 Well, hello there. I'm Sandy Allknock artist and paper crafter here on YouTube and today's card is called jump for joy It's got a stamp set and two dye sets and the dye sets you can choose one or the other I got both of them because I can see a use for both of them and both of them have the same arc for the tree So just know you're gonna get a duplicate there But you have different leaves in each set and if you want if you get both sets You get all four different shapes of leaves and that was one of the things that I wanted to have all of them for so I could use them in different ways taking my washi tape and taping one of the arcs on Top of the one that's already die cut I'm gonna show you the vertical one, but I did do a card with the horizontal as well to show you that and I'm taping it down with the washi tape kind of not as sticky since I rubbed it on my fingers so that it's not Gonna wreck the surface of my Nina cardstock and Then I'm gonna pull out just those pieces that I want to die cut it from if I went right through the whole thing I would chop right through the tree and I didn't want to do that, but you can see those pieces now are going to fit right back into the the whole scene and make one flat piece for my background I pulled it all apart and I'm going to apply different distress inks to it and The distress inks are applied using the round ink blender tool And I'm just taking a couple of different browns and mixing them on here Doesn't really matter what colors you use you can do this in a spring kind of theme You could do it in a fall kind of thing I'm doing it as a fall card since that's the season in which this video is being made But you could do a winter scene you could do a spring one you could do summer these Background dies have a year-round use so if you were to pick up one you would be able to use it all year long for a lot of different kinds of cards I Am gonna ink around the edges of this frame, but I'm gonna cut it off later So you can decide whether or not you're going to chop it off or not depending on what kind of look you want on your card Now these are the inside pieces for the tree, and I'm just gonna tap some ink onto them to to cover up the Each one of those shapes and then I'm gonna do the same thing to do the sky portion in those large sections The surface that I'm working on by the way the black shiny metal thing is called a craft assistant And I love to use that when I'm doing inking things. It's so easy to clean up It's just an easy wipe down and it stays really flat It doesn't get crinkled and stuff like other craft mats that I've used So I will have links to that and all of the supplies for this card in the doobly-doo and over on the blog as always So I'm creating a couple of colors to bring a little bit of transition through it I ended up by the time I was done not seeing much transition because I just kept applying ink because I was having so much fun doing it and at the bottom I wanted to put some green and as I was putting the ink on and Working on blending it in I realized you know that would be kind of interesting to make it look like bushes I was going to start with some swirly bushes and I have a little bit of blending going on And I thought what if I really load up the mini ink blending tool and just make some circles that will actually act as little bushes And I really liked how that was looking. So just load up Between each one of the applications of it make them at different heights and just make sure you do it across to the other side So that it also translates onto that little piece on the other side of the tree Next I took all those leaves that I die cut and this is one set of each of those dies So you could do multiples of them to have a lot of one particular leaf And I'm just tapping on a bunch of different colors onto them But they're adhered onto a sheet of scratch paper I just put some adhesive down to put them all in place so they wouldn't walk around on me So it's kind of fun to be able to just keep tapping on different colors to make them look like fall colors Again, you could do a bunch of greens if you're doing a spring card and be able to use the same technique for another time of year Also note that you get one set of leaves with one Dyeset and one set of leaves with the other the reason I have Both of them is because of course I bought both die sets and that was one of the reasons I wanted to make sure I had all those leaf options when I start making cards now to adhere all this together I took a piece of thin card card stock for my base and I put B creative tape all over it You can do different adhesives just make sure there's plenty on there and then it's super sticky This stuff is so sticky that once you put it down you can't peel it back up And that's one of the reasons that I like to use it But I put the frame down and then it's really easy to pop all the other pieces in just don't do any pressing Until you're sure you have it in the right spot But once it's down, this is going to be a very very flat background for the card Practically looking like it's all one piece even though it's all pieced together and glued inside each other So here is the top of the tree with all of its little bits and pieces going in It's just like a puzzle. I used to love puzzles when I was a kid so this satisfies my inner child to do this kind of thing and Next up I'm going to start doing some Copic coloring from the jump for joy set This one has a couple little creatures in it has this little pile of leaves And I'm coloring two of them because I'm making two cards. I'm making the horizontal and the vertical and I actually ended up only using the stamp here in the Vertical one, but you'll see the horizontal card at the end of the video And I'm just applying some random colors to it Copic colors You can do this in whatever colors are appropriate for the scene I'm just using some yellows and oranges and mushing color over top of them and Getting some soft blends going little by little And then I'll throw in a little bit of green very pale green so that I don't get a whole lot of color But there's just a little bit of a difference there And this is a super easy way to do it if you're going to be die cutting it Of course you want to leave white around the outside edges, but I'm going to fussy cut these So I'm not really concerned about coloring right up to those edges or anything So I'll add some colors that are basically some of the same colors that I used in the leaves for the little Fox that I stamped and I masked him out I first stamped the leaves and then cut out a mask so I could put the fox behind Because the little hedgehog is going to be the one jumping a little fox will already be on the ground So I'm going to use the same colors to blend him out But of course if you would like to color him and the whole scene any of these elements in Whatever medium you'd like the technique for all of that inlaying and everything will still work This is just elements that are going to go on top of that background So I'm just throwing some more colors in here to soften out some of those edges I have the rakes that I'm going to stamp onto the background But I'm just going to use the handles to glue on top and that way I don't have to fussy cut around the tines of the rake and I still have the impact of color on the handle Here's my little hedges that I'm just going to throw some color in and you can make the coloring really simple Don't worry about doing shading if you aren't good at shading that sort of thing some simple coloring on this sort of a Card when you've got lots of elements. There's an interactive element. There's all the inlaid die work Don't worry if you're not an amazing colorist and you just want to make these much simpler A lot of times I remind everybody who watches my videos to focus on the thing that's important If the interactive portion is the part that's the coolest on the card Then you can let some of the other parts go because people are going to be so amazed by the interactive element They won't really care if there's perfect shading or if you've chosen a light source or any of that kind of thing on your card But if you do want to learn more about coloring I do have a Copic Jumpstart class on my website and you can take that to learn more about coloring Now this is a slider die set from Lawn Fawn that I also love it's got a lot of different shapes You can make things slide and stuff all over your cards in different directions I'm going to take this kind of wiggly one and die cut it out of the piece and The background piece that I already created and I'm also going to go around the edges of it with a brown ink Just to get rid of some of that white edge and you can see I've already stamped that rake on there so now I can add on the little teeny tiny Handle for the rake and my little hedgehog is going to be the one sliding down and at the bottom I'm going to place my little fussy cut leaves with the little fox This is going to cover up the messy end down there at the bottom since I was die cutting that slider through so many layers of Paper and adhesive I did have to use a craft knife to get some of the parts to cut all the way through but now with some adhesive I'm adding dimes onto the back of the little Hedgey and on the back of the card and then I have a piece of dimensional adhesive that's smaller than that slider piece So that it will slide through and then he will make his way down from the tree into his little pile of leaves In order to make this work on the card the Background piece has to be up off the surface of the card base So I put some dimensional adhesive on it to lift it up to give the dimes some area to slide down Some people use pennies. I use dimes just because they're thinner So here he goes tumbling down from the top of his card This is a great idea to give a card to a kid You do it for a birthday or just a hello card or happy Thanksgiving or Halloween card lots of fun So here's the one with the vertical leafy background die So it looks really cute came out really nice And he tumbled from high up and then there you see a cute little foxy friend that he's going down to visit When he makes his big jump Now if you wanted to try the same thing with the horizontal one you can do A whole different look for it. I didn't use the fox on this one I decided to just use the leaves And I glued them onto the card using some dimensional adhesive for some of them and some of them flat down on the card And I stamped the sentiment and split it so that jumps is on one side and four joys on the other But my hedgy still will spin down the card And I really really enjoyed making these there were lots of fun It is just a lot of work, but for somebody really special it's worth every minute of it So here's a couple more videos for you interactive ones if you're interested in seeing some more of that You can hit the subscribe button if you would like to and you'll get more videos from me Make sure you click on the option to have them emailed to you So you don't miss any And I will see you guys next time. I have a video up here on youtube Which is about three times a week. So it's not more than just a few days away Thanks so much and have an awesome day. Bye. Bye