 Hello there, it's Sandy Allknock and I'm going to color some soft rainbow daffodils. I bet you didn't know they came in rainbow colors. So I'm going to make them in rainbow colors even if they don't. Gina K has two daffodil stamps out right now. One is an Easter set and it has a sentiment that I'm going to be using for a sympathy card. But you can also get the other one and do the same technique with it. They're drawn in similar ways, just different groupings. This one has one grouping, the other one has multiple groupings of daffodils. And I've used Gina's Ivory Ink. I stamped them on some black card stock and then I'm just using very simply a blending stump, a really tiny one, to add some more ink to it. So this is more of the Ivory Ink and I'm just kind of spreading it around. The ink on the paper is still wet. I didn't sit and wait for it to dry. So some of the ink is moving because it's still wet on the paper. And I'm just going to try to give some highlights to each one of the flower petals and giving it lots of color at the top, like more thick, I guess you can call it, thick ink. And I'm going to be adding some powdered pencil to this once I'm done. What that means is this has to remain wet long enough to do that. Because if you wait too long, if you let it completely dry, then you won't be able to do the powder pencil on top. Now it's going to look pretty anyway just with the Ivory Ink, but I would recommend definitely trying to do it quicker. If you don't think you're going to finish all of it and get it all done in time, then you can powdered pencil one flower at a time and do that portion. I'll do it all at once so you get to see the whole thing happen. I'm just going to run around the entire thing with the blending stump, applying the ink. These blending stumps, you can sharpen. There's a sharpener that's got this little sandpaper thing, but when you're trying to make a really sharp point for something like this, those blending stumps don't really cut it. At least not in my book, trying to get a really sharp almost pencil point for this doesn't really work. I take a pair of really sharp detail scissors and just snip off some so that I kind of carve it back into a pointed shape because some of these petals are really small and the little tiny areas on them need to be kind of tidied up. Once it's all sharp, I can go back to finishing up the flowers. Now I'm going to be able to add more to it and put more ink on it later, but for right now I'm trying to just get enough color that I can do the flowers here pretty quickly before all this ink starts to dry. Fortunately, pigment ink is going to stay wet fairly long. So now for the powdered pigment, I'm using a tea strainer. This normally has a big pink handle on it, but I just took it out so I could hold it over the area that I want to use the powder and apply it to the card. I'm using a little bit of yellow, a little bit of a pink, and a little bit of blue, and I'm scribbling on that graded surface. It's grading the pencil a little bit and giving me super tiny shavings. So it's basically powder just randomly across the flowers, not really worrying about trying to place them in any way. Although if you have a different kind of image, you might be able to do something like that. If you have one giant flower, you might be able to put a darker red in a shaded area and a more pink color in a brighter area and get a little shading. I wasn't really worried about shading because the ink has already done that. The places where I put thicker ink is the highlights. So that's going to take more color. It's going to be brighter compared to the darker areas that remained with less ink. So once I applied the three different colors to it, I started very, very lightly. Don't do this very hard because you don't want to move the ink any further. Just very lightly dusting all of that color onto the flowers themselves so that it sticks on the ink itself. That's the goal is to try to get it to do that. If you need to, you can add more pencil to it as long as that ink is still kind of wet and then dust off the surface. You can do that with another very light dusting from say a tissue or a cotton ball. I did it with my dusting brush and then I used a green pencil to add a little bit of color. Just a tiny touch to the leaves and going over the ink for the leaves. So it starts to push them back and lets the flowers kind of pop forward. Once all that was done, I decided I was going to add more of the ivory ink to it. So I added some pollen because, you know, it's pollen season in my life. So I thought that would add a little delicacy to it as well. So just added almost bubbles and dots, just a little bit of dust from the fairies all over the place including on top of some of the leaves so it looks like it's surrounding the daffodils on all sides. And then I decided that I would add more of the light color onto the highlights because this is now going as a second layer on top of this color and the color combined with time passage means the color underneath has dried up a little bit. So when I put more strokes of the ivory ink down, it starts to really brighten them. So now I'm getting more dimension because I can go just for those highlighted areas and add some extra light color on the tips. This is ivory ink, but you could also probably do this with other light pigment inks. You can do it with white or other light colors. So you can try this out with whatever you have or get the ivory pad. The ivory just seemed like it was going to be softer rather than using a white for these because daffodils aren't always white. I guess there's some white daffodils, but I wanted to have some really super soft colors for this because it was going to be a sympathy card. I unfortunately need one right now and I think this is going to be a beautiful one for the person that I'm sending it to. So I know I should make a stash of these, so I don't have to make one when I'm sad. However, there you go. We have plans to do these things and have a stash ahead of time, don't we? But we don't always actually accomplish it. So there is my beautiful card. I stamped the sentiment just very simply in the top area using the same ink and pop the whole black panel on a black card and then put a beautiful clean white insert on the inside to write my message. So there's my card for today. I hope you enjoyed this. Maybe learn something. Maybe you'll even try one of these kinds of cards yourself. Be sure to tag me on social media and let me know if you do. I'd love to see what you're creating. All right, I will see you guys later. Take care. Bye bye.