 Well, hi there, I'm Sandy Alnok and today I'm going to show you a couple different ways to create a simple monochromatic floral card. I was blessed to receive some Power Poppy stamps to use and I'm going to show you the Flora Bunda set primarily, that's the main set I'll be using, has a hummingbird and an extra flower that I'm going to use in conjunction with the border big design. I'll show you a little bit of the big sexy blooms, an easy way to color that and a little bit on summer berries and each one of these is really fun stamp sets. The woodland carpet, I don't have anything colored with it yet, but it's gorgeous and I will have something on Instagram soon. Strong and beautiful, I have a card made, but I have not had time to edit it. It's got a lot of colors in it so I need to put them on the screen and that always takes extra time so it'll take a little while to get that up, but if you're shopping and you want to throw that one in to your cart then you will be prepared when that video comes out in another week or two, I hope, if I can get everything done. So what I decided to do was make an easy way to color this stamp set and a bunch of these from Power Poppy, they have a lot of flowers in them and if you have plenty of time to color that's a lot of fun but sometimes you want to get the card done a little quicker and you can do a monochromatic design. I'm using a Copic airbrush which is a little gun that you put the marker into the chisel nib and then turn on an air compressor and it pushes out air across it and makes it an airbrush. You could do something similar to this with other types of ways of doing a background and I'll talk a little bit about that as I go. You could ink the whole thing and some people are better inkers than I am. I would not be able to get any kind of a decent blend, I'm terrible at doing ink blending but if you are then you could do that and if you know whatever type of thing is going to lift color whether it's a water brush or even using a Copic colorless blender like I'm doing then you can do that with distress inks or distress oxides. I'm not going to vouch for which one is going to work and you could ruin your colorless blender nib if you use that but I think people have done that before I seem to recall that and I'm just going to let you figure that out but nonetheless that is one way you could do this. I'm just going to use the colorless blender into the background that I airbrushed. You could also stamp this onto a piece of flat colored cardstock and then use a white pencil to get all of this beautiful detail and I'm kind of pretending in my head that the light source is coming from the center of the picture so that big open area so that I'm putting all the highlights on that side of each flower. I'm not really worried about you know left right light source where's the sun coming from etc but sort of making it so that all of that light points from the center and kind of letting it be stronger toward the middle section and then less as it goes out to the very edges of the stamp so that's just one way to keep it kind of simple and not really stress out a lot about lighting and all that sort of thing because there are a lot of flowers in this and I will talk more about coloring big groups of flowers in that other video when I get around to doing the voiceover for that one that will be coming up soon so I'm just kind of working my way around the whole background trying to decide when is enough and that's kind of a hard decision for every piece of art isn't it when is it finished so then I took it to my trimmer and I thought I'd let you know I use a guillotine trimmer a lot of people use the little rotary's but I like the guillotine one myself and I put this back in my misty so I could emboss my sentiment so this is one from the stamp set and I'm going to pop some hero arts white embossing powder on top and then heat set it I'm going to then cut out these two images and I haven't done anything with them yet I haven't done the highlights or anything just going to trim them out and they're not really hard shapes to trim out they're relatively simple just around that beak of the bird is a little tough I put a few layers of paper underneath of the background piece that I did because I love my dimensional adhesive and then I put some on the back of both the bird and the flower and I'm going to pop them onto the card and I'm going to have them kind of interact a little bit with the sentiment itself and then let them hang over the edge of that border paper that I've got going on and kind of fuss around with exactly where I want it to be and how I want that bird to kind of point down to the W and then I can go through and do the same thing on these two pieces to create the highlights using the colorless blender again and same kind of deal if you're doing this with your distressed inks or with a plain piece of colored cards talk losing my brains here then just do that the same same way for these two smaller pieces and layer them on top the power poppy stamps lots of them have little pieces that you can adhere onto things and they also work well together because the style is the same across a lot of a lot of the different stamps so they're kind of fun to play with if you love flowers then just look through the whole power poppy collection over at Ellen Hudson she recently brought the line in I've showed you a little bit of power poppy in the past a little bit of coloring with it but this is kind of the first big launch with one of their new releases and you can just look through her store and see all the different beautiful flowers because if you remember I did some tulips recently and it was a lot of fun so I'm going to add as well on these top two images some darker color and this is the same color actually that I used when I did the airbrushing and it looks a lot darker because I'm using the full marker strength when you use airbrush it puts down a much lighter version of whatever the color is so you usually have to go a shade or three darker if you want to get some actual color but here I can create all kinds of beautiful dimension by going in and adding extra marker on me the little flower and the hummingbird now for a different look I airbrushed in purple and I've already done some of that colorless blender work and I'm going in with the same purple so the the purple in the background was the same one and then I'm adding a little extra of that around each one of these berries and that's going to give me a little more dimension on the berries so that they end up kind of looking a little more around now the leaves I was trying to figure out what to do with because I wanted them to be a little bit different not have just black and white so I went in with a light green this is a yg03 and it's pushing out some of that purple color but it's also mixing with it and green and purple you may know makes kind of a brown color but it gave this card a really vintage feel by creating that kind of a brown now you can test out on a scratch piece of paper whatever color combination you want to try and see what's going to happen I didn't know what would happen when I tried this yg on there I had no clue whatsoever and I was delightfully surprised by it because I did like this color it was just not a color I expected but I liked the vintage feel of this one I also got out the colorless blender to finish off that flower that I had missed up at the top and then reinforce some of the highlights elsewhere so just going over once the earlier colorless blender work that I had done had dried now I'm just going to go over quickly over some of the highlight areas and my light source is kind of in the upper right you can see because that's where I'm putting my my highlights on the right side of each of the objects creating a little detail and I also thought it would be kind of fun to add a little bit of something in the background because this one has just the one berry image hanging down and I just put a few dots here and there now the secret with dots is not to put too many and not to make them very regular if you're going to do any groupings of them try for odd numbers of little dots that sort of thing just something in that feels much more natural than even numbers of anything but they're very tiny ones that I've added onto mine and the third card is watercolor and this one is super easy and simple I just put some yellow around each one of the colors around each of the colors around each one of the flowers as I said I'm having trouble speaking today my Toastmasters training seems to be escaping my brain but I put a darker yellow toward the center lighter yellow around the outside edges that's the middle easel on the outside and then I thought well I could paint all that's all the centers in but I'm going to paint the centers in black after I'm done so I just added the Aussie red gold in the middles to just add a little bit more depth to each one of the flowers and then when I think the centers black afterward I'll have a little bit of that dimension added to them but I'm being really loose with it notice I'm just not getting super careful I'm just going to mix some colors in in general there's a few areas in between the flowers and I'm just going to drop some color in there and let them blend and not not fret over them I have been really struggling and learning how to not fret over things but on this card I just re-stamped one of those flowers and glued it on tops I popped that one and put lots of delicious glitter and glossy X's in the middle of my flowers so that is about all I have for you today three different types of monochromatic flowers check out the blog hop it's over on my blog today and see more from Power Poppy and I'll see you guys in the next video