Red hot!

Well as promised here's the colour list for this fiery red hot babe!

Isn't she cool as a red head, she's definitely my favourite, and my husbands!!

Hair

Oatmeal

Apricot

Honeycomb

Ginger

Spice

Burnt Orange (be very sparing with this one!)

Skin

Coral 

Oatmeal

Blush

You may notice that on the hair the colours are listed light to dark, this is the order i have used them in, I found it easier and got better results in this order, I don't know why I just did!! Strangely I always use the face colours in the reverse Dark to light order, and this always works, basically I don't think it really matters which way you do it, its what works best for you.

And what colour works best with such a coppery look?

Azure

and Cyan of course!

On her bikini I always colour straight over the dots and put them back in later when dry, using a white gel pen.

So What did I do with her?.....Well I altered a coffee tin! As she's a beach babe what better than make a holiday fund savings tin.

I looove this brand of coffee as does a friend of mine and together we have collected loads of tins, so we challenged each other to come up with novel ways of using them. They are yet to come up with something!

I have used an old paperback novel, I shut my eyes and pulled out some pages, as a book lover this was hard! I used a couple of different distress inks on them, roughly tore them down to size and stuck them on

The bunting is a Helz Cuppleditch Stamp Partytime.

All the wording is cut from my Cricut machine using the Don Juan cartridge on the under pressure font

This is one of my favourites. I cut these letters on white card and coloured them while on the carrier sheet to make it easier, once in place I covered them in Glossy Accents.

The sun stamp is a freebie from Craft Stamper magazine, All in all despite having paid for the download, this is quite a low cost project, and definitely a lot of fun, and I have a lot of tins here so better hop to it and make some more! And you never know I may actually be able to save for a holiday and get away from this blessed rain!

Happy colouring you lot,

Nicky xx

At least someone has sunshine!

Well the rain doesn't seem to want to give up, so I thought I would put a little sunshine in our lives!

It's the Artstamps show this weekend at Newbury racecourse and unusually its absolutely bucketing down.

This has always been the weekend my gorgeous hubby takes our youngest to the seaside! Not this year, unfortunately its just going to be a trip to the cinema to see the new Spiderman 3D !

So back to the sunshine! A few weeks ago a friend suggested I hop on over to Saturated Canary and have a look at their digi images, and OMG I love them!

I have used Cali Girl on this card as she is great for showing hair and skin as well as being just pure fun.

So, which colours....

For her Skin:

Burnt orange

Coral

Sunkissed pink

Blush

 Antique Pink for her lips ( I have glossy accented them!)

Because I have given her fairly dark skin I thought she better have quite dark brunette hair:

Chestnut

Cocoa

Cinnamon

Tan

She has big beautiful Cyan blue eyes.

The rest of the colours are from the summer limited edition Promarker set, available from the Mulberry-bush.

The papers are an old DCWV retro stack, and the sentiment is printed onto a piece of Tim Holtz         Kraft-Core, Nostalgic Collection card.

I hope you like my card, if you would like to know how to colour her in Blonde then I have put the instructions on my Promarker page, you will find the heading along the top of this page, and also check out the blog Monday as I will be showing you how to colour her as a red head.

Happy colouring

Nicky xx

Tiddly wryn !

Well what a funny week I have had ! funny thing happened on Wednesday, spent the morning in minor injuries at the local community hospital as I had an absolutely tiny piece of glass in the bottom of my foot, but OMG was it painful (I cried!).

Luckily for me my father in law is a taxi driver and was available to take me down, I thought he was going to break the door down as I shuffled to answer it, my gorgeous hubby had rung and explained but you know how these things are by the time he had relayed the info I was bleeding to death with half a pane of glass in me!!!!

So after around 40 minutes of trying to remove it and waiting an hour and twenty for an x-ray the nurse even gave up, I was then sent packing with drawing paste smothered over and told to keep foot elevated! 

So what was a girl to do on an unexpected day off??? Watch Wimbledon, download some digis and do some colouring in of course!! 

Voila, the results of my efforts.... 

This is Wryn, she's from a company called Tiddly inks

She is such a little cutie, this is my first digital purchase and am so surprised at how quick and easy it was to do, no waiting for a week for a stamp to arrive, and of course I can re-size her !

As always I have used my promarkers and chosen some delicate colours to go with the beautiful papers,

 I am especially pleased with her hair, I wanted a soft colour to compliment her tutu!

Hair

Primrose

Cinnamon

Skin

Sunkissed Pink

Blush

Antique Pink (cheeks)

Tutu

Pale Pink

Baby Pink

Rose pink

Shoes

Pastel Green

Turquoise

I hope you like her as much as I do, here's a couple of other colouring options

The card samples on Tiddly Inks are so stunning, I have tried to emulate the beautiful colouring that the ladies over there have produced, I am always keen to learn new techniques and  am loving the way they do the hair.

I also (sadly!) researched the olympic outfit, and coloured her accordingly! (sorry about the dodgy picture)

Happy colouring

Nicky x

Thought for the week

Rain rain go away, come again another day.....Although, it means we can do more colouring!

Letraset Steampunk card part 2

Well I promised a part 2, so just to recap, I have used the letraset limited edition summer promarkers, and the kanban Jasper Steampunk stamps.

To make the background the dress is on, I have used a fab technique that I saw last week on the TV demoed by the lovely Sheena Douglas, I had to have a go (not as good as hers though).

I have randomly scribbled promarkers onto a piece of mirri card that I embossed in my bigshot.

I then used a little bit of Tim Holtz Blending solution on a cotton bud and dabbed over the promarker, this gives almost the same effect as alcohol inks , 2 things I should mention, Sheena sanded her embossed areas and she used acetone free nail varnish remover. I didn't like the look of the sanding on this occasion and didn't have any remover in the shop! But I am determined to have another go so... 

watch this space!!!

This was the only angle that I could show you the colours!

To finish the card I have printed some words on the computer and cut them out and coloured with the promarkers again, I also used black card to mount everything onto for a change, I think it contrasts with all those bright colours really well.

I hope you all have a go at the mirri technique, its great fun.

Happy colouring

Nickyx