 Hi everybody it's Sandy and welcome to my YouTube channel. I'm going to show you today how to color a little white fuzzy bear and we're gonna do that with Copic markers and I'm also going to use some glitter on this card oh my gosh let's get started. This is a new stamp from Purple Onion and I'm going to color him with grays and I went to my hex chart and this is page two of the hex chart and I'm going to use the warm grays because I'm going to give him sort of a brown feel to him and he's just really absolutely adorable so I'm going to start by coloring the gray the way I see a lot of people color it you know if you're going to color something that looks white you think oh I've got to use really light colors and hardly use anything in them and I'm going to show you that you can get a lot of contrast and still have your critter look like he's kind of on the whitish side. This one's going to look a little bit on the dirty white side just because he's going to have some color in him but I think you're going to be really pleased to see these results and how it develops over time so I'm blending my W2 with the W00 just to soften it all out and he looks like he has a little bit of dimension you can see a little bit around this there and that's all well and good but real contrast is going to really make a huge difference with it sometimes you can put some color around it whether it's making a background or whatever I'm going to start by adding color I went to my hex chart for the color of the little stick that he's holding the flagstick flagpole and picked a brown for that and you can already see in contrast to that he's starting to look lighter but I'm going to pick a nice light pink the R20 for the ears because I didn't want something that was going to be really super dark and then I went to my collection of original markers those are the ones with this bullet nib the square-bodied ones because then I can get into all those little lines and color in the little bows around their necks and I like having some of these original markers in my collection for that I decided to go for the end markers and neutrals for the hats because I wanted the hats to look like a little different color than our little bears and those are made of newsprint so I'm going to use two different colors on the left and right side to give the hat some illusion of shading as well as the illusion of some newsprint pattern so I'm just doing some little hash lines and and on both of the the little bear hat and the big bear hat a little bear is just really hard to get detail into but you know it is what it is because he's a little teeny tiny bear and I'm using a lighter color for the newsprint on the right-hand side because if I'd use the same color his whole hat would look like it's the same same thing then I wanted to add a little bit again to our little tiny bear and then I wanted to really start adding some serious contrast so I grabbed my end 7 marker and I added some real serious shadows in a few spots and then I'm going to blend some of that out and soften it with my end 3 which is something that is just going to knock back all of that detail because I don't want the hat to be the focus I'm going to want the bear to be the focus so this will just soften some of that that little text that's on the newsprint so then I wanted to add a little contrast also to the ties so I went to my B2 6 and I'm using just the very very tip of the marker I'm trying to get in those tiny spots and I don't have this color in an original marker and now we're going to start working on the buyer so we used it remember a w00 and a w2 so I'm going to step it up to two numbers and go to a w4 that line under the hat is a varied distance from it you know that you can see it's a little thicker right in that point because that's going to add a little bit so it looks like that point is sticking out in front of him and then I'm leaving a little bit of a white outside and I'm just kind of making the shadow a little bit inside from the edge of the stamp to create some bounce light on the outside of him it's just going to add a little bit of extra interest and you can see already with the w4 I'm starting to get some really nice contrast that's some really strong shadows in here and then I'm going to step back down to the w2 and then I can add little lines or even just some some quick brush strokes to soften some of those areas where the w4 is at and add a little bit more depth to it and I can extend it a little bit further so that those shadows continue all the way in an arc around his face and smooth out that stuff around above his nose if you put shadows above that nose section it'll just make it look like that part recedes and his nose pops out toward the front so just add some extra dimension and I'm adding a little bit of kind of fur around his eyes you look at a teddy bear you can see that the fur goes certain directions and that'll help you to figure out where to put your marker strokes and what direction to make the little lines but again I'm trying to use just the tip of the marker just barely touching the surface of the paper so that I can get really tiny lines this video is sped up about one and a half times so it's not full speed but it's also not like quadrupled line or anything like my videos sometimes are so you're getting a standby realistic just a little faster than normal view of how fast I do this so remember we use it w zero zero w two and w four and now I'm adding just a little bit at the w six you can stop before you get to this don't don't let me freak you out and scare you but I want you to see the difference that the w six can make and who in their right mind would ever think you'd color a white bear and start with a w six but you know when I'm doing this kind of a thing I usually do start lighter and work my way darker because I'm not always sure how far I want to go and if you start with your w six you might feel like you're you know you need to put more in then then you really ought to and doing it this way helps me to just put in a tiny bit so now I'm going to take that w four and I'm going to add more to to blend that w six back in toward the fur and I'm just drawing a little more fur lines and giving them a little more fuzziness and softening a lot of that out a little bit more I'm going to draw his mouth back in I drew it in with a little lighter color before and you can just keep kind of working at it as I go through all these different markers and I am leaving them uncapped just off to the surface off to the side of where I'm working so I can zip back and forth between the colors they're not going to markers are not going to dry out so I'm just going to take my w two and soften everything just add a little bit of that soft color and then if you get too much then you can go in with a zero marker or your w zero zero and I'm going with w zero zero because I'm just going to color over everything and give him kind of an overall very light gray except for on that top part of his nose and like I'm gonna leave just that part and then the top of his arm and that sort of thing and now I can go in with a really nice dark w eight I mean you could keep doing this until you get to black but I'm going to stop at the w eight this is gonna be as dark as I'm gonna go and might even lighten a few areas as we go you never never really know because until I sort of see it done and see it all in context I'm never quite sure how far I'm gonna push it so here I decided to go back in and do a little bit more with the w four to increase that mouth I don't want it full black because the that one corner of his mouth was drawn into the stamp and I don't want to take away the cuteness of having just one corner there a little guy I'm just gonna zip through him really quick he doesn't get nearly as much color just because he's so tiny you can't get that many layers of color in there I'm gonna use w four and w two for the ground for the shadows and a lot of people like you feel uncomfortable with the w four doing these light long strokes but I like the darker colors you could do a w two and a w zero zero no problem I'm going to trim out the flag it's why I haven't colored it yet so I'm using my finger knife which is a really awesome tool to have in your craft drawer and I'm cutting it out and tracing it on to a back piece paper that I put behind it and I'm gonna color the American flag just really loosely and I'm just doing shapes I'm not even a little stars in there and you can put any flag in here I love that that they've designed this so that any country flag can be drawn in here and I'm drawing it bigger than that little window that I drew and I'm gonna take a piece of score sheet this is like score tape but it's score sheet instead press it down and peel off that backer and now I have a sticky surface and all I have to do is take some glitter and I can dump that on there and close it up so I don't make a glitter mess everywhere I have scratch paper under it I'm just gonna press it into the score tape now there's all kinds of videos you can look up on how to do this even color over top of it with markers all different kinds of things I just wanted a really quick look of glitter so I'm gonna clean that off clean my hands and even now you can see that I didn't press it in well enough so it does have glitter that comes off so I'm going to seal it all in on this backer sheet by putting some score tape all the way around all four sides and put a piece of plastic from some packaging over top of it super easy and it's going to just stick there and now I have a little window that I have my little flag showing through next step I'm just going to use my rectangle dies my stitch rectangle dies from Simon says die cut that guy look how fast I am and then I trimmed this backer layer so it fits the right size to place this on top I put my adhesive on the back of the image that I've colored so it'll stick to that plastic then I stamped a purple onion sentiment cheers I stamped it and cut it in a sort of a swirly manner and wrapped it around a star I'll put a power tab on the back so I get a little bit of dimension on the card so I'm just going to stick my little star on there and then I cut out a couple of other tiny stars and I was going to add those as well because I just wanted a little bit of festive look around the corner of the card and I also had a fingerprint there that I was covering up so there you go there's my finished card which is a whole heck of a lot of fun with a little glittery flag in there and I would recommend that you always try to seal in any glitter whether you're doing operation right home cards or not even though operation right home is ending August 1st you have to have all your cards in by then your friends may not appreciate getting glitter all over them when they open their cards so there's tons of techniques for how you can seal in glitter this is just one of many and I hope you will take advantage of watching this video because this one is a little crazy one that I made many years ago and it's just kind of hilarious and I thought you might enjoy it so have a really great Memorial Day weekend remember that it's not all about the barbecues and the mattress sales it's about our service members who have given their all for our country and we want to remember them and give them their due respect alright happy Memorial Day talk to you guys later bye