Some Odd Girl tag and tutorial

Some Odd Girl is having a facebook contest to make a tag.  I had fun with this challenge using Coffee Mae.  It has been a while since I made a coffee themed project.  They are one of my fave things to do.  So I thought I would share my tag with you and then a coloring tutorial with my fave hair and skin colors.  I hope you will stick with me, I have lots of photo's today.

Here is my finished project.

I made mine a double tag and sewed a pocket on the inside to add a coffee card.  That coffee card on the inside is the one I just got from my friend Gina with some birthday goodies!! Thanks Gina!!  I used some new My Mind's Eye papers. Oh my gosh those new Lost and Found 2 are gorgeous!!

 Ok, now I took a succession of photos on how I color the hair and skin with my fave color schemes. 

First I layer a very light amount of E-23

Then I add a very light amount of E-25

some E-27

Next I go back over it with E-23.  I flick in the direction of hair growth.

back again with the E-25, then e-27, and lastly I add some E-29

Next I start a base color on her skin with E-0000 

Then I add E-01 around her hair line, arms, legs and you will notice her ear. I accidentally colored it with the hair and used my color blender to remove the color!

next I blend with the E-000 and add a shadow for her nose.

Next I add E-11 and blend those.

After E-11 I like to add some E-13

And you can see all of these need blended. I also add some E-95 on her cheeks and E-04 to her lips,

And the final project after I match her clothes to my papers and embellishments is above.  I almost always color Mae with green eyes.  She reminds me of me.  And I have green eyes!!  

I am also going to add this to the challenges at:

Come and Get it~color challenge of red, black, white.

Allsorts has anything but a card.

Crafty Purple Frog is anything but a card.

Crafting for all seasons has a tag.

Diva's by design is birthdays.

As always, thanks for stopping by.  I had a fabulous birthday this weekend.  I used inlinz to choose a random winner to my birthday candy.  Brynn over at Flair and Frills was our winner.   Thanks so much for playing along.