After coloring up foxes a couple days ago, I was in the mood to continue coloring so I decided to practice coloring human hair. LOL
A crafty friend, Marla (YT: Marla H), who loves coffee, has a challenge going on to celebrate 1000 subbies so I knew I wanted to color up a couple of Stamping Bella teacup girls for her. I had “Tilly the Teacup Girl” and “Chloe the Coffee Mug Girl” to play with. Ā I also wanted to try coloring some braided hair so I picked a free Sureya digital image called “Pockets” to be the focal point for my card.
Tilly has a fun stylized bouffant, and I wanted to make her a redhead, channeling Lucille Ball. Ā I tried to follow the curves of the waives and curls in my strokes and tried to keep a light hand using Copics E97, 19 and 39. Ā Chloe only had a really simple outline for hair so I had to create where I thought highlights and shadows might be. Ā I decided to make her a blonde because for some reason she reminded me of Reese Witherspoon from Legally Blonde. Ā For the golden blonde hair, IĀ used Copics Y32, Y35 and YR24. Finally for Pockets, I wanted the little girl to look a little like a cross between me and Judy Garland in the Wizard of Oz so I made her a brunette using E59, 74 and 79. Ā Although I had a bit of a glopping accident with my E79, I think I was able to still keep the darkest shadows where I wanted them to be–in the center of the braids and roots of her hair. Ā For all their skin, I used E50, 51, 53 and R30 or R11 for blush. Ā The teacup, mug, and dress colors were picked just keeping in mind colors that my friend Marla likes.
The index card I made representing me was made with lots of scraps of torn patterned paper layered one over the other. I inked the edges of each piece with Tim Holtz peacock feathers and black soot. Ā I added a little poodle from the Penny Black “Mimi in Paris” stamp set to represent my little Biscuit and a little image that looked a tiny bit like my Bandito from a business card of a local artist who makes doggy earrings from metal. Ā The upcycling totally represents me, and, of course, I had to include representations of my pups. š Ā The bubbletopĀ sticker house letters were from Sticker Studio’s “alpha pet” and the dog bone dome stickers were from Daisy Hill.
The following is a video share of the coloring and the little index card I made:
The card is being entered into the following challenges:
The Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Anything Goes Challenge
Challenge Up Your Life Anything Goes Challenge
The Aviary Paper Wings Productions Anything Goes November Challenge
Thanks for stopping by and have a great day! WOOF
Nice project! The two girlies look really nice š Thanks for playing with us at Challenge up your life! Hugs, Manuela
aww thanks so much Manuela! It was fun to color up all these images for my friend. š tf stopping by! Hugs, kristina
Super cute Kristina Hugs Shann
Aww thanks Shann! You are always so sweet and encouraging! Big hugs, kristina
I just love those little bone shaped letters! Thank you so much for playing along with the Anything Goes Challenge over at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog this week š
Thanks so much for a fun challenge and for stopping by my blog! Big hugs, kristina
These are so adorable! You did a great job on the hair coloring. I have to reinforce stuff sometimes too. I know that you can cut stuff out with white around the outside but I am so conditioned to cutting just outside the line or even on it that I can’t seem to get myself to leave the white.
I don’t like the white around the edge either! I know all the dies that match stamps leave that edge so I don’t even bother to get them. LOL Thanks for stopping by! Hugs, Kristina
What a fun challenge! You are amazing with copics and I love your index card!Im going to go check out her challenge if its not to late. Xoxo, Shari YT-SHARISSCRAPPYSHARES