 Hi there, I'm Sandy Allnock, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube, and I'm gonna do some wet-on-wet stamping for another in my watercolor flower series. Now, they haven't all been appropriately labeled and named and numbered, but I'm calling this number 21 in the playlist, and I'm using this Tim Holtz set called Illustrated Garden, and I'm gonna stamp in my misty and leave the paper in the misty while I do my painting and stuff, because I want to make sure that the thing lines up appropriately, and I'm gonna do a cluster of a couple of this particular flower. I'll do two different cards here to give you a better idea. I'm using my Zig Clean Color Markers. It really doesn't matter which water-based markers you use, but you need to test them on the paper that you're using. I'm using Arches Cold Press watercolor paper. If you use a different paper and a different marker, it's going to act a little differently, so you're gonna want to test that out. So I'm gonna stamp first my greens, and you can see it doesn't stamp really perfectly, and that's okay, because what I'm going to do here is just throw some water over the whole thing, and it's gonna look like a big blob. Don't worry about it looking like a big blob, because that's okay. We're gonna let this be some wet-on-wet type of watercolor, so just use some nice clean water and move that color around, and you could even spray it, but I hesitate to put quite that much water on there. You don't want it pooled when you do this watercolor wet-on-wet stamping. You want it to be good and damp, but not not pooled up. Not shiny. So now I'm gonna add a little bit of yellow to the flower areas on the stamp, and I've already washed off the green, by the way, so I don't stamp more green on, and you can see it's starting to do a little bit of blending in, in some areas where it was wet. Then I can add some more water onto a few other spots, and I can extend some of those shapes, and just kind of drag a little bit of color out there. This is gonna be very loose. It's very forgiving, because you just want it to look like a cluster of very loose floral bushes. So move that color around. I'm using a, I believe that is a number eight or twelve brush. That is, it's probably a twelve. I hope that's a twelve. I shot this the other day, and remembering things is not always my forte, but I had my eight, my twelve out. I know that when I was shooting videos. So spreading out some color, moving some of that out, and then you can add more color onto things. I'm taking a little darker green, and going over a few of the branches. You may want to either stamp this out, or look at the other side of the stamp. The stamp is printed on the back side, on the gray side, so you can look at it there and be able to tell, but you might also want to just stamp it, so you can see what you're, you're coloring on with your marker. So I'm just gonna add a few different, different little bits of two different green colors here. So I can add a little bit of detail, and look at that. I'm starting to get some real nice shapes in there, some definition in some areas, and now I'm gonna grab it, grab being an orange color, and putting that sort of at the base of each one of my flower clusters. And interested to see what's gonna happen. These would look different every single time, so yours will not look exactly like mine, because there's some of them you can see that are sharp and really contrasty. Others are really soft, so it depends on how much water is down underneath of it. It seems to be nice to have both, so you have some areas that are drier and some areas that are wetter, and it's entirely up to you how much of which one you want to have on your card. But I want to have sort of a cluster on this right-hand side, so I'm gonna get it started and then we'll speed it up, since you've already seen how to do it. But you can watch the scene develop. As I add my green again, I'm gonna do the green first. You could also do the flowers first, and I will do the flowers first on the other one, so it really doesn't make any difference, really. You could also put a little bit of water down on the paper before you even do anything, so I could have created that that wetness on the paper first, or I can create it once I get the stamping down. Sometimes it'll help to get the stamping down first, because you know where the area is that you're going to be stamping into. So I'm getting another cluster beginning to develop with that yellow, and me being a lover of yellow, that's always a good thing. Add a little bit of orange, tapping a little bit of that color on there. Jump over here and do another cluster down here at the bottom, just turning the stamp in different directions, so I can get just the piece that I want. I could have gone for just greens here, but I thought I'm gonna go for some more flowers down in this area, and add both the yellow and the orange, so I get both colors set up here. And look how pretty that is when it gets all soft and mushy. Now I've got one little extra section down in here, and all I need to do is finish that up, and of course I did all my color on the right-hand side, which turns into the left-hand side and did not print on my paper. So now I'm gonna add a little bit more to the paper and move it around with the brush. Now in addition to the stamping, you can also just take the marker and go straight to the paper in some of these areas, but if you want to get the same kinds of clusters, doing the stamping often will help. But I'm gonna go into a few areas to add a little more detail into a couple of them with a couple branches. And depending on how wet the paper is, you may see almost nothing of some colors, because when they hit sheer water, there's not much pigment that's going to come out. So these are fairly dry, so I'm getting some rather hard-edged little lines here, and then you can go back in with your brush and soften them. And I want to leave them mostly hard-edged, because I want to have that little bit of detail in there. But I can also take my dark orange marker and add more into my clusters. So as it's drying, I'm holding the marker kind of on the side, so I get a little bit of that dry brush look and can add a little bit more. And then just stamped a sentiment. This is a sentiment set, one of my favorites lately from Pretty Pink Posh. It has all different kinds of them with mixed script and regular text letters. So I'm going to do one more from this stamp set, and I'm going to use purple flowers. I'm picturing these as some sort of thistle bushes. I don't want to do a cluster along the right-hand side this time. So again, stamping the flowers first this time doesn't matter. Whether you do the green or the colors first makes a little difference. And one of the reasons that I wanted to try this with the zig markers is because they move a lot with water. As soon as they look at water, they get all excited and they like to run all over the paper, so this technique works really well with them. If you have some of the brands that don't move as much, then you may want to use more of a Bristol paper that might give you a little more movement or the Tim Holtz Distress watercolor paper might help colors move. So try some different watercolor papers if you don't get the kind of movement that I get on this Arches cold press paper. But now stamp a little bit more with some green and not much came out, so I decided to add a little bit more onto some of these other branches as well. And flip it over again. I love the Misti because it allows me to re-stamp things and get them a little more the way that I want them, which is always helpful because when you end up with a very little color coming out or something doesn't stamp clearly, it's always a big help to be able to fix that rather than start your project all over again. I have had to do that on many, many occasions. And for someone like me who can draw in missing parts, I know it can be a little bit easier for me to do to recover things than for some other folks. So the Misti is a really great invention. This one is the regular size Misti. There's also a mini, but I do find I use the regular Misti more often because I do things like this where I'm hanging my image off the edge. And here I'm just using the magnets to hold it down, but you can also, there's corners that you can use to offset things and make room for yourself to do things that are hanging off as well. So there's lots of accessories that you can get for your Misti. So now I'm going to do another, and that was just some residual color that stamped when I just laid my stamp down. But since I'm just kind of doing a really loose thing, it doesn't matter even if I screw it up, even if I ended up moving that stamp and getting some color drooled on there from something else, wouldn't make much of a difference whatsoever. So paint a whole bunch more water. We'll speed this up since you've seen the very first of these. And then add a bunch of water to some areas where I want to stamp some other things. So if I want to put a little more of these leaves, now watch how they stamp when they're in water versus when they weren't, really makes a huge difference. So I'm going to make a few other little little leaves and things coming out from there. Add a little more of the purple, the dark purple into my flowers. And that just gives them a tiny, tiny bit more depth. And now I'm going to tuck in a few more flowers in places where I have some gaps. On this particular card, like I said, I wanted to have this cluster off to the right-hand side and allow the left-hand side to be kind of empty. I want to put some leaves in there. So I'm going to turn this so I just get the leaves. And since I wiped it off, I'm only going to get color where I put color. So I'm not going to get, hopefully, any weird stamping mistakes somewhere else. But here now I can get more of those beautiful stamped leaves in that cluster. And I like that enough. I thought, well, let me do that again down here at the bottom and do a little bit more of the stamping down in this bottom corner. Isn't that beautiful? All you have to do is add a little bit of a sentiment. And I popped it up on a layer with a tiny strip of black showing just to add some contrast to it. Really elegant and simple, simple cards. Hope you enjoyed this. If you did, please click that like button. You can click on my face to subscribe to my channel if you haven't yet already. And there's also some other videos if you're interested in watching some more while you're here on YouTube. And I'll see you guys next time. Bye-bye.