 Well, hello there. I'm Sandy Allnock artist and paper crafter here on YouTube with one more Christmas tag for Ellen Hudson's feminine tag series Every year my friend Ellen does a series of tags and I am paired up with Carissa Wiley today We're both using this as our inspiration. So it's the image we were given to use as our takeoff And I wanted to use this cute little set from MFT new Stacy Yakula designs with Darling darling. Oh my gosh like tooth hurting sweet little penguins This little guy was my favorite out of the set So I decided to make my tag with him and I'm using some ink tense watercolor pencil for the penguin and I'm going to use Other things for the other ports parts of the car But the thing about ink tents is that for the most part not 100% for the most part They're permanent when dry if you're painting something where you want the main image to be colored and then not Bleed out into the background because I'm going to do a wreath background around this Then you kind of need to have something that's not going to move if you accidentally touch it And that's where ink tense has one of its best features is it's hopefully not going to move anywhere So I'm going to in addition to using ink tense pencil I'm going to use also a little Daniel Smith watercolor and this is from one of the sets It's the colors of inspiration set and I'm going to use Yeah, a little bit of color in the shadows on his cheeks And the reason that I'm not using ink tense pencil for this is that ink tense pencil also gets more intense Because it's ink. It's not actually watercolor. That's why it dries differently than watercolor But it also is not going to give me this light light color and I want to just barely Any color there just a shadow just a hint of it in the white areas of my little penguin and With my brush and a little bit of water I can also soften those edges out a lot more than I can with ink tense And if I get too much pencil on there with a clean brush, I can just lift that up. I wanted to add a little bit of that craft kind of color to This since it was in the inspiration piece So I'm using two kind of yellowish crafty ish types of colors of ink tense pencil To create the scarf and I decided to just kind of blur the color together and just paint right over the whole things and Then give a little bit of color into the wreath itself is serpentine green and Then I wanted to create a wreath around my little penguin And you could sit and draw it and get yourself in all kinds of trouble But this just giving myself that general circle Gives me an area that I can follow along and figure out where my branches are going to be if you've ever made wreaths yourself then you know that the branches kind of bend and twist around the The wire that you wire them on to that you attach them to and you want to do the same thing here It treat each little section as though it's a branch and in the inspiration piece There were all these branches that kind of hung out so it was not a perfectly round one They were like little branches flopping outward so you can create them in different directions And just paint it first with a little bit of the the pigment color and then go over it with some water Let it water out. Let it soften. You can always add more But it's kind of nice to just let it be soft and washy So here I'm starting with a little heavier lines and then going in with water and just mushing it around a little bit I just want a hint of that to reflect the the loose kinds of a little wreath things that there were on the inspiration piece and I am going to post that over on my blog So if you want to use that as an inspiration You want to see it more and better than you can here on the video then please go over and check that out And I'd be happy to share that with you and I'd love if you make something with that I'd love to see what you do as well and what that inspiration does to To inspire you to make something beautiful And I know it's the holiday season and it's kind of getting late to be making things But we still need to make tags, right? And this one is the cutest thing going the whole series of Tags is going to be on Ellen Hudson's blog because she posts them all over there each day for the first I believe it's the 12 days of The beginning of December so we are on December 2nd. So that means we have lots more to go Now with the adding of red in here I kind of waited for it to dry but you can see some of them got a little bit mushy So you can decide whether you like the mushy look or whether you want something a little bit I don't know firmer in terms of the dots. I didn't wait quite long enough to have firm dots on that left-hand side But now I wanted to add a little bit more of that craftish yellowish background around the outside edges too but you know Most people would probably get another circle to hide and try to line it up and make a perfect circle around there Well, you know, it's me and it's Christmas time and it's a tag. So I'm going quick So I kind of sketched in that outside line In the the watercolor pencil and water colored it and then after it was dry I just went around it with a pen to make it look like loose stitching And then even added the end of the stitch with a little bow on it Which I thought was kind of fun. I layered it onto a piece of black card stock That was also cut out in a circle and tied it up on my package now You probably have never painted watercolor on craft paper before, right? Well, look at how cute this is. I'm just making little brush strokes to make leaves that match a little bit of the leaves that were in my my little wreath on my tag So you can custom Do your gift wrapping based on the tag that you've created Is that not does that not make you look like you are a person who's in control of Christmas crafts? If you show up somewhere with a gift that is personalized in such a way and made To really match the tag and the gift and everything all together. I just thought that was really a cute Cute way to present this little tag and as soon as I saw that big blank Craft background underneath of my tag. I went, you know, I've got it. I got to decorate that And I'm glad that I left the camera on so you could see that you can paint very lightly with watercolor onto craft wrapping paper So fun. I think this was actually just Kind of some it wasn't wrapping paper wrapping paper, which can be slicker So this was more of a a matte kind of surface So it took the paint quite nicely But it let it also be really loose and kind of melted into it Here's another one another card that I made in Copic marker with that same stamp and I drew everything else That's on there except for the little penguin. And how did I do that? Well, I did the Copic glass class and this is one of the lessons in the Copic glass class And I applied some of the same things to creating a glass jar For my little penguin and to create all his little Little candy canes in there. It's way advanced and all that sort of thing But if you are somebody who loves to do crazy copic things That's a little something I put a bee in your bonnet To go learn how to color glass at art-classes.com And I will see you guys later. Have a great day. Go make something beautiful