 Hi there, I'm Sandy Olnok, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube and today's card is going to be coloring a nail polish bottle and I'm calling it a Manny Thanks card because that's the sentiment in the stamp set from Honey Bee that I'm using. It's got a really fun set of sentiments that go along with it, things you can use on the bottle. I'm going to actually put the bow on the bottle and use the Manny Thanks for the sentiment. What I did was set it up in my MISTI so that the Manny Thanks was twisted so I just kind of pulled and tugged it so that it was going to be a wavy sort of a shape and then when I masked out the words I just put a little piece of sticky note right over top of the words so that that place on the the bottle stamp didn't stamp so that it would be an open spot there and I could create my own banner. I'm drawing the banner with my Copic markers and you might wonder why I'm not doing it in pencil first or I'm not doing it in a pen first and that's because if I do it in a light marker it leaves me the freedom to change it up and sort of decide how thick do I want it how thin do I want it that sort of thing exactly how far will the line be away from the text etc. And so I can do all my coloring and then add the line at the end and then I know how wide it will be so if I decide I want to make the curve in a different way than my original line might have been I have the freedom to do that since I'm gonna do that part at the very very finish of coloring the card. So I'm using some purples to shade my yellows if you've been to the Copic Jumpstart class you know all about the whole complimentary colors thing because the purple color even though this is a really intense one this V04 is really strong if I go over it with my Y17 it does actually turn into I guess a warmer color than you might get if you used a brown to shade the yellow and I didn't want it to be kind of feeling brown so I like to use purples to do my shading on things like this so I have a light yellow for my first color and then this is my mid-tone color and I'm considering that purple to be the darkest shade I did decide I wanted to add one more dark color or should say dark color and yellow is not dark but a little darker yellow in here and I'm mostly covering up that first initial light yellow because I didn't like that so much it was really bright and I wanted to dull it down so adding that Y08 to it really helped and I did decide I was going to wait until the the very end to add that black line so I'm going to go ahead and proceed with the rest of the coloring in the meantime when you're coloring glass which I've colored a whole bunch of different times here on YouTube if you just look up the word glass on my channel there's a little search bar there you can find all the things I've ever done with glass but there's no science to it because with glass the thing that determines what all the highlights and shadows are is what is around that bottle so every single one is going to be shaped and lit differently on a bottle like this since it has sort of that kick out at the top of the bottle I'm putting a highlight right along the ridge where that that bottle curve is at at the top and I was kind of playing around with leaving some white stripes down some certain portions of the bottle but as I went I wanted to get richer with my color because I wanted this to be a really strong strong contrast kind of a bottle and I just kept adding more color to it and shaving down those white spots so I didn't really have a plan except for as I looked at it I would squint at it and see did it look like I had too much white showing not enough that sort of thing and I just kind of kept working at it with my two purples to to try to get it to work out the way that I wanted it to and I realized I really needed something really dark now so I jumped in with a V zero nine this is a color that probably very few of our Copic artists in the crafty world use because lots of you are terrified of contrast and there's probably a few of you who are having a little part in your mouth moment right now watching this thinking she's ruining it but I promise you I'm not ruining it the bottom portion of the bottle there's no nail polish way down in there but there's going to be some reflection of the colors that are in the top down in that clear glass portion at the bottom so I did add some dark purple down there and then I'm going to start blending out some of the dark purple with my mid-tone color and just kind of soften that out and again I'm just squinting to see is the contrast working is the amount of light and dark on here working do I need to add more and I just kind of went back and forth and kept playing with it and trying to decide how far I wanted to push this the the lid I decided was going to be the same colors but the shadows and stuff on it since it's not as glassy it's still going to be a shiny piece of plastic so I'm assuming some sort of plastic purple acrylic it's going to have a little more simple shapes in the highlights in the shadows so they're going to be long tall strips rather than some of those curves and things that are reflecting down in the glass at the bottom so it will definitely be a simpler look for it since I'm not working on trying to make it look rounded and you know like it's got that kick out and then down that sort of thing one of the other things that I wanted to make sure that I did that made this dark enough for what I was coloring and that I kept adding that color is I wanted to be able to do some white embossing on the bottle and if I use too light of a color then the white wouldn't show up if I left that that purple really light so that I'm really liking where all the dark contrast has gone because it's going to make my lettering shine up the for the word shine that I'm going to put on the bottle it's going to look really nice when I do my embossing so just kind of playing around with blending some of the colors out trying to simplify that lid a little bit because it was getting a little complicated wanted to try to smooth out some of those shapes just a little bit more and I left only a little tiny highlight on there and moved on to the ground underneath I decided to go for a blue violet that is near the the violet or the purple type of color on the color wheel so they're adjacent to each other so you have the pop of the contrast in the complementary color on the bow and the the analogous color of using the blue violet along with the purple on the rest of it so I thought that was a pretty powerful combination the shadow I couldn't find a color that was going to be dark enough so I had to go all the way to a C10 in order to get a color that was going to be really nice dark shadow and then I just added some BV17 just kind of from the left to give a little difference from the left to the right on the card and create just a little bit of difference down there instead of it being a solid mass of just one color and then I added my line around the little banner at the top with the message in it and see here I can just trace along the edge of where my coloring stopped and I know exactly where that's going to be so here's where I put it into my misty and stamped it with some VersaMark but in order to make sure that I didn't get any excess of my lettering outside of the bottle I covered up even the black of the outline because I didn't want any of that embossing either to go over top of the edge of that so use my embossing powder de-static tool but I keep forgetting what that thing is called but it's a powder that will make sure that this the embossing powder doesn't stick very much to anything else and that way when I put the powder on like this it'll just flick off easily from everything else and then use my heat tool to set it and then I have this nice shiny word shine on the bottle itself now another way that you could achieve some sort of gloss to the bottle would be using glossy accents to paint all over it or you could just spend the time like I did and do your coloring on it so I hope you enjoyed this video if you did please click that like button because I always like to see that you enjoy the videos that I am creating for you and I will see you again in another video might be one of the ones on the screen if you have not seen them yet and you want to go visit those or I will see you in another couple of days when I put up my next video take care everybody see you later go make something beautiful bye bye