 Well, hi everybody. It's Sandy Allnacht, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube and I'm going to be doing some rainbow Christmas penguins and fixing a huge bloop. I shot this video several times and I decided to leave the bloop in on this last time because and I'll explain why later But I'm using the Here We Go Waddling stamp set and what I did was start out by ranging my pencils in the order I wanted. I have a pair for each penguin and I'm doing warm colors and cool colors and warm colors cool colors kind of opposite not really technically doing Rainbow order so don't leave comments and do we do about it's not really rainbow order because I wanted to have the warm versus cool So I had that rotation. So this first little guy is gonna be purple and I'm using very sharp prismacolor pencils and I'm just putting some shadows in a few spots. Now I am not pressing hard and some people think that pressing hard is the way to get a lot of color out I'm gonna show you how to get a lot of color out of your colored pencils A lot of folks think all you need to do is use your Copics instead, but no you can get rich color out of colored pencils So I'm just putting some light color down on each one I'm gonna do all the coloring first and then I'm gonna do the brightening of all of the color So I'm just throwing it on here. That's why we are speeding and coasting through I will have a list of the colors in the doodly-doo down below as well as over on the blog if you're wondering what shades of each Prismacolor pencil that I used But I kept them in order on my table as I was working just kept pulling a pencil out Because I'm going to use two layers And I want the colors to be in order so that I can just grab the pencils quickly If you're doing a lot of Christmas cards, then I would recommend doing that you can do a Mass stamping of a scene like this the penguins There's three of them in the middle and they're all one stamp And then the little guy on the right and little guy on the left and the only ones you would have to mask So I put them in the misty stamp a whole bunch with those two on the left and right and then Mask them out and stamp the ones in the middle And then I added the lamp and the sentiment and the little notes afterward So you could mass produce these quite easily and it's on a four by four piece of paper Actually, it's going to be four by four. It's four and a quarter by four and a quarter right now But I will trim it down when I get it to the finished card For the hats and things I decided to use a Dirty blue or a dusty kind of a blue color And that will be because I want to have them look like they're white But I don't want it to look like their bodies because their bodies are also white so I'm not putting any color in their bodies and just putting some in their their hats and their scarves and other things And we are not at the bloop yet So if you see any mistakes then those are staying but the mistakes that's coming is Going to be here in just a moment, but I'm filling out all my colors first With my pencils and I'm going to use a brighter blue for the snow color down below To put a little ground underneath of them It just always helps to add some sort of ground underneath with the stamps that you're using In order to give them something to stand on Now hold your breath. Are you ready for the bloop? Because it happened right there You might notice there is a bloop at the bottom and a bloop at the top from my lovely bottle of Gamsol which had a drip on the outside of the bottle So I now have a bloop at the top and a bloop at the bottom I thought about it for a second and I said, you know, I'm just going to continue coloring And I'm going to see if that Gamsol dries back enough that I can just leave it Because maybe it'll disappear. I don't know. I'm on Nina paper So you may already have the answer in your head if you have tried this before and had bloops But it's Gamsol, so it's got some chemical stuff in it And I don't know what it's going to do whether it's going to leave that grease stain on my paper But what happens when we have doobers when we have mistakes is that for one We've already ruined that piece of paper like if it's if it's shot and it's shot Why not use that paper to learn something? So I was figuring even if I didn't end up using this for this video I would have learned something about how this coloring was going to work So I could reshoot it and do just fine, but I had other technical issues twice before this and Those issues made me redo it again. So I decided I'm not going to redo this one more time We're going to see if we can come up with an alternate craft solution to this error So I sharpened my little blending stump again And I sharpened it so that I could get any color off of it because when I was going to color these things that are supposed to be white I didn't want to accidentally drag any other color onto them because that can happen with these blending stumps And I don't clean it between every single color usually just colors that are not too similar to each other So here I've got the blue and then I'll do the green and this is one sort of mini Mistake I had some green on there. You can see there's green under the guitar. That's not huge It's just a little bit of green But I'm still noticing that the loop at the bottom is still a grease stain and the bloop at the top has mostly disappeared So maybe small bloops are going to be okay and big bloops aren't a problem That could be that could be the issue But nonetheless, I am soldiering on as a good crafter should and I'm continuing to color and learning what I can from this piece of paper And that is that if I put another layer on top of this stuff that's already been damsold Look how rich that color gets So for everybody who thinks that you have to switch to your Copics if you want intense color Noop you can just color a second layer on top of your gem sold piece and Look at that look how beautiful and bright it is and I'm not using much pressure at all I'm doing my normal very light pressure. I use a super sharp pencil I use my quiet sharp pencil sharpener if you don't have a good pencil sharpener. It's worth every penny It's not cheap, but it's really worth it And I've had so many people emailing me a big thank you for it that I do recommend it to you And it's not I'm not just crazy and thinking that it's a good tool Because it's a very good one So I'm just putting my second layers of all of my colors on here and the whole time I'm thinking what am I gonna do about the bloop at the bottom because even if I didn't keep the video Even if I bail on it said to heck with the penguins. They are not gonna make it to YouTube I still had to figure out how to save this card because I wasn't gonna use all this coloring and then do nothing with it But being the Lawn Fawn junkie that I am I thought about my dyes that I have in my dye collection Because you probably notice I don't use dyes very often But there's a few dyes that Lawn Fawn has that I find extremely useful Throughout the seasons no matter whether it's spring summer winter or fall anything Because they're they're seen builder type of things. There's lots of little things you can use for scenes and So I went and dug through my collection and I found the sloped hill sides And I die cut a piece that was bigger than my card So I could kind of move it around and figure out where what the best portion of the hillside is going to be and I just did some washi tape to hold it down and then I trimmed it all out so that it would fit on my card and I Used two different types of dimension I used the little power tabs underneath of the slope so that it was just a little bit lifted off of the surface And I used the big precious the giant roll of 3m tape under the whole panel So have two slight layers of dimension and it's just white on white and kept it nice and simple So this would be a great card for mass producing. It's cute. It's adorable And it's a lot of fun to color and it has penguins. So how awesome is that? Be sure to click the like button if you have not yet already. 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