 Hi there. My name is Sandy Allnach. I'm an artist and paper crafter here on YouTube. And I'm going to share a little bit about my Copic blending groups, my favorite blending groups today and use a few of those with this stamp set from Flora and Fauna. It's a new company, but it's the same people that make savvy stamps. So if you like the line quality of savvy stamps, you're going to love these. So they're now making clear in this new line. I'm going to use my Lawn Funget Black ink to stamp it with. And this ink will work with Copic markers. So I'm going to color it with Copics. And I'm stamping onto some Mina Solar White cardstock, 80 pound. And I'm using the Misti. The Misti allows you to do things like stamp over and over again to get a good solid black line. And I stamped also onto a sticky note so I could make that that little mask cover up the teepee or the teepee, the tent. And then I'm just going to use a quick little extra piece to cover up that part of the tree so that my camper doesn't go over top of the tree. And then I pulled up my Copic blending groups page on my blog. I made this little handout thingy that you can go and look at if you want to see some basic color, color blending groups for the whole rainbow of colors. I tell you kind of what my favorite colors are. A lot of people don't know that that's there so I figured I'll use those colors today in combination with each other. This is one of the yellow-green combinations that I'm using. And you'll notice that the dark green is a little on the olive-y side and the other greens are a little brighter. You can use them over top of each other to blend them together. I'm just going over top of that darker green because it's going to give me a really good dark green, a good dark shadow color. But I can brighten it up by adding more of the mid-tone color. That YG17 is a bit of a bright color so when I go over top I'm going to get a good mix of the colors so that I kind of build that up. And I'm also treating each one of those in the tree as a separate shape. Some have shadows on one side some on the other which just makes it a little more interesting of a tree. The rest of my color is a little more straightforward than my crazy tree but I'm going to use one of my favorite red combinations. Well actually the base red could be the YR14. Why do I say Y? Well the R14 or it could be any of the light reds. The R14 is just the lightest so it gives you the best contrast. So I guess I should say it's the lightest before you get to pink because after that it starts feeling very pink. And that doesn't usually work for me if I want to have an object that looks like it's actually red. And of course the little mini van has to be yellow because something on my cards almost always seems to have to be yellow. And I'm shading this with a YR and a Y17 which is the best Copic marker out there. I just that's my favorite color. Here you go. I am going to use some blue-green colors and on something like this the blue-green portions of this van are so small I'm not even going to add any shading to them because they're so tiny. Don't worry about shading absolutely everything when you're coloring. If you figure out what kind of object you can really focus on to give some serious shading to, like I rocked it with that tree so I feel the forgiveness for everything else. If things are only somewhat shaded that is totally fine by me because yeah I've rocked the tree. Next up is going to be the little tent or teepee as I called it earlier and I'm going to use my same green colors again. And here you can see a little bit better that that dark green color it's very dark but it's also malleable so as I add more of that YG17 to it it sort of takes away the fact that it's that dark of a green that that dim of a color that that olive-y and I made a half open tent. Next I added B99 to the wheels just to show you don't always have to use a gray when you're going to do something black because nobody's going to notice that that's a B99 only you so that is our secret we're going to keep that just between us. For the ground I'm going to use some really light strokes of a couple different brown colors and you can give it just a tiny bit underneath a few of the objects or you can give it more ground like I'm doing here with some wider strokes and I'm trying to go as light as I can to let those outside edges just sort of fade off and then I went in with an E51 a very light skin tone kind of color and then I decided I wanted more contrast so I went in afterward to use some darker colors this E35 and putting just a little bit of that and then I'll add a little E33 to just get a little bit of softer look between that and the lighter colors that I already had down so there you go. For my finished card I trimmed down my colored panel so that it's a little bit smaller on three sides and I rounded the corners and just left the card pretty basic beyond that. The white in the background with that intense color in just one area of the card really makes for a nice clean simple look except with lots of detail in it at the same time. So here's some more videos if you're interested in getting some more from me you can click on my face to subscribe to my channel you can click on the Copic Jumpstart class there to get more education on Copic markers if you want to learn more and I'll see you guys later. Bye bye!