 Well hi there it's Sandy and today I'm going to be coloring two cards both on colored card stock using Copic markers and colored pencil. The first of the two is a stamp by my favorite things and it's a recent one in their last release and what I did was stamp it onto some dark blue card stock using white ink. So I used Lawn Fawn's Yeti white ink and it's a pigment ink so I did let it dry before I started messing with it and I'm coloring the highlights on the top side of the flower. So you can decide which way you want your sun to be shining on and whatever petals the sun would touch that's where you put the white pencil and I'm just going to go around kind of creating a sea shape on the top side of each one of the flowers and it's going to kind of curve across the top. You'll see how that plays out. I'm making sure to leave some areas with no color on them because if you colored the whole thing in you would end up without any shadows and I want to make sure that I do create some shadows but I am going to go back in with some Copic markers in a little bit and add some of that back in as well as adding some other colors so that these don't look like they're white hydrangea flowers that they will end up looking like they are multiple colors because I love it when my hydrangeas are partly purple and partly blue and they just have this really soft transition of different colors between them. There are three little flower blooms on this. I don't know if you call them flower blooms when there's blooms within blooms necessarily but three clumps and I've got them stamped on a little bit of an angle so that I was trying to create a corner design for my card and so I kind of tilted them a little bit sideways but if you stamp it straight up you end up seeing more of the three shapes but in this bottom one I'm making sure that I put more highlight on the top side of this flower that's down here but I want to make sure that I leave some space in between. There's like a little darkish line in between and I'll emphasize that more when I get to the Copic marker phase which is starting right now so I'm taking a V04 and I'm just going to do some quick flick marks up over top of what's going on here. If I go over the white ink then that's going to darken some of those dark areas and I'm also just going over the white pencil so I'm going over both of them with the purple marker and that just gives it that really soft feel of a couple different colors in the flowers themselves. I wanted to add a little bit of green to the leaves down there but I thought what if I just darken all of that and let that whole corner fall off and then I decided to also add in some blue so I get that multicolor of the different kinds of purples and blues and at that point you can decide whether or not you've covered up too much if you go back in now and just pick out a few of the top flowerettes and start to put little highlights on those then you're going to increase the dimension and if you need to go back in and add darker green in order to kind of really deepen those shadows you can do that as well but don't get too caught up in messing with it because if you start adding a whole lot of dark then you start having to add more transitional colors and everything that just seemed like it was going to be too much work so I just left it this way there's some of the the flowerettes that don't have any color on them because they're in the shadow but it just kind of creates this really nice soft rounded shape for the flowers now this stamp set is from Waffle Flower it's got a couple of tulips the sentiments in it are from Mother's Day but of course Mother's Day is passed so you can pair this with another sentiment the sentiments from Mother's Day are actually quite beautiful and you could use them year round because there's things that say in in the stamp sets about you know your your special mom your special grandmother doesn't have to be just for Mother's Day so if you like to make cards for your mom and your grandma it's a beautiful set that way as well as having these gorgeous flowers so I'm doing the same thing but since the flower shapes are different I have different shapes for the highlights I'm just putting everything that's on kind of the top and right side of each one of the shapes in white now this would be a beautiful card in and of itself right but I'm going to go in and start adding in just a little bit of color this one is different because I have a lighter background color it's an intense color this yellowish orangey color and it's going to react with each of the Copic markers differently so you might want to cut a scrap of whatever it is you're going to use and try whatever colors you want on it I hadn't tried this yet so I was a little freaked out by how much color I put down when I chose this particular green I think it's a YG 17 and it was like okay well there you go but I had already committed so I proceeded on and I started blending it then with a YG 03 and as I was trying to cover up those white stamp lines I ended up going over into the background and I will fix some of that later but I just wanted to try to blend some of this in so they'd start feeling like they were more background things because I wanted the flowers to be the thing that really pops out and I wanted red tulips I thought red tulips on this really warm orangey yellow paper would be gorgeous so I started doing flicks from the bottom up and then you know making sure that I covered the petals on the inside and in order to create the highlight on the petal that's toward me I left it white and then just went over at the very last with a few quick strokes and that leaves that lighter color against the darker color that's in the center so I get multiple layers in the tulip itself so each one of these I'm just going to go over it with some really quick flick marks and I'm not laboring over it don't try blending and everything don't get crazy just do some really quick flicks as you're going from the the area where the marker is going over the paper versus going over the pencil you're going to get a pretty a good transition from a darker to a lighter so that's one of the reasons for putting the pencil first you may want to scribble your marker off on scrap paper if it picks up any of the pigment from your colored pencils and I'm using Prismacolors in this by the way so here's where I decided to pretend that I hadn't gone out of the lines on the green by just adding some general very light green in the background and just kind of squishing some colors in there and figured I'm just going to pretend like I meant to go out of the lines because nobody's going to notice they're going to see how beautiful all of this looks and they're not going to worry about it so I'm adding more of the white highlights again on top so that I'm getting multiple layers and kind of growing the contrast in these by just putting some highlights on some of the parts and not on others at all so there's less white going down in this layer than there was in the very first layer of white that I put down but it really gives a nice contrast that you can go back and forth if you need to add more of the red marker or that sort of thing but I just left mine as it was and then all I had to do was add some sentiments to my cards and I chose to use just wanted to say hello from another stamp set from Ellen Hudson links are all in the doobly-doo of course as 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