 Hi, I'm Sandy Allnock, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube, and I'm going to show you a black-eyed Susan garden today using some stamps from Honey Bee, and this is part of a blog hop, so you want to check that out over on my blog There's a link in the doobly-doo, and I'm using this stamp set. This does not have, you may notice, black-eyed Susan's in it But I'm going to transform these flowers, and I'm going to use some sentiments from this really fun set. It has lots of different combinations that you can use. You can also mask out one of the E's, so you can just use the regular B E for these if you're not putting B's on the card, and of course I have to use the yellow and black and clear mix of sequins, because it's the yellow card. I'm going to use my MISTI to do the stamping, and I have these special corners, and there's a link in the doobly-doo to the corner set. They have magnets in them, and one of the reasons why I'm using that on this is because I want to have some of these sticking out of the edges, and you may have tried this before in some videos I've done it before where I taped the thing down, and since I didn't have these corners and it's nice to have these, I tend to always throw a magnet on it just to hold things in place because that's how I roll. I like to be extra sure everything's going to be fine. So I'm going to stamp this up onto some Nina cardstock because I'm going to color it with Copics and stamping it with my Lawn Fawn Jet Black Ink, which is Copic-friendly, and I did stamp one extra of the large flower down in the lower left. I'm going to show you one of these flowers at real time, and then we're going to jam on because it's a blog hop, so I don't want you to have to spend too much time on the video. But the flowers you'll notice are not the exact same shape, of course, as the Black Eyed Susan's, and these were my home state's State Flower, the State Flower of Maryland, and I'm just going to make the coloring look very much like them, and then I'm going to fix the middles. The middles for me are what make a Black Eyed Susan look like a Black Eyed Susan, so even though the petals are not pointed, they still have that same kind of a feel if we make that center portion look like it's rounded and popped out. And I've put that little picture there so you can see and enjoy the beauty of Black Eyed Susan's. Because they're gorgeous. Alright, so I am using a couple different yellows that you can see. They're listed up on the screen up above and now we get to those middles. This is the part that makes them, I think. And I colored a base brown, and then I'm taking a really dark brown. The E4-9 is like the darkest brown there is, and just going around the outside edges beyond the stamp line, and I'm even kind of making it go down into where the the petals are, so it really feels like it's part of the flower. So giving it a little bit of trail down in between the petals, and then I'll add more of the little very short, short, short type of flicks, so that I end up seeing the tops of the flicks and have sort of an arc, a little C-shape of highlight on the top of it, and it ends up looking like, since this dark brown is dark enough to cover that black stamp line, it works. Now if you don't have a dark that, uh, black, if you don't have a brown that is dark enough, gosh, I can't even speak, then you could also use a black for the centers of these because you know they look pretty black, but black to me just seemed to be a little too much. I wanted them to be a little more feeling like a dark brown. But for each of the flowers, I'm just going around and doing the same kind of color combination, and you'll notice that I used a bright yellow for the base color, instead of using my normal Y17, I'm using a Y08 for that lightest color, because when I add the rest of the garden in there, I'm going to use the Y17, which will add another layer of depth to the whole thing. So throw in all of my centers in the rest of these flowers, using the very same technique, just having that little C of highlight shape, and now I'm going to start drawing in more flowers so that it feels a little more like this black eyed Susan garden. And when I do this just with the marker, I can adjust the petal shapes. I can do all kinds of things with them. And if I want to take off a petal, I'll cover it with green later. So rather than trying to draw them all with a marker, it's sometimes easier to just draw them. I shouldn't say draw them with a marker with a black pen. It's sometimes easier to draw them with the Copic markers instead, just to get your shapes down. And then you go in later after you have the coloring portion done to add your lines. You could also just leave them without adding extra lines in them too. But I'm going to have a lot of contrast, a lot of richness in my little garden here. So next I'm going to take my Copic multi-liner and go around my petals. And you'll notice there's some of the petals that I cut off. Some of them might change out, that sort of thing. But that's the option you have when you go in later with your pen to do this portion of it. You can just kind of color around them. And then I didn't draw anything, any black around the centers. So I could just go in with that dark brown to color that. Next is going to be the rest of the garden. And I decided I didn't want to put flowers obviously on the entire thing all the way down to the bottom because I wanted a little more, I don't know, I guess a little more design to the card. I wanted more of a swoop or an arc. So I'm going to create really dark greens underneath this. Just all the leaves and stems. I wanted to get really rich. So I'm using two YGs. The base is a YG95 and then a YG99. I'll use a little bit of YG97 a little bit. But I also wanted it to feel really rich and dark because I have those dark centers. And in order to make those yellow flowers really pop and really jump, I'm going to need to add even darker color in here. So be aware, some people will probably get scared when I pull out dark colors later. But you know, there you go. The YG95 was trying to just sort of soften out some areas. And then I decided I was really going to go crazy and I went with my N8. And basically what I'm doing is the equivalent of negative painting that I've done in watercolor before where you're painting the space in between objects and allowing the lighter color that's already there to rise up from that darkness. So you can create lots of detail in there. And I'm not going to go back in with a black pen on any of this. I'm just going to allow all that richness to sort of set down in there and lift those flowers up because they'll become brighter and brighter with the more contrast that they have on the page down below them. So we have that really dark down below. We have that nice bright white on the rest of the card. And it gives a real good contrast to the whole thing. So going in with a little bit more of one of the greens to just kind of soften things out a little bit. And a little bit more of the Y17 on a few of the flowers in the background. Now bees, gotta add bees, right? The bees in the stamp set that the flowers came from were too big for me for this particular scene. So I use this little tiny bees in this other set. And I'm going to add some flying lines to give them a little bit of motion using that Copic Multiliner again, just little hashed dotted lines. And I use three bees because three is a really good number when you're adding objects onto something, if you use an uneven number, use an odd number, works tends to work better. Add a little glossy accents onto my bees. And then I decided to use some black, some white pen detail before adding my sequence because I didn't want to knock any off once I started working on this. So I just added a little bit of detail onto the BE letters. And then since I had it out, I decided to add a few little dots of highlight onto each of my flowers in the centers. And then I added my sequins using some glossy accents as well. All different size sequins. There's some clear ones, some yellow ones, little flower shaped ones. And all of that gathered around the sentiment tends to draw attention to that. And then I have all that beautiful, luscious yellow flower underneath. Just a really fun, happy card. Congratulations to Honey Bee on another anniversary of being in business. Click on the link in the doobly-doo to go to my blog, get more information on the blog hop. And I will see you guys another time. Be sure to click on my face to subscribe to my channel. And there's also a COVID class there if you're interested. And I'll see you guys later. Bye-bye.