Okay, with the case into primert, i sanded it down and went for a white base coat. then i asked laura exactly what she wanted and she said a hot pink to purple fade. and chose tyhe 2 shades as i mixxed them .
i started with the red.
then the next step was to make the seconfd colour below it.
no fade yet as the boarder between them is covered with the mid tone of eac, and then the mid tone of that etc etc to get a smooth fgasde.
but half way though ...
the olours just did not work at all. so we opted for a hot pink to light pink fade instead.
Fades are by far nto the easiest of things to pull off. specialy with opaque basecoats like pink !.
but all in all im poretty chiffed at how smooth this one came out !
we never did decide on what to but on the sides in terms of artwork,. and laura did liek the idea of bubbles. so for the last few hours ive been thinking on how i can work on that theme as well as thinking about how this is a gift for goign to university.
it hit me that a picture of soemone blowing bubbles from one of those things kids get would be perfect. and a great symbol for tyaking flight with education.
i photoshooped a lot of images but then eventaualy came across a beaut' a fair like lady blowing petals from her palms.
the perfect image i think.
she will nto be blowing opetalsd but im dure gonna think about her blowing the bubbles and maybe turnign into symbols etc which will wrap around the case.
but ehres what ive got so far... this is 2 mins into paintign the figure btw nothign exiciting yet
oh and btw, brother has taken the gucci camera on holiday so im stuck with a crappy 2.2mpxl 'thing'
COOL 
