Kaly's tutorial

Hi girls,

This time our talented DT Kaly, is sharing her tutorial how to color super shiny hair :)

Check this out, you will like it! 

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Hi to all. 

"If you want to make “super shiny hair”  here is how I (Kaly) do it.  I color with Spectrum Noir alcohol markers and the complete list of colors and some other details you can find on the Spectrum Noit Blog. We‘ll color a funny pinkish-red hair with 3 shades of “pale pinks” and 3 shades of “dark reds”  to this lovely detail from Lady with Antique Bicycle.

Firstly I cover almost the entire hair with the lightest color and leave a white space where the highlight should be (*).
Next steps are to apply two layers of darker pinks. With every layer I cover a little bit less than the lighter color before.

After that I switch to the darkest of the color combination and I put just tiny strokes in the spaces where the most shadowed regions should be. Then I overlay with the lighter shades of red.

At this point we have all our colors in and a distinctive difference between “pinks” and “reds”. For blending it I use the “darkest off the lights” and I cover the middle region.

If you are satisfied with the result you can live it like that, but I tend to go back and forth with “lights” and “darks” in overlapping layers until it looks perfect.  Then we color the braids, the face and clothes and we have a sweet girl with super shinny hair.

And if you want the things even funnier I added my favorite color combinations for all kinds of non-traditional hairs on this chart that you can download from here.

Tutorial tuesday and a freebie...

Goodmorning MilkCoffee fans,

Today we are starting with a new program her at MilkCoffee headquarters. As we are going to show you many different ways of how to colour hair and more.....

I will start this fun event with how I colour different colours of hair with pencils and odorless mineral spirits. I printed my samples on Stamplinen from Joycrafts. The pencils that I use are Derwent colour soft- Koh I Noor- PolyChromo's by Faber Castel and Prismacolor pencils. I always start with the darkest colour and add lighter next then I blend it together with the odorless mineral spirit (sansodor). The fun part about colouring on stamplinen is that you see texture coming thru, or should I say I love that hahaha.

Here are the list of colours I used for each hair...

Kin = Koh I Noor

PC = Prismacolours

FC= Polychromos

DCS= Derwent colour soft

Hair colours are dark to light

Skin FC-9201-190 for all faces just so they had a colour. Skintones will come at a later date....

1. KIN 3800-33, 3800-66, PC942
2. PC946,PC943, PC1033
3. PC1058, PC1054, PC1052
4. PC1033, PC1003, PC1012
5. PC947, PC941, PC1084
6. PC1078, PC928, PC1026
7. PC1018, PC928, PC1030
8. DCS-C610, PC943 PC1032 PC1012

 And to make it even more fun I have this ohh so cute Freebie for you all. Please do not Pin the freebies to pinterest! You can always grab them here as we do not remove them from our blog. So this freebie is called Sally and her laundry basket. Don't forget that if you create something with one of our MilkCoffee stamps to show them off to us and as always you can join our Challenges with them.

I hope you enjoyed my hair colours.

hugs Ria

Coloring Challenge #2 and Special Freebie

Today we're closing our first coloring challenge. Thank you so much for playing along! And we've already picked the winner using random.org, and the winner is.... No.2, Kaylee S. Congratulation Kaylee, you're winning 3 free digis from us! Just pick any of our digital stamp from our shop and send us a mail at milkcoffee.letterbox@gmail.com :)

And now, time to start our second coloring challenge ^^ Are you up to color something with bright and cheerful color? Because this time it's our color palette's theme ^^

To join this challenge, you can only use MILKCOFFEE's images. But if you don't have any, feel free to use the freebies we have provided here, or plenty of free digis we offer (here [link to freebie posts]),  or any other MCS stamps you own!

This challenges will run monthly, start from the 10th of each month and end on the 9th of each month. We will pick the winner by random.org and the winner will receive 3 images by your choice from MILKCOFFEE shop.

All you have to do is to color the image according this palette and then link the result here. YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO MAKE  A CARD, just the colored image is enough ^_~

And if you want to learn more about coloring, we also have a coloring tutorial here. This week, we will feature LYNDSEY'S skin coloring tutorial :) Hope it will be a great help and don't hestitate to ask any questions if you want ^^ Don't forget to check her blog to find a lot more great inspirations <3


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Skin Coloring Tutorial by LYNDSEY

Hi girls,

Here is my tutorial for the next colour challenge, I decided to show how I colour my skin hope there's not too many pictures.

I mainly use the colours Coral, Dusky Pink, Blush & Sunkissed Pink for my skin tones

Face - Colour the areas where you would think would be the darkest using Coral, bring the colour in slightly where you think the cheeks would be.

Go over the top of the Coral with Dusky Pink bringing the colour slightly further into the image.

Go over the whole face and blend using Blush.

Add Sunkissed Pink onto the cheeks to add a bit more definition.

Arms - Add coral to the areas you think would be in the shade.

Go over the Coral using Dusky Pink, bringing the colour further into the image.

Blend and fill in gaps with Blush.

Legs - Use Coral in the areas where shade would be.

Go over the Coral with Dusky Pink, bringing the colour further into the image.

Fill in any gaps and blend with Blush.

Hope that helps! If you have any questions just let me know :)

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Wonderful isn't it :)

And here's our lovely DT girls creations using this pallette ^^

YOSHIRA

CARRIE

MARY J

And this time we want to share a special freebie for you, a Jesus's image. This image means a lot for us, since we really believe that Jesus is knocking on our heart, calling our name softly, and wait for us to open the door for Him :) And we want to share it with you.

Have a blessed day!

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Colour Tute #2 by Mary J

Hi Girls,

How is your summer? Lovely? We hope so :) We also have nice hot summer day here.. Oh, wait.. we always have hot day since we live at tropical country, lol. Sometimes we wish we could move to a four seasons country and experiencing the winter for once. But, because our body's tolerance to cold  is very low, we're afraid we'll freeze to death there!

Anyway, today, we will continue to feature one of our talented DT lady; Mary J's tutorial. The first part of her tute can be found here. If in the first part of the tutorial she show how to color the skin, now she'll show you step by step how to color the hair part. So, here's the second part of the tutorial ^^

Ps: Don't forget to join our coloring challenge, you don't even have to make a card to join. Just pick one of our digi (the free ones are allowed too) and color it according to the color pallete provided ^^

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Mary J here with a quick tute on colouring wavy hair with Copic Markers. So, first I select my colours - here I am using E31, E33, E35 and E37. First, using my lightest, E31, I cover the whole hair...

I then take the next darkest E33 and colour where the darker parts of the waves in her hair will be...

I then use the next darkest E35 to colour the darkest part of the hair waves...

I go back and use my lightest colour E31 to blend the colours together...

Now I want to create even more depth. I take my darkest colour E37 and put in the very darkest areas in her hair...

And finally using light strokes I lightly blend the darkest areas where I have used E37 with E35 into the E35 areas and E33 where I have used E35 into the E33 areas (if that makes sense!!). Et voila, the finished hair...

Hope that was useful! Leave any questions you have in the comments and I'll get back to you!

Coloring Challenge#1

And so, let's start our first new challenge, A COLORING CHALLENGE ^^ Are you ready? For this challenge, we just want to see your colouring skills! So share anything you want - it doesn't have to be a completed project (a partially coloured MCS image is fine!), but you do have to use a MilkCoffee Stamp digis!

Feel free to use the freebie we have provided her, or there are plenty of free digis we offer - click here [link to freebie posts] to use them or any other MCS stamps you own!

This challenges will run monthly, starting from the 10th of each month and ending on the 9th of each month. We will pick the winner by random.org and the winner will receive 3 images by your choice from MILKCOFFEE shop.

So, use a MCS digi stamp and use at least 3 of the colours of the palette below...

All you have to do is to color the image according this palette and then link the result here. No need to make any card, just the colored image is enough ^_~ And this week, we will feature Mary J's coloring tutorial :) Her tutorial will be separated in 2-3 post, and we will show you the first part of her tutorial here.

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~Coloring Tutorial~

It's Mary J here and I've put together a quick tute together to show you how to colour folds in clothing, so let's get to it!  I've used Lisbeth Walks In The Rain as she's such a pleasure to colour in and the first thing I do is choose the colours I'm going to use - RV00, RV10 and RV02.  That is in order of lightest to darkest (yes, RV10 is lighter than RV02!).


Okay, so first I cover the dress all over in the light shade I've chosen, RV00.  I like to do the base colour first as it gives me a feel of the flow of the dress as I colour it in (click on the photos for a larger view)...

I then use the darkest shade, RV02, and add to the darkest shaded areas of the dress...

I then use the mid-shade, RV10, and lightly blend the edges of the darkest areas into the lighter areas with light feathery strokes...

And lastly, I go over the whole dress with the lightest colour, RV00, to soften all the edges...

Et voila!  I hope you found that useful - feel free to leave a comment with any questions and I'll get back to you!

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Isn't her tutorial is so lovely and helpful? Please check her blog to see more of her gorgeous creations! And here's our other DT's creations using the color palette for your inspirations ^^

Yoshira

Carrie

 

Jennifer

Lyndsey

 

Mary J

AUDREY

Please hop on their blog to see more gorgeous cards they made! 

And last, here's our free digital stamp, a little ballerina. Hope you like this image ^^

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