 Hello there, it's Sandy All Night with a clean and simple airbrush card which you could also do with inking. I just want to tell you that don't run away because it's airbrush. I'm using the garden shade combination. I shared a couple of color combos that I was going to try for this month and I'm not going to do it on everything but I'm going to do a couple of them and I decided to do this one here on YouTube and these are the colors I was trying to match and you can't match colors exactly in a medium versus what you see on a screen but it's pretty close. So I've grabbed some Eclipse tape which is basically a sticky back tape that's about as sticky as a sticky note and you can stamp on it and I just tear off a hunk of it so I don't waste a whole lot of it and then trim out the shape. These are simple circles in this stamp set from Purple Onion called Sunny Blooms and I don't really know what they're blooming because they don't seem to have any petals on them but that's okay. And so I've cut out my three circles and then I tore one to kind of match the little hillside at the bottom but I wanted to have a rougher edge at the top than what I had cut off on my scrap piece so I just tore a sticky note. Really easy to do and I'm going to be airbrushing but you could do inking. Most people are going to do inking but if you have an airbrush this is a great really simple project to do to play with airbrushing. So I've put my chisel nib of the Copic marker into the gun. It's attached to a compressor under my desk and the air blows out across the surface of the marker and blows the ink onto the paper. The ink stays on the surface of the paper. It doesn't sink in so you don't have any bleed through. If you're trying to do a clean and simple card and not have anything show through on the inside of the card airbrush is a great way to go. If you're going to add marker strokes to it after finishing your airbrush though those marker strokes are still going to act like any others. I'm going to end up putting this as a layer on a card anyway so I'm not really worried about that but I thought it might be helpful for you to know that. So I'm using the BG72 kind of across the middle and at the top section I'm going to use one of the Gs. I think this was the G43. No this is G24 at the top. So I was using those two colors to kind of try to blend together. I am not excellent at blending as you can see it does look better in real life than it looks right here on this camera. It's really kind of a shame that it doesn't show off better than it is. Stinky camera you should make me look good instead of not good but I've turned it upside down because I wanted to make sure I got color on all sides of that circle because these sticky notes, the edges of them kind of fluff up a little bit and you can end up with extra white areas. I ended up with a little bit of that anyway but it's not that big a deal on a card like this because I have plans for these flowers which is to take the other color. This is the G43, the lightest color and I'm going to airbrush right over top of everything. I'm not going to remask and block out the other parts. Now if you're doing this with distress inks or something you might have to work out punching a circle so that you're only inking inside that or color that somehow with another medium but I can just go over it with the airbrushing and add right on top. I'm using analogous colors so if I get a little overspray of this green on top of some of the others it really doesn't matter at all. So I added a little bit of shading at the bottom to get it a little darker and it honestly did look better than that on in real life so please know that I am not that bad at airbrushing. I'm not great at it but anyway next up I tried to add a little bit of the second color, the intermediate color into the centers of the flowers but I had plans for them so I wasn't too terribly worried about it because now I'm just going to start using marker strokes like I normally would and grab the BG72 so I could do the stems. Notice that I didn't trim out all of the leaves in this. I only did the three big circles because I wanted those to be lighter. Everything that's going to be darker or same-ish green didn't really matter. So here is my shaky hand cam. I was filming this with my phone so it does do a little shaking here but you can see I'm just adding some marker dabs here and there around the edge of the flower and covering up any places where my masking wasn't perfect. This is really forgiving which is kind of nice because after finishing a little bit of darkening of the edges so that it kind of makes it all flow together I added white pen because I always add white pen and that always adds a sparkle to things. And on the big flower I added lines instead of just dots so it would feel a little bit different and the flowers weren't all exactly the same because flowers never are and just doodled in some stippling with keeping it keeping the stippling darker in the highlight side since this is reverse like I think that I'm coloring in the highlights I'm putting in the lightest areas and then letting it get darker toward the center where I had airbrushed the darker color. So you can figure out ways that you could do a flower like this if you get the stamp set using inks or using other coloring mediums and have a lot of fun with this. So I used the marker nib again to make grasses at the bottom to put some veins into the leaves and if you're using a different stamp set just add whatever kind of details you feel you need but I wanted to keep this clean and simple. I didn't want to get crazy with it because the whole idea behind these color ways was to not go heavy on contrast and that sort of thing and I wanted it just simple. So I airbrushed the outside of the card base just the outside edges with the same three colors and then I trimmed my panel down so it's a little bit smaller and it's just going to lay on top of the same colors and originally I was going to use this sentiment and it just didn't fit. I'm glad I didn't try stamping it because I could have really messed up. I could have put it floating up above but I find that with clean and simple cards joining the sentiment somehow to the image and leaving that big empty space works a lot better so I liked having that sentiment down there at the bottom. And here's a little close-up of looking at that texture from the airbrush and you can see it does look a lot better close-up than it did from far away for whatever reason. It just looks funky sometimes but I also wanted to know that purple onion design is having their annual summer sale or anniversary sale that's on right now so if you need any purple onion design stamps there are sets of stamps that go with some of my classes so you can look for the sandy all-night category and see which classes are available and which ones use those purple onion stamps and I also have a collection of all my purple onion videos on my blog and I'll have a link to that page it's a separate blog page from the one that goes with this video so there's two blog links down there and I hope that that helps you to make some choices if there's some older stamps that you might want because they don't tend to retire too many of those very often so lots are still available alright that's it from me I will see you again very soon take care bye bye