 Well, hi there. I'm Sandy, all-knock artist and paper crafter and today I'm going to do a guinea pig in a crate card with my prismicolor pencils and it was inspired by one of the stamps in this Girdis Steiner stamp set Really really cute little little guinea pigs and there's this little guy you can just barely see him I stamped him with white ink on this cream paper, but you see he's got his little paws Sticking out there. He's got his little hands that he's holding on to something And I thought what could he be holding on to because it's got to be something that Can pass in front of that or else he wouldn't you wouldn't be able to see his arms if he was just on the edge of Something peeking over it. So if you do want to have him peeking over a table or something Then don't stamp that bottom portion of it wipe that off before you stamp it But I thought what kind of cage do guinea pigs live in because I don't do guinea pigs I don't have any idea. So I looked it up on Google looked up guinea pig guinea pig crates and I found that there are some That have a grid on the top section And they have on the bottom like a tray of some sort or blanket or you know Something that's solid on the bottom and then it has this grid coming up from it And I thought that's what he must be holding on to because that way I could make the the grid of the crate Go through his hand. So he's peeking out through that So I created myself with just a regular number two pencil after I stamped it I created a grid and I just marked off, you know, figured out what kind of Number difference, I can't remember exactly what the measurements were on this But I just created something so that the grid wasn't going to go right through his face it would have to be really wide in order to avoid it entirely and I thought it would be kind of cute if Part of it went through the picture, but not right through his face So work that out for yourself. However, you want to work that out And then start coloring your guinea pig and I wanted to leave him with the pencil lines in him because that's going to look Like fur so I'm using a couple different prism of colors to add some color to him And I love the fact that you can't even see his eyes because his little nose is way up there in the air So cute the ink that I stamped this with was Lawn Fawn's Yeti So it's a white pigment ink, which means that I had to wait for it to dry And also when you're coloring over top of a pigment ink with prism of color pencils You may find there's certain areas that aren't going to take the pencil quite the right way so Use something like an outline image like this Especially something where you're going to use fuzzy on the outside edges because that'll help you To avoid any of those spots that might have some challenges with coloring over top of that ink So I'm going to make him a black and brown little guy give him one black ear and Just give him different little color spots all over him You can look up guinea pigs as well or know from your own guinea pigs that you own What colors they are and where their spots are and then I'm using heavier pressure to draw some actual little furry bits For his little teeth, I'm using blue just because that's going to make them look a little bit different than the rest of him And put a little bit of blue shading underneath And then I took some pencils I wanted to have a little bit of dimension to the bars on the crate not a ton But just a little hint at it. So I'm making one line first with a blue pencil that's going to go through everything and Then I'm going to go both directions with it and then I'm going to use black and I'm going to treat the black Almost like it's shading it. So these blue lines are actually going to feel like they're a little bit more on the highlight side Versus the black ones. So see my black lines are going to break up So that they kind of go through it through it if that makes sense So just doing the like the left side of each one of those blue lines gets a black line And then the bottom section of each one as well So that the blue line is on the top and on the right and it'll just make it feel like it's got a little bit of dimension going on with it Not a ton, but that one has to go right across him so that he is peeking out through his little his little crate And when I was looking at crates, by the way, I also liked the one with the grid It felt a little more friendly than the crates that I saw that had plastic everywhere Now plastic might help to keep him from throwing his Toys out of his little house out of his little crate or his food or his poop or whatever Guinea pigs might throw out of their crates But I like the idea of him being able to like be part of the family and and just kind of being in this big crate with With a grid sticking out. So it's possibly he's also have plastic around them, too But we're gonna pretend that he just has this open grid crate. That's kind of fun so the bottom portion of it I'm coloring in a green and I I did that so I could kind of match the word guinea pig. I stamped that one in the Let's see that was distress Oxide peeled paint Green and then the rest was just in black ink but I wanted to have some difference in the texture of the Crate here then I did in my my little guinea pig So I'm using gamsol and a blending stump to smooth out that color so you can see How that that kind of smooths it out? Normally I put my gamsol in the cap so I can have it out here on the counter in front of you while I'm working but I decided I just had this little section to do so I actually dipped the entire end of my My little my little blending stump into the bottle itself instead of pouring some out Wanted to give it a little bit of dimension. So I created a little lip for it with black pencil So I have a little shadow and then I ran into a problem because I put a little more black pencil on there Then I expected I was going to so when I use my gamsol on that Got really heavy really fast so I'm trying to do both sides of it top and bottom and And I was having a challenge trying to blend it. I didn't want to put way too much black pencil on the bottom So I opted instead to use more of the green pencil on top So with gamsol you can pardon me. Excuse me losing my voice. You can continue to layer color on it Till you get it where you want it to be So it was nice to be able to create a little different texture on the house that he lives in from the texture on his fur So I have mounted it now onto my card base with no space at the top and then just space around three sides Because I thought that was a little bit different than my normal popped panel And I did a couple other cards too that I wanted to share with you Because the peaking of the one little guy maybe want to make the others peak So this guy I use just part of him peaking in at an angle and I moved his hand so he was kind of waving have a great week week week And then let us be friends I just used the ends of each one of these little guys and I put the sentiment in the middle and just masked off One of the words So now I have a cute little set of guinea pig cards to send out to friends. I'm so excited. They're so cute So I hope you enjoyed this video if you did click that like button You can watch more videos here on the screen You can look it for links in the description to the products that I used or go over to my blog If you want to pin something and I will see you guys next time. Bye. Bye