going to color my little heart out. You can’t get better if you don’t practice! Thank you Kathy Racoosin for encouraging people like to me to just have fun and color!
Absolutely stunning Kathy!!! Thank you for hosting another challenge!!! It’s such a great way to bring everyone together. You’re the BEST!!!
Gorgeous work! I would love to join the challenge but unfortunately I rarely have any free time.
Thank you so much for using markers other than Copics…I don’t own any of the better brands so seeing you come up with amazing creations using Sharpies and Bics is really encouraging and inspiring! Love your piece.
I haven’t done a 30 Day Challenge yet! I’m excited! Thank you for doing this! So many techniques to try! I haven’t used sharpies yet… just copics…. time to try!
Such a good reminder to step away from what we normally use for coloring! Love it
In the past I have participated some in the daily marker but always fell off the wagon on the journey. I have loved the idea of it tho.
Your floral wreath is stunning, and makes all the masking soooo worth it! I love the idea of working on one or a few coloring pieces rather than a whole project. I plan to color up the Mega Succulent from Altenew (thank YOU for the videos on that one!) and a page of stamped flowers that have been sitting around my craft room begging for color. Thanks for the generous giveaway and these fabulous color challenges for so much inspiration.
Thanks for the reminder about posture. Very important!!
What a fun and exciting piece of artwork!
I am going to try to color each of the 30 days, but life often gets in the way. Thanks for showing us how you can use different types (& $$$) of markers and pencils and that it’s ok to just have fun!
Beautiful coloring! I need all the help I can get with my coloring. Thank you!
I,m so excited for another coloring challenge. I learn so much from you. Thanks. I have copics, tombow, sharpies and bic but have never used the bic,. Can’t wait to try.
I shall be watching the video on using other products besides Copics. I have some other alcohol markers, but like to try my hand at watercoloring with my Zigs most of the time. Need to try colored pencils also. Thank you for all your informative videos! You are truly a talent and a good teacher with your explanations!
Quite frankly, I do NOT enjoy coloring. Having reached the age of 85, I can’t do it, but my daughter does the coloring for me after I stamp a design, and the partnership is not only fun, but quite successful. Love your work and enjoy watching. Thanks for this opportunity.
Gorgeous colors. Love your depth of color. Gorgeous card
I’m so excited to join in this challenge — my first and your TENTH! Congrats on that achievement and let’s get busy making this a happy, colorful world! Your leaves are spectacular and I love that you encourage the use of many types of coloring media – your piece would look stunning (and be inspirational) in my own craft room. Thanks for the chance!
Impressive as always! I have some of these products and have struggled with the idea that they could be used with such great results. You proved me wrong and inspire me to give it a whirl. Thank-you, Kathy!
Oh my gosh Kathy, I loved watching this piece of art evolve on your video! I am definitely inspired to try this technique, either with Copics or watercolor!
Beautiful coloring as usual Kathy!!
I’m excited to get re-energized to color, since I haven’t done much in the past few months! Thanks for the nudge!
This is the first I’ve heard of your Challenge, except I heard about it on the 2nd. I’m very excited to start it today! I’m visiting my daughter and did not bring any markers with me but I have a set of colored pencils … they will have to do for now. I’m artistically challenged, so this should be fun and HELPFUL! Loved your video.
Thanks for the information about being able to use Copic Markers with other markers. I’ve thought about doing this but hesitated because I was afraid of non-compatibility. Love the vibrant colors of your piece.
I absolutely love your coloring. I’ve never thought to coloring the background but I sure will try it now. Thanks
Yay for the coloring challenge. I always enjoy watching your videos and how it just comes together. My husband and granddaughters were counting down, organized their supplies and ready to go. Thanks for continuing to inspire us.
Yay I am so happy the whole family playing along!!! Have fun coloring!!!
I am loving this coloring challenge to see the projects people are doing. They are so inspiring!
Wow, what a project! It will look beautiful though!
What a great idea. I’m not sure my stamps will co-op like this but it’s worth a go. But…not today. maybe tomorrow. I have been to a grand-childrens birthday party ( three at one time ) and I am pooped.
What an amazing project! I’m not sure I have the patience for something that large. 🙂 But you are certainly inspiring me so maybe I’ll head to my craft room and see what I can come up with. Thank you for your inspiration!
This is my first look at one of your challenges. Love the idea of a challenge. The sexy leaves are a beautiful way to start it off and you did an amazing job of it. Can’t wait to see the entire month of ideas.
Beautiful technique! Thank you for sharing!
Love your coloring and your videos! Very inspiring – will have to try this challenge!
I love your beautiful coloring! I tend to color with pencils, as they are more comfortable for me to use. Granted, I just don’t play with the markers enough to get comfortable with them. I will have to do that.
SQUEAL!! EXCITED for the FUN and AMAZING Inspiration!! CONGRATS on your 10th Challenge!! <3 <3 <3
Thanks for the push to colour, I enjoy the 30 days, even when being a naughty Aussie and trying to be the one to start the Instagram lot off. Unless it it’s a New Zealand person, we Aussies get the sun up first in the world! So why not celebrate it….lol. I am waiting for my next Power Poppy parcel to arrive….I might have to thr the digital version of
Offered tomorrow.
Off to a wonderful start!
Lovely stamping and
coloring.
Carla from Utah
I definitely would love to try all that masking, I think it’s do fun!
Love yours!
So very beautiful! Happy 10th!
Love this challenge! Love to color and watercolor!
I haven’t done much mixing and matching of stamps, excep t for sentiments. It’s a great inspiration to go look and see what I can make with what I have! Thanks for the push!
What a beautiful piece of art work! Yes, I would love to win it. I can’t believe you’re giving it away. It would be an honor to own something done by the “Coloring Queen”!
I would do this! I love art pieces! I would start out with the intention of giving it away but it would end up on my living room wall. TFS and for the push to get me coloring again!
I am so glad I found you again – I am ready to get back to coloring so thanks for the challenge! Beautiful background coloring too and I love it framed – what a great idea!
Am jumping in!! Thanks for all of your fun inspiration!! You color and accomplish so much so fast!!!
Beautiful! You make it look so easy.
You are so talented. I could never mix that many stamps companies and have it look as if they belong together like you did. You are an exceptional colorist and I love to watch you work.
Thanks for the inspiration! I am going to do my best to participate in this challenge. I have been wanting to start coloring just a little nervous about getting started. Have been following you on YouTube for several months and am finally feeling more knowledgeable and confident about getting to started.
What a fun background to color! i love it!
Great inspiration 🙂
I’m so in awe of your stamping and coloring. I’m so happy you are doing the challenge again. I so enjoy trying to color for 30 days. It’s like fun homework.
Amazing coloring, Kathy! Coloring, especially with markers, is so intimidating to me. Even so, I’m in for the challenge this month! I’m going to get out my small set of Tombow markers and see what I can do. I’m hoping by the end of the month to see some progress. Thanks for the encouragement! Congrats on your 10th coloring challenge!
Love the colors you used on your “Big Sexy Leaves”! Just beautiful!
Amazing! Love that you start right off by using sharpies and bics! Certainly expands our horizons! Love the colors you chose here – just beautiful! SO looking forward to this month!
Kathy, I just love this piece. What I love even more is how you show how to use Sharpies to create this bold, colorful look! You put me at ease and I am going to try the 30 Day Challenge this time! Thanks so much for the inspiration!
Kathy, I just love this piece. What I love even more is how you show how to use Sharpies to create this bold, colorful look! You put me at ease and I am going to try the 30 Day Challenge this time! Thanks so much for the inspiration! kReN
Kathy, I am trying to make a comment but it says it is a duplicate. I don’t see it above so I am confused. Anyway, I love that you used Sharpies for this bold and vibrant piece! It takes a lot of stress off me. Plus the way you just make up things as you feel like it, puts me at ease as well. I will give the 30 Day Challenge a try! kReN
I could see myself doing some art like that, beautiful job.
I love coloring and picked it back up while I was out of work from multiple surgeries!
I return to work as a clinical nurse specialist & ended up being exposed to black mold
and lost my immune system & on reverse isolation only leave my home for Dr. appt. hosp./surgery. I was bored started crafting/coloring to relax. I’ve watch your challenges video and want to congratulate you on your 10th! I’ve just watch your new video and love that you say to relax & straighten up your posture use a clip board and you don’t have to have copic markers and not to worry if you don’t shade the correct place on the big sexy leaves and that you color!! I look forward to reviewing your 30 day challenge to color each day. I wish you well & want to say, Thank you for sharing your knowledge and generous giveaways!!
Kathy, many thanks to you for sharing your talent and crating this outlet for other colorist. I have never participated, but I follow the challenges. I haven’t built up the courage to share my work yet. I do agree with you on the effects of coloring. I color something everyday, even if it’s just for a few minutes. Keep doing what you do…
Gorgeous coloring…I am completely inspired and definitely will give try joining.
I am going to give this challenge a try. I love your coloring and creativity.
Thanks for sharing…
I cant wait to build up a nice stockpile of images to turn into cards. This challenge will be followed by many new ones! This is my first time participating and I’m so excited!!
BEAU-TI-FUL!! I can only aspire 🙂
That’s such an incredible work !!! Thanks for generosity !
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I love the results by get with sharpies. This is gorgeous!
Beautiful card. I missed the first 2 days so I am watching them now.
Yay, Kathy! Congratulations on your 10th Colouring Challenge! I really like how you used Sharpies and Bics because most people have these on hand. You’ve done wonders with them – your colouring is always so beautiful! I really appreciate all the tips and I’m hoping you can inspire me to do some colouring this month. I love how you framed up your masterpiece! I could definitely find a place to display your beautiful artwork in my home!
Love to color, this has inspired me to do more.
Love to color. This has inspired me to do more.
i literally *just bought* an entire set of Spectrum Noir markers on sale at the first ever AC Moore i’ve been to. they’re not copics, but maybe over a month I can learn to color with them. It’s the challenge anyway!!
i am a pencil lover – i have prismacolors, spectracolors (remember those? yes, drool now), crayolas, and everything in between. alcohol markers are NOT colored pencils and everything i know about blending is NOT Happening LOL
well, it’s good to learn new things.
Every flamingo would love that tropical leaf background!
Awesome coloring Kathy! I just purchased this stamp and am looking forward to coloring it. Thank you for your inspiration and organizing this challenge.
Lovely piece and great ideal about framing it. I have some of those Bic pens – they have alcohol ink in them. I have Copics too. Heck pencils are great to color with plus Gamsol to blend it out.
BIG SEXY LEAVES! Oh yeah! I love that you have colored some of the leaves in Blues! I have always been one to like a multitude of colors! It is such an AMAZING picture! You are really quite the artist! I would definitely love to have this in my house!
This is lovely! Wow, using the green as the background color – so unique and I love the varied color combinations you used for the images! Thanks for the inspiration! Yay I’m participating for the first time! My project can be found here:
http://bouquetofcrafts.blogspot.com/2018/06/bloom-daily-marker-30-day-coloring.html
Oops had missed the link up but have added my photo!
Totally awesome, as always!
oops, forgot to tell you about my favorite coloring medium – Inktense pencils, use them for the vast majority of my cards
I’m in love with how you coloured that gorgeous stamp!
Your work always amazes me! I can’t believe the incredible results that you get with a sharpie!!!
Wow! I can’t believe I finally have time to play along!!! Thanks for the inspiration, and the challenge – I sort of forget to color with all of today’s dies and options!
I am buying sharpie! I have very few copies and this will be an economical way to stretch my colors! Beautiful leaves!
I just found you and your Coloring Challenge and I couldn’t be happier! The weather where I live is perfect today so I sat at the table on the patio to color. My daughter and granddaughter joined me! Mind you, my granddaughter is only 16mo but she was using her sidewalk chalk. Thank you Kathy!
Those are indeed some BIG (BEAUTIFUL) SEXY LEAVES & who needs some sexy in their life right now? ME!! Lol
Only my 2nd 30 day challenge. Congrats on your 10th! I love the way you colored the leaves. So hard to remember to leave white space! I got a kick out of your comment to “make a zebra” on the big center leaf. Looking forward to more coloring this month. Thank you for hosting!
Looking forward to this challenge. Beginning to enjoy both watercolor & copic coloring. Next goal, shading
WOW, Kathy!!!!! I LOVE how you have “re-designed” these images! Such a COLORFUL PIECE!!! The colorful leaves ARE FUN!!! AND remind me of Colia’s! SUPER JOB & SUPER SUGGESTIONS on your video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😉
The image has a 3-D effect. Great color combos
Never done the 30 day color challenge before, and still not 100% sure how. I guess I’ll just keep linking up here every day? Will definitely make sure to use a Power Poppy image on one of the days. They sure are gorgeous!
Glad you decided to take the challenge.
There are three ways to share what you are coloring. Go to DAY 1. TO UPLOAD YOUR COLORING or on Instagramor on Facebook (FB is a closed group). Please remember to use the hashtag #thedailymarker30day and tag @kathyrac . Links are provided in every one of my posts near the bottom. Happy coloring 🙂
Gorgeous background. I’m looking forward to participating this go around. I’ve been busy coloring and just have to link them up. Hopefully I can do it for the whole 30 days. It would be wonderful to really be able to use this challenge as a way to relax for a few minutes each day.
I would love your big, sexy leaves.
I don’t have a garden or house plants so this
would take the place of those. Much easier to
take care of and will always be beautiful.
thanks for sharing.
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I enjoy watching you color and love that you use inexpensive mediums so the focus is still on the action of coloring!
I’m super excited about a post dedicated to coloring with Sharpies!!! I don’t have copics and feel left out sometimes in the coloring world with only my pencils in hand. 🙁 LOL! So this thrills me to bits! Thanks so much for sharing the video and for the sweet giveaway. Hugs, Autumn
I love when you use sharpies, just makes me happy
This will be my 1st time participating and I’m so excited!! I had intended to do it last time, but we had Hurricane Irma kind of derailed me after the 1st few days. I’ve been loving your posts and everyone’s beautiful coloring so far!! Thanks for always bringing the inspiration!
This is gorgeous. I don’t have too many sharpies but I have tons of other markers I could use. I really need to invest in heavier card stock.
It’s amazing what you can do with all kinds of pens and markers! Your project is just beautiful! I really enjoying coloring and I’ve been doing a lot of it lately!
I think I have actually colored each day. I have always tried in the past. Great idea showing the sharpies. It’s a great way to start because comics are very expensive for the whole kit and cubootle.
Aha! So gorgeous coloring, a work of art with such depth always and inspired me to play with my Copic Markers!
Congratulations on 10 years on this wonderful color challenge. I love to see how you and other colorists produce such amazing works of art. Here’s to another 10 years!
Awe thanks so much Dawn! I can’t believe this is the 10th one!!
Such an amazing piece of work! I can’t believe what you can do with any medium you are presented with! Beautiful!!
Wow–what a giveaway! Love your beautiful framed leaves, Kathy! I do very little coloring, but yesterday I did do a bit for my card–yah! Hoping to maybe even do a little more before the 30 days is over! Congrats on your huge success!
Amazing depth and colour. I like sharpies. Hugz
So excited for this challenge. It is my first time giving it a try, and my eight year old is doing it with me. Beautiful piece there. That background stamp would be great for a textile design perfect for summer!
your challenging is a boon to many colouring enthusiast kathy, love participating
yea i can start now with my supplies-Bics, Sharpies, beautiful colors y0uve used
I know this is tons of work to organize, but it’s such a good idea. Thanks for doing this and teaching us all so much along the way.
All this coloring is soooo gorgeous and I am amazed at the results, such quality, Wow!!! Who knew? Not me, I feel like a baby trying to take my first steps and very inadequate but…..keep on coloring, just keep on coloring ……someday if I keep on coloring I too will figure out how to create amazing and fun results! I am so amazed and overwhelmed, knew coloring was beneficial, hah!! And gonna have to check out products from Tim too! I just lose myself in your coloring and want to be able to do the same. Thank You for sharing and encouraging and challenging me!
Your coloring is very beautiful.
Pretty!! Great reminder about posture. After a day of crafting I often need a massage.