 Well, hi there, my name is Sandy Alnach and I'm an artist and paper crafter here on YouTube and I wanted to show You how I made a treasure map card This is really fun for any of the little pirate things in your life and my little friend Penny Loves pirates and she also loves pink and I thought for Valentine's Day This would be a really fun card to send to her So on my blog you can get the template for the treasure map But you can also easily make your own treasure map Just make some lines and sort of figure out what kind of a path you want it to travel make it Simpler for smaller children and more complex for older kids and the template on my blog I was kind of doodling around with it here because the outside pencil line that straight pencil line is the outside of the A2 paper and I've adjusted the template a little bit on the download so that when you get that it'll be More even around the outside edges But I've sketched it really loosely in pencil So you'll see how loose this is going to be when we want to get done, but I wanted to be able to at least Share the template with you so you can get started I'm gonna use the clearly besotted pirates that just came out because that's what inspired the whole treasure map idea You could use all different kinds of stamp sets to make a treasure map You could do dogs or cats or animals cars all different kinds of things depending on the theme That would be most appropriate for the child you're gonna send it to But the pirates were just a heck of a lot of fun So I figured why not I was trying to fit them based on How wide they were and where were they going to block the path? Because think about it as a little child if the path is blocked you might think you can't go there So I was even very careful not to have very much of that boat Kind of seep into the little path because they didn't want the child to get confused by that Of course, I had at the very end the pot of gold and all the treasure that the Pirate was gonna be going to look for and there's a lot of little coins in the stamp set as well as some little gems So I've added a little pile of fun things there, too And then it was time to get out my pen and start making my outside lines And I made mine kind of wiggly you can get a ruler and make it all very straight if you want depending on the kind of theme You're looking for I wanted this to have more of a treasure map feel so I just did little wiggly lines and I'm using my pencil lines as a very Rough guideline you can see I'm not tracing anything exactly But it's it's just a way to kind of get it started and have a little bit of a template to follow With your pen as you go along I'm using a Copic multiliner. This one is an SP multiliner There's different kinds and the SP's are refillable and you can replace the nibs on them as well I'm gonna speed this up a little here or else we would be here forever. I added another little dead end for that little child on the left with the bird and As I said you can adapt this all you want if you if your stamps don't work out perfectly You can just add another little road on the map to to fill in any blank spots That sort of thing and make them fit around whatever stamps you're going to be using I Also decided to make the outside edge More solid so that the whole thing looked like a piece of a treasure map rather than having it end But you can also just have it end and fade out to the outside Now the rest of the coloring is this part is more about the actual creation of the map than the coloring So I'm hyper speeding it so that we can get through this I didn't do much of any detailed coloring on it at all But you notice that I did add hair onto the pirates so they're all girls now There's girls and boys in the set and I just drew little ponytails or little curly hair on the girl on top and stuff because this is for Penny and Penny's a girl and Her favorite color is pink. So lots of things are pink. We're gonna have a pink ship We're gonna have a pink barrel. We're gonna have a pink cannon Who ever thought we could have a pink cannon, right? You can totally customize this for whoever it is that you're giving it to and Other than a few spots like that barrel where I started trying to make some some dimension I didn't really fuss with any shading on anything. I just did solid color If you wanted to do this on watercolor paper and use your zig clean color markers or your watercolors Totally could do that very easily Just do this onto your watercolor paper and send them on to Amino, which is what I'm using here You could use colored pencils You could just give the card without any coloring to the child and let them do the coloring themselves Because they might even find that to be a whole heck of a lot of fun You could do it large sized if you have larger stamps do a big full page and let the child Fill it in and do the puzzle and do the coloring and everything everything themselves because you know kids They just love fun things like that. I Decided I was going to have a little darker color in the background and I kept changing my mind throughout this So you'll see me adapt and change colors as I go along. I Decided to add Something that looked a little bit like a map in the background. So I've done like this Linear pattern and then I'll turn it and make another linear pattern So it looks like of the cross hatching on a map and I'm using a point to pen here Which is about the same width or their bouts as the the drop the lines in the stamps And now I switch to a different popic multiliner. This is one of the non refillables. So it's a different body shape It's a little less expensive too and I'm using a point five to add just little crazy map lines in the background If you're going to do this and you don't have a copic friendly pen like that Then you want to do those lines at the very end But since I was using a copic friendly marker, I could add more layers of color So I was adding different browns in there and trying to decide how dark I wanted it to be And I would go over to you and I kept changing my mind I put a little darker color right around the edges so I could add just a little bit of dimension But I kept squinting at it to see if I could make those little kids Pop all these little pirate kids and I wanted them to really stand out I started trying to knock back now the path and make that a little less visible And just kept changing my mind throughout Like maybe I needed to add more color then to the actual map background portion So I did another coating of that And with copic markers you can just keep layering them And I'm not layering with great lighting or anything or great shading I'm just trying to make it so those portions are darker And the little pirates stand out more That's the only point in doing it And I'm not trying to get like super fussy with the coloring and that sort of thing So make it easy on yourself It is a card for a child and children are totally forgiving on that sort of thing My little friend Penny is a real girly girl Despite the fact that she loves pirates And she loves pink and glitter and shiny things So I decided I was going to add a lot of Wink of Stella So there's a code of Wink of Stella on a lot of it And then I added stickles which will make it really shine And then I went back and added more Wink of Stella all along the path So I thought that would be really fun It adds a very subtle shimmer to it Which is very difficult to capture on camera But it's still super pretty And I think Penny's going to be just thrilled to get a little piece of mail From me in her mailbox I'm also going to add a little bit more depth of color Because as I'm looking at this I'm thinking I think that brown needs to go darker And look at how much everything pops When I added more coats of the brown to it I think it made a huge difference Contrast means the world when you're talking about Getting your eye to see the difference between one image and another It sees it based on the contrast The light and dark on an image So thank you so much for joining me for this video If you haven't hit the subscribe button yet You might want to do that There's three more kids type cards here If you'd be interested in seeing one of those There's links to all the supplies that I used In the description down below As well as more on my blog with still photos And you can pick up the template for free In my store and on the blog post both And I will see you guys later Have a fan fan fan fantastic day And go create something really adorable Bye bye now