 Well this is my sweet little Vienna's birthday. So today she and her brother Gianlu are gonna be on a card. With these two stamps from Impression Obsession, I thought I'd show you how to do a card that it looks like there's something close in the foreground and something more distant. So I've stamped the foreground dog in full black ink and the other dog and person that came together in one stamp. These are two separate purchases however. The second stamp I stamped off first so I had it in my misty. I stamped it onto a piece of scratch paper and then pulled the scratch paper out and immediately stamped it onto my finished paper and that gave me that lighter gray kind of a look. Because what that means is I can go ahead and paint it almost full strength and it's gonna look like it's in the distance because I don't have as heavy a black line as on the stamp in the foreground. And I do have to make this card look like a foreground and background kind of card simply because the proportions are completely off. If I had put the two of them as though they were on the same plane on the same ground it would have looked like we had a giant dog right next to me and Gianlu. So we're letting Gianlu look like he's over there with me in the distance and Vienna is up in the front. There's also a heart that goes with the little dog stamp in the front and I did have to do a little masking and then make that heart higher up because it normally would be right where Gianlu's head is so I had to fix that. It would be easier to do what I did by just cutting the heart off and moving it like cutting the actual stamp but I decided to try to just move it up myself. Because eventually these stamps will make it into my giveaway stamps box. I do kind of regular-ish giveaways of packages of stamps to various students who have taken my classes or people who've commented on my blog etc. Just random happy giveaways because I can't keep all the stamps. I will probably keep these for a while there because they are dog stamps but I do try not to maul them by cutting them apart if I can possibly do that since I want somebody else to to get a not completely mauled stamp set. If you're trying something like this to make one image look like it's further back than the other and you're stamping them both at full strength then go much lighter with the color on the stamp in the background because the way that light works when you're looking at something further away from you there's more light cascading between your eye and the object so it's going to look lighter. But since I stamped with a lighter ink by doing that stamping off technique I can paint heavier color in here because it's going to automatically look lighter because it doesn't have the big heavy outline that the stamp in the foreground has. So I'm just using a bunch of different yellows and browns to try to create that that kind of color that yellow has and it kept getting too bright and then I had to dull it down and then got brighter and etc as things happen when we watercolor. I'm adding some perline maroon into my quinacridone pink. If you've always looked for a nice dark red, perline maroon is one of my new colors that's been added to my palette. Speaking of which, if you're interested in what colors are in this and seeing swatches of them and why I picked them, if you look up Sandy Alnok 2019 palette then you will find a video that has all of my palettes in it and kind of why I picked a lot of these colors and swatches of them compared to other colors that you can see whether or not you like a color like that. But the perline maroon is a nice dark dark red which I really like and I also have perline green in here in my palette and it has the same effect. It's a nice deep dark rich green and sometimes I don't like to mix up really dark colors so having those two has been really helpful in my palette so far. Now a little bit about Vienna since this is her birthday, well I don't know that it's her birthday, we think it's her birthday. Given the date that she came to me and came to live with me and they guessed at about her approximate age, I picked this as her birthday so just because it was a random date so we celebrated every year we're probably going to do a little dog park run today because that's her favorite thing in the world to do except for what she's doing on this card which is sitting and looking at me and barking. She's got some great Pyrenees in her and I looked up some properties of great Pyrenees dogs and they are farm dogs who love to wander. They love to just kind of walk the perimeter of the property and they don't listen to anybody they just love to go out and do their thing and guard and that is Vienna entirely she loves to just be outside and guard from any squirrel or a bird or a person walking down the street or maybe there's another dog somewhere two blocks over and she's got to let everybody know that she is in charge and she's here and she's keeping watch so I thought this stamp for her would be perfect and even though I'm hugging her brother on this card she does not get jealous in that way. Gialo gets jealous if I'm hugging Vienna he will come over here and and totally knock her out of the way so that he can get a little bit of love but she's very content she's such a peaceful calm dog in that way that she doesn't get jealous and strange that way. So I decided on this my scene was going to be that I'm sitting on the ground with Gialo on a hillside and I'm going to paint another hill on the further side of us but I'm going to create some shadows here in the foreground section so adding more more darker colors as I get closer and closer to the the very foreground I'll put a lot more color underneath of where Vienna is sitting because that's going to give that illusion of that being much closer than the place where Gialo and I are sitting and that's where those dark greens are going to come in. This is sap green I'm adding that was serpentine earlier this is sap green and it's been sap green has been in my palette for a long time but this is the perline green and look how dark and rich that is and it doesn't require a lot of mixing to make it happen which I really like because I've always had to mix my sap green with something else to get a nice rich dark green and especially since I've had my my new class out the casting shadows class and I'm going to be doing a lot more with stronger shadows now that I at least have that class out there I can point people to that when they want to learn more about actual shadows under objects and this was going to be a super great color to help me to create some of those really strong shadows so I'm trying to create that that shadow with the light coming from the right hand side shadow cast off to the left with darkest colors in the front and here's that hillside that we can put out in the far distance and I'm using the serpentine green again just really lightly at the top and then letting some water carry it down toward the the bottom section of that hillside it gives the impression that there's some distance there that we're sitting on a hill but that we're still outside and it's still pretty seen really simple way to make a card with a bunch of different levels of depth of field and the last part that's going to be left is to create a sky of some kind I was thinking about creating a sky and then putting a line of trees in and I thought you know I'm just going to leave it nice and simple and with the sky just going to throw in some of my my blues now there's two sky type of blues in my palette there's the electric blue which is a really more of a blue blue and cobalt teal blue is more of a very pale teal but it makes a really beautiful sky because it's got some nice granulation in it granulation is where it gets that little bit of texture and I really enjoyed that on a card as well so really simple just lots of water and then dropping in some color here and there to create a nice summery even though it's not summery but nice summery sky so we'll be looking forward to living out this scene in the near future when the weather starts getting nicer we still go out but we don't get to sit on the ground because where I live the ground is wet until like summer so there you go more affirmation of my shadows there and then once it's all dry I put it into my misty and add a cinnamon to it cinnamon is also by impression obsession and I thought it would be perfect for a message from Vienna we are her favorites even though she's sitting over there by herself she's like yo barky barky there's a squirrel over there you're my favorites I'm watching out for you because that's why I always picture her saying she's always saying nice things because she's got a happy bark but she can't not bark at whatever is off in the distance that she sees so anyway happy birthday to Vienna and I will see you guys in the next video take care and have an awesome awesome day bye bye