 Well, hello there. I'm Sandy Allnach and I have a card making sketchbook in my hands thanks to the generosity of Trinity who sent me one. They know how much I love sketchbooks and I thought maybe we could take a look at it and some ways to use it and you could decide if it's for you. So I'm going to show you some ways I would use it and maybe that'll be the same as what you would do as well as some things you might consider. This book comes with a lot of bells and whistles in it. There's pockets, this little template is already in there for you with a ruler and shapes and each section is broken into what size card it is. And there's this wonderful graphic. If you are one of those people has trouble figuring out what size is your layer. If you're going to do five layers, what size? There's a little chart there for you. I just ballpark it. But I drew a couple sketches in here and the way I drew them really is just to draw shapes and then give them value values the difference between light and dark. So I just pick some random cards I found on Pinterest and sketch them out with like a little darker color in one area for the pattern paper or darker for the card stock and you can just jot down all kinds of ideas that you see out there and then try to make that into a card. Now this one somebody had a card that had a square image in the middle and I decided I didn't want to follow my sketch. I wanted to try something different. So I did something tone on tone. This image is one of Trinity's new gnomes and I paired it with the winter wonderland scene in that class and it made for a great little tiny scene and a nice little card. Now I also went through some other things when I was trying to figure out what to put in my sketchbook because I went aha. I have been wanting to go back through some of my classes like the clean and simple class and I had some ideas during that class while I was making the class making the videos and I was like I'm going to go back and I'm going to do this. I'm going to make it on a card and I didn't do any of that. So I've sketched all of that out here for myself so I can remember I went through the class and I wrote down the things I wanted to try. Now here's a card that let's reverse engineer. You know I said if you go find one on Pinterest let's say we found this card on Pinterest and it's again another one of those cute I have a thing for gnomes and what I would do here is divided into quarters because this one's not a card that's divided into thirds and in your head you know make the center line and then just start start drawing shapes like that's it. I'm drawing a circle with a circle around it a blob for a figure because I don't know if I'm going to always use that stamp I might use a different stamp. Don't have to draw that one just a blob to give you an idea of what size image you're going to want to use for this design and then I put some value in there for the color behind the figure and then I decided I'm going to throw in some different places I could put the sentiment because sometimes you see a card and you're like I kind of like that but what if it was like this? Write all that down and maybe on this one the thing that intrigues you is that the front of the card is cut short so that the inside which is a different color shows through to the front so draw that out you know sketch out something to indicate the value and then make notes about it there's areas for doing color swatches now you have to do this in like colored pencil or something because this is not alcohol marker friendly paper but there's a place to write down what the project was for was it for a design team thing so you don't replicate the same design over and over again the date or you could put the project was for my mom and you don't want to give your mom the same design card every year for her birthday so here you can keep track of that so let's try another one and make a sketch from it this is a horizontal one and all of these pages have you know horizontal and vertical shapes that you can draw your sketches into so I'll go to one of the horizontal ones and draw a shape for the main image which is a little more wide than it is tall but I could square that up if I wanted and maybe the thing that you love about it is where the banner is so draw where the banner is or maybe you didn't like it so you want to move the banner somewhere else in your sketch it's your sketchbook so you can do anything you want with it maybe the thing that you liked is that strip of black that's on there with glitter on it yes it has glitter I know I was feeling in a glitter mood when I started making these cards so draw that in there and you can sketch out the value of all the different shapes if you want you can get your color pencils out and color it if that's what's going to trigger something for you and you might even write down this would be perfect for that class I took maybe the one that Sandy taught called city sidewalks because I would love to draw the lantern behind the little gnome maybe that's what you write down but anything that's that triggers in your mind I want to try such and such there's plenty of space in here for notes so write all that down and use yourself a little bit of glitter here in there if you want I put it in there with glossy accents over it so it won't get all over me because not into the mess of glitter but long story there all right another thing that I decided to do is go back through some of the classes I thought I want to go back and revisit right so I went through the blueprint class and I made some of the ones that were vertical into horizontals and the ones that were horizontals into vertical so I have a pair for each one and I kind of sketched down an idea do I put the figure facing away from me on my side of the table or facing toward me on the far side of the table I did the same thing with the classroom and what would that classroom be if it was vertical rather than horizontal you know I just did that for each one of the scenes because this gives me all kinds of ideas that I can adapt when I'm making cards and here's one that I've wanted to try I'll show it to you in a minute it's got the hallway on a different side it's vertical rather than horizontal I drew a little thing in there I put the eye for image and then maybe there's a shelf there or something so here's the card that I ended up making so I put the figure you know on that flooring and the flooring follows the blueprint but I put a rug there and little footprints so he walked in from the snow and I made a shelf behind there with some things hanging down I decided instead of having five little things on five little hooks I would just put three of them in there so there's all different kinds of things that I can use this sketchbook for for certain now I took the blueprint of the bedroom and I turned it into a barn and I made it vertical so I changed the shape of that back wall that far wall I put windows on either side so you can see the night sky and I put the three little gnomes in there the three kings and I thought it was really cute I still have all of that perspective that we learn in the blueprint class but can turn that into something and you can turn them into things for any season this one is one that I turned into a slim line from the kitchen so there's a kitchen lesson on how to do these cabinets and the floors and everything I changed up some things but it's basically what was in the lesson stretched out and made into something really epic so this is the tiniest gnome ever probably gonna need a ladder to get all the way up there and then here's the blueprint library and I decided to change that into something I changed it to a horizontal and I put a tree in the far room the figure is going to still be in the middle but on the left side on the shelves instead of books in the library it's gift boxes so I just took a seed of an idea changed it into something else but I was able to work it out in the sketchbook now you can get any sketchbook and do this and and write all these things out and sketch them out for yourself but this one just has a lot of things in it that are there and ready for you now when I started doing these I was working in copic multiliners these are the sp's but the other ones work fine I didn't have any bleed through or anything but I also wasn't getting like really heavy with the black pen or anything but here's where I was drawing in one of the scenes that I wanted to do with the galactic watercolor class because I thought this would be interesting to have a big moon shining on the figure and I drew it both horizontally and vertical so I could kind of figure out what I wanted to do and then I made the card in both horizontal and vertical and I made one of those galactic skies from the galaxy class so it was kind of fun to play with putting one on the left one on the right one vertical one horizontal and I worked it out in the sketchbook before I got going now there's some of the sizes in here that you might not use but I just sketched out anyway I didn't really worry that this was not the exact proportions for an a2 and I went through and I drew out all the city sidewalks for myself so that I could again remind myself of what the lessons are and which ones they're in this one I turned into a slimline card the blending on the background was terrible but I put enough snow in there that no one will notice but I was able to use all these lights the way that I had done in the class to make something that looked like a city scene and remember this card this is also from the city sidewalks class that has light around that figure and there's a lantern at the top of it so I literally I'm just going through all of my classes because I even forget what's in my own now there's a section here for mini slimlines and I don't really do mini slimlines but if you do then great I'm going to also sketch in some slimline designs in there because there's still that long tall vertical orientation or long horizontal and here's another one winter enchantment I've wanted to go revisit these and I'm going to be doing that I've got a couple of them that I did here I took one of the verticals changed the colors and turned it into a horizontal and put one of the trinity images in it they make such cute stamps so hope that you have visited their website there's links that do we do but you can see here I just have all of these sketches for scenes and some of these might end up being a bonus lesson in some of these classes I will let you know on social media when that happens because I need to make some more cards and I thought maybe this would be a way to get me to do it to say I want to put some bonus content out there for those who already signed up for those courses in the back section there's a whole paid bunch of pages that have nothing on them so you can go free form and write down and sketch out anything you want here's another card that I made with these little gnomes and I made them fly instead of landing on the ground these two little angels and with these these are in the winter bookmarks class which is a watercolor class and I just made a background for it and painted it around the two angels and I also figured out that I still have the samples from the winter bookmarks class so I finally turned them into bookmarks and I'm going to put them in a craft seal and I'm going to be out in a couple of weeks but this book is kind of cool if you're interested in it there's a link in the doobly-doo and my classes my winter classes are still on sale for a little while longer if you're still making your holiday cards so check out my holiday page one page with everything on it and yeah I will see you guys really soon take care bye-bye