 Well, hi guys. It's Sandy with a whole ton of cards from the brand new Art Impressions Release, and I want to share them with you and show you what is new. Art Impressions is one of the few companies that I let send me the full release, because I can't use all the stamps. So what I have done in order to try to show you all of the goodness is to make a bunch of cards with them. And I just have pictures of the stamp set and then the card itself. So this one is so cute. I love the little mice here. And for those who've taken my Copic Hex Art class, you'll see there's rocks. So the texture of the rocks that we've learned in that class, the grasses in the back, the dirt below them. And then I just did the corners of some leaves. They don't even have to look like leaves if you make a few veins in them and turn the whole thing into a beautiful scene with a stamp set like this. Next up is the bees. Oh my goodness, such fun little bees. You know I like anything with yellow in it. And this is one of the stamps from the set with a light coming down from the honeycomb, which I thought was really cool. There's a technique like this in one of my winter types of classes. I have lots of classes on backgrounds and stuff. I added some trees to it with snow. And there's no shadow down here, but if you put some ground, just leave your shadow way down below the bees and it'll look like they're flying above the surface of the ground. I also added that extra bit of snow by the way on the honeycomb up there and made that look like the snow had sat on it. This one is from this cute little Halloween magic set and I put some strong lighting in here. I made this look like either, I wasn't sure when I was done, whether it was a street sign, you know, like a street lamp or something, or if it's the front steps of a house or something. Either way, strong lighting and I don't even have anything drawn in there, but you get a real strong feeling that she's standing there in the light hugging her kitty. I left a little triangle of light where the light would have escaped around the edge of that hat and just that little act of leaving some highlights makes a huge difference when you're trying to communicate light. This one is also from the same set. It's in colored pencil. That background is from the colored pencil jumpstart class using the powdered pencil technique. I drew in some trees like I've done on lots of other cards before. Nice big, big trees and then little trees off in the distance. It gives me that foreground background thing when I have some trees big and some trees small. These window cards with these just little teeny tiny smidgy images are so cool and you can do lots of crazy coloring like this. I darkened everything behind the the little truck and just left the light in the front corner as well as using some colors blender and white gel pen to make the lights. This one was just fun using alternating colors for my pots and I use the same kind of colors on the little flags. Just a fun little happy design. This was kind of a cool idea. I've been thinking about trying something like this. There might be a video in it in me someday, but I just kind of spread some color across the page and just making that splash and picking a few areas to paint on the inside of the image. And this is another one that I colored with my Copics and I popped it up and stamped the image in white as well onto the black cardstock. The cobweb there is drawn in the stamping ink, but I went over it with the white so that it would show up on top of the little image on my card. So that was kind of cool. And then there's one that reminded me of a trip I took last year, a year before and I saw some beautiful covered bridges and things. Lots of fun. Now this one is one of the Flutter images and you attach all these things. There's directions in them. I've done some Flutter videos before and the arms and legs move, but I decided to try showing you some that have this image just stamped. I masked the body so that I could then just stamp the hands and the feet and learn how to cover up some of those holes because there's all those little dots in them. But I did that by creating strong light and having the light of the chimney and then the footprints and the shadow behind the Santa on top of all this snow. This beautiful tree in the background I'll do a video with sometime this winter and then added the snow all over everything because that allowed me to cover up those little dots because there were some that just still were there. You could still see them even though I had just done the stamping and coloring over top. And here's one from this cute set. I'll be doing some more with this set later on this winter because I really like it and I had just the little bird and the birdhouse. I used the colored pencil powder colored pencil technique for the back drew another tree put some snow on that tree just nice little thin lines and kept it really light and did some erasing to create the clouds back there in the colored pencil. This one it was just a lot of fun. He's also a Flutter. He's got his little arms that fly in the or his little wings that fly in the air and I just filled the whole thing with color and drew trees over top of that color so you can use whatever kind of colors you want and make the bat fly right through that forest by creating some strong light with your Copic markers and here's another of the Flutter cards and instead of making the wings flutter you can also use them with the action wobbles and this is just putting the puppies on action wobbles and having them stamped underneath kind of fun kind of crazy and of course one of my scene cards and then all of the watercolor they have bunches and bunches of new watercolor stamps and this was my first attempt at doing this one and I wanted to show you the difference that something makes and that is over stamping and I had it in my Misti and what I did was first do the stamping just like I did on the right hand side with the little boy and I stamped over top of it with the dark brown color. I did the same thing for then the next part was just doing the little pier and then the rock and each part individually little by little and over stamping on top of them so you don't have to have all the stamps in the Misti at once just have one in there and work on that image get the little boy to look really nice and then move forward this one I'm going to have a video at some point on this too I was working out the idea I'm not sure that I finished this card it probably needs at least a sentiment but I was trying to make it look like this little kid was sitting on a bucket in a field a big grassy field and once I figure out a little better how to explain the technique but a lot of it was very much the same I colored the girl and then stamped over her in brown I colored the tractor stamped over it in brown just so I could get that nice rich contrast in them this is the little snowman dude and snowman has kind of some some striations in the snow in the background this was a technique from one of the Copic background classes and that class kind of talked about making shadows in the snow so that you have some dimension to the snow there's some action going on there and I made it look like this little snowman is just at the base of a hill and created that shadow behind him and the shadow has the hat the little arm sticking out and doesn't have to be looking like a snowman in the shadow just needs to look like it's casting from behind this little tree set this is a little fairy tree house and you stamp the little doors separately there's a bunch of different types of doors and then there's no leaves so I use some little flowers to do that and I got it really really wet and the color got a little over mushy but I just wanted to show it to you anyway and here is the church there's a bunch of little churches in this stamp set really pretty and I did one for each season so here's one with green trees in it and using a white building with brown roofs like is shown on the packaging and then I decided to try one in fall colors and succeeded I think in that one same kind of thing with the white church and the the brown roof and then I tried a winter one and I swapped the colors on the church so don't ever think that you have to stay with what's on the packaging because other things can work too I just did blue trees very soft blue trees and stamped the trees themselves right on top and then for each one I added a little fence line you can just see my little sketchy fence along the line where the trees are on each one of these so there are my crazy cards there's a little blog hop going on and some of these stamp sets you'll see in that blog hop and there are more than this stamp sets as well there's more than this in the release but that's all I could fit in so I'm gonna see you guys later be sure to click on the link in the description so you can go see everybody else's cards and I will see you guys again next time you take care and have a great day go make something beautiful don't forget to hit that like button see ya bye