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<\/p>\n

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. \u00a0I also wanted to try coloring some braided hair so I picked a free Sureya<\/a> digital image called “Pockets” to be the focal point for my card.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Tilly has a fun stylized bouffant, and I wanted to make her a redhead, channeling Lucille Ball. \u00a0I 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. \u00a0Chloe only had a really simple outline for hair so I had to create where I thought highlights and shadows might be. \u00a0I decided to make her a blonde because for some reason she reminded me of Reese Witherspoon from Legally Blonde<\/em>. \u00a0For the golden blonde hair, I\u00a0used 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. \u00a0Although 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. \u00a0For all their skin, I used E50, 51, 53 and R30 or R11 for blush. \u00a0The teacup, mug, and dress colors were picked just keeping in mind colors that my friend Marla likes.<\/p>\n

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. \u00a0I 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. \u00a0 The upcycling totally represents me, and, of course, I had to include representations of my pups. \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0The bubbletop\u00a0sticker house letters were from Sticker Studio’s “alpha pet” and the dog bone dome stickers were from Daisy Hill.<\/p>\n

The following is a video share of the coloring and the little index card I made:<\/p>\n