 Well, hi there. I'm Sandy Olnok, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube, and I'm going to be coloring a happy storm If there is such a thing using the rain or shine stamp set from my favorite things and in the stamp set There are two little girls in it. I'm just going to be coloring one of the little girls And I'm going to speed color a little bit through coloring her and her Outfit and her umbrella because the focus of this video is on coloring the background last week I did a card using a different stamp set with a little boy in it and kind of asked if people wanted a video on how to color that background because For the most part there's some backgrounds. I feel are kind of straightforward You can kind of figure out how to do it and enough people said they wanted a video that I thought okay Maybe I'm making an assumption that I shouldn't so here you go. You're going to get to see the background in just a few minutes I have stamped her onto some Nina cardstock This is the 80 pound cardstock and a lot of people have been asking recently Why I don't use the 110? And I use the 110 occasionally if I have a limited image that I'm going to use on Maybe a one-layer card because it doesn't bleed through very much When I say limited image if it's something where I'm really just going to color a small amount of it And I'm not so concerned about the blending because with that paper it doesn't bleed through as much with the 110 But it's really hard to get the blending to work because that the fact that it's so thick means the paper is not absorbing the color It's not blending it within the fibers of the paper So the 110 ends up being much harder to get a good blend things tend to pull up a little bit more and Just act a little weird So there are some people that love the idea that it doesn't blend through bleed through the paper But they have to use different blending techniques and I prefer to use the blending techniques I can get on my 80 pound paper and I just layer it onto something else on my card. No big deal So I have colored her jacket and stuff you may have noticed I was blathering about other things while that was going on But I used a purple for the shadow and I used a blue violet and then I went in with an orange because the blue violet was too dull For what I was liking When I use a purple to shade a yellow. It's because it's a complement color if you take in the Copic Jumpstart class You'll know that compliments do a great job most of the time of shading But the blue violet is a little off center of of the direct opposite It should be a violet and a V is going to work a little bit better as a shadow color with a yellow Rather than a BV because you get that kind of grayish look So there's my mini explanation of that I'm coloring my umbrella and Jacket and everything in the same colors as the card that I did last week on my blog And I just thought I'd keep it simple and straightforward and do that I will show you a third card at the end with the other little girl That is in the stamp set because you know, I like to color all the stamps Since I often don't end up keeping the stamp sets. I give them out in my customer appreciation mailings Which another one is coming up very soon I pick random customers to send out my stamps to that I'm not gonna be able to use again and some stamps that I don't think I'm gonna necessarily color repeatedly I will put in that box and then just send them out randomly to wonderful people who are students in my classes or People who've bought the hex chart that kind of thing Just to say thank you and to make sure the stamps have a good home and get used by someone because I don't have enough Time and energy to color absolutely everything over and over and over again So then it clears my stash so I can buy more stamps to be able to teach you more things with all the new wonderful goodies That come out all the time So now that the stamp is color we're on to the background and I just picked a random B2 one And it's kind of a light ish not super light but a light ish kind of a blue and to make the happy storm I'm gonna allow Kind of some sunshine to come in I'm not gonna give it yellow sunshine But it's gonna be heavier and color more colorful Behind her and a little more white in front of her because that's gonna give the impression that maybe the storm is ending There's a stop in the store and there's a break in it and It's gonna give some lightness Rather than having the entire background colored Because sometimes just a solid background with lots of rain can feel really oppressive and this will give it a little bit more of a light feel So next I switch to the B0s a B2 is gonna be a little more dull than a B0 Because again in coming jumpstart I do a whole big big long study and lesson on the saturation level of something and The saturation level is that first digit and the first digit is a zero here So it's gonna be a brighter blue and you can mix all different kinds of blues in here And switch around between them you can use B6s Which will feel a little more purpley because they are duller or you can push it more toward the very light blues Here's a B01. It's got a little more intensity of color, but it's still that really bright blue and go over top these layers I'm using the side of the marker to make really long strokes. This is a great kind of background to practice your flicking So if you're one who is who needs some practice in flicking, this is a great one for that And I'm using a B45 because I want it again that heavier darker color behind her and The the four is going to be a bit duller of a color and I'm going to let it work toward slowly Brightening up on the right hand side of her The washi tape down at the bottom is protecting the bottom of the card And if you're too crazy with your flicking and you go too far in that direction Make sure that you have some other paper down there to mask that off and Then I'm going to use a B4 one to start blending some of that into those lighter colors that I've put on there already and Just kind of throw a few strokes in here and there because the B4 one is related to the B45 So it's going to feel like you're carrying that same thing across the The whole card even though one is lighter than the other There are a few splashes down there on the bottom in the stamp set. There are some actual Splash marks like a splash stamps. Sorry not marks and you could stamp some of those in there Or you could just draw them yourself like I just did with your Copic marker I Wanted to add a little flavor of a purple to it So I'm adding a BV you could add all different kinds of beautiful colors in here as well to mix them in to create This kind of streaky rainstorm and notice that not everything's perfectly blended and that's kind of the intent of this that's part of what happens when you're doing this kind of a thing and You can use that to your benefit. So I'm going to add some raindrops now. I have two Zero markers. This one is a little drier And you'll notice I'm going to get sharper strokes with it little sharper dots And I'm not getting kind of juicy blobs at the end of Of each one of those and I'm notice I'm holding the marker really sideways and just kind of Sketching along with it to put some drops in there Then I got a marker that was really juicy and it was over juicy in some ways Because all I'm doing is one stroke and I'm holding the marker at a vertical Because I didn't want so much color coming out because it was so juicy So you can gauge your The the kinds of strokes you make based on how juicy your marker is and then on a few of them I'm going to go in with a white pen and just emphasize the Especially the ends of the drops and then let it get lighter as it gets to the skinny part of the drop and put Some drops right over top of the image because that's gonna look like she's in the middle of the storm rather than The storm just being around or behind her so she's gonna be part of it this way I'm also not putting drops all over everything in up in that darker corner up in the top left I'm not gonna use as many drops just a smaller quantity because The focus is gonna be where the detail is and all of those drops are gonna pull the focus to seeing her And her little rainstorm as opposed to getting lost in that background. So I'll take a little emphasis off that To finish my card I just used some dimensional adhesive and popped it up onto the card base trimmed it down a little bit smaller than that and Left it really simple like that You could go in with some glossy accents on the raindrops and add some shine to them Which could be kind of fun as well This is the card that I did last week with the same technique this little boy is kicking up some raindrops So that was what inspired the look and this one uses a technique from the new blue skies class over at art-classes.com Since it is a cloudy sky I thought it would be a good one to use for a little image like this one from this stamp set Thank you so much for joining me for this video And if you liked it click the like button you can watch some more videos you can click through to the blue skies Copic class or Just head over to the blog or to the supply list in the description and I'll see you later