 Well, hi there, I'm Sandy Almak, artist and paper crafter, and today I'm going to make a scene entirely in Distress Oxide Inks. I'm going to be using a variety of products. Today I don't usually use this much stuff, but I wanted to use this dye. It's a really cool looking cage. I love things that are vintage-y feeling, and this one really is. On release day when this came out recently, I did a little bit of white pen work around the edge of the cage, and I just wanted to do it again. So there you go, I'm going to do that on this one. The color underneath, I'm just using Distress Oxide Inks with a blender brush to smush the color on. Just keep tapping on more color depending on what I wanted that nice transition. Got out the Constellation Dye, stay tuned to the end of this video to find out why, and dye cut it from some navy blue paper and added a little bit of an aurora borealis to the background just by adding some of the peacock feathers and a little bit of picked raspberry. And smushing that on, again with the blender brush, I'm getting more comfortable with this blender brush, not super comfortable, but I'm getting a little better with it. And these are the ones that are by Trinity, if you're wondering. The wheels, I did the outer wheel, the part with the detail in a lighter color and then the darker color underneath. And then I dye cut two elephants from the other circus set. The dyes for the cage thing, the little wagon thing, are in a different set than the animal. So this is the elephants and I did two of them and I'm going to face them different directions. And this is just with the dye, no stamps involved in this. And then I wanted to make some grass for my scene. So I took the wave dye and turned it upside down and made little scallopy ground. And I'll use some peeled paint and apply some ink to that one as well and throw in some secondary color with some black soot. And that will give this the feeling that it's at night because it's going to have this nice bright color. So you get the idea that it's green, but then you're also going to have this nice rich dark color at the bottom of the card because since it's going to be nighttime, I want to anchor it with something dark down at the bottom. So I'm just taking my ink and smoosh it away. And one of my little tips that I'll give you, I've done before here on YouTube, is to if your ink is not blending really well, dampen it on a baby wipe, damp the brush on a baby wipe. And that tends to make things smooth out quite a bit more. So here's my ground that goes on the bottom of my card. I have the panel a little bit longer than my die cut sky background. So trimmed off the edges that hung over and I added stars wherever there were joints in each of the constellations. So they're joined then by the dotted lines that are embossed into the paper or they were cut into the paper, I guess. And then the stars are up on top. Now here's the elephants and I screwed that up. It looks really weird to have that white dot for an elephant eye. But then I thought, wait a minute, what if I cut out another elephant and color it and just cut out the head and the ear portion of it? I glued the snout, the trunk down flat with adhesive and I put a little dimensional adhesive under the head. So then it lifts up a little bit from the body and then it looks a little dimensional and I just made a little U shape for the eyes so that they're looking kind of like, I don't know, they're dreamy. They got their eyes closed because they're going to be in love on my card. The cage is now on here with some dimensional adhesive and I was trying to put my elephants in and I realized their butts need to go under where the dimensional adhesive is underneath there and I kept trying to shove it in. Didn't work. So don't cry for the elephant. I snipped off his butt so I could tuck him in and you could also do these too. If you're going to do this card, you could do them in pink and blue and make them a little couple in love. So I'm going to snip off the butt of the other one knowing that I'm going to need that in order to thread it through and fit it in there where the dimensional adhesive is underneath of the edge and then just kind of tweak them until they kiss, until their little snouts kiss and isn't that cute. I think it's adorable. I loved the idea when it kind of came to my mind about how to put this together. I've added in the wheels onto the card and then comes some of the fun detail part. I love all of the little detail bits that I always add in with this white pen. It just makes everything look a little more dainty when it's got little tiny details. So I'll speed this up and zoom all the way around, add lots of little dot patterns around everything, add a little more doodling, some hearts here and there and make sure everything's got all of its little pretty details on it and then adding of course a little bit more at the bottom because the bottom didn't have any dots on it and it was ready to cry. So I accommodated it and then all I did was stamp the sentiment on it and embossed it. You are pretty amazing and this could go for a couple in love, it could go for someone you love, it could just go to a friend. So look at that beautiful constellation die, do you see that there? Ellen Hudson is playing a game. Go check out her social media and the constellation could be your answer today to the game and you might actually find a little something, something there. So go check it out, link in the doodly-doo to her Instagram and I will see you guys again very soon. Take care. Bye.