 Hi there, I'm Sandy Alnok, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube and today I'm going to show you two really easy ways to mask and three ways to make different kinds of snow storms. The stamp set I'll be using today is called Reindeer Games and it has two reindeer standing and one reindeer leaping through the air but I'll use the two standing ones to do Rudolph and Clarissa his girlfriend and thank you very very much for the sentiment and I'll tell you why I'm choosing that sentiment in just a few minutes. But first the masking. Two simple ways to mask and they are I think the simplest that are out there. One is to get your stamps all set up and then just wipe off the part that you don't want to stamp and in this case I want to wipe off the feet so it looks like the feet go into the snow rather than seeing the bottom of the feet because if the feet are in the snow you wouldn't see the toes so just wipe them off the damp baby wipe. And a wet one because that will leave water spots. To put Clarissa on there I want her to feel like she's a different reindeer so I'm going to drop her down a little so she looks shorter but that means I also need to make her legs shorter so I'll wipe more of her feet off but I'm also going to just throw a sticky note right over Rudolph's schnaws and that is going to make sure that she does not stamp on top of Rudolph's face. If you don't have an area that works for a rectangular or square type of sticky note thing you can just draw in that little extra bit of line if it doesn't stamp perfectly. It's really not that hard to do. So while the coloring is going on the names running across the screen are some very special people to me. They are my patrons and a patron is someone who is supportive of me they are part of my inner circle over at patreon.com slash stand y'all out there's a link in the doobly do if you're interested in checking that out. And these folks have all signed up for monthly support and I don't know if you know this but artists have a hard time sometimes getting that support out there from the universe so it's often helpful when people who appreciate that artists work step up and assist. I'm a patron for several other artists type of folks lots of music folks and that sort of thing I want to help them to keep doing the great work that I appreciate that they do and it supports them in the creations that they make that I enjoy. So if you're interested in doing that you can sign up too and join this happy band of supporters of mine who I just love so dearly. The way that patreon works it's a monthly fee and you get to choose and set what the fee is and if you decide you only want to do it for a short time you can do that but it's anywhere from like a dollar a month to three dollars five ten if you get into the higher numbers then you'll actually get a painting once in a while so it really depends on what you want to put in it and what you want to get out of it and all of the rewards and everything are listed on the website so you can decide what you'd be interested in doing and if you want to just do it for a short period of time and then something comes up and you go do something else that's perfectly fine as well. I appreciate anyone who comes and joins our little happy band for even a short period of time because it means a lot to me to have people that get me people that understand my silliness and that's what I consider this group to be. I share things with them about what's coming up I give them a heads up on classes they get to see sneak peeks of things and I ask them for assistance when I'm trying to name a class or decide you know is this worthwhile to have in a class would you take a class on something like this or you know just different questions I have that I want somebody to bounce things off of and that's what this group is and they are wonderful human beings so the three cards that I'm making today are going to go in the pile of cards that I'm going to be filling out very soon to send out in the mail to a bunch of patrons. This group is one of the reasons why I send out like over 200 Christmas cards every year because yeah I do that and Christmas cards are the ones that I make the most of I think every year so the coloring is done and I'm going to show you the snow tricks now and I'm going to put some snow very simply on the bottom using a Lawn Fawn Yeti pigment ink pad and just pressing it onto the surface and even the top edge of it ends up rough ish so it really looks like soft snow which is really kind of nice. The first snow is just really simple just a few dots of snow here and there very light snowfall not really big heavy snowflakes or anything not tons of them it's probably the quickest so that you can decide how much snow to put on. In this card I'm making really big snowflakes and I'm making triangle shapes and square shapes and rectangles and hearts and things that start making it look like those really big soppy wet snowflakes and I know we get those around where I live because we live in an area that doesn't get really really cold so I found on the internet that the snowflakes stick together when the weather is warmer like that and that's why we get the bigger snowflakes on a more regular basis than we do other snowflakes I hope we get some snow I love snow as you can tell from my cards and I love to look out at it I'm not a really big person to go out and do snowy things but I do love to look at it out the window and hopefully I'm going to learn to do some plein air painting in the snow who knows and then there's a sandy storm which is just full of tons and tons of dots of snow so that is the third type of snowstorm on three different cards that have the same design I hope you enjoyed this video if you did click the like button links in the doobly-doo for supplies and patreon and all that good stuff big thanks once again to all of my patrons you guys are the very best I will see you guys all very very soon in another video take care and have a wonderful day