I think you all did a wonderful job. I will show her this morning and let Vanessa pick. Thanks guys. I knew someone here would be able to do it.

One more effort for your collection:

@Sallyanne - hope you got through that tut! Also hope a picture comes out of it that ypour daughter likes too!

@Wallace - I watched the tut you recommended above and was staggered by it all; it gave me a few answers but raised so many questions in my mind. Probably just need a lot more knowledge and experience but I want it all so quickly!!

It's a very good tutorial. I would say that it's an intermediate level tutorial. Even so, it's lack of information as to what's going on can make it difficult for even experienced Gimpers to follow, not to mention beginners. When watching this tutorial, I somehow seemed to know intuitively what the next step might be. I anticipated that there would be more layers to this tut when completed then there actually were, which surprised me.
I also had to make allowances for the image size, when running any of the G'MIC filters and also when using the paint brushes.

Really nice jontait2.

I am about to email all these results to my daughter with your comments. She wants to know how you got your results.

Thanks again everyone.

@Sallyanne:
How I did it:
1. Use the path tool to cut-out the background thus:



(It may seem tedious but it only takes a couple of minutes to do it roughly and it means we can then treat the foreground and background separately. The problem with this photo is the lighting - the subjects are brightly lit and rather over-exposed/washed-out whilst the background is rather dull and has deep shadows, so no one process will deal satisfactorily with both.)

2. G'MIC Coloured pencils to enhance the outlines.



3. Make a colouring layer (New layer, white-fill, multiply mode) and fill it with pastel-shade splodges of colour using Chris F's "watercolour" brushes. The first and main splodges are just deeper hues of the original colouring in the photo, then smaller splodges of random colours to liven it up a bit.



Merge-down when complete.

4. Make a background layer (New layer, white-fill, normal mode) and fill it with large pastel-shade splodges of random colours, again using Chris F's "watercolour" brushes.



Move to bottom of layer stack when complete.

Result:



And just for fun, here's one with a Ministeck background using David's new G'MIC procedure:



Cheers.

I did a these today mostly using presets and defaults. No tuts. Still waiting for another photograph though.

Like the pups Sallyanne.

They are nice. I still got to work out how to do that