 Chubby Bunny, Chubby Bunny, Chubby Bunny, Chubby Bunny. We're gonna do a Chubby Bunny Easter Party today. The name of the stamp set I'm using today and coloring with my Copics is called Chubby Bunny and it made me think about that game we used to play as kids when you kept shoving more and more marshmallows in your mouth and trying to see if you could still be understood saying Chubby Bunny, Chubby Bunny, Chubby Bunny, Chubby Bunny. Cause these are cute little Chubby Bunnies that I've stamped them all in a row across my card. So that they could have a party together. There's a lot of different bunnies in this stamp set which was really fun and they're tiny. Coloring them with my Copics was fun and I stamped them by putting the frontmost images down first masking those out so like the little chickies and the little chocolate bunnies and then doing the next layer behind those and the next layer behind those. The bunny that's in the basket is already part of the basket. So fortunately I didn't have to mask that. There's just a few of the pieces that I ended up masking. But I'm coloring them with my Copic markers and I try when I'm here on YouTube to limit my color selection a little bit. I had a big handful of them but I'm gonna try to use some of the same colors for some of the bunnies that I'm using on the baskets and that sort of thing. Cause we don't need to use every color in the universe while coloring something. Just using some of them is fine. And I know there's a lot of people that see something that I've done here on YouTube and they're like, oh, I have to go get that color because Sandy said I have to color that, that color. And you don't actually have to. You can actually make things whatever color you want to. You don't have to follow my instructions. I hope I just give you some ideas to get you started. And a lot of times when I'm doing videos here on YouTube I'm just trying to even see what's going to work. There's some times that I have colors that don't really work in terms of finding the proper transfer of dark to light and the proper progression, should I say. And you see me kind of working through that a little bit. But here I was playing around with some colors that I wanted to use in the bunnies and I also wanted to figure out how to use them in the chocolates as well. So had to do some creative stuff to figure out that the E25 and the E37 were just a little bit far apart enough that I could kind of make them work to kind of make that transition of color. And here what I'm gonna be trying to make the faces go to white and get lighter. I often will start by doing my dark colors first. It's the reverse of how I normally color. I usually do the light first, color all the light parts and then do the dark, medium and light. But when I'm gonna do something that's going to be white in the middle, I often go the opposite direction. But there you have it. So I wanted to do the bunnies so they didn't all look like they were from the same bunny family or same bunny breed. So I wanted to make all of them feel like they were different colors and different types of bunnies. So I wanted to alternate blues and browns or blues and browns, grays and browns. No blue bunnies here. Although these would be really cute like little rainbow bunnies. I have another stamped version of this one. I stamped two of them in case I screwed one up. And I might have to make those rainbow bunnies. So keep an eye on the blog if you wanna see that. If I get that done by the time this posts, I think that would be really a fun way to do this card as well as doing a little more realistic colors like I'm trying for here. But whenever you are creating, I often will stamp two of something and then try it different ways. So if you're not sure what colorway you wanna use on something, then make sure you do several of them. If you are not a person who wants to do the masking twice and I usually do two of them just to be sure in case I do a mess up in my stamping. But if you know you're going to get the stamping done properly, then you can always scan the artwork as well and print out more of them to be able to make more of the same scene without having to re-stamp them. Just make sure that you don't actually do that. And then give that away to anybody because that is giving away stamped images and that is illegal. But you can do it for your own personal use if you're gonna make multiples of the cards. So if you're gonna make a bunch of Easter cards and you get a whole scene stamped out, sometimes it's more helpful to just scan your own artwork for your own personal use and be able to print more of them so that you can create more cards. And that also gives the opportunity to try your coloring in different ways. Like me with the realistic bunnies versus the crazy rainbow bunnies. So I'm pretty happy with the rotation of colors that I used for all my little bunnies. So they do look kind of different. Even that one, kind of the fourth from the left, there used some grays plus some browns. So I got more of a warm gray bunny without using a lot of warm gray markers. So a lot of times if you just play with your colors and do a little glazing of one over another, you can create some new interesting colors that you don't already have in use. Gonna use some pretty basic colors for my Easter baskets and some of the little details and just throw in a little bit, little pops of color, but not a ton because I wanted this one to feel like more of a realistic color combination and keeping those bunnies in the natural colors and then adding some colors that aren't super bright but that are still happy Easter colors. And I can shade all of them together by using a neutral gray instead of trying to figure out, okay, now I need to get out a green that's gonna be a shadow color and a blue green that's gonna be a shadow color and on and on and just keep that part a little bit simpler by putting a gray shadow over all of it. Now these little bunnies seem to also need a party place. They needed somewhere to enjoy their little Easter party. So I'm creating a little garden behind them and I was debating whether I'd make a whole garden scene around like even behind the happy Easter sign, which by the way comes with the stamp set except I had to draw the line that it's kind of hanging onto whatever trees above it, that little curve line, but the rest of it is in the stamp set but I decided to make them in front of the garden flowers and I just made little dots of color of the pink and then adding a little bit of a yellow and just keep adding layers of different types of dots. So some will be tiny dots like these blue green dots you can add ones that actually look like flowers but the more detail you put back there, the more it's gonna distract from the bunnies themselves. I wanted it to just be a setting but not be something that's so detailed that your eye gets lost in that and it starts getting confusing when you're looking at the bunnies themselves. So it creates a little atmosphere for them and a scene that's definitely in a garden without actually having to worry about the whole, coloring the whole scene, the whole sky behind it, putting a lot of detail in it and that sort of thing just make it a really simple garden type idea and then using the same colors from the rest of the card to make the happy Easter sign and color that in. The last thing that's needed now is some ground for them to sit on and I decided since I had all that warm color up above I would use some cool color down below to make some darker shadows right underneath of them and then blend that out just a little bit with a light gray and I'm using neutrals but you can use cool grays and warm grays, all different kinds of things and then I just started blending the color a little bit more and now that started feeling a little cooler than I wanted because now it looks like they're on a sidewalk and the bunnies are not going to be in a sidewalk so I thought what if I just glazed that with a little of that yellow again and so I just went over with a light, light yellow and it almost made it not greenish but it gave it that little bit of warmth, that little bit of sunshine while keeping it different from the rest of the card too so I had a different ground for them to sit on. All I had to do was add it onto a card base to keep that really simple because I got all the coloring on it. When you do all the coloring you don't have to worry too much about embellishments on your cards because I certainly don't but I did decide to put some of the other stamps that I didn't get to use on this one, the little bunny in an egg on the envelope so I put them on the envelope which was really fun. On Wednesday on my blog there's a dog mama contest with some more Sunny Studio stamps so you are going to want to tune into the blog to see that and learn how to participate by entering a picture of you and your pup. So watch for that on Wednesday and I will see you again very soon. I hope you have a really wonderful week. Go out and create something beautiful and I will see you later. Bye bye.