 Well, hi everybody. It's Sandy. Welcome to my YouTube channel where today I'm going to show you how to make a slider card. These are not new by any means, but I haven't made one in ages if I've ever made one at all. And I thought I would use this brand new Waffle Flower set because they send it to me as part of their new release and asked if I would show how to color it. So I'm very excited to be able to do that. The shark can be dressed up in pirate outfits and shell skirts or grass skirts. There's a surf board. There's little swords that they can hold. All kinds of fun can be had for both little boys and little girls who are into pirates. And I think this would be very, very cute for any cards for them. So I'm going to do a slider card. These are normally called penny slider cards. I'm not sure if I should call it a dime slider card because I realize dimes are thinner than pennies. So I thought I'd do that. And I'm cutting a channel in two pieces of card stock, both a navy blue and a white with the Simon Says Stamp A2 curved card die. And this is probably one of my most ever used dies. I don't use a lot of them multiple times. And over a long period of time, but this one is just part of my staple because there's always a good reason to have a good curve, right? So I'm cutting two pieces and there's going to be a gap in the middle for my dimes to go through. And I have just the white one is Nina so I can color on it. And the blue one is some Simon Says card stock. And I'm going to use these power tabs in the center of my dimes because we need to create a little thing to slide down the card. I'm going to use about two thirds of one of these. I tried it at first using a full power tab, which does fit in the dime. But you want enough room around the edges of the coins for them to actually travel through the channels. So if you've ever tried this with pennies and had trouble with them that I have some other tips during this video that are going to help you to keep it from sticking and not sliding through. So on the white piece I've got my misty out and I'm going to use it for stamping a little hillside that I'm going to use the surfboard for. So I wanted a little sand bank on a corner of my scene. And then I wanted to put a little a couple little palm trees in there. So I decided to mask them out and I used my post-it tape for the more delicate items. Post-it notes were great for just that shape at the bottom. But the post-it tape works better when you've got a piece that you want the whole thing to be held down. So I've got my my little tree and I'm going to cut out just the right hand side because I don't need the left hand side cut. I can just leave it there. Well that's that's my kitty punch in the background if you can hear him. So now I'll stamp my second tree. I have that all ready in my scene. And as soon as I pulled that up I realized wait a minute I want to go use another image in the stamp set. So there was a little treasure chest and I put my mask back so I could put the treasure chest behind the hillside as well. And now I'm going to stamp on a piece of heavy-duty Nina. I realized that for the slider part that's going to be in the front and flip around I wanted heavier cardstock so it'll hold up better because obviously interactive cards kids and adults both I guess are going to play with them. So I'm stamping it on a piece of 110 pound Nina. And here you can see how it all came together with the little skirt and a little shark. And when you stamp things like that just go from the front to the back. So I stamp the skirt first then the shark and then the surfboard. I'm going to color this with some Copic markers and I'm going to keep the coloring pretty simple because Waffle Flower said that since they don't usually do things that are coloring types of images all the time that it would be helpful if I would teach you guys how to do some basic coloring. So I'm going to limit my color palette but I'm going to show you hopefully how to do some fun things as well. I'm taking a C2 marker and generally if you're just going to buy a few markers I'll give you some advice on some of these colors that I'm using. And the grays I often say just do every other one or every third one. So if you want to do a C0, a C2, a C4, C6 or something like that or with this one I'm just going to use the C2 and the C4 and here I'm using a zero marker which is a colorless blender. I'm using it in a way that most people think you would do blending because I'm trying to blend it into white. But the colorless blender really pushes color away from it. It doesn't actually blend anything so don't be mistaken by that but I'm just trying to soften that edge of the C2 that I put down and now I'm going to go in with a C4 and add stripes because the name of the stamp has tiger shark in it and so I looked up what tiger sharks look like and they have these little stripes on them. And when I add the stripes it looks a little bit like I'm giving them dimension because they have white bellies so the whole underside of the shark is going to be white and they'll have these wonderful little stripes on them. And since I'm going to be fussy cutting out the shark I didn't worry about staying in the lines on the outside part too which always makes it easier when you don't have to worry about that kind of a thing. So I stopped for a moment to go look at my picture online because I wanted to figure out what the tail looked like and I couldn't tell from Google you know you pull up Google searches on things and they give you like 10,000 pictures and all of the tails look different. I couldn't tell how much of it was from the lighting on the photos so my tail and my fin might be a little bit off on that but I could tell that there were definitely stripes on the tiger shark which is probably how he got his name because he's got little stripes. So I'm adding a little bit extra of the darker gray color around the outside just to emphasize that a little bit more and then a few little stripes on the fins. And I went it back in with the colorless blender again and you'll see a little bit more of the colorless blender and how that works but I'm basically like pushing some of that gray back into the colored area and just trying to soften some of that a little bit more. I'm going to use one of my favorite red combinations so if you wanted to just pick up a few Copic markers and you wanted to try maybe red flowers, red hearts, red dress on a little girl, this is a great combination to try for reds and it's I think the only one in this video that has all three so I generally try to do a darker medium and a light color. So the light color I color first and the the shark body since it blended into white was a little different. This is more standard for how I color things. I colored the R14 was the lightest color so I colored the whole thing then I went in the darkest shadows down in his throat and then I blended that with the medium color the R37 and then went back in with the R14. That's traditionally for me that's how I do almost everything unless for specific reasons like in this video a lot of my color combinations here are just going to be two colors so keep it a little on the simpler side but I wanted to give you the three color information as well if you are new to Copic coloring. Oh there's my kitty again he's sniffing at the microphone so you might hear some little whisker noise. All right so now I'm going to do a little fancier coloring on the shadows underneath the shark so please don't feel like you have to do this this is just where I get a little crazy. Here is one of those places just under his tail where I left a little gap so it makes it look like his tail goes up and then the end of the tail comes back down again when you do a shadow like that. It's a little extra fancy type of shadows and I wanted to give the surfboard a little bit of dimension so I took my dark and I just made a line following around the edge and I didn't worry about making it really smooth. I just you know kind of sketched it in there and now I'm sketching in some of the medium color and now I'm just going to go over the whole thing with the R14 the light red and that's just going to blend all of it together and make it all look really soft. If you want to just color solid just just the red on the the surfboard totally fine this is over the top stuff which is kind of what I do that's my signature stuff but I just thought I would show you a little bit fancier stuff too and then I decided this this could either be a grass skirt or shell skirt and I decided I wanted color in there rather than just having a little bit of brown shells or something so I just did the grass skirt instead and here's another place for the colorless blender can sometimes help some of the red went into the teeth so I can put several layers of the colorless blender in there because that pushes the color away so I did a little bit I'll go back later and add a little bit more and just try to continue to push that color out but sometimes you need to wait for that to dry in between so I'm moving on to my little beach scene I use the same green for my little palm tree leaves and this E31 is a really great light brown color and if you're looking for a good trio in browns then I would go either an E31 or 33 along with an E29 and an E37 but I'm only going to use the E37 here because it's such a small image we don't need a whole lot of dimension but if you're looking for what colors to get I will list the E29 in the description and stuff in case you forget that and you want to go get that color anyway if you color animals it's always good to have a trio of colors for them because then you can make dark brown animals light brown animals that kind of thing so here's another little fancy addition I'm going to do a long shadow when the sun is kind of low on the horizon you get really long shadows and I can increase the the look of this little hillside being rounded by just putting little rounded lines behind the trees for shadows again that's over the top coloring but it's a really simple thing to do that adds a whole lot to the effect so if the the brown is too dark which I felt it it kind of got too dark you can scrub over it with the lighter color and you can see I'm just kind of coloring over over and over in that area and it really does soften it and I don't know if this is scientifically why but I think there's if you consider there's probably more of the colorless blender type of substrate or whatever in the marker in the lighter ones than in the darker ones then the lighter colors will push away also the darker colors so if you ever color a light one over a dark one and you wonder why it started kind of erasing color that might be why and here's a place where the zero marker also comes in handy so I drew some dots with the brown and now I can also draw dots with the colorless blender and it makes little not perfectly white dots but it sort of erases color it pushes color away and if you look at them closely you would actually be able to see that it creates a little halo around it because it's pushing that color out in all directions whenever you touch that marker to color that's already there so I thought I'd use the same colors from my shark to color the little chest and I'm just going to put shadows on the right hand side keep it really simple with just two shadows and then that buckle I didn't really feel like adding another color to the mix because I'm trying to give you a limited color palette if you're just getting started with markers and don't want to go crazy and the sky color I like a B00 which is much darker than this but a quadruple zero or triple zero are very very light ones and it's a little easier to get this look so what I'm doing is flicking the marker I'm laying the marker the marker nib on its side right along that line where I kind of drew clouds little cloud tops and then lifting it up as I move the marker so I'm making flicking motions almost like if you think of sweeping the dirt off of a sidewalk you flick it off into the the grass or off onto the street it's that kind of emotion so the coloring is just about done here I do go back to one thing after I finished my little fussy cutting but I decided to cut the the shark out by hand because there's all these different pieces that need to be cut around and I was really glad that waffle flower didn't make us cut out all the teeth so they have that nice big mouth that makes it easier and combining these images also means that I don't have to cut out any of those other little parts because that surfboard is just one little shape and I went around the edge with a dark marker in order to hide any of the places where I didn't fussy cut well and then I realized I forgot to go back and add some shadows to the green if you have a selection of gray markers like this C4 then you can use the gray markers to do shadowing on your other colors so if you just get one green and a gray or two then you can mix those and get a perfectly fine little bit of shadow on them without having to buy a whole bunch of markers so it's a great way to stretch the markers that you do have by using some of the grays to shadow. Now I wanted to put my sentiment on and I used my powder tool to prepare the area that I wanted to stamp it and I'm going to use this Mama Elephant ink because I wanted to put a pop of red in there since we have red on the shark and I thought it would be fun to do that so off screen I'm actually inking the sentiment stamp and then closing it on there this is the Misti that I'm using for stamping if I hadn't mentioned that before I can't remember if I did but the Misti really makes lining things up so much easier and there are a lot of videos both on my channel and in others if you search for Misti in my channel then you'll find lots more on how this thing works but I'm going to put my clear embossing powder on I let my heat gun warm up really good before I put this on there because then the paper won't curl as it gets heated up and then that's ready to just put some dimensional adhesive on and I want to put my adhesive on but keep it away from the edge because I want that dime to have a place to roll and I'm using the 3m foam tape for this because it's a little thicker than the power tabs so it's going to give the dime a little more room if the the two panels are raised a little bit higher than the dime is if that makes sense so using two different levels of dimension so I'm trying to slide the dime around to see if it's going to fit through really well and how easily it's going to slide and sometimes you have to work it a little bit but I also had this idea since I had my powder tool out why not run some of the powder in between the dime and make sure the edge of any of that sticky is no longer sticky and then I thought wait a minute why don't I do that inside the groove as well and I put the dime back in the dimes back in and all of a sudden it slid perfectly through there really easily so next I trimmed off some of the edges because since I nudge things a little bit there was a little extra white card stock from the card base now I put another power tab on top of the dime and stuck my little little sharky on it and then decided to put that onto the card and stuck that in the groove and sliding it in there is a little tough so next it's going to be a lot of you know fussing around to try to get him to slide really well but before I do that I want to make sure that he doesn't fall out so since the groove ends all the way out in outer space on the on either side of the card I just put extra dimensionals right underneath the top and the bottom on both sides and that way the dimes are not going to slide out because the gap is not big enough so I ran the dimes and the shark back and forth a whole bunch of times to just sort of I don't know grease the skids I guess and eventually got it to the point where it started to do this fun little spin thing so he's spinning she she girl shark is spinning along on my card and I think this is really a fun kind of interactive card for kids it'd be great for birthdays or all different kinds of fun occasions thanks again to waffle flour for including me in the fun of the new release and I will see you guys later be sure to leave a comment in the doobly-doo and subscribe if you would like to get more videos from me and there's a link in the upper right hand corner to my blog I will see you guys later take care bye bye