 Hi there, I'm Sandy. I'll knock artist and paper crafter here on YouTube and I'm gonna make some penguin valentines These could be done for any time of your cards, but these specifically are going to be penguin valentines Using the Valentine penguin set from Girdis Steiner with these cute little guys They've got lots of love sentiments and stuff, but they also have some year-round ones. So again, I love Stamps that you can use any old time and not just restrict them to a holiday So each one of these I already have on some Mina cardstock. I'm gonna Mat I have them masked out I'm gonna mask out some snow along the bottom of each one of them because they're penguins and Just put some snow along the bottom So I kind of have them planned out in my head where that snow is going to be and I didn't have to mask Cut out the masking part on the bottom This is the masking tape that I use it's called the eclipse tape And what I've done is cut out just a section of it that I'm gonna use for my snow I'll show you how you can get from one cutting get two different pieces of snow So I'm gonna take my scissors and just cut as smoothly as I can Just a curve. Yeah, you can die cut this stuff easily. It's super thin. It's almost like Like post-it note sticky stuff, but it's fully sticky on the back And then I'm just gonna cover up the bottom section of each one of these figuring out where I'm going to put the snow And I put the horizon line not under their feet in general But above their feet so it looks like they're walking into it Otherwise, it looks like they're balancing on top except for this guy because he's gonna be flying in the air But the rest of notice that I'm just kind of sliding it up so that their feet hang down The thing that I'm using for the background here. This is a 12 by 12 inch thing. That's called a Craft assistant and it washes off really well, which is why I love using it This is the airbrush that I use and you need both of these pieces They come in the set when you buy it. You also need the cord So whatever set you buy some of them have the cord some of them don't that sort of thing So you need that in the cord and then you need a power source either an air compressor or hand air and then you put your Copic marker in it and Then you just have to press the little button. That's all you do It blows across the chisel nib and there you go some of them take some adjusting to do and some markers will come out with more color than others and It's not based on the color itself. It's based on like is the marker seated exactly properly Sometimes you can pull it out just a little bit further or twist it at a slightly different angle to get a different amount of color to come out of it but I'm gonna do all four of mine in a row and just keep switching out the marker now you can Keep your markers aside and just keep popping in new markers and just do one But I figured I'm gonna do all my yellows first and then I'll move on to my pinks that sort of thing You may be wondering Sandy. Why are you using Y1 9? Why not Y1 7? Well, it's because my Y1 7 has the little The other nib on it the little bullet type nib on it, which means that it's no longer good for airbrushing So Y1 9 is close. So I'm using that one and Now I'm using pink You may notice if you're somebody who uses a lot of pink what what more people are familiar with the pink range This RV 06 is a very dark Well, that's not dark, but it's much more intense color than this Airbrushing always lightens colors because you're just spraying a light coat of it You can get it to be really dark eventually but you can also get them to be very very light and for the most part just trying to Choose your colors choose darker colors than you would if you normally would want it to look like a Y04 Then choose a Y08 or something more intense than that because it's always gonna lighten quite a bit And here I'm trying to get my my RV 06 to work I was trying to decide how much of it I wanted in there Did I want to have another like a purple color flowing through here? didn't really know but There's probably tips that you can get from other people on Copic airbrush How to make things smoother. I'm not all that good at it Here I was trying to use an RV 6 9 because I wanted a more intense color But the RV 6 9 was not putting out color the way I wanted it to I Kept adjusting it and twisting the nib and stuff and I could just get barely enough to come out and that sort of thing So I proceeded using it But I'm also not all that good at getting the color on there in a real particularly Non lumpy type of way really smooth My airbrushing just does not come out that way and a lot of it is just practice. I am out of practice I haven't used the airbrush very much, but I used it recently and lots of people said they wanted more information about it So there you go. Here's a little bit more airbrush There is a Copic airbrush buying guide that I produced a couple years ago And I will link to that at the end of this video if you want to see more about You know which kit to buy and which one has what in it and that sort of thing So I'll link you up to that in case you want to see that after this is all done And then I don't have to explain it all again So here I am trying the last bit of the RV 6 9 and I finally gave up on it because it was just not putting out Color I wanted something richer and stronger for these cards and it was just not cutting it But boy look the instant I pulled out my RV 2 9 Like I said some of the markers just put out color and it's all in how it's seated inside that That different those different nibs and how they're seated inside the marker one of one of the things I'm looking at is turning them around because when you're aiming the Airbrush the direction I am it's pointed away from my hand. I'm gonna get some shadowing from the masks And that's just natural. It's always gonna happen So you want to turn it around so you're pushing the air and the pigment In the direction in the other direction as well, so you don't get those halos. I'll show you at the end what the halos actually look like and a little bit of how I'm planning to fix them on mine and You there could be other ways to mask that are gonna be more firm than this But for card making and stuff this eclipse paper is really great It's simple and it's easy to cut and all that There are all kinds of masking films where you can use You put this clear film over the whole thing and you trim it out using an exacto knife and all that sort of thing That's too much work for card making in my mind I remember doing that in college But that's just not something that that I want to mess with so I just do my paper masks and deal with the fixes later So I'm adding another layer of the Y19 because I wanted them to be a little warmer than they were getting to be so you can see There's just a little bit of over Let's I guess that would be overspray where it went underneath the mask and here's a place where either my mask wasn't cut out Really well, or that was the shadow that was cast so that the the piece didn't get covered really well and Different ones and then we'll have different amounts of that depending on how your mask cutting skills are and mine are not all that good But on something like this since I'm using penguins and their dark images Some of them I'm just gonna go around with my dark marker And I'm gonna add to my penguin make them just a little bit fatter give them a little more fur That kind of thing So if you're using penguins That is a really good cheat for it Because otherwise you have to take a marker and try to figure out what combination of colors or what single color is going to fill in that little space That little empty white space. It's generally going to be lighter than you think So if if I were to grab that RV six nine or the RV two nine and try to do that Remember when you put the marker down on the page It's gonna give you a much darker color than airbrushing. So you have to scale back a little bit So use your pink color and use your orange color that kind of thing and don't do any more than you have to Just barely touch it if you if you can So here I'm again using my my dark color to go over some of those areas instead of trying to use the Use a color to try to fill that in because in the middle of all that airbrushing you get a really nice texture there If you start making strokes within that area, you're gonna see them. They're gonna stick out like a sore thumb So it's gonna be a lot easier to do it. Otherwise And try to try to get your image to cover it up Now on the balloon up there I'm gonna have to fix it because I don't have any black image unless I wanted to make a black balloon So I use the orange to try to make that that outside edge disappear And a lot of it's just gonna be a matter of hiding it a little bit. Most people aren't gonna see it They're not gonna care. It's not gonna make any difference to them And so I'm just gonna use a couple of yellows and oranges to try to make my balloon look a little bit realistic But for the most part that background is what people will be looking at when they see the card because they're gonna be like Wow an intense color. It's so gorgeous so The shading and everything on the rest of it is not as important as that beautiful background So even if it's not perfect and I do complain at myself when my backgrounds don't come out perfect They are really powerful because of the bright color. So he's got a little shadow floating down there below him And now we're on to this little penguin holding an envelope And I like that the penguins in this set they you could replace that envelope with something But he's already holding it so you don't have to mask it out and put something in his hands Sometimes I like those sets so I can put all different kinds of things in the critters hands But in this particular case, it was kind of nice to be able to Just have it done for me and make it really simple because Once I got going on the cards once I had all the stamping done You saw how quickly the airbrushing went it was sped up but it goes really fast and it gives you a big how impact on the card and without a whole lot of extra work and Some people have asked if I would do an airbrush class, but literally this is as much as I know about airbrush I don't have a whole lot to teach So maybe at some point if I find some some really cool tricks and tips, I'll do an airbrush class I do have Copic classes in my Art dash classes comm website so you can check those out with the links listed in the doobly-doo down below But right now there's no airbrush Because I don't know what to do. I can barely do a background like this myself And it's all good If you don't have a Copic airbrush, by the way, you can do this with distress inks And there are plenty of videos on how you can do skies and gradations and stuff with distress inks too Do them the same kind of way just make yourself masks and color away And I want to give a big shout out to Girdis Steiner and all the companies that make stamp sets and think about Giving us something that we can use any time of year I love that because I like to get more use out of things rather than just buying them for Valentine's and never using them again You can use these for get well cards birthday cards all different kinds of fun things I popped the panels up on a black card stock card base and I just drew little hearts on the bottom That was all I did just trim off that little bit So I have some room to draw them And call it done So there you go Hope you guys enjoyed this video if you did click that like button It means a lot to my heart to see more likes show up because then I know you actually enjoy What you're seeing and I can make more of it and I will see you guys again next time Subscribe so you get the next video. 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