 Well, hi there. I'm Sandy Olnok, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube with some twist tie cards today There's four different ones flamingos giraffes dogs and elephants and they're all so stinkin cute I was so excited when I saw these. I love that our impressions makes so many different kinds of interactive cards So let's get started. I'm gonna work on the flamingo and I'm gonna show you how to color it today with some Copic markers But I want to show you this pack of papers They fit into an A2 and they have an A2 with them But I'm gonna cut my own just so you can see how that's done in case you don't buy the papers that they come with It's a nine and a half by five and a half and you score it from one side on the two and a half and the other side On the two and three-quarter or if you have a long board you just score on a two and a half and a seven and it'll give you a two and a half on one side and you want the Larger one on the left and the smaller one on the right. So on the two and a half side We're gonna start that's gonna be the side that folds in but we need to line our stamp up using the little alignment Elf L shaped thingy there showing it to you with the plastics You can see it and then try to line it up so that the image is touching the edge and Make sure that it does that so that it's going to do the right thing when you do the twisting and stuff When you do the enclosure on the card The dies for this are hearts in the background. So there's gonna be a heart shape half on one side half on the other and Here my my heart edge is a little bit crooked So I may have a little issue if it's really crooked start over You might even want to try doing this by stamping first onto a piece of Perhaps scratch paper so that you can sort of see how it lines up and check it Using your die because if your die fits so that the heart edge is straight, then you're gonna be okay So here I'm gonna do the same thing on this side with the other flamingo Line it up on the left hand side. You can also put down some plastic I'm just using the plastic packaging from this and I kind of oops I missed covering the top of the flamingo So I got a little the hat on there, but fortunately it lined up so I'm gonna be able to still use this piece of paper I have not wrecked it and Stamp it and get it already a roll by the way that long magnet is one of the new misty magnets If you have not got one yet, it's really helpful in holding things down This one lined up a little bit better my edge on the heart that straight edge is a little bit straighter So we're gonna try it and see if this works out So I'm gonna do my die cutting and One way that I know that my die cutting didn't go exactly perfect is that it will need to do a little snip So I may have some issues when I do my folding So I'm gonna try it and see how it goes But just so you can see what I'm doing because it's gonna be hard to see white on white I'm gonna put my liner on the inside before I do and Hope that this works now I'm doing what I'm calling a soft fold and after making a bunch of these I realize the soft fold is gonna help me Because if these don't line up just perfect If they need a little bit of an adjustment that like if I could pull one panel over just a little bit more the lineup better Because that's where my my thing being just lightly off makes a little difference I can kind of move it hold it and then score it and Adjust my score just slightly to fix that a little bit I'm also on some of these Not happy with how their die cut like the die cut doesn't go as far as I like it to go It certainly goes enough to cut out that heart But I want to show more of the legs of the second of the the two flamingos So I cut that part out and then on the other flamingo even though it's not gonna show I want to do a little cutting right around that cupcake and on a bunch of the different ones I did a little bit of extra cutting because that's how it goes. You know, I'm I'm obsessive about making them Just the way I want them So I'm gonna do some Copic coloring and I'm only gonna color one of them because the other one is like the same but different So I'm gonna just show you on one of the flamingos and I'm using some colors that are not your RVs A lot of people use RVs for flamingos, but I decided to look them up on the web And look at what they really look like they have a lot of them have a little bit of really strong red so I decided to throw a little R2-4 in there and Let the rest of it be the pinks, but not the RV pinks, but the red pinks and well, I shouldn't say it not the RV pinks because RV-4 too is kind of a it's more of a Reg red pink than it is a pink pink because the RV zeroes are the ones that I'm thinking of it that I I Didn't see in the flamingos that I looked at in pictures So I'm gonna use my secondary color, which is the RV-4 too if you don't have this one You can probably use like an R2-1 something like that R2-3 To this mid-tone color and I'm drawing in some feathers for him so that he has a little bit of texture to them because they're feathered birds They're not perfectly smooth birds, so I'm gonna give them a little bit of realism a little tiny tiny bit and I was trying to figure out what color was gonna use for the the next shade Darker like how is it gonna do that? Because there isn't a color that does exactly what I wanted So I took my R2-4 that I just had out and it's all messy I have all that ink blobbed all over the handle of it So I decided to do the tip-to-tip technique. I haven't done this in a long time So here you go if you want to make the color just a little bit darker Then touch the marker that touch the lighter one to the darker one and you'll pull in a little bit of color It doesn't really ruin your nib as long as you use all the color off of it So you don't want to leave that color sitting on there But it gives you that interim color in between the two and Let's you do a little bit more smooth shading And that's a super helpful thing it sometimes Then I grabbed my R00 To smooth out a few things just going over top of some of the feathers will soften them out And then I can bring some of that the featherwork down into the white areas decided to give him a Blackish grayish nose tip to his beak not his nose. That's not a bird's nose, right? his beak and Then I decided he was gonna be wearing black and white for the party outfit Because I didn't want to add a whole lot more colors to it. I wanted it to be I wanted that That teal color from the inside the blue green color from the inside to really pop so against the The black and white hat it's gonna show up more And then I'll use a little bit of a blue in my white areas Now when I saw that I was going to be putting this against that teal color. I said wait a minute. Let me grab my blue green marker and Go around the edges of this so that right in that area not around the whole bird for right around the center It's colored so that that white doesn't show and look how cute they are they nest together They twist around each other and on this one. I decided I wanted to cut off that heart a little bit further because My alignment made that end that in just didn't quite line up quite right So I just cut that panel off easy peasy lemon squeezy So I want to show you all the others that I made from this series. Oh first before I do that Let's put the sentiment on I did that just with a little Dimensional adhesive and put the birthday sentiment on there and here's one with giraffes. They come together and are so cute as well Stinking darling little giraffe you guys and I did trim off some of their bodies as well as on these little dogs Little wiener dogs with a wiener hog So all of you wiener dog lovers are gonna have to have this one because it's so cute and then the elephants One of them's holding a flower and they intertwine with each other and I used a little bit of purple in my coloring So after I got all my gray done, I went over it with a bv-00 to make it all feel kind of purple So here's some of the other cards that are in this series that I'm doing this week on the art impressions Interactives this one is a tri-fold and then I have a second one with circular tri-folds And I show you four different ways to use them in the circular tri-folds video We also are going to have some flutter cards coming up tomorrow. That'll be the The last of the interactive ones. Oh my gosh, there's so much fun little animals with wings and ears that fly And that's about it for today's video. I hope you enjoyed this Please come back and visit me again And you could do that by subscribing and clicking the button to have everything emailed to you So you don't miss a darn thing and I will see you guys again next time links are in the description. Bye. Bye