 Hi there! I'm Sandy Olnok, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube and I'm going to make a masculine floral card. I'm going to let you be the judge on whether I am successful or not, but I thought that would be a fun challenge in this week of fall flowers cards. So I'm going to use this truck stamp from Art Impressions. It's one of their AI watercolors and I'm going to combine it with a bunch of random flowers from other sets because there's no flowers in this particular set and I'm using some Distress Markers. You can also use Distress Inks instead, but the markers give you a little more control as to exactly where you're putting the color. And these are cling stamps you can't really see and one of the things that happened on this card was I on a practice one earlier I stamped my truck crooked and I thought wait a minute that's a perfect idea. Let me deliberately stamp. I'm really crooked so that it doesn't look like I did it by accident. And then make it look like the truck is actually driving. All of these art impressions end up looking like they are just still life pictures and I thought let's make them look like he's heading to market with the flowers and maybe that'll be a cool type of diversion on this image. So I'm using some clean water to paint over the marker and that softens the marker out. Now Distress Markers don't tend to run like mad and if you're somebody who always gets your markers or your art impressions marker stuff out of control with too much water then try them with Distress Markers because they just don't run the way that Tombows and Zigs and other kinds of markers may do to you. I've got a little bit of color on a block and I'm just picking up a little bit of it to paint some rust on the bottom areas of things because that's where rust kind of settles a lot of times. And then I'm going to add some more stormy sky to add some more color onto the truck but notice that I'm leaving some white spots. They're not spots in like oh my goodness that my highlight has to be exactly here. I'm just leaving some random white highlights which gives it that real watercolor feel. And I'm using a number eight silver brush which is one of my favorite brushes to use for paper crafting. It's not always for my fine art but for paper crafting it works fabulously because we've got tiny stamps that we need to be under control when we're painting these types of things. So now I've got some of the black marker on the block so that I can darken up my wheels nicely and those wheel wells. I will add some more color to them later but I wanted to give one good coating of them and they have in the stamps they cut off the bottom so that you can put flowers down there but I'm going to make it a dirt road. So I'm going to use a dry brush technique by not having very much water on my brush and just letting the brush skitter across the surface of the bumpy paper. I'm using arches this I believe is the rough paper. Oh wait no this is not this I'm out of the rough that is why. This is the cold press but it has a texture so I was able to skitter my brush across it. I added a little person behind the driver's wheel there and just by adding a little shape in there and then I let it completely completely dry because I've got some other things now that I want to do and I don't want the truck to move. So the set has a fence in it so I'm adding just a little fence line because I want to create this big old hillside coming down the mountain in the same way the same direction that the truck is driving and I'm going to add some trees at the top. Now this is actually a flower stamp they're like little tiny I don't know some kind of little triangular flowers they've got little blooms on them but they work great for the tops of distant trees and look at how what a beautiful forest that makes. I've added some colors now to a block so that I'm ready to go once as soon as I get this water put down and I'm making little clouds little just blobs of water and then I'm going to drop a bit of color in there. If you're using other markers you can probably do it without dropping the water in first but with distressed markers I'm always worried they're not going to move and I'm getting a lot of hard edges so I try to make sure I've got good water down before I do that because this is a fall card I have to have some fall trees right? I do have to be careful around the truck and around the fences because I don't want to totally blow those after all the work that I've done so far on this one but add a couple different colors in here I think that's fired brick and rusty hinge and I don't remember what the yellow one is but I will have all that on my blog for you because I did take a picture of the pile of markers before I finished this so now I've got some sort of brown grasses and things from his flower farm that he's driving past and I'm going to do some dry brush again on the ground right over top with just the leftover pigment and create this road that he's driving down and notice that I had that those lines underneath of the truck that's creating the wheels wells like those the divot cities driving in and then the dirt around them. Next I can add just a few flowers along the side of the road and I did find something with the distressed markers that when they're over top of something it's already been painted the color really does not move so if you want those flowers to be soft then I would recommend doing something else maybe paint some water down there and stamp into the paint itself because they ended up really hard edged and they decided they didn't really want to move at all which was kind of a pain but I kept the focus on the truck put lots of little flowers in the truck and then I drew a few containers in the truck with a couple of the different reds and browns and things that I had so that it could look like he's got a home market full of his flowers that he's taking with him and try to add a little bit of water to the flowers to soften them and again these didn't since they were stamped over top of some previously colored stuff they didn't go so well in terms of blending out but I didn't worry about it too much because I had a secret plan at my sleeve that I'll show you at the end of this and then I'm adding a little bit of I think it was weathered wood that I was trying to use a little bit of brown and it looks kind of green on top of this just because of the way the color is and adding that along the side of the road so we have a little bit of darker color just at the bottom of the plants and flowers and things and then I need to make sure I had good shadows underneath of the truck and kind of finishing up the road here the dry brush is a really fun technique especially on a card for guys because it looks all rough and rugged and and doesn't look overly fussy that kind of thing so now I'm doing something really daring and if you're scared don't do this part because if you mess it up then you could ruin the whole thing I'll just tell you that right now I'm going in with direct marker and I noticed that there wasn't another wheel under there the fourth wheel was not showing so I had to put a little extra shadow under there and I decided to darken up the person that's driving the car and literally it's just a lump in there so don't worry about making it look like it's a person people will make that assumption I put a second person in the car just for fun so he can have a little buddy driving down the road with him and then just added a little bit of water so that that didn't look like it was too garish and harsh but I wanted some really good contrast so I again took that that brown weathered wood type of color and just started making some skiddery lines along underneath of the shadow of the car or the truck because I wanted to really emphasize that I don't want anybody getting lost in the background this is a masculine card I want the guys to pay attention to the truck and I re-emphasize that wheel down underneath and then I thought wait a minute he doesn't have an exhaust pipe sticking out of the back of his truck so now he does there you go and then I added with the fine edge of the marker I just added a few little stems to some of the flowers on the side of the road so there's just a little detail now the flowers are all dry so I can do this I can add Queen Anne's lace and it's kind of a fun way if you have flowers that didn't blend as well as you'd like and add some Queen Anne's lace by just doing some stippling right over top with a white pen it's super easy to do to finish it off I use the take it easy stamp from I believe it was a Lawn Fawn stamp with a sloth in it because I thought take it easy as my dad always said and I use yellow and black layers really nice sharp crisp yellow and black layers to create this masculine card so you can tell me in the comments if it is masculine enough and I will see you for one more video tomorrow yes we have one more in our fall flowers week hope you've enjoyed this and I will see you mañana bye bye