 Hi there, it's Sandy Olmock and I'm going to talk about scratch board stamping today. This is the first of several techniques that I have in my head. So we're going to see how far I can push it. This first footage is from a video that I created a few years ago for VBS. I was teaching the kids how to take their water-based oil pastels and color the entire piece of paper every square inch of it because once you put the black paint on, if there's white paper showing, then the black won't be removable over that white spot. So the oil pastels are a lot easier to do that coverage with. And then paint it with the black paint and we had successive days of VBS so they left it overnight and then the next day we gave them a colored pencil so they could do their drawing on it. But we're not going to use colored pencil here, we're going to use other stuff because this is for stampers. And we're going to use, at least I'm going to use, I shouldn't say we, I'm going to use watercolor paper, Kent's in Excel. It's not really rough and it's heavy enough that it can take all the torture that I'm going to put it through. We've got apple barrel paint. This is the best stuff that I found for scratch board. You'll need a brush like old nasty brush or a foam brush to apply it with something to color with. I'm using neo colors but you should probably use maybe oil pastels or something. Not crayons, crayons aren't very bright and they're also hard to work with in terms of getting a lot of color on the page. A dust brush of some kind could be just a regular old soft, soft paint brush to get rid of all that excess black stuff that you scratch off and then scratching tools. And I bought a couple of scratching tool sets. I was disappointed in them, they're really cheap and they're really uncomfortable on your hand. They just feel icky. So I'm going to be looking around for some good tools at some point but I'm going to use a stamp set from Mama Elephant with these big dinosaurs. I've been looking for a while for something to do with this particular technique. It's been in my head for a long time but these dinosaurs are large enough and open enough that they're going to work for the technique that I'm using. So I masked them out using some eclipse tape and I saved the outside part so that I could very easily color inside these because when you're talking about oil pastels or these neo colors or anything they're not really sharp so you're not going to get a really crisp line but this will allow you since you're using the mask to cover the outside of it you can get whatever colors you want in there. I'm going to do a girl and a boy dinosaur because I don't know that's how I roll I guess when I do two critters they must be critters in love or a boy and girl that are just buddies who knows and I'm going to do a rainbow of warm colors on one dinosaur and cool colors on the other and I'm going over it a number of times to try to get really good coverage. I did try my Daniel Smith watercolor sticks because that was what I originally wanted to use but they're drier than these they go on drier so you want something that's going to go on a little creamy ish and these neo colors did that so I don't know what I did with my oil pastels they're around here somewhere maybe I took them all with me to vacation Bible school and I just didn't realize that I took my last pack of them I don't know but nonetheless neo colors are working for this and then the black paint this apple barrel stuff like I said it's like four bucks five bucks or something online super cheap but it works really great and I'm using an old Yickey brush in order to paint the dinosaur in here but I'm not going to be able to use the mask for the other half unless I wait for this one to dry didn't feel like waiting so I just removed the mask and painted the other dinosaur by hand so you know you don't have to use the masks of course for this part and it also doesn't matter if you go outside the lines and you're extending the lines a little bit you can adjust that outline totally you know if a brush is something that you don't have a lot of control over and this is kind of a yucky brush so it didn't give me a lot of control I ended up using a pen in a few spots and then start the scraping after it's all dry and I waited about two hours and it was perfectly dry and usable don't heat set heat will make it bubble and that will be a problem you won't be able to scratch things off don't ask how I know and you will be dusting it off regularly because you're going to always have little black specs that are going to be all the the leftover stuff that you peel off so I'm going to speed up here so you can kind of get an idea what I'm doing remember when I colored this and I had red in certain areas and then yellow highlights I tried to give some form to each of the dinosaurs using color it doesn't matter a whole lot you can just kind of put any old color down there and you can do that kind of adding of dimension by doing more or less dots in a particular area so this one I use large dot type shapes to make scales on the dinosaur and then when I was all done I didn't really I wasn't super pleased with the the shape of the eye so I used a black pen and went in and fixed it added some shine with a white pen as well the other dinosaur I was kind of getting tired of making dots at this point so I started making a little I guess more dense type of dots and scraping across the surface more so that I could have a little bit more color showing because this dinosaur is darker than the other one and I was a little worried that it was going to kind of disappear in the picture I plan on putting a background in here and in order to do that I needed this dinosaur to stand up a little bit more so instead of just making little dots and little scales like I did on the first dinosaur I'm kind of making them and then dragging in between them a little bit to add a little more lightness and let more of that color show and then notice as I get down to the bellies I just end up leaving the black down there if you don't leave enough shading you can always go back and add some black dots in with a black marker I just did it with a sharpie to add more color back into it so this is as I said DIY type of scratch board very forgiving you can just kind of play around with it I don't fix this with anything I didn't spray it with anything when I was done I'm just considering it a card it's not a major project so don't panic about fixatives and all that sort of thing it's next I wanted to put the background in and I'm going to do a rainbow from the bottom to the top with the kind of light orangey yellow colors at the bottom going to purples and blues toward the top because I wanted to do some kind of a doodled design in the background my plan was to use all of those little tools and try them all out on this but what I found was this DIY type of stuff doesn't give me a very fine control over anything I didn't have the ability to use you know some of them have three or four prongs and you really couldn't tell the difference because this is on the clunky side I did get for the next video some of the really nice what do they call it scratch board by the ampersand company the ones that make the brown board that I have this tape to they make a scratch board that's already painted and it's already nice and it's got a really nice thin coat on it so when you scratch off you get a lot more detail and you can create something much nicer there are some people on YouTube that I've been watching of course scratch board videos to see like what are artists doing with scratch board now that could be kind of cool and I do have some plans for some rather epic pieces that are in my head but this is nice practice to get started and it's also a way to use it with stamping I do have in the next video I already have a piece started that has stamping in it but it's an art piece so I think you're gonna be excited to see that when it comes out so here is my attempt with the background and one of the other problems that happened with this was I didn't get really good coverage of the paper in the back I was just kind of in a hurry I wanted to get it done it was the end of the day and I thought I'll just throw some color on here and I think some of those places where the black isn't scratching off those may well have been white spots that's what happens when you don't get really solid coverage it's why I recommend using the oil pastels the water-based oil pastels I've tried the other ones and then it all ends up lumpy if you do for the artists oil pastels so the the water-based ones work much better I will link you in the supplies list to the ones that I use for vacation Bible school and I'm sure that they'll work on this just fine but nonetheless I did try a few of the tools out and got a few different marks but I couldn't tell the difference between a lot of it it was as I said kind of clunky the paint is a little thicker than what you would get on a real scratch board the artist scratch board that you can buy but it's great practice and it was just fun to do something crazy like this and try out a whole new invented technique because I don't know that I've ever seen anybody do scratch board on a card here's a little snippet by the way of a scratch board Bible journaling page that I did on a tip-in and there's a video for that over on my other channel so I'll put a link to that in the doobly-doo and that is it for me for today thank you so much for watching for liking for leaving a comment and I'll see you again very soon bye bye