 Well, hi there. I am Sandy Olnok, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube, and I'm going to make a sympathy card today on colored cardstock. I'm going to use the cherished memory stamp set from Altenew. Beautiful sentiments for sympathy cards, and there's not a lot that have things that I would use a lot for sympathy cards, and holding you in my heart was one I used for this one. I've stamped onto some Lawn Fawn cardstock, and I have not used this to color on before, so I thought I would try it and see how it works. And the things that I had in my brain are things that worked. So first I stamped the images by layering them and masking them out. So first I stamped that flower just to the left of where I'm coloring, masked it out, then stamped some leaves behind it and that one flower at the top, and kept going backwards into the image. So you keep layering by stamping from the front to the back is the progression that masking goes. And the coloring is really interesting on this kind of paper. Lawn Fawn makes a nice heavy, heavy cardstock, and heavy cardstock has a few things to it. One of which is that if it's got good cotton content, which this seems to from what I know of Lawn Fawn's paper and the way that it feels, so the ink is going to sink nicely into the paper. The way that I'm used to on my Nina and maybe even more because there's a little more texture to it. It feels a little more like a drawing paper, but it may use a lot of your ink. So just be careful if you start using these kinds of colored cardstocks. If you're using like the cheap index cardstock from the office supply store or something, you're not going to get this kind of results because that's kind of cheaper paper in that kind of a way. So I am adding my shadows now on my flowers using some EZero9. I wanted some real contrast to these so that I could make a very strong statement with the organization of the flowers. So I did them in a semi-circle on the left hand side of the card. It's always been one of my favorite sketch designs for a long time ago, but I've never actually made one like this in a long time. Just that sort of circle type of design with a simple sentiment as the focus pulling out from that. Each one of the flowers is getting a nice dark shadow in the center moving out toward the highlights on the edges, and I'm not worried about the direction of the light as much as I am just the fact that I'm getting some contrast. I tried an E97 here and it didn't work all that well for getting any blending going. It was way too different than the the EZero9 and sorry I had a little oops there on my my filming the camera turned off so I missed a little bit of the coloring there but I switched to the EZero7 to blend with the EZero9 it worked much better. So the E97 was just way too light and then I went back to the YR04 which is the first color that I used to color the flowers and it blended really nicely on this cardstock. So I can definitely recommend the Lan Van Cardstock for that and I'm just going to add a real simple shadow onto each of the leaves and just add a little bit not huge contrast. I wanted the contrast to be there for the flowers but I didn't want a whole lot for the leaves themselves so just using a YG17 for that kind of contrast and adding just a little bit of difference to add some punch to them. Get this last little one and one of the things I also wondered and you know whenever you're coloring anything it's like does it act like normal? Well I went out of the lines there and used my colorless blender to push it back in. It still worked just fine so that was a nice thing to know. I'm using my gold pen my gold signal pen as well as my white signal pen to make the centers of my flowers so I get a little bit of a sparkle from those a little bit of pizazz on the card front. Just add a little bit of detail to them and then I mounted it onto a very simple black card base and put a yellow liner on the inside using the same cardstock so this is going to be a nice card to have in my stash the next time I need a sympathy card because we always need them when we don't want them and we don't want to make them when we're feeling sad so it's nice to know that I have a pretty one for the next time I need it. So make yourself one so that you're ready for that kind of a sad occasion and then go back to making happy cards all right. I will see you guys again tomorrow for one more in the Fall Flowers series all right see you then bye