Colouring Chestnut Hair - and a winner

Firstly, I picked a name out of the hat for the cardmaking book, and the name that jumped out was

Lace Top Designs

Congratulations, email me with your address and I will get it posted

I get a lot of emails asking me about colouring hair, so I have done another quick photo tutorial showing how I do it

This little image is Connie from Sugar Nellie. She is a download, so you get her right onto your computer and can start using her straight away. The label die is by Go-Kreate, grandma sentiment oval is by Craftwork Cards and the roses are by Wild Orchid Crafts

I found this ribbon lurking in my ribbon drawer, it was perfect for this card...

Here are the colours I used for her hair:

Chestnut, Cocoa, Cinnamon and Saffron


Start by colouring the darkest parts of her hair in chestnut - at the parting, around the ribbons, in the shadow of her neck........

until you are happy that you have coloured in the parts that would be darkest.........

then using cocoa, go over the parts you have just coloured, extending the colour outwards a little onto the white.........................

Do the same with the cinnamon pen, going over the area already coloured, and extending it out into the white again.................

Go over the whole of her hair with the saffron pen to blend in all the colours, touch up the roots and ends of the hair if necessary with a dark colour again......

and here she is finished.

For her skin, I used coral around the hairline - it looks really dark when it goes on, but don't panic. Blend over that with sunkissed pink, making her cheeks pink and leaving the centre of her face white, then go over the whole lot with blush

Clothes:

Soft peach, peach and apricot

sandstone, tan and caramel

I hope some of you found this helpful. I was going to do a video, but when I got my brand new flip out of the box for the first time (it was a Christmas present), it didn't work. What is it with me and inanimate objects this week? First the window on the car, then at the weekend, the handle on the car door collapsed, now a brand new video has gone on strike. I think I'll stick to paper, glue and scissors, can't go wrong with those.

Look out for a brand new promarker giveaway on here, starting in a few days time