 Hi, I'm Sandy Allnock artist and paper crafter here with snowbird chickadees for Honey Bee's 12 designers of Christmas I am day 2 and I'm excited to bring you these chickadees that are gonna be colored on snow globes and ornaments The birds set that they have the snow birds is really cute. It's got lots of really cute ones I'm gonna color this first one with the little snow thing around us the little birdies making snow angels And I'll show you how to color that I will color these others and I'll show you cards at the end But I'm gonna color them all in the same way So you'll be able to get the idea from the first one the die set which is really fun is Snow globe make snow globes and ornaments, and then there's some slope dies as well Then I'll be using so they're easy to die cut and figure out how they go together There's an ornament and then there's the snow globe and you can make shakers out of them You can do just a scene out of them. You can cut them out of Pattern paper or solid paper, whatever you want. I'm doing really nice plain white on white kind of a look with just the coloring and I've already got it stamped and adhered on to my card with a Little bit of dimensional adhesive underneath of it So we're gonna start on the coloring here and keep this quick because you guys are busy It's December and we are getting ready for Christmas So I looked up chickadees black cap chickadees and they have a black cap that encompasses their eyes and they have a little beard thing Their wings are a little on the grayish side And when I stamped this with the little birdie I didn't want his wings to look like they were solid so I wiped off some ink around the bottom of his wings so I could make them look like they're flailing around like he's moving in his snow and Then his his armpits here. I'm calling it his armpits It's the area underneath the wings is has a yellowish cast to it yellowish brown cast So I'll add that color and then I'm gonna add the motion So basically I'm adding replicas of that outline of the wing and it's gonna start to make it look like he's flailing around In the snow now that outline of the snow you can see it's very very very light I did like fourth generation stamping for that So I put a couple pieces of paper in there and kept stamping until it was really really really light because I didn't want it to be a Heavy black outline like the bird. I wanted to reserve The black for just the parts of the bird that I wanted to look like they were standing still So now I'm gonna add darker color now that I've got my Bird kind of blocked in and I know where I want him to be I wanted his head a little rounder So I just added a little roundness there if you're doing a bird that has a fluff on the top of his head Then make sure you put the fluff there And then I'm gonna Smooth that color out with my mid-tone If it gets too dark and it kind of can look like he's got nothing going on like he's he's got no eyeballs at all Once you start putting darker color in there, then you can go back in with a lighter color and that's what I'm gonna do When I get to a lighter color I can go back in with like some C3 and start to lighten that up But I'm gonna make sure I get my blending right and those angles first on the sides of his head But look at what happens when I take that C3 marker I can just go right over those areas around his eyes and his little eyes start to come back out and be seen again I'm gonna do that same little sketchiness with the gray marker right around the feet So it looks like the feet are moving a little bit as well and before I do anything more on our little birdie I wanted to get the snow in there. I'm taking a b4 one marker and Just going around in a sketchy sort of way Inside that outline that I'm using the outline is a really kind of general guideline Since I stamped it so light and you could also stamp it in a very light gray color or light blue color and not have to do the second third fourth generation stamping like I did to try to lighten it But you want it to not really appear heavily So as you can see it's starting to look like snow around him rather than looking like a line around him And I'm just letting my markers be a little sketchy I switched to a blue violet marker so I can get a little bit different color in it And then I'm gonna switch over to a bright blue and one that's very light the more zeros a marker has the lighter the color and I'm just doing some kind of sketchy dots and Filling in a few other spots that that little area where the snow much fun is I made sure I'm using only the lightest color So that the snow remains readable And then I'm just throwing some random color here and there it's gonna give the whole thing the feel of smooshy snow and that sort of thing as I Just sketch around it now around his body or around his armpits I always say I wanted a little darker color wanted it to be a little richer So I added a little bit of a brown color and then I'm going back over it with my yellows in order to create a little Darker shades there and now I'm gonna use my white pen to add a whole bunch of details because he's flailing around Which means there's gonna be lots of snow flying all over the place And I'm gonna be able to cover up some of those black stamped lines so that it looks like he's embedded in the snow So it's gonna give a little bit more motion to it For the cap at the top just put some yellow on it leave some white spots It doesn't really matter where they are There's no real science to it as long as you make it look like it's golden shiny people's eye is going to Go straight to that little bird. They're not gonna care about the ornament except that it just looks in general like an ornament That's all but they're going to interpret it correctly So here I've made it into a card instead of just an ornament by hanging the die Over the fold of the card so it stays attached at the top and I can use it as a Christmas card this one is Stamped inside and it made into a shaker card with the bottom on it that makes it into a snow globe and I use extra die cuts of the pieces at the bottom to really anchor the whole card at the bottom and Put some shaker bits in it that are called diamonds They're really tiny pieces and they make a really cute little shaker with a little bird and snowman and here's two of the other birds And I made them with the ice chips glitter inside So honeybee has different sizes of things that you can use. I didn't use the big ones But I thought you might like to see the size difference between them So there's my project for the day make sure you stay tuned with honeybee to go see all of their other Designers because they've got 12 from the first to the 12th of the month And I have videos here from the first to the 12th of this month because I am just doing my rush to Christmas thing So make sure you subscribe if you haven't already to see a whole bunch more videos from me And I will see you tomorrow. Have a really great day. Bye. Bye