 Hi there, I'm Sandy Allknock, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube and I'm going to color a vintage hydrangea today as part of my fall flowers series all week long in a bunch of different mediums and I'm going to use Technique Tuesday's hydrangea stamp and hydrangeas can often be blue but they can also be all different kinds of colors and I took some pictures of my hydrangea bush last year at the end of the year and it was dying but there was something about the colors that it turned that I absolutely loved so there were kind of yellowish brownish purplish little tints of green here and there and I decided I wanted to do that so I've taken my Stonehenge drawing paper I've stamped the image one direction and the other so that I could get a sort of a horizontal band of blossoms is the idea for the design and I'm going to color it with my Polychromos and I'll start with just doing one flower at a time so you can sort of see how I'm layering the colors and then we'll zoom through the major coloring of the whole thing after we get a few of them done but in the pictures that I took of my bush I noticed that some of the blossoms were yellow and then right next to them there would be a little flower it that was more green and then next to that another flower at that was more purple and they were just like each single flower was turning a different color when they're all blue they're kind of just boring they're all blue so I don't tend to be thrilled with my hydrangeas when they're all just one color but when they're really they each change differently like this as the season comes to an end there's just something really beautiful about that and I think fall is a great time to celebrate those kinds of colors as well and mine is again a thank you card I make lots of thank you cards you may notice I throw a lot of those kind of sentiments on there because I'm always thinking ahead for what to send my patrons next so my patrons are awesome people who support my work and all that I do with a small contribution each month and in exchange they get all kinds of inside sneak peeks and I chat with them I ask them questions pull them on things all different kinds of stuff so that I can get to know them better and they are kind of my test market to see what it is you guys are thinking so if you want to be part of that group you can join over at patreon.com link in the duple do down below all right back to the flowers you can see I've got you know one that's more yellow one that's more purples one that's got little green and then in the shadow areas I put a little bit of the purple but you get that multicolor kind of an idea from each one of the flowers and every single one can be treated separately you can color them all individually one at a time now for a big image like this that has two sets of this whole stamp it can get really boring for a while so I'm going to zoom through and color all of them at once as one group so if you're in a time crunch you can achieve kind of the similar sort of thing by doing all the flowers at once and it might even be easier than treating every single flower or flowerette as an individual thing and I'm just going to take each one of the colors and zoom around the entire group of of flowerettes to color them all at the same time as I've been kind of working through this whole thing too I was thinking about what I was going to do to join the two stamps as it was coloring I was thinking about how I was going to join the two images because I left a gap in between them and I did stamp some extra leaves on the one on the right hand side because when I just had the two stamps kind of turned kitty wampas they looked still like the same stamp just turned a different direction so I did add some extra leaves the one on the bottom in the center on the right hand flower has some extra little bits that I had it and oops in my stamping so I knew I was gonna have to fix that so I had to think up a plan and at this whole time I was thinking you know I didn't want to give up on this but I wanted to to make it work so I started by just joining the two flowers with a green area and see how that worked to begin with and using a couple different greens all the colors by the way are on the blog so if you want to see which colors I used then you can go check that out so I added some of the greens and I wanted to see first if I were to blend them with baby oil or you can use Gamsol as well then I wanted to see how intense the color would get because some colors get screamily crazy intense and you didn't expect it so I didn't want to go to crazy with it before I knew what was going to happen with the blending and the little jar that I have by the way I just have some baby oil poured it into a jar and there's a cotton ball in there so that I don't spill it if I knock it over saw that in somebody's YouTube tip and that was amazing I do have a whole video on how I made my jars and you can get a little downloadable labels to print for them if you want I will link that video at the end of this one but anyway doing my blending with my blending stump the color didn't get really rich and dark for that that those green parts and it also didn't get rich and dark in the centers of somebody's flowers so I did another layer of the darker purple of the two purple colors that I had and I'm just reaffirming some of the darkest areas on the flowers themselves first because I wanted that to be the primary thing and I wanted the shadow in the center to be the thing that sets off the flowers as opposed to having it take over so I didn't want to do that part first so I'm adding my shadows on the hydrangea flowers first and then I went in with my green again to see if a second layer of that green was going to be enough to see all that funky stamping I've got right there in the middle that still hasn't really covered it I still can see my bad stamping I tried to mask it and it didn't work really well and yeah there you go so then I went and I took a darker color I took more of an indigo and then I started getting my happy on because I could see that that was going to both set off the flowers because I get this really nice rich dark color in the center as well as it's going to cover all that messy stamping right there voila that was kind of cool to discover that that dark color was going to just cover it up and then I added a little tiny bit of very very pale light green and used a dry blending stump to blend that light green into white and there we go a little bit more of the baby oil blending stump action and we're all done the inside of the card has some color pencil on the bottom of it and I cut the front short so I just get a little strip along the bottom showing a little bit extra of that color and kept it as a really simple one-layer card so I hope you enjoyed this video and learned something from it if you want to check out any of the links for the supplies or the colored pencil jumpstart class or anything that's all in the description down below here on YouTube or over on the blog and I will see you again next time because we have another flower video coming right up tomorrow I'll see you then bye