 Hi guys, it's Sandy Onlock, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube, and I'm gonna do some what I'm calling layered Distress Watercolor with Distress Inks for the United We Flourish Blog Hop using the brand new Sweets, Sprinkles, Stamp, and Dyeset. And it's got two different toppers, and you can do either cupcakes or ice cream cones because you know who doesn't like cupcakes and ice cream cones. So I have it all set up in my misty to do these images first, and I'm gonna get them all done, and I cut them out to put on my cards. I'm gonna do some clean and simples today, but you may have tried doing some stamping with Distress Inks and gone, man, that looks like poo. And it does look like poo because, well, not because it's a little poo shape that does look like the emoji, but I mean in color wise that it wasn't very smooth. Well I'm gonna go in with my brush and put some water in there and let the color start to mix. Now you probably know that you can do that. That's not a unique thing. It's not anything I have invented. I'm just dropping some water in and I'm letting it puddle up because puddling up is gonna really make that color mix beautifully because I've got two different ink colors in there. But the cool thing that you can do with Distress Inks is when this is still damp, not super wet. If you do it when it's super wet, things will mush, and since this one has a sentiment and tiny sprinkles in it, you want to wait until that sheen is gone. So it's still good and wet, but it's not shiny, shiny. There's no puddles left, but the ink is all mixed well. And then if you stamp over top of that, then you can get some dimension. Look how nice that looks. I'll put a little bit more along the bottom and it comes out very beautiful. And look at all that dimension we've got on a stamp that was not really meant to do that probably. But you know, I like to do things like that. Now I should take that one off before stamping this. I didn't realize that until I went there and decided it was time to remove that stamp. It didn't do any damage since it didn't have any ink on it, but I didn't want it to smush anything since that was still damp ink. I'm going to do the same thing with each one of these and stamp them with a color or two and then watercolor and then stamp again. So here I'm using my favorite combo of picked raspberry with peacock feathers because they make the most beautiful purple when they go together. And I'm going to do some light watercolor in a few spots. I'm going to leave some white areas. But I'm going to go along some of these lines and just move some of that color around with a little bit of water and not get too fussy with it. If you're using a silver brush, these point really, really well. So this is the silver number eight. If you're only going to get one, get the eight. If you're going to get two, get the 12 because you could do beautiful background things with it. And then I'm going to put some dusty concord on the bottom and make some dimension out of it. Let it stamp on top of it. And there was some time to dry in there so it wasn't puddley wet again. Now this one I'm going to do while it is puddley wet. So I'm going to do a little bit of worn lipstick and then I'm going to add some seedless preserves to it and do those two colors together and watercolor them first. Just using some clean water and moving it around. I started with my light color first because if I started with the dark, then all of that dark ink will go up and take over the light area. So it's going to give me more difference in color if I let the top be light and then move that color down rather than going the opposite direction. And I'm letting it be fairly good and puddled. And I'm not going to wait too long. I don't want it to be like so super mushy because then it'll have a scluge outside of the stamp. But I'm going to let it be somewhat wet and you're going to see what's going to happen in a shape like this that's the top of the ice cream cone. And look at the smushy that happened. And I get this really cool texture. Isn't that sniffy, nifty, nifty, nifty. And I also learned a new word recently and their word is wifty, which rhymes with nifty and it means whimsical. So there you go. Here's a new word for you that I got from Miss Mary and Webster's dictionary word of the day one day a couple of weeks ago. So there you go. Wifty is a cool word. So these are going to be wifty little cards. I probably should title the video wifty and see if people come and watch it just to find out what wifty is. Or I could even call the technique wifty. That would be kind of cute too. Anyway, I'll stop rambling and get back to the card. I'm using some tea dye and old vapor for that portion for my little ice cream cone. And now I can dye cut them out and that topper cuts both of those on the very top. And all I did was adhere them with some dimensional adhesive onto a popped panel. I used cream card stock because watercolor papers little on the cream side. And these are some other ones that are over on Ellen Hudson's in touch blog, not the regular classroom blog, but the one where she has the newsletter. So these were in the newsletter that went out today as well using Copic markers to color the dyes. And I will try to put a link to that in there if I can find that. And I will talk to you guys later. Have a really awesome day. Go sprinkle some sweet sprinkles in your life and get this stamp and dye set and make something beautiful. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye bye.